negbw mini conference and home

this image has become my recent favorite

from maine, in acadia

these are the bits i made 

working with nancy leavitt at cclc

(near lubec.)

who came by each of us at work

and wrote out our names

just my name

i have lousy lettering skills

but nancy spoke about the COLOR

and i began to treat it

more like line and shape.

and there were delicious experiments on watercolor

and gouache 

with quill

and pen and brush

nancy prepped a portfolio for each of us

filled with sample papers to try

my favorite was one of katie macgregor's

who was my afternoon teacher.

i could kick myself for not taking, 

not

one photo

at her studio.

but this is the tiny keepsake

she gave us all

and of course the two sheets i pulled

will be along presently.

this is my table currently

with two printouts of the first photo

one on my daylily paper, one on glossy stock

plus there are several sheets of katie's paper

that i brought away to experiment with.

sometime ago i fell madly in love

with these small depictions

of first nations people's

work and living spaces.

the mapping of how we choose to live

interests me,

and the maps themselves

dance with play.