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Inspired by Louis MacNeice's poem "The Sunlight on the Garden", this blog is about the minutes I have captured in a cage and used for my various dabblings. If you don't at least try to cage them, they just vanish. Here is the opening of the poem: The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold, When all is told We cannot beg for pardon.
About Me
- Mac's niece
- I am an inveterate dabbler when it comes to crafts. This goes completely against my work psycho profile of "completer finisher"! My main craft interests are sewing, painting and (very) basic knitting. I am always convinced I have done nothing creative in years, so this is a chance to collect together my projects, and remind myself what I have done. As well as parenting and my craft interests, I am a volunteer at the local toy library and secretary of the school PTA. I get a lot of fulfillment from investing some time into the community that welcomed us when we moved here in 1999. I also do occasional short term product design and evaluation projects from home. This used to be my full time job, and I am lucky to be able to continue in it in some capacity while to all intents and purposes being a full time mum to my little boy.
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9 comments:
The cropped picture gives a feeling of imminent arrival. I like the picture and the sky very much
cropped one is beautiful!
Thank you both. Yes, I think you are right, the cropped one is better. I might well try to do this painting again and see if I can extend the background style further into the foreground.
I'm a bit yes and no on the cropped version. Yes it's good that you cropped out the forground grass or rushes or whatever that was but... I don't like that you cropped out the left-most building. I really like the line of those blue roofs and the cropped one added an interesting angle to the mix.
I'm for the uncropped version myself
Hello you came to visit me and I wanted to say thankyou for your kind words. I love your painting and prefer the cropped version it feels more balanced and simpler, the colours are fabulous too ~ Judy
Hello. I like the un-cropped version best. I really like the contrast in texture and direction that the grasses provide. Favourite bit the building roofs.
Don't sell yourself short. The cropped one may have a better balance (a bit like my photos) but you need to show what you see. The atmosphere is there. Dad. PS if you get this twice the first one did not seem to be accepted. D'oh. Homer can't cope with this modern technology!
I'm really pleased at receiving so many comments about my picture. Thank you to everyone. I think I'll do this picture again and try to improve the foregoround AND keep the line of the rooves as the main focal point, and see what that looks like. I'll post the second attempt too.
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