Since I had to come in to work on a holiday, I decided to get in a blog post. I had fun in my office yesterday with an exercise from the Journals class--frottage (rubbings). I have a little box of 2" squares that I made after sending others off to the Pink Art Doll Project. (a few are pictured here)I used a 6B pencil and plain paper and made rubbings of my art squares and various other things in my office.
Last night as we watched Chicago's big fireworks show, I cut them up and pasted the resulting pieces into my Journal. Boy, is this fun!
And I was totally amazed of the things I found to take rubbings of. When I walked into my office and looked, I thought there's nothing here. But once I got going it was really hard to stop.
I used a 2" square window to find designs in my rubbing page of the art squares and I cut them out. I used a 1" square window to cut out my other rubbing page.
I also spent some time last night thinking about the June TIF theme. I made some jottings in my TIF journal along the lines of what I wrote in yesterday's post and then went a bit further and sketched out some ideas for making a milestone page. Right now I'm liking the idea at the bottom of the page and trying to think about where I might find gray wool felt in the middle of summer. I should go online shopping today.
All of this Journaling activity has meant that I haven't taken a single stitch all week. I need to figure out how to better balance things.
Well, I'm off to the meeting I came in today for. Then, tonight, Fireworks!
2 comments:
Love your idea for this month's TIF. I'd tried thinking along similar lines but had only got as far as a see-saw, or similar point of balance. The milestone is great!
(Didn't realise you are doing Studio Journals as well!)
If you want, I can look for grey wool in my stash... I'm not sure if I would have a big enough piece.
I cut out muslin backing for 12 TIF pieces! and journaled about them. No stitches yet.
Jane
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