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The next two days in August Break.

The word was Skin. This is our Lamino chairs. We have had them for long and they have been restored with sheepSkin. The chairs are nice to sit in with a cup if tea.

This is a photo for the word Numbers. These Fibonacci numbers are paintedon a building on Magasinsgatan in Gothenburg. I didn't know what this form of counting was called before I saw these. 

New start

I have not been so active on this blog for a while. Now it is time for a new start. Together with my friends in the Paperlove group, a group of participants in Rachel Hazels e-course with the same name, I will try to post a picture with the following themes each day.

My pictures for the first two days are as follows.

Breakfast - during weekends we often start with bacon and scrambled eggs. As a special luxury I had a cappuccino this morning.

Air - It is hard to make a photo out of air. This is the morning sky over Stenlia. The weather is unpredictable. Don't know what is in the air!

Letters and images Day 5

Today was the final whole day on the course. Tomorrow it will end at lunchtime. The subject of today was to find marks in many different ways. Using tools such as coins, sewing, stencils, rubbing over different patterned objects etc. But it could also be marks from more traditional tools and letterforms. I use most of my day doing a quote from Melanie Reim with some stealing from Paul Klee.

Letters and images Day 4

The subject of today was to do some sort of "mind map". For me the obvious thing was a "map" of our home at Stenlia. First I thought of doing it in a bird perspective and look into the houses without roof. But then I changed my mind and has made it possible to open the roofs and look in. This became such a huge project that I hadn't time to finish it during the day. I have also made drawings of horses and our dog Bella that shall be glued on. 

Letters and images Day 2 and 3

Time flies when you're in a couse like this. On Day 2 was our exercise to work with lettering, movement and contrast in ink, charcoal, markers, crayons etc. It was interesting to see all the different pictures that was made. These are mine in black and white. 

On Day 3 was the exercise to make something in three dimensions. This is really something I like and during tje day I made four different things. There were a couple of others that did books but there was also a lot of collages made. 

It is hard to capture the "books" in a picture. You must hold them in order to see how they work.

Lettering and image - day 1

Today was the first day of the course. We started after lunch. First there was a short introduction and a historic presentation about development of letters. Our first exercise was to make signs to represent our names.

Then each of us made a picture of something we remembered from our journey to the course and another person made signs to represent the picture.

My picture was from my drive to Gerlesborg.

Lettering and image, 1

Packing my stuff for a five day course "lettering and image" at Gerlesborg Art School. It's ridiculous how much things that seems absolutely necessary to pack! Guess I will only use part of them.