tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73601566067556689242023-11-16T10:02:17.738+02:00In Pursuit of the Muse
Welcome to my world!
This is my sanctuary where I chronicle my expressions of creativity.
Where I share snippets of my life on the Southern tip of Africa as a visual journalist, singer, traveller, explorer-of-the-soul,
maker-of-things and a mom.
Let's stay amazed!
Thank you for visiting!Anel Stricker-Bessingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721874760255815228noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360156606755668924.post-41907608744459093712017-07-22T20:37:00.001+02:002017-07-22T20:37:47.992+02:00"Topographical Wordweavery", A Visual Journaling Retreat - 19-20 August 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>**We were at Joostenberg Winery, Stellenbosch in March - now coming to Pretoria, Gauteng in August</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">A 2-day Visual Journaling Retreat</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; text-align: center;">19 August 2017, 8h30-17h00 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Visual journaling is the soul made visible." </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">It combines the practice of journal writing with colour, image and texture, making it a multi-sensory experience that deepens relaxation, learning and transformation. This makes visual journaling a powerful tool for safe creative exploration, self-care and healing. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In my workshops we focus on the processes of creative play and internal dialogue. The final work is a by-product. The process is always bigger than the page. In visual journaling, the terms “beginner”, “advanced”, “wrong” or “right” do not apply. No artmaking experience is needed. The pressure is off - there are no mistakes. In fact, if one is willing to follow the trail, perceived mistakes usually lead to wonderful discoveries. Creative expression, stress release and deeper self-understanding are the goals.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><br />
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During the retreat we will be: </div>
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<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(94, 94, 94); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Big Caslon'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Making a handbound journal using a variety of fibres and fabrics.</span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(94, 94, 94); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Big Caslon'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Working introspectively while playing with colour, image, texture and words. </span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(94, 94, 94); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Big Caslon'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Creating 2 journal spreads in a fibre journal using collage, paint, typography, stencils, texture pastes, words and eco-dyeing and examining the notion of weaving as metaphor for chronicling our own stories - past, present and future.</span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(94, 94, 94); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Big Caslon'; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Doing “extreme journaling” by creating a flag book that can also be hung as bunting flags.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "copperplate"; line-height: normal;"><b>NOT INCLUDED - please bring with you:</b></span><span style="font-family: "copperplate"; line-height: normal;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Art materials of a general nature such as scissors, glue stick, magazines for collage. A list will be made available to attendees per whatsapp by 11 August. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "copperplate"; line-height: normal;"><b>COST: </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">R980 pp (or 3 x R350 p.m. - July, Aug, Sept) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "copperplate"; line-height: normal;"><b>Bookings:</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> Anél Stricker-Bessinger, 0836620233 or anelstrickerb@gmail.com</span></div>
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Anel Stricker-Bessingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721874760255815228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360156606755668924.post-10304047286321381522017-06-07T11:48:00.001+02:002017-06-07T12:57:11.706+02:00A Circular journey through Lapland, Sweden & Norway - the Story of the Travel Journal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Taking a journey as far north as possible has always been a dream of mine. So when we had an opportunity to travel to Sweden, I decided that we will do just that - go as far north as we can in 14 days with a family of 4 - my sweetheart, me, my 5-year old daughter Angeli and my mom - all the way into the Arctic Circle. <br />
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I always travel with a journal and make a point of journaling everyday. The marks that I make on paper while experiencing the sounds, sights, smells and textures in another country is for me, just magically different from what it would be if I'd waited until I got home. Even if it means just jotting down a bulleted list of highlights of the day in pencil or one smear of paint accross a page.<br />
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Before the trip, I received the gift of a lovely vintage geography book written in Swedish. So I decided to alter it and recycle it as my travel journal. I separated the book block from the book cover, then I reassembled my own signatures and put it in the cover before we left. Once we landed in Sweden I bought Finnish paper in Stockholm that I added to the book pages. Meanwhile I started journaling on the loose pages. 5 days into the journey, I made the book by stitching the signatures into the cover. It was in the middle of our first night in Lapland. I was too excited to sleep, and I was peeking outside every few minutes in the hope of seeing the Aurora Borealis. Now the book itself has much more meaning.<br />
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I plan to add more imagery and ephemera that I collected during the trip, some more writing, and incorporate more of my own photographs. I will be working on it a bit more because that way I get to enjoy the journey for longer.<br />
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Here is a flip through my journal.<br />
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Music: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/za/album/mahai/id1081862711" target="_blank">Le Soleil Sur Nizas</a> by Herman Bergman from the album: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/za/album/mahai/id1081862711" target="_blank">Mahai</a><br />
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Anel Stricker-Bessingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721874760255815228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360156606755668924.post-65922086214997931872017-01-25T17:24:00.001+02:002017-01-29T22:49:53.169+02:00Highlights of 2016 & Big Dreams for 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before the 1st month of 2017 is out - I'd like to wish you a wonderful year. Hoping that the excitement and inspiration of a fresh start remains with you throughout 2017!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Looking back isn't always a good thing, but when it comes to gearing up to a new year, I find that gratitude for the journey behind me is something that helps to propel me forward.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So here are the highs of 2016:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- 8 in-house workshops in the Play Café - my Studio & Workshop in Pretoria dedicated to the transformative practice of visual journaling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Sluierspel - A LEEF Magazine Creative Retreat, Cape Town</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Sluierspel - A LEEF Magazine Creative Retreat, Johannesburg</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- JournalJoy - a 2-day retreat in Stellenbosch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- JournalJoy - a 2-day retreat in Pretoria</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Sluierspel Mpumalanga 1-day retreat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Doxa Deo North Campus Evening Journaling Retreat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Dubai Visual Journaling Playdate with <a href="http://fadwa.com/" target="_blank">Fadwa Al Qasem</a>, May Shbaklo & Janice Clarke</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Circle route through Stockholm, Swedish Lapland, the Arctic Circle, Lofoten Islands and the Fjords of Norway</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Thesen's Island Summer Break</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- October Journaling Forest Retreat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- My babygirl Angeli turning 6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Musical collaborations: Suitcase Ensemble & Kersfees in Augustus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Solo music gigs: Winterbegin & A Spring-kling of Afternoon Jazz</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">As I list these, I am especially grateful for the people that support me to do what I am supposed to do. My husband, Werner, my daughter, Angeli, my family, Christine Ferreira and her exceptional team at LEEF Magazine, Leandri du Preez, my friends who were very vocal and practical in their support of my visual journaling workshops and my music - Liezl le Roux, Sonja Blignaut, Helge Herbst, Yolandi Ferreira, Renate Gombault, Lize Duvenhage (who also happens to be my sister), Glen & Mariette Waterston, Muller & Annie Crauwkamp, Johan Kelber & Henry Holloway. And a huge thank you to every single person who came to a visual journaling workshop or a music gig. I could not do this if it weren't for all of you! Here are some of those precious moments...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Looking forward to 2017, I am very excited to roll out more themed visual journaling workshops, a weekend retreat in October, musical collaborations, solo shows, a Carpenters Tribute Show and possibly a sabbatical in the United States & Canada.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bible-based meditation - visual journaling as worship & dialogue</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Life is short - while we have our loved ones with us, we need to say and demonstrate that love. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With February being the month of love, we will be working in a miniature visual journal as a gift for a loved one - using appreciative enquiry, 3 supplies, ephemera & phrases.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An adventurous dialogue between moms & kids (5-12yrs) - using bookmaking and visual journaling as instruments for connection.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">30 June 2017, Play Café, Pretoria, 18h00-21h00:</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Letting go and trusting the unknown to make unique images and collage papers for use in our visual journals.</span><br />
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Derika's visual journals as well as her photography highlights all the wonderful detail that most of us tend to overlook when we see beautiful big landscapes or when we travel to new and unknown places. We are so often overwhelmed and taken by everything that is "bigger and better" that we lose so much of the exceptionally beautiful detail that surrounds us. This is a theme that keeps emerging in much of her work.<br />
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She prefers to work in small and portable formats mostly. As a busy home-schooling mother of 2, many of her journal pages are done in her tiny A6 Moleskine Diary - which is a practice that she has inspired me to follow too. She believes in a minimalist approach to art materials. Derika's pages are often a combination of 3 elements only - collage, sketches and hand lettering.<br />
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During the workshop, she will be guiding us through the creation of tiny journals made with recycled papers, and also introduce us to her unique style elements as we create our own visual journal pages.<br />
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Message me if you'd like to attend - and I'll forward you the details. <br />
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Here's a sneek peak into some of her wonderful journals:<br />
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I've had the amazing opportunity to facilitate two 1-day retreats during the past winter months. It is a little slice of heaven for me to be able to spend an entire day with beautiful likeminded souls and to share with them the incredible practice of visual journaling which I am so passionate about.<div>
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The first one was held in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga.</div>
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Then came LEEF Magazine's Creative Retreat in the beautiful Cape Town where 52 courageous women journaled their hearts out at the gorgeous Altydlig Wine Estate. What an amazing experience to be able to work with this team! I'll be doing one of these again - this time in Johannesburg on 19 November - and feeling blessed to be working with Christine and her wonderful team once again.<br />
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Our first workshop took place on 27 August. We made flag journals....that became banners of love... So much beauty came from these girls as they poured their hearts into these flags. </div>
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17 September's workshop is 2 weeks away. Are you coming?</div>
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5 new workshops are brewing at the Play Café this term. <br />
One of them will take place in the beautiful Stellenbosch - during the Stellenbosch Woordfees<br />
(Word Festival). So appropriate - considering we'll be spilling our souls on paper, making our own books and filling them with our own profound words and images.<br />
Email me if you'd like to know more - anelstrickerb@gmail.com<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wanted to start my first blog entry of 2016 with an overview of 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then I discovered this unpublished post in my blog's "back room" - written in August 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And looking back on the year, this is so profound that I feel it needs to be heard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unknowingly I seemed to have written this as a message for the future - for 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>August 2015</b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wrote, "I'm happy to say that my days of immobility in terms of movement and being unable to drive are now over. Although I still have not regained full mobility of my right arm and shoulder. Bone growth is progressing at a slower rate than expected. I am able to do most of the basic day to day tasks. But my year has not been as productive as I planned it to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WAIT...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maybe it actually has!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why do I measure success in terms of productivity?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And what does it mean to be "productive"?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Does the work that we do on the inside...how we overcome our own obstacles and fears, how we deal with adversity...not count when we measure productivity?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is it just about OUTput then?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm somewhat shocked at my own values in this regard while I'm writing this.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Productivity seems to be weighed according to what we can measure, that which is quantifiable - that is how I've been conditioned. Is that perhaps because external behaviour is visible and measurable and exchangeable for that other visible and measurable commodity that dictates most of our lives - money?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If we're physically busy, then we are seen as productive and successful, it seems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BUT...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today I'm challenging my own views.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You see, I've spent almost half of the year so far on my back. But I got to read many pages that I've always wanted to, but never gotten around to doing before. I had time to contemplate and think things through. I had an opportunity to practice working, writing and sketching with my non-dominant hand. I kept a journal - The Left Hand Chronicles - because I could only use my left hand and basic art materials at the time. My lines were childlike but they were the most authentic marks I'd ever made on paper.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Deep processes of healing and growth were unfolding way beneath the layers of my skin. Like the slow, deep movements of magma, water and tectonic plates under the earth's surface. In time, some of those changes make it out to the surface of the earth and into the atmosphere. The magnitude of those changes become visible to the eye only after they have actually occurred - sometimes months or even years later.</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SO THERE...</span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Productivity is not just that which can be measured and quantified in terms of behaviour. Success has no set definition either. The criteria that define it are uniquely personal and very different for each individual.</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I saw a wonderful quote the other day.</span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Beware the barenness of a busy life</b></span></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="background-color: #999999; color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">I</span></b></i>t has been two weeks since my last post. My nocturnal studio sessions came to an abrupt end on 28 March when I sustained a concussion, broke my right clavicle and - confirmed by my orthopaedic surgeon only yesterday - 4 ribs were fractured in a horse riding accident. Who knew that by the time I write my next blog post, I would be lying on my bed for 6 weeks and using my left hand to edit pictures and write this post. Life sure is full of surprises! So now I've been able to start something that has been one of my goals for this year - to digitally combine 15 years of travel photography and travel sketches.<br />
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It is the place where Sam, son of Noah had settled after the Great Flood and the land where the palace ruins of the Queen of Sheba can be explored - according to legend. And if you ever wondered where the world's old Land Cruisers go? Well, they find an afterlife in Yemen - the ones that can still be fixed manually at the roadside by its driver, that is. Extremely essential in this remote part of the world! <br />
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What's more is that I'm getting back to my "first love" of painting mediums - watercolour. </div>
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But I am learning an entirely different spin on it. </div>
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You just have to make time available, be open to changing your actions and stick with it. </div>
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It is something that I may apply to other aspects of my life as well.</div>
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After a year of swimming lessons to get our little one water-safe, her daddy bought her a pair of fins and water goggles in December. She spent hours and hours in the pool with them. Sometimes she would be up and ready for the water at sunrise! </div>
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On one such a morning, she tumbled straight out of bed and put on her fins and goggles. Barely awake and still wearing her pyjamas but ready for action. </div>
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I had always wanted to capture this moment more poetically. So I decided to use it as inspiration while practising these new techniques and developing my style.</div>
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So I've taken to my old routine of working in my studio late into the wee hours again. </div>
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Those blissful hours when everyone is asleep and all is quiet. </div>
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If I don't make time to do something creative everyday - music, mixed media, writing, whatever - it feels like I haven't eaten for days. I become grumpy. I feel caged.</div>
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So I've been looking forward to doing this week-long online illustration workshop with the uber-talented Danielle Donaldson for months now. It started on Monday. </div>
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I was so thrilled that the first thing we had to do in the workshop was to make our own "storybook" out of watercolour paper. I'm a bookmaker, so I jumped at the opportunity! </div>
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I get frustrated with having to scratch around for little nuggets of time </div>
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"All in good Time", she knowingly says - while she carries a tiny potted plant on her head. </div>
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She knows about nurturing new growth.</div>
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My impatient heart needed reminding.</div>
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Go to <a href="http://jeanneoliver.ning.com/">jeanneoliver.ning.com</a> to read more about this online course </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Danielle's workshop </span>was live this week, but you can enrol anytime plus you get lifetime access.</div>
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<i><span style="background-color: #999999; color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">L</span></i>ast year I got a call from my husband's cousin, Aneska. </div>
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She had heard about my journaling and bookmaking adventures and had a wonderful idea. </div>
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She wanted to know if I could make a personalised journal for each of their children. </div>
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I'm a bit of a rogue bookmaker, you see - not an artisan at all.</div>
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I just love making them.</div>
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And I guess passion precedes (and compensates for) skill - it fuels our learning until we have learnt and practised enough, right?!</div>
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So of course I said yes!</div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: cyan; font-size: x-large;"><i>S</i></span>he sent me a folder with images, anecdotes and documents related to their births, their names, their interests, her and Claude's hopes and dreams for them. <br />
That way I got to know each one a little better. <br />
And the pictures and stories culminated into ideas.<br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;"><i style="background-color: #666666;">A</i></span>neska is incredibly busy - no rest for a mommy of 4 littles.</div>
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Yet she remains mindful of how fleeting these early childhood years are.</div>
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So she holds these journals close by so that she can take a few random seconds every now and then to paste down little hand drawn pictures, cards or write a short one liner or anecdote in their journals as life unfolds.</div>
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Ultimately over a period of 18 years, those tiny threads of scribbled words and one liners will become a detailed tapestry of story that would have been lost otherwise.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: cyan; font-size: x-large;"><i>L</i></span>ast weekend I got to photograph them, each one beaming with pride as they held and paged through the books that are being written about them.</div>
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The youngest one is 18 months old - but even she seems to get it!</div>
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I left there feeling so inspired. I felt that if she can journal her childrens' stories in the few random seconds in-between - so can I with my sweet little One.</div>
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And the looks on those little faces told me that those seconds are so worth it - for it tells them that their stories matter, that what they do and say matter enough to be cherished, that they are noticed and listened to, that they are loved, that they belong.</div>
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Those seeds are planted (or not) during early childhood development.</div>
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I believe that journaling children's stories with them is a way to nurture this aspect of self esteem.</div>
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So thrilled to have had the opportunity to create these precious, precious containers for each child's story. It will mean the world to them and their parents 30 years from now.</div>
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They don't call it the Cape of Good Hope for nothing. Although the "Good Hope" tag is something that has a long, long history - to this day one cannot return from Cape Town and the Winelands without feeling revived and inspired and a little envious towards the blessed souls who are able to live there! <br />
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A gorgeous place called L'Ermitage Chateau & Villas in Franschhoek</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">First layer - stencilling with pink, green and black blow pens.<br /> Then I started playing around with these wonderfully textured paper squares on the paper.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Layers 3 & 4 - Collage with various textured paper squares - and then - finger painting with pink and lilac acrylic paint</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The remaining paint was scraped onto the left hand diary page with an old credit card</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Almost done - my worktable says it all!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We threw everything we couldn't carry underneath the daybed and abandoned camp. Grabbing only the essentials, we covered ourselves and the 4-year old with a large lime green plastic table cloth and ran the 150m to our house, laughing hysterically. The neighbours must have thought that we had one too many - seeing the lime green thing with 4 legs bobbing about like a drunken caterpillar on the lawn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my fondest childhood memories has to do with books. My tonsils had to be removed at the tender age of 5, but I do not remember how sick I was nor how painful it was. Everything was overshadowed by the stacks of books that family and friends gifted me with. Every book was a powerful and magical journey of the imagination - regardless whether someone was reading me the story or whether I was just looking at the beautiful illustrations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my house there is a little corner where I keep a stack of books distinctly separate from the rest of my collection. These books are my safe house. They keep the rabbit hole of inspiration and enchantment just an arm's length away because I pass that spot many times during the day. If I desperately need to get a quick 30-second reminder that life is still beautiful, or I have time to languish over the pages - they're always close by. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we have house guests, I'm always secretly amused at who might actually end up noticing and take time to page through them and who will not even give them a second glance. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here they are - the books that inspire me endlessly:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pia Jane Bijkerk is a stylist who writes about the journey to follow her wandering heart. Moving from Italy, to a houseboat in Amsterdam, then to a Parisian apartment - </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">all accompanied by her exquisite photography. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Also click over to her blog via my blog roll here on the right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then there's Sibella Court. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have 4 of her books - love them all! An Australian girl who worked as stylist in New York before setting up The Society Inc in her native Australia. Everything that she does is raw, earthy, full of texture and drenched </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in travel anecdotes. She gets her inspiration from gathering stories on her travels to far flung places. She shares contacts, places to stay and places to visit. The visuals are beyond beautiful and wonderfully inspiring. Sibella's approach is to weave her travel experiences into what she has at home, and what she can source where she lives, without having to haul heavy luggage or containers back home. She encourages the reader to do the same.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inspirational caffeine! She's also on my blog roll - click on The Society Inc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Beautiful, lyrical and contemplative content.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">An inspiration board of textures, colours, themes, objects and artwork that she finds inspiring. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Gorgeous and energising visuals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The summer sun can be very, very hot and unforgiving here </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the southern hemisphere </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the glare makes it really uncomfortable in my studio in the mornings right now. But when autumn comes, the sun moves and the light and the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">view is glorious throughout winter because we have very </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I was looking for a solution to cover my studio windows. Something that would be lightweight, translucent and budget friendly because it would be temporary. And then the idea of a traditional Japanese paper screen came up. It might be quite unconventional here in the West, but they've been utilising paper beautifully for centuries, so why not? This led me to think of the possibility of paper blinds that could be rolled up in the afternoons during summer, and removed entirely during winter without having to cover up or remove any holes or brackets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a shop in our area that sells a huge variety of the most exquisite handmade papers - see their website <a href="http://paperworldsa.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. Their papers are imported from Thailand, India and China, with recycled mulberry paper products being manufactured on the premises. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I picked up a variety of colours and textures for the project. I also included a beautiful sheet of Egyptian Art on Papyrus from Cairo that I received as a gift from my brother and cute cotton candy paper that I brought back from Malaysia last year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Love the result! They're light, translucent, </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">full of happy colour and texture </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and easily removable.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Best of all: When the blinds have served their purpose, </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will recycle them into paper for bookmaking and collage papers for visual journaling.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a tutorial on how the blinds were made:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. After taking the measurements of the windows, I made a large sheet of paper "fabric" - larger than the surface of the 3 windows together by laying the sheets down on the floor and gluing the sides together with pva glue.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Once the glue was dry, I cut strips from all 4 sides of the paper "fabric" and glued them down again on the opposite sides. This is optional! I did it because I wanted a more distinct patchwork effect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. I measured and cut 3 blinds from the "fabric" - adding extra length to allow for wrapping around wooden slats at the tops and bottoms of the blinds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. I measured and cut 3 x 2,5mm balsa wood slats for the top ends of the blinds, and 3 x 8mm dowel sticks for the bottoms. Then I glued them to the screens so that the "fabric" overlapped the wooden inserts on both sides - also adjusting the overlaps so that the screens would fit the length of window.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. I used brass thumb tacks to fasten the screens to the wooden window frame. I also added cotton string to the tacks in the middle. This is to keep the blind in place, once it is rolled away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Notes on improving the design - as the blinds are still a work in progress:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- for waterproofing in case of rain - a layer of clear lacquer spray or something similar, followed by a couple of layers of gel medium or mod podge;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- for tearing in case of wind - 3 cm wide washi tape in a complementary colour or design to strengthen the sides of the blinds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #999999; color: cyan; font-size: x-large;"><i>A</i></span> while back I had to complete a very fun little project. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was requested to do 3 whimsical paintings for my niece who got a room makeover around her 7th birthday. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her room's new theme was to be French Vintage/Ballet in Lilac and Antique White with bits of ballet pink thrown in. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She is seriously into horses right now, recently became proud mama of a baby Basset Hound and her favourite wild animal is a giraffe. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to incorporate whimsical faces as well. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Phew...it was quite a tall order to bring all the elements together, but here they are. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And most importantly - she was over the moon - which is the best reaction any godmother could've hoped for!</span><br />
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Anel Stricker-Bessingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721874760255815228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360156606755668924.post-63160812498756499622015-02-13T11:30:00.000+02:002015-02-13T11:53:13.392+02:00A Rustic Centrepiece for Valentine's .....or Anyday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And this year, I'd like to stick to "handmade" as much as I can when it comes to gifts and celebrations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So our celebratory table is very rustic - created from a couple of things we have in the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So simple that my 4 year old daughter is able to help with the preparation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Step 1: Angeli distributed the pine cones all along the centre of the table - I tweaked it a bit once she was done.</span></div>
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Anel Stricker-Bessingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721874760255815228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360156606755668924.post-25749058788152828142015-02-08T22:43:00.000+02:002015-02-08T22:45:57.374+02:00The Colours of O'Keeffe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5b5c67; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 27px;">Georgia O’Keeffe, American Painter (1887-1986). </span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 27px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5b5c67;">So I decided to have a closer look at her work. O'Keeffe was a US based Precisionist painter from the 1920's and beyond. She was known for her use of brilliant colour - hence the "Color Wheel" Challenge. Oversized flower studies, animal skeletons, shells, rocks and landscapes were recurring elements in her paintings. You can see more of her work <a href="http://www.wikiart.org/en/georgia-o-keeffe/mode/all-paintings/1" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5b5c67; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 27px;">Some of her works that provided inspiration for this specific week's planner pages were these:</span><br />
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Series I no.3 (1918) by Georgia O' Keeffe</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Summer Days (1936) by Georgia O' Keeffe. <br />
The current fascination with antlers and faux taxidermy isn't a new trend. I'm not an art historian but O' Keeffe's series of antler paintings might have highlighted the decorative potential of these organic forms - in the 1930's already. Incredible - isn't it?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brilliant oranges, blues, pinks. cubist flower shapes, abstract swirls and curly antlers - all elements that O'Keeffe was known for in her wonderful paintings. <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.art5academy.com/the-studio/the-documented-life-project-free" target="_blank">The Documented Life 2015</a>. The weekly prompt for this specific week was "Gesso". It is a white fluid that consists of a binder mixed with a combination of chalk, gypsum and pigment. Gesso is mainly used in artwork on canvas, paper, wood and sculpture as a base before painting and adding other materials such as collage. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I took inspiration from one of my antique sari cushions and decided to go for a simple, monochrome colour scheme where I would use the white of the gesso, add some turquoise and lime green and focus on contrast and texture.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Then I covered the page in gesso, sprayed some turquoise and lime green inks randomly. Using more gesso and turquoise acrylic paint with a stencil, <br />I added a third layer. I used a discarded hotel room card for spreading the gesso. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">On the other side of the flap, I added turquoise paint. Once that dried, I spread some gesso with my fingers and wrote into the still wet gesso, using a blunt pencil.</span></td></tr>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #999999; color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">L</span></i>ast week my friend Manon and I spent some time together<br />
while our little ones were having a play date. <br />
We shared our hopes, dreams and plans for the year - also the usual challenges around being a mom, being a creative and remaining focused and business minded about our creative mediums. <br />
Manon's medium is shoes, you see?<br />
I know - very exciting, very unique, right!? <br />
She'll be joining me for a morning session in the studio shortly.<br />
Who knows what mischief we might make!<br />
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Anel Stricker-Bessingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721874760255815228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360156606755668924.post-917413197227940802015-01-18T11:24:00.000+02:002015-01-18T11:24:17.795+02:00An Adventure into Hobbit Country<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;"><i style="background-color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I</span>'ve</i></span> mentioned previously that we had just returned from 6 days of peaceful solitude.<br />
Here, you won't be surprised to cross paths with Bilbo Baggins on one of your forest walks.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">“There is something about it that opens no door to words.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">These are <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Travels-Charley-Search-America-Steinbeck/dp/0140053204" target="_blank"><i>John Steinbeck's</i></a> words to describe Deer Isle in Maine. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">It fits this magical place perfectly.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><i><a href="http://www.lakenvlei.co.za/" target="_blank">Lakenvlei Forest Lodge</a></i>.</span></span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #999999; color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">We</span></i> watched the light change the hues of the landscape hour after hour. <br />
The horses and ponies popped in daily for apples and carrots. <br />
If you ignored them, they would assertively knock on the wooden front steps with their hooves.<br />
The chef's sons and some of the other guests joined us for cycle rides through the pine forests at dusk.<br />
We went rowing in search of freshwater otters and waterbirds everyday. <br />
Marketed as a flyfishing destination, this place has so much more to offer. <br />
I can see an art retreat happening here. <br />
Anyone interested?<br />
Let me hear your thoughts?<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm a bit loopy that way. I just love, love, love paper. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The smell of a fresh book - written or unwritten - just gets me inspired. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once I've found it - the fussing begins. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I collage in it, I sketch in it, I stick all sorts of ephemera into it. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I loved searching through stacks of colourful magazines for them.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #999999; color: cyan; font-size: x-large;"><i>A</i></span> few years ago we spent the entire month of December exploring beautiful Brazil. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was in one of those shops that I found one of my most treasured diaries - a delicious fluorescent pink folder with ring-bound pages. I still have it today. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the past couple of years my diary of choice has been the A6 page-a-day Moleskine. I adore <a href="http://www.moleskine.com/" target="_blank"><i>Moleskine</i></a> diaries! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plus, you get to customize your diary by adding templates - see the link <a href="http://mymoleskine.moleskine.com/community/msk_templates.php" target="_blank"><i>here</i></a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 US based friends came up with the brilliant idea to transform their Moleskine diary pages into visual journal pages by providing free weekly prompts and demos on each of their blogs. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you find colour and image inspiring, then this approach will transform your weekly planning from an energy sapping admin task into stellar levels of inspiration! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plus, you get to combine your weekly planning with visual journaling - which is a great timesaver! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And if you're not a Moleskine fan - any diary or journal you have can do the job!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The project is free. To join, just click on this link - <a href="http://www.art5academy.com/the-studio/the-documented-life-project-free" target="_blank"><i>The Documented Life Project 2015</i></a>.</span></div>
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Anel Stricker-Bessingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721874760255815228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360156606755668924.post-40580767409342748652015-01-12T16:00:00.000+02:002015-01-12T18:13:48.810+02:00My Visual Journals got some Press!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A prominent South African magazine, <a href="http://www.leef.co.za/"><b><i>Lééf</i></b> </a>(an Afrikaans word meaning "to live life to the full"), contacted me to write an article about my visual journals and the practice of keeping a visual journal.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spending time with the magazine's editorial team was a wonderful experience and I was inspired by their enthusiasm.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The concept of keeping a visual journal as an effective tool for maintaining emotional and spiritual well-being and nurturing creativity is still relatively unknown over here, you see. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although information and awareness about it is slowly expanding. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course I'm doing my bit too - whether people want to know about it or not! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a passionate visual journalist it is impossible NOT to talk about it!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am so excited that this opportunity came along because it allowed me to get the word out on a much grander scale.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #999999; color: cyan; font-size: x-large;"><i>T</i></span>he article is currently featured in the January 2015 issue.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Alternatively you can download the digital issue on Zinnio.com or on iTunes. </span></div>
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