I’ve been having a lot of fun recently, layering my own digital paintings and collage into some of my photographs. As you know if you’ve been visiting here for awhile, I love photography but there’s just something in me that can’t leave it at that. I have to take it that one (or two or twenty) steps further. The contrast of using a fairly intense block of colour on one portion of the canvas with black and white on the other, really interests me. I’ve done a few more of these but they’re on my laptop which has gone to the computer spa for some R & R …
(in other words, it crashed!).
I’ve learned something interesting recently about the way I approach a creative project and it's come to light through the house building process…I don’t begin the process with a vision of the end product. I create by taking one step, looking at it and then making a decision about the next step and so on. It’s a “feeling” thing for me. Things evolve as I go along.
Our builder, who also happens to be our son-in-law, creates by visualizing the end product and then working backwards to get that vision. It’s been an interesting process for me to observe his style and I’m sure, a more frustrating experience for him to observe mine! ;)
We're enjoying a beautiful fall weekend here and getting organized to take off for the better part of a week...a bit of a holiday, shopping for the house and visiting family...south of the border. We are soooo looking forward to a break. There have been some major hold ups with the house construction recently but we should be sailing into the home stretch by the end of next month if all goes well. At any rate we're more than ready right now to take some time for fun!
Play well and be kind to one another.
