Our Snapshot Girls theme for this month was Reflections. Yet again I have not been out to take new photos. Consequently I raided my archives.
Firstly, a few canal reflections
And next reflections in buildings when we visited Chicago in 2017.
Thanks for joining me today
Bernice
My sentences for last week in the 21 word challenge.
8. Prodigious
Mozart showed a prodigious talent from an early age. He was already a proficient player of the violin and the piano when he started to compose pieces aged five.
9. Insipid
The man looked in disgust at the insipid bowl of liquid the waiter had put before him insisting that it was the consommé the customer had ordered. There was no pleasing aroma rising nor any flavour when the man tasted it. It looked like dishwater and judging by the soapy taste left in his mouth the food critic thought it probably was dishwater.
10. Unpalatable
Geraint Thomas’s book, How a Welshman won the Tour de France, describes some of the more unpalatable issues of long distance cycling including what happens to your insides when you’re living on protein gels.
11. Resonance
I find the percussive resonance of a drumkit, especially from the snare drum, difficult to listen to. It is something to do with the frequency of the sound and my tinnitus.
12. Inaudible
The voices of so many women have not been heard and now not only are those voices inaudible but they are being cancelled.
13. Camouflage
In the Where’s Wally puzzle books, rather than wearing a traditional camouflage outfit, Wally is actually hiding in plain sight.
14. Clenched
At the 1968 Olympic Games Tommie Smith and John Carlos won gold and silver in the 200m final. At the medal ceremony they shared a pair of black gloves. Each raised a clenched black-gloved fist as a protest to highlight racism and prejudice against African-Americans in the U.S.A.
And now!
Words for week 3
15. Perilous
16. Perturbed
17. Amoral
18. Immoral
19. Sapid
20. Engulfed
21. Ridiculous
Thank you for joining me today. If you have tried writing sentences for any of the words, do post them in the comments below.
Thanks
Bernice
At the Art Textiles group on Thursday, Liske had lots of ideas that we could try. Sadly I had arrived without any oomph! It seemed to leak out of the car during the 25 minute journey from home!!!
However, one of the ideas roused a little bit of curiosity. I'm so glad it did because I really love some of the results I got.
Liske had a hot wax pot - actually an electic grill - and various tools including a cork, brushes, and a large cookie cutter.
This piece was originally splattered with acrylic paint. I think it was probably newsprint that I had put under another piece of work I was doing. I put the hot wax on and when that was set I put watercolour paint over it. When that was dry I repeated the exercise. With each of the pieces once everything was dry I ironed it between newspaper to remove the wax.
This piece was a part of a map with tissue paper glued on top. I scratched into the blobs of wax to reveal the layer below but the scatches were not significant enough for the paint to bleed through.
On this paper I collaged some text and some music and tissue paper before adding the wax and the yellow paint. Another layer of wax was added and then the turquoise paint.
This was an acrylic paint monoprint to which I added the wax. I used black acrylic ink over the top.
This is a piece of thin white cotton material.
And this was the paper underneath the fabric where the wax and some of the paint went through. I then added some more paint as there was quite a lot of white.
Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice
