Spinning challenge……Roadkill

Plunkyfluff has been the innovator of the Artyarn Spinning Challenges. And I have been drooling over the outcome and wishing that I had the time to actually participate……

Alas time again beat me to it……

But I found the time to actually fulfill some of the requirements:

The Reanimater Series
Submit entries to the yarn museum
Deadline Weds. May 7th
Vote! May 8thplease include pictures of:
1) the type of critter you’re re-animating (just pull an example off the web) DONE
2) your materials FOUND THEM FORGOT TO PHOTOGRAPH
3) the finished yarn YEP
4) the re-animated critter……SORRY still untangled and skein-like.

1)

(Sorry if you feel offended….I find death serene and beautiful and believe it to be just as important as life.)

2) Just have to write the materials: mohair, chiengora, “catgora”, angora and four diffrent kinds of wool.

3) Here is to the best og my ability…..

4) Alas…not this time……..

But I´would have loved to win Plunkyfluffs squirrel II , he makes me giggle…eventhough he has had a hard time…..

My color

And wouldn´t you know…..I always wear purple or and blue…and mix them and you´ll have:

you are lavender

Your dominant hue is blue, making you a good friend who people love and trust. You’re good in social situations and want to fit in. Just be careful not to compromise who you are to make them happy. Your saturation level is very low - you have better things to do than jump headfirst into every little project. You make sure your actions are going to really accomplish something before you start because you hate wasting energy making everyone else think you’re working. Your outlook on life is bright. You see good things in situations where others may not be able to, and it frustrates you to see them get down on everything.

the spacefem.com html color quiz

Earth day

Earth day. Recycling…thinking about how we use the planet we inhabit. It is a matter of being conscious of how we do things….use things…….the thoughts and this promt set this of :

And all those green thoughts brought me to make this very spring-like batt of green :

ART YARN ?

When I saw Lexi Boegers book INTERTWINED, I knew that my freeforming soul would not stand for it……., the white batt with wool, angora and bambus has been made into my first art yarn……

a silent one for starters…..

and one more

And my recent spinning caught in the last sun rays of the day……..

……and a beautiful sight caught in my bedroom window one morning……seems the sun is bringing silent joys to me………

Have a prosperous day, and remember to look at and appreciate the small things…….

Spinning around

Some singles has to be plied to create space on the bobbins……I you are dreaming of making art-yarn like plunkyfluffs……..Here is Elijah holding the small samples made from the small amounts left over from other projects……

This to makes space for :

this snowy white experiment of white wool, bambus and turquoise angora-rabbit wool…….

D´Blogala´s Art Journal Fridays Promt : My first memory

I have for a time been reading D´blogalas blog and in my mind anyway followed the promt for the Art Journal Fridays.

For the time being my art journal is this blog and I am playing with digital photo-manipulation .

My first real memory is of sneeking into the kitchen and being able to light a small candle, which at my current age was forbidden…….I remember the fear of being caught and the adrenalin rush from being so close to fire……….It still holds its grip on me when I am near bonfires and I love to light a candle or several in my house……

Pet Peeves - Illustration friday

I had to lean on my always helpful wikipedia to define this weeks subject………PET PEEVES.…..

Hear is mine : due to my stressrelated depression my tolerance for sounds….(especially if I am stressed) is very minor……

IMT - Wallpaper

Wallpaper, this weeks promt…..brought me once more back to my childhood……the sample above was from the kitchen, although i don´t remember the exact color.   ( PURPLE !!!!!!edited by my mother. Yikees  !! )…, another place the sample below……..my parents must have loved patterns…..sniggles…….

But my favorite….is the one from the living room….very retro…….very colorful……

Very ART DECO..…..

(handdrawn from the sample above and altered in image composer.)

The inspiration is very clear if one looks at this stained glass window from the Art Deco period……..

“The sleeping fiberfairy”

Once upon a time there was a Mother who had a beautiful daughter. In the winter a feast was held……she asked all the fairies in the kingdom to the gathering, but unfortunately forgot to invite one of them, who was a bit of a witch as well. She came anyway, but as she passed the daughter, she said:

“When you are thirty-four, you will injure yourself with a spindle and die!”

“Oh, no!” screamed the Mother in horror. A good fairy quickly chanted a magic spell to change the curse. When she hurt herself, the girl would fall into a very deep sleep instead of dying.

The days went by, and no posts were blogged. Her mother couldn´t keep her away from wheels, only spindles. The daughter wandered through the wilderness of midwinter, and one day meet an old servant who was spinning.

“What are you doing?” she asked the servant.

“I’m spinning. Haven’t you seen a spindle before?”

“No. Let me see it!” The servant handed the daughter the spindle … and she pricked herself with it and. with a sigh, dropped to the floor.

The terrified old woman hurried to tell the Mother. Beside herself with anguish, the Mother did her best to awaken her daughter but in vain. The doctors and wizards were called, but there was nothing they could do. The daughter could not be wakened from her deep sleep. The good fairy who managed to avoid the worst of the curse came too, and the Queen said to her,

“When will my daughter waken?”

“I don’t know,” the fairy admitted sadly.

“In a year’s time, ten years or twenty?” the Mother went on.

“Maybe in a hundred years’ time. Who knows?” said the fairy.

“Oh! What would make her waken?” asked the Mother weeping.

“Spring,” replied the fairy. “If a time of pure growth and creative thoughts were to begin, that would bring her back to life!”

Well, this is what I have been waiting for and why I haven´t written for at long time…..I have been hibernating in a safe haven.

Artists with influence - Gauguin

Reading blogs…always sets my mind rumbling along in the labyrinth of my brain…..often discovering or rediscovering images…concepts or random jumbles lying about or neatly stacked or boxed….

CYNDI of LAYERS UPON LAYERS blog post on artists swung open a box of memories of a journey to The Netherlands, a study in highschool and some almost forgotten experiments…….

The setup was to create a paraphrase to a known painting….make it my own…..and as I earlier that year had made a bibliographic essay on the subject of Gaugain…..I choose him.

His influence on me is the clean lines he most often uses……and I am drawn to the expressive use of colors….