brushandpencils : August in the Driftless

Sunday, August 9, 2015

August in the Driftless

From the top of Grandad's Bluff near La Crosse, my grandsons and I looked out toward the Mississippi River at the city below us.

"The cars look like toy cars" exclaimed the younger of the two. A turkey vulture flew past right in front of us, high in the sky, yet at eye level. It seems so refreshing to see again from a fresh perspective and that's the gift of summertime for me.

I have continued with panorama paintings, rather than journal entries. This expansion onto large papers rather than enclosed in books has felt life giving for the time being.

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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.