treebark rubbings
rubbings from the trees in my garden, pencil on paper rowan- sorbus aucuparia, medlar- mespilus germanica, juneberry- amelanchier lamarckii, black mulberry- morus nigra, winter honeysuckle- lonicera fragrantissima blog text audio
Categorie: paper
seaweed prints
Last week I collected some seaweeds at the beach in Katwijk. Pressed, dried and printed. Blog text podcast below:
just plants
a collage and papercut, paper felted and felted with wool.
grids
It was wandering in my mind to make this kind of drawings. From one came the other. It was kind of meditation to try making straight lines with the home made ink, that seems to have a will of its own.
inkmaking with avocado and a poppy print.
I have had a go at making ink with avocado. Inkmaking is much the same as making a dyebath for dyeing wool. I have the book Make ink by Jason Logan, and learned there are several ways to achieve a concentrated ¨dyebath” i.e. (almost) ink. I know from dyeing wol, …
drawing from nature
On a short camping brake I took pen and paper with me in stead of wool and spindle or needles. I don´t know why, but before I come round to sit and spin in a tent it is always too dark. Hidden in the field between the tall grasses were …
grasses 2
At the exposition about David Hockney and van Gogh in the Van Goghmuseum, I was touched by a small drawing by Hockney of reed or grass. With a few lines he captured the essence of it, how they bend, move and how they relate to one another. I wanted to …
grasses
Some grasses that I literally picked around the corner. Printed on mulberry paper. It is surprising how tall they are when transferring them to paper. They look so much smaller on the spot next to the streets, the cars and the houses. grasses printed on two sheets of mulberry paper, …