brushandpencils : Easter Trip

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Easter Trip

Frontenac State Park, Minnesota

Villa Maria, which is surrounded by Frontenac State Park

After a long winter of snow, I recently saw the brown earth again in the fields of Iowa and by the time I arrived back in Minnesota the brown grass is showing here too. I'll need to change the colors of paint now as well. Maybe we're seeing the last of the snow sketches for this season.

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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.