it's a bird

Hi,

Thank you for playing my little impromptu game. It is an arrangement of green bits in the shape of a bird, for Emily's green week.

Since I was accepting comments here and at flickr I am going to send out four prints instead of three. So glasfaden, kredbutterfly, bailey and tiel, please email me {my email is in the sidebar} your mailing addresses and I'll stick a photo print in the mail to you sometime next week!

} Have you seen Tony Cragg's sculptures? {He also made a sculpture in the shape of a leaf from a collection of green plastic items, but right now, on my busy morning, I can't find it.}
} Found this blog Haute*Nature.
} Have you been here lately?

Happy Friday!
H

a green game

gathering green for an arrangement

Hi,

Again, I'm on my lunch break finishing leftovers from last night. We ended up making a broccoli frittata and salad instead of quiche. Thank you for all your thoughtful notes about my little haiku and for sharing your own haiku poems!

This morning I enjoyed a latte with a friend as we walked around downtown in the glorious sunshine. It feels like spring today! Then I get home to discover this! What an amazing morning it's been!

I feel like playing a little game. Care to join? Click the photo above to find out how but it only lasts until Friday morning. If you can't comment at flickr, you can comment here.

amazing what a little sunshine and friends can inspire,
H :)

favorites by others and a haiku by me

1. {film.237}, 2. Het is fragiel, 3. ., 4. Proud mum


no one seeks the blue
bitter shade of night time elm
moonlight arms bare skin

So I've been in a bit of a writing mood lately. On unexpected mornings I awake to words forming in my mind and I go to write them down as I drink my coffee. Or sometimes when I sit in my studio in the late afternoon and the walls turn almost pink with sunlight and all is still, there are words in that space.

I find writing a haiku to be a bit like practicing good economics. Choose carefully. But I am one who appreciates the humor in a clumsy run-on sentence, so making careful selections causes me to be, well, careful.

By no means do I consider myself to be a writer yet feel it is another medium that enables me to assemble mental images. Are there mediums other than your own primary medium that you enjoy?

Now I think I will make a broccoli quiche for dinner. What are you having for dinner?
H

this is how it's going


Hi,

How are you today? I'm popping in on my lunch break to share bits of what I'm working on and offer a little glimpse of my inspiration.

I just began the piece above that is comprised of graphite drawing, watercolor, and a portion of linoleum block print. It took a while to cut the block and when I first printed it yesterday I was frustrated because it didn't look the way I imagined. Well a couple friends helped me to "embrace it's printiness", think about layering, and now wouldn't you know, I'm embracing.

Yesterday I found this 1941 printing of "Weeds in Kansas" packed away and the illustrations are really interesting. I remember looking at it a few years ago and incorporated parts into oil paintings. I am also drawing one of those little plastic animals in this piece.

I've been photographing my stack of saved watercolor paper towels in a project called fold. Well this month I am now using cotton muslin as my blotter and am dating the fabric pieces. I think it would be fun to exhibit them with the work they correspond to, don't you?

Before I go, I want you to check out the new {opened yesterday!} jewelry shop of my metalsmith friend Bailey. She and I were in the Delicacy show together and actually it's only because of her that I was able to be part of it. I have been wearing a gorgeous pendant every day she made and it just so happens that these earrings would go beautifully with it! And oh, her super-talented husband is printmaker Justin Marable. They are one creative duo.

Anything new with you?
H