Sunday, August 6, 2017

The limitless possibilities of the Holiday House

After Dinner Bouquets
With my goal of three pages a day, I am ready to begin p 213 today.  I have made 22 drawings so far; that gives you an idea of how many pages I remove and glue together to make my altered sketchbooks.

My daily schedule has been packed so it has been usual to have one or two drawings to make after dinner. As I am in love with night light, this has been a welcome constraint.  Katy has leant me her head torch and the quality of light changes with this.  I have experimented in low lit places.  Light is thrown on objects differently as above (After Dinner Bouquets) and below, (Molly's Birthday Bouquets).

Before Dinner Structures
Sometimes, sandwiching a drawing between events means the light fades before I have finished…
Buddha and Birdbath
I carry objects to new places to create new worlds that are familiar but which don't actually exist.

Green Garden with Pink


Light Through Tree 8pm

Molly's Birthday Bouquets


Nightlight Over Trees

Petunias on Porch

Sunflower and Shade

Fog and Foam
I have three altered sketchbooks with me in Maine.  Holiday House is what I am focussing on but if I go beyond the curtilage of the barn and the house I get out my Maine Landscape book.  At Preble Beach the fog rolled across the view.  I am itching to complete the last four pages of 'Bouquets' while here in bouquet heaven.

The images in Holiday House are 15 x 10.5 cm while Fog and Foam is 15 x 14.5 and sits on a bigger page.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I watch daily in amazement as these beautiful pastels arrive in "HOLIDAY HOUSE."

Jan - Rebecca's mom