Hung this silvery iridescent ‘ghost shift dress’ next to the ‘urchin’ type one I’ve been stitching into over the past week. Like the contrast of the raggedy matt texture of the urchin one with that ghostly glowing flatness of the shift one.
Spent this morning printing glossy, translucent fluorescent orange dots on top of these splashy, drippy ‘ghost’ clothing images. Also used rags, spatulas and my fingers to work layers of the same orange into them. Want to play with working charcoal or thin watercolour into them. I think the orange gloss and the bitumen paint I used to create the clothing images initially will act as resist, and hopefully glow through the blackness of the charcoal or watercolour.
My @fancy_nancy_workshop ‘bracelets’ arrived. The most amazing company that normally make ‘fancy’ leather dog leads and harnesses. They made me these two because I don’t have a dog but I met them at Crufts. Lovely people. You pick your own leathers, colour of stitching and rhinestones … and they’re tough cos they’re normally worn by dogs. So so pleased with them. An early Birthday present to myself.
My Christmas present is up on the wall and it looks amazing ! Bob commissioned @liz_atkin to make this stunning drawing for our house. A dark wave pouring in to the space. Perfect frame & so easy to hang thanks to @davebushell850 and @whitstableframing
Been Mono-printing on to this painted cotton vest shape with oil paint rubbed into bog-standard photocopy paper. A method Trish Flynn showed us in that print workshop a couple of weeks ago. Images of Sylvanian families, Playmobil and Polly Pocket. Toys inherited after my niece Pia had finished with them. Thinking about childhood memories and how those things we play with are amongst the building blocks that form who we become as ‘grown ups’.
Yesterday, the Salto / Edmund de Wall exhibition at the Hepworth. Utterly enjoyable and inspirational. I spent 45 minutes or more of my time there in the kids bit printing with rubber stamps with Salto-esque type marks on them. I was apparently sitting on the same children’s chair that the Queen of Denmark had sat on when she went to see the same show at the Clay Museum in Middlefart.
Mono-printing and creating in the woods at the Gunpowder Works today. We went for the bluebells, but there were next to no bluebells to be seen. So we allowed ourselves to be inspired by the trees, leafy ground and dappled sunlight instead. Leaving behind just some turquoise tinted water and a solitary bluebell in a jam jar.
