tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9798707004027851482024-03-19T05:08:30.338-07:00jillayne wickwarejillayne wickware - a meandering journey through artJillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-66910597266836373392024-03-16T19:01:00.000-07:002024-03-16T19:01:43.596-07:00why fight it...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">yes, why fight it... I like the sound of that much better than "surrender to it"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I suppose because I really am a "fighter" in many ways, mostly internal and the idea of surrendering just doesn't sit right - more control in the former I think, more of a choice</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">anyway...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I fight with myself in order to do the things I want to do but I have learned, to quote Michael J. Fox in the movie "The American President" that you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that are worth fighting</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and in a very strange, twisted way that suits me a to a tee... I've stopped fighting the disappointment in not getting my drawings right the first time but am sticking to the fight to get them right in the end</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's most definitely a fight worth fighting</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">today I took that to a new level and drew #2 right beneath #1... no need for a new page - easier to have what I don't want right in front of my face</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg6k20LdgjdkIs3S0uaVSOQmpKWXarwsyttZaZS19CcQk7-IX9nEszXu0VEcdyHcBskowe8uUdybLspjb7aRS_Q9B_m-66zmQJY-KAjvw82ITubbXFbek7QqDKUYP4B24CiSiQhAiTlTuRPquDuAuyPyo512K6ogTzsH0AmBaOEBWOQdmN0IxPGtaJMlov/s3743/IMG_9494.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2526" data-original-width="3743" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg6k20LdgjdkIs3S0uaVSOQmpKWXarwsyttZaZS19CcQk7-IX9nEszXu0VEcdyHcBskowe8uUdybLspjb7aRS_Q9B_m-66zmQJY-KAjvw82ITubbXFbek7QqDKUYP4B24CiSiQhAiTlTuRPquDuAuyPyo512K6ogTzsH0AmBaOEBWOQdmN0IxPGtaJMlov/w640-h432/IMG_9494.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">above - inktense pencil</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">below -a tinted charcoal pencil</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the tinted charcoal pencils by Derwent are my new firm favourite</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the colours are perfect and the way they take water is so delightful</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I like the inktense but I just don't have the energy for them right now</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">sporting a cold, I'm too tired to really dig in to figure them out</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">just not a fight worth fighting right now</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-11155359288915672212024-03-09T12:11:00.000-08:002024-03-09T12:20:13.681-08:00it never fails...<div style="text-align: center;">this week has been a trial and error sort of week</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">it never fails that the first thing I try is far from the mark but I find I can usually end up with what I'm after if I jut stick with it long enough - the work shown here is most definitely a product of that kind of determination</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">first it was getting the colours in the photograph the way I wanted them</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the day I took this image was a fairly dark day, the sun low on the horizon as it is in the Yukon in winter; unfortunately that made the colours come out much bluer than they actually were - pretty, but not what I had seen, nor wanted to work with</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">careful editing brought back the soft and silvery greys, the sooty blacks and the yellow gleam of sunlight on water</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTrNq3N_nlo8uicXW4hb4shsTT7LB9xj5wchPewHCrEochsxL1Pl6IGXnq_sj7hSs6cjsKyRB76rhEkF85tYHfx7bhbCXRNbsMcrUjA84tVBGkcrtijZXHCfvT_nutfNJUkWaR_Ln4DjSPOGzUG126R0rTFJZDEBBVehRmvRRHi1DxiTHaC6QGsOmsm8Fx/s3880/IMG_9468.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2910" data-original-width="3880" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTrNq3N_nlo8uicXW4hb4shsTT7LB9xj5wchPewHCrEochsxL1Pl6IGXnq_sj7hSs6cjsKyRB76rhEkF85tYHfx7bhbCXRNbsMcrUjA84tVBGkcrtijZXHCfvT_nutfNJUkWaR_Ln4DjSPOGzUG126R0rTFJZDEBBVehRmvRRHi1DxiTHaC6QGsOmsm8Fx/w640-h480/IMG_9468.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">my first drawing was over-worked, most especially the water</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlM4RNEyVohi-B1dCj341ATF94oVLQD4QdESWAE_Rd5q2bADdtOENX9xBnlNKshuNUmtoumjOZsG7XA8C54dQZEbz82CqbNJQxDkJs-QmaxPSBkyYr_dgiYBLEAjw4c_eix0co83lYywLPor-hTKo7RVfSPPgvtb3AuT3c4oIqEqOQ3Nr4KjtX2vOrdK0x/s4032/IMG_9469.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlM4RNEyVohi-B1dCj341ATF94oVLQD4QdESWAE_Rd5q2bADdtOENX9xBnlNKshuNUmtoumjOZsG7XA8C54dQZEbz82CqbNJQxDkJs-QmaxPSBkyYr_dgiYBLEAjw4c_eix0co83lYywLPor-hTKo7RVfSPPgvtb3AuT3c4oIqEqOQ3Nr4KjtX2vOrdK0x/w640-h480/IMG_9469.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">to break free of trying to capture every single detail I did two timed drawings - the upper one was done in 4 minutes, the lower, 2</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">they may not look much different but in the lower one, the crack in the ice at the base of the pilings is quieter in line and the colours were literally dashed on the pilings in the final seconds</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH6XAlkdasGl8bDk8jHy8shfr3mPuYlQolQLa3fXvPi_BH3QOG7YKxbmIbOQJJj0LHt2dPdnNNSI3RRWu2cOjhZpEq_FIfi4prYr_HqbgKJrv81F9_We_p_saMBo_2Tk49l06FjgjeZijhWF6L-6ikZgXVgNNwfC8CFFJVn-OVzhAZ8PnIqjz_9W6x7SHA/s4032/IMG_9470.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2964" data-original-width="4032" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH6XAlkdasGl8bDk8jHy8shfr3mPuYlQolQLa3fXvPi_BH3QOG7YKxbmIbOQJJj0LHt2dPdnNNSI3RRWu2cOjhZpEq_FIfi4prYr_HqbgKJrv81F9_We_p_saMBo_2Tk49l06FjgjeZijhWF6L-6ikZgXVgNNwfC8CFFJVn-OVzhAZ8PnIqjz_9W6x7SHA/w640-h470/IMG_9470.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">painting trials were next, with watercolour and ink</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">three very large sheets of cartridge paper later I had a few crops to work with</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's so interesting to me that when I have a pencil in my hand I labour over every single line yet the minute I pick up a brush I am slapping paint on any which way I can, usually making a big mess of everything - with drawings I have to set aside the first effort aside and try to speed things up whereas with paintings I have to do the exact opposite</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">what the heck?</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDGTMGGyosqpMRM9SzgY55Bjp7qYLur4vfWXGEHwfrXUFQGeBbqngwivtCeAPcxAraA3cpF9zjJy4C4YufljPddUg4np8PkbqQHYRd_8M8A_p5qtAPy_Zb-4bo9hZ1YwZHdvdX4BTKwLtbrh7gSeO9KO3vaAKknMJmJul7n4xwQpRqZD0IkYwMRvLEb0qo/s4032/IMG_9476.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDGTMGGyosqpMRM9SzgY55Bjp7qYLur4vfWXGEHwfrXUFQGeBbqngwivtCeAPcxAraA3cpF9zjJy4C4YufljPddUg4np8PkbqQHYRd_8M8A_p5qtAPy_Zb-4bo9hZ1YwZHdvdX4BTKwLtbrh7gSeO9KO3vaAKknMJmJul7n4xwQpRqZD0IkYwMRvLEb0qo/w480-h640/IMG_9476.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">below is the third try for the pilings and I really can't quite believe I did it</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it astonishes me how quick random marks and rubbings can translate so easily into 100 years of weathering</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh60h_YWJFW0g10_vdT8_2WeDNJB8PSmluEG354qVZ6lRPzCa3hJj3kfp_h4pm2AJvMvBb8pSnErIvdNZ5ZipknaDv07JuQsoeXfhx8a5ytmYiw3iZ5Dq7yhN_FjHMr9QlzwtGmPmFahGeQOtKfCfLhuFvMrbYUqkxPMCUqpJiIlujCLa-UVv3NsATkhpPw/s4032/IMG_9478.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh60h_YWJFW0g10_vdT8_2WeDNJB8PSmluEG354qVZ6lRPzCa3hJj3kfp_h4pm2AJvMvBb8pSnErIvdNZ5ZipknaDv07JuQsoeXfhx8a5ytmYiw3iZ5Dq7yhN_FjHMr9QlzwtGmPmFahGeQOtKfCfLhuFvMrbYUqkxPMCUqpJiIlujCLa-UVv3NsATkhpPw/w640-h480/IMG_9478.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">another section of the large sheet was cropped down and folded into a little book</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the front cover below is perfect for that land of ice and snow, mountains and rivers, and again, though I didn't purposefully try to draw Grey Mountain, the image below could probably not be more accurate</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS8NK1TLw7i6D-Rn8GouqfUxaN4LnV2oaXg6MHGoAWmApBMa8JODbT1sVbUqFZz2tVyKwuMlHLspjiZtpYLWly0fFAh5_gYyMZOzT7gZ6TiCVdUXxvuIHueX4e4LcjVjTOqRw2J8sO0z9GIidoKJyiOBD-PqQeXi9AkGN_jHLXHVuL5bba1KMOsbksLNmL/s2568/IMG_9485.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2568" data-original-width="2224" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS8NK1TLw7i6D-Rn8GouqfUxaN4LnV2oaXg6MHGoAWmApBMa8JODbT1sVbUqFZz2tVyKwuMlHLspjiZtpYLWly0fFAh5_gYyMZOzT7gZ6TiCVdUXxvuIHueX4e4LcjVjTOqRw2J8sO0z9GIidoKJyiOBD-PqQeXi9AkGN_jHLXHVuL5bba1KMOsbksLNmL/w554-h640/IMG_9485.jpeg" width="554" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">one of the pages inside</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSCAWGTHinaxBoDJg4blwFqmt8Q7LF-9-QBQ738ydsVeVLB3qgsllgYJUoi9_I27wYIG9tSQruQR-NhhZct_YlojSmNc0U600TlYGkJCDQMqIJLKagzFEPpF_CqNeKj9hvqQtDz0TO_4YmceA3MDlbMEDOCGBl71lFFeDC30anZ4AxkqE8yEVp60F2r6Ic/s3851/IMG_9491.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2888" data-original-width="3851" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSCAWGTHinaxBoDJg4blwFqmt8Q7LF-9-QBQ738ydsVeVLB3qgsllgYJUoi9_I27wYIG9tSQruQR-NhhZct_YlojSmNc0U600TlYGkJCDQMqIJLKagzFEPpF_CqNeKj9hvqQtDz0TO_4YmceA3MDlbMEDOCGBl71lFFeDC30anZ4AxkqE8yEVp60F2r6Ic/w640-h480/IMG_9491.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">so pleased with these, both the results and the effort</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I just need to remember "draw fast, paint slow"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-25449216359125558502024-03-02T19:49:00.000-08:002024-03-02T19:49:04.634-08:00wooden sidewalks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">one of my earliest memories is of playing on the wooden sidewalk in front our house</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it was early summer, and the tree that grew right beside it was fully in leaf but only just</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think why I remember this so well even though I was only three years old is because the scent of the leaves was very strong, a sap-green smell that filled the air and only seemed to stronger as the sun shone on</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">sitting underneath it, the branches concealing me, it was a lovely home for me and my dolls, the leaves casting shadows on the soft, smooth boards which had become "beds"... it was a charming little hideaway. and I played there for a long time before my mom came looking for me</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">several years ago I came upon a number of photos of my dad taken at about the same age, many of them of him on various different wooden sidewalks all around Whitehorse - sometime around 1941-1942 I think</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and so an idea started brewing...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWFvPv-pLAlZfPkEy-X7sN7TIlzCrjRXETl_Ul9I9R0XdTUQmeJyDsmsVuzl-4RVNhENQlbvKeqeglTAvD8jG0igsN_hHjbmXXNg0tJybaEDPc_94E27bKRCTv7jV6T49yEFx6iZXxB1SZBrrrooaUqjIhyphenhyphenmLemSH_AnBJqfQF_l3tZ8QtZ23Qs5HneIA-/s3622/IMG_7794.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3622" data-original-width="2350" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWFvPv-pLAlZfPkEy-X7sN7TIlzCrjRXETl_Ul9I9R0XdTUQmeJyDsmsVuzl-4RVNhENQlbvKeqeglTAvD8jG0igsN_hHjbmXXNg0tJybaEDPc_94E27bKRCTv7jV6T49yEFx6iZXxB1SZBrrrooaUqjIhyphenhyphenmLemSH_AnBJqfQF_l3tZ8QtZ23Qs5HneIA-/w416-h640/IMG_7794.jpeg" width="416" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">this week I made an attempt at achieving something that would look like an old and ragged wooden sidewalk using cloth and earth pigment paint</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">two versions, one with small boards, the other, a shorter version but on larger scale (width, not length)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">below is the top of the smaller version</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhepjgV0WDI7BEsKOrkdF3fzUIy9H7Qj1tFigSHPsoS78HIfJ0-BS_OFJwTYUR5PNJ8-lT5_YphEP6gXd8B2G0SvFBG-sSO0S6dBfdY5YUY-E688O76NMJJNcfAhiNOe4Vr8ta6EdbC6oTNMTePzd1Ge5hhCM2I_Y_TK5hYeF1xCvvLDHmudQRcK3aICm7X/s5712/IMG_9448.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3537" data-original-width="5712" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhepjgV0WDI7BEsKOrkdF3fzUIy9H7Qj1tFigSHPsoS78HIfJ0-BS_OFJwTYUR5PNJ8-lT5_YphEP6gXd8B2G0SvFBG-sSO0S6dBfdY5YUY-E688O76NMJJNcfAhiNOe4Vr8ta6EdbC6oTNMTePzd1Ge5hhCM2I_Y_TK5hYeF1xCvvLDHmudQRcK3aICm7X/w640-h396/IMG_9448.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and then the underneath</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzv_0GbQcM1dsBT5xv4JWe64mq0YVZxpwSGhY7-BcrPIVXVmTTAhDfAEEtyZsgK6gOuMpUXDFofqyRzXPXIKR6Xv89fbOvitCmDsds0G7ml3wuuPjt2EXUGz0Stx7nMBXZIAJ4KGVGFF7DS1PBpXpIK0s6FnsP1nF8WZxJVnGqA5HcdjceskUxInF_ni2G/s5712/IMG_9447.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3556" data-original-width="5712" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzv_0GbQcM1dsBT5xv4JWe64mq0YVZxpwSGhY7-BcrPIVXVmTTAhDfAEEtyZsgK6gOuMpUXDFofqyRzXPXIKR6Xv89fbOvitCmDsds0G7ml3wuuPjt2EXUGz0Stx7nMBXZIAJ4KGVGFF7DS1PBpXpIK0s6FnsP1nF8WZxJVnGqA5HcdjceskUxInF_ni2G/w640-h398/IMG_9447.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the topside of the larger scale</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZt8q5PJoIhCCBDlQ5RDV8-1tEXlbM_N50Zxx0qffbH2kkJgOr9hnctkaTvSrKniepH_GseOAZLhmEfPL7gqNaIXDiShTjaVpxE2M32OoXVyQYURfHLaln4wkG6YntV1sR8DVU6UUjAHSx-aBFgvFMsHPNb4pSmljLqLcaIQXv7-oX8UAoNwOhRMAiEWKS/s5712/IMG_9452.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4284" data-original-width="5712" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZt8q5PJoIhCCBDlQ5RDV8-1tEXlbM_N50Zxx0qffbH2kkJgOr9hnctkaTvSrKniepH_GseOAZLhmEfPL7gqNaIXDiShTjaVpxE2M32OoXVyQYURfHLaln4wkG6YntV1sR8DVU6UUjAHSx-aBFgvFMsHPNb4pSmljLqLcaIQXv7-oX8UAoNwOhRMAiEWKS/w640-h480/IMG_9452.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and again the underneath</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx0Y1mzsZkr_4kEFPhFm2ymmTXzWmr-EJ1-r-t_rCxXCHzgQofLTCwVJaeD9NZ1QImKnWzE02q16kKDtaQydJTs8eVB3tKu-LRDWen1BBHYbzyCLrEneKt1Qu9L8VH6AnaYkU9cgUAjJp7kML_2krqU2un_viVgo1FC7g0Y3_GNtrjdYRDoDoM_x3mZj5l/s5712/IMG_9450.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5712" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx0Y1mzsZkr_4kEFPhFm2ymmTXzWmr-EJ1-r-t_rCxXCHzgQofLTCwVJaeD9NZ1QImKnWzE02q16kKDtaQydJTs8eVB3tKu-LRDWen1BBHYbzyCLrEneKt1Qu9L8VH6AnaYkU9cgUAjJp7kML_2krqU2un_viVgo1FC7g0Y3_GNtrjdYRDoDoM_x3mZj5l/w640-h388/IMG_9450.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in both cases I prefer the underneath sides; the boards are well defined and the cloth, though still looking a little gritty is much smoother and more even than the topside</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's usually the other way around but one of the pigments I used doesn't like to mix well with others nor does it like to sink</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">the fact that you often get to choose between which side you prefer is one of the side benefits of this technique </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the drawback...?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have to wait four weeks before I can start to take these further</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">on the other hand, that gives me a lot of time to ponder what "next" might be - as yet, there is no plan whatsoever</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">this was just a kind of fact-finding mission to see if it would work and now that I know I can do it I need to think about what comes next</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">in the meanwhile I want to have another go at it but this time on a larger piece of cloth</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and so the journey continues, one board at a time</div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-36051218471758700362024-02-26T22:35:00.000-08:002024-02-26T22:35:17.243-08:00mixing it up<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">recently I booked my plane tickets for another trip to the Yukon, this time in summer</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm looking forward to a visit during the warmer months for a change and have been planning a few side trips to places there I haven't visited for a long time and one I've never been to at all</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm very taken with recording things I see whilst out and about but as I'm often with other people, none of whom are into that kind of thing I need to be able to record what I'm seeing quickly</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">to aid in that I'm streamlining my outdoor sketching kit and just got a few good pointers through a course I'm taking from Debbie Lyddon through Fibre Arts Take Two</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Sensing Place"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">today I worked on mixing the colours I knew I'd be needing using various different coloured pencils</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxO04Xrtz8yEY_Z6V93KAnbO62a6WvtmecjXkQb087H6ZSalhfsop6Ys1m8P3NGNm9afhjkxVhUzeKbxzcOutBWLZj53o3OmMlLLCKdlhabqyzUDzc3DcrggTp_25Sw9o53EDuLgkaQtenyjKHlY68Sk5kiCkZ8hVUvhyphenhyphenMTr8dKZq5PYbfTEXn9g82TPEi/s4032/IMG_9423.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxO04Xrtz8yEY_Z6V93KAnbO62a6WvtmecjXkQb087H6ZSalhfsop6Ys1m8P3NGNm9afhjkxVhUzeKbxzcOutBWLZj53o3OmMlLLCKdlhabqyzUDzc3DcrggTp_25Sw9o53EDuLgkaQtenyjKHlY68Sk5kiCkZ8hVUvhyphenhyphenMTr8dKZq5PYbfTEXn9g82TPEi/w640-h480/IMG_9423.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">interestingly, the colours for water and sky are completely interchangeable there... when the sky darkens the water turn slate grey but in sunlight it ranges from emerald to sea green and every blue imaginable</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJmbQ8znbLqWMdqkn-gGxFI2_U6W354cjaI1YvQGPyHkTP_6aKESYL2t8i9eKalVgitYqNYeudNCbY3XPOgPt95haKb9j56q4EDl7rojKCyO3XEFjocFpyxDFPeHTmSnwLYd1RSd3dKndpG7keUQ3JxJrSnAuFSN13NC4UO2Fai7Ws0YUz797NmzbY20LQ/s4032/IMG_9424.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJmbQ8znbLqWMdqkn-gGxFI2_U6W354cjaI1YvQGPyHkTP_6aKESYL2t8i9eKalVgitYqNYeudNCbY3XPOgPt95haKb9j56q4EDl7rojKCyO3XEFjocFpyxDFPeHTmSnwLYd1RSd3dKndpG7keUQ3JxJrSnAuFSN13NC4UO2Fai7Ws0YUz797NmzbY20LQ/w640-h480/IMG_9424.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">today, from memory, I did a rough sketch of Marsh Lake, looking through the poplars, across the sand to a strip of silvery-grey water and the shadowed hills in the distance</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnPNGGMe95TQX40xKe9sB2lJcwQdI2Se4Ha9_eFYZVOrohBX6mHSUkB2b7Q5dquBzd-W4APdNs_tgk3XBFbbMrxjgYjprE-isnVfTgf87FwpCrpn2Y1OG7yqevB4GG-4x9gJ46i95DdGQ-hRVmYf8AY7IfyvD_QJ4Fkjzt2OPOiq4JC7qpOf5k9H05M10S/s5712/IMG_9415.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3063" data-original-width="5712" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnPNGGMe95TQX40xKe9sB2lJcwQdI2Se4Ha9_eFYZVOrohBX6mHSUkB2b7Q5dquBzd-W4APdNs_tgk3XBFbbMrxjgYjprE-isnVfTgf87FwpCrpn2Y1OG7yqevB4GG-4x9gJ46i95DdGQ-hRVmYf8AY7IfyvD_QJ4Fkjzt2OPOiq4JC7qpOf5k9H05M10S/w640-h344/IMG_9415.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">all I could think of today was the poplars and the wind - high, rustling their leaves</div><br />Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-74529519304946926542024-02-17T11:55:00.000-08:002024-02-17T11:55:08.381-08:00colour<div style="text-align: center;">colour preferences seem to follow me across the spectrum of whatever I have my fingers in at any given time...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">what can I say?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I like what I like</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">right now it appears what I like is grey and some form of khaki... maybe a hint of black-brown or a light smear of grey-tinged blue </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFgRxudJ8nWUn6-Pg_2bvnVWQXfPW3Xoa9Q-SsbOJC13Q8R3uJ2WGyE_ELMfeELXrV1HC-6WESBJZZtNFS85ftvNA_l2r6VjbNO13C16VHbApFfeq3XqK3jMWkStvDDBPYXckCen5uarHLEtNoguUWqtPXH3vCPHSwpiUmrUKQnrRN_wQfqwv8cPfAX7Up/s1853/IMG_9364.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1563" data-original-width="1853" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFgRxudJ8nWUn6-Pg_2bvnVWQXfPW3Xoa9Q-SsbOJC13Q8R3uJ2WGyE_ELMfeELXrV1HC-6WESBJZZtNFS85ftvNA_l2r6VjbNO13C16VHbApFfeq3XqK3jMWkStvDDBPYXckCen5uarHLEtNoguUWqtPXH3vCPHSwpiUmrUKQnrRN_wQfqwv8cPfAX7Up/w640-h540/IMG_9364.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's followed me from watercolour to pigment-painting cloth</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">yesterday I used Roman Black and layered the cloth over dried and pressed leaves and carrot flowers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the resulting prints aren't all clearly defined but it's still an interesting surface</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMC6hxaEaxA9UAKRWqmdUi38kLgb2yLh0hc3ObwOz6Pe9K9ISGfffx7H-oh-laXr-G3ggCEqs-UamMTeOX-VHGYv_-tiYBeKWnpWmdYAijtwPniPsg3B6CER3QENHKnMk9DV1XZzRSKxJb5qY1FhlslecfYAoBq8P3UY-ksMUf0JAyqogbQPDU1lmmTAB1/s5516/IMG_9394.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5516" data-original-width="4284" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMC6hxaEaxA9UAKRWqmdUi38kLgb2yLh0hc3ObwOz6Pe9K9ISGfffx7H-oh-laXr-G3ggCEqs-UamMTeOX-VHGYv_-tiYBeKWnpWmdYAijtwPniPsg3B6CER3QENHKnMk9DV1XZzRSKxJb5qY1FhlslecfYAoBq8P3UY-ksMUf0JAyqogbQPDU1lmmTAB1/w498-h640/IMG_9394.jpeg" width="498" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilvV8apl_KiqB15c8YLKJ25wn9ycF0HLrKCpsUrBDilJJDXi0EcE5G-r1PhSvHRYFYpDITqN7WxTI58DvlYDHYar2aNNmLYeDpGVl3F2wFFACvS_S-J7hgmXu8l_Dwqmx2p-VGWbjeiYHyDL1fRMbBzCMDIjqaTUk0PiEMsXF_rTS7gyTQ_1snTATfM3t7/s5712/IMG_9396.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilvV8apl_KiqB15c8YLKJ25wn9ycF0HLrKCpsUrBDilJJDXi0EcE5G-r1PhSvHRYFYpDITqN7WxTI58DvlYDHYar2aNNmLYeDpGVl3F2wFFACvS_S-J7hgmXu8l_Dwqmx2p-VGWbjeiYHyDL1fRMbBzCMDIjqaTUk0PiEMsXF_rTS7gyTQ_1snTATfM3t7/w480-h640/IMG_9396.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a second cloth was painted with Light Sienna and Indigo</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">pinch-pleated tall grasses/leaves</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(yep, still on that theme!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it was interesting how the pigments settled on the edges of some of the pleats, especially the left side</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have to wait four weeks before taking an iron to the cloth to allow the colour to cure but you can see the effect peeking out from under a few of the pleats</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT3HvVpy2QsvR1lijE149Y7IBVgEbnwrUjaaLg6Xcz_bBNh8nXL4BbGw5qLfuRDpD260giCK38b8W8Z_xUDr2w3eTI6js6jn4v05v36mz2mAUn9Seq3yGJMukWRqh1Sj1XjgL5eqxQL8t03vP-Xgycr2QqVDSdlVfBxwwab2sOpZEVgKNHMEXaN3ZZq-hs/s5712/IMG_9406.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT3HvVpy2QsvR1lijE149Y7IBVgEbnwrUjaaLg6Xcz_bBNh8nXL4BbGw5qLfuRDpD260giCK38b8W8Z_xUDr2w3eTI6js6jn4v05v36mz2mAUn9Seq3yGJMukWRqh1Sj1XjgL5eqxQL8t03vP-Xgycr2QqVDSdlVfBxwwab2sOpZEVgKNHMEXaN3ZZq-hs/w480-h640/IMG_9406.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the reverse, or underside is shown below</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the pigments settle through the cloth and the extent to which they do that depends on their individual weight</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I find it an interesting consideration though I haven't taken it too seriously yet</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLxqFXw6VP7Cx3seZbu69H54bOTfbCYzS8aTYjvtk3vcKUtKOpmo1hJ-NIHZFnAagZMn_5jdhRmNQa9ynv2moa2Ns4F1PaBQq9QmgBIO-POSV_9EVJpdeEBKPQR_PftmfK88tuzPar9cf4-Z4UyX6R3CiIIPtHpgKkMdL64lH7QqhcvmPN1-g0ISU9z2Qs/s5712/IMG_9402.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLxqFXw6VP7Cx3seZbu69H54bOTfbCYzS8aTYjvtk3vcKUtKOpmo1hJ-NIHZFnAagZMn_5jdhRmNQa9ynv2moa2Ns4F1PaBQq9QmgBIO-POSV_9EVJpdeEBKPQR_PftmfK88tuzPar9cf4-Z4UyX6R3CiIIPtHpgKkMdL64lH7QqhcvmPN1-g0ISU9z2Qs/w480-h640/IMG_9402.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">once the wait is over and I can press this I'll decide if I'm keeping it as is, ready to work into with stitch perhaps, or if I should add more paint</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's a slow process with a lot of time for considering and reflection and I quite like that</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">no rush, no attachment to any outcomes (at least not yet), just a finding a way forward and learning as I go</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-81433689393695418922024-02-11T16:46:00.000-08:002024-02-11T16:46:34.114-08:00playing in the dirt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">well, "pigments" I suppose, would be the correct term but nevertheless, I've been getting my hands dirty and having a good time </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">results have been mixed but right now it's about learning how, not making great</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">last week I prepped and then coloured a variety of cloth-types with Cyprus Umber Dark and Cyprus Green with mixed results</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">mixing the pigments with the soy milk needs to be done well and with care</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I missed on the "well" part and so my paint was rather grainy and the resulting cloth was uneven in colour with a fair few splotchy areas so the other day I painted other colours on in different ways</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I got some interesting results and learned a lot about the opacity of some of the pigments as well as how they sit on and work their way down into and often through the cloth</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">here's a selection of some of the more interesting results</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(I've had trouble photographing this first one - it looks a bit less grainy in real life as opposed to the photo and the white areas pop a little more but these images are pretty close)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioLkx59dTW07u-oy9iV2kE3BQGlQTdhvZWIyszAVvU02XrHvK4qS6OMYU5qmqizVlGIY9rihz2GgD_tUVmE4-sDfV4JANBfx28QPcRKw2SI3K5XtwZ9u4G2UKVhnPwccDorC41i7hBhWvwCfZjkpyqRNg7vCrgHT1tt5YQDKBaL6Q-oZoyqhRdBchXpPww/s5645/IMG_9331.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5645" data-original-width="4234" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioLkx59dTW07u-oy9iV2kE3BQGlQTdhvZWIyszAVvU02XrHvK4qS6OMYU5qmqizVlGIY9rihz2GgD_tUVmE4-sDfV4JANBfx28QPcRKw2SI3K5XtwZ9u4G2UKVhnPwccDorC41i7hBhWvwCfZjkpyqRNg7vCrgHT1tt5YQDKBaL6Q-oZoyqhRdBchXpPww/w480-h640/IMG_9331.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I like it well enough that I'll post-size this one with soy milk to seal it, let it cure for the prescribed 28 days and then add stitch</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I don't mind at all that they have to cure for this long as it will give me a lot of time to let the ideas settle</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr8LGHl3FOnnE5y3sd6DdPvNU-0i3NiNyOe9MnkgC4bkG_ly-C48Esry6V9hduS6cr5-LgE2Mb72bo13LUd6G8vZhNsawPfszwnIK_4Cqlj9kK2pQSCsAj4Yawud56WIHfKQw7_YLLTtCbxsDVGXOMeGu-VZVRi7Q7zIKBi6tEfaTnQqspayb6DYsi9jCs/s5486/IMG_9330.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5486" data-original-width="3118" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr8LGHl3FOnnE5y3sd6DdPvNU-0i3NiNyOe9MnkgC4bkG_ly-C48Esry6V9hduS6cr5-LgE2Mb72bo13LUd6G8vZhNsawPfszwnIK_4Cqlj9kK2pQSCsAj4Yawud56WIHfKQw7_YLLTtCbxsDVGXOMeGu-VZVRi7Q7zIKBi6tEfaTnQqspayb6DYsi9jCs/w364-h640/IMG_9330.jpeg" width="364" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm quite intrigued with this one... I had in mind some of the atmospheric paintings by Turner and so I lightly washed the Cyprus Green areas with a light yellow ochre before softening in a pale grey followed by titanium white</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the Cyprus Umber Dark on the right hand side got dabbed with the greys but the blotchy areas have come through so I'm going to add a little more to this one in the hopes of sorting some of that out</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">whether that will fix things or not I think I'm getting somewhere with the soft glowing area</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirx3clo_ItiRDcuMYSPL3MRt5RQuA16uGK5f1kQBegM4TWX4qoj26XGoe4WineLbxDQpDg_lI9u88IXI6sUzkN6PNdIdqT3nAC40BUzTytqHHIUWAau_ROwVK8Z5wAlLUTw6hVwhNDn0M2TFqdcb31aMVR2Q2J8NQmTRw0x8rLX773__-MLzVYJjB4a12K/s4680/IMG_9334.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4680" data-original-width="4284" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirx3clo_ItiRDcuMYSPL3MRt5RQuA16uGK5f1kQBegM4TWX4qoj26XGoe4WineLbxDQpDg_lI9u88IXI6sUzkN6PNdIdqT3nAC40BUzTytqHHIUWAau_ROwVK8Z5wAlLUTw6hVwhNDn0M2TFqdcb31aMVR2Q2J8NQmTRw0x8rLX773__-MLzVYJjB4a12K/w586-h640/IMG_9334.jpeg" width="586" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkhFiVdzDlX30gtCqKiq3mvya0XvUEz9wTFhWLs9DoH1QIkHcUAm4mVWlYsWw8Chz1f2R82VSXlTv1M3tdFNgDhSVEu6nAQFRA5USEWf_Y9BiUM5PWQDcl-J9Cj_A0yEoa52gBuzacEz0a2PCamZjQyZlgcUpghzhoUKQHM_cYu43xRSnGlIzTLcEEKPbL/s4032/IMG_9336.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkhFiVdzDlX30gtCqKiq3mvya0XvUEz9wTFhWLs9DoH1QIkHcUAm4mVWlYsWw8Chz1f2R82VSXlTv1M3tdFNgDhSVEu6nAQFRA5USEWf_Y9BiUM5PWQDcl-J9Cj_A0yEoa52gBuzacEz0a2PCamZjQyZlgcUpghzhoUKQHM_cYu43xRSnGlIzTLcEEKPbL/w480-h640/IMG_9336.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">this next one was also both Cyprus Green and Cyprus Umber Dark and also uneven so I added the yellow ochre along with dark grey, light grey and a bit of white</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ0qECPFTSiEylOv5GuLVBjIw7GCHegEyTGnIfMOM6KLozI4QzM9UdRhxngy_ZsemsdY2w_7Jfuxe_xvE2R6AyG_9UT0vxF_T5jLLIDqjeP7PaiuIQ2nLhmwmW5PS130fKVCJ0FhkOxNNrSO2npTIuj2v8sT4z3wC337UyHLjgKMxYOL30HaNtB61Bmad6/s4032/IMG_9341.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2829" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ0qECPFTSiEylOv5GuLVBjIw7GCHegEyTGnIfMOM6KLozI4QzM9UdRhxngy_ZsemsdY2w_7Jfuxe_xvE2R6AyG_9UT0vxF_T5jLLIDqjeP7PaiuIQ2nLhmwmW5PS130fKVCJ0FhkOxNNrSO2npTIuj2v8sT4z3wC337UyHLjgKMxYOL30HaNtB61Bmad6/w450-h640/IMG_9341.jpeg" width="450" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and finally Dark Red Ochre layered on top of Cyprus Green and then folded a couple of times with the creases well pressed</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQoD1G2GEOjJuNXY4XBgVL3528XpdZc3fcnC-EskCWQlMchHeiE8ssCxTdvYZmbgxMksOCCE1aROoMEuliRDyqcZgtA-1i1FhwLfYbz263tYSFoBMwmy-lXgbfS1r38l5uByYhbE_pkTQe-kztdflCjtow0z3TLzXpaLL2fEqrTO3nQO7U6Pr_vaWBwPr/s5712/IMG_9348.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="2778" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQoD1G2GEOjJuNXY4XBgVL3528XpdZc3fcnC-EskCWQlMchHeiE8ssCxTdvYZmbgxMksOCCE1aROoMEuliRDyqcZgtA-1i1FhwLfYbz263tYSFoBMwmy-lXgbfS1r38l5uByYhbE_pkTQe-kztdflCjtow0z3TLzXpaLL2fEqrTO3nQO7U6Pr_vaWBwPr/w312-h640/IMG_9348.jpeg" width="312" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">the strong diagonal lines are intriguing with one area looking quite like a leaf</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm using random pieces of cotton and linen from my scrap box and most of them are ones I didn't care too much... makes it easier to be experimental and not get too worked up over making beautiful pieces of painted cloth </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">when (and if) I do get the process figured out I'll invest in several metres of a good quality linen and paint with purpose but for now I'm just having fun, getting my hands dirty and trying out some different ideas</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">it's as good as being three, playing in the mud</div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-77420344688201643212024-02-03T14:17:00.000-08:002024-02-03T14:20:42.974-08:00participAction<div style="text-align: center;">having some fun in the studio today</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">several years ago I joined the local spinners & weavers guild</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">weaving is something I've been keen to do since I was young and I finally got tired of "wanting" to do it so I paid my dues and wove my first towel within a few a months</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">since then I've woven a couple more towels, two lap-sized blankets, and a small square tablecloth</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">my mom and I bought a second-hand counterbalance floor loom a few years later but because of Covid and my step-father's dementia along with a few other life events we have only just got around to getting it set up and for the past week we've been working on winding a warp and sleying it through the reed and heddles</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">although I've done said weaving the only warp I've wound and loaded was for coasters and that was on a small table loom; this latest weaving adventure has been more than a bit of a challenge but thanks to YouTube and a very good book we're getting there</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">to give my brain a break from that but still keep in the game I started working on a small woven piece to take to the guild meeting this Monday evening for show & tell</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">many members bring beautiful, inspiring work to share but as it is with most guilds of any kind it's usually the same people that are doing all the inspiring so I decided it was time for a little "participAction" from me</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">("participAction" was the name given to a Government of Canada initiative during the 1970s to get Canada active and hopefully more fit - I use to get myself involved in things like this)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">since I have a hand in a lot of things these days I thought I would weave something small and nature-inspired on a piece of heavy watercolour paper (I think 600gsm?) that I dribbled plant dye on a few years back</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">a piece of graph paper glued to the back so I could poke the warp holes through neatly got me started</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht_iMW4-FAgpAS4AvwWtbJxZPezoTfnQS8AeN1EA1Mq_9CFBIzgyeVzUT81EhFr_I3vJjlM9sgsSDbBQ3V-HOu5k6LvFQGPp6D6NNJ9nglvKu9FqP01NyBYGTSWQWbIWPlHSh_sM1lMvNSoFlVjlh4kepr94Nnv8nMlMIYzJU9tWDhg-p6oX6u_d47oWqa/s4032/IMG_9313.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht_iMW4-FAgpAS4AvwWtbJxZPezoTfnQS8AeN1EA1Mq_9CFBIzgyeVzUT81EhFr_I3vJjlM9sgsSDbBQ3V-HOu5k6LvFQGPp6D6NNJ9nglvKu9FqP01NyBYGTSWQWbIWPlHSh_sM1lMvNSoFlVjlh4kepr94Nnv8nMlMIYzJU9tWDhg-p6oX6u_d47oWqa/w480-h640/IMG_9313.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">my inspiration comes from an iris leaf I picked a couple of years ago in the fall when it developed a beautiful variegated colour - gold, brown and dark purple</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">today I gathered yarns in colours drawn from the leaf as well some daylily leaf twine I had made</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6uMHNrmoblBArw3JPZogY0mevZzXNVRwCrXYWAh9RfXlZtmDRPQtUpM_uCsirNyaRn8OXuuLo8xl8sqBZaACQsdsIJj2_OIRl7Q5VtXxoH9WUIAgWtXYAHh8ST8gbZ48rT0Glm_jUpqNeUQd5oupWjJKYpoLwmtxXJ59Lb68uL2CFkuz781ZJuaiJuesQ/s5712/IMG_9315.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5712" data-original-width="4284" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6uMHNrmoblBArw3JPZogY0mevZzXNVRwCrXYWAh9RfXlZtmDRPQtUpM_uCsirNyaRn8OXuuLo8xl8sqBZaACQsdsIJj2_OIRl7Q5VtXxoH9WUIAgWtXYAHh8ST8gbZ48rT0Glm_jUpqNeUQd5oupWjJKYpoLwmtxXJ59Lb68uL2CFkuz781ZJuaiJuesQ/w480-h640/IMG_9315.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm hoping to incorporate a leaf from a Yukon flower as well as strips of the iris leaf</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(it's rather fragile so it may not work)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm also thinking of a band of "drawn-thread" work, perhaps herringbone, or a knot stitch through an open area instead</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've only woven on paper twice before but never on heavy watercolour and already I'm smitten</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm seeing so many design possibilities with using watercolour paper as a base - I can splash colour here and there to enhance the colours of the weaving adding another layer of colour and interest... feels like I'm teetering on the edge of another rabbit hole full of sparkling and shiny bright ideas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">might be time to get out the dark glasses again, and just get through this first piece</div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-89027784769928768662024-01-28T17:28:00.000-08:002024-01-28T17:28:16.886-08:00reflections<div style="text-align: center;">it's been a thinky kind of week</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">a lot of time reflecting on my work, what I have been doing, and the direction I want to be going</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">several years ago I wrote a list of the qualities I was drawn to in creative work: colour, style, texture, design</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">they all still hold true for me today but I think what I am examining more now is quality</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">not quality in terms of construction or materials - quality in terms of the nature of it, and specifically in terms of simplicity</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have always liked my work to be on the simpler side of things, not too much embellishment, a more muted, quieter palette, subtle in texture</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">last year I learned about the principles of the zen aesthetic and whilst most of them resonated, "kanso" stood out most of all</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"simplicity, beauty and visual elegance are achieved by elimination and omission"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the description implies a taking away, removal and though I looked at it as a form of distillation, a process I love, it felt almost as if I needed to build the work up and then take away all that was unnecessary - a bit confusing, not necessarily what was meant, but I couldn't shake it</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">I found this quote not long after and it seemed a better fit, in meaning as well as approach</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Things wabi sabi are understated and unassuming, yet not without presence or quiet authority"</div><div style="text-align: center;">(- Leonard Koren, Wabi Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">That would be work I could aspire to create... but then "quiet authority" implied confidence and the belief in the completeness of the work - definitely not something I had an abundance of </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and then came this:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">"we favour simple expression of the complex thought"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">- Rothko/Gottlieb Manifesto 1943</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">and that was a "put-the-book-down-and take-this-in" moment</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">very simple and straightforward and something I could understand at a much deeper level than any of the others</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">taken all together though, each of the three contributing their own unique slant, they brought me to a place where I felt comfortable enough in my choices to say </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"this is all there needs to be and it is enough to say what needs to be said"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and then I was finally able to deal with the two samples that have been floating on my work deskfor more than a week as I fumbled to figure out what to do next with them</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS31w9kFvZyfJBNbnNrRhw7hyphenhyphenuuoYhdysZjVn4GsuWeuY6WUB6DM33hg7zDVzHQrDWSRSS9nOz3Dy1TKOQPwdBlEE7_foURFYL1zEAG0aCFi6O2bvpY5TtAXgC4gD8ZLQe0F9qtNlRhk2Ve0l-poJTF-hULzanPbxAXaomJyb_cO98GLn5oftaCau5Qemc/s6081/IMG_9286.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6081" data-original-width="5691" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS31w9kFvZyfJBNbnNrRhw7hyphenhyphenuuoYhdysZjVn4GsuWeuY6WUB6DM33hg7zDVzHQrDWSRSS9nOz3Dy1TKOQPwdBlEE7_foURFYL1zEAG0aCFi6O2bvpY5TtAXgC4gD8ZLQe0F9qtNlRhk2Ve0l-poJTF-hULzanPbxAXaomJyb_cO98GLn5oftaCau5Qemc/w598-h640/IMG_9286.jpeg" width="598" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the creased silk that started me on my latest explorations laid on a creased page in my sketchbook</div><div style="text-align: center;">(thank you for that suggestion <a href="https://karenannruane.typepad.com" target="_blank">Karen Ruane</a>, creasing the pages was a brilliant idea)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I did think briefly of adding drawn stitches such as French knots along some of the creases of the paper and whilst they may look better than good I like this page this way - it's only about the creases and so they on their own are enough</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the brown silk piece inspired by the neckline of Martha's dress nagged at me for days and two nights ago I cut off all the French knots</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the chain stitch references the embroidery of her dress - I don't need to include all of the other embroidery to tell it's story</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDskGPzgtUL81psJfi0DVTvBi25BcR2PmwDs0C9jTzbO6YdtgTkZfo4vK6BAZRD7FnnzAg8uhtmIjp69bc3_KlfptWXVtolnDiYmrp2auII5dkpsLrwKmXmZXAsET6quMEI23pcE5l0HH-eTzRmmCz6K3HOa0s6keX1GvVyQJMQNQM4U7zWhjDQNzyiKZD/s5612/IMG_9285%20(1).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5612" data-original-width="5380" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDskGPzgtUL81psJfi0DVTvBi25BcR2PmwDs0C9jTzbO6YdtgTkZfo4vK6BAZRD7FnnzAg8uhtmIjp69bc3_KlfptWXVtolnDiYmrp2auII5dkpsLrwKmXmZXAsET6quMEI23pcE5l0HH-eTzRmmCz6K3HOa0s6keX1GvVyQJMQNQM4U7zWhjDQNzyiKZD/w614-h640/IMG_9285%20(1).jpeg" width="614" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and then after all that came this:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"looking for the essence in the essential"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-Mark Rothko</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and my oh my</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">there it was and here it is</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the answer to the question and a way forward</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I feel as though I've been a given a license to follow my instincts, to let my desire spareness have it's day; for so long I've questioned if my work isn't too simple, or at least my desire for it</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">that a viewer wouldn't necessarily think it either wasn't finished or was a half-hearted effort at best</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">interestingly though, what I like about this thinking is that it isn't necessarily advocating for a design aesthetic that is spare or minimal rather, it's calling for there to be nothing present that isn't required</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">only what is essential must be present BUT everything that is essential must be</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's not just a matter of stripping things away and making plain </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"the whole truth and nothing but the truth"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">as I go back to the sketchbook pages above I delight in the look of them - all I want them to say is there and all the possibilities that stem from them are also there, none are crowded out nor overwhelmed</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's a reference of a place to begin</div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-89387384852883645372024-01-20T15:47:00.000-08:002024-01-20T15:47:38.229-08:00elements of style<div style="text-align: center;">slowly moving forward with the wildflowers, but I don't think I have given the whole story behind it</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">let me rectify that now...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">last year whilst in the Yukon from the end of January to mid-April I began thinking about working with the wildflowers I had picked the previous summer</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">as I did some random searching online I learned that Martha Black, a prominent figure in Yukon history had been an avid collector of wildflowers in the Yukon and had worked with them for much of her life</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">at one point her, and her husband George worked on a project together -as she gathered wildflowers from Dawson City and the surrounding area George photographed them and together they published a small book</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Yukon Wildflowers"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It's a charming book with the photographs, written descriptions, and the background of each page is watercolour paintings of Miles Canyon, near Whitehorse</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I managed to locate a copy of it and it's on it's way to me... cannot wait</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">As well, when I was in the Yukon this past November I visited the museum and they had a dress of Martha's from almost 100 years ago as well as a few of her pressed flower works, mounted on paper with a watercolored background</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8v6EEJYPvEec_3oC5XBN_fcoKaEn5c3L3I6i2O12Ycdaf9xECf2IpwegbqHtW3CjSCnBV5Hp7cLmGPt2v2RqnnkDx4GzEGY6UGevj6ZMzuWLzH8lBW-Hvu3xVypwhP9svj5fTaK6PlLHLSztgKXxZI9ycTGQYlRXD2lPcu2srckYJpOiiVkf6xV5lVmJS/s4032/IMG_9011.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8v6EEJYPvEec_3oC5XBN_fcoKaEn5c3L3I6i2O12Ycdaf9xECf2IpwegbqHtW3CjSCnBV5Hp7cLmGPt2v2RqnnkDx4GzEGY6UGevj6ZMzuWLzH8lBW-Hvu3xVypwhP9svj5fTaK6PlLHLSztgKXxZI9ycTGQYlRXD2lPcu2srckYJpOiiVkf6xV5lVmJS/w480-h640/IMG_9011.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the plant's colours have faded over the years but the composition remains, the painted shadows along the leaves and stems a beautiful addition</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Martha's work has inspired me greatly but it is not my intention to copy it... for mine I'm thinking of time passing, colours fading, lives lived and what remains</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">how that will translate into my work I have no idea but for now it's looking like this</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyHu0dIzs3agT8X2E9bCatZpFHK9vTv7UoXJkNRhjl-cRh0zt0GYWukHuUFNNGqaqQz7aImYLxUitJKV4RHm6AJzzdn7cHxl11dD8eDez8wL66EBJzd0eqQyUYbZn98SoQOBfF3T4F2pXPcCbCCBKirxlHoaWVNmQDC-l8PwYq0rwyyC0GfOgPn6ABMJ9j/s4032/IMG_9273.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyHu0dIzs3agT8X2E9bCatZpFHK9vTv7UoXJkNRhjl-cRh0zt0GYWukHuUFNNGqaqQz7aImYLxUitJKV4RHm6AJzzdn7cHxl11dD8eDez8wL66EBJzd0eqQyUYbZn98SoQOBfF3T4F2pXPcCbCCBKirxlHoaWVNmQDC-l8PwYq0rwyyC0GfOgPn6ABMJ9j/w640-h480/IMG_9273.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the small photo in the above image is an off-colour print of her dress which is quite white with grey and beige beadwork and white embroidery</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">today, i'm using golden brown silk along with dark blue silk chiffon layered on another piece of the brown... I like the way the brown comes through in the light</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(the photo has a blue cast to it and that's my inspiration)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">stitching the neckline detail on the brown rather than beading it though I'm sure beadwork will end up in the mix before too long - not sure what if anything I'll put on the blue folds - I rather like them as they are</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Yo4nTupJChXB9BHOlQv4DACIkbfwtDm7-yiv16YFdELyj1iROSZV52b-Gf1olbisUkZPFk3hIj-xkHBF1zR5SPeL0FlLdAqwt4wuxUyFuV8V6movt0JJNZV69QKqbQ-j8ym_nmh8r58NR6EKDm0CnLKBvBD1ZU3Nzv6scQ-uBlkx-wqP9F3yD9SX994H/s3915/IMG_9020%20(1).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ7TEVm69hM8yPu3DE1x_Fdu74O4k3JgpbKW83zCdLdfEFjMy2gEWW011tGzsU7Idj2JT24YCUy8KLGqo1rRia9ic-J2XllFU9PdoPhdLnTDU9w-CKoDizASvwxbKajUpHlD2_MDIPuGHmgSFig3fJNF4vsNfPCCVmvdxFe4iC24h_BSHdu29qRbM8Jr4g/s4032/IMG_9023.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ7TEVm69hM8yPu3DE1x_Fdu74O4k3JgpbKW83zCdLdfEFjMy2gEWW011tGzsU7Idj2JT24YCUy8KLGqo1rRia9ic-J2XllFU9PdoPhdLnTDU9w-CKoDizASvwxbKajUpHlD2_MDIPuGHmgSFig3fJNF4vsNfPCCVmvdxFe4iC24h_BSHdu29qRbM8Jr4g/w480-h640/IMG_9023.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">thoughts on the project as a whole are still loose, perhaps even a bit vague</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm not ready to choose one path just yet - I'd rather meander here and there, keeping an eye out for what may be, much as Martha may have done as she wandered the hills and valleys of the Klondike searching for wildflowers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">seems fitting</div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-67016940516286718792024-01-13T19:16:00.000-08:002024-01-13T19:16:20.121-08:00back to work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's been an odd week, snow, snow and more snow</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">now cold</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">shoveling upended most of my creative plans but I did get the drawing in circles page finished</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">all the marks were inspired by lines, patterns and/or textures in the objects shown a few posts back</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">from the top, left to right:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">driftwood lines</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">beaded detail of the bracelet</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">bracket punctuation from newspaper clipping</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">florets from Queen Anne's lace flower</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">opening in key handle</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">leaves of Queen Anne's Lace flower</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"crackle" design of hat pin </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">marks on the silver oval bracelet clasp</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">gold nugget on large napkin ring</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">circles traced with liqueur glass</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">curlicue from etching on wine glass</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">outline of silver Mexican medal</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQkiRCIBq-94d3YjUDDrO3CXl0h1W03Db8YgkIzReiMirI2T5St_qwPNRzRC4ZATUkxTxR-zcQojAv-a4_zbca-3PfbhosLF8BCIQcY-O0G7SsIXyCd34gvr038ots8xDeEdQ9era91baaC4MF8Vv6ajJKCrPW4Tu3IEpSB_-v8MFST3gl2t7aTXwZVaHv/s5226/IMG_9232.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3920" data-original-width="5226" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQkiRCIBq-94d3YjUDDrO3CXl0h1W03Db8YgkIzReiMirI2T5St_qwPNRzRC4ZATUkxTxR-zcQojAv-a4_zbca-3PfbhosLF8BCIQcY-O0G7SsIXyCd34gvr038ots8xDeEdQ9era91baaC4MF8Vv6ajJKCrPW4Tu3IEpSB_-v8MFST3gl2t7aTXwZVaHv/w640-h480/IMG_9232.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've made a start on the coloured version but not enough to show yet</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in the meanwhile, there has been some progress on the wildflower investigations</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">finally a couple of decent photos to work with</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic8A4XKILiwDUerP5il76pPm-P6GrWbXZ7ZzgzgmFZ_y9f-8dZZd0tghyejc0NYXmQexfIJNn32SOR3TWqKt1aweAve5OzHfLj2mJQglu4psh5JZNJhqPYSWuhWGbcwPklK2ZgAgjJb-cmCzAPWpTMAUQ6rNBdOZRkGWlPyyjQzAVFrEwASe3Ddhfxd0lk/s1955/IMG_9247.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1955" data-original-width="1466" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic8A4XKILiwDUerP5il76pPm-P6GrWbXZ7ZzgzgmFZ_y9f-8dZZd0tghyejc0NYXmQexfIJNn32SOR3TWqKt1aweAve5OzHfLj2mJQglu4psh5JZNJhqPYSWuhWGbcwPklK2ZgAgjJb-cmCzAPWpTMAUQ6rNBdOZRkGWlPyyjQzAVFrEwASe3Ddhfxd0lk/w480-h640/IMG_9247.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI9kX8RoZKK83dAGXFtQ28aEVoeItddk2y1v4rlWY-IcqPtaUr9E-HZ7YSRkTnKyRR-P383pr1mn6VrBI5wc9dq6YGn4tkQ3p5w6u_0cFFG-k2KcG_4_lO4MLdBnMqbLM-PmYYqjW6JC9e89uEUeDe_5y6uzvZ9hYk5PYnPyPgM53K84OZUbso1BqiwXQy/s3808/IMG_9250.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2640" data-original-width="3808" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI9kX8RoZKK83dAGXFtQ28aEVoeItddk2y1v4rlWY-IcqPtaUr9E-HZ7YSRkTnKyRR-P383pr1mn6VrBI5wc9dq6YGn4tkQ3p5w6u_0cFFG-k2KcG_4_lO4MLdBnMqbLM-PmYYqjW6JC9e89uEUeDe_5y6uzvZ9hYk5PYnPyPgM53K84OZUbso1BqiwXQy/w640-h444/IMG_9250.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">when I took the photos for the last post I noticed some interesting fold lines in the grey silk - one of you noticed their potential too</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">this week after a discussion in the Zoom meeting with my classmates in Karen Ruane's Alchemy class I started making samples of them - a lot of ideas were generated in that discussion but I haven't made it past the first one </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've done four versions of it though!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">using a fine sewing thread and lightweight linen fabric, a crease is formed and then stitched one fabric thread down from the fold</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3HipZcwqtXDfY7MizW58XJrguV3nDCmiwIz2oeRUemLIC7FRZ-FaEd2urNjh4GytH9HtF7JqFL27j7ppTtY_7UsVAZZjP7ClD_ZpFmiCB_gjvP-mph1fg6P4lR4RGTTNwnIJR2in4TyHDSww5LMLijedzoG0umAwYhPYiGOvidnUkYaZyHm3cS6MMgUhS/s4032/IMG_9257.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3HipZcwqtXDfY7MizW58XJrguV3nDCmiwIz2oeRUemLIC7FRZ-FaEd2urNjh4GytH9HtF7JqFL27j7ppTtY_7UsVAZZjP7ClD_ZpFmiCB_gjvP-mph1fg6P4lR4RGTTNwnIJR2in4TyHDSww5LMLijedzoG0umAwYhPYiGOvidnUkYaZyHm3cS6MMgUhS/w640-h480/IMG_9257.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and this one on the grey silk, trying out incomplete lines</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I like them very much</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2sbKjFebfZGPeM6YlVhI9eiNneyljkoGKvzTrYqJML-QZMTvdVlQ52dyHZ1ONVFNboNeE1eRY5u24J07zl7YwUA14LOHi2oWTIz_PodWQXMcqSbupuru09sz_y6T4semb0LeX-cyzL8GW7FLjm2wX93kERMDOWKt51dvl9Kipz3Z8drkQByB4DQa6v5ch/s3931/IMG_9258.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2948" data-original-width="3931" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2sbKjFebfZGPeM6YlVhI9eiNneyljkoGKvzTrYqJML-QZMTvdVlQ52dyHZ1ONVFNboNeE1eRY5u24J07zl7YwUA14LOHi2oWTIz_PodWQXMcqSbupuru09sz_y6T4semb0LeX-cyzL8GW7FLjm2wX93kERMDOWKt51dvl9Kipz3Z8drkQByB4DQa6v5ch/w640-h480/IMG_9258.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and here are the four pieces laid out together</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwiySsD-8CzJtDKcCJFSygOILG5-a9ga2j1DgyzjcpAKFcIJqN9BmWgd1qfqUSy-qpnZ4yA88fU6Kt8gmsmQ1DDoGgI6B_CGwtbQpuByMWhZqnrlOWQj3DO4ZH0PqEWS23yNHzVFepqH8_YpwjJaU0Y2DY31WC6EzZR6qF3VZdKAWKdhpIqRnAZQprgWkr/s4965/IMG_9229%20(1).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4965" data-original-width="4280" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwiySsD-8CzJtDKcCJFSygOILG5-a9ga2j1DgyzjcpAKFcIJqN9BmWgd1qfqUSy-qpnZ4yA88fU6Kt8gmsmQ1DDoGgI6B_CGwtbQpuByMWhZqnrlOWQj3DO4ZH0PqEWS23yNHzVFepqH8_YpwjJaU0Y2DY31WC6EzZR6qF3VZdKAWKdhpIqRnAZQprgWkr/w552-h640/IMG_9229%20(1).jpeg" width="552" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the sample in the upper left has two pin-tucks that are raised (top and bottom) and the one in the middle goes the other way</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I like that effect too</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">next is try a no-sew method suggested by one of my classmates</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and tomorrow explorations with the flowers begin</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">it does feel good to finally be back to work</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-355080857618893522024-01-06T17:08:00.000-08:002024-01-06T17:08:15.934-08:00a fresh start<div style="text-align: center;">it's been such a long time since I've been able to spend any amount of time on creative pursuits but I'm ready to to get back at it... being away from my work these past two months has left me a tad disconnected from it so rather than try to force it I'm pivoting to something else for now</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I've mentioned a few times wanting to work with some wildflowers I collected in the yukon during the summer of 2022 so I'll begin there</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">today I pulled some small collages I did a while back, chose a couple that really interested me and then began gathering various fabrics that might work well with them... for now I'm working with a two different palettes</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">not at the point yet for making decisions about an actual layout, more a case wanting to get a sense of the possibilities</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the grand plan is to incorporate imagery of the flowers using print, paint and/or stitch, most likely all three - choosing the fabrics and paper for the base gives me a start point for colour</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">today I played with layouts</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">this is one way</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihcjBcY-ASr2RzzYj1egec1iADCDWOFtkOyIasvKr_xFE6LOorWql5Yw9-7f7Cc05oz3v4vsmI755wgHpQ_uz1xscXRNLW7lov_ccwL8tq6tQP3RAbVJxZK6RldpxtX1j7KsEmxUAgy6tQdxR04Zg-iSGA1jUf82pLqT4yOhMLVy4LkJB7BeiENebGbFFB/s4032/IMG_9165.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihcjBcY-ASr2RzzYj1egec1iADCDWOFtkOyIasvKr_xFE6LOorWql5Yw9-7f7Cc05oz3v4vsmI755wgHpQ_uz1xscXRNLW7lov_ccwL8tq6tQP3RAbVJxZK6RldpxtX1j7KsEmxUAgy6tQdxR04Zg-iSGA1jUf82pLqT4yOhMLVy4LkJB7BeiENebGbFFB/w640-h480/IMG_9165.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">another</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidKXZg8k03zumkbORRHQ6ncfx7VimdetxcInBtlCSu92rqGyJBSWBg1W635CvNPgWwEJCCwFMZyR0BT7wvMeLtUbJpVJ4QD5lNCuvS3YCDu-VnbGxhByQuceqPIljfvIHt7Lfi0hWO-iYKJNZgBkEDl7mn2efm3pN0hCHN1g3UamtzGqNaz5QQDmCczsef/s4032/IMG_9166.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidKXZg8k03zumkbORRHQ6ncfx7VimdetxcInBtlCSu92rqGyJBSWBg1W635CvNPgWwEJCCwFMZyR0BT7wvMeLtUbJpVJ4QD5lNCuvS3YCDu-VnbGxhByQuceqPIljfvIHt7Lfi0hWO-iYKJNZgBkEDl7mn2efm3pN0hCHN1g3UamtzGqNaz5QQDmCczsef/w480-h640/IMG_9166.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and yet another version - this time with a flower laid on</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">next is to pull larger pieces of the fabrics, find papers that could be interesting, play with more layouts and start some sketching - looking at the leaves and petals and seeing what can be done with them, as a whole, but also fragmented</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a true representation, or the essence of it?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt74saBr3ak7MkUolLFNaE0OMVxo1ofkqdW-YdVMl0Pcfewp8OmdCus8Q3HNQYbICoFCAzvwrh6OPkca7_Ha7Yt54qiv5T5iyaA9jm1DUXdmVzMpyAfuSUd6AokohzMfbO34mJls2_ntxsZqQowyIGirhO2TIVPuQRAkSnnVi6G5oe5sEclt200-LLeMFp/s3692/IMG_9173.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3692" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt74saBr3ak7MkUolLFNaE0OMVxo1ofkqdW-YdVMl0Pcfewp8OmdCus8Q3HNQYbICoFCAzvwrh6OPkca7_Ha7Yt54qiv5T5iyaA9jm1DUXdmVzMpyAfuSUd6AokohzMfbO34mJls2_ntxsZqQowyIGirhO2TIVPuQRAkSnnVi6G5oe5sEclt200-LLeMFp/w524-h640/IMG_9173.jpeg" width="524" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">another option...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNcGRY3takBFYtPpYEqUVc0DIU-QzefsXcm8Dg6MdlcUEZSAa0ZAbTkN0qC20Z2_Rh7waATbg6USDHsG5OWvWPNsrmbI2WDyrue8qYU3laR02UhXC24MndUHVADj9OgP3SqWtv5gg54D_paRAAq18taIGCC8kUmIwPXyVTLpAueCCADoknlFJig0UyZkd/s3889/IMG_9169.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3889" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNcGRY3takBFYtPpYEqUVc0DIU-QzefsXcm8Dg6MdlcUEZSAa0ZAbTkN0qC20Z2_Rh7waATbg6USDHsG5OWvWPNsrmbI2WDyrue8qYU3laR02UhXC24MndUHVADj9OgP3SqWtv5gg54D_paRAAq18taIGCC8kUmIwPXyVTLpAueCCADoknlFJig0UyZkd/w498-h640/IMG_9169.jpeg" width="498" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and another...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I like this one - the snowy piece on the left is golden fibre paste medium on scrim that I tried to print on but no luck - I got the scattered black marks and that was it</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">tomorrow I'll get into the drawers and cupboards in search of other fabrics and papers - these are still in the "let's see what the possibilities are" stage and I've yet to settle on a size for the finished pieces though I'm thinking somewhere around 11" x 14" or so</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's really going to depend on what I come up with for the flowers - that more than anything is going to dictate the required size</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg45DJTB38746Izh4qfQUS8QT1OZKBLU09-rJzQxKq4SNzaAJYLK_yv1hW5j3HGneAHh9QDaACmJskmbtihtLGY3PFIc6MPLEP3V9u9zlwdWO5vKseFlksA08y6lE4hmpy430IbNXmL_-HbtjoC37IyN2Z1hpX-UoDZ1xi1ipT8hLAVexs07j8ur8JW2Ai4/s4032/IMG_9176.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg45DJTB38746Izh4qfQUS8QT1OZKBLU09-rJzQxKq4SNzaAJYLK_yv1hW5j3HGneAHh9QDaACmJskmbtihtLGY3PFIc6MPLEP3V9u9zlwdWO5vKseFlksA08y6lE4hmpy430IbNXmL_-HbtjoC37IyN2Z1hpX-UoDZ1xi1ipT8hLAVexs07j8ur8JW2Ai4/w640-h480/IMG_9176.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYM6b7SW0hnqLaX9y6__9mElq0ZDsZk2rXWsEtq7RGNm1FT4W9KMEFzNvRmO3cRFAVXJvzqGiD3EtA-qg_Mcb-RObvDWfrMXFC76ofIqk1p5KGy8w-jF25PKVxV2Xt8WPZoPggLWZbwLGTH8pogNntJSHV4SgO5DPYo4c11PEbr7PaPZpfoKilqKd9AoNQ/s4032/IMG_9177.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYM6b7SW0hnqLaX9y6__9mElq0ZDsZk2rXWsEtq7RGNm1FT4W9KMEFzNvRmO3cRFAVXJvzqGiD3EtA-qg_Mcb-RObvDWfrMXFC76ofIqk1p5KGy8w-jF25PKVxV2Xt8WPZoPggLWZbwLGTH8pogNntJSHV4SgO5DPYo4c11PEbr7PaPZpfoKilqKd9AoNQ/w480-h640/IMG_9177.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">below is a sampling of some of the varieties of flowers I picked and pressed</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-ORBl6IT7acYYjQMXWphv7n6mxa4QtKGsPzboZzwDykDs_sM_QNoQ1Vw65SkLUU8WSurCrAsEOEKclmiPgiS-VfvMSgL1cARkXBHYsSZApnQBab35GEcuPxEblrwwFPyuvNB727ClHSAmBTK-B8PSehkT9m6cbPo9GgzsLiccDb_BAs41F4Uho3P1WuDd/s4032/IMG_9178.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2665" data-original-width="4032" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-ORBl6IT7acYYjQMXWphv7n6mxa4QtKGsPzboZzwDykDs_sM_QNoQ1Vw65SkLUU8WSurCrAsEOEKclmiPgiS-VfvMSgL1cARkXBHYsSZApnQBab35GEcuPxEblrwwFPyuvNB727ClHSAmBTK-B8PSehkT9m6cbPo9GgzsLiccDb_BAs41F4Uho3P1WuDd/w640-h424/IMG_9178.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">lots of interesting shapes in these to work with</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">tomorrow is the first day in I don't know how long that there isn't anything at all that I have to do so I'll be in the studio for the whole of it</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and so the new year begins</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-90013537253415354512023-12-31T13:30:00.000-08:002024-01-01T08:17:52.267-08:00circling...<div style="text-align: center;">these loose marks are somewhat representative of how things are with me creatively</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">random, incomplete... a lot of fits and starts</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">looking back over the year's blog posts there was a recurring theme - a bit of time available for creative work and then long periods of almost none as other things took precedence</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvJVRW-_08WgSi6AGd4FZxzEFLV-s4hyphenhyphenK5jc48_wUpWy540DK4If008HZoNIjgNPMFXIiX8kyT-nV_udtNAICN2Nt4rscfp0F9_VSDACcqQ4IladPag3CHqWV7ez-WObLTvHMOOXrUtcS7VO5o_gHYOag_nlN-pBFQ9wUJAf7FHUdJmE2FWKWtB1zdMPE/s3881/IMG_9157.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2905" data-original-width="3881" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvJVRW-_08WgSi6AGd4FZxzEFLV-s4hyphenhyphenK5jc48_wUpWy540DK4If008HZoNIjgNPMFXIiX8kyT-nV_udtNAICN2Nt4rscfp0F9_VSDACcqQ4IladPag3CHqWV7ez-WObLTvHMOOXrUtcS7VO5o_gHYOag_nlN-pBFQ9wUJAf7FHUdJmE2FWKWtB1zdMPE/w640-h480/IMG_9157.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">what I have done has been good though</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> a lot of discovering, a lot of thinking</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYLX1Me0NA2DL4UOEVYKpEzIXllLCIc917hezbqlBXoaoPbAIibXcORlcuspJMFagvK-XnJMJs6G-WzNyI43YWZofGv7UFU_fF1DAfx-8eoQ7EQTC_6DkFGQWT3guykY0My7sNG-rdp9CiiKKU8nCZ7JyNXLkIXPUaCFSCCVm-_P8eogtclcX-TT1qP8kB/s4032/IMG_9144.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYLX1Me0NA2DL4UOEVYKpEzIXllLCIc917hezbqlBXoaoPbAIibXcORlcuspJMFagvK-XnJMJs6G-WzNyI43YWZofGv7UFU_fF1DAfx-8eoQ7EQTC_6DkFGQWT3guykY0My7sNG-rdp9CiiKKU8nCZ7JyNXLkIXPUaCFSCCVm-_P8eogtclcX-TT1qP8kB/w480-h640/IMG_9144.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm ready for some action though</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">during this in-between time I have gathered a few objects important to me and have had them on my work table for some time now</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've analyzed them in a few ways, thinking about colour and shape, marks etc</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">then a page of circles using the solid silver napkin ring to draw around</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(the circles are all complete, the photo just cut some off and it's too dark with fog to re-take it)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">that napkin ring my grandfather's, one single gold nugget centred on it</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">plain, simple, elegant</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">today I began filling the circles with marks inspired by the objects</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOPOXLbQ56VkmyjckpsWno4pAzVy06Vnt3OKJrILogWvRS-6bX7qSZ42DTccZwkvu9Ps3UG-MHtdsuI5LgVIQBJlPuKr5g8ncaI6wzPhkzTa8OuaUyg_fLqOHjxDboh9KKsuBoFA8nL-Evh-95kGw-UCSFynmzJ1MhRX_mMHWtvxqFFq_wY9-5oEzpDLJ6/s3998/IMG_9155.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2998" data-original-width="3998" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOPOXLbQ56VkmyjckpsWno4pAzVy06Vnt3OKJrILogWvRS-6bX7qSZ42DTccZwkvu9Ps3UG-MHtdsuI5LgVIQBJlPuKr5g8ncaI6wzPhkzTa8OuaUyg_fLqOHjxDboh9KKsuBoFA8nL-Evh-95kGw-UCSFynmzJ1MhRX_mMHWtvxqFFq_wY9-5oEzpDLJ6/w640-h480/IMG_9155.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">for the next couple of days I'll keep circling back to this; when it's finished I'll do a colour study of a sort</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">simple exercises that have me looking, thinking, and doing whilst everyday life begins it's slow journey into 2024 and all that it will hold</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">as this challenging year draws to it's close I'll wish for you what I hope for myself</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">peace in your soul</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">for as Max Ehrmann wrote almost 100 years ago:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your life. With all it's sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-19980804890143808662023-12-23T17:06:00.000-08:002023-12-23T17:06:29.170-08:00Christmas Wishes<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">me...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLwWZyujsooLTR6R0VbwWGnQQmu39IVIO1AbMLig6JZkJGrxciAidbhcYVD4BwjpffhtHeV7dmHNcmz0BOEqyotr0_bHT242j6LlHavdMB1grLeH7qIDwfs-fgKDOgAp2-hNjCBV4qvCDuV-riId7s73ILSi6A9fphIXbROCM-9IImleWNxtubFfl_JzYb/s639/DSC04114.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="499" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLwWZyujsooLTR6R0VbwWGnQQmu39IVIO1AbMLig6JZkJGrxciAidbhcYVD4BwjpffhtHeV7dmHNcmz0BOEqyotr0_bHT242j6LlHavdMB1grLeH7qIDwfs-fgKDOgAp2-hNjCBV4qvCDuV-riId7s73ILSi6A9fphIXbROCM-9IImleWNxtubFfl_JzYb/w500-h640/DSC04114.jpeg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and mine...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrQIXYO2ObsqV3B5C5zXcK6aPJCKjMl0zPNKx78pFhaC0zXWRXkJ-k7LXz0o4Qvg7C_MnNv_IgoI7t-19a-JIMviof6_5WYLP7Fbh8Kasfz9osFKTlWaazIuqLxtIZ0lbavLYxgFopo_A7GrJJiIsGph3g0FB3Ecs9Xt3pNzO8IckdYTZseh4_R8pRUhu/s639/DSC04111.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="639" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrQIXYO2ObsqV3B5C5zXcK6aPJCKjMl0zPNKx78pFhaC0zXWRXkJ-k7LXz0o4Qvg7C_MnNv_IgoI7t-19a-JIMviof6_5WYLP7Fbh8Kasfz9osFKTlWaazIuqLxtIZ0lbavLYxgFopo_A7GrJJiIsGph3g0FB3Ecs9Xt3pNzO8IckdYTZseh4_R8pRUhu/w640-h462/DSC04111.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">would like to wish you...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and yours...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">a very Merry Christmas!</div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-63916482236169695902023-12-16T16:34:00.000-08:002023-12-16T18:58:08.151-08:00Yukon Gold<div style="text-align: center;">home for almost a week now, in the throes of Christmas preparation, but I did take some time to work with a few things I had gathered whilst in the yukon</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">a small forest path, through the trees, across the stream on a small wooden bridge... a walk of about 90 seconds really but lingering is a must</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I walked it as a teenager, a short-cut to the small grocery store, it's still there all these years later</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">when I first got to Whitehorse in early November it had barely snowed and I saw a number of rosehips still clinging to the branches of the otherwise bare wild roses</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">some were still bright red, many were black - I gathered all I could find along with a couple of pinecones, one grey and the other brown and brought them home with me</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">on Monday I put it all into my small aluminium dyepot, added a few cups of tap water and left it to simmer on the stove for about 30 minutes</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> a few scraps of various silk fabrics and one cotton piece were stirred in and left to simmer another hour... at that point I didn't really care if I got any colour at all as the house smelled absolutely heavenly and that alone felt like reward enough</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the pot and it's contents were set aside for the night to be looked at in the morning... it was all a bit by guess and by golly so I didn't have high expectations but the next day I found all the silk had dyed a shimmering golden brown; the cotton was a bit washed out but the richness of the silk more than made up for it</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp0YJzqlLMjJqyocAD5pphuefkMoUCXOf0LGQ3ASobSrXAojiL_1NBlHr7vLQG9879oBCVKuQqITGO6js_YFFtwPGDb7i6-SexPKzqiIWVGKdubDninvs1bUB5QAShzf4nAv2hvjqOUu3DJQc1setWf74kSQIS0hIvwvCicdP_XrlncVUr9IQMwcGesJ_v/s3961/IMG_9124%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3961" data-original-width="2923" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp0YJzqlLMjJqyocAD5pphuefkMoUCXOf0LGQ3ASobSrXAojiL_1NBlHr7vLQG9879oBCVKuQqITGO6js_YFFtwPGDb7i6-SexPKzqiIWVGKdubDninvs1bUB5QAShzf4nAv2hvjqOUu3DJQc1setWf74kSQIS0hIvwvCicdP_XrlncVUr9IQMwcGesJ_v/w472-h640/IMG_9124%20(1).jpeg" width="472" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">although the process I followed was rather haphazard I did make notes in my dye-book and attached samples so things are looking up on the recording front at least</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKTjZyXy5I_Krth3McNCk7VRIboIpr08ONj0ST3UJXs5usprm-D1uGBMyvMRZsfmXaxS1zumzpUtQZQLNvbs-pRxr_sUBjhiX9Ad9EFpSfk7csGfyJ0aq_BnaQIiLAi82qBtQAIiRQoDXFbQcQ39n40HcQZWc951JGe7o-fPVezRL0lr4z763MMbG-BClo/s4032/IMG_9125%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKTjZyXy5I_Krth3McNCk7VRIboIpr08ONj0ST3UJXs5usprm-D1uGBMyvMRZsfmXaxS1zumzpUtQZQLNvbs-pRxr_sUBjhiX9Ad9EFpSfk7csGfyJ0aq_BnaQIiLAi82qBtQAIiRQoDXFbQcQ39n40HcQZWc951JGe7o-fPVezRL0lr4z763MMbG-BClo/w480-h640/IMG_9125%20(1).jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the dye looked like it still had some oomph in it so I kinda sorta quickly "scoured" three skeins of cotton embroidery thread (bright white, natural white and ecru), skipped the mordant stage and put the thread in the jar of dye that still had all the plant material in it</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and there it sits... I swish it around every day and perhaps tomorrow I'll put the jar in a pot of simmering water and let it heat up for a while</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and continue with the daily swishing for a little longer...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have several natural dye books and have read all about and done my fair share of proper scouring and other preparations for dyeing both cotton and silk fabric and thread with excellent results but I'm also willing to just wing it sometimes and see what I get and sometimes I strike gold</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and speaking of gold, the photo below was the scene a friend saw as she drove into downtown Whitehorse today in the early afternoon... the low sun softened by mist rising from the river... golden light striking a path right to her feet</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi59993QnWIxtlXXwFG-GVeed_3nNosVTXq6oX_5eCXX2jyfS-EQ03YgwUYlFe0Y3fTyQVhZEydIGVTOJ9Uwuyy-AbHtWyBNrINJgjKQOOPQaUiJLh8vIzic_LM5o06aiuKMGYTqwZHQjJVSBuzlStWTS_MN0EpRUi7Ok4LJ4M1L0JW7y5zDBKZbyLmhZgn/s3827/IMG_5820.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2870" data-original-width="3827" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi59993QnWIxtlXXwFG-GVeed_3nNosVTXq6oX_5eCXX2jyfS-EQ03YgwUYlFe0Y3fTyQVhZEydIGVTOJ9Uwuyy-AbHtWyBNrINJgjKQOOPQaUiJLh8vIzic_LM5o06aiuKMGYTqwZHQjJVSBuzlStWTS_MN0EpRUi7Ok4LJ4M1L0JW7y5zDBKZbyLmhZgn/w640-h480/IMG_5820.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(photo credit C. Young)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-8 degrees and winter has never looked better</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-44481898370477364062023-12-10T07:14:00.000-08:002023-12-10T07:14:29.099-08:00sunlight and shadows<div style="text-align: center;">last week was filled with a series of random things, a kind of "what have I missed that I can cram in now" kind of week, alongside helping our daughter to move house</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">a morning spent at the museum which has trebled in size since we lived here</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">this photograph of Dead Horse Gulch was part of an exhibit new to me, where thousands of horses on the Chilkoot Trail died, the faint line of the later train tracks along the left-hand side mid photo</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">my brother was in a small plane that crashed into the mountain on the right-hand side in 1972 when he was 14 - he was the lucky one, two died, the fourth severely injured, lives forever changed</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">looking at this brought all those memories flooding back - the accident was an earthquake in a small town like Whitehorse, especially as three of the four passengers were children</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">it's not an image, nor a place to inspire my work directly though serves as a stark reminder that this is not an easy land</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigKHWOfXFnI8PqlaVwg7BmRBCdSlGGjIPMhghPw9M-FWa6DuPaSG1UgYPhpRYaTLkMquRhT6vW2rBEehyDfbkU908Q9osN-VGE_mTd-I2qpU2bFE9WuMH-UgKRHu3UdfQC_c9LK0LV5TgOeLfzk9xAECSyqHJ9K4Kt7mG2OQhnsv7Rw11h-G4cZjPa974G/s4032/IMG_9015.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigKHWOfXFnI8PqlaVwg7BmRBCdSlGGjIPMhghPw9M-FWa6DuPaSG1UgYPhpRYaTLkMquRhT6vW2rBEehyDfbkU908Q9osN-VGE_mTd-I2qpU2bFE9WuMH-UgKRHu3UdfQC_c9LK0LV5TgOeLfzk9xAECSyqHJ9K4Kt7mG2OQhnsv7Rw11h-G4cZjPa974G/w640-h480/IMG_9015.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">another quick walk by the river, a close-up of the dock pilings, the oily-dark river flowing silently by</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love that the current is so fast, the undertow exceptionally strong and yet it's deadly quiet... a river of respect</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4FinHPDYFCe_q3ATGXkaJRWvQseYXhG_NG6rv9yVOmJuYrQfs8FPZ6BdLq6MaqaBntyOTw97lpd7WHOzvxKlfZ-tVYUk0fwqZ-sVYkX9OS6jP11B5Lw-clUWu06pPxd_rMyLWwwgC8h2MtylyOWfC8c6hT2o0KIkp9OTOBOeQROtYbI_KAodCbCo6cVBd/s2936/IMG_9073.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2175" data-original-width="2936" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4FinHPDYFCe_q3ATGXkaJRWvQseYXhG_NG6rv9yVOmJuYrQfs8FPZ6BdLq6MaqaBntyOTw97lpd7WHOzvxKlfZ-tVYUk0fwqZ-sVYkX9OS6jP11B5Lw-clUWu06pPxd_rMyLWwwgC8h2MtylyOWfC8c6hT2o0KIkp9OTOBOeQROtYbI_KAodCbCo6cVBd/w640-h474/IMG_9073.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a rusted part of the inner workings of a long-lost paddlewheeler still on the shore, sunlight and shadows</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">sunlight and shadows... like a metaphor for the harshness yet beauty found here</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioDIJTxdP7yrOcJUE_SuV3w6j7uEWim1pjlamf5ClZ7qoAa-NuQYutDGa39kB_aautGjRWFp8YPqaMEFuJ1oBAl_gO-EhlzKZAWUgq2eLHTV58mhjVQ9Hw4UX3zJm11yEJHFmNS8A0rIcUjYQO7_9DUeSjNQ1CEq8OSb7AOrzFYD9Fh-OL9tSzamN7t8JJ/s4032/IMG_9078.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioDIJTxdP7yrOcJUE_SuV3w6j7uEWim1pjlamf5ClZ7qoAa-NuQYutDGa39kB_aautGjRWFp8YPqaMEFuJ1oBAl_gO-EhlzKZAWUgq2eLHTV58mhjVQ9Hw4UX3zJm11yEJHFmNS8A0rIcUjYQO7_9DUeSjNQ1CEq8OSb7AOrzFYD9Fh-OL9tSzamN7t8JJ/w480-h640/IMG_9078.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYox3oYeaHBS-2jeZl2uKYgYEvGP3muMRkOiCCp9iOc9qQ4kEEPYAx8tjdqK0f00XDLu7DJqT83AOw4ivTwOPkS5DZOgXJwyd0BXRpKpQTRoQ_pEwt6UaJos8czABAiulsPFyib3B0EUfOtzN_RwvfdCf7YmMIoQ6f-IbqZP2VuWS5y7BbcjWxZjL_5ELS/s4032/IMG_9100.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1927" data-original-width="4032" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYox3oYeaHBS-2jeZl2uKYgYEvGP3muMRkOiCCp9iOc9qQ4kEEPYAx8tjdqK0f00XDLu7DJqT83AOw4ivTwOPkS5DZOgXJwyd0BXRpKpQTRoQ_pEwt6UaJos8czABAiulsPFyib3B0EUfOtzN_RwvfdCf7YmMIoQ6f-IbqZP2VuWS5y7BbcjWxZjL_5ELS/w640-h306/IMG_9100.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the next day, fresh snow</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZW3W1Ok2ZiMcS8KbT0Psgg6tPaaOiE3gyt22XIisEoztWCPRX10CC0JlvC1qmRErkGLvaK1M4-grM6YGAk1K0pCMFspuMrKOmpcQvbhXWtYB8AmFMZGbkzLzCzARsev_aGPE0UXdiVn2vqCkfhasM66L1uPJb83J3pAw6TVFEhe2l6fAJoQ-WLRfEBB6v/s3473/IMG_5792.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3473" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZW3W1Ok2ZiMcS8KbT0Psgg6tPaaOiE3gyt22XIisEoztWCPRX10CC0JlvC1qmRErkGLvaK1M4-grM6YGAk1K0pCMFspuMrKOmpcQvbhXWtYB8AmFMZGbkzLzCzARsev_aGPE0UXdiVn2vqCkfhasM66L1uPJb83J3pAw6TVFEhe2l6fAJoQ-WLRfEBB6v/w640-h558/IMG_5792.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's been snowing and blowing the past few days, more typical than the weather we had when I first arrived, and the fullness of winter's darkness has settled over the landscape</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">call me crazy but I love it</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and today I go home</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-61695870142426612172023-12-02T12:27:00.000-08:002023-12-02T12:27:21.031-08:00trees<div style="text-align: center;">rooted in place, moving only with the wind</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">what would that be like I wonder, to be so fixed in one spot?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the trees of the yukon seem to be in perpetual motion whether from the wind or the either boggy or stony ground that affects root development, causing many of them to lean</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the last time I was here I did some loose watercolour paintings with grey and gold - not looking for any particular outcome, just seeing how the paint might move on the paper depending on how I managed the water</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">one resembled a river bank and so I began to add trees</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">won't say it's finished</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">can't say it isn't</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5-YEE3s584rhlNd3k14cQmRr77BCR9dTm3FQqVWpJ_O7gpkG2eoRRfP3tOdZjfB3mcJWc4iLi1ogmzKU3Mydg7FV6XIxJF2H2R0sSSht_I0E76Xz_ZNRC8YkNeNHRkFuUYV4QLYBCqioEeO3g8FFECUw9nAqPcWoofaWsp8qjaU2_R9C47jjdVP-Rdopp/s4008/IMG_9037.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2712" data-original-width="4008" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5-YEE3s584rhlNd3k14cQmRr77BCR9dTm3FQqVWpJ_O7gpkG2eoRRfP3tOdZjfB3mcJWc4iLi1ogmzKU3Mydg7FV6XIxJF2H2R0sSSht_I0E76Xz_ZNRC8YkNeNHRkFuUYV4QLYBCqioEeO3g8FFECUw9nAqPcWoofaWsp8qjaU2_R9C47jjdVP-Rdopp/w640-h434/IMG_9037.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">below, a loose abstract of hills and poplar trees in winter</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik_hMI6bgP4VwpSxePZjd3ExaKyWWkt4vZyXvZwt8Y2pM6wKXD4LSgmlFHTr2UqCo6jhB4meQ5sTdxOUm3a5H60riZdwwzXd0Gao95KbRtU7WiRbxBWfB6g_pI9IY_UwFz2wq7Wv6928vUuR7JYIlq75343uMLkjWP1SpxcqmQB8EYY4dRTcLJe6q7S6r0/s3835/IMG_9040.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2887" data-original-width="3835" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik_hMI6bgP4VwpSxePZjd3ExaKyWWkt4vZyXvZwt8Y2pM6wKXD4LSgmlFHTr2UqCo6jhB4meQ5sTdxOUm3a5H60riZdwwzXd0Gao95KbRtU7WiRbxBWfB6g_pI9IY_UwFz2wq7Wv6928vUuR7JYIlq75343uMLkjWP1SpxcqmQB8EYY4dRTcLJe6q7S6r0/w640-h482/IMG_9040.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">then a stitched tree<br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieb7NgsxbXoMNMhvKLdawyJZl2XxqhClfB5stTYid-Q4_o9AQ1gZ5CjsQe1z3K4NrK5XdNdc9zZsZVUNjuem83-EeVZ2l11ouafTLlOpALegD6yxLMadr2hsgYrB5ymZm6PX-JpZRVxcvxV2ufuN4EZ2OxDW5npG75lByH30I622qiNVRfrhTlMYWihyphenhyphenIv/s3711/IMG_9042.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2766" data-original-width="3711" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieb7NgsxbXoMNMhvKLdawyJZl2XxqhClfB5stTYid-Q4_o9AQ1gZ5CjsQe1z3K4NrK5XdNdc9zZsZVUNjuem83-EeVZ2l11ouafTLlOpALegD6yxLMadr2hsgYrB5ymZm6PX-JpZRVxcvxV2ufuN4EZ2OxDW5npG75lByH30I622qiNVRfrhTlMYWihyphenhyphenIv/w640-h478/IMG_9042.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">interestingly, the back is closer to the tree I've been striving for</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioJUqgILnjF6ynHaaf-e9o08N5xY4lvpxrWr16qM_p1BasAfdKwOG4MI5sVxhJRYc43k2YIXWdF4GPJfTRQ1SIOvb55wqqNHjKbYcrqYALfgw2TAN6TVQFUqbHr9L7JZDKQCRGy8wivixRUr-N-fbylFYbDFXq5uVs_WGRczUi-21-G2XN_K2xtpv3gaQy/s4032/IMG_9044.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioJUqgILnjF6ynHaaf-e9o08N5xY4lvpxrWr16qM_p1BasAfdKwOG4MI5sVxhJRYc43k2YIXWdF4GPJfTRQ1SIOvb55wqqNHjKbYcrqYALfgw2TAN6TVQFUqbHr9L7JZDKQCRGy8wivixRUr-N-fbylFYbDFXq5uVs_WGRczUi-21-G2XN_K2xtpv3gaQy/w480-h640/IMG_9044.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">the short, choppy stitches are a truer likeness than the detailed, slightly curving stitches of the branches on the front</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">I'll work into it more, referencing the back to make the front</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I've been drawing these kind of trees this week as well, and the short strokes are becoming second nature - hopefully that will translate into making stitch-marks as well</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">but then there's the matter of the lean...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">it's always something</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-33445084225604809102023-11-24T21:43:00.000-08:002023-11-24T21:43:18.640-08:00river and sky<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a walk along the river today</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0B67ddx1h3e6-F9s2oGG6wQ99AT_vxKDl_U-AfbuvmkcwTftJ6H0YAC_deSJjsy9_vc0R58bLucLI6Jf-9NbDGWtkupbvY6eEgkuBoDTXEPOWdebrgEtN3bjVZI2qbhLZiAJmL_juPMZovLCqP_JufmRELRaHjZxPc5esRKyoBEpfyVGN9IqiwDApH4oh/s3683/IMG_8803%20(1).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1637" data-original-width="3683" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0B67ddx1h3e6-F9s2oGG6wQ99AT_vxKDl_U-AfbuvmkcwTftJ6H0YAC_deSJjsy9_vc0R58bLucLI6Jf-9NbDGWtkupbvY6eEgkuBoDTXEPOWdebrgEtN3bjVZI2qbhLZiAJmL_juPMZovLCqP_JufmRELRaHjZxPc5esRKyoBEpfyVGN9IqiwDApH4oh/w640-h284/IMG_8803%20(1).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">a dark day</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">sun low in the sky</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">glimmers of light skim the water's surface, as fleeting as the patterns of the current</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQWwWI0HUWAsDFgHxQ6r9lMfC1ZellhtXad2vKr_GO6vq1RIwZgj9qfHzWgS0hErlm0MKklMc5S6XSdPODzA5jSPQ3ShlL8yccz69BTq8rdPMT0OGNrfJwhxpKnOW2oLBkRZEg0QUHJ6LL_qL-ZfTywblibTy4rh9MqrWhwDbIe6TDPa7QbcWzJz6UvPKh/s3024/IMG_8820.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2653" data-original-width="3024" height="562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQWwWI0HUWAsDFgHxQ6r9lMfC1ZellhtXad2vKr_GO6vq1RIwZgj9qfHzWgS0hErlm0MKklMc5S6XSdPODzA5jSPQ3ShlL8yccz69BTq8rdPMT0OGNrfJwhxpKnOW2oLBkRZEg0QUHJ6LL_qL-ZfTywblibTy4rh9MqrWhwDbIe6TDPa7QbcWzJz6UvPKh/w640-h562/IMG_8820.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">swirling and whirling, the water silently flows swiftly by</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDpFlco95wzfkE6f4vJkhwMUFvXXV6zWIzolTTO_3PulEgecEgdilqyz5vUPD4htz-SJlRW4E5Sz9sfumON9Q9165csdH3dbvjpi0Ds-5c0A6OQYMloReGhwi_eqpjQMRcR657_yYBEzlMGq333kg1RZawM-DuEVgJMWcqAko7kJl20kAqlrK2NkDEIQvg/s4032/IMG_8828.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDpFlco95wzfkE6f4vJkhwMUFvXXV6zWIzolTTO_3PulEgecEgdilqyz5vUPD4htz-SJlRW4E5Sz9sfumON9Q9165csdH3dbvjpi0Ds-5c0A6OQYMloReGhwi_eqpjQMRcR657_yYBEzlMGq333kg1RZawM-DuEVgJMWcqAko7kJl20kAqlrK2NkDEIQvg/w480-h640/IMG_8828.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">sky and water, light and shadow</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the ageing pilings of the shipyard docks line the riverbank</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> sentinels of history, of a time, of a place</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6oJHaNR0dAafnm_GVsGAs6sZG936GMqfhpWYG-rGK5LI2Ebh0P9HvBW2bi-rAF0nHjhm5fYiR3bq_p6axNrcprZEq6gLRCR_XZji4-0c3pQQMGf0jk0CuE4h1TcSoNGU1iw6JXRCG1R_fhkdi980M5tOH9R94WjAO2HKJFFRt3c-wD-vKaG_imThdfJY/s3784/IMG_8838.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3784" data-original-width="2683" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6oJHaNR0dAafnm_GVsGAs6sZG936GMqfhpWYG-rGK5LI2Ebh0P9HvBW2bi-rAF0nHjhm5fYiR3bq_p6axNrcprZEq6gLRCR_XZji4-0c3pQQMGf0jk0CuE4h1TcSoNGU1iw6JXRCG1R_fhkdi980M5tOH9R94WjAO2HKJFFRt3c-wD-vKaG_imThdfJY/w454-h640/IMG_8838.jpeg" width="454" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">like the images of people waiting at the docks for the paddle wheelers to arrive </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">huddled in groups, they wait... or watch?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am drawn to them, their weather-worn exterior, jagged tops and leaning stature - how long have they been there? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">at least 100 years or more</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwvy3hG3PvntIsEHT_u8-ZKJ4W5TD3fbypUGYu855yFGRL_K2gfc171by39grpo5gd9JsbtaiRC2SLAUEWfjcFbcmZDA9rXDiJY1upDTsYZKDwj7j02WN9b-LIBkM7UbB6I9zA0pl__6vKA8kV4hJWFgpuprgNTEKZ_SkO9kro4zoEJTR-dx3vQTe24MH4/s4032/IMG_8845.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwvy3hG3PvntIsEHT_u8-ZKJ4W5TD3fbypUGYu855yFGRL_K2gfc171by39grpo5gd9JsbtaiRC2SLAUEWfjcFbcmZDA9rXDiJY1upDTsYZKDwj7j02WN9b-LIBkM7UbB6I9zA0pl__6vKA8kV4hJWFgpuprgNTEKZ_SkO9kro4zoEJTR-dx3vQTe24MH4/w640-h480/IMG_8845.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and below, a meandering view that is new to me, opened up by the growth of the city and an extension of the walking path along the river</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a delightful back channel meandering along the main one, the river dotted with small islands for a while</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">no sketchbook but thankfully my camera</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaIXqHbbXt2QEUFs4OcSjN7nBiDx3uvwI3rTTlunwFTQmNGb38WwcH937Sa6LZ5Ze9yQIyLao2y0gz0QA9HxwzXGjgR18CwfnBgGNgLj2I1DX-TKTuSb7yGZsS2MbQshgWaQn7WpE6qdov4LbdpDrqA_-M9aGZKmWn9LTAGnZA80t2rE6Szx-a3dgEOV7N/s2948/IMG_8858.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2044" data-original-width="2948" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaIXqHbbXt2QEUFs4OcSjN7nBiDx3uvwI3rTTlunwFTQmNGb38WwcH937Sa6LZ5Ze9yQIyLao2y0gz0QA9HxwzXGjgR18CwfnBgGNgLj2I1DX-TKTuSb7yGZsS2MbQshgWaQn7WpE6qdov4LbdpDrqA_-M9aGZKmWn9LTAGnZA80t2rE6Szx-a3dgEOV7N/w640-h444/IMG_8858.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">catching up with old friends this week left little time for creative pursuits but I've been experimenting with ways of depicting the mountains </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">folded white Japanese paper for a background, mountains cut from an old photograph, painted cloth, painted paper and coloured pastel paper</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8GNM3cnMg6SkSSfS1aUQHQoJEijjwDUScQ4secldb6evERqIC5KcHUTbDM7DGqg_mm_uqQWnJb3XrU13dT7eZRvm6NyGOCmGweuF9VN_7gX-wCLJlcT8wMJ4eOZsPmlrwcPaAj913kUEHF0QB1GrqDpP5sTegHQjwYQxKK6loBfuVGvhx0Di14FTYSUkX/s3623/IMG_8780.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2204" data-original-width="3623" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8GNM3cnMg6SkSSfS1aUQHQoJEijjwDUScQ4secldb6evERqIC5KcHUTbDM7DGqg_mm_uqQWnJb3XrU13dT7eZRvm6NyGOCmGweuF9VN_7gX-wCLJlcT8wMJ4eOZsPmlrwcPaAj913kUEHF0QB1GrqDpP5sTegHQjwYQxKK6loBfuVGvhx0Di14FTYSUkX/w640-h390/IMG_8780.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I like the image of the trees cut into a mountain shape and want to expand on that idea</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvdVWf7rvF-gZa9RBzzDAp5zlWSgbNWh7hV0caJUk4KNVmwJnNfEBKQ1JUteN7FNGKCudvonAuFmTthyKpLk0PQ18O9vkPdcxEoRR1YMBJ7hE41fFO3AQtkRah_2AQBvELYVtiMeBCxPsIw9egZ66wPwn7NV5mUWHnj41zprMJpfu-XZJR2H423-EEiNt/s3922/IMG_8782.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2301" data-original-width="3922" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvdVWf7rvF-gZa9RBzzDAp5zlWSgbNWh7hV0caJUk4KNVmwJnNfEBKQ1JUteN7FNGKCudvonAuFmTthyKpLk0PQ18O9vkPdcxEoRR1YMBJ7hE41fFO3AQtkRah_2AQBvELYVtiMeBCxPsIw9egZ66wPwn7NV5mUWHnj41zprMJpfu-XZJR2H423-EEiNt/w640-h376/IMG_8782.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div> clean lines, especially in the folded paper... I'm liking the graphic nature of them and imaging a larger version with even more folds to use as a base for other work</div><div><br /></div><div>figuring out how to do that is a whole different thing though and will likely involve several trials using plain newsprint and a few choice words</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-6224060344360158902023-11-17T20:24:00.000-08:002023-11-18T08:43:01.054-08:00tramping the trails<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">settled in, and feeling like the past seven months have fallen away, that I've always been here</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">just here</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the weather the past few days has been a gift - a warm uplifting breeze with whiffs of pine and woodsmoke, the air freshened by newly fallen snow that has been melting in the warmth of the midday sun</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the sun stays low in the sky during these winter months, slanting across the landscape at an angle that makes much of the day feel like a painter's "magic hour", though the shadows are long and the blues more intense... perhaps it's a northern version of it, the magic and blue hours mixed together in the way of a painter</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">today I walked in the woods, taking the old pathways, one that used to lead me to a friend's house, then another that was a shortcut to the store</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the wooden plank over the stream has been replaced with a proper bridge but otherwise the shortcut is unchanged</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8M0-jaUG-BE-6-ERE7xr7TwMCEOdGzEUr2kEhKnEqoKhVbS9nMV7oxQLmGOrygs3BQpzSk4LOOP0YOnpZdth_UO10upk7QPSLAOwj-0MmFVDd2VlFQK9pxTFSHDhzx_2VU1eiKrKmAl9IjchyphenhyphenXHWyefXNlTOAce6tKFBxRUBEWWIxCWYySjEr8CcljzTM/s3825/IMG_8753.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3825" data-original-width="2868" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8M0-jaUG-BE-6-ERE7xr7TwMCEOdGzEUr2kEhKnEqoKhVbS9nMV7oxQLmGOrygs3BQpzSk4LOOP0YOnpZdth_UO10upk7QPSLAOwj-0MmFVDd2VlFQK9pxTFSHDhzx_2VU1eiKrKmAl9IjchyphenhyphenXHWyefXNlTOAce6tKFBxRUBEWWIxCWYySjEr8CcljzTM/w480-h640/IMG_8753.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">large boulders dot the landscape in this area and there are several found along the banks here</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I remember sitting on them often, chatting with a friend, listening to the creek flow by, now hearing the echoes of our laughter in the gurgle of the water</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinNQRlSDOYXnLW9SxmAAEKf5KxipNt5g0tqGhKAQLc4bwna6HjVx0DC1WC0Brba8hS-d0lNSbpQgh2wjJYdkJ8fAu1A65eqiaPPq1VBIH43naP3yS3p99U_RzvebQ5YuEo2-Uy-X9ex6bbAWoohGC9QNH1yc-vH0D6uMVUcsSdxB7WB2ChU4-lKMetbbN-/s4032/IMG_8754.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinNQRlSDOYXnLW9SxmAAEKf5KxipNt5g0tqGhKAQLc4bwna6HjVx0DC1WC0Brba8hS-d0lNSbpQgh2wjJYdkJ8fAu1A65eqiaPPq1VBIH43naP3yS3p99U_RzvebQ5YuEo2-Uy-X9ex6bbAWoohGC9QNH1yc-vH0D6uMVUcsSdxB7WB2ChU4-lKMetbbN-/w480-h640/IMG_8754.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the trees are taller and there are some I can no longer encircle with my arms, their bark deeply lined, many leaning</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">leaning trees are common here... casualties of the permafrost</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCruspzkkffokYM2uQfOcr0hXseAqyP16i5YPqn_MLvtLY-PSLDh9nfTPZk91OyCNXRq0nsYusHcAv4mmDc8vKHT_rE9Y0HCNP8JVceK5tymGO5-69kBfGPhFlwV2grPhqGy_2wHAq7K92fTAPkVycWI_KaLLeO4Nl2fCefDlhu1PNhKNKwk2tnuL6WjHQ/s3912/IMG_8760.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3912" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCruspzkkffokYM2uQfOcr0hXseAqyP16i5YPqn_MLvtLY-PSLDh9nfTPZk91OyCNXRq0nsYusHcAv4mmDc8vKHT_rE9Y0HCNP8JVceK5tymGO5-69kBfGPhFlwV2grPhqGy_2wHAq7K92fTAPkVycWI_KaLLeO4Nl2fCefDlhu1PNhKNKwk2tnuL6WjHQ/w494-h640/IMG_8760.jpeg" width="494" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've taken several photographs of the flowing water; the swirling marks make for interesting textures - something interesting to play with as transparent overlays</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPM1ZKUTk1g1iUYP1uo2LlbirOGqbbpY_4oZ2QfRIGxSthR0hHFPPO2HxhaL2O6iluybWP-7KC_Kvez0LTnYh5_StUhwcoDMd2Ae2zkD8B44DRgwTJ9JbufVcjSO_egMP5alv7KMaRAyuq2K1aHCJE_jzgsLGyQs0QxEbPykukqAtYqbEmdyCVtLfb5Iv/s4032/IMG_8730%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPM1ZKUTk1g1iUYP1uo2LlbirOGqbbpY_4oZ2QfRIGxSthR0hHFPPO2HxhaL2O6iluybWP-7KC_Kvez0LTnYh5_StUhwcoDMd2Ae2zkD8B44DRgwTJ9JbufVcjSO_egMP5alv7KMaRAyuq2K1aHCJE_jzgsLGyQs0QxEbPykukqAtYqbEmdyCVtLfb5Iv/w480-h640/IMG_8730%20(1).jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1COICBawvZqeh-ABVb8yt8jYIW2rd3FPnqalp0vfZdSsYVtR00e4OZfsQzJpa8b6n09BBjUDgHjrSA244vd8Z3ZAjtjGelQW77YckD0_VT3eFXGqb1mlE3RPFRW-x9O6_UuLpDbYGXxwQIhWOG-WO6QOFSfYFBUui0sFJ-edA0psMQOEvzG61Zz60WBeZ/s3991/IMG_8738%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2491" data-original-width="3991" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1COICBawvZqeh-ABVb8yt8jYIW2rd3FPnqalp0vfZdSsYVtR00e4OZfsQzJpa8b6n09BBjUDgHjrSA244vd8Z3ZAjtjGelQW77YckD0_VT3eFXGqb1mlE3RPFRW-x9O6_UuLpDbYGXxwQIhWOG-WO6QOFSfYFBUui0sFJ-edA0psMQOEvzG61Zz60WBeZ/w640-h400/IMG_8738%20(1).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">today I began a colour study - other than acrylic paints all I have with me are coloured charcoal pencils but I love the soft texture of their marks</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQy1Hj8Sifql5IjeUEzugy7_VBmErq1fDUM-7h7tVIAxYfYE4GWPHt2ZrBdKwRqAk4ZDgcxCJXwocKG3kQAK1QpkvRWJfGGzRkQEaBBLaD2Q1VRbWX4VNl2N2byku6IJgBQEtAXWQvO9tsf234wwUP-67pJvQXudlei8z6N7jH7RJUiTx2STgbYc_QKeLC/s3052/IMG_8767.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3052" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQy1Hj8Sifql5IjeUEzugy7_VBmErq1fDUM-7h7tVIAxYfYE4GWPHt2ZrBdKwRqAk4ZDgcxCJXwocKG3kQAK1QpkvRWJfGGzRkQEaBBLaD2Q1VRbWX4VNl2N2byku6IJgBQEtAXWQvO9tsf234wwUP-67pJvQXudlei8z6N7jH7RJUiTx2STgbYc_QKeLC/w634-h640/IMG_8767.jpeg" width="634" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">there is a gentle subtlety to their colours but as I think of this landscape in memory more than see it in life it's maybe as it should be</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the memories from years gone by have provided their own filter which colours how I see things today</div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-50715197060104077692023-11-11T22:50:00.000-08:002023-11-11T22:50:44.050-08:00sight seeing<div style="text-align: center;">whitehorse, last winter, the morning sun finally rising, sometime around 11:00 am </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">some find the darkness difficult but I have always loved it... dark, cozy mornings where you can take your time to face the day</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">on my way there again, tomorrow</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">a settled feeling drapes over me as I step on Yukon soil and look out at a landscape I know in my bones </div><div style="text-align: center;">and I am home again</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsLNzBjOTF6ERQ3_ZcBjY0lO-MoUnabfCGprz26EmPfxvqQ6Ofoc9D_FGYDbkZfayIdL53kEDUDPOlmwDQaTENCIXXWy4ApVtlqKmpeiKg8gGX7C2cernhndhFlpwtCaP_vHrTMepVTQUDSKtjc6G5RhqJWEXLxxOS0Y-w9ej0eN304CQxg04y_06KBvVI/s3765/IMG_8682.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2418" data-original-width="3765" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsLNzBjOTF6ERQ3_ZcBjY0lO-MoUnabfCGprz26EmPfxvqQ6Ofoc9D_FGYDbkZfayIdL53kEDUDPOlmwDQaTENCIXXWy4ApVtlqKmpeiKg8gGX7C2cernhndhFlpwtCaP_vHrTMepVTQUDSKtjc6G5RhqJWEXLxxOS0Y-w9ej0eN304CQxg04y_06KBvVI/w640-h412/IMG_8682.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div>there's a long list of places I want to be</div><div><br /></div><div> things to think about</div><div><br /></div><div>photos to take</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">there's a hankering to spend time by the river, watching the current swirl across the surface</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and another to think about the flotilla that set sail from Lake Bennett to Dawson City in late May of 1898</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm completely taken with the sails, the shape of them, the varying sizes, the mast down the centre line - some were made out of cotton duck, many were patched together from whatever fabric could be obtained</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGelEuiYUa9_7I45tt98OHon4X7qQYKRNT7xXS8Kprgs-vzITWzGWWAlFDX9JrXPOobNYiNhhlKICx-7Da1784ze-Q_DQrj1feFs5i36RWH0JEEUFleR4mm2mpmX0OyrciuEqFkjV0qRYOM7G3B4s9R4E2qwahCYmomaZqnmFCOFevuY5nrgmt_mWfHuEG/s449/da00534%20LarsDuclos.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="449" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGelEuiYUa9_7I45tt98OHon4X7qQYKRNT7xXS8Kprgs-vzITWzGWWAlFDX9JrXPOobNYiNhhlKICx-7Da1784ze-Q_DQrj1feFs5i36RWH0JEEUFleR4mm2mpmX0OyrciuEqFkjV0qRYOM7G3B4s9R4E2qwahCYmomaZqnmFCOFevuY5nrgmt_mWfHuEG/w640-h484/da00534%20LarsDuclos.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">most of all I'm looking forward to the trees</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQBBgvNaycD9r6-_OR_6Fwon3u4trh5R6n7Xxxh-JuGb_ajWXNJMOLcK6nkMVigRhC_N_NCVuFO2VdQ8wnT6CTkf9H04ztKb_LX0phkPtPMvrQejnUawqPsFH6P0BxATsJywrL_0h25BIiZ8zdhAlUatyilnsjJfBD0f0h0U38JX1sapKntBvO5RNSv83d/s4032/IMG_8671.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQBBgvNaycD9r6-_OR_6Fwon3u4trh5R6n7Xxxh-JuGb_ajWXNJMOLcK6nkMVigRhC_N_NCVuFO2VdQ8wnT6CTkf9H04ztKb_LX0phkPtPMvrQejnUawqPsFH6P0BxATsJywrL_0h25BIiZ8zdhAlUatyilnsjJfBD0f0h0U38JX1sapKntBvO5RNSv83d/w480-h640/IMG_8671.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I want to draw trees this time, the tall skinny trees that captivate me </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's their scrubby resilience that inspires me, the crooked and twisted forms that battle to live </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a true embodiment of the north</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and then there are the ravens</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I used to think they were the peskiest of birds but now I rather like their antics</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so trees and ravens, perhaps a raven in a tree, though that's a rather uncommon sight up there if I remember correctly - you usually see them on the ground</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and something with the sails...</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-29861596487643990882023-11-04T16:34:00.002-07:002023-11-04T16:34:32.718-07:00making and knowing<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's interesting to me that whilst a piece of work may tell a story I am usually most interested in the story of how the work itself was made</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">thinking that might be of interest to some of you as well... this is how something I made a few weeks back came to be</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it begins with a photo of the side of the Klondike River Boat in Whitehorse taken last March</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Gr7xDwrVtQmssTwpNm0Sov0DqHOsqP2w0ajFXkXRQ_UODvcTqqt5yRacAbVXcJRYZQtbm6T2JMvUoNa69yYswfr6t2UbFtkSiuc-3iT8dmjDZhHad9rK6CbpnKPoTI7nWxHztT3d7_jAuv9IGyppiXPcQu2pn9jEy9D1KAlxHAnjWXtsHqU2hhLaoVRk/s3024/IMG_7267.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2776" data-original-width="3024" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Gr7xDwrVtQmssTwpNm0Sov0DqHOsqP2w0ajFXkXRQ_UODvcTqqt5yRacAbVXcJRYZQtbm6T2JMvUoNa69yYswfr6t2UbFtkSiuc-3iT8dmjDZhHad9rK6CbpnKPoTI7nWxHztT3d7_jAuv9IGyppiXPcQu2pn9jEy9D1KAlxHAnjWXtsHqU2hhLaoVRk/w640-h588/IMG_7267.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">cropped slightly, contrast heavily edited - wanted to remove much of the substantive nature of the wood, reducing the strength of most of the lines and enhancing the marks of weathering</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzo1H5Q40CNFfQycqssLVNVc8Z1AbhzBMYE-YHmWPBnmmNCL8trytwq-KNOkgyAHW_A6G0HV0V2UyUmT1fTdl5eZINE8ITz6vuPSRiurV-eUDoNeLNF19Qx5gZFbD3FihIZOsJQz46sh48lMeAvW3CclWAHgDKIVvp8Dsbpz18qIahA3GSdrJ98GbqFacT/s1579/IMG_7264.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="1579" height="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzo1H5Q40CNFfQycqssLVNVc8Z1AbhzBMYE-YHmWPBnmmNCL8trytwq-KNOkgyAHW_A6G0HV0V2UyUmT1fTdl5eZINE8ITz6vuPSRiurV-eUDoNeLNF19Qx5gZFbD3FihIZOsJQz46sh48lMeAvW3CclWAHgDKIVvp8Dsbpz18qIahA3GSdrJ98GbqFacT/w640-h576/IMG_7264.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">water at Marsh Lake taken July of 2019</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love the visual texture of the water and the sunlight glinting on the waves</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJlardhoL0CG3KVl1q7FNuhzR3CWhABFV9N5pP3q8dsPudJ7Nh6NUmn7fXgrfWjKIlnA_G-i5MXURxcqbHLW7vKa6tFJLc451QdAYR6u8S7gqtWoON5kSmDrfnrXGn2I6kawlU-TXnPZY16O07wJvJ4L0pdklig2hZNp0vPHIcF3PsUs85G2Z2azzoba-l/s2527/IMG_2527.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2255" data-original-width="2527" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJlardhoL0CG3KVl1q7FNuhzR3CWhABFV9N5pP3q8dsPudJ7Nh6NUmn7fXgrfWjKIlnA_G-i5MXURxcqbHLW7vKa6tFJLc451QdAYR6u8S7gqtWoON5kSmDrfnrXGn2I6kawlU-TXnPZY16O07wJvJ4L0pdklig2hZNp0vPHIcF3PsUs85G2Z2azzoba-l/w640-h572/IMG_2527.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the Yukon River, taken by my Grandfather in the 1940s... a view I know so well, the blocks of ice-jams created by the movement of the water during warm periods of the long winter... planes and shadows, texture on the river</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFUoNIAnjzwuv7PbWooot1zJ_dmH3HTZyWkGt22J9DFHMeW-oajwp5onYrhV6J1eCmVybzmw2Hcfo70GLFlDH7zmxwg8lrXcI3PCBwS_M-uwQJkLEoIgi0DR9Njbn9yi-4YegKrxGdcLPQyfCU_0ZivTMyTEiyeuZZr90XDRekcCoptykAAR_VDQd38LE5/s4032/IMG_7804%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFUoNIAnjzwuv7PbWooot1zJ_dmH3HTZyWkGt22J9DFHMeW-oajwp5onYrhV6J1eCmVybzmw2Hcfo70GLFlDH7zmxwg8lrXcI3PCBwS_M-uwQJkLEoIgi0DR9Njbn9yi-4YegKrxGdcLPQyfCU_0ZivTMyTEiyeuZZr90XDRekcCoptykAAR_VDQd38LE5/w640-h480/IMG_7804%20(1).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">caribou crossing the Yukon River, a still shot I captured from a National Film Board of Canada video compilation of films taken by Yukon Residents in the 1930s</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the moving image of this scene is amazing - the water flowing swiftly, the caribou visibly battling the current, their backs and antlers adding a flowing element above the water</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdIp3VviEDx9mXpCmnW_v3uCI8CMsj-qbbv6Geb5QiVzvuJA36YZ7rKFGgz4sYQaRcG_CY3e6uoKaVkKFpyobLyMhh1srO7HadOqZhHS_DQSn3NhwoynywbBNOkuMmCICz7fAYvIkP71TGffcNSXXDyWkGboBstepTQ61iS0GLE148L0L7CXAqpdv53M1i/s1103/Screenshot%202023-03-18%20at%203.41.48%20PM%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="1103" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdIp3VviEDx9mXpCmnW_v3uCI8CMsj-qbbv6Geb5QiVzvuJA36YZ7rKFGgz4sYQaRcG_CY3e6uoKaVkKFpyobLyMhh1srO7HadOqZhHS_DQSn3NhwoynywbBNOkuMmCICz7fAYvIkP71TGffcNSXXDyWkGboBstepTQ61iS0GLE148L0L7CXAqpdv53M1i/w640-h406/Screenshot%202023-03-18%20at%203.41.48%20PM%20(1).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">all of these images informed the collage below with the side of the boat and the water images printed and used along with strips of silk chiffon I painted with watercolour paint, burnt the edges and then waxed</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEYLBEJzfNdjVSjcTh6ldtL4Y6lHzO-RXaqRB8RsG0gIBbIuBJAETVAjiv-csRveiQPKqTALor2QZ5579qEccSp36w_Uz0cvwlWTX8GkoYcVc1Gj7ZTVDBbBPe-Bk0JmkBInAyEKGYyyPEcxk3hUYgfxBn14w8dRX3f-k0IwbUjMSFTUDdnLhIKi1MfjKR/s3990/IMG_8558%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2623" data-original-width="3990" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEYLBEJzfNdjVSjcTh6ldtL4Y6lHzO-RXaqRB8RsG0gIBbIuBJAETVAjiv-csRveiQPKqTALor2QZ5579qEccSp36w_Uz0cvwlWTX8GkoYcVc1Gj7ZTVDBbBPe-Bk0JmkBInAyEKGYyyPEcxk3hUYgfxBn14w8dRX3f-k0IwbUjMSFTUDdnLhIKi1MfjKR/w640-h420/IMG_8558%20(1).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I love doing this kind of work, looking for connections in colour, texture, form</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">layering, working to create the feel of something, somewhere</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the transparency of this piece alludes to the transient time of the river boats and the gold rush, and that what seemed strong and substantial wasn't after all and when their days were through the river flowed on</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I didn't go about planning this work to have this message rather, I gathered images and samples that appealed, that seemed to work well together and once it was completed and I spent time considering and reflecting on what I'd done I began to draw meanings and inferences from what I was seeing</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">making connections, gaining understandings</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I don't think it makes the work any less meaningful, that it didn't start out with that consciousness and only came to it later</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">things can be known without knowing, the work bringing forth what was already there</div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-57479475679774807232023-10-28T20:06:00.005-07:002023-10-29T06:28:16.109-07:00reflecting<div style="text-align: center;">last week I went for a walk around the little lake, the one right in town, in search of interesting reflections</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I've always found reflections to be such interesting things... there, but not real, at the mercy of light and movement</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">fleeting</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I had read recently that a good way to abstract something is to heavily edit a photograph of it... altering colour, definition, cropping and so on and I was keen to try it out</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I wanted images of reflections because I've been doing a lot of work with water images lately and want to continue exploring it but also because I like the tension of trying to distort something beyond it's reality when it really has no foot in reality at all</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">below is the first original image, no editing at all and from this, I created the next one</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHJ-Zlr0zKeG_XbjvMmqhNmTdVSwJGe7fbLDNNIQ_gJbz9DJG9-SBkTV_DQAUUTT-OzBcG02xB-uLOfJTS1KVzjWBvC7p2onubVQVP7h6UuhsKwiNspRZIrXPAvtQIIPNzw-lSY6plaanycs7iZQInZAJeGp4xVxOAJh-lcUI5Ft5SUSvm5j5Du1VRAzD8/s4032/IMG_8633%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHJ-Zlr0zKeG_XbjvMmqhNmTdVSwJGe7fbLDNNIQ_gJbz9DJG9-SBkTV_DQAUUTT-OzBcG02xB-uLOfJTS1KVzjWBvC7p2onubVQVP7h6UuhsKwiNspRZIrXPAvtQIIPNzw-lSY6plaanycs7iZQInZAJeGp4xVxOAJh-lcUI5Ft5SUSvm5j5Du1VRAzD8/w640-h480/IMG_8633%20(1).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I like how extreme cropping changes the texture of the branches, emphasising all the bumps, buds and knots</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">a "dramatic warm" filter flattened the background, lightened it, evening out some of the values and adding some interesting highlights</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIF1h3r1SfzCnwvPQJmTwBUDTPBlrvsvxesc9M0qpFyzxry5vph4aO8FfVXnCrUbee7uRd062jER0uPVmzcV2w2w8s2XWM0aiJZk2ilFUfvuvexKP3ccBsvR5N2tY0DtbRtNFUTAvC7nUzGHpYzSB5FxP1XfcyQ9ANrqfDVZgGUv8aOFgcEjE2F6UmRvf8/s2602/IMG_8633.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2213" data-original-width="2602" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIF1h3r1SfzCnwvPQJmTwBUDTPBlrvsvxesc9M0qpFyzxry5vph4aO8FfVXnCrUbee7uRd062jER0uPVmzcV2w2w8s2XWM0aiJZk2ilFUfvuvexKP3ccBsvR5N2tY0DtbRtNFUTAvC7nUzGHpYzSB5FxP1XfcyQ9ANrqfDVZgGUv8aOFgcEjE2F6UmRvf8/w640-h544/IMG_8633.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">this next one is the original for the two that follow</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-zXLK4EVciFJ-fA-J6BpQX8y_Cb77I9YHQYeZgRYgxB0d2kNFfoJoS3Z5CAmPizhbgSzlmstOe4IrGifDtLc9FOUdW9DnQLdTalpsYpbrLOreJeDjzWOcySpqEvamBWWhPRs9OBcxQQDnbAFWDf6ITJq9La914Ci1DCZfTTis3tZiKn6dE_IabTD8bdb9/s4032/IMG_8635%20(2).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-zXLK4EVciFJ-fA-J6BpQX8y_Cb77I9YHQYeZgRYgxB0d2kNFfoJoS3Z5CAmPizhbgSzlmstOe4IrGifDtLc9FOUdW9DnQLdTalpsYpbrLOreJeDjzWOcySpqEvamBWWhPRs9OBcxQQDnbAFWDf6ITJq9La914Ci1DCZfTTis3tZiKn6dE_IabTD8bdb9/w640-h480/IMG_8635%20(2).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">again, heavily cropped, right through the horizontal middle</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the same "dramatic warm" filter</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHhkc4BSrDm0o8d43uMyOPjBXU6ao4_uAfztadJYCpDQ2SvEGXJ8acXqsuTt6vqyc05PJFxMMHu2_ipODAlJB2BzduYefZlLApyjHcxCIq55syH3PMN2SkkLLyVzuXuJ6Zu6NbmC6eDcWxNm71MRP9kJu_hv8VZaWjDyejyMxZZgloK1arNlVuABDpBRTf/s3754/IMG_8635.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1887" data-original-width="3754" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHhkc4BSrDm0o8d43uMyOPjBXU6ao4_uAfztadJYCpDQ2SvEGXJ8acXqsuTt6vqyc05PJFxMMHu2_ipODAlJB2BzduYefZlLApyjHcxCIq55syH3PMN2SkkLLyVzuXuJ6Zu6NbmC6eDcWxNm71MRP9kJu_hv8VZaWjDyejyMxZZgloK1arNlVuABDpBRTf/w640-h322/IMG_8635.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> a heavy crop with just the left half remaining</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it was interesting how just cropping it changed the value, darkening the branches and the background dramatically </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_vQm2sr1_8EBGgit79TSjWY12glntiOCthe4WNHdaUCpa8qerx8hg3uGflV9smcRVtFQXOMLwEH07RWeZXDQ0gDu-h6GWguL9RmD7CCvnJ4U-QeqaH7UwxjHS8QJUz9UZ-hXCXJHVJZmTWjKgKhDyWwVTejnJ_Ke9WXBgW3ypSCYpS75my4Ku8aVhxVCC/s2095/IMG_8635%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1780" data-original-width="2095" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_vQm2sr1_8EBGgit79TSjWY12glntiOCthe4WNHdaUCpa8qerx8hg3uGflV9smcRVtFQXOMLwEH07RWeZXDQ0gDu-h6GWguL9RmD7CCvnJ4U-QeqaH7UwxjHS8QJUz9UZ-hXCXJHVJZmTWjKgKhDyWwVTejnJ_Ke9WXBgW3ypSCYpS75my4Ku8aVhxVCC/w640-h544/IMG_8635%20(1).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the final one</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrz32XipGpBowypUNrG5PPmLdPwJX39tmba3a-H3rGdcBf4shSXbfcQGIYLRctX405LLpq2jKcwcFBWRdmP-ZSF40dneI9-p_D6MtCeCbrNREgm4vLAM6yQ1GJMOnHKws_9sLA6d-kjnBTmognXVaJ47TDmLcNv43N8oKd7y9CZTwlvS8f5fHQLVkXzt8W/s4032/IMG_8636%20(3).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrz32XipGpBowypUNrG5PPmLdPwJX39tmba3a-H3rGdcBf4shSXbfcQGIYLRctX405LLpq2jKcwcFBWRdmP-ZSF40dneI9-p_D6MtCeCbrNREgm4vLAM6yQ1GJMOnHKws_9sLA6d-kjnBTmognXVaJ47TDmLcNv43N8oKd7y9CZTwlvS8f5fHQLVkXzt8W/w640-h480/IMG_8636%20(3).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">cropped, same filter</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSanJ1_REN1pHxGXp9u_teatsSAkudBZobDVJUQYNNG2vawi8ZZOtxAs7Ml-JdoMlkrZyvdijzpqy5w1tupieIU9EhXF4aTfeC8BfeyuJJ_SxNytjX3mYeDhOlCvc9Ts5OjiPFF7wb0w0PKiQaS3z9DOYbWZ3MwgfcK4pdg_OZdOapIlpsIhcexQ9t_Yiz/s2663/IMG_8636.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1434" data-original-width="2663" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSanJ1_REN1pHxGXp9u_teatsSAkudBZobDVJUQYNNG2vawi8ZZOtxAs7Ml-JdoMlkrZyvdijzpqy5w1tupieIU9EhXF4aTfeC8BfeyuJJ_SxNytjX3mYeDhOlCvc9Ts5OjiPFF7wb0w0PKiQaS3z9DOYbWZ3MwgfcK4pdg_OZdOapIlpsIhcexQ9t_Yiz/w640-h344/IMG_8636.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">cropped agin</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBhpZvHb8uL-l4Y7gLha4-ozoOTWOm5YiR2Ax_SpqO0jsMCUyjhHJbzjszJEQzqUxixwOhPTJnyQb3hUnNehYXZ0i-2hRiXK8FTkCM-a93sZSFK4meMGGjTOgt86uBQUaK1CflKdrjby0Pop0LbemJAsIEr8brkYI_let6fWKpOsnnOMad0yxr3YiRmYx1/s1203/IMG_8636%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1203" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBhpZvHb8uL-l4Y7gLha4-ozoOTWOm5YiR2Ax_SpqO0jsMCUyjhHJbzjszJEQzqUxixwOhPTJnyQb3hUnNehYXZ0i-2hRiXK8FTkCM-a93sZSFK4meMGGjTOgt86uBQUaK1CflKdrjby0Pop0LbemJAsIEr8brkYI_let6fWKpOsnnOMad0yxr3YiRmYx1/w640-h442/IMG_8636%20(1).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and then cropped the crop</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">love this last one - it's the one where I finally get closer to abstraction</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it's not all the way there but the elements are distorted enough that I think the image would be understood to not be of the landscape as it was seen</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3OxIKtG9179_B5OeDhHn9lfFCcKk861egvkYhR4BBgq5oT24w1VSa28mzP8xpYJxMPVpXrFeK8GL5W1Ra9R3qYwKc2SQdZy48LU4fuHU1n9XW_CrBejzYNOASxzD1_xUJk3Cv29K57SdJgRX0ypX8AcT88oQlt3ev8jq8hh96WyfI2ItGoUnvEYvLzf4r/s604/IMG_8636%20(2).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="604" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3OxIKtG9179_B5OeDhHn9lfFCcKk861egvkYhR4BBgq5oT24w1VSa28mzP8xpYJxMPVpXrFeK8GL5W1Ra9R3qYwKc2SQdZy48LU4fuHU1n9XW_CrBejzYNOASxzD1_xUJk3Cv29K57SdJgRX0ypX8AcT88oQlt3ev8jq8hh96WyfI2ItGoUnvEYvLzf4r/w640-h560/IMG_8636%20(2).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the more I crop the more interesting things come to light - I suppose it's something to do with the magnification, isolation and/or distortion of various elements and components, the way colours get altered with the underlying tones coming forth</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and with reflections, it's also the way things just aren't quite the way should be</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I like that photographs that are not at all good can still yield very interesting images, with the simplest little digital editing in just minutes</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I think I won't be quite so quick to hit the delete button from now on</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-55035870156519283662023-10-21T18:04:00.002-07:002023-10-21T18:04:45.681-07:00what if i... ?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">experimenting with materials is just so darn interesting... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a little over a year ago I experimented with gelli-plate printing on linen cloth using acrylic paints as well as inks with mixed results</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a few pieces turned out rather well but most were a little less successful</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">last week I had a hankering to try again but before I could get the plate out a different idea wandered along</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">what if I did a kind of gathered resist dyeing with linen but instead of dye I would use the paint from last week's paper painting trials, a Schmincke Horadam super-granulating watercolour paint?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I cut several pieces of vintage linen in a variety of weights and set to work gathering a couple of them using a strong buttonhole thread</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">no research - no looking up ways to gather to make water-like effects, just going with what I thought I knew</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOgDd4NBQBkkTlNtrucZm5JeyiNpF0QlQW24j-1f9P9Rm6Wh5O43-qYk-ra0Evbs_2ZsOQUJUyHLoLzHwEp8E8rskoFRogvhh0PLdOIOsjvkZsDCWnmfi266iCQsHuj_C-1yhgbAUsFWDwpIx_XFxulQtbityBjOn25fEw3kTfQ6baAN2CoOm_fofq0Y1A/s4032/IMG_8611.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOgDd4NBQBkkTlNtrucZm5JeyiNpF0QlQW24j-1f9P9Rm6Wh5O43-qYk-ra0Evbs_2ZsOQUJUyHLoLzHwEp8E8rskoFRogvhh0PLdOIOsjvkZsDCWnmfi266iCQsHuj_C-1yhgbAUsFWDwpIx_XFxulQtbityBjOn25fEw3kTfQ6baAN2CoOm_fofq0Y1A/w640-h480/IMG_8611.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">once gathered I wetted the fabrics a bit by sprinkling water on them and letting it soak in for a few minutes and then I dabbed on the paint, letting it soak in, adding more, turning it over and over again until it seemed fairly well saturated</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYULC4uuAMc8gJNZhBu63depd-qS0_lxuqiYpjPkHLkEZNDFnGaQcg-NZFx_6PrQ5CUoYDTGYN6dxja3gYUwIspT-yXa4A3BAFX4CixGySf6h5eIuVxLkE5-NLsSwTiWzm1d1UbnnhfZfSxBYKCWEEMjsQ5TU47MVTFx_hOjqb1vBigsAtau-n8HVwlWQu/s4032/IMG_8597.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2293" data-original-width="4032" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYULC4uuAMc8gJNZhBu63depd-qS0_lxuqiYpjPkHLkEZNDFnGaQcg-NZFx_6PrQ5CUoYDTGYN6dxja3gYUwIspT-yXa4A3BAFX4CixGySf6h5eIuVxLkE5-NLsSwTiWzm1d1UbnnhfZfSxBYKCWEEMjsQ5TU47MVTFx_hOjqb1vBigsAtau-n8HVwlWQu/w640-h364/IMG_8597.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the next morning they were still rather wet so I spent the day turning them over regularly, noticing how the paint shifted, one side darker than the other as the paint moved back and forth with each turn</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">as it dried the movement became less and less noticeable and after about 24 hours they were dry enough to remove the gathers and press</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the brown in the colour settled settled on the folds and in some places adding a wonderful effect, reminding me of the golden light that hits the water ripples under a darkened sky</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtOwMktrSb22hQimLrsx6ufEx3l3ZRnHc4D7nqljBMmYEDegYxGbVyHz8nphEPBeoemmd78MISeGfZJ1HrFkSzYK5Q0OfrKrq3-Sd4ktMSBuEnDuyIuXdcj6kokdlBiqm-WijFjedj1xHOqWizrZNb4TwUfB3tFlmWyMqhls-PPy1RLNU5JIWapY8vrdXO/s4032/IMG_8613.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtOwMktrSb22hQimLrsx6ufEx3l3ZRnHc4D7nqljBMmYEDegYxGbVyHz8nphEPBeoemmd78MISeGfZJ1HrFkSzYK5Q0OfrKrq3-Sd4ktMSBuEnDuyIuXdcj6kokdlBiqm-WijFjedj1xHOqWizrZNb4TwUfB3tFlmWyMqhls-PPy1RLNU5JIWapY8vrdXO/w640-h480/IMG_8613.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the other side, a paler version with more of the brown</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTSdRtMAknDOzu2vJdRbBN_vq1psy3vx9lFfj_kviEhfzvbUMiNVeO5StSI2HKpe7f3KbjV5k15tU9fJIHH048QsBJe_Ukc25mhQLFhM3ZjCcaEBt5AqHBjE-XNBpD7BrR7qxYkj7KcyS2E3_-lQrrsAqVszoDjyv6P-eyUX_3vmoYziMmXgOU5ZtOxzyd/s4032/IMG_8615.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTSdRtMAknDOzu2vJdRbBN_vq1psy3vx9lFfj_kviEhfzvbUMiNVeO5StSI2HKpe7f3KbjV5k15tU9fJIHH048QsBJe_Ukc25mhQLFhM3ZjCcaEBt5AqHBjE-XNBpD7BrR7qxYkj7KcyS2E3_-lQrrsAqVszoDjyv6P-eyUX_3vmoYziMmXgOU5ZtOxzyd/w640-h480/IMG_8615.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">another one made the next day</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsYRAl-negfBmzLW1_nVIvNX7EbcY2IDrEbaPnExAeQZZ3gKCInDG191YWShkkMDD9ur2VCFjGx_Sgii72oBZqjhBdT0izOdtf1VrXVJwxqo4jJxzgc4wfi1Awlbph-c3eEEhJQ7fHbKLCO2ny1b-8j1kP_VSYmDtr6RIVn6gXB0Op7ha3v93aMVODzp5n/s4032/IMG_8604.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsYRAl-negfBmzLW1_nVIvNX7EbcY2IDrEbaPnExAeQZZ3gKCInDG191YWShkkMDD9ur2VCFjGx_Sgii72oBZqjhBdT0izOdtf1VrXVJwxqo4jJxzgc4wfi1Awlbph-c3eEEhJQ7fHbKLCO2ny1b-8j1kP_VSYmDtr6RIVn6gXB0Op7ha3v93aMVODzp5n/w480-h640/IMG_8604.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in addition to water I also had wood on my mind</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvPpdccn8-Urp2zXtF5HmOUWzXeofnN57K2EgSNiY2pmryzi5oxUbJ8O7KyuEGe78QTexNWIqRRUHUw262JL9wRz4cd3SgF3T9YCmGe_VwWTHrZ_a3CpkFgWxaMkWQzmrpN9oc60azLrz1tna3kWPCdbcMWGQHOuvQ9ERJTIt72_hFvePX-h-F_Hr_SWfe/s3560/IMG_1359%20(1).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3560" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvPpdccn8-Urp2zXtF5HmOUWzXeofnN57K2EgSNiY2pmryzi5oxUbJ8O7KyuEGe78QTexNWIqRRUHUw262JL9wRz4cd3SgF3T9YCmGe_VwWTHrZ_a3CpkFgWxaMkWQzmrpN9oc60azLrz1tna3kWPCdbcMWGQHOuvQ9ERJTIt72_hFvePX-h-F_Hr_SWfe/w544-h640/IMG_1359%20(1).jpeg" width="544" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">below is a cropped portion of the photo above, the colour digitally altered </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love this image and have worked with it a lot and having a fabric version would be a wonderful thing so I pleated a piece of linen and stitched that tightly along the length of it</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjglsxXalPNeK8j-QhFYLVS4-7hDAg2f1Ap2fcLBAetExk89QfXwE2LTBHRCYaVeXpLvSGcPGPFGGnZYFpfl6udQ_ZwIejUZMd_nIavJdVm3aZMMdgIYy9lHI9uiYEA7C1T2iUoqP3sHxpPfOB-7IQH6NERhjiEOGnKnSPV2dCeYpAsXQ1IDFyVpraxvR4C/s939/IMG_1359%20(2).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="939" data-original-width="704" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjglsxXalPNeK8j-QhFYLVS4-7hDAg2f1Ap2fcLBAetExk89QfXwE2LTBHRCYaVeXpLvSGcPGPFGGnZYFpfl6udQ_ZwIejUZMd_nIavJdVm3aZMMdgIYy9lHI9uiYEA7C1T2iUoqP3sHxpPfOB-7IQH6NERhjiEOGnKnSPV2dCeYpAsXQ1IDFyVpraxvR4C/w480-h640/IMG_1359%20(2).jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I don't have a photo of that first attempt - the "boards" were too far apart and the colour rather faint and uninspiring so I re-folded it, making narrower folds in the hopes of getting smaller boards and this time stitched the length twice</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and this time I got exactly what I wanted</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7W9rke3tEhiWxFNwz8vziVSIizBzPHuC0o24YvQYFle9wJWzFkvcM2cuJz8DqZdWO_Tzz63cfXOWlYGFiz-kUuYrclnm55SDVZ2ZyulxkCzDb0Yb0pGI_1yUhT3HJZLB1UquFjWDD0rfpqxrTp5BnGcjytjnVAXmIvp3lWeUQnbojLLzPoq_UV6rIJ1Z8/s3610/IMG_8616.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3610" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7W9rke3tEhiWxFNwz8vziVSIizBzPHuC0o24YvQYFle9wJWzFkvcM2cuJz8DqZdWO_Tzz63cfXOWlYGFiz-kUuYrclnm55SDVZ2ZyulxkCzDb0Yb0pGI_1yUhT3HJZLB1UquFjWDD0rfpqxrTp5BnGcjytjnVAXmIvp3lWeUQnbojLLzPoq_UV6rIJ1Z8/w536-h640/IMG_8616.jpeg" width="536" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">just like old, rough, weathered wood - maybe a bit more blue but I like that</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS2EpKaAZCsw9fprKkvDlQDdNUuRfA36UbaEyoOxmIdW1iX-PYsBsWngDu97WEy7Q2e5swxfAZh7CfPvPwnaRlRhio7984lSlNh0u9n-Oa9Ti6AzLoAiq-jxlrLtNNBf4dMpbB0jQEqLM0OAWOUjhh8fmqW73GeOpzaSdCI0ygtz1rP4DDtf9vf_vinvdm/s4032/IMG_8617.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS2EpKaAZCsw9fprKkvDlQDdNUuRfA36UbaEyoOxmIdW1iX-PYsBsWngDu97WEy7Q2e5swxfAZh7CfPvPwnaRlRhio7984lSlNh0u9n-Oa9Ti6AzLoAiq-jxlrLtNNBf4dMpbB0jQEqLM0OAWOUjhh8fmqW73GeOpzaSdCI0ygtz1rP4DDtf9vf_vinvdm/w480-h640/IMG_8617.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have more to gather, and to pleat and am also going to try it with some fine silk chiffon</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love working like this... thinking, trying, adjusting and trying again</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">not ready yet to think further down the road to how I'll use them though that won't be too far off</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">for now I'm happy where I am</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-45081382693526415662023-10-14T19:56:00.002-07:002023-10-14T19:56:38.115-07:00I Think I Know Now<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I've been trying to puzzle something out for a while and I think I now know what the answer is... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">but I'm getting ahead of myself as I've not yet stated what the puzzling was all about</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">there's a lot of chatter online from people wanting to find their artistic voice and those who think they can provide assistance </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I've never put much stock in any of that as I already know what I like and what I don't and I am fairly confident that there is a distinctive quality to my work that makes it mine and for people that are all familiar with me, easily recognizable</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">what I have struggled with is finding a process for my work, especially when it comes to anything conceptual</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">where to begin?</div><div style="text-align: center;">what to do next?</div><div style="text-align: center;">then what?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">figuring that out has never come easy - there are tried and true ways of working through initial inspiration and ideas but I can get bogged down with them and they become the work</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sometimes I want sketchbooks to work in, not sketchbooks that are the work</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and then there's all the thinking... I like thinking and I do a lot of it, every day, but again... the ideas tumble in and through and around and sometimes that's fine but it's not always what I want</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> sometimes I want to just do something!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> with my latest desire to explore the people and landscape of the Klondike GoldRush, I decided fairly quickly on that I didn't want to get bogged down with any of that</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I just wanted to look at an image or two and do something spurred on by it</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">first with the mountain-inspired paper and cloth collages, then the clothing inspired small textile pieces and today it was images of water and trees</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRyGcPS3M03iBDB9QF3PI22DE5hmQfxEDLYn9BcBLMCxU1v3HXW193azhiOhL-r-698U_cNgRnVrQjMkog2FwWaikgm7rTkh9O9pXJq8DjPYOJ-glYJM2ewVe2kFRGy1GoUd7dLuZAfWf9ekaJpPzwU3hcEkUeY-RvFNlqRw8AxIqvpROROKtdhMHUb_nL/s3692/IMG_8559.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2743" data-original-width="3692" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRyGcPS3M03iBDB9QF3PI22DE5hmQfxEDLYn9BcBLMCxU1v3HXW193azhiOhL-r-698U_cNgRnVrQjMkog2FwWaikgm7rTkh9O9pXJq8DjPYOJ-glYJM2ewVe2kFRGy1GoUd7dLuZAfWf9ekaJpPzwU3hcEkUeY-RvFNlqRw8AxIqvpROROKtdhMHUb_nL/w640-h476/IMG_8559.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the image on the right is a heavily edited crop from a photo of the Yukon River taken in 2018, printed on clear acetate and on the left is a tracing paper print of trees at Marsh Lake taken in 2022</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">overlaid like this, the branches of one connecting with the other</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I decided to do some small ink studies in the same kind of blackened blue as the trees, looking to get some similar lines and shapes as well</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">with a dip pen I scrawled lines from one of Robert Service's poems across Bristol board and then sprayed water onto the wet ink</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the water droplets hit the ink and dots of colour exploded from the lines - they reminded me of the skinny trees in the photo above</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a few squirts more, in an effort to create even more skinny tree-like shapes and I had ruined the whole effect with what were now large splotches of faded colour</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">hmmm...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeuHhrescqi6AhCcWL-wh182QtcNvoUUvyDBM_3Y7irM64b7tgzsbxWsSmWp6KeYgfg2C8Z2GkPImSpagzB11DPZJyUnYhOzCyRlzW8PH3sdfmt4PMTOyA2z83Lezic0r4jIiNt2SOgkcM8oE3P7QD00QoXeGqFBzX-pQvlQISsifNcYCtrz3UBpcQO0Id/s3024/IMG_8579.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2992" data-original-width="3024" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeuHhrescqi6AhCcWL-wh182QtcNvoUUvyDBM_3Y7irM64b7tgzsbxWsSmWp6KeYgfg2C8Z2GkPImSpagzB11DPZJyUnYhOzCyRlzW8PH3sdfmt4PMTOyA2z83Lezic0r4jIiNt2SOgkcM8oE3P7QD00QoXeGqFBzX-pQvlQISsifNcYCtrz3UBpcQO0Id/w640-h634/IMG_8579.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">round two would be on a better quality mixed media paper but I had the idea to paint some watercolour on first, to reference the water</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">once that was dry, more expressive words by Mr. Service with the same Payne's Grey ink and this time a gentler touch with the spray bottle</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiItgJQPzDdOYs36wvevFoMj389bopp0YUKBlP3cv2BlCO5mmFNaC3Vif7Wh1GeX3a9I_Rb9VFzw9TNcOBxxo2bVwNAsmuuTFjMKYUd_nLoPtUZg5wOwNqkdvxkK1n6eYv-wBc-EWxeiB4nIMHI3vRDNk92JnM5aTm-oNa3pGfZKDeyYTqLh1Bs9xOcRieO/s3976/IMG_8564.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">doing, not planning</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">rather than swatching the colours, making something with them</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">start with what I know and see what comes next</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">at any point along the way I can stop and do formal explorations and investigations but for now, just trying things out feels like a better way... almost like falling right in to the work rather than testing the waters first</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">these wise words I discovered today say it best:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"I am still thinking, and my thoughts are guiding my choices... But I am out of my head and thinking with my hands."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Helen Terry </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">2014</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-8893725869887804652023-10-07T21:52:00.002-07:002023-10-07T21:52:43.621-07:00some days, some weeks<div style="text-align: center;">some days can feel rather unproductive... this has been a full-on week of them</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">no particular reason why, just a whole series of small things that get in the way of doing any big things and at the end of it I feel as though I'm still in the place where I began</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I haven't had much time for my work with the Gold Rush era of Yukon history but I have often thought of the clothes of the day... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">warmth and practicality to clothe the miners and travellers </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">beautiful garments for the dance hall girls</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">silk, wool, velvet, lace, cotton duck, mackinaw</div><div style="text-align: center;">dresses from Paris, sturdy homespun</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">though how to use them?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">wool appeared in the collages from the last few posts and I'm sure cloth and lace will factor in future ones but for now I just want to work with the cloth without it having to do or be anything other than itself</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I cut random sized pieces from a variety of cloth in my stash, choosing textures, colours and patterns that appealed</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">looking through the stacks I discovered combinations that appealed and so I cut smaller pieces from them and began to layer and arrange them</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">this first one is a nod to the landscape but through the patterns of the cloth, not a pattern made by them</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the uppermost layer is a dark green and black herringbone wool</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">trees - obvious, yes, but still...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the layer beneath that is off-white and black diamonds... mountain peaks?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">also obvious but even so</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I like the graphic nature of this and so regardless of any of how obvious it might or might not be, I went with it</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have an idea for what comes next but there's been no time to act on it, nor will there be for a few days yet</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdIaNCefEopC_6MV0U2yFIV2zHYRW1xtAe6aC2Z4qVaU178LQiBgMNlC-f4pgdlHc33eIKMfM0Sh0AKecF7_PRblJbei3JDXhFWTpLPVZHbAmcy7aOIfRby2WvC5B3uLH-sePq1CjQ7XVDzPPeZkks08vSB2ketFsFyumfXzrbqf8U-r0i1DCcaaqwnKIV/s4032/IMG_8526%20(1).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdIaNCefEopC_6MV0U2yFIV2zHYRW1xtAe6aC2Z4qVaU178LQiBgMNlC-f4pgdlHc33eIKMfM0Sh0AKecF7_PRblJbei3JDXhFWTpLPVZHbAmcy7aOIfRby2WvC5B3uLH-sePq1CjQ7XVDzPPeZkks08vSB2ketFsFyumfXzrbqf8U-r0i1DCcaaqwnKIV/w640-h480/IMG_8526%20(1).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the next one started with a scrap of heavy cotton, gathered by machine</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">cut from a sun dress I bought many years ago - the first of a few things I bought for the fabric and/or detail in the construction, not as something I would ever wear</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> it was simply "fabric in a different form", not an article of clothing</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and beneath thata scrap of wool and beneath that a dark greenish-grey linen, the same as in the piece above</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">the linen for the base is 110+ years old, hand spun and hand woven in the Netherlands just after the turn of the twentieth century</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">vintage lace and homespun fabrics</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCjgUOzqvyFy4xRCT0T6wGTo-jJVPNn40wOmYbiQhpkGwPJJdwivOAzeqMqZPelM7J6y1-qnZ3oPc2oMP4p7PPL6SKTnNxfpNnnLRQUn05qt-_AKHPYw9xFDNTR1o6XUiMClKuTCimr2joHjStO_VyLA3hqiywjR0F6cczs_v_4ACcvFTQUt0sPqw3QtIl/s4032/IMG_8529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCjgUOzqvyFy4xRCT0T6wGTo-jJVPNn40wOmYbiQhpkGwPJJdwivOAzeqMqZPelM7J6y1-qnZ3oPc2oMP4p7PPL6SKTnNxfpNnnLRQUn05qt-_AKHPYw9xFDNTR1o6XUiMClKuTCimr2joHjStO_VyLA3hqiywjR0F6cczs_v_4ACcvFTQUt0sPqw3QtIl/w640-h480/IMG_8529.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeyXjJtmvw8hllY4ElZhFHgJZ5XV6KkJgx_eQ06p60SLEtmSJFHuPO8cC19bgqlSdCV-QF0KpTRcHPAny3eHxHjy4EUaaszuHHsUSSTktqv_AEU3hY8jkTC32DoHO-2QyhkJ0aJImz600w8vKDBjcWsL9XWUTd7QDnmQtfzT00Cz9bCJpa3Qk6m6nfmmBX/s4032/IMG_8531.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeyXjJtmvw8hllY4ElZhFHgJZ5XV6KkJgx_eQ06p60SLEtmSJFHuPO8cC19bgqlSdCV-QF0KpTRcHPAny3eHxHjy4EUaaszuHHsUSSTktqv_AEU3hY8jkTC32DoHO-2QyhkJ0aJImz600w8vKDBjcWsL9XWUTd7QDnmQtfzT00Cz9bCJpa3Qk6m6nfmmBX/w640-h480/IMG_8531.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">as I said, there's a plan for the first two pieces shown here but as ever I'm not sure where rest are going and it may be they are kept just like this, folded and then bound into a book of sorts, snippets of imagined days and lives gone by</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and if that's all they are it will be enough</div>Jillaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01533504920962855079noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-979870700402785148.post-72934263871009804202023-09-30T17:32:00.001-07:002023-10-01T13:09:37.788-07:00connections<div style="text-align: center;">in the end I made four collages... the first took the longest, the fourth came the quickest (though it is also the smallest)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">the second and the third are the most interesting compositionally</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">in the image below they appear in this order</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">3 2</div><div style="text-align: center;">4 1</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ1mwVJ-IWsSA2wqAD6QIMLhZGZakvQH89xVqqn-cd05CauQOJGT1taF0-mtuSn9x5DwqG1w56Xn3L_P3gK19XoBIeYeNsC_gantIZptR7G7_BSGi4w6SYlwg422NWobNmLfnOkQPCWDM6pFsYeyJ-po6esG50nu18Gn4-GFPB92cvbNJzhbgpOSQ870Bg/s1800/IMG_8492.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ1mwVJ-IWsSA2wqAD6QIMLhZGZakvQH89xVqqn-cd05CauQOJGT1taF0-mtuSn9x5DwqG1w56Xn3L_P3gK19XoBIeYeNsC_gantIZptR7G7_BSGi4w6SYlwg422NWobNmLfnOkQPCWDM6pFsYeyJ-po6esG50nu18Gn4-GFPB92cvbNJzhbgpOSQ870Bg/w640-h640/IMG_8492.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think because of it's simplicity #4 was my initial favourite and I had a hankering to add stitching to it</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">for reasons I didn't understand I decided it needed a dark fence added to the landscape</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">fences were not common in the Yukon though with the number of people moving there from the rest of Canada fences are now becoming more and more common, especially in town</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">anyway, I wanted a fence and though it made no sense whatsoever I decided that was the point of sampling - so you could scratch the itches and see where they take you</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">nothing ventured, nothing gained</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihDfQmf8T3naSR34jsfa8h8wAw05ORzhX8QRKUQ1FdRiasDnU4IWOF6rhI7LnUWtosTA0fX6AsTcK4Rbz_o4rh3kdfXe7nbNTLMqJyqbIXtqWHZlUNAtmwEaDWrdE8GE9L8QmC_6RGJOc5lNkyAtj9Lb7DfVmWo0gRIoCRshUXSMzDyXd7RefAefCXgnLH/s3912/IMG_8504.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2692" data-original-width="3912" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihDfQmf8T3naSR34jsfa8h8wAw05ORzhX8QRKUQ1FdRiasDnU4IWOF6rhI7LnUWtosTA0fX6AsTcK4Rbz_o4rh3kdfXe7nbNTLMqJyqbIXtqWHZlUNAtmwEaDWrdE8GE9L8QmC_6RGJOc5lNkyAtj9Lb7DfVmWo0gRIoCRshUXSMzDyXd7RefAefCXgnLH/w640-h440/IMG_8504.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had barely finished it and my thoughts wandered here...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vtDDyzii-4yoXbaRSRKPE-pkkUCJ8wKHRUxm5gYW-0aD9gdVcscEgsO3NTcjQDvkm4O9YA7NnQGwOJplbPeMOXfuKSpFAUMyhQsX9MKCMSYxu9ipLTQdEak1ojGSJWuHRYhzOWDbV0hdNEpV7-iZDOCuP4eAyqGHCTJ7r8OYix3yQBd6C1819fsft6ik/s617/Screenshot%202023-09-30%20at%202.45.33%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="617" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vtDDyzii-4yoXbaRSRKPE-pkkUCJ8wKHRUxm5gYW-0aD9gdVcscEgsO3NTcjQDvkm4O9YA7NnQGwOJplbPeMOXfuKSpFAUMyhQsX9MKCMSYxu9ipLTQdEak1ojGSJWuHRYhzOWDbV0hdNEpV7-iZDOCuP4eAyqGHCTJ7r8OYix3yQBd6C1819fsft6ik/w640-h488/Screenshot%202023-09-30%20at%202.45.33%20PM.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">an image of the Chilkoot Trail from 1898</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(this section is often referred to as "The Golden Staircase")</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipIbeGAhr3Hhuc_6UuIqMmqyTvYHpBxmT6K6ZouCWzSYGphcvhKQHRHfmIM35kvNrm63KPldgCywH9m9RueUjQV6oixAbKJ8IrHOmZsCqoPlDl3xkWAt3YT8fasNl0xqj1PtoxhKOQ5Z9tqMpKIfp69SrNHCnU-BgowuVr9jIC4qzQQ_MQ_rXfYHEXm5cA/s621/ChilkootPass_steps.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="621" height="594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipIbeGAhr3Hhuc_6UuIqMmqyTvYHpBxmT6K6ZouCWzSYGphcvhKQHRHfmIM35kvNrm63KPldgCywH9m9RueUjQV6oixAbKJ8IrHOmZsCqoPlDl3xkWAt3YT8fasNl0xqj1PtoxhKOQ5Z9tqMpKIfp69SrNHCnU-BgowuVr9jIC4qzQQ_MQ_rXfYHEXm5cA/w640-h594/ChilkootPass_steps.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Royal Canadian Mounted Police required that each person crossing in to the Yukon had to have a specific amount of food and gear in order to survive for one year and it would have weighed in at approx. 2000 pounds</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">estimates are it required a minimum of fourty trips over the Chilkoot Trail to haul in that amount of gear </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">day after day, week after week, month after month they climbed and carried</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh28VQjWyGcO2lCHrrTkXHhocfkYpmJ9_rfXUfaPXcvnQYPm9JwzwoWN3jd6Bd4I8-degwsVmqSedz58sJotlbm9tSuZgdfoZxfsHsPGspl_8N8WzNMz_E7ijIkn-2Pk5ErNaLqX3gzOKEH-IYBxBGE72bjH09qguj6V2rJZAHArP6yRY1rSS67iyGdwCW2/s580/Screenshot%202023-09-30%20at%202.45.57%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="580" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh28VQjWyGcO2lCHrrTkXHhocfkYpmJ9_rfXUfaPXcvnQYPm9JwzwoWN3jd6Bd4I8-degwsVmqSedz58sJotlbm9tSuZgdfoZxfsHsPGspl_8N8WzNMz_E7ijIkn-2Pk5ErNaLqX3gzOKEH-IYBxBGE72bjH09qguj6V2rJZAHArP6yRY1rSS67iyGdwCW2/w640-h508/Screenshot%202023-09-30%20at%202.45.57%20PM.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">as I looked at the little fence I stitched, delighted with the results, I realized that if it was angled up the mountain side it would be like the climbers on the chilkoot</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so that's what I did</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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