Summer and a confession
Dear Sarah/Dear Nikki - Day 511 of our daily art adventure
Hi Sarah -
Walking home from my workout, I spotted this leaf on the sidewalk. The raindrops were perfect - and, bonus, it was no longer raining. The leaf had fallen on a grooved sidewalk. I snapped a couple of phone photos and then printed them after I got home. I cut the sidewalk up and reassembled the pieces to make the background. Cut out the leaf - glued it all down and then added the text.
I wasn’t away for all that long, but around here, a week is long enough to zip through a tentative spring and right into summer.
Keeping with the keeping it simple strategy (until I can return to my chaotic art room), I’m pretty happy with today’s result!
Cheers,
Nikki
Hi Nikki,
That’s lovely! Keeping it simple is working for you!
As planned, I added colour to a drawing of some blown peonies. I used my new paints, which are very different than straight-up watercolours. Much more opaque, so it’s not all about building up layers of transparent paint. Watercolour purists eschew the use of white to lighten a colour (they only use water), but this new set has actual pastel colours. And I’m not a purist. Tomorrow I may do a final rendition of the peonies, this time using Neocolor pastels.
I’m starting to turn into a paper magpie—the pile groweth! I’m hoping to find an old dictionary somewhere to use as background or snippets. This is all your fault, you know. But I’m loving it!
Glad summer has finally arrived for you. Long time coming. Mind you, I still remember snow in August when I was at the Banff Publishing Workshop many years ago. I was shocked, pampered west coast woman that I am.
True confessions—the pot did not fit on my deck (there’s barely room to sit now), so it is living happily in the common area garden, soaking up the sun and attention from other residents. I can visit it every day, and have even found a winter home for it with a friend who has a closed-in south-facing balcony. Thank you again for giving it to me. It’s glorious.
It’s time for pie now. I gave all but one piece away today—and may never make pie crust again.
XO S
