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Marit — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 08:24:18 +0000

Goodmorning Julia, goodmorning all deskers! Wednesday morning and no, I am not at work. I took this week off and am enjoying some me-time in my little atelier! After a busy October -month I now have time to relax and do all sorts of things that makes me happy, like picking up my mum on monday to go on our annual ‘Christmas trip’ to a local garden centre. My mum cannot walk for a long period but there are wheelchairs there, so she installed herself and I pushed her – and we sauntered through that store like two giggling teenagers… laughing at the singing deers and Santa Clauses shouting ‘hohoho’, being amazed by the many ‘ornaments’ of which we sometimes didn’t know what it was supposed to represent (‘weard, fluffy thingies’ that, after turning it over and over and looking at it from all angles, we came to the conclusion that it must represent an owl.) We had a great time, had coffee with cake half the way, and once we reached the finish (the cash registers) we both had only a few small things to pay for… (I bought two bags of tea lights on sale and a thin silver wire with very small LED lights.)

Having free time, I finally tried a gelli-plate technique I saw on you tube a few weeks ago: using oil pastels as a resistent. My desk shows the fun I had…

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… and the floor got covered with gelli prints, laying there to dry.

Next is an art journal spread I created a while ago in my Chronicles journal

Chronicles: Week 43

Chronicles: Week 44

On the next spread I used one of those “oil pastel resist gelli prints” with a drawing that I created to picture the huge storm Ciarán. That windmill and waves may have you puzzling, but the image is inspired by a real live scene…

… here’s the photo – made by Marcel Witte – that I found on the internet. The mill stands in Vlissingen, a nearby town, and I used this photo as a reference for the drawing.

No storm today though, it’s a quiet morning and I may even see some sunshine this afternoon, but tonight I presume heavy winds will blow through our country ’cause it’s election day… big changes may come our way, we’ll see…

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day.

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