Aug 16
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
Aug 17
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
I worked on these two in parallel - when something didn't work on one, I tried something different on the other.
I started with Aug 17, laying on a thick layer of green paint over a yellow and orange print fabric, then pressing the stamp into it to clear it away. It mostly soaked into the fabric, so I tried a "primer" coat of yellow and let it dry, then did the same again, for Aug 16.
After they had dried, I could almost see the yellow paint, so I left this one alone. The print fabric had vanished, so I added some Lumiere paint into the petal shapes to make them show up. That helped, and I like the look of the paint a good deal, but it still needed more. So I started embroidering the petals until they both showed more definition. While I like the bobbin work on Aug 17, I think Aug 16 is a more successful card. It is hard to photograph the paint without getting reflections from it. I'll try again tomorrow outside and see if that makes a difference.
In family news, Aerin is home and ready to be issued her Captain's papers for 8 ft/100 lbs vessels on inland waters. She spent a happy two weeks with my sainted mother getting ferried to sailing camp in the mornings and then puttering together in the afternoon. She can rig and sail a 12 ft. sailing dinghy, won a race, and made three boys squeak "nooo, please don't heel so much!!" (to the intense satisfaction of the other 3 girls in her level). I am so pleased to have her back.
I am sorry to bid farewell to the past week. I spent most of it resolutely not acting my age, and I had forgotten what fun it could be. I drank prodigious amounts of beer and wine, stayed up late, talked for long hours with friends, had a very fine time with just my guy (the bike rides, the food - get your minds out of the gutter!), and turned the car stereo up VERY LOUD. Something about parenthood just kind of precludes some of this, forcing me to act closer to my age. Although I may go back to loud music and a bit more beer. I do like beer.
Alice returns tomorrow, and we are all together again for the first time since we returned from England. That will be nice too.
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