Saturday, May 30, 2009

Chickenshack or "Mein Huhnchen soll es besser haben"













Made a few prints on paper: They illustrate a joke on an old maiden who had a chicken shack with 6 cocks and a hen. A neighbour asked her why she did not have a number of hens and one cock like all the other farmers; she said: "Well, in my youth, I was a wallflower. I want my chicken to have a better time!"













On the fourth print, a robber is in the shack, and the farmer seems to breed roadrunners. Gouaches, printed with lino stamps on paper. I exchanged the photos because the yellow paper wasn't shown correctly in the first series of photos.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Blueprint

I'm still auditing my stash for a carrier fabric. I have a red one and a green one, but fate decided this thing to be blue. Buying a fabric would break the rules. I'll work like I did in the case of the projects I did before, Jacob's colourful coat and the witch gown "witch" is now finished and still must be photographed in an outdoor situation. Susan had a good idea what way to take a photograph, I'm not telling.
My husband said the bear looks like run over by a truck.

Quelque chose très, très belle est arrivée

Aujour d'hui, c'est-ce que était dans ma boîte aux lettres: De fils colorés par Diane! Merci beaucoup, beaucoup! And wrapped up so nicely that I hardly dare to use them. But they are much too beautiful not to use them! Je suis très heureuse.