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Laundry Day

I have done most of the laundry. It is in the dryer. And I am restless as I really don’t feel like sitting still, but I want to accomplish something. I really want to get out of the house. Laundry is my morning’s ball and chain.

Times like this, when I am restless, are always a good time to do little tasks. So, I put away the tripods I had pulled out. For a birthday present, I got a geared head. With Josh’s help, I moved one head from one tripod to another, until the good old Gitzo 1227 was freed up for the geared head.

It is now time to take the tripod and head out to use, testing it out with and without the L-bracket, but that needs to wait as I want to get to the botanical gardens and local parks for that, and load up a couple of different cameras for that. Waiting for laundry to dry is a shorter time period than loading up camera gear and running away from home.

To pass the time, I posted to my other two blogs – my most recent pastel and a picture of ink on my desk. Exciting stuff.

And thus, I am thinking about what I have been doing and not doing this week, and I really cannot complain. It has been a good week in many ways, with a sense of satisfaction and / or accomplishment. What is there to cry about? I have seen family and friends, been creative, and realized that I really do need to schedule all my different interests! That was a good insight, so I have a calendar printed out for my consideration.

Meanwhile, the dryer has 20 minutes to go.

Holiday Cards: Laundry

Another practice study from Peter Sheeler.  Here he uses masking tape – painters tape – to create a frisket.  He tore pieces of tape and pressed them into the paper, as a resist to the dry brush technique he used to create the sense of a very windy laundry day.  As a kid, I remember those days, pegging the clothes and sheets.  It was a lot of fun, a lot of work, but always worth the smell of fresh air on your sheets when you went to bed.

First, here is the picture with the “laundry” masked with randomly torn bits of painter’s tape.

And here is the final picture.  To frame the picture, I used more tape around the edges of the picture.  If you watch the video, you’ll see why!