stretching

So I said a couple posts back that I thought my style had simplified over the past couple of years and I didn't know how I felt about that. So after I looked back, and as I was doing that day's page, I challenged myself to pull more pages out, to try and get more complex and see what happened. This is it... and I love it... it's sort of complex simplicity. I love the tonal quality of it, I love the tryptich-ness. I even love the quote...plus the greys were what the day was all about, grey and rainy. This is one of those rare pages that ended up being more than the sum of its parts. They happen every now and then...



the other recent pages I've done are up on my flickr page:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethelbertina/sets/72157594250888766/

Hiding

Ok, so I admit it, I've been lousy keeping up with this blog this past while. Mostly it's that I have stuff I want to talk about but I haven't had time to scan it into my computer so I have no visual aides to go with my talks, and where's the fun in that? Hopefully I can rectify that in the near future, but till then... here's what I saw last night while sorting my sock drawer: