Marit's Paper World (blog)

Friday haiku (tanka): Koksijde

Marit — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 07:00:39 +0000

Today, instead of a haiku, I present you a tanka

Belgische badplaats
op een druilerige dag.
Een vuilniskar haalt
de laatste restanten op
van een voorbije zomer.

Belgium seaside resort
on a drizzly autumn day.
A loud garbage truck
collects the last remains of
a long gone summer season.

I submit this haiku to Haiku my Heart

Tanka, mail-art and gelli-plate technique

Marit — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:27:55 +0000

OUCHHH!!!! It is Friday and I had all sorts of creative plans for today, but last night I made a wrong move somehow and strained my back… now I sit at my desk wobbling on the chair like an old little lady and will have to find activities with which I don’t have to move that much. It might be a day to visit old blogfriends and leave some comments here and there…

Last week it was freezing cold in The Netherlands, we even had a little bit of snow! I stayed inside, playing in my atelier, but my friend Lena of course took her camera outside and made beautiful photos. When I saw this photo of a frozen Blackberry bush, I wrote a tanka with it. (“The Tanka poem is very similar to haiku but Tanka poems have more syllables (5-7-5-7-7) and it uses simile, metaphor and personification.)

Today, my Fiday haiku is a Tanka…

Photo made by my friend Lena Schreijenberg

Bevroren braamstruik
IJskristallen schitteren
in de vroege zon

Hebben de wortels weet van
dat oude bijbel verhaal?

Early sunrise on
a frozen blackberry bush
Ice crystals sparkle

Do you think the roots know of
that ancient bible story?

I submit this tanka to Recuerda Mi Corazon where our lovely hostess Rebecca brings us all together to share a haiku on Friday: Haiku my Heart.

Remember I told you last week that a friend of mine – who is a textile artist – and I agreed on starting a project together? I finished my piece and send it to her, and as an extra I made her this quirky collage-card.

Well-behaved women

The text in the ‘dress’ is in Dutch but you probably heard it before… it’s quite a famous quote: “Women are angels and when someone breaks our wings we continue to fly… on a broomstick.”

A new (to me) gelli-plate printing technique

I stumbled upon a youtube video from Gelli Arts® where Birgit Koopsen shows a resist-technique using magazines on a gelli plate. I got all excited about it and tried out this technique right away… here’s my first results.

I need to experiment some more (and my back says ‘No, not today!’) but I can already think of many ways to use these kind of images in my art journals in the future. If you want to know how this technique works CLICK HERE

I wish you all a beautiful weekend, go do something nice.
Don’t hurt your back!

Tanka journal & Chronicles

Marit — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 11:03:49 +0000

Heyhey beautiful ones… a quick blogpost from me today and no desk photo, ’cause I have a friend staying over and I don’t want to spend all my time in the atelier. So I post some of my work and will be out of here again….

The Chronicles of Marit 2017 – Week 46

The Chronicles of Marit 2017 – Week 47

Next is a new journal I bound yesterday. It’s 15 x 18 cm (6 x 7 inch) and I will use it for the workshop Writing and Illustrating Tankas that I participate in next Saturday.

It’s been ages since I took a workshop myself and I am looking forward to it! I don’t know much about watercolor and I can’t wait to learn some more about it from the amazing Mandy van Goeije.

And that’s it for today, short but sweet.

Oh, one thing: don’t forget to vote for the Top 2000 list 2017! You have until Friday. (see this blogpost)