Today is fairly mild and partly sunny. My snowshoe trip with the dog, Deezel, and cat, Buck Wheat, was refreshing. I checked out some tracks criscrossing the field. They may be fox tracks.
My Daily Haiku for January 4th 2009 is okay.
I'm grouping three days about snow; Jan 4th, 7th and 8th.
The 4th is the least successful, although I like the torn paper and the Haiku works -it's the border again, or lack of one. I'm tempted to "improve " it now.
powdery snow drifts
muted from brilliant white
forming sculpted waves
The 7th has tissue paper, silver and white marker. The verse has to do with looking into semi-retirement.
The landscape of the 8th must have been inspired by the view at school. The sky and snowy earth were dabbed with "Cat's Eye" Brush pads. There is a suggested border from a section of the stamp pad - mask out the portions to not stamp. I used a marker and pen for the trees.
A snowflake cut from tracing paper covers part of the writing.
Speaking of the writing, I've never been able to print or write consistently on art work. A secondary goal of this project was to develop that talent.
Giant, fluffy flakes
drift slowly over faded snow,
now brilliantly white.
As it happened, the writing became a different part of the art work and it wasn't important that it was on a slant or uneven.
The January 7th page has the text written around the edges in pen and again with white marker.
'til tomorrow...
