Marmalade Moon » monochrome http://www.marmalademoon.com Art & Design Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:52:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Many Words For Snow http://www.marmalademoon.com/many-words-for-snow/ http://www.marmalademoon.com/many-words-for-snow/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:34:33 +0000 Kate http://www.marmalademoon.com/?p=2229
Birch trees and tracks in the snow

iPhone photography: birch and snow

These birches grow in the park behind the bus stop. It looks like the branches are sugar-coated! Although it was dark I had to pull out my camera. The photos are in colour but the landscape is in black and white. Monochrome. This scene makes me think of woodblock printing, linocuts, engraving and etching. And again, I’m inspired to create patterns for fabrics.

Snowy birch trees

iPhone photography: frosted birch trees

Scottish Fold

Scottish Fold cat

And now there are more kittens in the litter. Pleased to introduce this marmalade tabby, an illustration of a  Scottish Fold.

Expanding, meeting new friends, participating in group projects and finding inspiration. Closing in to focus on personal projects and deep connections with both online and offline friends and loved ones. And to swing back and forth between expanding and finding focus. Last year was an expanding year for me, this year I intend to be focused and yet open.

Birch branches covered in snow

iPhone photography: birch branches

This extraordinarily snowy winter we’ve been giving different kinds of snow names. Feather snow, icing sugar, ice mist, castor sugar, sea salt flakes, snowball snow, movie snow… It’s been playful and imaginative.

I enjoy studying thoughts and ideas, the origin of words, to broaden my knowledge and explore the background. This winter I found out that it’s it’s a popular urban legend that the Inuit or Eskimo have an unusually large number of words for snow. And here I’d been saying “did you know that the Inuit have lots of words for snow!”…

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Trees and sky

iPhone photography: Trees and sky

5 Creative Minutes

Days in black and white. Grey tones. I remember a day, I remember the exact moment. I can recall the sound of my footsteps on the gravel, my gaze on the ground, walking through a park on my way to the subway, at a drab time of year, looking up, and all of a sudden my vision changed, I could see colour! It wasn’t until that very moment that I realised that my view of the world had been in black and white for more than a year. And as the moment unfolded, I saw dazzling shades of greys and browns and whites, that overwhelmed me with their sensational, luscious hues.

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