Yesterday in the woods I found a blue pastel. I took it as a sign that I should be drawing with it for a while. And so I've been playing around with it ever since. I don't really enjoy drawing with it, hard to get a good edge so I can't make it do what I want, much better to play with textures and patterns. An interesting exercise in letting the medium tell you what it wants to do. I found an old piece of wire and started scratching into it, and watched the crumbs fall into my lap. Texture. much more satisfying.
My current journal is just about to the end, so I ordered a new one yesterday from lovely design, made of found paper and envelopes. There is much more soul in things made by the hand.
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A full day yesterday, a morning of work, a bikeride to Eugenia Falls, tea and pastries by the water, bookclub in the evening. A surprise cake and champagne from the girls made me feel grateful and lucky. When they brought it out I instantly felt bad that I had forgotten someone's birthday. Then I noticed they were all looking at me, and the cake was topped with two playmobile characters, a man and a woman (complete with bouquet). We laughed for hours and shared stories of life, death, and everything inbetween. I sometimes forget how important "girl time" can be. I love them all.
Posted by kerismith at October 08, 2004 10:26 AMI can definately appreciate the use of blue in a drawing. Despite what most of my clients think who love my color design, what they don't know is that I am almost completely color blind. All of my initial sketching is done in blue Colorerase pencil (a little trick I picked up in Animation school)> That combined with the blue lens prescription glasses I wear allow me to see my sketching a bit better than with regular graphite pencil. It also allows the lighter blues to dissapear when copied to do final renders. Besides that, I just like the cool, calm feeling it gives my sketches. I would definately suggest drawing in blue for any artist. It really gets the creativity flowing!
Posted by: Joey on October 12, 2004 02:42 PMOooh, thanks for the Lovely Design link. What delicious stuff! It truly celebrates the art and spirit of pen and paper. And I'm glad I found your site as well. How gorgeously succulent!
Posted by: KitKat on October 9, 2004 04:15 PMThanks for the Lovely Design link, I just ordered something for myself!
Posted by: theoulofhope on October 9, 2004 10:33 AMhi,
just wondering what you read for your book club.
I know what you mean about girl time. I recently was in the hospital for 10 days with complications with a pregnancy. The hospital was a few hours from my home so only my husband visited - on one day, that I was feeling horrible, he brought a card that my girl friends had sent - everyone wrote something wonderful in it. I got all teary reading it - it warmed my heart so much. Girl friends are truly a gift.
Posted by: Lisa on October 8, 2004 11:59 AM