tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-204322262024-03-13T17:38:14.168+00:00margaret-cooterLooking and thinking, seeing and doingMargaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.comBlogger6548125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-42310033433720989252022-12-01T10:13:00.000+00:002022-12-01T10:13:17.881+00:00 Found during studio cleanup<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcGzX2JC4hiPJbYhu_H9XiAItu4GRldSFqjI9HQf1zg-xC9fZdbb7hKjwVrPId1FTMepIzfM4fEftMbqWTlDv3QU-OtjDEWbSdsxSBxo7lsVELiRC-JPMa0eGdtWFQybkDLjOV7AUAYJHqBxeCDhE8kpcMY1jNi9w5RgefW91TH8oOTA17fQ/s4080/PXL_20221124_110509275.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcGzX2JC4hiPJbYhu_H9XiAItu4GRldSFqjI9HQf1zg-xC9fZdbb7hKjwVrPId1FTMepIzfM4fEftMbqWTlDv3QU-OtjDEWbSdsxSBxo7lsVELiRC-JPMa0eGdtWFQybkDLjOV7AUAYJHqBxeCDhE8kpcMY1jNi9w5RgefW91TH8oOTA17fQ/w400-h301/PXL_20221124_110509275.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cups from my kitchen</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq2RGZLEEum-dOgRSW-XdApqfbJrcLyu3-BObCUo2cXgMI2xUmHS6e584iIjFgWw88ZCp9e38S9FIRw3zvfs8kSIOZsXomHlhpibwHG6RehlqzC2B1GYXNi5WBAMQGOmkZnf_rKiZ8xchWGbRGWU_ysj6SKXrj82zPldEznRd7BywrjX-l3w/s4080/PXL_20221124_110642997.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq2RGZLEEum-dOgRSW-XdApqfbJrcLyu3-BObCUo2cXgMI2xUmHS6e584iIjFgWw88ZCp9e38S9FIRw3zvfs8kSIOZsXomHlhpibwHG6RehlqzC2B1GYXNi5WBAMQGOmkZnf_rKiZ8xchWGbRGWU_ysj6SKXrj82zPldEznRd7BywrjX-l3w/w400-h301/PXL_20221124_110642997.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Moody mark-making</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawsR3b5w5_o_UZxaIM3Nmbhv3IvamFBCOKNHqK7mHXyljB9vLwRE9IbJErJ5MFQ7mU2Sj_F8LtWIjnI-n_EwZTM0MY2tptpqUKtfjUTV3tiOpux-wMVbcRXEN63OS-vZSFcUQ72w41g8_WiEH40dWZ__KtMhnc0N4c_My_9wFOFxYuIvoCw/s4080/PXL_20221124_110951930.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawsR3b5w5_o_UZxaIM3Nmbhv3IvamFBCOKNHqK7mHXyljB9vLwRE9IbJErJ5MFQ7mU2Sj_F8LtWIjnI-n_EwZTM0MY2tptpqUKtfjUTV3tiOpux-wMVbcRXEN63OS-vZSFcUQ72w41g8_WiEH40dWZ__KtMhnc0N4c_My_9wFOFxYuIvoCw/w400-h301/PXL_20221124_110951930.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"House plans" on tracing paper (based on the </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">work of <a href="https://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/map/on-the-map-city-drawings-by-susan-hefuna-and-two-map-artists-at-the-whitney-biennial" target="_blank">Susan Hefuna</a>)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlGbJX3DV_Yxs3Z0usL1JB5oe-j0hE5IhgAdX9TD5LDeCGvWHnDCpDbwCK9FPx0fzxjcp2XtnUrjek2BV8ENmZsLxWi5R54O3JzMoTGt7m9Jj3boMMX14lQlLgE5IzCYleLQTHDUKE_B9zJjPeNCYYIiLYNtxQGKzYxO_tu7brfyR7HBQDfQ/s4080/PXL_20221124_112458299.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlGbJX3DV_Yxs3Z0usL1JB5oe-j0hE5IhgAdX9TD5LDeCGvWHnDCpDbwCK9FPx0fzxjcp2XtnUrjek2BV8ENmZsLxWi5R54O3JzMoTGt7m9Jj3boMMX14lQlLgE5IzCYleLQTHDUKE_B9zJjPeNCYYIiLYNtxQGKzYxO_tu7brfyR7HBQDfQ/w400-h301/PXL_20221124_112458299.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So many trial strips of watercolours...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi237ItZw9TO5TLbFuGBCj31nUP9ptHOR08d8eFUWoG6xnpgPyaZEEl8SUj7sud_iQSRBhrmKjYM63MosWeJlyN1X_-WBWzkQb6rOIRIEKhUq9qymGyIqh1Wg9sCn1NYJRY3pbV_qThY1NcXVTj_MzfQzBqxt6qrVCeP7douRftZk3UrBJJaA/s4080/PXL_20221124_112512925.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi237ItZw9TO5TLbFuGBCj31nUP9ptHOR08d8eFUWoG6xnpgPyaZEEl8SUj7sud_iQSRBhrmKjYM63MosWeJlyN1X_-WBWzkQb6rOIRIEKhUq9qymGyIqh1Wg9sCn1NYJRY3pbV_qThY1NcXVTj_MzfQzBqxt6qrVCeP7douRftZk3UrBJJaA/w400-h301/PXL_20221124_112512925.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A rubbing that made itself</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiKrQdyHiUzujCeQd3_QZa9KEtTaGX0GUn1TpmG__UyB0RsYEcxex8cfremlNvJrs_Zox-zxVnG6culaCh0Gq8aB2GTmabDMxQlXxHERki3KQmXSZWGjUr6de_AtDcMF7kGBKnYwDoApvDPhb611hWxAcZ4VY0wT8dgpnkB_EcPiO-bpnCDw/s4080/PXL_20221124_113007301.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiKrQdyHiUzujCeQd3_QZa9KEtTaGX0GUn1TpmG__UyB0RsYEcxex8cfremlNvJrs_Zox-zxVnG6culaCh0Gq8aB2GTmabDMxQlXxHERki3KQmXSZWGjUr6de_AtDcMF7kGBKnYwDoApvDPhb611hWxAcZ4VY0wT8dgpnkB_EcPiO-bpnCDw/w400-h301/PXL_20221124_113007301.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Favourite postcards - by Picasso, Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Edward Ardizzone; textured boxes by <a href="https://www.susanjanedunford.com/" target="_blank">Susan Jane Dunford</a> (2009)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCtam1l_8p0Kt1dDTsaJEzklmYvjgXDbFrAizNv3GqxQOXuz0dniSoa85mwlTjOW67L2bRR_jp7kmTUvdGzVDWRHp4mnVdUsZ0t_S0Tl_l6NEaIATcIeRBcBvuWWbHyjK0hcbj1MmJgFaiBrcFMOfVamwp3jGyTBcTwM9qgXDb2HzOeC8Pwg/s4080/PXL_20221124_113101881.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCtam1l_8p0Kt1dDTsaJEzklmYvjgXDbFrAizNv3GqxQOXuz0dniSoa85mwlTjOW67L2bRR_jp7kmTUvdGzVDWRHp4mnVdUsZ0t_S0Tl_l6NEaIATcIeRBcBvuWWbHyjK0hcbj1MmJgFaiBrcFMOfVamwp3jGyTBcTwM9qgXDb2HzOeC8Pwg/w640-h482/PXL_20221124_113101881.MP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Wrote this wish-list when I gave up the day job (2008). Baking </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and freelance work have fallen off the list; walking happens every day but </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">hardly ever on the Heath! "Paring down" is ongoing <sigh></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbj6bfYfXoqLUS637JjHVcgvi0si5Yt-HtwMdBhgZeslJwzs0YJ8IP5Y7UTSl7mkWzMaWgjRjF7GN9A4XnpEJb0NSWg26i_EtYuOaJRs7j4cyE-ERsIt2kM8tHLOplM1nRS_4yxDnzfOhTHEfhqlaXB545MWfiTx2S3hIVCu__AIjXj0eKaQ/s4080/PXL_20221124_112315436.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbj6bfYfXoqLUS637JjHVcgvi0si5Yt-HtwMdBhgZeslJwzs0YJ8IP5Y7UTSl7mkWzMaWgjRjF7GN9A4XnpEJb0NSWg26i_EtYuOaJRs7j4cyE-ERsIt2kM8tHLOplM1nRS_4yxDnzfOhTHEfhqlaXB545MWfiTx2S3hIVCu__AIjXj0eKaQ/s320/PXL_20221124_112315436.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />So much left to do!<p></p><p><br /></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-15689601165587074072022-11-25T08:30:00.001+00:002022-11-25T08:30:00.228+00:00Woodblock printing - Construction Lines series 2<p> These prints use the invisible basis of patterns created by traditional geometry (drawing patterns with just compasses and straight edge). In the first series I tried to add the pattern itself to the grid - that turned out unexpectedly!</p><p><br /></p><p>This time I was after the interaction between the grid of circles (flower of life) and the overlying grid of lines from which the shapes were chosen. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzBnRNCWuzkmt625rpPRr8iJYEDa4GNPVmrro1rpDnfJ-a69pwl70Cq40FiG-HUj_G6KYEgPN8IRTwBQtMqL3MxuYkKo-HyEJnwGwwnPmuKBrLCklXj7dmopVMCKVe6HflRPpldHYY1ETxvOioCLHt2mEgAY1f3gKf6lt_wsSNwHZKkxQEAw/s4080/PXL_20221012_072724609.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzBnRNCWuzkmt625rpPRr8iJYEDa4GNPVmrro1rpDnfJ-a69pwl70Cq40FiG-HUj_G6KYEgPN8IRTwBQtMqL3MxuYkKo-HyEJnwGwwnPmuKBrLCklXj7dmopVMCKVe6HflRPpldHYY1ETxvOioCLHt2mEgAY1f3gKf6lt_wsSNwHZKkxQEAw/s320/PXL_20221012_072724609.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The boards</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJYXBnzF_Kd-PbRenrS0t7ACHdA-sUzbTnezXOqsyVBzYZw1AJZCnj4LPU0HUcmtFtdGvK16Y25KqKP5B9zRXkRicLq012Vyqr9zrzucsc4jLJhfkgVJ6JXMT8eh2BO7_rOmSPZgtP-y5-YF8Mgg8WTlaYoPESlycqHqKSPui-qsntmbjv6w/s4080/PXL_20221012_092641003.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJYXBnzF_Kd-PbRenrS0t7ACHdA-sUzbTnezXOqsyVBzYZw1AJZCnj4LPU0HUcmtFtdGvK16Y25KqKP5B9zRXkRicLq012Vyqr9zrzucsc4jLJhfkgVJ6JXMT8eh2BO7_rOmSPZgtP-y5-YF8Mgg8WTlaYoPESlycqHqKSPui-qsntmbjv6w/s320/PXL_20221012_092641003.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The prints</div><div><br /></div>I wasn't happy with my choice of colours - too many possibilities, not enough intention!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZBMrnZcLUdwUyUhZqpqgnSCEeN-nxYQASMiEvC_BHpx1BRNQaeqJfrJdAhtMYj0Mz1OJmZdIzUFnJbfoZMETk7ddxqClhLtu4DFs_GYMR9q9b2hHU48QyNRLthqG4hhH_BqxHCsfOnNGi_CotYEKc2Ln11hkBGR1S3r07oGkawIU1R0w_g/s4080/PXL_20221012_091854208.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZBMrnZcLUdwUyUhZqpqgnSCEeN-nxYQASMiEvC_BHpx1BRNQaeqJfrJdAhtMYj0Mz1OJmZdIzUFnJbfoZMETk7ddxqClhLtu4DFs_GYMR9q9b2hHU48QyNRLthqG4hhH_BqxHCsfOnNGi_CotYEKc2Ln11hkBGR1S3r07oGkawIU1R0w_g/s320/PXL_20221012_091854208.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>But I carried on...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Oscu8RYV875le8lN2IYjgKG6fjtNaw_fP2yDf03agAUtSVma-MZpFHEqXcaS9fJkGXeG5lF1MZhvrr1yYPse0bEqhpUDpu89Fkm5_pYDp_kylppIBaRo40uIvuYfwFddeknro1igqZ3P7WPVTktuJa73mF5kAyPHnWDtXc3QnkrKt2maIg/s4080/PXL_20221012_114719064.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Oscu8RYV875le8lN2IYjgKG6fjtNaw_fP2yDf03agAUtSVma-MZpFHEqXcaS9fJkGXeG5lF1MZhvrr1yYPse0bEqhpUDpu89Fkm5_pYDp_kylppIBaRo40uIvuYfwFddeknro1igqZ3P7WPVTktuJa73mF5kAyPHnWDtXc3QnkrKt2maIg/s320/PXL_20221012_114719064.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>... to the point of printing on the back of some prints -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtv5yeuS3k-9Bv173dWKUE9_xLZHoQmVGnPprziF_bB5BF3EGlmXITu7d8t0eWUolydgocU2Tdx1FvXuvr4T7X7-SbGJrW0VrbY7_z-VJDrevuDM7nwhA0GtnPfSbmns_xMdFwKzGyXLqydISzhhIX3Sq3SwYqEzBxhVEOn_ESEz4tKacYCA/s4080/PXL_20221109_125800598.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtv5yeuS3k-9Bv173dWKUE9_xLZHoQmVGnPprziF_bB5BF3EGlmXITu7d8t0eWUolydgocU2Tdx1FvXuvr4T7X7-SbGJrW0VrbY7_z-VJDrevuDM7nwhA0GtnPfSbmns_xMdFwKzGyXLqydISzhhIX3Sq3SwYqEzBxhVEOn_ESEz4tKacYCA/s320/PXL_20221109_125800598.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Fronts</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUYUCS5JPxbNJ4JBUXCpNBV21IcRKB67B9AXrH3DUo8HPB89s3IEv5wp5gVQwa3Qc_6OvfOFNGQ9r2NIWB3MHouorRR0kcuFSaS8VEn1k15n01py1EdJf6FgtzJ3_sCLmhEGKkQTvKvRa8DQfU3odvxLnhyGOcByRkfgkRdJLcIEVUlwu8BA/s4080/PXL_20221109_125847716.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUYUCS5JPxbNJ4JBUXCpNBV21IcRKB67B9AXrH3DUo8HPB89s3IEv5wp5gVQwa3Qc_6OvfOFNGQ9r2NIWB3MHouorRR0kcuFSaS8VEn1k15n01py1EdJf6FgtzJ3_sCLmhEGKkQTvKvRa8DQfU3odvxLnhyGOcByRkfgkRdJLcIEVUlwu8BA/s320/PXL_20221109_125847716.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Turn them over!</div><div><br /></div>Meanwhile I was enlarging the lines, working towards making the star into a negative shape; that was going much to slowly for my impatience to be finished with this project. In fact I decided just to stop.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSq21_BxlFvDzY8VYsDrRntS3cwU3F3rh9TpO8nAfIkcYsJy8gR4vf2SGUcpKHBZ5C__MkgK3a9tvMxdqlhzMh1Q3fhDLZbGq_1Hpo8YjvwKqvoMM31xwTPhcOxcSHWpfQpCO6lRRDpnCYdXaoU3YFsc51mMdeueBlZHQwPb1pPdcVujz5gw/s4080/PXL_20221102_102231356.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSq21_BxlFvDzY8VYsDrRntS3cwU3F3rh9TpO8nAfIkcYsJy8gR4vf2SGUcpKHBZ5C__MkgK3a9tvMxdqlhzMh1Q3fhDLZbGq_1Hpo8YjvwKqvoMM31xwTPhcOxcSHWpfQpCO6lRRDpnCYdXaoU3YFsc51mMdeueBlZHQwPb1pPdcVujz5gw/s320/PXL_20221102_102231356.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Quite a lot of prints, but nothing to write home about</div><br /><div><div>At the eleventh hour came this surprising juxtaposition - the dabsof paint waiting the be brushed evenly on the board (quick, take a photo!) -</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBCo0R300QhHquO-lWXGKDx9uphKeQ9G1kxMKihxqwB6G0ZINs0Rf9FFSqFnnip9UAG7zbYa0vctHFGkpDbvOa_Hm1rINNEKwZPcR7_xDeY2Op1VwYnliyFWv2WjF31NUzr5KSWX0QDGvns0S2SBQ1QI-Wp9xYPJvHl2jvYII8jc9nZToX5g/s4080/PXL_20221109_123002194.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBCo0R300QhHquO-lWXGKDx9uphKeQ9G1kxMKihxqwB6G0ZINs0Rf9FFSqFnnip9UAG7zbYa0vctHFGkpDbvOa_Hm1rINNEKwZPcR7_xDeY2Op1VwYnliyFWv2WjF31NUzr5KSWX0QDGvns0S2SBQ1QI-Wp9xYPJvHl2jvYII8jc9nZToX5g/s320/PXL_20221109_123002194.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I took a rubbing, and painted and cut out some circular dabs - could this perhaps make something interesting? No, not really, but it was fun trying! <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzOWIurwjuZJGGiSimb36UepuOXbO0z_r_Y3GZk330Tw7nOSSEd9l_E_-Y8S7opTR5b8_995PESO0F1jGb1MNb7jiC_64M6gB8SeOr4ZqBPgbcr1W4I6bqFfmsdLkX12_GoX0fnfpUL-oZ2VORXIm-0Oj0luusF1Zt0yUnIH9dDTRC7vHXhw/s4080/PXL_20221111_105629251.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzOWIurwjuZJGGiSimb36UepuOXbO0z_r_Y3GZk330Tw7nOSSEd9l_E_-Y8S7opTR5b8_995PESO0F1jGb1MNb7jiC_64M6gB8SeOr4ZqBPgbcr1W4I6bqFfmsdLkX12_GoX0fnfpUL-oZ2VORXIm-0Oj0luusF1Zt0yUnIH9dDTRC7vHXhw/s320/PXL_20221111_105629251.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>My other favourite outcome of this project is the rough and ready rubbing of circles and lines -</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8W7uqVRg2EZt6VfJyO3GXzFO9My9YDcjeX50vAjOWsF37urISyCNxqefKQQN01SQ9alqOsbAsX6UJK_eXUAk0yhkUTmTABDRqsqoYXD4JnXkfCOuSVd2NhLX7llLMbZ17AbsWXTYZP2AohiOSlbGSiooWnXm0PDt45E20Cm_aHylfXa6Phw/s1374/construction%20lines%20rubbing%20Nov22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1374" data-original-width="966" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8W7uqVRg2EZt6VfJyO3GXzFO9My9YDcjeX50vAjOWsF37urISyCNxqefKQQN01SQ9alqOsbAsX6UJK_eXUAk0yhkUTmTABDRqsqoYXD4JnXkfCOuSVd2NhLX7llLMbZ17AbsWXTYZP2AohiOSlbGSiooWnXm0PDt45E20Cm_aHylfXa6Phw/s320/construction%20lines%20rubbing%20Nov22.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><p><br /></p></div></div>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-67873633637412500312022-11-23T08:49:00.001+00:002022-11-23T08:49:11.897+00:00Before and after - the blinds<p> It gets too chaotic -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjak2yx9qHuh8IVMpLtaiKZBX_b4lzJif8x1hnLJr_JunLmeWvEfKiB4zWp5Z4AlUuXu4Etyq5q5zkJpsbA2zUHTns28gacyQ2x5bVgKM5IvJkd67yGcDGVpcbnkRXtFS8xwSQRpnYPNzbAdnSKNeDWGxM9wqa_XCMaMvWZD2b68EOQ1VzLhA/s4080/PXL_20221113_160446228.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjak2yx9qHuh8IVMpLtaiKZBX_b4lzJif8x1hnLJr_JunLmeWvEfKiB4zWp5Z4AlUuXu4Etyq5q5zkJpsbA2zUHTns28gacyQ2x5bVgKM5IvJkd67yGcDGVpcbnkRXtFS8xwSQRpnYPNzbAdnSKNeDWGxM9wqa_XCMaMvWZD2b68EOQ1VzLhA/w400-h301/PXL_20221113_160446228.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>... so I thought to get some blinds and hide the shelves. Out of sight, out of mind?<div><br /></div><div>Tom installed them -<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrknsF6Wsvp5wujpJRF9XR2MrvrHuFY3HZm-J3CX12Ttc0MV30iu1OlRTz1Hfp61A7MKdiYFwUwZoYbtTUmEE4jHe6kWVrDvWF3ElGGy9sc04BEvceg6UAK1uqubtu2VAsR10zvTDQheujJ7OgvAwmCKi6KUNNU7XN4BmhWdI3mrnMwMh0ug/s4080/PXL_20221120_111649707.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrknsF6Wsvp5wujpJRF9XR2MrvrHuFY3HZm-J3CX12Ttc0MV30iu1OlRTz1Hfp61A7MKdiYFwUwZoYbtTUmEE4jHe6kWVrDvWF3ElGGy9sc04BEvceg6UAK1uqubtu2VAsR10zvTDQheujJ7OgvAwmCKi6KUNNU7XN4BmhWdI3mrnMwMh0ug/w400-h301/PXL_20221120_111649707.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>If you're wondering where all the stuff from the worktop went ... "it's behind you!"</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9hT9al2XCAc_Oa-dPsDAhgDy7FnWw5KaZDcCEiEDmqMR03D7owC9XWFv36Ug92GaTQ8LC1yi0wvpvU6po24-DpzeAviJ2UhGySC1if7jYSEM7I19rsPxbUE9RnnWVlSgqobegCI8RpWrLPBjTsmYVSx5YaYFJj_jxb2_kSYcbQfTHSHVGew/s4080/PXL_20221120_111704514.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9hT9al2XCAc_Oa-dPsDAhgDy7FnWw5KaZDcCEiEDmqMR03D7owC9XWFv36Ug92GaTQ8LC1yi0wvpvU6po24-DpzeAviJ2UhGySC1if7jYSEM7I19rsPxbUE9RnnWVlSgqobegCI8RpWrLPBjTsmYVSx5YaYFJj_jxb2_kSYcbQfTHSHVGew/w400-h301/PXL_20221120_111704514.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Looks like a glacier is sliding into the room! Behind it, the shelves are being reorganised to put the most-used materials in the most convenient places -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgonVgfPPIk74UY6TFmgREcr12y42esBPU3szMRrwKC0HAXeE6L3ITrTc-TxRARVqw0eN5OS1z8_nCWMc1HYo957vzsgTtQDzA2kQYn9kHjKjOnoUxP_EzWwZfuXK4XGH3btn9Wy6v2V1qoElOwxholsy0C3muKE2zy8HiS1FwgTUNg76ht_w/s4080/PXL_20221120_112455872.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgonVgfPPIk74UY6TFmgREcr12y42esBPU3szMRrwKC0HAXeE6L3ITrTc-TxRARVqw0eN5OS1z8_nCWMc1HYo957vzsgTtQDzA2kQYn9kHjKjOnoUxP_EzWwZfuXK4XGH3btn9Wy6v2V1qoElOwxholsy0C3muKE2zy8HiS1FwgTUNg76ht_w/w400-h301/PXL_20221120_112455872.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>And there's room on the worktop for the continuing project of sorting and documenting and thinking about my woodblock prints (and other projects) -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVVz8L1epF6cdmTUNrxMy-5CTwrHGCxUDx8eW89869jSsBpTCsylWV2IayZgtxIoHC4Hst9ufzynROKrpLdFyRjaEPPFk7epemERon9JV8xLj1095PHGzoKS9QtV0TUxUfEQriA2FuxErJd8bQgbnv-jSvEeMnJ9ZYpOhVdKhujz8HbTsQIQ/s4080/PXL_20221122_205956685.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVVz8L1epF6cdmTUNrxMy-5CTwrHGCxUDx8eW89869jSsBpTCsylWV2IayZgtxIoHC4Hst9ufzynROKrpLdFyRjaEPPFk7epemERon9JV8xLj1095PHGzoKS9QtV0TUxUfEQriA2FuxErJd8bQgbnv-jSvEeMnJ9ZYpOhVdKhujz8HbTsQIQ/w400-h301/PXL_20221122_205956685.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Gradually the heaps are diminishing. Eating the elephant one bite at a time.<br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-17411550323798717672022-11-14T20:40:00.000+00:002022-11-14T20:40:12.133+00:00Lockdown wardrobe - and a little book<p> </p><p>During lockdown one of my amuseuments was to "shop my closet" in search of favourite outfits. This is six months' worth. Quite a few items have moved on...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrkVhArkJvQh6GvfuaqgslRnzJw3Es8w1-u6M6wga5bMp83Ntbw3K7Fg4a5VFH0XGTouJ9ov9bE6VDHTS6Maej2p7BhkLI3d8z9S4Rr1QV-bGXNVdsxsblL7vOOaWjBCB8JiY_34_r-SerCNpJ7kIkzGiFnDccxr4uCuo9O396frhHb7GGzg/s2736/wardrobe1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="2736" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrkVhArkJvQh6GvfuaqgslRnzJw3Es8w1-u6M6wga5bMp83Ntbw3K7Fg4a5VFH0XGTouJ9ov9bE6VDHTS6Maej2p7BhkLI3d8z9S4Rr1QV-bGXNVdsxsblL7vOOaWjBCB8JiY_34_r-SerCNpJ7kIkzGiFnDccxr4uCuo9O396frhHb7GGzg/w640-h334/wardrobe1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA5XYm3fxLWdFWqr4yHyAXuHqliUMXPN0hon7ahPy0Hovhhjsi7v395-G9mXyhhZhhsWYW5ytwCOywZJPmqfb9RDzej7VXWIsMBhPlpCrNJYCLL-_HR3El7fluNP5zREoy1-84_cpqNGfPSQ7j4BBm1OVkVTqhALj3hMFZxrpwxb2LjA-fMQ/s2736/wardrobe2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1412" data-original-width="2736" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA5XYm3fxLWdFWqr4yHyAXuHqliUMXPN0hon7ahPy0Hovhhjsi7v395-G9mXyhhZhhsWYW5ytwCOywZJPmqfb9RDzej7VXWIsMBhPlpCrNJYCLL-_HR3El7fluNP5zREoy1-84_cpqNGfPSQ7j4BBm1OVkVTqhALj3hMFZxrpwxb2LjA-fMQ/w640-h330/wardrobe2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgysSwLHfTL1vRafZvYHFQHsP8iNvuoKSozEi3-dLm7yAIQHmSbSP1IY-AfEhgUuR1Moh6peUw7kTM6Y6isicKxiEXjZYHKDFFELpDbbd_73jRsasg6rPzUj9Zsln52fHrcgNCdzAgAUsPQF7NjO2lSs2sRMgMJD4r0uSoUdmxGEE3lw_9Pig/s2736/wardrobe3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="2736" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgysSwLHfTL1vRafZvYHFQHsP8iNvuoKSozEi3-dLm7yAIQHmSbSP1IY-AfEhgUuR1Moh6peUw7kTM6Y6isicKxiEXjZYHKDFFELpDbbd_73jRsasg6rPzUj9Zsln52fHrcgNCdzAgAUsPQF7NjO2lSs2sRMgMJD4r0uSoUdmxGEE3lw_9Pig/w640-h328/wardrobe3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcJVa8hQKCOsruwC-mKyV7i39GMxswzPu8wnndYL4sjek-zGRysK7UmFYGtQkIv2xgixrdg82kbXFj9FAk0b_S-9nrnUAjkkRDrhvrRvuEeoCxH_Sl9pTxE1FjBrkaAHqtr58Ws9Ca8qNe38ACs9FdjkEmRR3jAYSFGSlHRvcZNjfjPN4_Sw/s2736/wardrobe4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="2736" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcJVa8hQKCOsruwC-mKyV7i39GMxswzPu8wnndYL4sjek-zGRysK7UmFYGtQkIv2xgixrdg82kbXFj9FAk0b_S-9nrnUAjkkRDrhvrRvuEeoCxH_Sl9pTxE1FjBrkaAHqtr58Ws9Ca8qNe38ACs9FdjkEmRR3jAYSFGSlHRvcZNjfjPN4_Sw/w640-h328/wardrobe4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG92Rjb3W8DBJ9OHQLKWgvhgZa01NYrpxJrPcN49nB9FZVeYe1ESaAVixnpRjBaAYzXZ9fYZ6gRVGDjGL4LJD6X_4m16MaGVmZ4mfyvY2yYakBDBu1jEE8eolzxVZHyGt-uktmEOcJr0hRA4XmBWtLT8eTDO2pbpQs8LfJ_KCkwLFbNkx18w/s2736/wardrobe5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1456" data-original-width="2736" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG92Rjb3W8DBJ9OHQLKWgvhgZa01NYrpxJrPcN49nB9FZVeYe1ESaAVixnpRjBaAYzXZ9fYZ6gRVGDjGL4LJD6X_4m16MaGVmZ4mfyvY2yYakBDBu1jEE8eolzxVZHyGt-uktmEOcJr0hRA4XmBWtLT8eTDO2pbpQs8LfJ_KCkwLFbNkx18w/w640-h340/wardrobe5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>It started with the skirts (some of the many are shown above right) - I tried them all on, and wore some of them one last time before putting them in the donations box, taking them back where they came from!</p><p>As winter approaches and we're keeping the thermostat low, I have different priorities, different needs - warm clothes! (And always - comfortable shoes.)</p><p>Sometimes the reason you can't find anything to wear is that you have too many clothes. Too much choice.</p><p>On the closet/wardrobe theme, a little book I made in 2002 has surfaced. The original had brightly coloured tissue paper glued down, and then printed on with simple shapes made with waterproof glue, wood glue I think. This is a photocopy -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljLiogqKEba-RLPDkdVeM62VBEvFyYN4IJQ3qn-zk2_UFKMYAdIiBzMpkLYL09ocJyP4f8gZZ7xGgTzaDuumKEnwAe-DYF1SZPM0tzqBZ1FGznA6JkpHQS_wU8C7XBK-joRTDIi9987LNebJx_s4zZTkxd0HWaTkh_N27kXylFMU0T5vjRA/s4080/PXL_20221114_092648905.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljLiogqKEba-RLPDkdVeM62VBEvFyYN4IJQ3qn-zk2_UFKMYAdIiBzMpkLYL09ocJyP4f8gZZ7xGgTzaDuumKEnwAe-DYF1SZPM0tzqBZ1FGznA6JkpHQS_wU8C7XBK-joRTDIi9987LNebJx_s4zZTkxd0HWaTkh_N27kXylFMU0T5vjRA/w400-h301/PXL_20221114_092648905.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrSLQ1-xPIOKcXw2R3RLt1kmCSjIN6JGZ2NtVRQNYlVszkr3QYNd6t3itNLBSKlJLcMzLLHNK6TC7Ch6PWctNbCxWS17ETnkyLdTz8xiieoe2Je-_e_q-QxSO73G18xuPU4l6I_ovMmPo7qAwL7FKC4n4vhdGvQ7u0US1plHD_Pc76vTc9EQ/s4080/PXL_20221114_092755827.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrSLQ1-xPIOKcXw2R3RLt1kmCSjIN6JGZ2NtVRQNYlVszkr3QYNd6t3itNLBSKlJLcMzLLHNK6TC7Ch6PWctNbCxWS17ETnkyLdTz8xiieoe2Je-_e_q-QxSO73G18xuPU4l6I_ovMmPo7qAwL7FKC4n4vhdGvQ7u0US1plHD_Pc76vTc9EQ/w400-h301/PXL_20221114_092755827.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6dx6Vu1QhYmJipaFvfdo0l-DbaLqMsM2FKe2l-LO6DdkDYka3uQNMkgazJfrlwH_cxcEc1DWPi0LbCrQCEHOyFbYE2tt1vpHIPpZR43tWDDR71fJ5pu7K9HDjaF0-6HZsMl09p6NFkU_8xc4qbq8fit00rMSKEC6dYkcjaGochTaw-pLrMQ/s4080/PXL_20221114_094339789.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6dx6Vu1QhYmJipaFvfdo0l-DbaLqMsM2FKe2l-LO6DdkDYka3uQNMkgazJfrlwH_cxcEc1DWPi0LbCrQCEHOyFbYE2tt1vpHIPpZR43tWDDR71fJ5pu7K9HDjaF0-6HZsMl09p6NFkU_8xc4qbq8fit00rMSKEC6dYkcjaGochTaw-pLrMQ/w400-h301/PXL_20221114_094339789.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-2540716312451962492022-11-12T08:49:00.000+00:002022-11-12T08:49:09.827+00:00Recent geometry<p>Practising painting (watercolours). Choosing colours can be difficult; currently I seem to be want to use blues, so many different shades...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegyv-ypN0ZoXaF3aqjmqe5Jh8Tb656FS_gVH7NimP9KIcqnQRxVGo7Cl7hqzMK4JWBKfNxWObgxRCfCwMWWd6O-vnJYD4nR91EMTztBYI4iWILfX4Gm0xOqMqow6YAALAsXDh2ys-TkPdut5bdh7LfLB31OQW-ccAQ7g52uqe0pXyefJJew/s4080/PXL_20221107_081703512.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegyv-ypN0ZoXaF3aqjmqe5Jh8Tb656FS_gVH7NimP9KIcqnQRxVGo7Cl7hqzMK4JWBKfNxWObgxRCfCwMWWd6O-vnJYD4nR91EMTztBYI4iWILfX4Gm0xOqMqow6YAALAsXDh2ys-TkPdut5bdh7LfLB31OQW-ccAQ7g52uqe0pXyefJJew/s320/PXL_20221107_081703512.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Needs a bit of red, I think)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT1EleuewDgJEsc7UBje7_lQ6WN50EsW60qQA_9b5lJffarYLE-PMmUYIRqK1JCTzHK985dGKB-BtvrzNxMMyTM0eIqe1L0IfNJmy-hJaXozlAnopgbjy7KKD-fRO-HJmFqW_7X5ZrlmGqlgN--VCQPCUNN4BU3bmQElg1c5rBpRszjkAMnw/s4080/PXL_20221104_180926950.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT1EleuewDgJEsc7UBje7_lQ6WN50EsW60qQA_9b5lJffarYLE-PMmUYIRqK1JCTzHK985dGKB-BtvrzNxMMyTM0eIqe1L0IfNJmy-hJaXozlAnopgbjy7KKD-fRO-HJmFqW_7X5ZrlmGqlgN--VCQPCUNN4BU3bmQElg1c5rBpRszjkAMnw/s320/PXL_20221104_180926950.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnTCVurEWzCBGys2IiWBoo7B2J32D4CN7HZPerN5peZnPT-0zXe73fDArHpY6jZG8321lLPG1ZZrP7D8Fe6niG_DwNiJnrKNIa5uqiWd-PDl-ZiKcr8o-MQoppO-2pYI6AaCdv9JMWstAxE9498L5ScDWrgXZ3VlHYkdgjjA9BxjpUd3h_4Q/s4080/PXL_20221104_133731576.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnTCVurEWzCBGys2IiWBoo7B2J32D4CN7HZPerN5peZnPT-0zXe73fDArHpY6jZG8321lLPG1ZZrP7D8Fe6niG_DwNiJnrKNIa5uqiWd-PDl-ZiKcr8o-MQoppO-2pYI6AaCdv9JMWstAxE9498L5ScDWrgXZ3VlHYkdgjjA9BxjpUd3h_4Q/s320/PXL_20221104_133731576.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipDoP9vJ5tU8cX9mSPdUuwKabRnNuGkoi11R159zXDikblFM3X6dFT1pM748ji4vEgcAjApKVZzlDuLf2QSWZzgSE8JSN3dXI2y4a4NXADgw0z1-rGE3mQKwqLxRmQirmLzf6oRu2dAWN1rEtZR3SBAsqtyw3LWDWkomfqDO1E_CFxhNiZcg/s4080/PXL_20221009_184155044.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipDoP9vJ5tU8cX9mSPdUuwKabRnNuGkoi11R159zXDikblFM3X6dFT1pM748ji4vEgcAjApKVZzlDuLf2QSWZzgSE8JSN3dXI2y4a4NXADgw0z1-rGE3mQKwqLxRmQirmLzf6oRu2dAWN1rEtZR3SBAsqtyw3LWDWkomfqDO1E_CFxhNiZcg/s320/PXL_20221009_184155044.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuR3ZafZY_XCXGFuYan3IYborDWPZQQxW7z5qkI887Z6JN2q-AgPM9FBcwp4gYfQiMsLPf2zRPSMtAIo3QBqLYNvWjQwxjMbwMHpxyUaKjT0RvGH30GxUwzINkM7lBzg85xLSCByopMvTqCIvPmyYRsme4UNRl29ChXL9pNU2bhHtaJKrRWg/s3892/PXL_20221003_084340296.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3892" data-original-width="2821" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuR3ZafZY_XCXGFuYan3IYborDWPZQQxW7z5qkI887Z6JN2q-AgPM9FBcwp4gYfQiMsLPf2zRPSMtAIo3QBqLYNvWjQwxjMbwMHpxyUaKjT0RvGH30GxUwzINkM7lBzg85xLSCByopMvTqCIvPmyYRsme4UNRl29ChXL9pNU2bhHtaJKrRWg/s320/PXL_20221003_084340296.MP.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgac7CgO9ZCfw_QCX4u0-NbFiAUxRFHAC12K1JuROYX1bNv69rEfTgQR2E4za4RfBiAt8kMFMe98nMtHHMlGyagEIZdMnsQCOBne2J0rPdH0g-Vb_Q5_Z8y28Wqx60Ni6zRo8bVtI1zWh7gSy1Mrw0fVUXPx_qCTL3nT04dlMqIiFLgNdFGUg/s4080/PXL_20220930_101105157.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgac7CgO9ZCfw_QCX4u0-NbFiAUxRFHAC12K1JuROYX1bNv69rEfTgQR2E4za4RfBiAt8kMFMe98nMtHHMlGyagEIZdMnsQCOBne2J0rPdH0g-Vb_Q5_Z8y28Wqx60Ni6zRo8bVtI1zWh7gSy1Mrw0fVUXPx_qCTL3nT04dlMqIiFLgNdFGUg/s320/PXL_20220930_101105157.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Building up a stock of greetings cards.</p><p><br /></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-11420563826750973212022-11-04T08:30:00.003+00:002022-11-04T08:30:00.213+00:00Monotypes<p> Aka monoprints. To my mind, monoprints are the amateur version, and monotype is what they become in a gallery or exhibition. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYtgVWPfmtUie2NF3KJCOuyzQn67elKKF3ViXo2Z6zA9wSEaCZ2U9ZDIPjn1Ii7KbFA5cJlWB760HpIke05hiT7nDDOgDsqFyLRWgz65DIWHE8CYGd_c9JdyHB3fHUUqlBKu8Ul68d4oZr9uuX6NznpBHu3SLctYP4R6S2t2cIX46zfVH5Vw/s4080/PXL_20221101_102428772.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYtgVWPfmtUie2NF3KJCOuyzQn67elKKF3ViXo2Z6zA9wSEaCZ2U9ZDIPjn1Ii7KbFA5cJlWB760HpIke05hiT7nDDOgDsqFyLRWgz65DIWHE8CYGd_c9JdyHB3fHUUqlBKu8Ul68d4oZr9uuX6NznpBHu3SLctYP4R6S2t2cIX46zfVH5Vw/s320/PXL_20221101_102428772.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>So these are monoprints. Trials. Experiments. They turned up during a recent studio rummage and brought back memories of a summer class (a whole week of entire days) at City Lit, in which I used a kettle as starting point/subject. It started with drawing and printmaking, and moved on to painting, and was in 2016 (see <a href="https://margaret-cooter.blogspot.com/2016/08/drawing-painting-printmaking-course.html" target="_blank">here</a>).<p></p><br /><p>The folder of work from the class sits upstairs; when I looked at its contents a year or so ago, I wasn't ready to discard them yet. Still thinking "I might use these later", why is that?</p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-54247192145547218772022-11-02T08:30:00.013+00:002022-11-02T08:30:00.196+00:00William Kentridge at the RA<p> A <a href="https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/william-kentridge" target="_blank">show </a>(till 11 Dec 2022) with large work, and many short films - Kentridge's early career was in theatre. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoWie4B0V4P9u0KhmCHRsqy8jEDiFODYyqjmLQJaS8nmw9idz4jdbjEcnjrmWGpPuOMutJBlfEjNxxrHx07EN3A9jaX6i3A7JXM154rXJKoSvHLg9M6zwd-BPOQk-rgTguGWEfBAEsa24j589Fi3AylJJDUZJjgRTwwrxnOy47t5B-g7CqRg/s4080/PXL_20221030_132241365.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoWie4B0V4P9u0KhmCHRsqy8jEDiFODYyqjmLQJaS8nmw9idz4jdbjEcnjrmWGpPuOMutJBlfEjNxxrHx07EN3A9jaX6i3A7JXM154rXJKoSvHLg9M6zwd-BPOQk-rgTguGWEfBAEsa24j589Fi3AylJJDUZJjgRTwwrxnOy47t5B-g7CqRg/w400-h301/PXL_20221030_132241365.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early drawings, 1988 some of them</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir8pYi5ULkFeYrWqNL-br8n6dPP9i4HvP3Knb5Htlm1Ion4RBNfESqrdFSJxi-hTgL1tjbCtvIN6uVryjTTouOtATUpS-Sse5idhAybfDPiJQKFl7Far07jhwJGLxEOEEfg1V3Jy-N2sAqSmLRREOUVw9klKolqmtnhuhT8H4UKJWWQuG5FQ/s4080/PXL_20221030_133454108.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir8pYi5ULkFeYrWqNL-br8n6dPP9i4HvP3Knb5Htlm1Ion4RBNfESqrdFSJxi-hTgL1tjbCtvIN6uVryjTTouOtATUpS-Sse5idhAybfDPiJQKFl7Far07jhwJGLxEOEEfg1V3Jy-N2sAqSmLRREOUVw9klKolqmtnhuhT8H4UKJWWQuG5FQ/w400-h301/PXL_20221030_133454108.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tapestry designs</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUphhxonytzU0rATopgRJi_WexJ6odU7xbxYS-n4sX2VxBXCg8WXGOceLy6CfrnL-LgNkNGpNlmpUYtGUBEIQVQmxqSg2hxb14lJFnlh5NwJydbgqjmfaDDfbNDkZVj86xz-KyNIG7So-0bzxKkZKapJXk9cRotu5WEsoU5yzkzPMyZkNtkg/s4080/PXL_20221030_133935677.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUphhxonytzU0rATopgRJi_WexJ6odU7xbxYS-n4sX2VxBXCg8WXGOceLy6CfrnL-LgNkNGpNlmpUYtGUBEIQVQmxqSg2hxb14lJFnlh5NwJydbgqjmfaDDfbNDkZVj86xz-KyNIG7So-0bzxKkZKapJXk9cRotu5WEsoU5yzkzPMyZkNtkg/s320/PXL_20221030_133935677.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colonial landscapes</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCITHKgilmNBdzMlrvwS4K5py2ww3cVjiu9i7HMYJkRS-Mv1Rv4wqY9vjUQRQI8kyeT7RJ7JKoB04e5KSOOt3WlEj6azPxIc9ctXZta_8tYvQaDoDgparmETZSMWl-EnkJoqfy5KznKdFhpPzye5PKE09VQDfpRO5uCeE8Z9ozPAtrghmNQg/s4080/PXL_20221030_134306392.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCITHKgilmNBdzMlrvwS4K5py2ww3cVjiu9i7HMYJkRS-Mv1Rv4wqY9vjUQRQI8kyeT7RJ7JKoB04e5KSOOt3WlEj6azPxIc9ctXZta_8tYvQaDoDgparmETZSMWl-EnkJoqfy5KznKdFhpPzye5PKE09VQDfpRO5uCeE8Z9ozPAtrghmNQg/w400-h301/PXL_20221030_134306392.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using found encyclopedia pages for a book</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOcB2Qh_TgUbpI2HokUoWWxXCvJrRRnsl1SNdKpDVIRzKC2MND-WHt3BMS0AEk2tovOcIe7lFtIg4GBoIAR8eYT4Yf9O74OV_AiNQPg0A9TMaI3fAItw03iyzocP3mpyeoyD0cO1OVufUk5r-CoKcqXHIBUsL_0gI8faWgzpc6NL7oyseDAw/s4080/PXL_20221030_134332402.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOcB2Qh_TgUbpI2HokUoWWxXCvJrRRnsl1SNdKpDVIRzKC2MND-WHt3BMS0AEk2tovOcIe7lFtIg4GBoIAR8eYT4Yf9O74OV_AiNQPg0A9TMaI3fAItw03iyzocP3mpyeoyD0cO1OVufUk5r-CoKcqXHIBUsL_0gI8faWgzpc6NL7oyseDAw/s320/PXL_20221030_134332402.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...so bold and striking</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ggtULKtyysxUjP7SsSaE-bMZ6ARptwaIFyxIQdFDcC5zaVMDF7EnN8poEQm1qjGuSrlwEjMcld49e7EB7AaczJxcSoxG5wEJYn1YTnMlrkg6KcxrSkMLewP-LZsl4PDUQR1HSGkpUg04cw2curi_IFL3nxdDexPxmD6oq99_-1m9dXQMBg/s4080/PXL_20221030_134657711.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ggtULKtyysxUjP7SsSaE-bMZ6ARptwaIFyxIQdFDcC5zaVMDF7EnN8poEQm1qjGuSrlwEjMcld49e7EB7AaczJxcSoxG5wEJYn1YTnMlrkg6KcxrSkMLewP-LZsl4PDUQR1HSGkpUg04cw2curi_IFL3nxdDexPxmD6oq99_-1m9dXQMBg/w400-h301/PXL_20221030_134657711.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Found pages used as basis of collage "flower drawings"</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYzjnFQdsI4krF_ZUnGRlwmUjfDeYTrXdfAzqdjZhz1tpL7-vDbI62_ZMKqyS80cOO1R1HX6EL-zASrdrxUaviT2hlqcY8iluH2GJMjCXPCZ7DK0c7KBgXvzDM_3Fl0B4ZQ5f7BPc6V_BFo4QURM4eDq_MNJ5E3d4TIhm5AmDfRtcRIqWrqg/s4080/PXL_20221030_134734870.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYzjnFQdsI4krF_ZUnGRlwmUjfDeYTrXdfAzqdjZhz1tpL7-vDbI62_ZMKqyS80cOO1R1HX6EL-zASrdrxUaviT2hlqcY8iluH2GJMjCXPCZ7DK0c7KBgXvzDM_3Fl0B4ZQ5f7BPc6V_BFo4QURM4eDq_MNJ5E3d4TIhm5AmDfRtcRIqWrqg/s320/PXL_20221030_134734870.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsM_Cj3QN22aR1rQizIfkVEYfj3T1t6-ST9IN6ZaG3tBgTsp9o6xfLE7eNKEvJkrbg6nfXntqFwQNUVOiGRQMqZgbGo1Ye3HDHt46P8V7qriCbUlP2jplfreYep7wtJSkxG7hubNcA48Tncp0iAjTrFwIyWB40blokVqW474TyYhnWZ3INgg/s4080/PXL_20221030_134844984.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsM_Cj3QN22aR1rQizIfkVEYfj3T1t6-ST9IN6ZaG3tBgTsp9o6xfLE7eNKEvJkrbg6nfXntqFwQNUVOiGRQMqZgbGo1Ye3HDHt46P8V7qriCbUlP2jplfreYep7wtJSkxG7hubNcA48Tncp0iAjTrFwIyWB40blokVqW474TyYhnWZ3INgg/s320/PXL_20221030_134844984.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some sculptures scattered around</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg18D_ngIBF-qscdJRYCrs3DH6rRzbXwsZV0MzLHeu84QHWqjKBV2G5BVAaT9Tda9MjSBBLg6FTCO5sEBmsoY5YypIL4wBsJVrU-Xl-9TtbfdEwvQXa1oIl7tHtPIcZDCzs3R0Jn6_5UkI5D0hSOp3Kiiz0ftOzRgsiF3uohxi6jRvwdE1ZZw/s4080/PXL_20221030_135211105.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg18D_ngIBF-qscdJRYCrs3DH6rRzbXwsZV0MzLHeu84QHWqjKBV2G5BVAaT9Tda9MjSBBLg6FTCO5sEBmsoY5YypIL4wBsJVrU-Xl-9TtbfdEwvQXa1oIl7tHtPIcZDCzs3R0Jn6_5UkI5D0hSOp3Kiiz0ftOzRgsiF3uohxi6jRvwdE1ZZw/s320/PXL_20221030_135211105.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drawn on paper, glued to cloth - it folds up like a map</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj17o4Kfz0VdXxaIe4o4dAmeHYsVnbg9Z1oXVsk8doEQvu2wTS7SiRymeXhQC8RTxKXG4lh-OCOf_Skp1VmJE5e_CCvkAhtCiKydO9oqy3xehGtGTCsDA-aouaXLo-ajAZCs1rMxC1oLCXtXcLCt77N7V9VEa0n0Gcx0n74VQADSOoNK8Xi9w/s4080/PXL_20221030_135336046.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj17o4Kfz0VdXxaIe4o4dAmeHYsVnbg9Z1oXVsk8doEQvu2wTS7SiRymeXhQC8RTxKXG4lh-OCOf_Skp1VmJE5e_CCvkAhtCiKydO9oqy3xehGtGTCsDA-aouaXLo-ajAZCs1rMxC1oLCXtXcLCt77N7V9VEa0n0Gcx0n74VQADSOoNK8Xi9w/s320/PXL_20221030_135336046.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the last room the film is Sybil, 2022</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdRtR_ELY27WEPgux0iQ9yQyLzJOouqlQhK1IEfFhKnDwf-iHYTo_0nXcfQGA-p7Z4hX76Pfxu-0N5QL6xCSU7_SyF3YhZlw5Ov-kHSNjnncVO-2Kjf_h4jiKQrc9vrBpiqnXGaJOP5xtIUADXR2J7WP-daTSR77nDBpRrOXRCF8myw_mVDw/s4080/PXL_20221030_141359415.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdRtR_ELY27WEPgux0iQ9yQyLzJOouqlQhK1IEfFhKnDwf-iHYTo_0nXcfQGA-p7Z4hX76Pfxu-0N5QL6xCSU7_SyF3YhZlw5Ov-kHSNjnncVO-2Kjf_h4jiKQrc9vrBpiqnXGaJOP5xtIUADXR2J7WP-daTSR77nDBpRrOXRCF8myw_mVDw/s320/PXL_20221030_141359415.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and into the gift shop - lovely beading...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-36179043754542042862022-10-31T13:14:00.002+00:002022-10-31T13:14:38.008+00:00Geometry of 12<p>A five-day course at Princes School of Traditional Arts, tutor <a href="https://ambigraph.com/about/" target="_blank">Ameet Hindocha</a>, who aimed to teach us how to look at the pattern and see what's going on, rather than give us instructions to follow. He demonstrated the construction of 12 patterns, and guided us through combining two into "our own" pattern, and gave us handouts for them all. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHxW3z76TApuyEYvRE0S3W2XKYEsh-74J3KPropOM9AjZqcC7-0wRrCwWV2vUgPcdWIBQ7Vl8cFtzmNlsUW4xyc5_5K5wy-zZrdBHv3FCbJtyalhhYPDgat7ygnENBAmKXJFKhBspfKlHUkHk_ifhtY7a-3f6jURDlMsg4iQ3O7Ap7q2lrrA/s4080/PXL_20221029_072330374.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHxW3z76TApuyEYvRE0S3W2XKYEsh-74J3KPropOM9AjZqcC7-0wRrCwWV2vUgPcdWIBQ7Vl8cFtzmNlsUW4xyc5_5K5wy-zZrdBHv3FCbJtyalhhYPDgat7ygnENBAmKXJFKhBspfKlHUkHk_ifhtY7a-3f6jURDlMsg4iQ3O7Ap7q2lrrA/w299-h397/PXL_20221029_072330374.MP.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><br /><p>I'll start with "my own" pattern, which looks unfunished - that's deliberate. The finished section can be "rubbed off" onto watercolour paper and painted, and the unfinished section (at top) shows some basic structure. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7uG4mpMp1w07hUNLEu5207UQapSp7erkiFE5nmXF92uiYFFtNM0ZMAc1W0NWIjWwI0VqqweT_QtEzcdQvQyF5mEdhXCNV1TvS7SZFDNOSxeTosIGYYKnfyXvy1aeXwduvKyN9QS0HhrtVVSB0ucm5xB7d50tBaOKtYceO3DzeyVV1zo-PXg/s4080/PXL_20221029_070001109.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7uG4mpMp1w07hUNLEu5207UQapSp7erkiFE5nmXF92uiYFFtNM0ZMAc1W0NWIjWwI0VqqweT_QtEzcdQvQyF5mEdhXCNV1TvS7SZFDNOSxeTosIGYYKnfyXvy1aeXwduvKyN9QS0HhrtVVSB0ucm5xB7d50tBaOKtYceO3DzeyVV1zo-PXg/w301-h400/PXL_20221029_070001109.MP.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><p>However the main structure is on the sheet underneath, and it's derived from a design exercise using square and triangular tiles, with sides of the same length so they can be combined. My own design is utterly useless for this (too much white space!) but I enjoyed seeing how different shapes of white space emerged</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzSce_ChIoRcqs5qZACjQaMe_ZHFGPrO4qoRtHkISIWepBH4CO9B-h-wgiRo9MZ-8Fy2RsxrxBpg7WCoWOIcHpkgKsP8mEbgbj5vJdI2AGw7gg8CyxXvpt_71BrRnlqulgpBiw99gBzllU81QUKyYQS2HIPeCjnkapZ5ey5DNssoBilcenEA/s4080/PXL_20221028_092530972.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzSce_ChIoRcqs5qZACjQaMe_ZHFGPrO4qoRtHkISIWepBH4CO9B-h-wgiRo9MZ-8Fy2RsxrxBpg7WCoWOIcHpkgKsP8mEbgbj5vJdI2AGw7gg8CyxXvpt_71BrRnlqulgpBiw99gBzllU81QUKyYQS2HIPeCjnkapZ5ey5DNssoBilcenEA/s320/PXL_20221028_092530972.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div>Here's another that I got to a "finished" state -</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieac54ydwnPEVBTherta7zZ1n9pwL6hr6mZAer0_IyFeB45wI2qnhaE5Ruc84p-s1biINVD-Rcz0i8rhwPyQMxwq6zWjLd7FfaWAo206txcRK0UfkF8HJyAVla5dQ88H3SXwavmcqltp6eEaPn8WOpJMJB3m96mOvpzw4-F8rN4Evyf82ihw/s4080/PXL_20221028_062048938.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieac54ydwnPEVBTherta7zZ1n9pwL6hr6mZAer0_IyFeB45wI2qnhaE5Ruc84p-s1biINVD-Rcz0i8rhwPyQMxwq6zWjLd7FfaWAo206txcRK0UfkF8HJyAVla5dQ88H3SXwavmcqltp6eEaPn8WOpJMJB3m96mOvpzw4-F8rN4Evyf82ihw/w289-h384/PXL_20221028_062048938.MP.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br /><div>Over the five days, time, effort, and concentration produced at least 12 patterns. The square versions laid out for overview -</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl608t7W2AAktDzd0UG1tpRroyjQTf_mCOwIcgHPiWbte9XM7oIv5BoVpvSSbe9HLTkm5Ni7ps0AC8T9lTkkfAt98D2QTuK0WwkSR8hQCVznmzRO3Ss_MEhHCRlDFG4lf2wP0uF551rgUp-mOfLCn8jlE1UHQ3tsZb2MxogWlu8VFnOrioyg/s4080/PXL_20221028_114401404.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl608t7W2AAktDzd0UG1tpRroyjQTf_mCOwIcgHPiWbte9XM7oIv5BoVpvSSbe9HLTkm5Ni7ps0AC8T9lTkkfAt98D2QTuK0WwkSR8hQCVznmzRO3Ss_MEhHCRlDFG4lf2wP0uF551rgUp-mOfLCn8jlE1UHQ3tsZb2MxogWlu8VFnOrioyg/s320/PXL_20221028_114401404.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJVWqBpZzL8LF9YX9HCaJ8CYPnIcaKcNz3UttnywuToIh8o2Z672aKmYsCGWcQnUXQ64bsZr9wWgVC1zH1vOJewBk47Arc7ofOrICnCQ28fhsuDe3V1-d8uvD1Y3B5MIW-msXSw1xHL2idM3HyraD1_93sitBqr7nfKrJ5W87i-4DjCPJ5Ug/s4080/PXL_20221028_114348515.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJVWqBpZzL8LF9YX9HCaJ8CYPnIcaKcNz3UttnywuToIh8o2Z672aKmYsCGWcQnUXQ64bsZr9wWgVC1zH1vOJewBk47Arc7ofOrICnCQ28fhsuDe3V1-d8uvD1Y3B5MIW-msXSw1xHL2idM3HyraD1_93sitBqr7nfKrJ5W87i-4DjCPJ5Ug/s320/PXL_20221028_114348515.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>First and last patterns, hexagonal and square format -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf_Dn41EOSk-Y5Fl2iKuNc4qhGIAZPwkjfeMe5pvgu4Ufbz269lR-MV6q45V9c53H5NAzmfyQoNv4VMrHHwvbLMRmuz3OzqYSqWvHvXkn4iK2TlirhRkCkB4p05XKKjrjgQaEbSvCRLXk2r4HcW6T0JOHoOnVlpAvdUlNiX_MNiwfQU2QJ0w/s4080/PXL_20221027_153127756.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf_Dn41EOSk-Y5Fl2iKuNc4qhGIAZPwkjfeMe5pvgu4Ufbz269lR-MV6q45V9c53H5NAzmfyQoNv4VMrHHwvbLMRmuz3OzqYSqWvHvXkn4iK2TlirhRkCkB4p05XKKjrjgQaEbSvCRLXk2r4HcW6T0JOHoOnVlpAvdUlNiX_MNiwfQU2QJ0w/s320/PXL_20221027_153127756.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div>Short slide shows summed up key concepts -</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR89Xb9ww7gbE-uuVAqcddboZMBHbzg97GWNIYUFio_d0hh2EH02BGgTpaPRVIoVH_oilbJOm3RgFNw0UXqnJWkvo33R_F9X9mtL7ZfNTGfwyGIL5kkP_zaAyOTLI02fobEQ2espoQrZGADDue779RG1SlW_DQxZnGdLJGH_1ICjVDte4UWQ/s4080/PXL_20221027_102657788.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR89Xb9ww7gbE-uuVAqcddboZMBHbzg97GWNIYUFio_d0hh2EH02BGgTpaPRVIoVH_oilbJOm3RgFNw0UXqnJWkvo33R_F9X9mtL7ZfNTGfwyGIL5kkP_zaAyOTLI02fobEQ2espoQrZGADDue779RG1SlW_DQxZnGdLJGH_1ICjVDte4UWQ/s320/PXL_20221027_102657788.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>I was sitting a long way from the ongoing demonstation and had to zoom the phone camera to the max to see what was going on. It didn't help that the green used for construction lines wasn't high contrast (sometimes a pale blue was used as well, indistinguishable to me), and when small-scale operations were carried out ("draw the next line from here to here") I was totally lost. But eventually all became clear, and I benefited from quite a few one-to-one instructions.<div><br /></div><div>If you think this looks complicated - it is!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYgkyXFd2NiE7Qi42Z277F3DDH8pAjC5oXVj048Lgj96iIWv_CLZyCVpGwfoIGnGfEU-XTD0RmQHnMWeTFoJjueMkZYjyPbDMjBYScMqCD6HbpAfoFGjgXCPZcA0GOS6VFwA323uVr3-FJyCfROqbSPoliZqeVR2kXvjSLQK2QOkIYqKc76Q/s4080/PXL_20221026_151932089.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYgkyXFd2NiE7Qi42Z277F3DDH8pAjC5oXVj048Lgj96iIWv_CLZyCVpGwfoIGnGfEU-XTD0RmQHnMWeTFoJjueMkZYjyPbDMjBYScMqCD6HbpAfoFGjgXCPZcA0GOS6VFwA323uVr3-FJyCfROqbSPoliZqeVR2kXvjSLQK2QOkIYqKc76Q/w305-h405/PXL_20221026_151932089.MP.jpg" width="305" /></a></div><br /><div>Several finished works were dotted around the room - beautiful work -</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzsFjtL5y05LhBAG7x3QLFhfmBE-nV6fys0CeJJaZeIreFMZJeih8QjyfwfxCUQCdH0FQGa--VApHOj57llo8Y6DJzY-0DVhp596D-aN0ZqQK1prF-pWPeuaae-EGKCwmACwYdakWjzRDvcj-tQ9KXPERAEtcU6ko0eBaR0jk1xDkZZWwhKA/s4080/PXL_20221024_120443984.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzsFjtL5y05LhBAG7x3QLFhfmBE-nV6fys0CeJJaZeIreFMZJeih8QjyfwfxCUQCdH0FQGa--VApHOj57llo8Y6DJzY-0DVhp596D-aN0ZqQK1prF-pWPeuaae-EGKCwmACwYdakWjzRDvcj-tQ9KXPERAEtcU6ko0eBaR0jk1xDkZZWwhKA/w444-h334/PXL_20221024_120443984.MP.jpg" width="444" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM-lb2i9ZEA-n6UVfVpx1k7twzXYdqFH-MDg27lka_qKmhy6icIMaDhmpAE7LLTR4ik8oJborOJ687kb1t6dTro-_ZvPZJB4mLSftq2tpWbt5z5M6v-rHsjHZLrEg-K_OJOGjVCYylqrNV3tsuIMvu_PA-dVlgowdMur0XqtgOaYgyOiMyLQ/s4080/PXL_20221024_120456842.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM-lb2i9ZEA-n6UVfVpx1k7twzXYdqFH-MDg27lka_qKmhy6icIMaDhmpAE7LLTR4ik8oJborOJ687kb1t6dTro-_ZvPZJB4mLSftq2tpWbt5z5M6v-rHsjHZLrEg-K_OJOGjVCYylqrNV3tsuIMvu_PA-dVlgowdMur0XqtgOaYgyOiMyLQ/s320/PXL_20221024_120456842.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQun3qkKyJowO_KU9eGX-DBKE_0ClksNkbQuD_wHOls-kU7tg06is8md0iEzm0C6fZlzvxpFQPU2FDtn_WoY-p8gzRDaF1W7T-pTA-4RkROLvY7KrVfUw32QIewYUgiZmH1LmS_CdzHexTBlpDpBGX6m0i42z-rJhP8Gw6u4kqf-EK_qg00Q/s4080/PXL_20221026_122439615.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="413" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQun3qkKyJowO_KU9eGX-DBKE_0ClksNkbQuD_wHOls-kU7tg06is8md0iEzm0C6fZlzvxpFQPU2FDtn_WoY-p8gzRDaF1W7T-pTA-4RkROLvY7KrVfUw32QIewYUgiZmH1LmS_CdzHexTBlpDpBGX6m0i42z-rJhP8Gw6u4kqf-EK_qg00Q/w311-h413/PXL_20221026_122439615.MP.jpg" width="311" /></a></div><br /><div>I itched to do some painting, however simple, and on the weekend I traced some sections of pattern, transferred them to strips of leftover paper, and tried out a few colourways -</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicqMElLyACCrGfdZ_ESi2j0exq8Q9Znf7kyHQQx9akcLpGXB1RSLBCoX0mviyU49GPqivLDVJjDKtGIh2aisuNXYjF1QAiRlH77uv4O3GvI4yhR4bcBFNFTolVPUSyGniTOC0xjYK4aJacziBA7oTzoRDE8_cmYgQgdsElEtGKgg_-Fak55A/s4080/PXL_20221029_152223362.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicqMElLyACCrGfdZ_ESi2j0exq8Q9Znf7kyHQQx9akcLpGXB1RSLBCoX0mviyU49GPqivLDVJjDKtGIh2aisuNXYjF1QAiRlH77uv4O3GvI4yhR4bcBFNFTolVPUSyGniTOC0xjYK4aJacziBA7oTzoRDE8_cmYgQgdsElEtGKgg_-Fak55A/s320/PXL_20221029_152223362.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-20055806484280016412022-10-29T08:30:00.001+01:002022-10-29T08:30:00.200+01:00"Inside the box": yellow<p> "Indian Yellow" is one of my go-to tubes of paint. Here it celebrates the new flower on the peace lily, inside an amoxycillin box -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgni0RexcS_sykrx0FwuiFEUMJj1To6izeW2Xue_PpwA6KWt1zztnq95ppk6s0iwS4PlVIHiNS7Gu1ZmLarS3xMYZH8aDfv2JcfX5DyWuo66Vgd9s89wbr2vokPr8qOvVF6xHgDK5UG90uNJ8AQAeMomk4Cvc5Gxy6e_c8cvKSwEnvcv_s7Rw/s4080/PXL_20220619_124332230.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgni0RexcS_sykrx0FwuiFEUMJj1To6izeW2Xue_PpwA6KWt1zztnq95ppk6s0iwS4PlVIHiNS7Gu1ZmLarS3xMYZH8aDfv2JcfX5DyWuo66Vgd9s89wbr2vokPr8qOvVF6xHgDK5UG90uNJ8AQAeMomk4Cvc5Gxy6e_c8cvKSwEnvcv_s7Rw/s320/PXL_20220619_124332230.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkbCGiXSlFAR5yhck8EB58m59iaykcG9o0aaZczLA_gt0xybhY-5TY9aO2kHH5Gsb2nZuSBg215n7RFbxsWXj8zeCujoHWzvAjNCKZrpOd9NpPd3Br4tcb9kA7HbskT2umSC7aG5jueprH384naacoTkL-EjnNVe0SIY7XiY0GPHHps4onkw/s4080/PXL_20220619_124406486.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkbCGiXSlFAR5yhck8EB58m59iaykcG9o0aaZczLA_gt0xybhY-5TY9aO2kHH5Gsb2nZuSBg215n7RFbxsWXj8zeCujoHWzvAjNCKZrpOd9NpPd3Br4tcb9kA7HbskT2umSC7aG5jueprH384naacoTkL-EjnNVe0SIY7XiY0GPHHps4onkw/s320/PXL_20220619_124406486.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>Something new...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilkdSXQCHTUo85h9yWnnWW8BiXtS7kyx17wcKczV82UG9A9LJI_YNJQLSP02sY3d-L23lvK7qmA_9MS4WljKwFiIyskQlj0M_ClEzMunqBlknD0wmwXI3owfsFjHiOZBTHDY90yK3wDdL6KFA9VgC8_va-9nQm8D2Pt8-MdDfEnIjyn4MMDw/s4080/PXL_20220621_052950610.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilkdSXQCHTUo85h9yWnnWW8BiXtS7kyx17wcKczV82UG9A9LJI_YNJQLSP02sY3d-L23lvK7qmA_9MS4WljKwFiIyskQlj0M_ClEzMunqBlknD0wmwXI3owfsFjHiOZBTHDY90yK3wDdL6KFA9VgC8_va-9nQm8D2Pt8-MdDfEnIjyn4MMDw/s320/PXL_20220621_052950610.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>...this is the first time I used packaging from a vaping product; since then I've picked up dozens from the road. They usually open quite cleanly and are a good size; a series is growing...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5vopBTozFw4SApbCE8TiY5nDk7MtM_rd5RI4DkBq4a0CjTD2R_zK6w1wxVUOCvku899KLS_I66OHf2QwDs2ErLB56foE5vJve_hGo8ZMHjWVmz2YKt4Ui40-OaUG44I_yIlYgDKL-5XD0ZJCwdy9YnfIO6VIoskc_JydyCXsj0PlTB8Ms2w/s4080/PXL_20220621_053121588.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5vopBTozFw4SApbCE8TiY5nDk7MtM_rd5RI4DkBq4a0CjTD2R_zK6w1wxVUOCvku899KLS_I66OHf2QwDs2ErLB56foE5vJve_hGo8ZMHjWVmz2YKt4Ui40-OaUG44I_yIlYgDKL-5XD0ZJCwdy9YnfIO6VIoskc_JydyCXsj0PlTB8Ms2w/s320/PXL_20220621_053121588.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>This shape used to be a punnet holding tomatoes - turned upside down, it (or its cousin) looks rather like a kimono -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_r4-FfeYm7tZKhuZlBhhYk1VgSHM-CQ5cVn0IOAZ16wZDf7FJ9surluvh2cWRiDXvwmT5InZ69vwEyXnxpR-UP-mh4ELpBhRVwtaeLx9mNA_fbM8RviDLop42TOp3zAY5B2l0ygwrVNuh8h46G8LAm74Tf3nDG7qdbLHGX28X6amKxIRF2A/s4080/PXL_20220702_085340135.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_r4-FfeYm7tZKhuZlBhhYk1VgSHM-CQ5cVn0IOAZ16wZDf7FJ9surluvh2cWRiDXvwmT5InZ69vwEyXnxpR-UP-mh4ELpBhRVwtaeLx9mNA_fbM8RviDLop42TOp3zAY5B2l0ygwrVNuh8h46G8LAm74Tf3nDG7qdbLHGX28X6amKxIRF2A/s320/PXL_20220702_085340135.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>In this box were chocolate eclairs -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjijl0I9Cg5LRMxQ-8pHdgjufvYAsEjO8m7JAKb5wPxxqEm2axh4tZ6GuHDB69uHTbGiTtECYScHNxm_7RuQE41gMdLmao0dPEGnDplU2FI7-0QUWBhuzbfyGqP4pYzW7iNHLyn3rMPrQX-yMO6M0RT-35MyDEAZipXPi8w7s4hzmyHU82yZw/s4080/PXL_20220704_092422094.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjijl0I9Cg5LRMxQ-8pHdgjufvYAsEjO8m7JAKb5wPxxqEm2axh4tZ6GuHDB69uHTbGiTtECYScHNxm_7RuQE41gMdLmao0dPEGnDplU2FI7-0QUWBhuzbfyGqP4pYzW7iNHLyn3rMPrQX-yMO6M0RT-35MyDEAZipXPi8w7s4hzmyHU82yZw/s320/PXL_20220704_092422094.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>More vaping boxes, auditioning for parts in the chorus line -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9WVTIYhQo33DbIc1uz3DjRhvg59YbJkmk4yH_VOrr1A25wP5PU3EGk0vGWfN1tyTZH80o2vzq-g-sOsbxsezWbnC0cqpRwPYfF2YRiJBmMDC3H8q6pGhBy5Xnp6QvVhizK2f3heW_P9z2U9t9GYpV_CNZ7ZOlhKiDQYv3tnVd65BW4w0TbQ/s4080/PXL_20220725_101540288.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9WVTIYhQo33DbIc1uz3DjRhvg59YbJkmk4yH_VOrr1A25wP5PU3EGk0vGWfN1tyTZH80o2vzq-g-sOsbxsezWbnC0cqpRwPYfF2YRiJBmMDC3H8q6pGhBy5Xnp6QvVhizK2f3heW_P9z2U9t9GYpV_CNZ7ZOlhKiDQYv3tnVd65BW4w0TbQ/s320/PXL_20220725_101540288.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOIhpbt7_RptsPywWF5wqddo4MkScXOMVZ-00Q-RAp1mafwowAXGh127lEIuwz-Urlq2raAFQlfS-Zr1WYkNZZoMCFpTRyCBLVQVNBkMmpMoZHSO9tHujszGqGZoKfsPUtoej1WpaZ1wJudBc088Wi5ydUc_2u_xmDGrPZ-PAbiSb1Gh6ZoQ/s4080/PXL_20220725_101659957.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOIhpbt7_RptsPywWF5wqddo4MkScXOMVZ-00Q-RAp1mafwowAXGh127lEIuwz-Urlq2raAFQlfS-Zr1WYkNZZoMCFpTRyCBLVQVNBkMmpMoZHSO9tHujszGqGZoKfsPUtoej1WpaZ1wJudBc088Wi5ydUc_2u_xmDGrPZ-PAbiSb1Gh6ZoQ/s320/PXL_20220725_101659957.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIRFuWsszYX3eNtUoVOHHNOnQWKSLAJZFl4ih6scj89dmzzFL5ZWVnSBDO4O3VhcK8BzneFSmyfN_Sw-67ju6-rTaxdlg72XdjdIxhdtD7IVMhDxd5UCtnJ-Dae4H7h9zwc1LPVOQJBkRo2KfO_Lm92PgV6ixHxUg8qb9hhL6028CtK4vSIA/s4080/PXL_20220725_101736415.MOTION-01.COVER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIRFuWsszYX3eNtUoVOHHNOnQWKSLAJZFl4ih6scj89dmzzFL5ZWVnSBDO4O3VhcK8BzneFSmyfN_Sw-67ju6-rTaxdlg72XdjdIxhdtD7IVMhDxd5UCtnJ-Dae4H7h9zwc1LPVOQJBkRo2KfO_Lm92PgV6ixHxUg8qb9hhL6028CtK4vSIA/s320/PXL_20220725_101736415.MOTION-01.COVER.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>A King Oscar sardines box -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7b9CMO2S2Rmg2SNYHL5pkXFDfN4gPtzQlv637QBLSu7DdmWEMdVEYR_a6YpAzo59kg3oFlhI6X1NDTHB1BD5YHN7c1LsiaakVeHuOkVcYrI9pMe8cTFIxCTmEwemKZfi2yQfeYw3tS5G1__007cV8s60sKXsj0axXuhK6nJj0dDaE3kxh8g/s4080/PXL_20220728_133520788.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7b9CMO2S2Rmg2SNYHL5pkXFDfN4gPtzQlv637QBLSu7DdmWEMdVEYR_a6YpAzo59kg3oFlhI6X1NDTHB1BD5YHN7c1LsiaakVeHuOkVcYrI9pMe8cTFIxCTmEwemKZfi2yQfeYw3tS5G1__007cV8s60sKXsj0axXuhK6nJj0dDaE3kxh8g/s320/PXL_20220728_133520788.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-91911995254369186102022-10-24T08:46:00.002+01:002022-10-24T08:46:37.358+01:00Art fun with Freya<p>She's learning to count and recognise numbers....</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhWMqiH6innAa9SEBcK20pDrJxxIzSQGT3H4iJlwcwhw9xe5_rwfoPCklN2rt1yRacWgBL92MI2vKCIiighgVEQoPPIDvU9q6lHfU-6KAuF3fuszIwdKgEc_c8lcBtvO6bRaBOQGWlOVzdKOESIUYN_NZD6p0noEDW6fpFp_mio4dMVTSW6Q/s4080/PXL_20221017_075241681.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhWMqiH6innAa9SEBcK20pDrJxxIzSQGT3H4iJlwcwhw9xe5_rwfoPCklN2rt1yRacWgBL92MI2vKCIiighgVEQoPPIDvU9q6lHfU-6KAuF3fuszIwdKgEc_c8lcBtvO6bRaBOQGWlOVzdKOESIUYN_NZD6p0noEDW6fpFp_mio4dMVTSW6Q/s320/PXL_20221017_075241681.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>During some nonsense we invented the idea of a banana with three legs, but I suspect the toy bunch of bananas influenced it. When asked to draw "a banana with three legs" this is what she came up with -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZu-DEgkVLK75sdd389v8N9yj1Sk28ND6zUWluH2sXxKm7wasHgdr9d6A_jkQtFE2kDyNU-eLOEYYDPduKc00a7O2yhDZ77VoUxpcp1BQsbNm5mxh0ksLstTneUorySqjaXizHSw_zlanmB9FEEoE7Ir5I_6dlIywCwhe_n_G3Ha0Qig403w/s4080/PXL_20221018_073945980.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZu-DEgkVLK75sdd389v8N9yj1Sk28ND6zUWluH2sXxKm7wasHgdr9d6A_jkQtFE2kDyNU-eLOEYYDPduKc00a7O2yhDZ77VoUxpcp1BQsbNm5mxh0ksLstTneUorySqjaXizHSw_zlanmB9FEEoE7Ir5I_6dlIywCwhe_n_G3Ha0Qig403w/s320/PXL_20221018_073945980.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Sticker books and activity books are fun, even though she doesn't follow the directions (art rebel!) -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3uoUG9kWxgJu2NMcf2Eau4vkS-U97Xn5QOuXXIdt67SCUaQNhGjE34ZV_fgyLkwtB-H4KDYx2nL39UAmP3WWhbGvXWCzByYt3Oe1nnNr6KIUbxrjMEu5WnpRbMXLo5EFo4tiFemtwM_GtUGstGcFS4I6mRt6R3U_mnIx-jLSfVuJarRm9KA/s4080/PXL_20221018_073952425.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3uoUG9kWxgJu2NMcf2Eau4vkS-U97Xn5QOuXXIdt67SCUaQNhGjE34ZV_fgyLkwtB-H4KDYx2nL39UAmP3WWhbGvXWCzByYt3Oe1nnNr6KIUbxrjMEu5WnpRbMXLo5EFo4tiFemtwM_GtUGstGcFS4I6mRt6R3U_mnIx-jLSfVuJarRm9KA/s320/PXL_20221018_073952425.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Love this page -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqlaj9OIeL_eQDZ_YxoETrMOZ8QL4MfCz3fxodOu0EGhI69toUDP5gJCovvmUovmdIvMICsm9-kqG81LNI-TXV1SG7opyYiWiLBQlBkXPscEDzgF6y4stDVZPzh911Z-PQZkYv0QE945jYazvpFv8mmRMPLc_1Mt5pD1DuNaoqBdB1ZArTig/s4080/PXL_20221019_072110116.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqlaj9OIeL_eQDZ_YxoETrMOZ8QL4MfCz3fxodOu0EGhI69toUDP5gJCovvmUovmdIvMICsm9-kqG81LNI-TXV1SG7opyYiWiLBQlBkXPscEDzgF6y4stDVZPzh911Z-PQZkYv0QE945jYazvpFv8mmRMPLc_1Mt5pD1DuNaoqBdB1ZArTig/s320/PXL_20221019_072110116.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><p><br /></p>...but she wasn't quite finished -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISAG6yn2O1Ht2j_XHWpQmRbSPpTdJdK5Y9PptyavSlN6GLgm_fqBToAmdVPdpl7hOKNOVjBxupu-NrHIGzuK9LYG5W5f9G0bxBtgHtBuRLK0U3FgnwkLjuoVGSMAj5YuMRyP4YBXQS6_PPTK-9-bADmuIoXAVQA1xhPP6azFoORRCFInuCg/s4080/PXL_20221019_073719509.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISAG6yn2O1Ht2j_XHWpQmRbSPpTdJdK5Y9PptyavSlN6GLgm_fqBToAmdVPdpl7hOKNOVjBxupu-NrHIGzuK9LYG5W5f9G0bxBtgHtBuRLK0U3FgnwkLjuoVGSMAj5YuMRyP4YBXQS6_PPTK-9-bADmuIoXAVQA1xhPP6azFoORRCFInuCg/s320/PXL_20221019_073719509.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><p><br /></p>I had left my palette out, the paint dry in the wells - she fetched water, found a brush and got to work, mixing the colours (eventually into mud), then washed it out in the sink. Good studio practice! She's learning to wash out her brush before changing colours, but also enjoys seeing what colours come out of mixing -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkwuCG_YXb0k_afzVn5fpGoEP-AWvvcK7tcN2eWeUIGrZAcUxEioxogh4SqFSzQmb3MrboL7IoIdUWxs-lEGqQ54HcuF21uuaD5AiIcGsXTgfWphePM4ufX8BA6bBViHoJcEqO6VcK6opX0QAvifxm-BuQ9oCOdf48XREFF_7mRwKWt8b_AA/s4080/PXL_20221020_115811011.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkwuCG_YXb0k_afzVn5fpGoEP-AWvvcK7tcN2eWeUIGrZAcUxEioxogh4SqFSzQmb3MrboL7IoIdUWxs-lEGqQ54HcuF21uuaD5AiIcGsXTgfWphePM4ufX8BA6bBViHoJcEqO6VcK6opX0QAvifxm-BuQ9oCOdf48XREFF_7mRwKWt8b_AA/s320/PXL_20221020_115811011.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p>3D "drawing" with lego -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwS6aExN_uHIVB-PSnYUwJejk4oh_WDG4H9HcJf6D2Bt9yM-wBMYlev7NyBKVvEj3zjuRrZRXMcMqRWaFqryxZ7Uc93mACz8yRw1z7Sy8WN0GhTlI83AGl6GnmTDFw0mGoexrYpRjS8bTRDzyUe68mE4WFd3lO5-aexgsuY6pX-8bTY8IZOw/s4080/PXL_20221022_070541046.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwS6aExN_uHIVB-PSnYUwJejk4oh_WDG4H9HcJf6D2Bt9yM-wBMYlev7NyBKVvEj3zjuRrZRXMcMqRWaFqryxZ7Uc93mACz8yRw1z7Sy8WN0GhTlI83AGl6GnmTDFw0mGoexrYpRjS8bTRDzyUe68mE4WFd3lO5-aexgsuY6pX-8bTY8IZOw/s320/PXL_20221022_070541046.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><p><br /></p>A quiet moment, such concentration -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieZZGMjOaS7oVTzAqGPxmhtOZ9iSIQWxadLahohaAt3wws2Hafc_OZuzsJevAot3eJBz7APVloCZ5t31uKtemG_z-oDxCZYt1uu1vT9ttI44X7EKqsJGKDRJbgTC9envXtG8eSHeB3VcDTJD42jVl-FxWLk0hUJjf6qE52EwEmfwXe7SFzsA/s4080/PXL_20221021_102131094.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieZZGMjOaS7oVTzAqGPxmhtOZ9iSIQWxadLahohaAt3wws2Hafc_OZuzsJevAot3eJBz7APVloCZ5t31uKtemG_z-oDxCZYt1uu1vT9ttI44X7EKqsJGKDRJbgTC9envXtG8eSHeB3VcDTJD42jVl-FxWLk0hUJjf6qE52EwEmfwXe7SFzsA/s320/PXL_20221021_102131094.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-56470010034363199812022-10-22T08:30:00.001+01:002022-10-22T08:30:00.208+01:00"Inside the box"<p>Drawing on recycled packaging that has been opened out. My first attempt, on a box that held chocolate ginger biscuits, was unspectacular - the waxy surface of the box repelled the ink, leaving tiny dots of a very pale grey.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIBSaJQH8cYMDX-fTNhJ5UOPzqPdiE58w-jixKtI-vK32dVJ7yky4iifzY4DCt3SAOAw9fSlCpnRalRXS25duYLr5bu0fml5_6acN12wnZ8vVSVm7aQO1Yyi5E0sF06eGT4pzZDpDyJxtqyQA39cySFK5uuFUkqAD5scGfYicIDm2rlvBCyg/s4080/PXL_20220506_063705797.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIBSaJQH8cYMDX-fTNhJ5UOPzqPdiE58w-jixKtI-vK32dVJ7yky4iifzY4DCt3SAOAw9fSlCpnRalRXS25duYLr5bu0fml5_6acN12wnZ8vVSVm7aQO1Yyi5E0sF06eGT4pzZDpDyJxtqyQA39cySFK5uuFUkqAD5scGfYicIDm2rlvBCyg/s320/PXL_20220506_063705797.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbCk-E9uUos1v7dgtkx65RmtYrb-VIc5Al2zH0yQGWjhJv4Yr_ln7i1fX-I5H-t05sqG-F8W3xJ6SSmWOfMXlw_l64QOX7PUt1H_BFt0-H5SISx2-yK7pFbHqVLAZZTNe5Y1G1J0WGLDfPC4VECQQdeAZEKqAMIfmcgujyyt4_en9YlTdASQ/s4080/PXL_20220506_065433037.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbCk-E9uUos1v7dgtkx65RmtYrb-VIc5Al2zH0yQGWjhJv4Yr_ln7i1fX-I5H-t05sqG-F8W3xJ6SSmWOfMXlw_l64QOX7PUt1H_BFt0-H5SISx2-yK7pFbHqVLAZZTNe5Y1G1J0WGLDfPC4VECQQdeAZEKqAMIfmcgujyyt4_en9YlTdASQ/s320/PXL_20220506_065433037.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Solid backgrounds, like these sketchbook drawings, were what I was aiming for - <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuON7BSFoUfKbPTsJnsIUWGKH80l2U-vpuWYOzVKTnDOwoOF0IboRy_Ss8w1DPrsJKeYx-QJ5GfoI53OS2T6PVwxkyd_i5ZnvTTOOkCXDEaVi5eaqd8tifbwzFu6ZKOm7kYczMjkq1cAX82HtzdZ1cnND7c7cUqQciFybGRKocvA4SfXt6QQ/s4080/PXL_20220509_153253937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuON7BSFoUfKbPTsJnsIUWGKH80l2U-vpuWYOzVKTnDOwoOF0IboRy_Ss8w1DPrsJKeYx-QJ5GfoI53OS2T6PVwxkyd_i5ZnvTTOOkCXDEaVi5eaqd8tifbwzFu6ZKOm7kYczMjkq1cAX82HtzdZ1cnND7c7cUqQciFybGRKocvA4SfXt6QQ/s320/PXL_20220509_153253937.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOPejaEgCWbPmK8RZuGQaQHEpH_R1gNB_z-SGjdI4tVly-SKoWFuWbJ5fPN3RV1RDVEJiylvAGaVI8CMKyhngMQsGTdkwQu5SQwxZmn2fD-PMYMXqBOZxU_O92CrxW9lj7hMGugUmLu-3rCmVpBsC8uG9CdE1Jxh2SNM4cfp8faATYCO939A/s4080/PXL_20220530_081004087.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOPejaEgCWbPmK8RZuGQaQHEpH_R1gNB_z-SGjdI4tVly-SKoWFuWbJ5fPN3RV1RDVEJiylvAGaVI8CMKyhngMQsGTdkwQu5SQwxZmn2fD-PMYMXqBOZxU_O92CrxW9lj7hMGugUmLu-3rCmVpBsC8uG9CdE1Jxh2SNM4cfp8faATYCO939A/s320/PXL_20220530_081004087.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsejezRh9S2rvPL14t7LdaDVdke1EamnGm8WlBiQVgTwfjFmcVhEyi4sCeZkDBT-4Ct7rDC1uvsdJiN0ZHGsJtnA2a7JTTmzMWC083RNQL0NOxapan7UDRXbG6i8FElM0kBB8aprOwKBaLxqT_PAiHsV3HXHD0_PKzZYbAm9TgMIsp_FBbWA/s4080/PXL_20220530_081047549.PORTRAIT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsejezRh9S2rvPL14t7LdaDVdke1EamnGm8WlBiQVgTwfjFmcVhEyi4sCeZkDBT-4Ct7rDC1uvsdJiN0ZHGsJtnA2a7JTTmzMWC083RNQL0NOxapan7UDRXbG6i8FElM0kBB8aprOwKBaLxqT_PAiHsV3HXHD0_PKzZYbAm9TgMIsp_FBbWA/s320/PXL_20220530_081047549.PORTRAIT.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>This box had a hole cut in the shape of a fish - it wrapped smoked salmon -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDfnsFK61z0yqIp7h7N8VzCEYuoRXU_u51tQf-kXe_8BsZvEcmNycZotvrCx4tZiD4vxc62ToNdl7hQ-i989Tu0ehM5uB0hltCxdiNCV_xLXVdYNV8RNOCw9xCPi9lYbC76VSSWV8Bcj43McFg3hoXB45v4z7A3mCJcJ85dKEbaTGzWMDLvA/s4080/PXL_20220605_103811873.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDfnsFK61z0yqIp7h7N8VzCEYuoRXU_u51tQf-kXe_8BsZvEcmNycZotvrCx4tZiD4vxc62ToNdl7hQ-i989Tu0ehM5uB0hltCxdiNCV_xLXVdYNV8RNOCw9xCPi9lYbC76VSSWV8Bcj43McFg3hoXB45v4z7A3mCJcJ85dKEbaTGzWMDLvA/s320/PXL_20220605_103811873.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>...the fish is camouflaged among the leaves ...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnKPr119ny2v15FWXoiSyKycVfHtSWy2K9bZkJcBeTr0eYlJWTocMDwZ7b1nl4F7VXcIHhbZD1B7IqoKldM_GJLZHUXuyM57UXQl-Jo1Z2Ofxx4REvWdn_bbwcVBBgSaj7hW8NHLcok06mHLreTBBWDSYZkFP3vAuWjA6VYQrrfPQxtO9YtQ/s4080/PXL_20220605_115645544.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnKPr119ny2v15FWXoiSyKycVfHtSWy2K9bZkJcBeTr0eYlJWTocMDwZ7b1nl4F7VXcIHhbZD1B7IqoKldM_GJLZHUXuyM57UXQl-Jo1Z2Ofxx4REvWdn_bbwcVBBgSaj7hW8NHLcok06mHLreTBBWDSYZkFP3vAuWjA6VYQrrfPQxtO9YtQ/s320/PXL_20220605_115645544.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Another house plant; inside a box of cough syrup<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7vIjtAdiF1jAeYF8qDeAQw4xyBWMzGhu8_eamVsesFoMw2ahjmTU5zjE-ckKQxHtNbmIvkFvUqLiL2yUBRRJ-f9B2XG8pycS9Ga9r5eiWecqwnMfZgejBryr8sfZ-ljDnOlpIV0CgqjPDkFUbkmlrj6HBFmmzwuQbcdbDWHsgRtLUmS-tQ/s4080/PXL_20220606_073434349.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7vIjtAdiF1jAeYF8qDeAQw4xyBWMzGhu8_eamVsesFoMw2ahjmTU5zjE-ckKQxHtNbmIvkFvUqLiL2yUBRRJ-f9B2XG8pycS9Ga9r5eiWecqwnMfZgejBryr8sfZ-ljDnOlpIV0CgqjPDkFUbkmlrj6HBFmmzwuQbcdbDWHsgRtLUmS-tQ/s320/PXL_20220606_073434349.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPA0w81WLQqi3JwVOyL3SIMDfm_66-D4yhULbmiC3eNrvqsg5gaRKZm-mtYf5jVCAnp1ZB75q1YEIgbWvF4AExqBCeXZCEcpw0YbtYO-wGFuW64lHIq3jkm1zDTtL0Au4433HRsb9fOJQqr5hpZbLK2T3jJ8u9bKFc2hUObtupCtxqFqAtYQ/s4080/PXL_20220606_125703819.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPA0w81WLQqi3JwVOyL3SIMDfm_66-D4yhULbmiC3eNrvqsg5gaRKZm-mtYf5jVCAnp1ZB75q1YEIgbWvF4AExqBCeXZCEcpw0YbtYO-wGFuW64lHIq3jkm1zDTtL0Au4433HRsb9fOJQqr5hpZbLK2T3jJ8u9bKFc2hUObtupCtxqFqAtYQ/s320/PXL_20220606_125703819.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>In my window box, cyclamens with seedheads had survived till June - <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6K-scJRuHAI2hs3gdt4QWABIQqIeXBxBK25yG79GR1RMAHogXb7cip6rbEkf3gWcIXxFwnxyCjXqSz8PP3GlZVB6eoRLzoQSCtYgmiHTTPd0XKyz9YxicAxG3ICo4Bj_8C1qLP6Ov3X8UTbxp6GIINm8QY7XsIkNJaZetXSzlIyjKPJsKxA/s4080/PXL_20220614_082044460.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6K-scJRuHAI2hs3gdt4QWABIQqIeXBxBK25yG79GR1RMAHogXb7cip6rbEkf3gWcIXxFwnxyCjXqSz8PP3GlZVB6eoRLzoQSCtYgmiHTTPd0XKyz9YxicAxG3ICo4Bj_8C1qLP6Ov3X8UTbxp6GIINm8QY7XsIkNJaZetXSzlIyjKPJsKxA/s320/PXL_20220614_082044460.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Transforming a tissue box -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeK8i0IMGZDPAuKE1zlEZmWc6-EX3vEAm1E8dlG7jwItsPg82q-DO4IZQVb_9qA-68NL9PzCDICsUVTRMxaVwrlnzAVAT44GC0QEF3JWQfqk4EfoARYc6zGKmZEEiypaH3cFvoBmTujsNSSD9fzQERXdVpdf3p2tMMhvIGyhY2G-6XjNpK5A/s4080/PXL_20220614_081709132.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeK8i0IMGZDPAuKE1zlEZmWc6-EX3vEAm1E8dlG7jwItsPg82q-DO4IZQVb_9qA-68NL9PzCDICsUVTRMxaVwrlnzAVAT44GC0QEF3JWQfqk4EfoARYc6zGKmZEEiypaH3cFvoBmTujsNSSD9fzQERXdVpdf3p2tMMhvIGyhY2G-6XjNpK5A/s320/PXL_20220614_081709132.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>... with two background colours...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2c9HwtkwyCZWRQBVIw2lmeVvEdt-OQfQo3rzQOeLskoLieTv6vVaYKnHzRmwkosOPiEPOafBGZsPtbnyvYHbvzyQ19lH2Nr8GhF_0ypShvIvy3tsxckSghmHLFb3xzdACpKpFSZyKcwMXal_ry2HuCiQO7psm8M5HL2V7s5JXmz74vEeabw/s4080/PXL_20220618_092951625.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2c9HwtkwyCZWRQBVIw2lmeVvEdt-OQfQo3rzQOeLskoLieTv6vVaYKnHzRmwkosOPiEPOafBGZsPtbnyvYHbvzyQ19lH2Nr8GhF_0ypShvIvy3tsxckSghmHLFb3xzdACpKpFSZyKcwMXal_ry2HuCiQO7psm8M5HL2V7s5JXmz74vEeabw/s320/PXL_20220618_092951625.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>More to come! Since June I've been producing several of these every week. Drawing is with a sharpie and the paint is either acrylic ink or watercolour.<br /><p><br /></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-75644597141022944482022-10-21T08:30:00.001+01:002022-10-21T08:30:00.223+01:00Chair du semaine<p> Judy and I agreed to draw something every week, but what - ok, a chair. There's always a chair around somewhere, waiting to be drawn. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgRblZ25rHZKENkEJt0Q1SANByOTbrkUWhx4f4fqPxanlqa90cCZ4RJlFSPsTghV4vx3FJSqK7gKLIP1FdE0iIgI7TjDdifmeBLqNA4H7FvfLfrAJZOgkBTcoUZaPomK-0J4T3uuv0fNfJ1vqKZcdAWTiP-nj-CVgpIYBowEqvtZH8jSB_jA/s4080/PXL_20221015_123148662.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgRblZ25rHZKENkEJt0Q1SANByOTbrkUWhx4f4fqPxanlqa90cCZ4RJlFSPsTghV4vx3FJSqK7gKLIP1FdE0iIgI7TjDdifmeBLqNA4H7FvfLfrAJZOgkBTcoUZaPomK-0J4T3uuv0fNfJ1vqKZcdAWTiP-nj-CVgpIYBowEqvtZH8jSB_jA/s320/PXL_20221015_123148662.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Armchair Traveller</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A little book made with maps of different floors of</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the V&A - I couldn't find an old atlas to cut up. A good</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">museum is comparable to an exotic trip</div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinWsdzOhRIuMVrzBbsA2phN5anabeX2kKE6ZsT3HX6X6k9GmqXD9qzZUN6NObfb5Fmf6RM-VCf9lGyd7ORW7y0xVJ2S73rL4NuOrnZfUaD_7S6KcJ87ZG7udN0LunlerU08kU_AilKmlbmCjz39X1CzGRybeZfHTTCVehqCQzvBZ8VdV2lFw/s4080/PXL_20221007_133305928.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinWsdzOhRIuMVrzBbsA2phN5anabeX2kKE6ZsT3HX6X6k9GmqXD9qzZUN6NObfb5Fmf6RM-VCf9lGyd7ORW7y0xVJ2S73rL4NuOrnZfUaD_7S6KcJ87ZG7udN0LunlerU08kU_AilKmlbmCjz39X1CzGRybeZfHTTCVehqCQzvBZ8VdV2lFw/s320/PXL_20221007_133305928.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Book of the chair</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's tiny and I wasn't careful about fitting the</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">chair on the page. Perhaps should have persevered</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and put some part of a chair on all pages...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTRrgonSinfO0FwUGtkQWSmvzk2CSpy90Hb1wKPJWTITq-XacYNZoF2f5hiVaqxwkLoC_3ooXvzl2SNuG86ccy_Xu8xOBzpGLh3jpJLwXZ17LLaU3RrjaN-PP3mQEflGxWccd-rcBh4WhxMgbXQzB7nilAkebHEl3hPn4Dlx-1WFDajK-cSw/s4080/PXL_20221007_133240605.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTRrgonSinfO0FwUGtkQWSmvzk2CSpy90Hb1wKPJWTITq-XacYNZoF2f5hiVaqxwkLoC_3ooXvzl2SNuG86ccy_Xu8xOBzpGLh3jpJLwXZ17LLaU3RrjaN-PP3mQEflGxWccd-rcBh4WhxMgbXQzB7nilAkebHEl3hPn4Dlx-1WFDajK-cSw/s320/PXL_20221007_133240605.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr2k4gfIVwSSaBXmsqFwxODiOJ_dyfIH5oLyneXEY2seSHSlK-tAOeUO_a3T82DpLCQTbag6a1aQ-oNjfrgAOhQerVNfjq01c9OTkmOp94p4UpVtjHRtC10jLRidxOpYlTAZK0W_ydbZCinb_IQXb0n6GTPgG1tyXCgI7d2W4V_hxt0qxMXw/s4080/PXL_20220927_112050569.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr2k4gfIVwSSaBXmsqFwxODiOJ_dyfIH5oLyneXEY2seSHSlK-tAOeUO_a3T82DpLCQTbag6a1aQ-oNjfrgAOhQerVNfjq01c9OTkmOp94p4UpVtjHRtC10jLRidxOpYlTAZK0W_ydbZCinb_IQXb0n6GTPgG1tyXCgI7d2W4V_hxt0qxMXw/w301-h400/PXL_20220927_112050569.MP.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In Aladdin's Cafe [cave, geddit?]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The coffee shop has an "antique" shop attached - actually</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the antique shop was there first, and the cafe was added. The </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">chairs and tables change regularly. I'd just has flu and booster</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">jabs, and used the info leaflet to draw on </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyfboyfJhqcOWdw9uLEiVPkwQydUkEKmoTkG3zl2FU7rhV1T-be0FvUYLXHzQl3kWRgPe4-G8WpPERYK4J_bzl8pljNw1i2CNjrRhse4LU-vDZJDukHN8LY1fgo8kOmbNoTGvIUKuQMNERojGC02-j_2662ayZdTMut9pBH0Uo6XK3su1fFA/s4080/PXL_20220928_074045846.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyfboyfJhqcOWdw9uLEiVPkwQydUkEKmoTkG3zl2FU7rhV1T-be0FvUYLXHzQl3kWRgPe4-G8WpPERYK4J_bzl8pljNw1i2CNjrRhse4LU-vDZJDukHN8LY1fgo8kOmbNoTGvIUKuQMNERojGC02-j_2662ayZdTMut9pBH0Uo6XK3su1fFA/w301-h400/PXL_20220928_074045846.MP.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-75912860232061305952022-10-19T08:30:00.005+01:002022-10-19T08:30:00.234+01:00Construction lines, second version<p> At the start of last week's class I hadn't got very far with "construction lines", my second attempt at the concept. The lines are the grid of compass circles and certain points joined with straight lines, from which the shapes used in geometric patterns emerge. Previously I also printed the shapes and collaged them onto the printed lines. </p><p>The blocks have been printed, and even juxtaposed, but I wasn't at all happy with the combination.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsZGYcVVTJ8GUuDli4upNgSyY6BUZ9RlDdyA0Id2LYjeuIWuxJ-fB-FqrYoK4JJ_LKo_SuE_meLzURJXHF46OV4ExDOXc_84EiOzmICR2r1DWw0VbyeWqbEXlrXxWE8rmw8JB6MHiDXm2V2jLDVBw1U15dPPbNZebQbTnAkkDIMEJvqQoViw/s4080/PXL_20221012_072724609.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsZGYcVVTJ8GUuDli4upNgSyY6BUZ9RlDdyA0Id2LYjeuIWuxJ-fB-FqrYoK4JJ_LKo_SuE_meLzURJXHF46OV4ExDOXc_84EiOzmICR2r1DWw0VbyeWqbEXlrXxWE8rmw8JB6MHiDXm2V2jLDVBw1U15dPPbNZebQbTnAkkDIMEJvqQoViw/s320/PXL_20221012_072724609.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>And they're a bit minimal, dull on their own -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9fd8g-eOaJ70ikn-SsQMaHvdHGM4n-qhtciIUeFgglB1mYULiEQPHIAbO7RruwmRrNk0M6o3bgvCvWMg9FnmDmZo-1rQhF0dePeKZTcdPafDb85lxQ7XRU_Z4PYE2epOEoenqcCFf3GoLS51836CthOC2EuveYTExT-D8NgeRS3gr61KHA/s4080/PXL_20221012_092641003.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9fd8g-eOaJ70ikn-SsQMaHvdHGM4n-qhtciIUeFgglB1mYULiEQPHIAbO7RruwmRrNk0M6o3bgvCvWMg9FnmDmZo-1rQhF0dePeKZTcdPafDb85lxQ7XRU_Z4PYE2epOEoenqcCFf3GoLS51836CthOC2EuveYTExT-D8NgeRS3gr61KHA/s320/PXL_20221012_092641003.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Here's the sum total of work so far -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeXn0N-uvnWzGO2htLe7oDanQPHbMXjB-eDukHA95QpI_WrwKHMZGIofbSKqnDim2Z5-9q9_PTawzJZ5OH9e53hijYX6A6cb6XaS2W918F_CDGWTLr56Ss1DoZyFPHuGUNov8G8wUxAizfR70_cRj92NcChc0a49vJ6n--0FpGLv2uX2uKOQ/s4080/PXL_20221012_091854208.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeXn0N-uvnWzGO2htLe7oDanQPHbMXjB-eDukHA95QpI_WrwKHMZGIofbSKqnDim2Z5-9q9_PTawzJZ5OH9e53hijYX6A6cb6XaS2W918F_CDGWTLr56Ss1DoZyFPHuGUNov8G8wUxAizfR70_cRj92NcChc0a49vJ6n--0FpGLv2uX2uKOQ/s320/PXL_20221012_091854208.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">In class I printed both blocks with Payne's Grey and cobalt turquoise -</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPUwkV5Vzie5UAsF0s6I6IA4bFfmiXoJeJ2xk1CuHLZLLiLuQ9cc_eJ7NRWB661HMop4OVyGWKTc23HVgwhg62BOd8tKZx1ZTH_qlrq-UoXKo5SpUgrSaj_XshTEYd7JJABuEd5s4XThSTkQFwpRzyV2hOT7V3Y0O_FAiSysiXieeMshQcEQ/s4080/PXL_20221012_114719064.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPUwkV5Vzie5UAsF0s6I6IA4bFfmiXoJeJ2xk1CuHLZLLiLuQ9cc_eJ7NRWB661HMop4OVyGWKTc23HVgwhg62BOd8tKZx1ZTH_qlrq-UoXKo5SpUgrSaj_XshTEYd7JJABuEd5s4XThSTkQFwpRzyV2hOT7V3Y0O_FAiSysiXieeMshQcEQ/s320/PXL_20221012_114719064.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div>To be continued...</div><div><br /></div>This rubbing, taken weeks ago, is to my mind the best outcome so far, and I'd almost be happt to leave it at that, or try a few versions of rubbings, rather than carry on with proper printing -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH63AoNobH4CtbJ06jwiet0s9-TF4uOrSWX989oC51y6Cskyj6IQ0eRLB5FU2et3cSFcqnAz6Nrw3dSWRYL6IrFPSSIbUnuqRh4cAoJFtOFdkNVHrZfiMkCRZDaU9TaZDN7yCh7BXwNDWZcWO8fYuxUWiTFDAo4eJX0247NXgKWVLuj8gaLA/s4080/PXL_20221012_091925980.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH63AoNobH4CtbJ06jwiet0s9-TF4uOrSWX989oC51y6Cskyj6IQ0eRLB5FU2et3cSFcqnAz6Nrw3dSWRYL6IrFPSSIbUnuqRh4cAoJFtOFdkNVHrZfiMkCRZDaU9TaZDN7yCh7BXwNDWZcWO8fYuxUWiTFDAo4eJX0247NXgKWVLuj8gaLA/s320/PXL_20221012_091925980.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-38195459951064489202022-10-17T08:30:00.001+01:002022-10-17T08:30:00.219+01:00Woodblock prints: Whirling<p> "Whirling" is based on some little stuffed figures I made years ago from the results of microwave dyeing of fabric, when the world of colour was new to me. They in turn are based on Korean costumes; fortunately I figured out how to give them "heads" -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYMibjfhZnV0sNqGRnujtnvJNKU5UVmCYE4nUrK49k0pi5q-vCF-iFpNDl58Qgz48eQ-kLisuwRdUm25dWOlQ_83zu2-1ivIcJgpvEYFaQSXXe50OiIjQNwFm-I5-Y3SVV0XuN_gyR6mCy5OTr3YmR-AAagv_YQpa004D_oYL2EYdh0tu29w/s4080/PXL_20221015_080145147.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYMibjfhZnV0sNqGRnujtnvJNKU5UVmCYE4nUrK49k0pi5q-vCF-iFpNDl58Qgz48eQ-kLisuwRdUm25dWOlQ_83zu2-1ivIcJgpvEYFaQSXXe50OiIjQNwFm-I5-Y3SVV0XuN_gyR6mCy5OTr3YmR-AAagv_YQpa004D_oYL2EYdh0tu29w/s320/PXL_20221015_080145147.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Much drawing and colouring-in went on - I was trying to get a lot of colours by overlaying various basic colours -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhahifi4LlyGsZ1jb6DU88L2hWfNQtaYpeKjc8tKpIM-zKU4FrQRrHo7aqqu9wpsDeWiSwHhsgFqIGxRNgFITvLzfPjJbzQn_2GMumEcsItre_3pXvS67-t2ZCpaMT6cXCsM7tMbHBr2eJo7QmD98TmxLFqeT3gGj_vn4WNU4jpAX6-9XFz3A/s4080/PXL_20221015_074223040.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhahifi4LlyGsZ1jb6DU88L2hWfNQtaYpeKjc8tKpIM-zKU4FrQRrHo7aqqu9wpsDeWiSwHhsgFqIGxRNgFITvLzfPjJbzQn_2GMumEcsItre_3pXvS67-t2ZCpaMT6cXCsM7tMbHBr2eJo7QmD98TmxLFqeT3gGj_vn4WNU4jpAX6-9XFz3A/s320/PXL_20221015_074223040.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>... and much tracing and rubbing -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJzomsnogiUS9GauseGgsYoSpt5DuUho94pmQLQWbb8NZHnz_V_7WpPV-Z5_oatZaMSfOWF8ctSKiZTbPUOedM4aK_WSvUEebPW5Se3oVyufb5IEZyEOdN2-WM4ntl7HpXHbzkFRlxXTLjZKa2EeEmquF8wWsWwRP3me6rSKtQpZ3wg-AlMw/s4080/PXL_20221015_074742734.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJzomsnogiUS9GauseGgsYoSpt5DuUho94pmQLQWbb8NZHnz_V_7WpPV-Z5_oatZaMSfOWF8ctSKiZTbPUOedM4aK_WSvUEebPW5Se3oVyufb5IEZyEOdN2-WM4ntl7HpXHbzkFRlxXTLjZKa2EeEmquF8wWsWwRP3me6rSKtQpZ3wg-AlMw/s320/PXL_20221015_074742734.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih9sd45L_85RFvLITUTu7AR1W24Lp8JsSxXWdO-k_Xr8uDqp8osgEXcjQpZ0lcqdvt_svHhojhd0AV6i-G8EXp9tJ0F4w66a0qMoCPPcwfGLa7BEP-8X2HDjinQpH5JCs45nMnIBY6cYUciVsmZbmjSS4iKigr_xwb6k7iDXjGLCQwYzMtTw/s4080/PXL_20221015_074605903.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih9sd45L_85RFvLITUTu7AR1W24Lp8JsSxXWdO-k_Xr8uDqp8osgEXcjQpZ0lcqdvt_svHhojhd0AV6i-G8EXp9tJ0F4w66a0qMoCPPcwfGLa7BEP-8X2HDjinQpH5JCs45nMnIBY6cYUciVsmZbmjSS4iKigr_xwb6k7iDXjGLCQwYzMtTw/s320/PXL_20221015_074605903.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib03OZ3jSGGb-iKJpUtZxjIRJNyQ3Pf7-AmNoHxMOtpTq6RFVCiL3375ggHlV1RvaS6V_lZCBCRjZJa_qVgYjsNn2lnntlTK4plB4IrVTf5K7vxgnFum18GO58l4aDRmUL72gTHDe0tX6lGtlU9YoOtw44_gxqK5Naw-EQ4-JRVTQ0zwTpnQ/s4080/PXL_20221015_074912721.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib03OZ3jSGGb-iKJpUtZxjIRJNyQ3Pf7-AmNoHxMOtpTq6RFVCiL3375ggHlV1RvaS6V_lZCBCRjZJa_qVgYjsNn2lnntlTK4plB4IrVTf5K7vxgnFum18GO58l4aDRmUL72gTHDe0tX6lGtlU9YoOtw44_gxqK5Naw-EQ4-JRVTQ0zwTpnQ/w400-h301/PXL_20221015_074912721.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Finally some actual printing happened, but was not terribly successful - bad choice of colours!!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw2pB2DAqu2a4zlSNlBFnMLsZN-83AKMToblyjTFqPXU7U82cwmCQpYzH-bEqIaQqNUq0g92lU4ix37y22bofBN_loIGota23UdKoLgVmZqbYe25GOiQkKJ-7JArexCxk_T8JgN_3pVXVj5uLgbCSNbk5kfDUagQRQS_g16-ujNhndsKpvPw/s4080/PXL_20221015_075053865.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw2pB2DAqu2a4zlSNlBFnMLsZN-83AKMToblyjTFqPXU7U82cwmCQpYzH-bEqIaQqNUq0g92lU4ix37y22bofBN_loIGota23UdKoLgVmZqbYe25GOiQkKJ-7JArexCxk_T8JgN_3pVXVj5uLgbCSNbk5kfDUagQRQS_g16-ujNhndsKpvPw/s320/PXL_20221015_075053865.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Some of the prints were mis-registered, and the (thin) board warped -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQRhVVSilYXfiyLPT89fwOrZ-TBAMHuwHh7IRnO7njnrIztesSdpy68j8B8MFwRSwM-akpVYHMVTU6sfWBvZMl7n1JE68nUcwFjUJs_9sWIXYMeqIClWoA7OnODTh6Kswnvvt2uMcrRmJqIaY-y8es3AIfb6qNMgV8VIMXqCb5OmQmCHTgAQ/s4080/PXL_20221015_075125212.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQRhVVSilYXfiyLPT89fwOrZ-TBAMHuwHh7IRnO7njnrIztesSdpy68j8B8MFwRSwM-akpVYHMVTU6sfWBvZMl7n1JE68nUcwFjUJs_9sWIXYMeqIClWoA7OnODTh6Kswnvvt2uMcrRmJqIaY-y8es3AIfb6qNMgV8VIMXqCb5OmQmCHTgAQ/s320/PXL_20221015_075125212.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHWAbGYvxklWETOQ4cO8vn5erQ0f33Dz7Zt-UhaW-voHZcTJKFj0ec6wsyKLeKdLoUU5hWrl68UaUKR1_qrqAAgr14iqw7MhMy5vsEhPmyme-_09OgfRqR6DEXCmwRBpVXhz1l5nET7_I1khvbJhkEvgM5sRIfvBfxWb6QSCfBZD9sxmuliA/s4080/PXL_20221015_075213977.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHWAbGYvxklWETOQ4cO8vn5erQ0f33Dz7Zt-UhaW-voHZcTJKFj0ec6wsyKLeKdLoUU5hWrl68UaUKR1_qrqAAgr14iqw7MhMy5vsEhPmyme-_09OgfRqR6DEXCmwRBpVXhz1l5nET7_I1khvbJhkEvgM5sRIfvBfxWb6QSCfBZD9sxmuliA/s320/PXL_20221015_075213977.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Lots of lessons learnt, the main one being Keep It Simple! These prints were done before lockdown, and from this distance in time (three years?) I quite like the "minimal" ones and might try printing (or embossing?) the key block and adding just one or two colours -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqJb23lkjfMVbZjKXOMmS_ywo3mBKP8VocdwQ5tDqTF0hAX-5hGSadPG2NOjmbWqhBAsKxkuS3D5DqpkJW1vLAy_je9lRxjFSDlB4txF5maoFmdR5xgUkGTnRxDAQY-9EQiV_M44-jl2XTA5L7dUSK6GP_pwJiRBAew_mI3YhO0inDNNq1pA/s4080/PXL_20221015_075404639.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqJb23lkjfMVbZjKXOMmS_ywo3mBKP8VocdwQ5tDqTF0hAX-5hGSadPG2NOjmbWqhBAsKxkuS3D5DqpkJW1vLAy_je9lRxjFSDlB4txF5maoFmdR5xgUkGTnRxDAQY-9EQiV_M44-jl2XTA5L7dUSK6GP_pwJiRBAew_mI3YhO0inDNNq1pA/s320/PXL_20221015_075404639.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ9cZA5T8l2l8jUerbi8wKf-Zz8bGkpuc04VfDPWx_s76BT4egeh8ll6ddLBvJtK2CVtLZb20BzN7z50Fa5SPDK10b9tU1dLZ-w5kytICnx4stLP7WfOEEntebHDOM3me1Tr-biwdsu1p3_UhQCrLZdMWcn6WXa8Y75V8dmWPK1AxxtxAXBQ/s4080/PXL_20221015_075520580.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ9cZA5T8l2l8jUerbi8wKf-Zz8bGkpuc04VfDPWx_s76BT4egeh8ll6ddLBvJtK2CVtLZb20BzN7z50Fa5SPDK10b9tU1dLZ-w5kytICnx4stLP7WfOEEntebHDOM3me1Tr-biwdsu1p3_UhQCrLZdMWcn6WXa8Y75V8dmWPK1AxxtxAXBQ/s320/PXL_20221015_075520580.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-40964120494764149432022-10-16T07:42:00.000+01:002022-10-16T07:42:40.703+01:00Quick trip to South Kensington<p> ...to see two things - the <a href="https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/fashioning-masculinities-the-art-of-menswear" target="_blank">Fashioning Masculinities </a>exhibition at the V&A, which is finishing on 6 November, and a 72-foot rocket that is temporarily outside the Science Museum.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihuomWk7wNuBvHd2xs9Eb79VLEc6NlD-T20iyHqMtIbKqkkSU6mmdGj4lX-BUH7MZ4QABoRr9lnBPJKGHgIcspKtmh7ljSEIh74ACZ9OzqFUYqbL97SM8A7sVRWvCak2C5vEJ4ysZo3UR4T5pfmvdWTLe8E-TekxW1F2DsKOGcVzRZtY1dKA/s4080/PXL_20221015_152716453.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihuomWk7wNuBvHd2xs9Eb79VLEc6NlD-T20iyHqMtIbKqkkSU6mmdGj4lX-BUH7MZ4QABoRr9lnBPJKGHgIcspKtmh7ljSEIh74ACZ9OzqFUYqbL97SM8A7sVRWvCak2C5vEJ4ysZo3UR4T5pfmvdWTLe8E-TekxW1F2DsKOGcVzRZtY1dKA/s320/PXL_20221015_152716453.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Simple and elegant, 18th century</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUEIeL6Nrq5FdTi4QUrokRogV4NrVWQp5X12sJJkB882H2AuctTuVf0H_ZubctxDBeAc3_CbXQgdLfKLxtneSb9rmzoT1QWbN4etRThZNMc9OMRJveFzs2fY0zPn45nk_i9ejBkFmDBfzZqlmVHvhe1wvKNoBBK0X59TAiM5ClINLFOJypRQ/s4080/PXL_20221015_152946436.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUEIeL6Nrq5FdTi4QUrokRogV4NrVWQp5X12sJJkB882H2AuctTuVf0H_ZubctxDBeAc3_CbXQgdLfKLxtneSb9rmzoT1QWbN4etRThZNMc9OMRJveFzs2fY0zPn45nk_i9ejBkFmDBfzZqlmVHvhe1wvKNoBBK0X59TAiM5ClINLFOJypRQ/s320/PXL_20221015_152946436.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Amusing little film danced by men in underwear</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In "Spitfire", "choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne OBE ... takes an affectionate look at male vanity and the world of men's underwear advertisements"</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also visible is Aitor Throup's translucent "Ensemble"</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-PNxBU-BNqS-9EUlVW8mhphae7Ea7lZ2Bn4cP8OKb9W-gCGqpiRyhJ27qAQdXFnmKrRuMRNg-LvoDmMGJSj3SHdxWWc10vIQXL8CC2kzneeSXVDaqDSbrx26_d_sKLnoYocMYeOAeVqywpTf2d_gUPdXk4Pb6DnMIAMKp2e8__dY1oTPAyg/s4080/PXL_20221015_153711350.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-PNxBU-BNqS-9EUlVW8mhphae7Ea7lZ2Bn4cP8OKb9W-gCGqpiRyhJ27qAQdXFnmKrRuMRNg-LvoDmMGJSj3SHdxWWc10vIQXL8CC2kzneeSXVDaqDSbrx26_d_sKLnoYocMYeOAeVqywpTf2d_gUPdXk4Pb6DnMIAMKp2e8__dY1oTPAyg/s320/PXL_20221015_153711350.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Conspicuous consumption of fine fabric in India</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"The finer the muslin, the more fabric could be gathered in a </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">jama's skirt and ruched in its sleeves"</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYqsqqC9BH9fSlqjwdYmQbkZxooE-BCNVSwBbjreyg42EY1IQgf9P4szETvYqM44-mzWp0orX9waQt0pBbv8T_ytEQviC8P8V63Hjxbej8ptBSnsI9zMsdg_cGwS3cDlLVX4985HralXKFv302nEPDAMcsvuHVjLgfEEPzb2-y9l05_JvyAA/s4080/PXL_20221015_154716884.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYqsqqC9BH9fSlqjwdYmQbkZxooE-BCNVSwBbjreyg42EY1IQgf9P4szETvYqM44-mzWp0orX9waQt0pBbv8T_ytEQviC8P8V63Hjxbej8ptBSnsI9zMsdg_cGwS3cDlLVX4985HralXKFv302nEPDAMcsvuHVjLgfEEPzb2-y9l05_JvyAA/s320/PXL_20221015_154716884.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">West meets East in two dragon robes, one made into a jacket</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>The rocket tucks under the wing of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Girl_(aircraft)" target="_blank">converted 747 </a> (you can just about see it in the final photo). During air launch to orbit the plane points upward to get <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LauncherOne" target="_blank">LauncherOne </a>at the best angle, and when it's released the plane lurches. (I feel seasick just thinking about it.) It will be launched from the UK <a href="https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2022-10-15/virgin-orbits-rocket-arrives-ahead-of-uks-first-ever-satellite-launch" target="_blank">soon</a>, from <a href="https://spaceportcornwall.com/" target="_blank">Spaceport Cornwall</a>, Newquay. So far, LauncherOne has delivered <a href="https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Technology_CubeSats" target="_blank">cubesats </a>to low earth orbit.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVVs5HLsQh4k1uIQgzabT4A48AYDu18XokpiUroearmJS-tQ2iVG2MhJVhIRcbEFyQtah9cWdhquM8Q9ZU0pAUPs2P71RFoI9laOBTnBQDzQw-p5lOpOGWUO_i9r2Xhf09DredE9woki0VsWI9z2w8CNBfbJ8gWF8rt3ggc1tS8LoQpV_B4A/s4080/PXL_20221015_152018797.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVVs5HLsQh4k1uIQgzabT4A48AYDu18XokpiUroearmJS-tQ2iVG2MhJVhIRcbEFyQtah9cWdhquM8Q9ZU0pAUPs2P71RFoI9laOBTnBQDzQw-p5lOpOGWUO_i9r2Xhf09DredE9woki0VsWI9z2w8CNBfbJ8gWF8rt3ggc1tS8LoQpV_B4A/w400-h301/PXL_20221015_152018797.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUaZvsoKQUZ3fbloDEvDYylgH6QdOSoZ4CVflJG0HVmH3n7wg9OEHW2RhHRXhR5BiUbUNSitw5PIOd4306xlXzsxP6EXH0iPQPWoLTVBz_zoLDG9-acHBxPy7dn3xE5eNeSE4okjZcr0262_pxOegOLptMitgWqd_rqg4XXTksIbJ3WhG1sw/s4080/PXL_20221015_151442456.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUaZvsoKQUZ3fbloDEvDYylgH6QdOSoZ4CVflJG0HVmH3n7wg9OEHW2RhHRXhR5BiUbUNSitw5PIOd4306xlXzsxP6EXH0iPQPWoLTVBz_zoLDG9-acHBxPy7dn3xE5eNeSE4okjZcr0262_pxOegOLptMitgWqd_rqg4XXTksIbJ3WhG1sw/w400-h301/PXL_20221015_151442456.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-42035363173287121352022-10-15T13:09:00.000+01:002022-10-15T13:09:06.749+01:00Woodblock prints: Construction Lines series 1<p> A project in Spring term 2022, based on the compass and ruler lines that are used to start geometrical construction of patterns.</p><p>Working out the grids (and deciding which to use) -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn1M0GDYpCY4bb8I6MIZH17SJkq4MJWVFhSaGgS57AlMr6pMGYOwEPMNrDWvsKvHVpUZMAxhmCAWdyLwhqCWJ718Q31oOHE6M_uppLaqGt9nbFTGxGNrU1DrbKhjqvbzKRDh_V-suCqRo_RNrNmgg89rn-e_Dh3xnhH_E4eI9QYpurVMFR7Q/s4080/PXL_20221015_111926798.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn1M0GDYpCY4bb8I6MIZH17SJkq4MJWVFhSaGgS57AlMr6pMGYOwEPMNrDWvsKvHVpUZMAxhmCAWdyLwhqCWJ718Q31oOHE6M_uppLaqGt9nbFTGxGNrU1DrbKhjqvbzKRDh_V-suCqRo_RNrNmgg89rn-e_Dh3xnhH_E4eI9QYpurVMFR7Q/w400-h301/PXL_20221015_111926798.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Rubbings and printing -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3A3Kra1xpM_KWRfHZCxDwbxLwuczrzjeSrpSE1AjrLy5k2T5UtgGgojizSUG_N7B0ez7NyLm6leVL8mN396lITk-lhgPFpqv3l_1YzYxIXdQbYpxwNbTsJoupcjxJCKJfsxKSGiW7Kj8Q-T8x_wM4ln0HtKO3snXpFmUlC6zTEtQMTErAJA/s4080/PXL_20221015_112114712.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3A3Kra1xpM_KWRfHZCxDwbxLwuczrzjeSrpSE1AjrLy5k2T5UtgGgojizSUG_N7B0ez7NyLm6leVL8mN396lITk-lhgPFpqv3l_1YzYxIXdQbYpxwNbTsJoupcjxJCKJfsxKSGiW7Kj8Q-T8x_wM4ln0HtKO3snXpFmUlC6zTEtQMTErAJA/s320/PXL_20221015_112114712.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>At some point before cutting I randomly jettisoned some of the curved grid lines and felt much happier about how things were going - more open, more interesting, more accidental and surprising. A bit of experimentation with layout of cut star shapes and another block was ready to cut and print with sumi ink onto the watercolour backgrounds.<div><br /></div><div>In fact the stars originated from a cutout grid; I debated whether to print the "net" or the stars and had to make a mockup to decide. On the print, you can see the altered grid of circles; on one side, almost all the lines are left, forming a sort of border, over which I sometimes printed diagonal lines -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoJ0lmb_9wmkP9qITEEB77FrUSIaY79BZVpmG35ZHfoF6uWtsuZiKRNbXJ1CrvKH5TmgrOk9l9XQWOyy27HBbNZOoimkPxtp1GeOlBumgcLcSUa6B8WahvgodfriyhCXwFNVD7ZQvBhKH-T_nXnu-ozcx5RpAlmOY5_PdTGBT14rGRHgmDFA/s4080/PXL_20221015_112441087.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoJ0lmb_9wmkP9qITEEB77FrUSIaY79BZVpmG35ZHfoF6uWtsuZiKRNbXJ1CrvKH5TmgrOk9l9XQWOyy27HBbNZOoimkPxtp1GeOlBumgcLcSUa6B8WahvgodfriyhCXwFNVD7ZQvBhKH-T_nXnu-ozcx5RpAlmOY5_PdTGBT14rGRHgmDFA/s320/PXL_20221015_112441087.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>"Warming up the board" on newsprint, and adding some leftover stars; just playing...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsq77YgUOGev_MuTdctRlCqY3sFz8sTXJRDZJ5Z_FaKvDAixGUe3sXMYwycH_ba0D2euGRuz9nXn31ys9zsFBMh7xLK3YZFW16PHNVEY7adJO__yec9BZaW3pDVGnAN7gwsnKg249Dwoug1aYyIGKngjJkG2L4F5vMD7h07_JApk7QBsUONw/s4080/PXL_20221015_111152793.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsq77YgUOGev_MuTdctRlCqY3sFz8sTXJRDZJ5Z_FaKvDAixGUe3sXMYwycH_ba0D2euGRuz9nXn31ys9zsFBMh7xLK3YZFW16PHNVEY7adJO__yec9BZaW3pDVGnAN7gwsnKg249Dwoug1aYyIGKngjJkG2L4F5vMD7h07_JApk7QBsUONw/s320/PXL_20221015_111152793.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Three of the finished prints, the coloured stars cut out and glued on -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbU3P2rT2TA19niIZBJPQc7iWpygJGIcDAaJEQ9nJcxjGENaOcuTRA4_ZLetHbiOBFsjP2a1ED0KcvO0smB7KN05twks_9FEy-BIp4Rc_9WuHX8jS3f8BFbvXMOyBgJm2sw1iw_utTiY_mQcASHnnGeDTal0rjTLWJWslM3qujY5SwiSue8w/s4080/PXL_20221015_110751788.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbU3P2rT2TA19niIZBJPQc7iWpygJGIcDAaJEQ9nJcxjGENaOcuTRA4_ZLetHbiOBFsjP2a1ED0KcvO0smB7KN05twks_9FEy-BIp4Rc_9WuHX8jS3f8BFbvXMOyBgJm2sw1iw_utTiY_mQcASHnnGeDTal0rjTLWJWslM3qujY5SwiSue8w/s320/PXL_20221015_110751788.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>More finished prints ...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJzLjhCH7SBUC2nZ9hbVwlVlbu_ZVXLFege8US0mM9vc5aGsaPSE4cgaN29gXVQKK8TIoBhVvaBa6_AKZjR2CH2kUVT80ULc3ndPAlnXRCjFo42B3fFFOaaovn6XEQKcgNPnLlub-EymG-8vNegY5zQIBJ1pUrq01ZMqPqaKq6bDuwe5i7ww/s4080/PXL_20221015_111100701.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJzLjhCH7SBUC2nZ9hbVwlVlbu_ZVXLFege8US0mM9vc5aGsaPSE4cgaN29gXVQKK8TIoBhVvaBa6_AKZjR2CH2kUVT80ULc3ndPAlnXRCjFo42B3fFFOaaovn6XEQKcgNPnLlub-EymG-8vNegY5zQIBJ1pUrq01ZMqPqaKq6bDuwe5i7ww/s320/PXL_20221015_111100701.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>... and my favourites -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTgF_K4LXWgn6Zih6LNA-jMZEtdgeXzBeOR4ksZN9-kE75ozo2N6-J53HXlXskU8M7gGIXcvp3L4m0xe6bas3Fo0z0fyi4wg2rcDFfm5yQRzoGD2XTWN17mzizENjkHaFEREH96jeM0YWQ8zhV-8mpGzcG_DG6UAny_mQroA2OLPV70dmYcg/s4080/PXL_20221015_110958011.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTgF_K4LXWgn6Zih6LNA-jMZEtdgeXzBeOR4ksZN9-kE75ozo2N6-J53HXlXskU8M7gGIXcvp3L4m0xe6bas3Fo0z0fyi4wg2rcDFfm5yQRzoGD2XTWN17mzizENjkHaFEREH96jeM0YWQ8zhV-8mpGzcG_DG6UAny_mQroA2OLPV70dmYcg/s320/PXL_20221015_110958011.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p></div>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-55614104249302722752022-10-14T10:22:00.001+01:002022-10-15T09:43:33.318+01:00Olga de Amaral at Lisson Gallery<p> Golden textiles, woven and painted (not dyed) -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXm_u-Hxztz0ozS2csPslGaB_4MhuMeHnwGiw6dF1ZRNFNpYXDkENL8dyfy7KTW37XMwMBYHkVmogCbQhJ1RSOfoAt8_XYgF36RdHijwMzBuyNqePaXMgund1_ZWP4ur7zvXmxklcGqDXkfqbxzAap79ba82vL5Z3gkCWa8Nz8tmXXI20ixQ/s4080/PXL_20221014_124544765.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXm_u-Hxztz0ozS2csPslGaB_4MhuMeHnwGiw6dF1ZRNFNpYXDkENL8dyfy7KTW37XMwMBYHkVmogCbQhJ1RSOfoAt8_XYgF36RdHijwMzBuyNqePaXMgund1_ZWP4ur7zvXmxklcGqDXkfqbxzAap79ba82vL5Z3gkCWa8Nz8tmXXI20ixQ/s320/PXL_20221014_124544765.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>How does she do it? Gesso and gold leaf are involved - this is the front of one piece -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTlyznFGLT8FPhBDTd_tegmjTMaQzciKanYgeLJXqaDQdKdFi87ACM30thXZhpCqNq7TRjLLSlShjjBROBS8jj8F07QVIUraNcRZo2VP134TOTCMl8gJxVTeBmDuqMNCC-PFWVeJX_9J2SOBkxwvdUr_jj08qeZ5HaqzUAWrCNtUEvdZw0QA/s4080/PXL_20221014_124758370.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTlyznFGLT8FPhBDTd_tegmjTMaQzciKanYgeLJXqaDQdKdFi87ACM30thXZhpCqNq7TRjLLSlShjjBROBS8jj8F07QVIUraNcRZo2VP134TOTCMl8gJxVTeBmDuqMNCC-PFWVeJX_9J2SOBkxwvdUr_jj08qeZ5HaqzUAWrCNtUEvdZw0QA/s320/PXL_20221014_124758370.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>... and this is the back -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHJvmmTJABWdW1Ktlwy9af8aIDAc1Y6H04fjZFFySkMUhTQ_XAdKZGF_3nxL47CgXW9KfLo22d7QrgI7E9N-0uGhQFpx2oMR53VHHpLiyPA2Ilq_VuGpPc5B5_bo5F3bLK4rrlXZJyzPlNYGMQqZ1kgA_u03vFPuWLssFzAP66dr2CUECjUQ/s4080/PXL_20221014_124742311.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHJvmmTJABWdW1Ktlwy9af8aIDAc1Y6H04fjZFFySkMUhTQ_XAdKZGF_3nxL47CgXW9KfLo22d7QrgI7E9N-0uGhQFpx2oMR53VHHpLiyPA2Ilq_VuGpPc5B5_bo5F3bLK4rrlXZJyzPlNYGMQqZ1kgA_u03vFPuWLssFzAP66dr2CUECjUQ/s320/PXL_20221014_124742311.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Some of the work is massive - most of it is large -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDm1G0m2lIp4rLdYXS1RdPIPl2zjlwvVLgDuND54anCK8oFq5Odmc7jx6j2V9XDIufL-Wa1wNE5_aBiCazGs8mKxbCPlP4pOVRuKPLJXrTBPbCPZpmATTglDN89IplHL0qUZtbskGufWWFpNRlqXcE6ovMcqbtgDPQ38DAcCNCuDdF-DWkw/s4080/PXL_20221014_125201437.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDm1G0m2lIp4rLdYXS1RdPIPl2zjlwvVLgDuND54anCK8oFq5Odmc7jx6j2V9XDIufL-Wa1wNE5_aBiCazGs8mKxbCPlP4pOVRuKPLJXrTBPbCPZpmATTglDN89IplHL0qUZtbskGufWWFpNRlqXcE6ovMcqbtgDPQ38DAcCNCuDdF-DWkw/s320/PXL_20221014_125201437.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Sometimes threads (linen) are woven around sticks -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXqibvrsRB6LOnSNDm-h72EnDyCCAakGZLPbOdSKikm2B67aIp0KeH4ShgMXLlt5JABl66TwdIiWF2aTjjuOubMvM7Y8kCrg-fJUYVw8Bj4sg5-hBv7aMxa5XHqEUORWptCuVjnN9gwoA_nQ9anjpwfWNlKY2AoSPhXUNiqknX-HvlWuCbLg/s4080/PXL_20221014_125254332.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXqibvrsRB6LOnSNDm-h72EnDyCCAakGZLPbOdSKikm2B67aIp0KeH4ShgMXLlt5JABl66TwdIiWF2aTjjuOubMvM7Y8kCrg-fJUYVw8Bj4sg5-hBv7aMxa5XHqEUORWptCuVjnN9gwoA_nQ9anjpwfWNlKY2AoSPhXUNiqknX-HvlWuCbLg/s320/PXL_20221014_125254332.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Sometimes strips that have been woven are woven yet again -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj61oTM7k6wOw0MkpUwoqwophlvuK-WQwLPShKDLADRtQy-hXHi05D2vobkevzlun2DuEp8NMem3fdTIR-W9oQUsVB2iy-DhwxscONtLtshvBnZja2VMjPgdx2x4WV0BrcUqRQOzz5rOHdxzlZ7PakW9jvhXlvvCXxsLqmTFOluXgxR3Scttg/s4080/PXL_20221014_125102858.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj61oTM7k6wOw0MkpUwoqwophlvuK-WQwLPShKDLADRtQy-hXHi05D2vobkevzlun2DuEp8NMem3fdTIR-W9oQUsVB2iy-DhwxscONtLtshvBnZja2VMjPgdx2x4WV0BrcUqRQOzz5rOHdxzlZ7PakW9jvhXlvvCXxsLqmTFOluXgxR3Scttg/s320/PXL_20221014_125102858.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><p>Fascinating, intriguing, clever, beautiful. And how lovely to be among these works, that golden glow...</p><p><br /></p><p>Olga de Amaral (b.1932) is a Colombian textile artist who, the <a href="https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/olga-de-amaral" target="_blank">gallery </a>says, "<span style="background-color: white; font-family: TimesNewRoman, "Times New Roman", Times, Baskerville, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">spins base matter into fields of color and weaves tectonic lines through space, unselfconsciously testing the borders between crafted object and the work of art</span>". She traveled widely in the 1950s and 60s, studying textiles at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1952 and teaching at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in the 1960s. She represented Colombia at the 1986 Venice Biennale. She is married to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Amaral" target="_blank">an artist</a> whose works appear incidentally in the two films that are shown.</p><p><br /></p><p>The show runs till 29 October.</p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-79943460828304392402022-10-09T08:54:00.001+01:002022-10-09T08:54:00.220+01:00The King's Observatory<p> A roof with a view - over the golf course that now surrounds it. Apparently not only the pagoda in Kew Gardens but also the Shard can be seen through gaps in the foliage of a nearby tree.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMbBzI139dECqyJzRIIsfoMFUeZPbDvbEDlB5ffbQfU7fDQPBxoGCRK6-saTckLtuIx2oRFDyo43ReJ6G9XT3Dte4YhmTL9CAqiLeGSl6a7SxFM2pyRqqD7HWyudLr9umhWesjaDrvKppAP6EWQe-YJhQLBw2dyhQ8ARkV9kp_5GqfZ81R5A/s4080/PXL_20221003_154059940.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMbBzI139dECqyJzRIIsfoMFUeZPbDvbEDlB5ffbQfU7fDQPBxoGCRK6-saTckLtuIx2oRFDyo43ReJ6G9XT3Dte4YhmTL9CAqiLeGSl6a7SxFM2pyRqqD7HWyudLr9umhWesjaDrvKppAP6EWQe-YJhQLBw2dyhQ8ARkV9kp_5GqfZ81R5A/s320/PXL_20221003_154059940.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWC0AWSKtPtnX5z4FA1AtQxaUQPicDWNNuF-_eNvYBTftkN4G0hJ0YmTX95InNdpxmcwoMfVg7S6bJDHlBw0hvHEFvTAsO8dysz-DlpA-3gcgbyec8Yp1YffvCo5yW56jRibfrLEv337ABcPNZ30lP2hsVZ-L2-I6x_xzdUlqPkXyPVktUQ/s4080/PXL_20221003_153809177.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWC0AWSKtPtnX5z4FA1AtQxaUQPicDWNNuF-_eNvYBTftkN4G0hJ0YmTX95InNdpxmcwoMfVg7S6bJDHlBw0hvHEFvTAsO8dysz-DlpA-3gcgbyec8Yp1YffvCo5yW56jRibfrLEv337ABcPNZ30lP2hsVZ-L2-I6x_xzdUlqPkXyPVktUQ/s320/PXL_20221003_153809177.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The stairs are narrow, but Queen Caroline in the wide skirts of the time came up them, along with 15 other people, to attempt to see the planet Venus cross the sun (which took about 8 hours and was being carefully observed all over the world).<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUbrkDg-JVzHQG6R1RjI2RwEKGtRFqYxTuSOPwc4ZiOuAg-0t4I3NzJgmG2UIut2ns3aBrkOFqkWTgilC4SvAUrki6wZp1l2W2ZLIQ3F3A7FOyNmAVOQ4erdJfyl3V49pi_owz5SzRHHD8uLhFmazuHV6r1EJfvmV6-5ITgonT4G_LmoLU1g/s4080/PXL_20221003_153629835.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUbrkDg-JVzHQG6R1RjI2RwEKGtRFqYxTuSOPwc4ZiOuAg-0t4I3NzJgmG2UIut2ns3aBrkOFqkWTgilC4SvAUrki6wZp1l2W2ZLIQ3F3A7FOyNmAVOQ4erdJfyl3V49pi_owz5SzRHHD8uLhFmazuHV6r1EJfvmV6-5ITgonT4G_LmoLU1g/s320/PXL_20221003_153629835.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Putting down the covers made more standing room -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZlekGIiwaDGBC0vo9rBjRrYiwCKw66rGNPKmEHr4vBHhx__bjznR6NY8_q-mv1RvQ8oDRTNZD_D3siYIKlTgZsTOu_xlMNEbsEjFMRKmLikaXYV9SZVHqUUXjgvPNGySs8K0qQxq__osAQN4U6b4wpBHUVXuUC9WCP6gys-cf1GfZf8PDqQ/s4080/PXL_20221003_152243866.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZlekGIiwaDGBC0vo9rBjRrYiwCKw66rGNPKmEHr4vBHhx__bjznR6NY8_q-mv1RvQ8oDRTNZD_D3siYIKlTgZsTOu_xlMNEbsEjFMRKmLikaXYV9SZVHqUUXjgvPNGySs8K0qQxq__osAQN4U6b4wpBHUVXuUC9WCP6gys-cf1GfZf8PDqQ/s320/PXL_20221003_152243866.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>... but it must have been quite crowded ...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOIn5fT7eWV62nIwbUE0zhVZvkVqVSfnWzsTyUEzwjxQsASs79Qof56EYdo7KCPfT5MATIr-PDaeR-DKZN319XaPavLuEsl82yO1xQ_CNB4gaqW_NbiGxKmPhDeT4fG5oWnzSkYFwuc-HSyeNTw8DTb9_eps-sK_ZqR8RZfMcWMx8oxiKonw/s4080/PXL_20221003_152312586.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOIn5fT7eWV62nIwbUE0zhVZvkVqVSfnWzsTyUEzwjxQsASs79Qof56EYdo7KCPfT5MATIr-PDaeR-DKZN319XaPavLuEsl82yO1xQ_CNB4gaqW_NbiGxKmPhDeT4fG5oWnzSkYFwuc-HSyeNTw8DTb9_eps-sK_ZqR8RZfMcWMx8oxiKonw/s320/PXL_20221003_152312586.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The telescope isn't original, it's just there to give some sense of what the observatory was like -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt8h2SZQmO1LkXeuC-qxEclBYkEFosAOhJ9M-gl_N7i2lOCN3M8avsiMgU4bQDo2ZDB-sKddDxeuBnLXh9nRujKeZCJWeNPXglq7iTIYPKCryxHeYK05vKI7RI1wXRwJBzcjsjTy6TKqNn3x5HtsIIPkEJCDFUwZ7Mw9Q2a-SHuTyEHqtB2Q/s4080/PXL_20221003_152304675.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt8h2SZQmO1LkXeuC-qxEclBYkEFosAOhJ9M-gl_N7i2lOCN3M8avsiMgU4bQDo2ZDB-sKddDxeuBnLXh9nRujKeZCJWeNPXglq7iTIYPKCryxHeYK05vKI7RI1wXRwJBzcjsjTy6TKqNn3x5HtsIIPkEJCDFUwZ7Mw9Q2a-SHuTyEHqtB2Q/s320/PXL_20221003_152304675.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Several lovely bits of old ironwork that opened the viewing aperture and turned the entire roof to position it -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSUrwYG9x394iS9wWILQaJjdKGwHyU0gdoS4PZJf28TpjvxRtQiRCiZQZTXK0fM98ISSmaycUxwtdrPN-uHU6w_SwAQ123Ikbh8hW4rppiund6KbmyNUfRfSKIlIzOFXWCaxaY6sEnMLvZBSgbtx-XsV_IoRys7gvmNHm9UIogxg4RcjHNiQ/s4080/PXL_20221003_153712897.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSUrwYG9x394iS9wWILQaJjdKGwHyU0gdoS4PZJf28TpjvxRtQiRCiZQZTXK0fM98ISSmaycUxwtdrPN-uHU6w_SwAQ123Ikbh8hW4rppiund6KbmyNUfRfSKIlIzOFXWCaxaY6sEnMLvZBSgbtx-XsV_IoRys7gvmNHm9UIogxg4RcjHNiQ/s320/PXL_20221003_153712897.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-_r00pLHn701ltmsKakbijne4oroS_2hE85FE8DsuOIL6NUX26oOobi3BJAxpPtjNTmkpeVcsq8990LIXmjSCqyJUrPTUegQxF4qTKoPB7ewrbVOYfRtgZK7CaS-Lvr4TAudWpzxZybkbnohQP-mUTu_0ioGO0g9ovW_BmWcT2GXskd3vxg/s4080/PXL_20221003_153725645.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-_r00pLHn701ltmsKakbijne4oroS_2hE85FE8DsuOIL6NUX26oOobi3BJAxpPtjNTmkpeVcsq8990LIXmjSCqyJUrPTUegQxF4qTKoPB7ewrbVOYfRtgZK7CaS-Lvr4TAudWpzxZybkbnohQP-mUTu_0ioGO0g9ovW_BmWcT2GXskd3vxg/s320/PXL_20221003_153725645.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>And candlesticks for (faint) lighting, so as not to dim the view of the stars -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0jNxxO5VVj93nLiI6NJAx8xZCoUcnZPQ1nxMbGw9V7KhzSV422K0_Nw4_Ulz8Q-C4wS4GseBXI_Bxl5f_jaKeqVIGItCmfnwkKKHpaTF68kWH2lVJ0EI923ENYqdKO7Kagt0Ii-_tuWamJPMIWkf6144rR2wTQSit8uoJEmQp4XQf50x9RA/s4080/PXL_20221003_152533511.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0jNxxO5VVj93nLiI6NJAx8xZCoUcnZPQ1nxMbGw9V7KhzSV422K0_Nw4_Ulz8Q-C4wS4GseBXI_Bxl5f_jaKeqVIGItCmfnwkKKHpaTF68kWH2lVJ0EI923ENYqdKO7Kagt0Ii-_tuWamJPMIWkf6144rR2wTQSit8uoJEmQp4XQf50x9RA/s320/PXL_20221003_152533511.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-87772242938717029112022-10-08T08:38:00.001+01:002022-10-08T08:38:00.218+01:00Not your usual dining room<p> A chance to visit <a href="https://www.kingsobservatory.co.uk/" target="_blank">The King's Observatory</a> in Richmond, built by George III in 1769 to observe the transit of Venus. Its current owner made his money in shipping in the Far East, and has put into his dining room a marvellous 18th century painting showing the foreigners' areas of Hong Kong. It's an enlarged reproduction that fits the room exactly, painted on silk by contemporary artists in Wuxi, and is full of detail -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Gxxo7teoU6xAkrSUENTNMyrkU7slGF_NCUqGpq5I--Nd5gR_xrYnQBQ9r06kLKrVVwZuMnfJ1pz2udeK9OuT1QtPFjCo_IWWIfUxFC9BPv1w2NSrM0P-Ly-vh1nOz3YAa4CS4z2ZFrBUr94RLZUoAFJyAWEjLe5L2B6pjL01pK8K37MvuA/s4080/PXL_20221003_150620250.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Gxxo7teoU6xAkrSUENTNMyrkU7slGF_NCUqGpq5I--Nd5gR_xrYnQBQ9r06kLKrVVwZuMnfJ1pz2udeK9OuT1QtPFjCo_IWWIfUxFC9BPv1w2NSrM0P-Ly-vh1nOz3YAa4CS4z2ZFrBUr94RLZUoAFJyAWEjLe5L2B6pjL01pK8K37MvuA/w301-h400/PXL_20221003_150620250.MP.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBfFjx-OP1q7kNMN1SXxYAQyS52OUlmTMWuBrO_6bysV5A8G7Fh5bIX8nPEo0pkV2drqxhVzBfWEdTVo6Aj6IPv5uq8Oum8d2z3mt1kAZUGWnZLD6eH7t2MbD3B88YZrpnk30roMS0ptfKbUyIOJJs5H5Xo4SDvq2ANiQd5DeJl8ryIeVtuw/s4080/PXL_20221003_150642497.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBfFjx-OP1q7kNMN1SXxYAQyS52OUlmTMWuBrO_6bysV5A8G7Fh5bIX8nPEo0pkV2drqxhVzBfWEdTVo6Aj6IPv5uq8Oum8d2z3mt1kAZUGWnZLD6eH7t2MbD3B88YZrpnk30roMS0ptfKbUyIOJJs5H5Xo4SDvq2ANiQd5DeJl8ryIeVtuw/w301-h400/PXL_20221003_150642497.MP.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid4IerkFrzwIK2wVRgl4gQsAm13xMR8yKBpBuCKQzGxmZD1M_KJmoISfkGvjkHu9yZp9aKM2H0sp1vVNn8e3j282wfg7H7-G6bS6znuHK6TBPszb6O2_NjGOx1VlA8hXXfj6aRa1bejqJwvQCP4tzRrrYJ78PJPN_8QATAMJLa1UY7Va9PXQ/s4080/PXL_20221003_150742212.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid4IerkFrzwIK2wVRgl4gQsAm13xMR8yKBpBuCKQzGxmZD1M_KJmoISfkGvjkHu9yZp9aKM2H0sp1vVNn8e3j282wfg7H7-G6bS6znuHK6TBPszb6O2_NjGOx1VlA8hXXfj6aRa1bejqJwvQCP4tzRrrYJ78PJPN_8QATAMJLa1UY7Va9PXQ/w400-h301/PXL_20221003_150742212.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMpL4_7B9dkVFRfYovNPciqp_S_9O_y_ZrvmOMbDn9w8oVg7wVsz8IIPOlXRyQtZPw2dWnLfPI6THkC9IykvOXAFLaIVI-fDpzHOJryzUMoPjV2K5gPQxM34Uy3tj1SRaNtaHp7vvmn2olqz7ldMny2JeYMcpGNoTNMk_h08w1cYYiEsS-9w/s4080/PXL_20221003_151549036.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMpL4_7B9dkVFRfYovNPciqp_S_9O_y_ZrvmOMbDn9w8oVg7wVsz8IIPOlXRyQtZPw2dWnLfPI6THkC9IykvOXAFLaIVI-fDpzHOJryzUMoPjV2K5gPQxM34Uy3tj1SRaNtaHp7vvmn2olqz7ldMny2JeYMcpGNoTNMk_h08w1cYYiEsS-9w/w301-h400/PXL_20221003_151549036.MP.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfgsEtlsN84eWL11SRPfMWZhB0V8FffbYa6rBmO-9-IHONcGUH1fvjGZi0BXSb-XMC1Nyw0T85GG7gUt1X_8m2mGs2thCNyEsdn4W8cMo5HSAEC4Wl1wBQramglxZGlcfkbiE9G73RJ4ujg5k8O6K0FdaBdCWNCs2SuuVd9S9-yYwGU_pSdw/s4080/PXL_20221003_151604354.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfgsEtlsN84eWL11SRPfMWZhB0V8FffbYa6rBmO-9-IHONcGUH1fvjGZi0BXSb-XMC1Nyw0T85GG7gUt1X_8m2mGs2thCNyEsdn4W8cMo5HSAEC4Wl1wBQramglxZGlcfkbiE9G73RJ4ujg5k8O6K0FdaBdCWNCs2SuuVd9S9-yYwGU_pSdw/w400-h301/PXL_20221003_151604354.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGtLFtqnL3Tbo9nd3SAoo7-SEZ1v8RgR4S0WNwXLB0vZo2hDb15RIguDo9-6FAMpvEFdlDsz0LcoVHJSP9x3TGyXoR2b465_xHZ19kZsxp-EXrj92wWDcUcs60oHlNcLN7ZX8HNzfR3MVo-qNx8UjsJ1UWlNeOk1PerhOciM7V3wi0QPaC4g/s4080/PXL_20221003_151611166.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGtLFtqnL3Tbo9nd3SAoo7-SEZ1v8RgR4S0WNwXLB0vZo2hDb15RIguDo9-6FAMpvEFdlDsz0LcoVHJSP9x3TGyXoR2b465_xHZ19kZsxp-EXrj92wWDcUcs60oHlNcLN7ZX8HNzfR3MVo-qNx8UjsJ1UWlNeOk1PerhOciM7V3wi0QPaC4g/w400-h301/PXL_20221003_151611166.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The table looks at first glance to be octagonal, but is in fact nine-sided -<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJwnaBcFe5_AWpQpXXqxoMR0BjDtZjGSWoDD-99V5rmnPEZjV5dEJF-DoDw1L4r5rZJSKA3Cf2dv9otmqBEZbNpEFvUA5d7-B7lQyyCp00IIGHh6Lv2gkzzlWxZ09fsG4TJ8fNW1nuhq785BmMb96Oiji9fbjqyJJH3RSLscUQng99SPcm6Q/s4080/PXL_20221003_151508368.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJwnaBcFe5_AWpQpXXqxoMR0BjDtZjGSWoDD-99V5rmnPEZjV5dEJF-DoDw1L4r5rZJSKA3Cf2dv9otmqBEZbNpEFvUA5d7-B7lQyyCp00IIGHh6Lv2gkzzlWxZ09fsG4TJ8fNW1nuhq785BmMb96Oiji9fbjqyJJH3RSLscUQng99SPcm6Q/w400-h301/PXL_20221003_151508368.MP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /><p><br /></p></div>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-44962759297857827372022-10-06T12:30:00.001+01:002022-10-06T12:30:00.216+01:00After the rain<p> The rain just started when we were on the way to the tube after woodblock class, but had stopped when we emerged, so I took a longer route home (to get some of those 10K steps!) and encountered this lovely shrub in rather a decrepit garden on Fonthill Road -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg504gOvBU-A-oY0148eClu0V7rNWVYFEbaWzNPaBHTPYNPsfHr-uKdA5bYSCuhyvvckjJJbtRt0EbS3aDRTEu5gy2pOK56xrL_ErLQ_aXB017elNcNiSOcwUhGrvTZWYsztSljCmtHRglGWBvju6ncSPr9GaTwj5zwG4MheNM4VFMSPlp_6w/s4080/PXL_20221005_141653360.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg504gOvBU-A-oY0148eClu0V7rNWVYFEbaWzNPaBHTPYNPsfHr-uKdA5bYSCuhyvvckjJJbtRt0EbS3aDRTEu5gy2pOK56xrL_ErLQ_aXB017elNcNiSOcwUhGrvTZWYsztSljCmtHRglGWBvju6ncSPr9GaTwj5zwG4MheNM4VFMSPlp_6w/s320/PXL_20221005_141653360.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_L_jT7uLWIpfZRYukZ3DADnEQhXbsC0jYVJJ51rwMXIyB00t5XQDP8KLYlINZSp6Y_gPzdP6YIdB6FITSZlI60XZPsfK_gpdS7EngVclJ9en5ULUcng8evRkcKhw_fWoKG-gw78ZXDzUv8V7KuT69SwwlYABxwAvgNJqj8NXi9FVgmDgEVw/s4080/PXL_20221005_141707034.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_L_jT7uLWIpfZRYukZ3DADnEQhXbsC0jYVJJ51rwMXIyB00t5XQDP8KLYlINZSp6Y_gPzdP6YIdB6FITSZlI60XZPsfK_gpdS7EngVclJ9en5ULUcng8evRkcKhw_fWoKG-gw78ZXDzUv8V7KuT69SwwlYABxwAvgNJqj8NXi9FVgmDgEVw/s320/PXL_20221005_141707034.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxgG2H3zww1pdVoyqPZXf7R4nyr_oHzTJLazs-GZP9C7xjM5r30yOrRupiJZoGpNd61YIUKxYCSjJfe1gfs3IJlCL0r79jAlWACoZSl5nfPxzvGFwELg1pWlWeh0yEndsMaqe0-LA062OjLhVz3iIIcncsO2bMxytCaLy0jClOeb9ycpG7jg/s4080/PXL_20221005_141638878.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxgG2H3zww1pdVoyqPZXf7R4nyr_oHzTJLazs-GZP9C7xjM5r30yOrRupiJZoGpNd61YIUKxYCSjJfe1gfs3IJlCL0r79jAlWACoZSl5nfPxzvGFwELg1pWlWeh0yEndsMaqe0-LA062OjLhVz3iIIcncsO2bMxytCaLy0jClOeb9ycpG7jg/s320/PXL_20221005_141638878.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Is it datura, or is that a vine?<div><br /></div><div>After sunset the final few clouds were dispersing, so wispy, so smudged, and that tree in the distance is so sharp, etched into the moist air -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX9cSftgVEMFIZ-Mhe3AwXPOz1JhriaOoRifTlCBu1wEVQcnsuUL2b25T9wSCgGSe-UldTzFdWP5s9frWw8t0My5BNfDjNkJrzHWegQ3vJ36prwACigq9kMqkdbheVI-9W14GGaDFFxBHZd3EI6TqB5jzwc2JFOYMWPuqcdoKB9ZLg0iQ03Q/s4080/PXL_20221005_175140328.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX9cSftgVEMFIZ-Mhe3AwXPOz1JhriaOoRifTlCBu1wEVQcnsuUL2b25T9wSCgGSe-UldTzFdWP5s9frWw8t0My5BNfDjNkJrzHWegQ3vJ36prwACigq9kMqkdbheVI-9W14GGaDFFxBHZd3EI6TqB5jzwc2JFOYMWPuqcdoKB9ZLg0iQ03Q/s320/PXL_20221005_175140328.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lovely light</div><br /><p><br /></p></div>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-47108493528345453172022-10-05T20:30:00.002+01:002022-10-05T20:30:22.315+01:00Combining geometry and woodblock<p> My first attempts to combine geometry drawings with woodblock printing were small, about 10cm x 15cm. Rather than standing the design nice and square, I had it tipping off the page -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxJL3i2XhouuB2WkUOPsEMG5YtS2vmlLFo8CEKHeVeJe3RELTEZ5M21FPyAD-SQLpLW7Qw-TnHUFZDn7B7c06dnbvKVRKWDbpafjB7NkM7L6R1t7mkTTmGV6swFEau7deEu1bcksBfYfYupUjwqzt1a_D_lP-pvp9j0u2t_zkDlcTwu4iV1A/s4080/PXL_20220128_114508442.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxJL3i2XhouuB2WkUOPsEMG5YtS2vmlLFo8CEKHeVeJe3RELTEZ5M21FPyAD-SQLpLW7Qw-TnHUFZDn7B7c06dnbvKVRKWDbpafjB7NkM7L6R1t7mkTTmGV6swFEau7deEu1bcksBfYfYupUjwqzt1a_D_lP-pvp9j0u2t_zkDlcTwu4iV1A/s320/PXL_20220128_114508442.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Same idea, slightly different, a bit more interesting - and printed with rather random inking (using watercolour, not ink) -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_tm3v8E8KC1lxXxB9L8oT5N25v8eV2YOYeVTnVxHMI_QDmVRgU1qXiduDbO8epsQv6bBQ2W1-cr0K3-HlDk_kw2D9KOhOXGVfA75Kqk2gR6gZF-FnfUMdsRW2YOCmeRcmjSS9A51LB2Uhwy6oi8B-85li0rnNoe6tJDNsf5rjHOFSEZmxdQ/s4080/PXL_20220130_135806076.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_tm3v8E8KC1lxXxB9L8oT5N25v8eV2YOYeVTnVxHMI_QDmVRgU1qXiduDbO8epsQv6bBQ2W1-cr0K3-HlDk_kw2D9KOhOXGVfA75Kqk2gR6gZF-FnfUMdsRW2YOCmeRcmjSS9A51LB2Uhwy6oi8B-85li0rnNoe6tJDNsf5rjHOFSEZmxdQ/s320/PXL_20220130_135806076.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>Further inking experiments -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_61YqvW5-n2rdBgBnxuCv1dfhN0dUBmBF5i_Ly_1UGDa9fWZ5PocsfsguYJq2FAv4p3H1E-AvUJAo6sDAnxuJEDATzMgQPdM_BHbCl02UfLnEZQ4FX_hCZsY1Iwc9Ln4vZnr6blvGor3duL_xKZm-drL601QtFJG7MYCcJJBR8wMk-EWow/s4080/PXL_20220131_172102805.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_61YqvW5-n2rdBgBnxuCv1dfhN0dUBmBF5i_Ly_1UGDa9fWZ5PocsfsguYJq2FAv4p3H1E-AvUJAo6sDAnxuJEDATzMgQPdM_BHbCl02UfLnEZQ4FX_hCZsY1Iwc9Ln4vZnr6blvGor3duL_xKZm-drL601QtFJG7MYCcJJBR8wMk-EWow/s320/PXL_20220131_172102805.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>and combining blocks...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJaCpIed3DYueHeMjxjW5hD-YE3nlurPSN6_KEbVvseKJQp2atI2V8nFkk4qyigrKpPlHleMD0Ys3Zuwdnwz7Hs9SUY0Nr4OyI20JAEDMFxf3Ll2Fq7mQvgnyLBSnkuSc9SzBD_FWrZOuWi4ORL4GsJB1vkYLutbEtxSGqAqeysTMbTQWZFg/s4080/PXL_20220201_204619388.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJaCpIed3DYueHeMjxjW5hD-YE3nlurPSN6_KEbVvseKJQp2atI2V8nFkk4qyigrKpPlHleMD0Ys3Zuwdnwz7Hs9SUY0Nr4OyI20JAEDMFxf3Ll2Fq7mQvgnyLBSnkuSc9SzBD_FWrZOuWi4ORL4GsJB1vkYLutbEtxSGqAqeysTMbTQWZFg/s320/PXL_20220201_204619388.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Other designs, not the right scale -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCug-iRLNPZDPm4Z_2jwyhXrdMDedRW24yHNX2t0DbSBYx27o1_Wtqh4XCZFFIg0OBWDun6lbghPWJGBpzo54WwwDp3jOVHyOeGpIiZquNZ8jKIkdZrVA68rRZlnkYEJjHbgyOpJNUK5pCX7RaJMfAoivOR_Nhv5V581J3SBpBd-wNjmboAg/s4080/PXL_20220211_194507942.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCug-iRLNPZDPm4Z_2jwyhXrdMDedRW24yHNX2t0DbSBYx27o1_Wtqh4XCZFFIg0OBWDun6lbghPWJGBpzo54WwwDp3jOVHyOeGpIiZquNZ8jKIkdZrVA68rRZlnkYEJjHbgyOpJNUK5pCX7RaJMfAoivOR_Nhv5V581J3SBpBd-wNjmboAg/s320/PXL_20220211_194507942.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Interwoven -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmDZ_gJ4ElqhLZ2vOe1S2nqsh4VtJCLgmvn6udsKfS1-COKx4TYm6IuyHASXbI32n_ThAK2csv1N0kK2-hDA3M2vEWkZhI0UsfnUld5227MNkGLN5QrWLlmXnNkKoxH_PDlj6FFZQjxnvVYQWvbLCj5Qzd_EQceQFfZcXha0px3lsaU39-9g/s3974/PXL_20220316_082037242.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2988" data-original-width="3974" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmDZ_gJ4ElqhLZ2vOe1S2nqsh4VtJCLgmvn6udsKfS1-COKx4TYm6IuyHASXbI32n_ThAK2csv1N0kK2-hDA3M2vEWkZhI0UsfnUld5227MNkGLN5QrWLlmXnNkKoxH_PDlj6FFZQjxnvVYQWvbLCj5Qzd_EQceQFfZcXha0px3lsaU39-9g/s320/PXL_20220316_082037242.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>After these came a larger printI was aiming to do a reduction print of some sort -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic6i1KsjH2A0LgtCNLUdE11azaUkBwVpm6W9VQeL-eqpAX28n7dmCh-Nx3gHburqtQG8BL3mZ5a1hnAtpbv0-m-9jQQ9cXs3DUQGLQP7cpvga0CUegMtKxeI71njC7qRtCHZDgcszLSkWFVTE9nMhd0gYpNnliJP5DFhQX-2koQxNfqItn6A/s4080/PXL_20220331_115848900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic6i1KsjH2A0LgtCNLUdE11azaUkBwVpm6W9VQeL-eqpAX28n7dmCh-Nx3gHburqtQG8BL3mZ5a1hnAtpbv0-m-9jQQ9cXs3DUQGLQP7cpvga0CUegMtKxeI71njC7qRtCHZDgcszLSkWFVTE9nMhd0gYpNnliJP5DFhQX-2koQxNfqItn6A/s320/PXL_20220331_115848900.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>Even so a second block was needed, with other elements -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw6_BDiwdtjOABOEYqsIvI54VVwwjq79wF4dKkAI0iC75OiOGL92Kx0u5CYUNn0TM6V1CB3gkrddVz0o2orFt2ITHeGqqXycfgjzYJe1wwURenbm92Npugbv2ZZum_WavDz_TlBhBB8iW26w5Pyb2hJK1qCGaohDlcS6H6R4qE__SQZGukmw/s4080/PXL_20220331_192345818.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw6_BDiwdtjOABOEYqsIvI54VVwwjq79wF4dKkAI0iC75OiOGL92Kx0u5CYUNn0TM6V1CB3gkrddVz0o2orFt2ITHeGqqXycfgjzYJe1wwURenbm92Npugbv2ZZum_WavDz_TlBhBB8iW26w5Pyb2hJK1qCGaohDlcS6H6R4qE__SQZGukmw/s320/PXL_20220331_192345818.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>It didn't look very promising - <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfKqzOamoS4enT8o9Y-fsPbMaDYnlachfC0r-B-bhgj3IXD4k91MlAx-0JRHHRcSLt2G-IiCmAIuMfQ0y-vt9zMdF0ph6C51U2O6y02Toi8Fh6mLRTCS-GX9H-kJAAVfKrqDwjXdKxE2x750fHEwe6Z2R8i9F1BHMUhg7T01vGoX0LYRdFDQ/s4080/PXL_20220411_153342311.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfKqzOamoS4enT8o9Y-fsPbMaDYnlachfC0r-B-bhgj3IXD4k91MlAx-0JRHHRcSLt2G-IiCmAIuMfQ0y-vt9zMdF0ph6C51U2O6y02Toi8Fh6mLRTCS-GX9H-kJAAVfKrqDwjXdKxE2x750fHEwe6Z2R8i9F1BHMUhg7T01vGoX0LYRdFDQ/s320/PXL_20220411_153342311.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>So I started stitching, adding stars ...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY_ffh-My1PPiSl7bgGYSbYAEHPGlPg6_xm0aSFGoLXdmdfH63QL3NhTTkUuxI9VSsWQ6KEbVi9OzWilkW5NqstVFIp4JSlphgJjUlRcvpPVOQor5HFQ0QRMGZrFabTx36B6NJAgWpI6S0GZ83IXh1YTJSRU1YesLEZTTHASL0uWm45kmwfg/s4080/PXL_20220413_072201735.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY_ffh-My1PPiSl7bgGYSbYAEHPGlPg6_xm0aSFGoLXdmdfH63QL3NhTTkUuxI9VSsWQ6KEbVi9OzWilkW5NqstVFIp4JSlphgJjUlRcvpPVOQor5HFQ0QRMGZrFabTx36B6NJAgWpI6S0GZ83IXh1YTJSRU1YesLEZTTHASL0uWm45kmwfg/s320/PXL_20220413_072201735.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The threads are woven within each star -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5WikuyfM05EgPijs_toPqdfTuuMyoymZU21-WwXDqv-QBEXavUroTuJlLj7LaSFgdOpOqxyTfvtflXqyBAD_C4i5DgQq-4nfVj_WOCgURHVUp6hkQqtvoHS3aLc1elQh0g1X-cIWvMCcaeM_dJvXiJP1cmccoo_ZAMxNMmz0xzt0jRIal1A/s4080/PXL_20220415_092610644.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5WikuyfM05EgPijs_toPqdfTuuMyoymZU21-WwXDqv-QBEXavUroTuJlLj7LaSFgdOpOqxyTfvtflXqyBAD_C4i5DgQq-4nfVj_WOCgURHVUp6hkQqtvoHS3aLc1elQh0g1X-cIWvMCcaeM_dJvXiJP1cmccoo_ZAMxNMmz0xzt0jRIal1A/s320/PXL_20220415_092610644.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>A third block and a chance to try some other colours, why not -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJec6jXdcT-ScAPZN8KFT1g5HvZlIVhW8el883fNcgHRBQHg-zcCpD5wL8w2If7U0dRZ80PU3Mn7cQ2tLXYR5a43Q119k4_X-h8aBCJq5YoytIf2ybr_sWG1YMesQhAA6hnmwesN8uMwyNG2z9cJ7iQeATqT3DWcDbDJnoz9V90CXRV9Pz5w/s4080/PXL_20220416_173551919.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJec6jXdcT-ScAPZN8KFT1g5HvZlIVhW8el883fNcgHRBQHg-zcCpD5wL8w2If7U0dRZ80PU3Mn7cQ2tLXYR5a43Q119k4_X-h8aBCJq5YoytIf2ybr_sWG1YMesQhAA6hnmwesN8uMwyNG2z9cJ7iQeATqT3DWcDbDJnoz9V90CXRV9Pz5w/s320/PXL_20220416_173551919.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>New possibilities -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt11UcP3CwoA9tANCtIafIDX2L4hR-Mo9S1DJtZxjcz6VAuHs0ukWYupHYwIx7lRdtmfWypCh1tPMaTXJICZ7s_1psQ2a7Gyp6XG6Zr7lshrNM1jFUjKNKISHMqmvQITMrEtzaoN6ccbqdfULamIRkRgX4TwK5WFYkN8MHkKptshcjyAhBkA/s4080/PXL_20220417_202429889.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt11UcP3CwoA9tANCtIafIDX2L4hR-Mo9S1DJtZxjcz6VAuHs0ukWYupHYwIx7lRdtmfWypCh1tPMaTXJICZ7s_1psQ2a7Gyp6XG6Zr7lshrNM1jFUjKNKISHMqmvQITMrEtzaoN6ccbqdfULamIRkRgX4TwK5WFYkN8MHkKptshcjyAhBkA/s320/PXL_20220417_202429889.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Would you call these monoprints? They're not strictly an edition! -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhizZB4SwHDqSLo3QF75FSmHUYzAkA66jImTl8mQwyNaKbyh0rn7kBG59bF247c9BwGcEEfQWe-L3lDRtZWmK_0J-tdQ4MuT2v5YWQFb6KKdJuMP_vq2gQF3J2pFB1Ws57GyWr9EHG6WYrwDxDhKQdMx9RgAdAhMWSq-PGzUrSKTEPvIJmMCQ/s4080/PXL_20220422_142624433.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhizZB4SwHDqSLo3QF75FSmHUYzAkA66jImTl8mQwyNaKbyh0rn7kBG59bF247c9BwGcEEfQWe-L3lDRtZWmK_0J-tdQ4MuT2v5YWQFb6KKdJuMP_vq2gQF3J2pFB1Ws57GyWr9EHG6WYrwDxDhKQdMx9RgAdAhMWSq-PGzUrSKTEPvIJmMCQ/w477-h634/PXL_20220422_142624433.jpg" width="477" /></a></div><div>You can just about see the stitching on some of them. The bottom row contains prints from the single blocks.</div><div><br /></div>This one was printed in three stages, but hasn't been stitched yet -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG3VJmKM9rtoKU9RLEKLKfWIHfGnqsWAEQnEC-7BozLmIUscUmoADNEXszm5IAeFgyHnefrqiH830xdCHfN-dpA6QxhUAN9VnFP24mRqkgsGJ9-ntJUkWOSvdA7Ik1_-enqMsedtbYDv7BmH_BheuHlZzBt1DmxtOUChzwXWt8nqSGYYuc6A/s3999/PXL_20220501_060906742.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2934" data-original-width="3999" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG3VJmKM9rtoKU9RLEKLKfWIHfGnqsWAEQnEC-7BozLmIUscUmoADNEXszm5IAeFgyHnefrqiH830xdCHfN-dpA6QxhUAN9VnFP24mRqkgsGJ9-ntJUkWOSvdA7Ik1_-enqMsedtbYDv7BmH_BheuHlZzBt1DmxtOUChzwXWt8nqSGYYuc6A/w396-h291/PXL_20220501_060906742.jpg" width="396" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p>Something to get back to, one day; possibly soon. I'd like some closure on this idea. Much as I appreciate the hexagon, it's a bit too "Grandmother's Flower Garden" for my current liking.</p><p>First step is to get individual photos of them all, and to arrange them from Best Favourite to least. I am resisting the temptation to sew them together into some sort of paper quilt!</p><p>Those have been languishing since May. In June I started thinking about the construction lines for the geometry drawings, and how they make nets containing the eventual shapes ... but that's another story ...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfWKVCf7CsHe3ZoMPgQfYkHUzolECz55TYN_CGfvxon5vsqMZj2M3nWl-E2FTtSB6WsDSDD1tc1fJVLEHYHs6CRY0PqP8sHC720ZilZmQ1bf76oIGUDBGYQmCYS40SqN-y-FtR_Dvf07D-79MIlmBTScq9a_qxf8VOKxgi473UKcigY_zFrg/s4080/PXL_20220610_191942176.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfWKVCf7CsHe3ZoMPgQfYkHUzolECz55TYN_CGfvxon5vsqMZj2M3nWl-E2FTtSB6WsDSDD1tc1fJVLEHYHs6CRY0PqP8sHC720ZilZmQ1bf76oIGUDBGYQmCYS40SqN-y-FtR_Dvf07D-79MIlmBTScq9a_qxf8VOKxgi473UKcigY_zFrg/s320/PXL_20220610_191942176.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><p></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-37547632669625010682022-09-28T08:38:00.000+01:002022-09-28T08:38:06.025+01:00Yesterday<p> Just another lovely day. I'd done nearly 15K steps at the end of it, and wasted a lot of time in the charity shops of Crouch End as part of the walk. Walking round the neighbourhood seems to need some sort of purpose...</p><p>In the morning, though - painting a couple of geometry patterns -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggq6tLBObg9DG7WdIOLK0WX-KcIfx3yAVGMGTLdEwIWaabZUMdm9Gxjx7NZ53nnEwHTC86r2vO3JXOjCke8un28bcvWHi6Chn9i3YQ6Ps7LV3TlR9JM2uSCUYJMGwgcxr3Jm9nx92iKZJXILWfI0CIu9_htgBoT5NUrN018q09Z3sIkBxZvg/s4080/PXL_20220927_101324466.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggq6tLBObg9DG7WdIOLK0WX-KcIfx3yAVGMGTLdEwIWaabZUMdm9Gxjx7NZ53nnEwHTC86r2vO3JXOjCke8un28bcvWHi6Chn9i3YQ6Ps7LV3TlR9JM2uSCUYJMGwgcxr3Jm9nx92iKZJXILWfI0CIu9_htgBoT5NUrN018q09Z3sIkBxZvg/s320/PXL_20220927_101324466.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Then off to the doctor for flu jab and covid booster - when I left it was raining, so I ducked into the nearest cafe, Aladdin's Cafe, which has a junk shop attached, to wait it out. Drew a few chairs, very quickly -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNtuLoX41WjzCmZYHz5A7egxJdXY8NtZgJuwy7IudTJxIbANMLUlm3WhC5-DZF-16nJh4T4Ot2V3cchPPZzvjxbg1ekgi6QIfFKov_pv9fjKq75JMbS2KyojpGiHH5djJkBnRubVjEAobPCHEAUEVUXQKgnQM0TzrIijZKFcLUOggpOgyTMw/s4080/PXL_20220927_110533888.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNtuLoX41WjzCmZYHz5A7egxJdXY8NtZgJuwy7IudTJxIbANMLUlm3WhC5-DZF-16nJh4T4Ot2V3cchPPZzvjxbg1ekgi6QIfFKov_pv9fjKq75JMbS2KyojpGiHH5djJkBnRubVjEAobPCHEAUEVUXQKgnQM0TzrIijZKFcLUOggpOgyTMw/s320/PXL_20220927_110533888.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibxhnUlEbe_hvuC3PvD7Uu2dsghIiU8whiqXHnWLuDR3qRMemlWllZkdXVjXoQYR22rSJ1VBm4jhrcGO5PnwcxT3Vl6-06gWi0CWS0Zcm88h4_2gAtEsPTLebpNs6NJ2LEVJgJKA0qJt1tX8nTG0rto9StQE-CiX7DCoDoscpjyl-43-eZeg/s4080/PXL_20220927_112050569.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibxhnUlEbe_hvuC3PvD7Uu2dsghIiU8whiqXHnWLuDR3qRMemlWllZkdXVjXoQYR22rSJ1VBm4jhrcGO5PnwcxT3Vl6-06gWi0CWS0Zcm88h4_2gAtEsPTLebpNs6NJ2LEVJgJKA0qJt1tX8nTG0rto9StQE-CiX7DCoDoscpjyl-43-eZeg/s320/PXL_20220927_112050569.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Back in the studio late afternoon, greeted by a rainbow -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRlWk3dist_SHjklH4wLJS7BjPLey7GA2lMQHfegJKIl2Q0yYr62HgvGDA4p_q1NlyW8BdfJAAt8w2IUmHoyvLCt3CqarK2LmDdGXMDborGFgzy3rlqQoDviEnj6tMe8aBVz8MOQhxvxZgWjC5bVndqWjql3yrtzo0qxKWzgSNe9ls2CIr4w/s4080/PXL_20220927_170554525.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRlWk3dist_SHjklH4wLJS7BjPLey7GA2lMQHfegJKIl2Q0yYr62HgvGDA4p_q1NlyW8BdfJAAt8w2IUmHoyvLCt3CqarK2LmDdGXMDborGFgzy3rlqQoDviEnj6tMe8aBVz8MOQhxvxZgWjC5bVndqWjql3yrtzo0qxKWzgSNe9ls2CIr4w/s320/PXL_20220927_170554525.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>And later, arrival of my son after a day in the woodwork shop, using their big machines to cut stuff etc and take it all back to the next job in Cheltenham. We went to Korean/Japanese restaurant Dotori for a quick bite. Probably my last tempura, deep fry has unwelcome after-effects....<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5FC3Z3hxTvAf0Xz2FKVpPVxD3X_P8pqfubEcmLA-IQH2nSzp8N9KviaQMHDFOGCZDeLHGOm1o0XgsYY6pyhsYSzt7qRBGP-cM6kUBsdiFWSVylBP7K6xxQLdzKm3XOEHTCucOpYV7-uWZ7Y3YATWHE-5lWR8hXQNpqDUNHvoH5-2WzmS7gQ/s4080/PXL_20220927_192328810.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5FC3Z3hxTvAf0Xz2FKVpPVxD3X_P8pqfubEcmLA-IQH2nSzp8N9KviaQMHDFOGCZDeLHGOm1o0XgsYY6pyhsYSzt7qRBGP-cM6kUBsdiFWSVylBP7K6xxQLdzKm3XOEHTCucOpYV7-uWZ7Y3YATWHE-5lWR8hXQNpqDUNHvoH5-2WzmS7gQ/s320/PXL_20220927_192328810.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>And so to bed.<br /><p><br /></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-7106339815391652772022-09-25T09:47:00.001+01:002022-09-25T09:47:32.866+01:00Cafe culture<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sidewalk seating, Mayfair, London. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtxTcv5ZQdqbYAZr7wD0ahmMxecCAFOIEgkB7JqwkqkEgiMhqnFmfeXtuli-iY8GHokC-UlD73MR8moELPJOqOGMh4seJZNP-fg7psq66KR2WQGPRDwLdELjAlQzWNjaCje85ZRNe9qOOGzOTe4ESC92wO1v_YveQyJMSbWPK5VP475L2eRQ/s4080/PXL_20220924_122656811.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtxTcv5ZQdqbYAZr7wD0ahmMxecCAFOIEgkB7JqwkqkEgiMhqnFmfeXtuli-iY8GHokC-UlD73MR8moELPJOqOGMh4seJZNP-fg7psq66KR2WQGPRDwLdELjAlQzWNjaCje85ZRNe9qOOGzOTe4ESC92wO1v_YveQyJMSbWPK5VP475L2eRQ/s320/PXL_20220924_122656811.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGuROv-B2CYVIDVahFS47nFve5UoANXcDh2qf316ZniiTkRz-VItuu_q1JtfSA25MnfoaMRLsyDjDuS3FPI7LcmtnEDcmZNcnf1noD4Qu6J626Y57BNS0dda3R25J76kItpZylcRM1QS9yyKSMgzmB_pFsG1aMVPMBCTrEqLiNH4-AuuVGw/s4080/PXL_20220924_123230027.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGuROv-B2CYVIDVahFS47nFve5UoANXcDh2qf316ZniiTkRz-VItuu_q1JtfSA25MnfoaMRLsyDjDuS3FPI7LcmtnEDcmZNcnf1noD4Qu6J626Y57BNS0dda3R25J76kItpZylcRM1QS9yyKSMgzmB_pFsG1aMVPMBCTrEqLiNH4-AuuVGw/s320/PXL_20220924_123230027.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Might these areas outside cafes qualify as parterres? A posh term for a posh part of town.<br /> <p></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-16678509919790689732022-09-24T12:05:00.000+01:002022-09-25T09:39:52.110+01:00Geometry<p>During lockdown I happened on an online course taught by <a href="https://www.westdean.org.uk/study/tutors/tom-bree" target="_blank">Tom Bree</a> via West Dean. Loved it, and have been doing other online, and in-person, courses at the <a href="https://princes-foundation.org/school-of-traditional-arts/open-programme" target="_blank">Prince's School of Traditional Arts</a>, and following a few tutorials available on youtube and via websites. </p><p>Most recent was a week-long course on five-fold geometry, taught by <a href="https://princes-foundation.org/school-of-traditional-arts/degreeshow2020/maziz" target="_blank">Mohammed Aziz</a>. For four days we followed instructions to make ever more difficult patterns, and on the fifth daydid a less complicated one, and had time to add colour to the pattern. Ten-pointed stars are built up from a circle divided into five - using just compass and ruler, no numbers of any kind -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmULkUPZSa_a-o6V6NRewaoAu2Jcf82vK4dso49yTOSMwaeUNMNfp0ezb4IpWJLGLED8yBzUbARMqA7aDLv4c5ajtNVYVmdsECF_TqWleUYWRKH8pYQS-L7fm9KhAw2lXNn9SvQSzTvWzUrIsOOsGqOLkWP59-zvDHpsKEDKjMEjyibncBwQ/s4080/PXL_20220911_090236298.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmULkUPZSa_a-o6V6NRewaoAu2Jcf82vK4dso49yTOSMwaeUNMNfp0ezb4IpWJLGLED8yBzUbARMqA7aDLv4c5ajtNVYVmdsECF_TqWleUYWRKH8pYQS-L7fm9KhAw2lXNn9SvQSzTvWzUrIsOOsGqOLkWP59-zvDHpsKEDKjMEjyibncBwQ/s320/PXL_20220911_090236298.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>Colouring in -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiSlzhz71VhGk5rwdsNHFSjHSeKv4s0RBpGL6KGPdxQ2wQsSmjz8ZyX-bKakg6QFRXx9Qo4KI056yfSpcwCnXRpRf29E3K8I4dyi0jVvjv6UtnhlOtapV8wj-6X9qWCRoml1b3R4NCAXEXHVYtRDEDO9rG9fe5w68n2LsG1WrgStGzcIqupA/s4080/PXL_20220909_153125905.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiSlzhz71VhGk5rwdsNHFSjHSeKv4s0RBpGL6KGPdxQ2wQsSmjz8ZyX-bKakg6QFRXx9Qo4KI056yfSpcwCnXRpRf29E3K8I4dyi0jVvjv6UtnhlOtapV8wj-6X9qWCRoml1b3R4NCAXEXHVYtRDEDO9rG9fe5w68n2LsG1WrgStGzcIqupA/s320/PXL_20220909_153125905.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVY4uf7MNScsEavJWyEsphrzAEU1qI0sn82rzlcsLveUKEBDi6gsAeTPtV0HImuLyrLlUdcJvSwJBK51L7n5UlWp__hj3jFXy37PX9W_GlrEixw_YzCO1PZ5-Fis0B3LqqikZKWnUSBVpgNHVi58ZHhlkgGxnXg9mcM2N0EucJfpDC_WxouQ/s4080/PXL_20220909_144444341.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVY4uf7MNScsEavJWyEsphrzAEU1qI0sn82rzlcsLveUKEBDi6gsAeTPtV0HImuLyrLlUdcJvSwJBK51L7n5UlWp__hj3jFXy37PX9W_GlrEixw_YzCO1PZ5-Fis0B3LqqikZKWnUSBVpgNHVi58ZHhlkgGxnXg9mcM2N0EucJfpDC_WxouQ/s320/PXL_20220909_144444341.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>Drawing a section of the pattern, which was then traced and transferred ten times to make the entire pattern -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjOXCrjZxvyMP-VjqE0XEstZ_aEZnSvnEtRooUEyiMLZS1sGEpIXpi8KoHqQRdOlTfN3uiLBulKWLKd9ehe0N0wJVeSc7JMUkN4UFTClojqKvrXI5DtxxQqZdtp85YYgnOXywe7THRPOCb6NhKOLjmz0_AQSAvIrmggIdjl7Qd_uPPeooQgg/s4080/PXL_20220909_115112023.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjOXCrjZxvyMP-VjqE0XEstZ_aEZnSvnEtRooUEyiMLZS1sGEpIXpi8KoHqQRdOlTfN3uiLBulKWLKd9ehe0N0wJVeSc7JMUkN4UFTClojqKvrXI5DtxxQqZdtp85YYgnOXywe7THRPOCb6NhKOLjmz0_AQSAvIrmggIdjl7Qd_uPPeooQgg/s320/PXL_20220909_115112023.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Here are some I prepared earlier - the first is based on a pattern known as "pajaritos", little birds -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvi__6RjKe2HpB3SB7S25kBYTEXrFjzEKxo4J65W5INOsSWNGr9c5rtqS16NFtkw2ZYzKKfLG4dPQ1WJ-idX1AmDIkiqM-eU_0mFutDaFOa2EOY79eYHD9YEkkzktFx5H-zl4NtdkzwoKtvQ5S9BLTTtjZAnkrb_eF22yn7GXV2voqnycF7A/s3129/PXL_20220908_065122232.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3129" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvi__6RjKe2HpB3SB7S25kBYTEXrFjzEKxo4J65W5INOsSWNGr9c5rtqS16NFtkw2ZYzKKfLG4dPQ1WJ-idX1AmDIkiqM-eU_0mFutDaFOa2EOY79eYHD9YEkkzktFx5H-zl4NtdkzwoKtvQ5S9BLTTtjZAnkrb_eF22yn7GXV2voqnycF7A/s320/PXL_20220908_065122232.MP.jpg" width="314" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMpyTP-P6N4zQOgsFzvVbxi_uEBDNGHIawZjx-nhenmE8Pb7QiTs57yzaWYxNUYTVTx9moIb5e6-eBTwoeOp1Z86OrcGdVMmH6320cgoGxDYvKUl7OYwMHEJvTYGz-RBIrC9p2Sy8wJ7m_XWiK7ih6RIUUM182WxcvuEIB8Nr44gtp-LIMvw/s4080/PXL_20220901_164842452.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMpyTP-P6N4zQOgsFzvVbxi_uEBDNGHIawZjx-nhenmE8Pb7QiTs57yzaWYxNUYTVTx9moIb5e6-eBTwoeOp1Z86OrcGdVMmH6320cgoGxDYvKUl7OYwMHEJvTYGz-RBIrC9p2Sy8wJ7m_XWiK7ih6RIUUM182WxcvuEIB8Nr44gtp-LIMvw/s320/PXL_20220901_164842452.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My workspace in Cheltenham is very like my workspace in London</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Ur54xZ_w1T4q6tARgKaYYQt9zUmA3TFxcuUeIfoaVHIS1Y-FPx8q_g46DnC3HZdh5CFYFa8wPDWiONL28MKDsQWGq5V5pPuOZjRsP9SghO8F7ZeOaGui8ddOCZsbvo08noOZQdoReUK1J7dYpjWlpff3uG_F7b74bUHVwY6l8l2PAnjahQ/s4080/PXL_20220829_065047886.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Ur54xZ_w1T4q6tARgKaYYQt9zUmA3TFxcuUeIfoaVHIS1Y-FPx8q_g46DnC3HZdh5CFYFa8wPDWiONL28MKDsQWGq5V5pPuOZjRsP9SghO8F7ZeOaGui8ddOCZsbvo08noOZQdoReUK1J7dYpjWlpff3uG_F7b74bUHVwY6l8l2PAnjahQ/s320/PXL_20220829_065047886.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">An experiment in painting</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj83KOv-rAOOfse-VJ1783ITBGvQ_fVekpJwSfV-PPTUZkbwHdFnbQn_hOCAl9nmPj4bTjbsDylCS9zyFuv7GE3CjsQqiOVk-rfawzUZZu7qn2ukNNausr-UFrrh2HqvkvfEIF26yJrkmjvJU6cG0QUZ0pepBI0VUhijG6uYzsYyx3_HjCEOQ/s4080/PXL_20220825_202600583.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj83KOv-rAOOfse-VJ1783ITBGvQ_fVekpJwSfV-PPTUZkbwHdFnbQn_hOCAl9nmPj4bTjbsDylCS9zyFuv7GE3CjsQqiOVk-rfawzUZZu7qn2ukNNausr-UFrrh2HqvkvfEIF26yJrkmjvJU6cG0QUZ0pepBI0VUhijG6uYzsYyx3_HjCEOQ/s320/PXL_20220825_202600583.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Basic pattern (with stars instead of hexagons)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNjZIGykwxx9D2lzIT1E6FvM0l6A2fLZlJ_JtdkKBPe1HEDMbu3BSM6ShfHCLcjBfcgZkRUPP5_r0iPJvIgRPyxmAD_hAtEjEvjTjGSn3r5-FcAqgATvceDcb0IDpYzdTWbWWBoS4AqCz63wklSRqsk8Jvfh13hzRktGSqX1OcQsFK_bIsXg/s2793/PXL_20220822_194338759.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2793" data-original-width="2401" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNjZIGykwxx9D2lzIT1E6FvM0l6A2fLZlJ_JtdkKBPe1HEDMbu3BSM6ShfHCLcjBfcgZkRUPP5_r0iPJvIgRPyxmAD_hAtEjEvjTjGSn3r5-FcAqgATvceDcb0IDpYzdTWbWWBoS4AqCz63wklSRqsk8Jvfh13hzRktGSqX1OcQsFK_bIsXg/s320/PXL_20220822_194338759.MP.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Inspiration - a tiled wall in the Alhambra</div><div><br /></div>Variations on a starry theme -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIJOtdZ5FsuKiLiuqljhfW33b1y2wQzJecz-4P0-lnQwPkjsjwvARajgKWHoFF1FB0sjL0WKMv0dEv0dOV8KJCvf3wIRnlXdDQpGOvVMxQB0VweRelPnUvNHYWIyM1LnjT5ZN3bWH7X3I0VL7XIwQWW6wc6wHRX7Zx711Tv4BwzPCxqTGStw/s4080/PXL_20220820_085048365.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIJOtdZ5FsuKiLiuqljhfW33b1y2wQzJecz-4P0-lnQwPkjsjwvARajgKWHoFF1FB0sjL0WKMv0dEv0dOV8KJCvf3wIRnlXdDQpGOvVMxQB0VweRelPnUvNHYWIyM1LnjT5ZN3bWH7X3I0VL7XIwQWW6wc6wHRX7Zx711Tv4BwzPCxqTGStw/s320/PXL_20220820_085048365.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUTs2pIGWXu4VQfzwSsvAtWoqV8DZtss_YFg5_9K6YDDReMz42aydzA2Td3lwmugZp1FYC562VADPadnbJ0dhg35SEE0Vmd6aTywBdBBqTl4uagyeH3jWHFvbWptf0YNgC6n8vW3ZnE1ahWzPJpkmTyhdo_A0BA0uxTo_N-VU4KjjE8oUKBA/s4080/PXL_20220816_174756848.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUTs2pIGWXu4VQfzwSsvAtWoqV8DZtss_YFg5_9K6YDDReMz42aydzA2Td3lwmugZp1FYC562VADPadnbJ0dhg35SEE0Vmd6aTywBdBBqTl4uagyeH3jWHFvbWptf0YNgC6n8vW3ZnE1ahWzPJpkmTyhdo_A0BA0uxTo_N-VU4KjjE8oUKBA/s320/PXL_20220816_174756848.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Something a little more complicated</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9U_mQq3xUhady3mVfB_zxMRwciFcQ1kw8K_32uSS7LH0V5aU3y9E_4uZE8YQC9txmR6Ye_BNkaRidzrVm9Khubf8YCxwhqRCJVe_i_7CA6L2afHB8TiXidVlZtDEsLxVPkie86D9VjtF_BhgWjUTqyAwWvUfqGp04Ca4wu9cBAJe_h2cFrw/s4080/PXL_20220813_143031616.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9U_mQq3xUhady3mVfB_zxMRwciFcQ1kw8K_32uSS7LH0V5aU3y9E_4uZE8YQC9txmR6Ye_BNkaRidzrVm9Khubf8YCxwhqRCJVe_i_7CA6L2afHB8TiXidVlZtDEsLxVPkie86D9VjtF_BhgWjUTqyAwWvUfqGp04Ca4wu9cBAJe_h2cFrw/s320/PXL_20220813_143031616.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Finished</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcz8xq7_8h6mogtgboGK_Mx18jGV739sMX1WvURmSNA7VY89R765Qm_ZGPhV-prRJ6DycpeCsVVqpyGFPMu2Prbg8s0bPvkyoRj1ndI0KKvwF6fh2B5gw406_EgRs6wVkbkXn_NXWc6rLBqJyxSIKX_5Gm_rjszvnZq1SfyuozCnVwXef3kw/s4080/PXL_20220812_175814138.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcz8xq7_8h6mogtgboGK_Mx18jGV739sMX1WvURmSNA7VY89R765Qm_ZGPhV-prRJ6DycpeCsVVqpyGFPMu2Prbg8s0bPvkyoRj1ndI0KKvwF6fh2B5gw406_EgRs6wVkbkXn_NXWc6rLBqJyxSIKX_5Gm_rjszvnZq1SfyuozCnVwXef3kw/s320/PXL_20220812_175814138.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Evolving</div><div><br /></div>Trying out colour schemes on patterns -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW7qc9PcmY708-YBmpSuZIRpkE-pgShXRSTNIiuLdIW0Wzom6XGoJV9PnIG1EXwkJDo3wSE8rVfN59AiGrnKXX8_sZKDI1JpempYdsAjaAN3YtMkkKDhC_I20vfrCeTR4Wc1ZlHRdsH49tW1Dd41e6L7aDvHRfKfX_WnKWpm-wdUK5x4ETrQ/s4080/PXL_20220805_094021256.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW7qc9PcmY708-YBmpSuZIRpkE-pgShXRSTNIiuLdIW0Wzom6XGoJV9PnIG1EXwkJDo3wSE8rVfN59AiGrnKXX8_sZKDI1JpempYdsAjaAN3YtMkkKDhC_I20vfrCeTR4Wc1ZlHRdsH49tW1Dd41e6L7aDvHRfKfX_WnKWpm-wdUK5x4ETrQ/s320/PXL_20220805_094021256.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">From a series of online lessons taught by <a href="https://www.lisadelong.com/" target="_blank">Lisa DeLong</a></span></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoYY9Z9wJ2Yp9m-WftB6l7emzz94V_R-s9DzIP8PpysWS-xhlRsKw5qvHZxtNb1mUYctX6evMOivUOwsFr1WNFfz6BlfaEmI0PoKgrOk8dKuOp17yHzGxarQhz0l14bxYFB3Ak0OWIR2jZ2zAAy6n8L9FAK3Dh1avGCGGu4gVq0QQ3_s3GSA/s4080/PXL_20220803_070713454.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoYY9Z9wJ2Yp9m-WftB6l7emzz94V_R-s9DzIP8PpysWS-xhlRsKw5qvHZxtNb1mUYctX6evMOivUOwsFr1WNFfz6BlfaEmI0PoKgrOk8dKuOp17yHzGxarQhz0l14bxYFB3Ak0OWIR2jZ2zAAy6n8L9FAK3Dh1avGCGGu4gVq0QQ3_s3GSA/s320/PXL_20220803_070713454.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From the eight-fold symmetry online course taught by Tom Bree</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcSgM2MC9mszf_WZqn6UXAmGoDhQpKZ5XHu0FS_pznexm6FP8LRzAZC-R0XYttU_pedBmduXb6xFVdMAu5QhyOOk1WCh46dKON9YbCECZpqxHL50jNOr3ITQQomAffsMnr9q6vSxBcPbAo_YBWf2zSomNRXlhnycCGRPfjU1bXzFGIm1rHXg/s4080/PXL_20220727_065237498.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcSgM2MC9mszf_WZqn6UXAmGoDhQpKZ5XHu0FS_pznexm6FP8LRzAZC-R0XYttU_pedBmduXb6xFVdMAu5QhyOOk1WCh46dKON9YbCECZpqxHL50jNOr3ITQQomAffsMnr9q6vSxBcPbAo_YBWf2zSomNRXlhnycCGRPfjU1bXzFGIm1rHXg/s320/PXL_20220727_065237498.MP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also from Tom Bree's course</div><p>Another early course was based on the windows of <a href="https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;eg;Mon01;2;en" target="_blank">Ibn Tulun mosque</a>, taught by <a href="https://www.katyanosyreva.com/studies-of-medieval-islamic-manuals-on-geometry-etchings-and-watercolours" target="_blank">Katya Nosyreva</a>. These are works-in-progress from that series -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_zGPho9Ja904TjQSIwZTVZKtQPK_Nhl7QJ7AlFVzoEQpohsoz2ItnyTmawmhS9sfcAHe3eiWEfJ7N2v9ERTDJu1DeVAEazr7R4brYtKRfYJTfqBRVE_IELbmiFecELhK763HHORqgg91LgZxeWGwlE_dWFn5eqnF35-Jp7Ca0O0FWgLxZ_Q/s4080/PXL_20220414_085040330.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_zGPho9Ja904TjQSIwZTVZKtQPK_Nhl7QJ7AlFVzoEQpohsoz2ItnyTmawmhS9sfcAHe3eiWEfJ7N2v9ERTDJu1DeVAEazr7R4brYtKRfYJTfqBRVE_IELbmiFecELhK763HHORqgg91LgZxeWGwlE_dWFn5eqnF35-Jp7Ca0O0FWgLxZ_Q/s320/PXL_20220414_085040330.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_AkHw0goTnpVdIQeUqfByW7wfX7oeMXDqE2rdrm7LTvBVdzaWwIZjloTdeC6N6O7n73khore3c3NAqAv5Zk8NtTqHClTKULM8ShJgfqFryWQZiRruiIsPZiLhtGewfMZCTdi-XPem7A3mxcZhM4CEyJKruXpapJjT0WI4l6Cb5nfI47aF5w/s4080/PXL_20220327_114648793.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_AkHw0goTnpVdIQeUqfByW7wfX7oeMXDqE2rdrm7LTvBVdzaWwIZjloTdeC6N6O7n73khore3c3NAqAv5Zk8NtTqHClTKULM8ShJgfqFryWQZiRruiIsPZiLhtGewfMZCTdi-XPem7A3mxcZhM4CEyJKruXpapJjT0WI4l6Cb5nfI47aF5w/s320/PXL_20220327_114648793.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Some patterns have found their way into (onto?) woodblocks -</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZGkghLPMbTNKL3AkDn7y0BGrWS9GtnwAOOg9biGsGWaj8UgUr9v8HTLSWnlahdaeIHu4FzQcE4B6NZufntenlYnuAHB3U3-u5JeJdSSEdN9VicHbq4zXXNcnlBHWi-sOjuoD74_oExfDpcSziyYlBq0dJCFaGlIZnVN0IwklJYIYoeoNPTA/s4080/PXL_20220130_135605427.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZGkghLPMbTNKL3AkDn7y0BGrWS9GtnwAOOg9biGsGWaj8UgUr9v8HTLSWnlahdaeIHu4FzQcE4B6NZufntenlYnuAHB3U3-u5JeJdSSEdN9VicHbq4zXXNcnlBHWi-sOjuoD74_oExfDpcSziyYlBq0dJCFaGlIZnVN0IwklJYIYoeoNPTA/s320/PXL_20220130_135605427.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyiieEPdlW5kACJvZz0d_UaSeFwHuMIY5ugPVb8oX4PPraunpryLdsrAyeLLnWDINZZasA-XPeS7P2zGet1qzkIkehJ1EKpHZFM56jEUVx9_0TS0iUOuiU6nJkXy9Wm0t7QzVXa9iBZpZjj4bg88tRjqpk4EweSVFkMRplgcRzCrQLjwyXSw/s3991/PXL_20220119_084837901.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2990" data-original-width="3991" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyiieEPdlW5kACJvZz0d_UaSeFwHuMIY5ugPVb8oX4PPraunpryLdsrAyeLLnWDINZZasA-XPeS7P2zGet1qzkIkehJ1EKpHZFM56jEUVx9_0TS0iUOuiU6nJkXy9Wm0t7QzVXa9iBZpZjj4bg88tRjqpk4EweSVFkMRplgcRzCrQLjwyXSw/s320/PXL_20220119_084837901.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSrIgPP4Ymh8HGtKIC_D4v23InvzoZNj76oOWYa23Vwiwsje1W1TXW2dCTSSylskQqt6-zZsHPlFxdX8UPUMpEhKZSzPlRtvxxLG6Ub43G-HP9bzeaLiwgUnaeaG08vdr2a4ZOk64zwLBGDGcgjHC6OqwPvpiM2erCPn-nU_amrkHr-C1N5A/s3999/PXL_20220501_060906742.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2934" data-original-width="3999" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSrIgPP4Ymh8HGtKIC_D4v23InvzoZNj76oOWYa23Vwiwsje1W1TXW2dCTSSylskQqt6-zZsHPlFxdX8UPUMpEhKZSzPlRtvxxLG6Ub43G-HP9bzeaLiwgUnaeaG08vdr2a4ZOk64zwLBGDGcgjHC6OqwPvpiM2erCPn-nU_amrkHr-C1N5A/s320/PXL_20220501_060906742.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmsFR_L0T8KANUVFuWbLJCNBCL0bFFtSkFgTdwaYyCIr8Xl0T_W6uOv3FeGpMuwSp-4j2knY5XpC4kDcwbvgSLctmsL5TT4KSW91HyS4j1WRBbFs2XK5EWPxCmT2tXtX0kSGie-IG3W2jwrebgHtLe69iWQB9cwmOQDZ7B3dDA61Ro9FJLdQ/s4080/PXL_20220422_142621606.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmsFR_L0T8KANUVFuWbLJCNBCL0bFFtSkFgTdwaYyCIr8Xl0T_W6uOv3FeGpMuwSp-4j2knY5XpC4kDcwbvgSLctmsL5TT4KSW91HyS4j1WRBbFs2XK5EWPxCmT2tXtX0kSGie-IG3W2jwrebgHtLe69iWQB9cwmOQDZ7B3dDA61Ro9FJLdQ/s320/PXL_20220422_142621606.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Some of these "flowers" received stitching to bring out the pattern</div><br /><p><br /></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20432226.post-41200521441645011662022-09-24T10:51:00.000+01:002022-09-24T10:51:11.028+01:00Checking in<p> Mostly I've been posting my work and thoughts and photos of "the ordinary pleasures of life" on instagram, but it's not letting me access camera photos, just the ones already used in posts, how daft is that? </p><p><br /></p><p>So after a longish hiatus, it's back to the blog. A good place to accumulate posts of, eg, the geometry (ruler&compass, no measuring!) I've been doing lately, and the woodblock printing that will resume next week as a new term of classes starts, and other projects such as going to exhibitions and noticing things on walks.</p><p><br /></p><p>This morning I pinned up my hair, which has been growing since before lockdown, to tame it a bit. Catching sight of myself in the hall mirror I thought "Zuni maiden with corn-flower hairdo" and whipped out the (phone) camera, which is always around my neck in its crossbody lanyard case, and snapped this*.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLgkAddjbaxvolanS6pmJMfh5OiIywI8tyYvSyQKCmMpoDStrGV744yA_VULTxPerYkSOorn7nUKoFiDLAS9d07-HSCIQZmeR3BHrcPSlNo3Qrrs8kWYur_7A_CAAz5J52tnCoJmO3se4Iz-sFuKLlkbFe90N6Nv7oLvaFEQ0exmpW1c6DFg/s3162/PXL_20220924_085140668.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3162" data-original-width="1981" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLgkAddjbaxvolanS6pmJMfh5OiIywI8tyYvSyQKCmMpoDStrGV744yA_VULTxPerYkSOorn7nUKoFiDLAS9d07-HSCIQZmeR3BHrcPSlNo3Qrrs8kWYur_7A_CAAz5J52tnCoJmO3se4Iz-sFuKLlkbFe90N6Nv7oLvaFEQ0exmpW1c6DFg/s320/PXL_20220924_085140668.MP.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p>Hmm, not quite the Zuni maiden, and not a corn hairdo -</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb-J_jp7AOKi3n4XFPT8-ESFyP3x_qy7IpBFJtIs1lyOQxYLAlzOXCxgyKHnypz3OjXS7N5qVx9inifajsHoPV17kIvaZZ_cKGK4aeYMERQiF7jUCuihH4uRxeNXZMrCnBwYO_by2y8PGeO5I-TC_tzBnVM-nqZ5J_efhjH5z9rnndI4FGpw/s4080/PXL_20220924_093248318.MP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb-J_jp7AOKi3n4XFPT8-ESFyP3x_qy7IpBFJtIs1lyOQxYLAlzOXCxgyKHnypz3OjXS7N5qVx9inifajsHoPV17kIvaZZ_cKGK4aeYMERQiF7jUCuihH4uRxeNXZMrCnBwYO_by2y8PGeO5I-TC_tzBnVM-nqZ5J_efhjH5z9rnndI4FGpw/s320/PXL_20220924_093248318.MP.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>Squash blossom hairdo, Hopi maiden. "Adolescent Hopi girls wore their hair in the traditional squash-blossom hairstyle to signify their maturity and readiness for marriage" says the photo <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/HumanPorn/comments/i30n9b/adolescent_hopi_girls_wore_their_hair_in_the/" target="_blank">source</a>.<p></p><p></p><p><br /></p>*I have new glasses and am wearing a favourite scarf, found in Canada, purchased in duplicate as a "sisters present" (Sue, do you still have yours?). The oil painting of roses used to hang in Tony's kitchen. Lots of memories floating around! Including memories of reading about Pueblo life as a schoolchild, and later the crime/mystery<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=tony+hillerman+books+in+order&rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB739GB739&oq=tony+hellerman&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j46i10j0i10l5j46i10j0i10.9545j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank"> novels of Tony Hillerman</a>, set in the Southwest USA. <p></p>Margaret Cooterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.com2