While I am always on the lookout for art books to interact with, every so often I see/read/hear about a book process or published article with so much promise as well as being very special in itself, I instantly would like to ‘own’ it.
To hold it in my hands. To leaf through it. Turn and turn it about, reading the story from go to woe … which in this story is the reality. To love it, in effect.
Yet this share to my blog will have to do me this time!
What’s a thing you would like to ‘own’ but cannot?
This post by Judith on https://artistcoveries.wordpress.com/ was a serendipitous find for me when I was casting about for a distraction from the on-going disaster that is the world out there. I had already weakened and thrown a train of the ongoing grief onto the page (previous post) when I recalled how soothing painting can be and thought that I should get back to it.
There’s nothing I can do about the ongoing train-wreck but keep myself sane and … I just don’t know what we as individuals can do.
Painting these miniatures my whole attention needs to go into every step of the process. They offer me three stages … I sketch, trace the important lines with black waterproof, and I paint. Six miniatures per A4 page, with two more to serve as a front door into the space and backdoor, or gate, out of the space.
Unfinished sketch of a corner of a living room. A few more elements before I can call it done. the flowers need a touch of color, for example. And so do the bricks in the fireplace. 10 x 9.5 cm or 4 x 3.7 inches.
Before I put pen to paper I need to set the scheme out, and it’s easy to make a mistake. As I did with this series. To put the booklet together with the least number of cuts and gluing, the six inner elements need to be positioned facing upward, facing downward, facing upward. That didn’t happen here:
… and I will need to do more cutting and more gluing to get a successful outcome. My fingers are crossed.
Rita de Heer 