Friday August 1st newsletter excerpt:
We are in it now, the prime time for taking holidays – for a lot of people anyway. For those
of you outside of Canada, you might not know that this coming Monday is a holiday
in most provinces.
Not wanting to miss out on the spirit of things, my motivation
decided to take a bit of a holiday this week! J Well, it is understandable, my studio to-do list is rather dry
– for example I am supposed to be writing out all of the text for the poppy
project, including blurbs about me and TMS and I should get cranking on the new
website design, yawn...So I took an afternoon off, got very decadent, brewed some tea and settled myself on a wicker love seat outdoors with a book I have wanted to read. I even had a nap. It was lovely. Summer is so brief after all. J I hope those of you reading are having a chance to be decadent as well!
I think I will keep this newsletter short this week, seeing as
most of you are probably heading off to play somewhere.
How about a show and tell?
My star gazer lilies are in full bloom right now, so it seems an
appropriate time to show this oldie but a goodie... (I have kept the file size
small on this one. When I include a lot of pictures, the size of the newsletter
can get pretty large to send via email.)
Next item for the show and tell is a spoon with funky
reflections...
I got an idea for a series – a piece of fruit on a spoon. I am
not sure what inspired the idea but I do like all of the reflections one sees
in cutlery so I know this was one of the main motivations for doing the piece.
To help with me work on the concept, I shot some pictures of a
cherry on a spoon. Here is an example:
Once uploaded onto my computer, I zoomed in on the photos,
played with cropping etc. and in the end I decided the image I wanted was more
of a close up, not showing the entire spoon.
If you remember my newsletter from last week, the story I wanted
to tell in this piece was the ‘story’ of the colourful shapes in the
reflections on the silver of the spoon. (BTW, regarding last week’s newsletter,
Heather Neill, the artist that painted the cover art of American Art Collector,
found out about my newsletter and left a comment on my blog. I nearly slid off
my studio couch in surprise...LOL)
The next photo shows the piece under way. You can see that I am
working on a black sheet of paper called Mi-Teintes Touch. The paper also has a
sanded surface (think of the rough texture of sand paper). This type of paper
is often used by pastel artists. The tape in the photo was keeping the paper
from moving around on my drafting table.
Oh, and of course I am doing this entirely in coloured pencil.
I enjoyed drawing the cherry but for me the true delight was in
detailing the reflections on the spoon. It was a quick piece and it was a joy
to work on from start to finish.
And what about that fruit on a spoon series? Well, the idea is
on hold. Turns out once I had one completed, I wasn’t too keen on repeating the
theme. Perhaps I shall return to it one day.
Depending on what you read this newsletter on (desktop versus a device)
the resolution might look a bit fuzzy in spots but as I stated above, I am
trying to keep these newsletter files from getting gigantic. Just trust me,
everything looks awesome in person! J
Cherry on
Spoon, 10” x 3”, copyright Teresa Mallen
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