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She didn't mean like this:
(Don't ask how the socks turned out!)
(Don't ask how the socks turned out!)
A Week of Skulls
Jun. 25th, 2017 05:03 pmMonday
Bookish...
( check the titles )
Tuesday
Preparations (tiny sketch)
( sketch )
Wednesday
Embroidered sample
( embroidery )
Thursday
The things we keep in our lives...
( candle )
Friday's serendipity
Seen in a shop...
( silver skull in dome )
Saturday
Buttons (a homage to Neil Gaiman's "Other Mother" in Coraline)...
( buttoned up skull )
Sunday's serendipity
Found on the side wall of Tesco...
( Grafitti )
Bookish...
( check the titles )
Tuesday
Preparations (tiny sketch)
( sketch )
Wednesday
Embroidered sample
( embroidery )
Thursday
The things we keep in our lives...
( candle )
Friday's serendipity
Seen in a shop...
( silver skull in dome )
Saturday
Buttons (a homage to Neil Gaiman's "Other Mother" in Coraline)...
( buttoned up skull )
Sunday's serendipity
Found on the side wall of Tesco...
( Grafitti )
SkullADay (12)
Jun. 18th, 2017 01:05 pmI failed to make anything new on Thursday, but did appreciate how part of Quentin Blake's skill is in implying the skeleton (and sometimes skeletal) within a creature.
Also, I amended, again, the translation:
Whatevers! in these sluggish times
That give nor joy nor shame to mull
The sole solution to our crimes:
The smiling rictus of the skull.
I think this is the finished version, although I dislike line two and would love to come up with a better.
Also, I amended, again, the translation:
Whatevers! in these sluggish times
That give nor joy nor shame to mull
The sole solution to our crimes:
The smiling rictus of the skull.
I think this is the finished version, although I dislike line two and would love to come up with a better.
SkullADay (10 & 11)
Jun. 18th, 2017 12:58 pmSo, after an abortive search for an old piece of calligraphy I did based round the Verlaine "Quatrain" and in a week where I was dealing with arranging translations at work, I fell to thinking about attempting a translation myself.
Et voilà:
That was Tuesday. But all the next day there was something bugging me. Here's the Wednesday amendment:
Reads better, even if "smile" might be seen as weaker (and less accurate) than "laugh".
(Also on Wednesday, I started another knitted skull, which became Saturday's effort.)
Et voilà:
That was Tuesday. But all the next day there was something bugging me. Here's the Wednesday amendment:
Reads better, even if "smile" might be seen as weaker (and less accurate) than "laugh".
(Also on Wednesday, I started another knitted skull, which became Saturday's effort.)
SkullADay (9) belated catchup
Jun. 18th, 2017 12:08 pmBusy week--and electricians at work on the house. (We still don't have enough sockets but the number of extension leads has diminished.)
Monday, I did this:
The text is a poem (a long-time favourite) by Paul Verlaine, which set me thinking....
Monday, I did this:
The text is a poem (a long-time favourite) by Paul Verlaine, which set me thinking....
Skull a Day (6)
Jun. 9th, 2017 12:37 pmAnd today a grouping of pre-knitted stuffed hexagons ("hexapuffs"):
Don't look too close: I've not finished any of the ends!
Don't look too close: I've not finished any of the ends!
SkullADay (5)
Jun. 9th, 2017 12:35 pmLate again (fighting with internet access):
I was drawing from a tiny model skull that's the "bead" on the end of a knitting needle.
I was drawing from a tiny model skull that's the "bead" on the end of a knitting needle.
Skull a Day (2)
Jun. 5th, 2017 10:21 pmLittle time today, so I grabbed what I could from my desk. Plenty of different hardnesses of pencil and some graph paper:
