I went into town yesterday to buy some extra magazines for the upcoming “Zetti collage” workshop I’m teaching on September 22 (see the badge in the side menu.) When making Zetti collage, glossy fashion magazines are my go to and I noticed the magazines in my stash are pretty much cut up. I don’t want to present magazines to the students where most of the models in it have their eyes, or even heads, cut out…<\/p>\n There’s a fantastic, big book store in Middelburg ~ De Drvkkery<\/a> ~ that I love to visit and whenever I go there, my beloved goes with me ’cause besides books they sell music. It’s a so called ‘multi media store’ and I always drool over the pens and journals they sell while my beloved flips through the latest (or ‘oldy’) music albums…. I visited the magazine-corner this time and found a few French glossies that had nice photos in it to use for Zetti collages. (Yep, I choose French magazines so the ladies won’t go read all the articles instead of creating \ud83d\ude09 ) The lady at the corner put my buys in a paper bag. They always do that and I – used to this package with all those names on it – hardly look at the paper. However, when I got home and put the bag on my desk my eyes fell onto these two names…<\/p>\n Karl Ove Knausgard<\/a>: a fabulous Norwegian author – I read three of his books last Summer and plan to pick up the next book in series from the library soon – and Leonard Cohen<\/a>: my favorite musician. Did I tell you how I LOVE this store?!<\/p>\n “Look closely” is something that was on my mind anyway last week ’cause I practiced my ‘looking’. Being in a creative low over the weekend (wanting to create but not knowing where to start or what to do) I read back some old blogpost hoping I would find some inspiration (and when I say old I mean OLD – in November my blog will have it’s 10th anniversary so that’s a LOT of blogposts to look back on!) I bumped back on an old blogpost from 2011 and this old ‘Grid’ journal<\/a> – and yes, that little journal is still on the shelf so I took it out and flipped through it. I remember getting tired of creating grids at some point so this journal still has blank pages towards the end… I found the last page I created was in 2013: a collage grid of cut out eyes (now I know where all the cut out eyes from the fashion magazines went…) and a new ‘project’ was born instantly. I thought it would be good exercise to draw those eyes on the opposite page.<\/p>\n Some eyes were ‘easier’ to draw and came out better looking than others (which one do you think is the best?) All in all this was\/is a wonderful exercise to practise ‘looking’ and I intent to draw more often. I might even schedule a ‘weekly drawing’… or go back to the \u2018EDM\u2019 challenges’<\/a> I once worked on. That’s another project I never finished…<\/p>\n So yes, my mojo is back – lot’s of projects I can work on today. Now the thing is: which one to pick! But first I will spend an hour or so visiting other woyww-deskers* around the globe to see what they are all up to…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/woyww484.jpg\")
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