These will fit into my suitcase to demonstrate the technique while teaching a two day class at Baldessin Press about an hours drive north of Melbourne, VIC.
To complete a series of three I carved a robin and a fox. Now I just need to print several of each, sign them and maybe take some along with me. Here are the other two.
I would have sketched the stove as well but every bit of my time there with Nalda I was intent on doing her assignments. For some it was a social gathering as well as workshop and I would find places to be alone and think about my work, this place, its history and how far I travel to have experiences like these. I still have the straw bits I pieced together with threads and cloth. But they seem out of place here in North Carolina. I might dig them out and do something with them or maybe just throw them out and be content with this painting, this memory.
I am also revisiting sketchbooks from other times in Australia. This is a favorite page about Jude’s place near Hobart, Tasmania. I always loved how she told me where the airport was…..”just past the moon.” She has taken me in so many times that I know just where to find the lovely tea bowl to use for rinsing my watercolor brush.
And this old sketchbook where I was trying to capture all the strange little things on the ground at a place near Katherine in the Northern Territory. The most beautiful green ant nest made of carefully placed dead leaves, all the same leaf too. I could not see how they held them in place. Beautiful sculptures. The view from inside must have been magic.
And just a couple more watercolors from sketchbooks and memories.
