Journals

Remember how we're working in our journals on the theme of trees this year? Here are our first entries for the year.

The front page of Cindy's book was spray painted through a stencil with Glitz Spritz.

Her first pages focused on bark, from trees she saw on her daily walks. Her photos included the chunky bar of pine trees, the gloriously pattered bark of the Lace Bark Elm, the corky bark of the European Hornbeam, the patchy  bark of the Stewartias and the papery bark of the Paper Bark Maple.

She got interested in bark and bast fibres generally.

Her last pages were a collage of bark from mostly Australian trees like Angophora and Eucalyptus species.

Maz made a cover for her book with a machine stitched tree.

 

 

She was also fascinated with angophora bark. It's not surprising as it's such a beautiful colour! Green Park in Cammeray has a stand of angophora cordata the Sydney Red Gum.



Nola also made a cover for her book, from hand painted cloth.

She wanted to explore the intaglio technique with one of her hand made stamps. She painted the stamp with red acrylic paint, wiped it off the flat surface and painted it with yellow acrylic paint. The left hand page shows the resulting print on dry cartridge paper; the right hand side has prints on wet paper. The paler prints has the yellow acrylic paint diluted, as often using media with different viscosity results in stronger prints.

Carol brought along a cute app she'd found for her IPhone, called Art Tree. It generates randomly shaped trees that change colour. Curiously addictive! You can see it here.