Barcelona

One of Barcelona's famous artists is Antoni Tapies (see here) who has his own museum in Barcelona. He  uses nature, coincidence, and thinking about coincidence. For example he used a lot of sand and sawdust mixed with paint on his canvas and this layer once dried up will burst. He painted with a wide variety of materials including cardboard, cloths, paper, threads.

So Tapies became my Barcelona inspiration, but there is so much more in Barcelona, it is so hard to choose. One of the famous buildings in Barcelona is the Sagrada Familia, a church  they started building  in 1882, and it is still not finished. So some of that, and some mosaics and some summer colors...

I started with an old cloth, and put a sleeve of a shirt on it. Accidental materials who just happen to be here. Then I used gesso and yellow paint and with a selfmade stencil I applied rectangles in red. (This is seen on my first blog about Barcelona.) Then I did some more stencilling in blue and painted  with red and brown. In the right corner I glued a piece of paper from the museum of Antoni Tapies, in pieces like mosaic.On the left I cut off a big piece and put it back on upside down. 

I used thin batting and quilted with graded pink-red thread.

In the left corner I made a black cross from black wool. 

Alles in het engels deze keer, maar dat begrijpen jullie vast  zo ook wel :-)

boom breiwerk

Deze boom staat in mijn dorp, en ik fiets er regelmatig langs. Vandaag eindelijk met fototoestel.

I pass this tree often, and today I finally brought my camera to get this picture

wijn

Elk jaar hebben we veel druiven, teveel om zelf op te eten en eigenlijk zijn het geen lekkere eet-druiven. Dus dit jaar wordt er wijn van gemaakt. Het gistingsproces is nog niet klaar, dus nog even geduld.

Every year we have too many grapes, so this year we are busy making wine!

workshop van Gil de Vloo

Vandaag naar Tilburg geweest met Patty en Marjon om een workshop kaarten maken van zijdevezels te volgen. Gil de Vloo maakt hele mooie kaarten. We hebben de technieken uitgelegd gekregen en konden daarmee aan de slag. Op de fotoos kan je zien dat de kaarten nog niet helemaal klaar zijn, maar ik ga er zeker mee door. Wordt vervolgd dus.

I followed a workshop with friends in Tilburg. We made cards out of silk fibers, like carded cocoon strippings. I didnot finish the cards yet, but will continue to work on them.

toetje

                                                gemaakt door / made by Roel