One fact is sure, in my next life, I'll be a cat...
Thank you very much Neki! I'm already looking towards our next meeting...
Imagine a very busy street, in a town full of tourists. A building, very modest in comparison with all the other built by the Medici. Modest, from the outside only. Inside, there are some treasures, painting and wallhangings. The chapel itself is worth the visit. More information here.
And there is the garden, very simple and soooooo relaxing.
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Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.
Up-to-now, I have regretted that I did not think enough before starting the challenge. After the course by Sharon on Sketchbooks, I had no excuse left.
Thinking and drawing when you are cat-sitting is not easy:
but not impossible. I started by listing things that made me happy, thus balanced:
(this visual list is not exhaustive, I could add some humans...). However I did not see how I could translate them into textile, at least within a short period of time. So I browsed the web for symbols of balance. Ying-yang came first, and some crop circles considered as derived from ying-yang:
A crop circle is not me. This one is more me:
The ideas of circles, and things interacting with each other to make a balanced life led to this one:
At the end of the day, I reverted to the basic ying-yang and painted some in different scales. At the end, I found it was too clean and decided to add a bit of spritz. It was the end of the day, my brain did not realize that adding a spritz of water would make the watercolors bleed. Once they did, that looked awful. So I added some salt, to see what would happen, and after all I like the result. May be I'll use it as a background someday.
With the ying-yang, came the letter PHI. Before spritzing the ying-yang page, I had made one with PHI. This page too received some unwanted water, but I left it as it was
The next day, I had decided to use PHI , in some kind of composition. Until recently, I've considered myself as rather straight or square. But I tend to turn more circular. No wonder I like the combination of the straight lines and circle in the PHI. I wanted to work on that combination of circle and square. My first attempt:
clearly I re-invented the wheel... I did not work on that one longer. Started this one instead:
Not fully completed but a good squeletton for what I want to do.
Now I'm going to audition fabrics!
Have all a nice weekend!
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