Showing posts with label Mountain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mountain. Show all posts

Friday, August 28, 2009

Play time!

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It's been a busy week here. I did work experience at a local art place which was really cool. It was pretty laid back and I'm going to go back and help hang exhibition in October all going well! I've also made my first book with covers made some thick sheets of handmade paper, no fancy binding (still to learn that) but it's really cool to see an actual book that I made and I know I will be doing some more. I will post pics as soon as I've finished embellishing the cover!
I just figured out what the 'make a collage' button does in Picassa. It's not rocket science but it looks really cool! In brief the collage shows different background papers that I have been playing around with. Indian ink and water, wet ink and salt, wet paper, paint and salt, wax drippings (my son did some too.) You can see the mountains I painted on the placemats.
They're not masterpiece's but it was great to break through some of my self-imposed pressure when it comes to painting! I did actually enjoy it so there should be more to come!
Last but not least... a beautifully rusted muffin tin! I am going to have to do some rust dying I think!

I received an award from Nancy at Openings Connecting which is much appreciated. I will post it in my next post and make my tags. Thanks Nancy!

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Lensday- Mountain

The theme for lensday this week is Mountain, Moody Monday's theme is "Inspiration" in this case the mountain could easily serve both means but I'm not going to cheat! Mount Taranaki is my Lensday photo....please check out the rest at http://lensday.com

Earth Day has been and gone, despite all good intentions I didn't post on Earth Day. A family emergency has kept me busy and I missed the boat, so to speak. I guess that what really matters is that we make some sort of effort to make every day earth day and that we think about the wider consenquences of our actions...although I have no doubt that most of you already do that and for that I thank you!