It's snowing and has been since yesterday. It allows some quiet time to work in the studio before I snow shoe out through the woods. I'll check on the old pine that's there. This bull pine stands on the side of a small hill. It has half a trunk for about 7' from the ground, yet it still has needles at the top and pileated woodpecker holes about 15' from the ground. It's rich brown inner trunk is scattered around the base. It has inspired visual fabric art and poetry.
January 2,2009
This looks a little too simple now. It needs a suggestion of a border. One of my favorite treatments I used over the year is a soft pencil line. My favored pencil is a 1.3 lead. It's a mechanical pencil that I got at the school's store.
The geometric design is an abstraction of the geometry of the inside of the decaying pine. I covered some of it with a parchment paper. I wrote the text over a soft impression of a snowflake stamp. I used a silver pen for the word winter and some additional lines.
Interesting - snow and snowshoeing on January 2,2009 and again on January 2,2010.
Quiet alone time,
favorite music plays.
The pine stands still.
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