Na mizi v torek (02)

Spet je torek, sama sedim v pisarni, gledam sivo vreme in prevajam varnostni list. Kakšen dolgčas, kaj? Sem se pa že sinoči spomnila, da je danes čas za torkovo objavo in da se mi bo ta teden morda katera le pridružila – kdo bi vedel, morda se vam zadeve doma umirjajo ali pa potrebujete malo zabavnega dnevnikovanja, morda kvačkanja ali slikanja, da se sprostite od službenega stresa. Ne veste, kako bi začele? Kaj bi naredile? Pustite mi komentar, pišite mi, z veseljem pomagam čez začetno zadrego. Potrebujete temo? Odprite slovar ali katero koli drugo knjigo, preletite jo in naslikajte nekaj, kar je povezano s prvo besedo, ki vam pade v oči. Potrebujete citat? Tukaj jih je malo morje. Potrebujete čas? Sori, ne morem pomagati. Lahko vam povem, da boste, če si vzamete od danes dalje vsak večer 10-15 minut čisto in samo zase, imele v ponedeljek narejenih kup stvari. Pa čeprav se boste cel konec tedna ukvarjale s pustnimi maskami za otroke. Ali se mi v soboto morda pridružile na Vrhniki na delavnici izdelave nakita iz polimerne mase (fima, ja). Moja prva tokratna stran ima podlago iz akrilov, ker sem pod vtisom delavnice transferja na polimerno maso hotela po dolgem času narediti transfer na papir. Brez akrilne podlage osnova tega ne bi prenesla. Malo kolaža in najdene besede, štampiljke in konec.

It’s Tuesday again, I’m alone in my office, the weather is absent (read: grey) and I’m translating a Material safety data sheet. Boring, huh? But yesterday night I remembered my promise, I’m posting the WOT (my worktable on Tuesday) and maybe somebody will join me in my efforts of making a Tuesday (or week) a bit brighter and colorful. Who knows, maybe you’re in a lull, maybe you need a stress relieve from work and some colors in your AJ, maybe some crocheting or painting … Not sure how to start? What to do? Leave me a comment, a mail, I’ll be happy to cross the 1st bridge with you. Need a theme? Open a dictionary or any other book, scan a page and paint the 1st thing that comes to your mind when your eyes find an interesting word. Need a saying? There’s a bunch here. Need time? Sorry, can’t help you there. I can promise that if you take 10-15 minutes a day every night this week, on Monday you’ll have a bunch of stuff accomplished. Maybe not finished, but who cares. There will be a next week. I started my 1st page with an acrylics base because it’s been a while since I did a transfer and I wanted one. Some collage and found poetry, stamps and color and all done.

Naslednje strani so se začele z besedilom. Na drugi sem slikarije oblikovala glede na rek in na izbrani “polaroidni” okvir. Uporabila sem svoje lastne štampiljke – eno staro iz radirke in eno novo iz speedball carving bloka. Tretja je nastala, ker je imel malček za nalogo pesmico po vzoru “Breza breza tenkolasa”. Vem, da kolibri ne leti na vrtnice, a sem kljub temu štampiljko, izrezljano iz linoleja, odtisnila na vzorčast papir in ga prilepila. In metulj je nastal kar tako, ker sem imela v Marujčku vlepljen samolepilni listek z rekom.

The other pages from this week came to life based on words. On the 2nd page I used a “polaroid frame” I made and 2 stamps I carved. One from an eraser and a new one form speedball carving block. I got the idea for the 3rd page when my 10yo boy came to show me a poem he wrote for his homework. This is the text: Rose, o rose with sharp thorns, who sharpens your thorns? Is it the knives, is it the sharpener, or is it the wicked stepmother? It’s not the knives, it’s not the sharpener, it’s not the wicked stepmother, it was the earth, as soon as I sprouted from the seed. And the 4th page came to life just because on that page before there was a post it note with the saying: If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.

Torej, če želite, kliknite spodaj in vnesite povezavo do svoje objave s tistim, s čimer se ukvarjate – ta teden, do torka, po želji. Tako da bodo naši torki lepši in bolj pisani.

So, if you wish to join me in my quest of making Tuesdays more fun, enter the link to your worktable on Tuesday below in the linky tool and we’ll have fun together!

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Lučke. www / vir
Zračni posnetki Matjaža Čaterja. www / vir
Slamice za Valentinovo. www / vir
Korale od blizu. www / vir
Steklena (potiskana) hiša. www / vir
Slika + kip. www / vir
Miza. www / vir
Sadje & zelenjava. www / vir
Porisane banane. www / vir
Nočna lučka s prenosnimi kroglami. www / vir: Frocek

Na mizi v torek (01)

Odkar sem pred leti slišala Balaševićevo “Dan posle ponedeljka”, se moram zelo strinjati z njim. Torki so večinoma “kar neki”, dan, ki ni ne začetek tedna, ne sredina, niti se še ne bliža koncu tedna. Poleg tega bom danes popoldne načeloma ležala malo na operacijski (nič groznega, ampak narkoza je narkoza, ne), tako da me malo zvija in se še bolj strinjam z “utorke mrzim i tačka”. Zato sem se odločila, da je treba iz teh torkov nekaj narediti in da bom spet objavila kakšno slikico iz svojega dnevnika. Lani sem se približno marca odločila, da vas ne zanima, zdaj pa vse bolj videvam mešane tehnike tudi pri nas – morda pa lahko načnemo kakšno debato o tehniki. Jaz sem sicer fotke/skene iz dnevnika takrat nehala objavljati, dnevnik pa se je veselo polnil naprej. Konec decembra sem se odločila, da bodo zadnji 3 listi ostali v obliki skic in da bom načela nov zvezek, saj sem si na Študentski areni kupila enega pri Maruši, ki dela Marujčke moje. Tole je torej moj četrti umetniški dnevnik.

Tuesday is such a strange day, it’s not the beginning of the work-week (what a funny concept for a freelancer), it’s not the middle of the week, all the options are open and hanging in there and you just have to decide if it’s going to be a boring day or a fun one because if you leave it be, it will be boring for sure. So I’m reinstating the posts from my AJ that I stopped in March 2012 – because it looked like nobody wants to see them. I’ll just try again. I stopped the posts, but not my journaling. On January 1st I started my 4th book, the one I bought from Marusa at Maruji.

Najprej sem morala preizkusiti, ali bo papir držal vodo. In kako se obnesejo moje nove Derwent Inktense, s katerimi me je presenetil moj dragi Slovon.

Papir se nekoliko zguba, vendar se tudi poravna, sploh pa mene gubanje nič ne moti. Je sicer tanjši od katerega koli, s katerim sem doslej delala, ampak ga to ne gane zelo. Je pa listov več, zato me zanima, kaj se bo zgodilo, ko bom npr. na polovici zvezka – bo vezava dovolila širjenje? Naslednja stvar, ki jo je bilo treba preizkusiti na novem papirju, je bil kolaž z akrili in kolaž z akvareli. Nobenih težav, sploh če uporabim za prvo plast praktično nerazredčen akril.

Smešno, ko sem 11. januarja potegnila 2 listka iz škatle, da bosta potiskana osnova za kolaž, še nisem vedela, kakšne barve bodo čez. Pa se mi je pogled ustavil na zadnjih besedah časopisnega članka. Dan sajenja sončnic. In je nastala sončnica. Naslednji dan sem hotela preizkusiti prav vse odtenke barvic Inktense.

Potem pa sem spet padla v prevod in si le vsako uro vzela oddih za dodajanje ozadja. In še snežilo je. In snežilo. In snežilo.

Na včerajšnji prevajalski ponedeljek, ki je sledil prevajalski nedelji, sem zastavila podobno, vendar sem kot osnovo uporabila nekaj škrlatne barve. Le kam bo šlo naprej? Mislite, da bi morala ob torkih objaviti tudi kakršnokoli začeto delo (ali WIP) ali skico? Še ne vem dobro, kako naj se lotim teh torkov. Se mi bo kdo pridružil? Če bi se, objavite spodaj ikono s povezavo: kaj imate ta torek na ustvarjalni mizi?

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	Cassandra Clare, Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, City of  Ashes, City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls »They had passed the bridges of the East River and were heading out into the open water between Staten Island and Manhattan. The lights of the downtown financial district shimmered like witchlight on the water. The sky was powdered with diamond dust and the river hid its secrets under a slick black sheet, broken here and there with a silvery flash that could have been a fish’s tail—or a mermaid’s.« Na tole me je napeljal Q, pa sem zdaj na pol zadovoljen, da je omenil ta cikel, na pol mu pa zamerim. Prve tri knjige so namreč zelo dobre, naslednje dve pa ne ravno tako. Šesto še čakamo, menda bo izšla šele naslednje leto. Spotoma avtorica piše še prequel (The Infernal Devices, zaenkrat napisani dve knjigi od treh), napovedala pa je tudi sequel (The Dark Artifices). Tema? Vampirji, volkodlaki, demoni, magi, angeli – čorba od vsega skupaj. wiki

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Nedeljski utrinek

Knjižna kazala in poliknjigica

Za sejem sem tudi  dopolnila svojo zbirko knjižnih kazal, saj so šla praktično vsa od hiše. Tokrat ni šlo niti eno. Nimam pojma, zakaj, dinamika trga mi je vse večja uganka. Nikoli ne bom dober poslovnež (je vzdihnila in se zakopala v strašansko dolg prevod, ki ji bo pobral še cel vikend). Tokrat so tudi na zlatih, bakrenih in bronastih osnovah. Bakrene in bronaste so mi itak še bolj všeč kot srebrne, z zlato sem imela pa skoraj malo težav – v bajti nisem našla niti končka zlate žice, tako dolgo že nisem nič iz zlate žice delala. Končno sem se spomnila, da sem jo pred dvema letoma po dolgih mukah končno uspela porabiti za zankice za obešat balončke na novoletno smrekico.

This is a new set of bookmarks. This time not only on silver, but also gold, bronze and copper findings. With polymer clay beads, of course.

Ker pa sem imela že sposojen Zutter, sem naredila še nekaj poliplatnic. V končni izdelek se je uspelo spremeniti samo eni, ampak kaj čmo, tako je življenje, drugi dve pridno čakata, da se spet spravim k delu.

And my 1st booklet with the front cover, made entirely out of polyclay. I made several covers, but only one is already part of a finished product, the rest will come to be … someday.

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Reklamna akcija potovalne agencije (pa štampiljke je tudi treba pogledat -  kliknite). www
Skale, ki nasprotujejo gravitaciji. www / vir
Minimalistični posterji za Hitchcockove filme. www / vir
Reklamna akcija za barvice Faber-Castell. vir
Drevo iz (malo večjih) domin. www / vir
Sence brez lastnika. www / vir
Pogled na sobe od zgoraj. www / vir
Vojna zvezd v snegu. www / vir
Grafit na platnu. www / vir
Papir. www / vir
Robotsko čiščenje oken. www / vir
Led v (ogromni) hladilnici. www / vir