Showing posts with label peace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peace. Show all posts

Sunday, 12 August 2012

Marathon Sketchbooking

The more I watch the Olympics and see all these active people, the more I want to sit on my bottom and play in my sketchbook!
 I have only a week or so left of my year of my Creative Sketchbook course and I need to get to finishing Module 4. I've had many a week where creativity has been at a low ebb as my mum moves toward the end of her life, but this past two weeks I realised how much art can be a therapy in these situations. It buys time to ponder and time to refocus.
I have decided to make a journal quilt each month pointing out where I have found peace. I am working on this in the sketchbook and as this white dove descended into the garden last week I resolved to begin the work this month,
Pockets from a photo are handy for collecting ephemera - in this case some feathers which I might use as printing inspiration.
See the end of this post for August's quilt.
This little pottery dove sits by my front door and the stars, so reminiscent of quilt blocks are on the floor all the way down the hall of my Victorian home.

Various cut pages.


Roll on Autumn - I love pumpkins!
I pressed this Bleeding Heart stem earlier in the year and have just taken it from the flower press.








A pencil rubbing of a lino block....

THE RESULTING QUILT




It was all ace. It was a part of my peace.


Thursday, 12 November 2009

Peace
















Thinking about Peace.
Thinking of Christmas.
Thinking of the needless, unnecessary wars of our time...

Some free form piecing, collage, embroidery.

Allowing the cloth to grow.

Soothing, slowly, in peace.



"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift."
Albert Einstein



I want to explore this style a lot further - it gives me time to think, to intuit and to gather strength. This strength is needed to guard against marauding forces...