As a treat from our
visit to the Ming exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland the other
weekend, we bought some rice paper and an ink stick to play with at home.
We’ve been enjoying an Indian summer here and
so the other evening after school, we took the paper, ink, some brushes and a
little bowl outside to try.
We got some lovely
marks, using the ink in different strengths and pressing on the brush in other
ways. It was a very relaxing half hour
for me and I think the seven year old did too!
She and I have been
exploring in the studio quite a bit recently (this can be interpreted as I want
to be in the studio playing so I need to find something the kids want to do
there too!). I brought back some sun
printing paper from the States for them and we finally gave it a go. In typical kid fashion she was pleased with
her first attempt and didn’t want to do any more – as an adult I always want to
do more.
We’ve also been experimenting
with the gelli-plate printing, another extravagance from America. I’ll show you some of my results soon once I
get going on it, but it was fun just to try out.
This all sounds
like some kind of mothering idyll. It
certainly isn’t! We haven’t made any art
for months, even less since I stopped running kids art classes and whilst we’ve been doing these pieces, the boys have been out
playing or playing on computers. Still
we can all do impressions of good parenting at times, especially when it
overlaps with my studio interests!
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