Approximately 4 x 6 inches (10 x 15 cm)
These are Signature Tree leaves. Lightly scratching into the surface of the green leaf creates a line that is light in value.
Approximately 4 x 6 inches (10 x 15 cm)
One of the reasons I like to keep an image of the leaf at this green stage is because of the good contrast between leaf and line. When dry sometimes the contrast between the leaf and line will remain reasonably distinguished; at other times the lines become quite subtle.
Approximately 3 x 7 inches (8 x 18 cm)
When dry, leaves range from varying shades of golden tea browns to mid dark value coffee and cream colors. Signature tree leaves are reasonably tough when dry although they may become brittle.
Approximately 5 x 6 inches (13 x 15 cm)
These leaves may become part of a swap I began some time ago.
Approximately 4 x 6 inches (10 x 15 cm)
Creating something like these leaves and leaving my name and copyright off the leaf would fit my vision of glamour bombs. I’d then like to leave them in a park or beneath a tree or blowing in the wind.
ooh ooh! these are so cool! what did you engrave with? I'd like to see how they age.
ReplyDeleteAloha V.K.
ReplyDeletethere are several tools i have that i can use - essentially you can use anything that will scratch the surface of the leaf. the leaf is soft enough when it's green to scratch easily. because i hadnt done this kind of thing for a while i tried several things from a point on a metal finger nail file to a probe and a dried up rapidoliner fine tip replacement cartridge. i ended up liking a fine tip mechanical pencil without the lead in it. that seemed to work best for me.
i keep a wide variety of that kind of tool in a ceramic cup holder for a number of uses including scratching into watercolor papers for painting purposes - which can leave a great line.
my intention is to show at least one or two of these leaves when they dry. i'm hoping to take several weeks to dry them slowly which reduces the chance of splitting if i've gone too deep with a line or where there are several lines close together.
These are awesome and I love the idea of you leaving them around as "found objects". I create Peace Tags with messages for peace that I leave around in bookstores, coffee shops and even roadside parks but I love the leaf idea. These drawings are little treasures.
ReplyDelete....the spider is magnificent I agree with V.K. I would like to see them aged after a while...
ReplyDeletei set as well a comment to the "critter" of V.K. ... but I will post it here once more. maybe it is easier for you to read it:
Hi, it seems the critter become an intern communication spot(after the break down of mailart.org), hope wrick will come back to it? we will see
Aloha ! no problem wrick if you don't send a socks-post, I won't force anybody to it - if you send one, ok. that would be nice, if not, no problem.
If you like to communicate once more you can also use my email
Roland.Halbritter(a)web(dot)de
blinkingeyeandgoodbye
Roland
PS: great new works at the 19 planets ! keep on drawing...
http://socks-stockings.blogspot.com
thanks Kay
ReplyDeletei see them as treasure too.
i like your peace idea. i have some glamour bomb ideas about leaving things in books in bookstores that one day i may explore too. fun concepts to play with, yes. peace is always a worthwhile theme imo.
aloha and welcome Roland
ReplyDeletehopefully they will age well and i'll scan them (or at least some of them) again for the blog. they do take a while to dry completely so it may be several weeks before i get too it.
thanks for your invitation too Roland, i will see if i can find my way across the net to some of these places and play. i'm glad i got to be a little part of MailArt dot org while it was up, enough to make your acquaintance in such a way that we may yet cross in our creative journey ways.
i like spiders and play with them as a theme every so often - it seemed like such a natural creature to explore on a leaf... or may be to be exploring a leaf with as a companion creature of sorts.
good advice Roland, i do intend to keep drawing! thanks
aloha - Wrick
did you leave one of these outside a library? or was that another glamorbomb project - how'd it go?
ReplyDeletewhich reminds me....this is a really cool site for people to situate art outside/on the street. I love the cream couch.
http://delicatesituations.blogspot.com/
I saw that manekineko commented on this post over at her mailart site :)
aloha V.K.
ReplyDeletenope this isnt the glamourbomb i was talking about for libraries. i've scanned them in but i havnt posted them yet. these would make great glamourbombs tho, yes
i've sent the library glamourbombs off to where they will be swapped out to other places, but i dont think they've been swapped out yet. i'm having two thought ramblings in my head about the library glamourbombs:
1 - should i post them before they actually go out to the people who will/may place them?
2 - how much of the glamourbomb should i show? just the outsides? or the inside surprise too? or part of the inside surprise?
sheesh.
and sheesh again i missed Manekineko's comment (thanks for the heads-up) - i gotta go find that.
i also gotta figure out how to add links someplace here to her site and a few others... sheesh again.
...and get to that couch site... sheesh again and again. fun tho.
These leaves are really cool, Wrick! Have you seen what Keron is doing with her "Share Your Heart/Love It Forward" project? Kind of along the same lines of a glamourbomb, I think.
ReplyDeletehttp://loveitforward.ning.com/
thanks Beckie - yes i agree, Keron's project does have that glamourbomb sense to it. i like that. another i like is Bren Bataclan's Smile Boston Project - which is now much bigger than just Boston. it's here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bataclan.com/
read the hand written note area. and click to the next area. you'll get the idea. very much like glamourbombing, yes.
cool.