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Fragments.

3/15/2024

Oh hey, it's the Ides of March. That just dawned on me. Below is a knot I did last week and I hesitate to call it tangled. It's more that I filled it with a couple of Zentangle® "fragments."

I am looking forward to finishing the course I'm taking. It's great but it leaves me with nearly no drawing time, and I miss drawing. My latest hooked rug is coming along slowly, but at least I'm making small progress on that and will show it when done. Life requires patience. Endless patience.

“These fragments, these shivers of my heart
Are mere lifetimes enclosed in a minute”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue

Spring Bulbs

3/14/2024

Sit back and take in these photos from the Spring Bulb Show at Smith College's Lyman Greenhouse. Ahhhhhhhh...the scent of these bulbs was like a stairway to paradise. An instant blast of happiness. Enjoy!

"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers."
--Heinrich Heine

"A flower blossoms for its own joy."
--Oscar Wilde

Surprise Surprise--Pleasant and Unpleasant

3/6/2024

This isn't an original, in the sense that I was just following instructions in a Procreate tutorial on youtube. So yes, I did it but i was copying the tutorial.

This, on the other hand, is my first-ever "tangled knot" done on Procreate and my ipad, rather than on paper. It's amateurish but I'm shocked I managed to do this much!

Lots of surprises yesterday and today:

Yesterday, for example, I surprised myself by managing to mangle my way through these two drawings using Procreate on my ipad. First time! They're hardly masterpieces, BUT, I drew them on Procreate! I have a long long way to go to learn more about using the app, but I'm surprised I got this far.

Next, I went to add them here on my recently-neglected blog, and the second surprise--far less welcome--was my discovery that I was locked out. Could. Not. Log. In. Yikes! Several hours on the phone later, I am back. File this under "nasty surprises." But I got it figured out (or rather, the technical folks did).

Not much drawing has happened as I'm absorbed in both my latest rug--I'll be showing that soon I hope--and a very, VERY time-consuming course, which will be done mid-April. I hope to get back to art on a more regular basis by then, and I suspect I will be consumed by learning Procreate for quite a while.

Fragments.

Spring Bulbs

Surprise Surprise--Pleasant and Unpleasant

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