Easter Haiku / Weekend

 

Cold day lovelies… errmmm, I mean GOOD day of course – xcuse-me, but “cold” is on our minds here in Holland lately. When I woke up this morning, I found  a white world outside my window… Grrrr, it had snowed. AGAIN *sigh*

The snow melted during the morning, but still: it is too cold for the time of year. These temperatures are a bit strange to experience in the Easter weekend in the Netherlands but hey… I’ll put on an extra sweater and just keep on going.

So here’s the Friday post with – of course – a haiku (a special ‘Easter haiku’ today) and quite some art. I’m pretty productive since I have a studio. So sit down, make yourself comfortable, grab another chocolate egg (you have my permission 😉 ) and come on in.

Haiku My Heart Friday

Woorden van Jezus Beminde gelovigen Er was eens een God

Words of Jezus Beloved Believers There Once Was a God

This haiku was found/written for Haiku my Heart Friday. Visit Rebecca at Recuerda Mi Corazon to find the list of participants and blog-hop from haiku to haiku.

I find myself making ATCs lately… it started in January, when I had to get used to having my own creative space and had to learn where I stored all my stuff and find my way around in my studio.

While decorating my studio, I’d come across a box with ribbons – I don’t use ribbon that much and almost forgot I had those – so it was fun to make an ATC with some of the pieces.

That number was already on the green ribbon… it must have been the end of the ribbon on the bobbin or something – but I kinda like how it works on this ATC.

I find myself using the sewing machine again! It is a lot easier now that I don’t have to drag that heavy machine (it’s an ‘antique’ one from the eighties) down the stairs…

And then last Month, Ali Wade had a give-away on her blog and I happened to win the book Artist Trading Card Workshop

The book shows all kinds of (technique) tutorials. The techniques are used to make ATCs but of course they can apply in an art journal also. Although I knew most of the techniques already, I’d forgotten about a bunch of them and it was fun to come across them again…

… like painting over a photo.

I made a lot more ATCs, but I am not able to show those (yet) as they have to stay secret for a while longer.

I did make my weekly art journal spread of course.

The Chronicles of Marit – Week 12

And here’s a spread in my ‘weird art journal’.

For Months now, ‘doll faces’  show up on many art journal pages. It almost seems like all art journalers were in the same workshop(s) to learn how to draw these kinds of faces. I sometimes like the drawings, but mostly I don’t. That made me think – what is it that some of these faces DO speak to me? I presume it has to do with personality. Some artists are able to make the faces ‘their own’… the basic ‘doll drawing’ may be still visible but some drawings have something ‘unique’ that makes it stand out. I jotted down my thoughts about this ‘hype’ on an art journal page – with a ‘doll face’ to illustrate my words of course.

Thanks for stopping by my blog again today dear ones!
Have a wonderful Easter weekend!
Go draw some faces.
Or eggs.
Or faces on eggs.
Or eggs on faces.
Whatever.
Enjoy!