{"id":7637,"date":"2012-07-13T14:21:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T13:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2013-02-03T15:11:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T14:11:13","slug":"portugese-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/portugese-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, let me show you my old shoes and haiku.
\nI’ll explain after…<\/p>\n

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Bij de achterdeur<\/p>\n

slijt schoeisel uit Portugal<\/p>\n

zijn laatste dagen<\/td>\n

<\/td>\nPortuguese shoes spend<\/p>\n

the last years of their life right<\/p>\n

next to the back door<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The haiku was written for Haiku my Heart Friday<\/a>, and if you want to
\nsee more photos and read more haiku, I recommend you hop on over
\nto Rebecca\u2019s blog to find the list of participants.<\/p>\n

By the way: you are very welcome to join the ‘Haiku my Heart’ group
\nif you like – and if you don’t know what haiku is exactly, you might want
\nto read this post<\/a> in which I explain about the ‘rules’ of writing haiku.<\/p>\n

So – why do I show you my old, worn out shoes today?
\nWell, it started with Tammy…<\/p>\n

Tammy of Daisy Yellow<\/a> wrote a blogpost about ‘EDM’ (which stands for
\n‘Every day Matters’.) I’ll try to make this short: EDM challenges is all about
\ndrawing something every day. You can find the info on Danny Gregory’s blog<\/a>
\nand he published a list of subjects to draw here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now I have been thinking of picking up drawing and even made several starts
\n– you may remember these sketches<\/a> – but I was not able to hold on to drawing
\nfor long let alone make it a habit, mostly because I didn’t know WHAT to draw.
\nFinding a subject cost me too much energy and so I let go easily.<\/p>\n

But now, with a list of subjects at my hand, I decided to take it more seriously
\nand work my way through the list. See if my drawing skills are still there
\nbecause I sure did my portion of drawing in the days when I was in art school.
\nI was curious to see how rusty my skills would be when I would start drawing
\nthe real stuff: subjects. How would I do?
\nWould I still be able to get the proportions right?
\nWhat about textures?
\nShading?
\nIt has been 25 years…<\/p>\n

First challenge on the list was – you guessed it:<\/p>\n

EDM #1 Draw a Shoe<\/strong>
\n(click to enlarge)<\/p>\n

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Well, that was a surprise!
\nMy skills came back pretty easy and I’m quite proud and satisfied
\nwith this first attempt after all these years.<\/p>\n

Of course I wrote some text with the drawing… the shoe looked too pitiful
\nstanding alone and lost on the page without any words to comfort him (her?)
\nHere’s the translation:<\/p>\n

These are my Portuguese shoes. They don’t look much like shoes anymore
\nbecause they are completely worn out. They stand at the back door for
\nten years now, ready to be used to walk into the garden or a trip to the barn
\nto get food out of the freezer. Even Nout, with his big feet, makes good use
\nof this ‘system’. The shoes were quite expensive, but given the lifetime they
\nwere well worth it. Even now they are not completely worn away,
\nnot even at the heel.<\/em><\/p>\n

I might not be able to draw every day, but I certainly want to continue
\ndrawing as I find it very relaxing and fun to do!<\/p>\n

I have lots and lots of art journal pages that I made in the past weeks and
\nwas not able to post yet – it’s amazing how much I got done in the week that
\nI was without my computer, but I won’t publish them all at once. For today
\nI choose to show you the latest spreads in the Chronicles Art Journal.<\/p>\n

The Chronicles of Marit – Week 26<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Size: 24,5 x 49 cm \u2013 9.65 x 14.86 inch)<\/pre>\n
The Chronicles of Marit – Week 27<\/strong><\/p>\n
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(Size: 24,5 x 49 cm \u2013 9.65 x 14.86 inch)<\/pre>\n
… and I’ll leave you with some random things I want to point out to you:<\/p>\n