I am always so happy to hang around my father's wife. She always has these interesting creative projects going on and I am always welcome to join her. One of the things she has taught me is something called nuno felting. It is a Japanese felting method and I love how physical and meditative it is.
I have been away from here forever. I know. I needed to just pause and be with my family for the summer vacation. And so I did. Soaking in the ocean and the sun, the beautiful nature of Summer Sweden. So brief and so lovely.
The oh, so delightful feeling of waves touching toes.
And of course I have been drawing. This one is Tears.
So happy and revived from being in nature all day long for a full month!
I wish you all the best you could hope for. I wish you have/have had as healing a vacation as I did, and if not, that it is in the near future for you. All my love! Robin
So, I always make those dots. And my hand hurts making them. So I decided to see if I could come up with different shapes or patterns as a variation. And since Nature is the greatest artist, I went outside and try to photograph some patterns and see what I can make of them. I thought I was going to come home with my phone's memory filled to the brim with different patterns, but to find something that I thought I could transfer to a pattern on paper was a bit more difficult than I thought. Maybe I shouldn't have limited myself like that. Anyways - today I share some patterns I found, and we'll see if I can doodle some stuff inspired by it:
I have no idea what to make of these patterns, but I love them, and I love how totally diverse Nature is! It is like the most crazy chaotic creative outburst that somehow just settles in as a perfect whole. Ahhhhh.
Fish and birds seem to be part of the images that appear in me more often than not. They usually look about the same. But yesterday I met a new fish. A fish of different colour. Because usually they don't have any colour. This one does.
As a kid I was fascinated by the fact that you could do something that so obviously made you deteriorate inside and out. Voluntarily. As an adult I know smoking is just a very concrete version of this behaviour. Many of us do it everyday in different ways. Negative self talk so as to seem humble and/or worthy of praise. Unhealthy eating. Watching TV shows that make us feel bad. Allowing ourselves to be swallowed up by work that doesn't fill us up. The list goes on.
I am on a journey to quit doing these things. Starting with negative self talk and negative interpretation of past, present and future events. And of course actually going for my dream even though I watch a fair amount of TV when I could be creating.
"Now it is just you and I, mum." I had noticed my son longing for some alonetime and we went for an excursion. First true day of spring. I let him choose whatever he wanted us to do. And he chose to go to the "Butterfly house". Indoors.
And I am so glad I did. We were both in awe of all the beauty - the flowers, the butterfly, my son were absolutely fascinated by the cacti. As big as real trees!
But the best part was going outside in the sunny, yet still a bit chilly northern spring to find a lovely butterfly in the wild!