Stacking wood, raking up a shocking number of acorns that fell this year, and cleaning up the garden are all things that demand my attention and energy right now.
But I decided to work in a batch of papers as creative relief yesterday.
Oh, wood got stacked, some of the acorns got raked, but I also had some fun.
This is how it starts:
This was a modest gathering of plants and flowers. Things are dying all round, and I feel the urgency to preserve them while I can. Though there is a marked difference in the intensity of some of the colors now. The leaves and some of the plants are just plain tired. A fair number of the papers in this batch were lackluster. Pale imitations of their former glory.
But there were a few pleasing results....
I included a long vine that was attached to this morning glory, and the blue followed the stem around the paper... that was an unexpected but happy result...
This one is just a tad on the scary side....
And here is my favorite of the entire batch... lilac leaves that had turned burgundy/green/yellow on the plant that grows in the chicken run:
The only thing is.... now all I'm left with is wood to stack, acorns to rake and a garden to clean up.
Play time is over....
For now. :-)
This was a modest gathering of plants and flowers. Things are dying all round, and I feel the urgency to preserve them while I can. Though there is a marked difference in the intensity of some of the colors now. The leaves and some of the plants are just plain tired. A fair number of the papers in this batch were lackluster. Pale imitations of their former glory.
But there were a few pleasing results....
I included a long vine that was attached to this morning glory, and the blue followed the stem around the paper... that was an unexpected but happy result...
This one is just a tad on the scary side....
And here is my favorite of the entire batch... lilac leaves that had turned burgundy/green/yellow on the plant that grows in the chicken run:
The only thing is.... now all I'm left with is wood to stack, acorns to rake and a garden to clean up.
Play time is over....
For now. :-)