brushandpencils : Gardens Near and Far

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Gardens Near and Far

A neighbor's lovely garden

Summit Ave/ Mississippi Overlook, St Paul, MN

I enjoy the "wide angle" view from a distance as well as the more close up location. So many blooms are in their full glory early this year. We had a cool day, making it much more possible to paint outside in comfort.

Creative Endeavors

My marks on the pages of my sketchbook/journal help me to become more aware of my surroundings; a visual diary and sequential record of days of my life. Sometimes I'm working from my car, an "onsite studio". Almost always these drawings are "drawn on location".

My knitting and my weaving are other ways for me to explore color and texture; to use my hands to create and build up. Again the choices are a sequential record. The inches, feet and yards of cloth become a "journal", similar to the way pages eventually make up a book. I prefer to weave the design as I go along rather than to have it all figured out ahead of time.