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Earlier this month one of my friends on Facebook posted a photo of some very cute crafts she had received from someone. They were sent to her as part of a Craft it Forward Project. Craft it Forward is based on the idea of Pay it Forward: you make something for other people, and they [...]
Dad was diagnosed with severe heart failure earlier this month. After I’d joined the LifeLines project, I invited Mom and Dad to join as well. Mom did so fairly soon, but Dad didn’t until this year. While most of the results from his base line test were okay, the heart graph was off. To figure [...]
I also made a drawing for Nienke’s birthday in the style of Connected. It has the same basic shape with the focal circle in the middle and the detail panels surrounded by a knotwork border. I decided to do a drawing after Nien expressed how much she liked Connected. I chose to put a Tree [...]
The nameless Pagan thing is done, and has a name. It is called Connected. Here’s pictures of the process and the end result. Excuse the somewhat crappy quality of the last picture, I hadn’t realised the shot wasn’t very good before now.
Here’s some pictures of Lines III: Dreamscape. After inking the water painted result I added some more drawings of various pop culture related things that are meaningful to me. See if you can find (and identify) them all? The last few days I’ve been burying myself into deciding what symbolism and decoratives to use [...]
I’m really enjoying the pencil and paper spirit that has taken hold of me. Lines III: Dreamscape is mostly finished. I coloured it with water colour pencils, then painted over that with water and inked the lines with a fine liner (picture later, they’re still on my phone). I’m considering watering it once more, but [...]
I finished the Squiggly drawing from last post, took me about 7,5 hours total. I really like how it turned out, and it inspired me to take this tubular, colourful, enthusiastic form further. I named this work Lines I: Tubular and today I’ve been sketching Lines II: Mother Earth and Lines III: Dreamscape. I haven’t [...]
For the first time in ages, I’ve been feeling inclined to draw. I first noticed it earlier this week while reading a book in which the main character drew. I got to thinking it had been quite a while and then it started itching inside. Except I didn’t know what I wanted to draw. Then [...]
I realised I never posted a Dad picture for Father’s Day, while I have posted Mom (and not just this year). Shame on me. So here he is, picture taken last summer while we were on a bicycle ride. <3 (Frame is from my stash of scrapbook supplies and was made by Raspberry Road Designs)
