I drove home last night in the dark and the blessed rain---well, it was more drizzle at that point, but it was WET! This morning, as I painted, I tried to remember what it looked like on the bypass, flanked as it was by dark, hulking trees and with car tail lights floating like low flung, bright fireflies.
My trusty rain gauge reported a total of 1.1 inches of rainfall---yay!!!!!!! Not a deluge, but something nevertheless!
I added some sketches of shells to my accordion sketchbook featuring water life. This will be the book I use to record flora, fauna, flotsam, jetsam in and of the sea, rivers, streams,and ponds that I encounter this year. I LOVE the accordion format---it makes a story of my images without my having to add a word! You know me, though---I will add those words.
I apologize for the poor quality of the photos. I didn't have time to obsess over them.
I leave for Hawaii next Tuesday, a watery land, indeed! I'll post with particulars before I go. Thank you so much for your interest in, and support of, my search for water this year.
Dear Laura - Could you describe how you make your accordian sketch books? I love the format. Merci, Deborah
Posted by: Deborah Hopkins | March 23, 2008 at 01:06 AM
The top night in the rain pic is fantastic.
Posted by: Nina | February 20, 2008 at 10:00 PM
What a beautiful night scene, almost abstract, and those granulating colours like splashes of water. Wonderful.
Posted by: Nancy | February 17, 2008 at 01:50 PM
Thank you many, many times! Robyn, aha! That remains to be seen ;D. It's easy enough if you just draw page by page, but... I don't. Sandy, I wish you could send the rain here! Wendy, I'll check out that book. Thanks for the tip. Thanks so much, Julie. Tara, I'll email you. Good luck in London. Katherine, I have rain barrels. Kim, I've lived in both London and Edinburgh--I'd take some of that rain of your hands! Thanks to every single one of you!
Posted by: Laura | February 17, 2008 at 01:45 PM
Hooray for the rain! And your sketches are fantastic! That painting is wonderful. Can't wait to see you - please send me your dates again. Am off to London this week, but back soon. xoxox
Posted by: Paris Parfait | February 17, 2008 at 10:27 AM
I love the idea for the concertina book. Great. The first painting reminds me of the type of work in the book "Painting in the Spirit of Nature." I just love it.
Posted by: Wendy Shortland | February 17, 2008 at 12:39 AM