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more play with fiber scraps and ink
ALT: abstract, with glued bits of yarn and thread, and pooled ink. the image could be seen as a purple doggish critter, ears upraised and head turned as if in sudden movement. or you might see something completely different, or nothing at all but swoops of line and color.
winter garden.
As the season moves toward spring, and green buds and shoots are starting to brave the world, we had a snowfall here, nearly an inch. It all melted very fast, but a reminder how early spring so often is a dance between the cold and the warm, intertwined in a way that is quite lovely though sometimes inconvenient.
Since I’ve been obsessed with making little stars and flowers from yarn woven onto pipe-cleaner frames (“darn stars”), my work table it covered with fiber scraps. perhaps inevitable that some would eventually get glued down to a page.
ALT: ink and fiber, abstract. perhaps a glass vase on the right, and leaning over it a branch with no leaves, but maybe watery and fibrous … flowers?
in the soup
ALT: ink and water-soluble crayon. calligraphic doodles of a goat, fish, and bird float over a ground of watery swirls with lumps in it.
no apologies
I continue to spend little time or energy on drawing, but still holding the channel open.
ALT: fast and messy ink and crayon drawing of something like a bear having a conversation with something like a rabbit (or maybe nubian goat). There’s a shamrock next to the rabbit and a heart next to the bear.
haste to the battle
ALT: crayon and ink, rather abstract, a lot of very active lines. there seems to be a fae dragon princess warrior creature with spiny back and little blue wings, wielding some kind of blade or distaff.
dance party round the world
ALT: ink and water-soluble crayon. three stick figures are dancing under a crescent moon, and in front of two suns (or disco lights, maybe). boogie.
7 point star weave
ALT: ink and water-soluble crayon. A rather messy rendering of two interlaced permutations of a 7 pointed star, with a spider hanging off the bottom. I was more focused on getting the interlace right, than on the geometry.
7 point star
ALT: line drawing of a 7 pointed star, set inside a circle. the geometric lines are neatly woven, but the interior of the star and outside the circle there are lots of squiggly decorations.
in winter I make my own flowers
ALT: ink and water soluble crayon. a woven knotwork floral shape (not perfectly drawn!) covers the page, with a couple of leaves below it and surrounded by little blue circles that could represent snow falling. the flower is orange, with yellow glow around it.
quiet
ALT: ink and water-soluble crayon. a dark ink-wash from which emerges two figures, back to back, looking downward and away from you. there might be a large book on the ground, and a scrap of something bright colored peeking out behind a wall or tree, but mostly the colors are very subdued greens and browns.
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