Work-In-Progress (26.nov.07)

Still work­ing on the flow­ers gothic arch. It now has birds on it. I have a pic­ture of my great grand­mother that I think will go in the center.

I have a new gothic arch started. The back­ground is torn papers coated with a wash of gel medium to get it all stuck down. I put a bird down and then decided that a cou­ple of the back­ground papers where just too bright so I smeared gesso over it all. Then the bird dis­ap­peared. I liked him well enough to cut out a sec­ond copy and pasted it down. They over lap a bit but you can’t see it in this photo. The bal­loons are from a paint­ing (used on the cover of the SAM bul­letin.) I’m not sure what the key tags are going to be.

I got the back­grounds for the house book pasted down. I sus­pect that once the pieces are fin­ished no-one will see them.

I’m also knit­ting a mohair scarf — a mid-not-very-red pur­ple in a sim­ple eye­let pat­tern. It’s to go with my grey coat. I try to knit in the evening but I’m get­ting so short sighted that I need a lot of light to see the stitches and some­times I’d rather not have the bright read­ing light on while we’re watch­ing television.

edited 25.june.2008 to cor­rect image links