silken twine
a crocheted silk lace piano scarf made by my late mother-in-law many decades ago bringing forth memories of it gracing her piano Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 07/05/2013 | 22 comments
themes: Home, Photoworks, Textures
basket twine
found in studio 'junk' wound up and tied remembering a frayed basket edge unwound and free captured and filed for future use then a revisit of jute, more jute and twine(d) Added 19th March: My dear friend Susan, in... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 18/03/2013 | 8 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Human, Photoworks, Textures
scrunched 3
On this rainy Boxing Day afternoon, I am enjoying some quiet time in the middle of the holiday fun. The younger generations are enjoying playing board games while I wander off to play with some of the discarded wrapping... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 26/12/2012 | 6 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Culture, Photoworks, Textures
urban textures 2
More eye-catching finds in a parking lot Did you see the the first ones?... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 04/12/2012 | 8 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
scrunched 2
More explorations with torn and scrunched papers, this time from magazines. Quite different from the scrunched print I did recently. Wonder where these are going?... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 21/11/2012 | 18 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Photoworks, Textures
ancient doors
I've been off on a tangent today starting with reading blogs, as often happens. I'd been visiting my friend Mouse where curiousity sent me exploring the site of a commenter. Her photos of ancient doors in Provence are so... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 18/11/2012 | 16 comments
themes: History, Meta-morphosis, Photoworks, Textures
scrunched
.... some play with torn and crumpled printed paper And, wishing a spooky yet safe Halloween, weather and storms permitting. The link has my favourite image for this day.... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 31/10/2012 | 11 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Photoworks, Textures
reading & sleeping
I'm taking it easy this week nursing a cold. With tissues and tea beside me, I am really enjoying the guilty pleasure of more reading time with a timely receipt of a library book I'd placed on hold: P.D.... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 17/10/2012 | 15 comments
themes: Books, Photoworks, Textures
urban textures
visual surprises in a parking lot, good thing I had the camera... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 28/09/2012 | 12 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
the bowl breaks (3)
I love the more abstract images where one doesn't know what one is seeing... just enjoying the shapes, textures and tonal variations. the promised links to other 'breaks' (oh my, too many!): broken, butter dish the broken bowl broken... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 09/09/2012 | 8 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
the bowl breaks (2)
More fragments, shards, the saving of memories present to past... all themes in my printworks and photoworks Please see the bowl breaks (1) for the update should you have missed it.... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 07/09/2012 | 5 comments
themes: Home, Photoworks, Textures
the bowl breaks (1)
... an addition to my 'breaks' series of a sort, with more photos to come... Added the next day, this note from Elisa, whose bowl this was: One of the casualties of our return from the English countryside to... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 05/09/2012 | 11 comments
themes: Home, Photoworks, Textures
rusty can 2
[Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 18/07/2012 | 4 comments
themes: Found Objects, Photoworks, Textures
rusty can
Another exciting unearthing in the garden! From the same area as the roots, this rusty and disintegrating metal object (a paint can?) is the kind of find that I love. It is a delight, as well as a challenge... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 16/07/2012 | 7 comments
themes: Found Objects, Photoworks, Textures
paper tears (2)
Another peek at what has been happening in the studio with some of the ink drawings....... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 12/06/2012 | 11 comments
themes: Drawings, Photoworks, Textures
paper tears
Marja-Leena | 07/06/2012 | 13 comments
themes: Drawings, Photoworks, Textures
lost & found
It's been a most glorious Easter weekend weatherwise and we really have deserved it. Over just these few days I have been astonished by the huge burst of new growth, of fresh green leaves on shrubs and the magnolia... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 08/04/2012 | 15 comments
themes: Found Objects, Photoworks, Textures
'night 'night
sight: circles, bubbles, rings taste: hot, slightly sweet, milky, cocoa feel: warm cup, comfort, drowsy hear: sleep tight!... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 01/04/2012 | 15 comments
themes: Home, Photoworks, Textures
snow patterns
lingering leftovers from this morning's fall of wet snow... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 28/01/2012 | 8 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
autumnal rain
Mesmerized by the sound of rain, by the sight of patterns of raindrops and wood grain, by bright reflections of grey sky and dark railings on wet, painting another pattern...... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 21/10/2011 | 19 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
patterns
thinking about patterns and textures as fragments, as possibilities for layering with other objects, .... still a work in progress... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 12/10/2011 | 10 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Photoworks, Textures
twine(d)
More treasures from the bottom of my 'textures for collagraphs' bag... Coarser and stiffer than jute, is it sisal? Fascinating how these recent scans of twine have brought forth many comments and questions about the fibres, and sent me... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 04/10/2011 | 13 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Photoworks, Textures
more jute
I am really enjoying revisiting this wonderful fibre! I'm surprised and pleased at all the comments the first jute post received. Meanwhile some of the jute imagery has gone into a new print I'm currently working on so wish... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 30/09/2011 | 13 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Photoworks, Printmaking, Textures
jute
See also: more jute and twine(d)... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 26/09/2011 | 20 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
my red diary
I'm not a diarist except when traveling and this has been my favourite travel diary. I love the texture, colour and pattern of the cover, and that it was a gift from a dear friend. Though it is last... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 25/09/2011 | 15 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures, Travel
revisiting macro photowork
I fell in love with macro photography about a year and a half ago, going through a long learning process and taking lots of photos for many months. It's been an embarrassingly long time now since I took any... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 26/07/2011 | 16 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Photography, Photoworks, Textures
stain
To see a world in a grain of sand, or in a coffee stain... (inspired by Finnish blogger and superb photographer Taina of Vaskooli, especially this)... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 19/07/2011 | 5 comments
themes: Photography, Photoworks, Textures
junkyard finds 6
having fun with circles the last in the series, I think... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 09/07/2011 | 9 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
junkyard finds 5
not only texture, also repetition and pattern....... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 06/07/2011 | 9 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
junkyard finds 4
loving the textures and contrasts of worn wood and rusty metals....... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 28/06/2011 | 5 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
junkyard finds 3
[Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 26/06/2011 | 10 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
junkyard finds 2
Sudden crazy thought: what will future archaeologists think of these... if they still exist in the junkyards of the far off future, perhaps buried under layers of varied detritus ? Will they think these are strange art forms by... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 23/06/2011 | 6 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
junkyard finds
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themes: Photoworks, Textures
shattered
such beauty in patterns and light of shattered glass... related: reflections in broken glass... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 18/06/2011 | 9 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
another hand print
While Elisa was having her metalwork lesson with Richard, I explored outside his barn/workshop/studio with camera in hand. Amazing what visual treasures can be found in what seems like a junkyard of old cars, farm equipment, snowblowers and assorted... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 17/06/2011 | 21 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Photoworks, Textures
sensuous rocks
Still sorting through photos of our little Gabriola vacation, I'm enjoying revisiting the excitement of many discoveries. Each beach we visited had amazing rock formations, with some similarities in their rough weathered hole-y textures, common also on Hornby Island,... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 08/06/2011 | 9 comments
themes: Canada and BC, Photoworks, Rocks, Textures, Travel
Malaspina Galleries 4
Still more rocks by the Malaspina Galleries on Gabriola Island, these adorned by the many colours of lichen.... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 22/05/2011 | 7 comments
themes: Canada and BC, Photoworks, Rocks, Textures, Travel
the cave
These images were photographed near the camellias, in the same woodland garden corner of our backyard. They are traces of a huge multi-trunked maple tree (we have some giants on the west coast) that had to be cut down... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 20/04/2011 | 9 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
frost and thaw
Clear and cold. Days of rare sunshine. Skylights with night shades of solid white frost. Rising sun's rays glance frozen glass. Thawing, changing, spreading patterns. Sun's art as brilliant as Jack Frost's. (Captured between 8:40 and 8:43 a.m. on February... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 06/02/2011 | 12 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
footprints in frost
These have made me recall some footprints in the sand from some years ago....... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 07/12/2010 | 11 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
textures of home #12
Continuing to collect scanned images of roundish glass objects, and enjoying the surprises. These appear quite abstract, I know, but may work well in combination with other images and textures in some print work that is in progress, or... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 20/11/2010 | 4 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
textures of home #11
[Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 17/11/2010 | 2 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
old Finnish jewelry
Somewhat related to my 'textures of home' series, but much more personal, featured here are some very old Finnish pendants and a brooch that have been passed on to me. These styles were and still are commonly worn with... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 10/11/2010 | 13 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Culture, Finland, Estonia & Finno-Ugric, Folk Legends & Myths, Photoworks, Textures
textures of home #10
..... more images of glass circles for my image library... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 08/11/2010 | 9 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
textures of home #9
still gathering circular images of textured glass... will any find their way into some prints?... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 04/11/2010 | 2 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
textures of home #8
I am gathering images of textured glass circles for possible use in some of my current print projects. This heavy glass base with holes is used in flower arranging. It had belonged to my mother who used it often... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 28/10/2010 | 11 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
textures of home #7
[Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 14/10/2010 | 8 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
textures of home #6
... a detail of a treasured cloth embroidered by husband's aunt many years ago It's been a very busy week getting started in the studio, doing a bit of of fall gardening between showers, and now preparing a little... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 18/09/2010 | 10 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
rust art
[Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 31/08/2010 | 17 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
boiler beauty
or, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.... (Original photos were taken by husband, then much loved and played with by me!)... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 29/08/2010 | 11 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
circles
While hunting for a certain image in my older digital photo albums, I came upon these in a folder called 'patterns' which I don't think I've posted before. They mirror my current feeling of going around in circles, repeating... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 17/03/2010 | 13 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Photoworks, Textures
textures of home #5
What does an insomniac artist do at 3 am instead of sleeping? Scanning and blogging. Might as well be creative, eh.... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 14/03/2010 | 7 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Photoworks, Textures
textures of home #4
Macro views of the tiles on top of a coffee table built by my husband over 40 years ago, weathered, much used and loved. Edited March 10th, 2010: A few curious folk have asked... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 09/03/2010 | 13 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
textures of home #3
... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 02/03/2010 | 7 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
textures of home #2, Photoshop
If you are a photographer and PhotoShop user like I am, you may enjoy this interesting article by David Pogue: Photoshop and Photography: When Is It Real? in the New York Times With thanks to Finnish author... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 27/02/2010 | 6 comments
themes: Photography, Photoworks, Textures
textures of home
I look closely around home I see with new eyes... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 23/02/2010 | 10 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
she sees shells
like an explorer of new lands with a new eye, a new lens finding exciting textures to inspire her inner printmaker ... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 08/02/2010 | 13 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Photoworks, Textures
scanning fun
One day in the kitchen just after the holidays, I had the sudden urge to scan something that was on its way into the garbage. Here are a few of the images I captured. I bet... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 13/01/2010 | 7 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Photoworks, Textures, Tools and technology
Paris: details #2
Some time ago already I had finished the posts about our London and UK portion of our spring trip. Since then I've been trying to find time to get back to writing about our week in Paris before this... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 29/09/2009 | 6 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures, Travel
on the Hornby ferry
These interesting textures and colours caught my eye on the ferry to Hornby Island on our recent trip, an addition to these and these ferry pics. ... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 23/09/2009 | 3 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
everyday object
washing hands soap dish needs cleaning lovingly made by a local potter first an object of desire, then a gift then utilitarian, everyday-ish cracked yet still worthy of admiration just look and see ... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 08/12/2008 | 9 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
if walls could speak
(from my photo series of the Britannia Shipyard in Steveston) ... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 02/11/2008 | 9 comments
themes: Canada and BC, Photoworks, Textures
walls
worn out walls signs of the past portents of the future? (continuing photo series of the Britannia Shipyard in Steveston)... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 18/10/2008 | 6 comments
themes: Canada and BC, Photoworks, Textures
a step
... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 03/09/2008 | 7 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
textures, patterns, shadows
I found interesting textures and patterns on the pier,
Marja-Leena | 23/07/2008 | 12 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
pattern study
a study of light, textures, patterns...... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 12/06/2008 | 6 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
ripples
... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 10/05/2008 | 8 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
history
... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 02/05/2008 | 7 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
the Dollar Mill
Revisiting the old Dollar Mill on a recent sunny Sunday afternoon. Recalling how this place inspired a few prints some years ago. Wishing I'd had my better camera with me.... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 06/04/2008 | 3 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
encrusted
water weathered wood and iron
encrusted rust and fungus
in metamorphosis
Marja-Leena | 03/04/2008 | 12 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
tracks
... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 09/03/2008 | 12 comments
themes: Photoworks, Textures
earthworks #3
on McKenzie Beach, near Pacific Rim National Park, BC, February 3rd, 2008... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 17/02/2008 | 8 comments
themes: Canada and BC, Photoworks, Textures
earthworks #1
on McKenzie Beach, near Pacific Rim National Park, British Columbia, February 3rd, 2008... [Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 05/02/2008 | 6 comments
themes: Canada and BC, Photoworks, Textures
sonnenstein, sunstone
...With ancient sonnenstein, beseech the sun's return
[Continue Reading...]Marja-Leena | 20/10/2007 | 11 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Photoworks, Textures
about Photoworks
Marja-Leena | 23/07/2007 | 6 comments
themes: Blogging, Photoworks, Textures
gardens, woodpiles, rain
He cleaned the woodpile
Textures intrigued the artist
Marja-Leena | 04/06/2007 | 9 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Photoworks, Textures
rust
Marja-Leena | 09/07/2006 | 7 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Photoworks, Textures