Destroy to Create

Interesting day in the studio today – I really wanted to push the development of the images from yesterday and the day before – as a double page spread in my 2008 “Moon Journal”.

I also wanted to push my sewing machine as well – because – as yet I have not had time to see what it will really do. I decided to see what the “built in quilting stitches” would do. And I really rather like them. The machine also stitched nicely through the layers – which were – woven paper, painted bondaweb, inkjet transfer on muslin, tissue paper and vyline.

I always find synchronicity interesting. I spent the day yesterday in the veg. garden sorting it out after the high winds and lashing rain we have been having – and I still didn’t get to plant the onions. To-day I received a “planting by the moon” e-mail and low and behold – it is tomorrow that is a good day for planting onions!

The page developed further as the day progressed – there is still a couple of things I want to add – but the note about it being a good day to plant onions is down the left hand side – and next to it, is an abstract design I drew, painted and cut out from a sketch I did last summer – when my onions went to seed.

Purple Missus (Lynda Monk) left a comment yesterday – saying she would of been more than happy with the first image on yesterdays post – I think the sub-text of a lot of my work process is “Destroy to Create” and “What happens If …”

Sometimes this doesn’t work at all – but if you push and push – Sometimes the results are wonderful.

Is this is a wonderful page – No it is not – but it is a very useful page. It has some excellent starting points to build on. Which – for me – is a good reason to keep an “art journal”

My mind is buzzing with ideas to develop from what I did today. I know my machine just a little bit more – and perhaps – most importantly – I can plant my onions either to-morrow or Saturday!

Developments

Here are some developments on the picture I posted yesterday – with a view to using them as starting point in my art journal.

The picture above – is simply yesterdays image with the contents of my “to do” list scrawled on top.

I took this page and two photographs of onions that I took last summer. Then I cut these into one inch wide strips and wove them together to create a new back ground paper.

This back ground I will be working on further tomorrow – but I did scan it and alter it in photoshop, and type a journal entry for today on it.

Unfortunately – I have just slopped my cup of tea on my computer keyboard – so need to go and dry it out!