Little hands, little drawings -

"3 Drawings"
ink drawings by Leighlund Ruth Vincett

As I mentioned here one day last week, I've been playing around with a number of my youngest granddaughter's drawings. I do have some of these works completed and the newest can be seen here as part of The Mister Existence Series, an ongoing, tongue-in-cheek body of work related to a brother, a sister and their dogs. Eventually, as I've also alluded to previously, a little booklet will be assembled and made available at MICKMATHERSARTBLOG. Key word = "eventually".

Ahead of the curve -

"No Waitin' G #1"
stressed paper collage by Mick Mather

As I mentioned in this post on Sunday, here's the original stressed paper collage that resulted in that very "op art" image appearing at MICKMATHERSARTBLOG. To begin with, stressing paper is something I've been doing for quite a few years now - both in my painting and in certain collage pieces. For this piece, what I mean by stressing is a step-by-step process that begins with a slick, newspaper advertisement insert. It all begins by wadding the piece up in a ball, opening it, folding and creasing and then balling it up again. Next step is to the sink where the tight ball of paper is soaked and then carefully opened up. The water torture is critical since this sort of paper has close to a 90% clay content and will disintegrate quickly. While still wet, pieces are torn away, laid on a separate sheet of standard, white bond paper, quickly laid about and arranged until the image has been reconstructed. More than one advert can be used - as can be seen in this stressed paper series - although I only used one in this instance. You can also see a larger, manipulated version of this and, at last count, it's been developing into a lot more than the original three I had planned. Stay tuned.

Pop art -

"Sister Existence and Her Pop Art Masterpiece"
digital painting by Mick Mather

Just a quick post that references the piece at MICKMATHERSARTBLOG today. You can see the newest image from The Mister Existence Series here.

My old friend -

"Old Man in the Sink"
photograph by Mick Mather

Here's the other photograph that was mentioned at today's post at MICKMATHERSARBLOG. It was tough choice between this and another tree for the weekly post at Thursday Challenge. I love this tree and it's been the subject of a number of photographs and a few drawings over the years. Sadly, it's gone now. Victim of developers who built a number of patio homes in the little depression this grand old man probably called home for the better part of a century.

"Old Man in the Sink (Manipulated Version)"
manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

Same photo as above except that the super secret array of photo editors, filters and manipulators at the Secret Visual Laboratory were pressed into service. A little more moody well suited to the ever changing light conditions of this small, wild acreage.