tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post785016099096388740..comments2024-02-24T16:56:08.077+10:00Comments on tracemarks: dAd - drawing a day visual diariessusan bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05039648113517753032noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-38348798429545364402012-04-28T13:53:28.100+10:002012-04-28T13:53:28.100+10:00Hello Sam. Thank you for coming by my blog - I hav...Hello Sam. Thank you for coming by my blog - I have really enjoyed a ramble around yours. I am glad you like my etchings - they are really the only part of my 'real' work I have blogged as yet ..... not sure whether to blog my real 'stuff' or get a web site up and running. New to this world so am still trying to make decisions. Of course I am blogging on some of my artist's books and consider them very much my 'real' work. Looking forward to blogging on the collaboration between Fiona and me. I will dig up my recipe for rust and send it to you with pleasure. One of the other things to do is to google it .... rusting paper.... and you get heaps of recipes but mostly all very similar. I usually though not always use tea first and then your have two more baths to soak your paper in - one is caustic soda and one is ferrous sulphate. Varying results occur depending upon the order in which you soak your papers so enjoy having a play once you start. Remember always to wash your papers after they have set as this removes all the excess or loose material. Enjoy.susan bowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05039648113517753032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-33629265967766581672012-04-27T18:35:03.608+10:002012-04-27T18:35:03.608+10:00Hi Susan. I've just discovered your work, via ...Hi Susan. I've just discovered your work, via Fiona Dempster's blog (which is quite a new discovery for me too), and I love it. Especially your etchings. Can I ask you how you rust paper? I have soaked paper and fabric in walnut ink, tea and coffee, but I haven't tried rusting it.Sam Brightwellhttp://sambrightwell.com/surfacingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-33592723604212662642012-04-22T22:22:32.355+10:002012-04-22T22:22:32.355+10:00daily practice of ANYthing is profound and difficu...daily practice of ANYthing is profound and difficult and easy and simple. ha! but what happens inside that discipline is for each of us what it's all about. i think.Velma Bolyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-76953114986870696452012-04-22T21:23:27.037+10:002012-04-22T21:23:27.037+10:00Thank you Donna. I am looking forward to posting ...Thank you Donna. I am looking forward to posting on some of my other dAD books too - not that I ever actually completed a full year after that first one.susan bowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05039648113517753032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-84238423563346046992012-04-22T21:18:06.098+10:002012-04-22T21:18:06.098+10:00Don't deserve gold stars ......... Wish I had ...Don't deserve gold stars ......... Wish I had kept up the discipline but am certainly enjoying blogging a few times a week. I find it a discipline in itself, though certainly far easier than drawing, no matter how wonderfully, each day.susan bowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05039648113517753032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-29116640385478818312012-04-22T21:13:24.093+10:002012-04-22T21:13:24.093+10:00Thank you - am glad to know that there are more &#...Thank you - am glad to know that there are more 'oddies' out there - chocolate and berry smearers........ Love it!susan bowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05039648113517753032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-87959344517790681132012-04-22T21:10:29.241+10:002012-04-22T21:10:29.241+10:00Thanks Teri - I certainly am enjoying the process....Thanks Teri - I certainly am enjoying the process. I think it will enable me to be more considered about whatI am doing in my studio.susan bowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05039648113517753032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-70221332229626125842012-04-22T21:07:12.829+10:002012-04-22T21:07:12.829+10:00Thanks Ronnie. I am still working out how to make...Thanks Ronnie. I am still working out how to make blogging work best for me. As a discipline it is certainly good, as a record it will be invaluable as and when I begin to blog new work, and I suspect that one of the blogs greatest attribute is the way it connects you to other artists. Certainly I have really enjoyed the privilege of venturing into other artists studios through their blogs which are doorways into their creativity.susan bowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05039648113517753032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-81931985547203955682012-04-22T21:01:53.131+10:002012-04-22T21:01:53.131+10:00You are right about the blog. Fiona and I learnt a...You are right about the blog. Fiona and I learnt about blogging together a couple of years ago and she went home and started straight away. Hers is such a beautiful and often wise blog. At this stage as a fledgling blogger, it is a discipline to remember to photograph work as you do it. I am working on a rather complex project called 'a sense of place' at the moment - several rather large etchings and smaller ones to overlay in transparencies. It is going to take the next month or more to bring to some form of conclusion and 'bloggability' - so in the mean time I am blogging on bits and pieces!susan bowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05039648113517753032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-66551305505650244482012-04-22T20:25:18.940+10:002012-04-22T20:25:18.940+10:00As much as I love looking at your amazing DaD book...As much as I love looking at your amazing DaD books; I love it even more that you are blogging! These images are all so lovely and representative of different aspects of your arty-life and a lovely reminder of the journey, the steps, the progress, the life...Fiona Dempsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09275413906419343228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-16897831924515481722012-04-22T14:45:16.390+10:002012-04-22T14:45:16.390+10:00I am enthralled with your bound books... so many d...I am enthralled with your bound books... so many different pages and all wonderfullayershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10991288165260934778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-8894310130593713272012-04-22T06:08:35.711+10:002012-04-22T06:08:35.711+10:00It does require a great deal of discipline to do a...It does require a great deal of discipline to do a page a day, no matter how much work is required. You get a gold star from me, even several gold stars. Your work is just so beautiful.Jo Murrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09025838373008865611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-28282277608004852202012-04-22T01:23:18.778+10:002012-04-22T01:23:18.778+10:00what a beautiful and thoughtful post - I concur wi...what a beautiful and thoughtful post - I concur with you on most everything - I too put food in my journals - the cranberry sauce was quite lovely, I have gathered wild berries for making purple smears - and "ink" and I use coffee and tea almost every day...<br /><br />your journals are gorgeous and inspiring,<br /><br />xox - eb.ebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15812273539703105784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-90481938972811170052012-04-21T22:50:48.735+10:002012-04-21T22:50:48.735+10:00I'm enjoying your blog. Glad you are, too.I'm enjoying your blog. Glad you are, too.terihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05095349422849979251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-76649200442263491072012-04-21T20:31:09.918+10:002012-04-21T20:31:09.918+10:00I certainly think blogs can be a place to work thi...I certainly think blogs can be a place to work things out.. to jot things down... to share.... to experiment... to create.... they are merely a different tool in the arty tool box.... (ps love the look of those coptic bound delights)ronniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02260679591630131813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2524845044750483894.post-45503573247458365272012-04-21T19:51:27.621+10:002012-04-21T19:51:27.621+10:00Oh........
I sitting over here salivating over yo...Oh........<br /><br />I sitting over here salivating over your lovely drawings, pages, books, paper, rusting...just all of it. My hands keep reaching out to touch the paper and the bindings, but this darned computer screen keeps getting in the way. <br /><br />Anyone who can do such a practice a day has my total admiration for the dedication it takes. <br /><br />And your thinking about the blog is good. I began mine as a way to ensure that I actually got in the studio and worked after a two year hiatus when we adopted our daughters. After all, if one starts an art blog, one must have something to post about. <br /><br />Enjoy!Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10927317459104273331noreply@blogger.com