japanese rain

mountain mist

Just back from Japan for a week but still have not downloaded my numerous photos so perhaps a look at a couple of pages of my visual diary will give you some idea of what I got up to. There were two typhoons of the coast while we were there so we had some rainy weather and mist in the mountains and I'm so glad. I usually work on my diaries every night even when I'm away but of course with a smaller range of materials. Most of my diary work is somewhat more design oriented but in these two, I tried to get some sense of the misty atmosphere.

tokyo to nagano

Most of my other little mixed media memories are more graphic like these:

With all the bits of maps, tickets and other ephemera from our trip, I will continue to mine my memories and make inter-related little works for quite a while before taking off again for more new experiences. I'll post a few photos next post but probably not typical travel shots.

small developments

blue forest

Just a few small developments at home away from the immediate stimulus of the SW coast and forests of Western Australia. It could be quite a while, if ever, before I translate these images into larger works. I just might even need to go back there for a reminder of what a beautiful part of the world this is with so much more to explore.

gloucester tree

burnt 

new bark

yallingup forest

bush grid

These little works are in this years "to develop even further" diary but I will post some of the other diaries meanwhile once I scan a small selection again.

just a couple

wa flora

I'm currently scanning some of the other work done in my diaries during the year. The images in all the diaries overlap and are not strictly sequential. While I'm waiting for one page to dry, I'll pick up another diary and work on the same topic. Sometimes all three or four all in progress, no wonder they overlap! These next two are still in "Yellow Line" but are developed further in other diaries and are the focus for work done at home now . They are a distillation of the experience, from a little distance in time. I'll post where they are currently a little later as they get progressively more abstract.

DEC

yellow line

Firstly to all my  blogger friends, I hope you all have a very healthy, happy 2013 with few computer problems and lots of art success. For my first few blogs of the new year,  I thought I would follow the ideas of Fiona and Sara by reviewing the previous year to give you an idea where some of my travels and ideas ended up. Apart from small artist books and zines all of my work centred around my little A5 diaries. I filled 3 little books this year and "yellow line" is the first I'll show some work from. Hope they are not too personal and still have some interest for others."Yellow Line" has about 50 images, too many to show so a sample to give you a taste. The cover has oblique references to Van Gogh, the severely lopped tree in Holland and the yellow line.

go with a friend

running backwards

The first drawing gave the book its title. The drawings are all behind the yellow safety line (like a railway platform) so should be quite harmless.( Each page started with a yellow mark.) Later drawings broke the rules a bit but were generally well behaved. I can give you more details about individual ones if you ask.

evans head ha,ha,ha

ID-map

just a taste

skuttlebutt

tripping blind

"skuttlebutt","tripping blind" and "just a taste" were done on a trip recently to Margaret River where we did sample many of the delicious wines at some lovely vineyards. Stella Bella was one of our favourites that had "skuttlebutt" as one of its cheaper wines. Don't you just love some of the taste descriptions eg "poached, dark flesh plums"? The tally marks were not the number of wines consumed. Who was countng apart from the driver?