More suprises in the mail
A few days ago I received a package in the mail. There were about 10 drawings by P, dating from her sojourns in Europe last year. She created watercolours of different places she visited. I love the idea of capturing the place you visited by hand, the effort and detail and inner strength required, compared to the snap of a camera. Your eye has to observe what is present, make decisions about how much detail to include, if anything is to be omitted. You pick the colours, the centre of activity and also the small details that only another trainspotter might notice.
When I was in painting class at Bapea we had to do a landscape scene of a place. I chose the Oatlands mill, my classmate chose a street from Venice (she was a more accomplished painter!). And this is what P has done, chosen very detailed and complex old world locations and drawn and painted them with her own hands. Love it!
I also loved getting the parcel in the mail, opening the package, finding the pieces that she'd had put onto commercial paper. I tipped the envelope upside down trying to find an accompanying message, but as A pointed out, the pictures were the message.
We have yet to discuss these pictures in detail (like Ms Ottoman, P has been patient with phone tag, interrupted phone conversations, flat batteries and the like) but maybe we don't need to? I think I need to draw more, draw and record the places I've been to-for I have moved around more than most of my friends and acquaintances.
When I was in painting class at Bapea we had to do a landscape scene of a place. I chose the Oatlands mill, my classmate chose a street from Venice (she was a more accomplished painter!). And this is what P has done, chosen very detailed and complex old world locations and drawn and painted them with her own hands. Love it!
I also loved getting the parcel in the mail, opening the package, finding the pieces that she'd had put onto commercial paper. I tipped the envelope upside down trying to find an accompanying message, but as A pointed out, the pictures were the message.
We have yet to discuss these pictures in detail (like Ms Ottoman, P has been patient with phone tag, interrupted phone conversations, flat batteries and the like) but maybe we don't need to? I think I need to draw more, draw and record the places I've been to-for I have moved around more than most of my friends and acquaintances.
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