…there was this girl.
and she studied Arts at the school for Art Teachers….
This is not a fairytale – if you read my post about “Lord of the Rings” (03-13)
you knew already that the girl is me (in 1988/1989 – still young and pretty.)
I asked you if you’d like to see pictures of my former work and the objects at my graduation exhibition and you answered you’d like that so I searched for my logbook and photo’s.
The photo’s of the objects at the graduation-exhibition are of bad quality (we took slides/transparencies at that time, the photo’s are made out of that) but you’ll get the idea of the artwork I made back then.
This was my (self made)
big, BIG log book
(12 X 15 inch!)
I trained myself in writing “Dwarfish”…
(With help of Tolkien’s books about the languages he created,
I converted the alphabeth into a
“dwarf-alphabet”…
so actually this is plain Dutch but noted down in “dwarf-font” )
I still can do this,
after a bit of rehearsing…!!!
It makes a nice secret code letter don’t you think? (wanna hire me as a spy?)
Little sketch for work referring to King Théoden
(character from the book)
…and one of the works that came
out of that sketch.
NOTICE the date: May 1988
See how long I’ve been scrapping already!
Little drawing:
“Fall of Barad-dûr”
(the tower Sauron was residing)
Little drawing:
“Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee
on their way to Mordor.”
Sketch for an object made out of steel (spiral) and paper (dish).
Following photo’s were taken at my graduation exhibition – January 1989
Object:
Steel spiral, Eggshell filled with dry roses in the middle (symbolic for life is fragile, even though you try to protect it with barriers…. I meant something like this I think but it’s a long time ago so don’t pin me down on this explanation!)
Object of painted heavy metal and painted feathers… referring to Nazgûl
Fragile object. Paper with Dwarf Signs and twigs tied together.
Object:
balancing twig on fork-shaped twig.
When I flipped through the pages of that log book, I noticed you can still recognise the style in my current scrap lay outs… the colours, the mystical
and symbolic references…
Never thought that much about “my style” – I just use whatever I think fits
the subject and photo – but I guess I have my own style after all!
I liked looking back at this work; had not done that for years!
Hope you liked it too…
And than there is this: the Scrap-a-Licious Weekend is about to begin!!!!!!!! Only 4 days to go… I’ve already received mail from a lady who will be there too on Sunday (Hey there Petra!) and of course I’ll meet this teachers:
Corinne Delis
Birgit Koopsen
Dina Wakley
Martha Bonneau
I’m getting more curious and exited every day!
But I’ll also try to put some scrapping time in and show you a lay out
before Sunday, so see you all! Je t’embrasse!