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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ALT: ink and water-soluble crayon. a cartoon sun looks rather nervously over the horizon of a sort of patchwork world, with pieces of water, rock-strewn ground, and odd abstract purple and orange landscape. courage, my friends.
