Showing posts with label virginia woolf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virginia woolf. Show all posts

Monday, October 6, 2008

Lighthouse


Aaaaaah! I'm still in a good mood from having finished an Illustration Friday drawing! Now to keep the momentum going! This is a journal page with an excerpt from Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse." Unfortunately I can't claim to have read this book. I found the quote (as well as a couple of others from the same book) and comments on the story line, and now I have to say that I want to read it. I have some others on the go and in line at the moment ("The Artist's Way" "Novel About My Wife" "At The Sign Of The Sugared Plum" and "Petals In The Ashes"), but I think I will see if there are any Virginia Woolf books in the library next.


The method for this page was colouring the page with watersoluble crayons first then washing them with water. Once dried I collaged on the images of the lighthouse, the boats and the woman.
Next I washed a layer of dark paint over the top. I had planned to use Payne's Grey because I love it so, but I discovered that the lid had been broken and my tube had dried up. Because that is what I had envisioned, I made up my own version of Payne's Grey with Mars Black, Phthalo Green and Phthalo Blue. It seemed to do the trick. I masked the portion where the beam of light shone and painted over the entire page (except the woman.) I rubbed the paint off a few times with absorbent towels.
Then I attached the bird image and wrote the text with souffle pen, and added embellishments with sharpie and souffle pen.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Wild Books


Operation "Create" is progressing nicely! Blog number three is happening. Not that there is a lot of creativity in the blogging, but small steps I say. My new peice of art is a mixed media collage tweaked on the computer. I loved the quote by Virginia Woolf about wild books and it went from there. I think I will use quotes and "Illustration Friday" challenges to initiate my art at the moment. They are open enough to get you thinking but closed enough to keep you on a single tack. My problem at the moment with art is too much swirling around in my head all the time and then everything gone when I go to put something on paper! I think small topics, small art and small chunks of time will be best for me at the moment. Concentrate on doing art more regularly but not necessarily for a long length of time. I've started doing a 4 week drawing course to get that part of me moving productively again - hope it goes well!