slides building

 

 

 

After my experiments with plaster I turned to paper again. It's my most favourite material after all. I covered old slides with an assortment of scraps of paper and sometimes just stuck a piece on one side. Because in the slums all kinds of materials are being used I used the pieces of paper without putting much thought in colour coordinating.

I drilled holes in the corners and joined the slides with iron and copper wire. Sometimes I made a small embellishment with the wire.

playing with plaster

The assignment was: make a building inspired by the slums of for example Mexico or India. At first I had no idea what to do, so I started with the leftover forms used for packing a laptop in a box (top photo). I filled them with plaster and also filled some cookie and chocolate moulds.
Great forms appeared, for example the dents in the chocolate moulds.
I tried to transfer a photo of sticks on one of the moulds, that's why its darker.
In the end I couldn't make it work for this project, so I abandoned the plaster forms and set to work with slides.

altered book

One of the assingnments of the art academy was making or altering a book. I chose a rather thick thriller to work with. I started with putting blue and green paint on some pages and smearing it all over the book. Because I wanted to fade the colours a bit I held the book under the tap. It absorbed the water enourmously and swelled.

After drying it for weeks it was totally deformed. The head and the tail looked like wings to me. I painted front and back black and wrapped rope around it.

One of the

update 'Tilleke Schwartz' embroidery

Some details of my work in progress. Because of my monthly crafty ladies club I'm making progress indeed. (Although a lot of talking is included these evenings also :-).)

spring greeting

I've made a little card for some friends with a poem (I'm sorry that it's only in Dutch.) and a print of a (home made eraser-) stamp of a crocus.
It seemed appropriate for the lovely weather we're having at the moment.

Busy

I've been busy yesterday afternoon. In a flow I moved my paintbrush on papers and sticked wooden skewers in a polystyrene ball. I don't know where it will lead to, but I had fun.

Spain journal

These are some pages from my Spain journal. The cover is fabric and I lined it with wallpaper with sketched flowers. Some of them I coloured with pencil. Back in kindergarten!
My group of friends has a 'pink' theme, so I used a lot of it in this journal.
Next post I will show some filled pages. What I did different this time is that I asked my friends to write something in this journal (about our 30 years of  friendship).

quick little project

Sometimes in my Ladies club (we're doing all kinds of crafty things) we exchange materials. This time J gave us all a small white zipper. I made (in my usual quick and dirty style) a little pouch with it and some copied collages on bookbinding cloth. I even lined it!

 

Mary Ann was in my house - no not again

 

I'm sure I posted about this event in october last year, but somehow that post has disappeared!. I'm not a regular blogger but this time it set me back even more. Because it would take lot of time doing this post again I seemed reluctant to be blogging at all (and reading other blogs).
It was great to receive Mary Ann in my house and irl she is as nice a person as you would expect from her blog. You can read her blogpost about her visit over here.

New Year resolution

I was astonished to see that my last post dated back 27th of November. I kept putting it of to write another blogpost. Partly because the things I'm making now are mostly for the Art Academy and they are not always completed projects and that interesting to show.
I also wasn't reading other blogs. Sometimes there's a bit of an overkill on visual information for me.
My resolution is to try blogging more and only in English (although it is not perfect) to make it a bit less time consuming.In the upcoming weeks I will post blogs that were in the draft file for a long time. Because I'm not wanting to quit blogging (although it crossed my mind).

But all is not that heavy and serious. There's also time to play: