Spider
4th time this morning!
Looking up at the ceiling
one lonely spider,
we missed him/her
when mopping the webs,
has cleaned the ceiling from
all the creepy crawlies.
The poem came when lying on my back in my safe room. This is when I got the not so good idea to sleep at night in the safe room on an exercise mattress with blankets and pillows. Easy to get down but much more difficult to get up. Got what they call “piriformis syndrome” which later developed into sciatica! Which I am now treating with a physiotherapist.
Different ways of making color charts from recent workshop with Sara Post. The winter workshop was all about color and value. These are rough color charts using 2 primaries to get a range of analogous colors. I used Kuretake watercolors on cartridge paper A4.
There are endless possibilities, so many primary hues and mixing cool and warm primaries! Have fun!
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Carol, greetings to you and your spider friend! Hooray for a poem written when lying on your back in your safe room, a simple observation, a chance for this reader to pause and picture and consider.
Best wishes in resolving your sciatica and returning to comfortable everyday movement.
Thank you for sharing your color charts. Between those swatches and the swinging of the season back towards summer when I engaged so happily in making swatches in response to garden glory, I find myself wanting to play with watercolor and color mixing again. I’m admiring the range of color you generated. Looks like you may have used some leftover paint to bring color to an artgraf line-and-smudge sketch that is giving my eye some exercise as it explores happily.
So glad you liked my little poem. There are now two spiders, and the ceiling is clean!
Playing with watercolor is fun, and instant. Yes, I did use leftovers on that smudgy sketch!
Love your poem and that one lonely spider! Also your gorgeous color work! You keep creating, intrepid artist! I keep hoping you will get to sleep in a proper bed soon! Sending love and big hugs!! xo
Spider is no longer lonely! There is another in the opposite corner of the ceiling. Ceiling clean last time I checked!
I am back in my bed since I got the sciatica, not easy getting out of bed when there is an alert at 3AM, but I guess adrenaline helps! Thanks so much for your thoughts, love and hugs! I can feel them! xoxoxo
שיר מקסים עבודות מעניינות
Thanks Rutie! Glad you liked the poem about the spider we both share!
בוקר טוב
עבודות יפות
שיר מקסים
שיר ממש יפה סבתוש!
רק בריאות 💜
מתגעגעת
Thanks Mor! I miss you all too.
Hi Carol,
I enjoyed your poem. I’ve just sprayed my room to keep the spiders away. My room seems to be their favorite in the house. I’d rather not be the favorite. LOL.
I love your swatches. Great colors. I really love the muted tones. It looks like you had fun!
Sending prayers for pain-free days and complete healing. xoxo
It’s always great to hear from you. As long as they stay on the ceiling they can stay. In the house that’s another story.
Yes I love doing color charts especially the loose ones. Always find some interesting hues. Wishing you all the best! Brachot!