Today, 05:59 AM
(This post was last modified: Today, 06:01 AM by Oh_hunnihunni.)
Cool and wet out there according to the Tatt who went out in the dark for her morning estate inspection. Something is bashing around in the wind, I hope it isn't my scooter tarp, with luck it is something outside my responsibility. The birds are awake and noisy, always a good sign, the forecast is for a bright sunny day which would be a relief after yesterday's dismal bluster. It would encourage me to actually get out of bed, lol...
I did get a little bit done yesterday, pulled some old framed artwork down from the high shelf in the wardrobe and decided they were okay to discard into my op shop bag and then my immediate neighbour popped in around 4pm and discovered a couple of pieces she really liked, so that has lightened the weight of the bag a little. It is always fun seeing which pieces of work appeal to which people, these are two very abstracted paint and inks on textured paper towelling of all things, that I did decades ago during a workshop in Wellington. Rough paper because it was freely available in the school bathrooms and that workshop was expensive, too expensive to allow me to invest in supplies beyond what I had with me. Interestingly enough the paper turned out to be a wonderful substrate for the water based acrylics and inks, absorbant and strong, keeping the colours as clear and bright as the day I applied them. A base layer that worked rather well. I never stitched into that stuff, but I suspect it would take the needle just as well as it did the fluid colours... Might try that one day, lol...
I did get a little bit done yesterday, pulled some old framed artwork down from the high shelf in the wardrobe and decided they were okay to discard into my op shop bag and then my immediate neighbour popped in around 4pm and discovered a couple of pieces she really liked, so that has lightened the weight of the bag a little. It is always fun seeing which pieces of work appeal to which people, these are two very abstracted paint and inks on textured paper towelling of all things, that I did decades ago during a workshop in Wellington. Rough paper because it was freely available in the school bathrooms and that workshop was expensive, too expensive to allow me to invest in supplies beyond what I had with me. Interestingly enough the paper turned out to be a wonderful substrate for the water based acrylics and inks, absorbant and strong, keeping the colours as clear and bright as the day I applied them. A base layer that worked rather well. I never stitched into that stuff, but I suspect it would take the needle just as well as it did the fluid colours... Might try that one day, lol...