Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.
My desk today
If I turn around this is what is behind me. I have been trying to create another desk area. You can see the book cradle my daughter bought me for Christmas.
I had a plan! Use up some of my 6 x 6 papers. I sorted them out, thin, thicker, thick. I wanted to make an accordion with the thick ones. Somewhere along the way I decided to use up my 12 x 12 for the same purpose. I scored a complete pad at the 6 inch mark, then cut them down to 8 and a half, leaving the 3 and a half for a little collage book. The plan is now to use the thin 6 x 6 to cover the pattern side of the larger pieces to give a collage background.
I came across Dina Brodsky the other day. I like her style. She uses her sketchbook to sketch and journal in and later uses the pages to add photographs and paint. I particularly like the trees she had sketched, something I had always felt a bit daunting. I started looking for bare or dead trees to sketch in the usual free photograph sites. I didn't find anything suitable so I tried Ai.
I didn't think the Ai were that realistic. I was after a tree that was old and partially dead. I went back to Google and came across Bristlecone pines, below left. I began to think my Ai ones weren't so bad after all! Below right are two magnolia partially dead Ai trees.
Two more Bristlecone pines:
This is what I am thinking of getting for next year!
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