This morning I was a bit early to the bus, so I had the time to draw the bus-stop at the other side of the road.
This is a woven picture that my grandmother has done. The weft is torn fabric, and I have spent hours looking at it when I was younger.
This is a kitchen towel that grandmother Elisabeth wove. She made a bunch of course and they are now spread in the family, I have two of them I think. I love them!
This is a shirt made of a fabric that grandmother made. She made fantastic stuff in her loom and the most of my things from her is woven things. I have some rolls of fabric too, that I don’t know exactly what to do with. I think I have some of this particular one as well.
This shirt is really worn down on the cuffs because I use to wear it a lot earlier.
this drawing doesn’t show the fabric as well as I wanted so I tried to do a small close up yesterday. I did not get the time I needed for it so I will try again later. I don’t know exactly how to paint fabric so that the texture and pattern is there. I have only tried with ink, watercolor and guache so far, I would like to try it with colored pencils later.
My inventory of stuff Grandmother made continues.
She did her share of knitting, and I have some mittens and tons of warm woolen socks. Today I did this pair of mittens. They have always reminded me of piglets of Wild boars. Suits my imagination well.
Like the bells I did this with gouache without any sketching first. And then I was just about to add some ink with my dip pen but I took the time to scan it first. Here are the before and after.
I have a dream! I would like to draw all the things I have that is made by grandmother. I have been thinking about it for a long time now. And today I noticed that I had forgot to take down some of the Christmas stuff, three crochet bells of hers that was hanging in the window. I seized the moment and dragged out my gouache.
I haven’t made any art plan for 2008 so maybe this is it. This year I will do the grandma project!
