:: I didn't realize it when I took the photo, but the thing that looks like a brick is a headstone of a relative in my husband's paternal family. There's a story there to uncover. 9.19.1945
:: Today is my paternal grandmother's birthday.
:: today at arts-based preschool; children making "surprise paintings".
:: the holey surface of an old stone used by Native Americans to grind corn. Another antique that belongs to my husbands parents. I like this texture as it reminds me of pinholes.
made this drawing this morning...
- ELEVEN, graphite, colored pencil, watercolor, pinholes on paper, 4.5 in. x 6 in.
- :: for "Mapping the way" show at Artstream.
. . . quiet morning . . .
stitching houses
:: old abandoned home :: sampler
(I finally uploaded some photos tonight that I took two weeks ago on our drive through part of Kansas. I took some pictures of the landscape and some images of things around my husband's parents' home.)
This sampler is one of my favorite antiques that belongs to my in-laws. It is simple, straight forward, intimate, and honest.
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Right now in my drawings I'm interested in telling stories; in combining imagery with patterns, symbols, and text so that the culmination is a (piece of a) story.