Tuesday, May 18, 2021

A week...

Last week was a good week of playing and sorting and prepping. Preparing for workshops always makes me dig deep again, practise, test and trial things to make sure I know what I am doing.  I know I do, but I do love to double-check!

And so in prepping for a letter and word cutting workshop I got to play with some different pieces of paper; a few different techniques; and generally just got lost in the play and fun which was great!

Here I was testing the BFK Rives grey paper - it is a warm, khaki-like grey.  BFK Rives is such a reliable paper for cutting; yet I had never cut the grey which is a bit heavier than the white/cream.  It worked well and gave some great contrasts, so yes, we will play with it in the workshop.

I looks so different when on the grey concrete.

Another technique I was trying was this random crazy wandering lettering all joined up. Clearly I am very rusty with this; but I think once cut it will look a whole lot better!

This is a good demonstration of the back and what really happens when I cut. I am being so careful that that I don't cut through an end point, I nearly always finish short. But that is a whole lot better than ruining your work.

This piece will become a template that I trace around and then cut from behind - always soooo much better.

And Nature was wonderful too.

Monday dawn - a wee sliver of a moon...

Friday sunset - a wee sliver of a moon...

I love how something (us or the moon) had rotated slightly by the end of the week!

And these small flowers always, always delight me.

And then I laughed. We had a cracker of a storm and some fierce rain this week. I smiled to myself that our new car has a sunroof - laugh! 


6 comments:

  1. love the exquisite point of a no 11 scalpel blade & those moon shots are gorgeous!

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    1. A good scalpel is a fine thing Mo - and that slivery moon was a delight to track for a few days.

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  2. how the water droplets look like moon phases ...

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    1. So interesting Liz! Yes, when the tree reflection takes different amounts it does indeed move from wee to full - brilliant!!!

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  3. curious about that cut piece..and indeed:these water drops look amazing !

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    1. the cut piece is bit of dog's breakfast (mess) as we say; but something magical might appear yet. The drops the sun roof are little globes almost, small worlds...

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