Art my way, and finally bread

 I couldn't wait for the Art Shaped book to arrive, so I tried out my materials with my own way of doing it.

I'd seen this image

and liked the concept of a landscape with fissures and confused shapes, but I wanted an aerial view. I didn't look at this picture again, just went from the concept into the materials and had a good time. 

I learned quite a bit about manipulating card and paper by hand. Darrell does a lot of precision cutting in his work, and maybe I will too, after I study his book. But tearing and squashing is more my style.

Here's a step by step, to where I am now. I had to work on the fteezer top and the kitchen island, because the table is covered in jigsaw puzzle. But the light is good.

Left is a painting done on my hand dyed fabric cut and  reassembled tumbling block style, which I decided to use as a base. Good size, already wired for hanging. It's ready for a new life.

 

And found I had to cover the surface with bits of card stock when  tape wouldn't stick.

Under way squashing and tearing and sticking, rock formation ideas

Then I added in tissue paper, for more detailed softer shapes 

And here's where we are till tomorrow, when I paint it, outside, not wanting vapors from the spray in the house 

The colors are irrelevant at this point, just stuff I had lying around, including some of those small rapid paintings I did last summer. They're getting a second life. They'll be painted over.

At first I thought I'd spray the whole thing with the dark green enamel I have ready, then pick out highlights in liquid metallic acrylic. 

But now I think I'll spray more sparingly, to see if occasional visible colors work like rocks. We'll see. This was a good day.

Meanwhile, while I was tearing and squashing snd sticking, nature was creating a wonderful artwork right there as the sun moved round.

I also finally baked bread this afternoon, whole wheat with a bit of white and a cup of oats.

And when I sits I reads, so now that This Golden Fleece is done, highly recommended, and Beasts in my Belfry, likewise, I'm into (writer, not actor) Elizabeth Taylor's complete short story collection. 

 

She's pitch perfect. You have to keep stopping to make sure you see what she did there.  I'd read "Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont" ages ago and noticed her point of observation is very much like William Trevor in his short stories. It's a similar perception, rather than similar writing.

So that's where we are, and I'm about to order Misfits and see if this week I can get anything on my list, before thinking of a tuna melt for supper, home-baked bread, a favorite easy meal.

Happy evening everyone, follow your own lead, the others are all taken. 

That's at a minimum, which is also the puzzle answer, but you knew that.