Art Spirals

From TG and DC Rou...

If I've done my job correctly, Wendy will know what this means! Do you?

From TG and DC Rou...

This is pure stream of consciousness. don't know where it came from...but I like it!

Ok, after two rounds of the three of us, we invited Daune to join us in our round robin...and here is Daune's initial work sent to me for a response. And now here's my response, called

Change. Negative watercolor with metallic colored pencil and stamped images/word on 140 lb watercolor paper.

Sept is the start of a new Art Journal Round Robin, with five people, thus the name: Quintessential Art RR. And this is my contribution to my theme of "Feathering the Nest". The background is watercolor collage with handmade rice papers on top with a found image and found music...I love how the colors of the birds mesh with the background. So this will be on its way to Paivi in tomorrow's mail.

A collage page created from WC#1 of the eggplants, I like the veg itself better cut away from its background, put onto a new WC background with prismacolor stencil "ONE" and a number sticker. In real life, the backgournd is more green and yellow/green, not the bright yellow it appears here.

For Round Three of the TG + dc s Round Robin, now including a dark companion, and a new theme...either numbers, or vegetables, or produce, or whereever the other players take it! So, to refresh my memory, and put this in a more noticeable spot, I copied this from an email. This round we'll do Rachel to Wendy to Diane to Daune to Rachel and the second round: Rachel to Daune to Diane to Wendy to Rachel. so Wendy, here it comes, it'll be in the mail tomorrow.

and I love them...so I've created an album to show off all seven pages so far...and more to come. Tomorrow I think I can work on the page I owe Diane...my studio is still a mess, but there's a light at the end of the tunnel, and the rest of the house/life/kids are settling down...whew! just in time...

Yesterday was a quiet reflective day, my dad is doing worse physically, and I was quite somber. Thoughts of mortality and grief ran around my head, making it hard to focus. This morningm when I looked at this piece I worked on yesterday, for the Three Garbos round robin, I can see my mood reflected in the work. So here it is, for Wendy, in response to her spread that featured a sunflower and a black/white image of vangogh.



There are lots of layers, which is usual for me, and it started out to be a more joyful piece, but I kind of like it as it is. The image transfer of my picture was done by taking a color pic and making it a lithograph type piece, can't remember what imaging software I used, and then coated with omnigel.

Finished my two spreads in Wendy S's altered book for our Whole Art Round Robin. Her theme is the Color of Hope, and she views the moon as a symbol of hope, so this first one is based on that. The smaller pics in the background are watercolor and metallic marker views of the 28 days in the lunar cycle, with a moon image and the words Cycle of Hope on top.

And to ME, Green is the color of hope because it's the color of new growth in the spring. I LOVE to count the myriad colors of spring green! So this one has a gardening quote on it and a mix of watercolors/acrylics/handmade papers, mag images, and fabric all representing the color of spring greens. The quote is by Susan Hill from Through the Garden Gate:

Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trust in a future, whether in the short of the longer term.

I've just embarked on a round robin with just three people, and a turnaround time of just two weeks. It's called the TG or Three Garbo round robin, after receiving one of the mailings and seeing this on the envelope! It keeps us hopping and the creative juices flowing. We started in mid january 2006, and we're sending a WC sheet, smallish size, and each of us has to create from that artwork and put our spin on it, and we'll see how far this round robin meanders from its start! I think I'll create a meander book with mine when they all come back...we'll see. Another view of a meander book is in the ClothPaperScissors magazine, winter 2005, page 22. So here is the page I just finished for Wendy's book:

I experimented with packing tape transfers (pistachios and corn) and also transfers using Omnigel (the crossbill birds and pine cone). The rest is glittery loosely woven ribbon, wc, acrylic, inks, dictionary text. Wendy's original pic was a painting of a sunflower.