Slippers/pantoufles

Walk softly in velvet slippers. When your feet are happy, the rest of you is happy. Feet are our base, supporting the rest of our body.

Gouache on brown paper. Available in my Etsy shop.

Simplicity is the removal of the useless and the unnecessary--source unknown

The subject of angels came up yesterday while talking with one of the angels in my life; angels don't always have to be mystical and feathered. Today I pulled out my sketchbook.

I've been practising doodling. Does that sound sad? "practising"?? Yes, I've had to practise. I draw so when I try to doodle it gets too formal. It's like the straight line thing: I can draw a straight line; I had to practise drawing unstraight lines. I started by using my left hand.

I'm happy to announce that I've covered this subject of drawing in the new Somerset Studio which will be released May 1.

 

Be good to your friends -- Kevin Bacon.

Vol de Nuit

I've been drawing birds. Since they're for a magazine assignment, I can't show them to you just yet. But I can show you this. Is it a bird or an airplane....? I drew it in my scrapbook. I had good intentions with this scrapbook; I started gluing things in it, but it ended up being a sketchbook. Reverting to my true nature... the moral of which is be who you are.

I was thinking of St-Exupéry's book Vol de Nuit [Night Flight]. The Little Prince is his best-known work, but Vol de Nuit is what sticks in my mind. 

 

 

He slept here (Quebec)

Saturday practice

Among the goodies from Jocelyn was a pile vintage lace rectangles. The moment I saw them I knew exactly what I would make.

Envelopes/pouches. They become part of the gift inside. Sometimes the gift can be a letter, and I had vision of letters and notes written by hand and inserted into a lace envelope.....

My aunt encouraged a loose (but controlled, if you know what I mean) style when I started drawing and sketching. Don't box your drawings in, she would say. I can do that without thinking with my textile art, because that's how I like to do it, but I've needed practice with drawing. Unfortunately (or not) I'm one of those people who actually can draw a straight line, so I have to be deliberate about drawing, say, a crooked little house.