It's a beautiful morning. There's a cool breeze coming through my window and I'm about to have my morning coffee. Ahhh! I want to thank you for the kind comments over the last couple of days and to thank you for not making me feel embarrassed over my last post. I imagine that there might have been a few readers who thought I was being ridiculous for getting depressed over a death of a baby bird when there are so many other tragedies happening in the world. All I can say is that my childless, maternal heart was unexpectedly stirred over the weekend and yes, over a baby bird.
Anyway, today is a beautiful new morning and I thought I'd show you a few new images I've been working on for a round robin I recently joined. The theme of the round robin is "Royal Confections" with each of the participants choosing a female royal figure from any time period. We each started our own doll form along with a sketchbook and then sent our individual projects to the next person on the list to add a detail to the doll and a page or two to the sketchbook. Once that person is done, she sends it on to the next person on the list. And so on and so on...until our original dolls and sketchbooks have visited every person in the round robin and are returned to us completed.
The first doll and sketchbook I received in the mail was from the lovely eb. Her royal figure is the Green Queen and she perfectly matches her creator's vibrant spirit. I stepped outside my usual paintbox with eb's Green Queen by trying something new - staging collages and then rephotographing them. I like how they turned out and I'm thinking that it could lead to something else. Eb's words "her secret joy" inspired these images:
