This sketchbook is approximately 9 x 6 inches (23 x 15.25 cm). An open double page spread becomes approximately 9 x 12 inches (23 x 30.5 cm).
Contributors in this Mail Art Project initiate a sketchbook with a theme of their choice. The theme of this sketchbook is My Sanctuary.
My spread is Mixed Media, including: Ink, Watercolor and Digital Technology Painting and Drawing. Each contributor works on a double page spread (facing pages in the open book). They then leave a small piece of work on the next page for the following contributor that in some way continues from the work on the previous page. The idea is to create some continuity flow from work to work. The four spirals at the bottom of the left page above were placed for me to work into my double page spread.
This is the piece I left for the next contributor to work into their double page spread.
The sketchbook is passed on or back and forth through the mail until the sketchbook is completed, at which time it is returned to the originator.
divine. I love that the bonsai, which is normally pruned very carefully and with consideration (least the way I hear it)....is creeping out and into the next page/world. So nice.
ReplyDeletethanks V.K. - you are right about traditional bonsai care being careful - it's very careful and selective because what is wanted and valued for the most part is a great natural looking tree, the way it might be found in nature. ideally it would give the viewer that sense of awe in miniature.
ReplyDeletemy drawings and paintings do not always do justice to that care and beauty... but i hope some of the spirit is at least there symbolically.
there are many styles of bonsai - one of the styles is called Cascading - which does go over the edge of the container and dips below the pot. which is what i was after in this bonsai - Cascading style - it ties in with the magenta waterfall digital piece that way too - the waterfall is cascading - as well as flowing over onto the page where the cascading water fall is. it's way cool that you've caught all of this in your comment. i like when things i do connect up to people who take the time to look that you take.
it takes looking to see. your drawing speaks volumes about how well you see. way cool on that.
it's interesting to me that when displaying a Cascading Style bonsai - (when growing them too) you have to have the pot near the edge of what ever the pot is placed on, so that the tree wont rest on the ground/surface. that makes for the pot always being place near the edge - like a tree cascading over the precipice of a cliff.
amazing yes. i like bonsai, but i am not all that knowledgeable about it - just here and there and experimenting with my own. it's not easy to create in the Cascading Style with all trees. some are better for it than others - which is true for each of the many traditional "Styles".
these are elements that i would like in "my sanctuary" so i put it in this person's sanctuary book - including painting and drawing.
You are a wellspring.
ReplyDeletehahahaha - i should probably encourage verifying what i say. i often speak from memory and i know my memory can make adjustments that i'm not always aware of as i'm writing...
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