oh boy. look who's having fun now! it's friday. a fact i bet is not lost on you.
also it's the last day of rosh hashanah. happy new year my jewish friends! may you have a sweet one.
while all of you working stiffs were busy, well, working. i was home playing as usual. adding days to my amsterdam sketchbook slash travel journal.
i don't think i've ever done this before! but since i have the time and since i started watching the first fabulous season of COPPER on netflix and since i needed something to do while i was watching. aside from watching. i've been adding days. i will be diligent and report back once i'm in amsterdam to let you know if this was a dumb idea or not. in other words, to let you know if i correctly allotted for the sketching & writing space needed.
my cute friend melinda is joining me for the second half of my time in amsterdam. we are long overdue for a visit so i am completely delighted. as luck would have it i rented a 2 bedroom apartment {long story}. which was very impractical, but as it turns out that extra bedroom is coming in very handy. melinda is a nurse practitioner, so if i should fall into a canal or get hit by a bike i'll be in good hands. my sister, as most of you know is also a nurse. however if i fell into a canal or got hit by a bike with her, i'd be on my own. for some reason she finds accidents extremely hilarious. don't you sister?
What I especially enjoy is the development of your style, thinking of your early days’ journal pages before you contracted the sketching painting bug and what you are inventing now. The consistent thread is your eye, whether in choosing items to glue down and embellish, to spray or stencil over, to photograph or manipulate or to grow from blank paper upward.
In addition to your always true voice, your eye (both of ’em actually) is superb. Some of the many reasons you have grown such a large interweb family.
Your pomegranates are a masterpiece. And that’s the honest no-sarcasm truth.
Oh I absolutely LOVE your first page!! The color-the drawwing and best of all the words! So great!!
Sister! I don’t mean to laugh, but I can’t help it. It’s a reflex. It only happens with family members not strangers. So if you pretend to be a stranger and fall in you will be saved. But if I see through the disguise it will be all over and I will wet my pants laughing. Good thing Melinda is going and not me.
connie the photo blurb says westwood village 1941
If you fall in the canal, they have a barge that fishes out bikes that have taken an unexpected turn into the water, so, you know… There’s always that!
I also struggle with the page pre- planning thing. What if I’ve got tons to say about one day, and spent another one just napping, I’d not have the right number of pages allocated! These ar the things our linear minds get sweaty over. Carry on!
I simply ADORE your new blog photo!! Where exactly was that taken, like what part of L.A. specifically? Awesome.
melinda (me!) will save you in the canal anytime!!
This does not relate to this post, but the post about Maira and Ludwig Bemelmans…
The book Bemelmans: his art and life by John Marciano is really lovely to look at . I am lucky in that when I used to work in a public library we were “weeding” the book from the collection and I became the proud owner! However, I just gifted it to the school library I now work in. I can always do an “across state line” loan for you! 🙂
Play away I say. Immerse yourself in color. Please don’t fall into a canal or walk off the end of a dock, while I can rest assured that you are good and able hands, I’d just as soon you stayed high and dry unless of course you want to go for swim. I’m just guessing here, but something tells me a dunk in the canal would not be nearly as spiffy as that delightful pool in Palm Springs. Just a long distance observation. In the meantime I am enjoying the journal peeks, days of the week and all. 🙂
Two posts in one day!!!! And the pomegranates! Gosh! I think you must have really dip-dyed your soul in Palm Springs because your work/play this week is off-the-page. (Maybe it always has been this way, and I am just new.) Uhhhh, no. Anyhoody, I thought I read somewhere that on one of your trips you had gone walkabout in Norway or Sweden. I have a recommend for a Netflix series that you may not have seen yet. You will die! Have you seen the Swedish Wallander series. There is a British one as well, however, I love, love, love the Swedish one. They have seasons and episodes and it was the best binge watching I have ever done. Each episode is full-length film quality and I would bet that it would be hard to watch Wallander and be able to do anything else at the same time. I turned into total mouth-breather.