Bonfire Night Photography

We haven't been to a Bonfire and Firework Party for years so it came as a surprise when Roger suggested we went to one at the local Rugby Club.   There were well over 3000 people there we think but it was tremendously well organised.

I should have looked at the setup of my camera before we left home rather than try to do it in the dark before the bonfire was lit.  I thought I had set it on the setting that takes several pictures and 'sews' them together as one image.  Actually I put it on a setting that took 5 pictures of the same thing one after the other which meant I ended up with 139 photos.

Don't worry!  I'm not sharing all of those here.  Just a few.  Enjoy.

And finally the one I think is the best I took.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Glimpses of Jesus 45

Glimpses of Jesus in the Old Testament is a year long bible study written by Simon Clay of Jubilee Church Solihull.   You can join in at any time.

Today's post is from Daniel 7:9-14 and the vision that God gave Daniel.

I decided that rather than do a journal page that tried to literally draw the vision I would do my interpretation.  First of all I drew lots of lines fro a centre point using Neocolor II crayons in shades of yellow and a couple of purple crayons.   I coloured the centre and then drew the people with a black felt pen.

It does look a bit like a bonfire party but then that's what I saw last Saturday!

Do have a look back through the posts on the Glimpses of Jesus blog where you will find links to other people's art and poetry.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Art Cloth Course

I am doing a three sesson course with Liske at Littleheath Barn - the studio home of Ineke Berlyn.  Making an art cloth really appealed to me as I'm really not into piecing and patchwork.

Liske & Ineke kindly prepared some soda-soaked linen for us to use.

Beforehand we had been asked to think of a theme and to take inspiration with us and a sketchbook!  I managed one page in the sketchbook.  I was going to actually plan and work in the sketchbook but in the end after I'd tried some ideas on a practice piece of fabric I got on with the background on my linen fabric.

Ready to start printing with the perspex square and thickened dyes.

The first layer was a pale yellow dye.  I carefully printed the yellow square next to each other 4 rows across and 4 rows up.

The second layer was turquoise and much more random.

And the last colour was pale grey and was printed over the spaces between the turquoise squares.

Session 2 involved making a stamp and then stamping with thickened dye on the background fabric.  The first layer was printing with turquoise.

Then with grey

After 48 hours I washed out the cloth and although not much turquoise dye came out in the rinsing this is what it looked like wet on the washing line.  I was abit concerned!

Now that it has dried there still isn't much of the turquoise.

Next session involves adding fabric paint and thinking about what to do next!  Stitch?  More colour?  Cut it up? 

Who knows!

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice