Some years ago I took a sketchbook class with Karen Stamper, a UK artist. I made this spread in my Seawhite of Brighton accordion sketchbook. It made me think of Lake Simcoe in the winter (3 mins by car, 20 or more minutes if we walk through the bush). The year I did this, it was too warm and the ice was unstable so we didn’t go out. The next year, my knee was killing me so I didn’t go out again. This year, this past Monday, it was a beautiful sunny day, so I went out. I finally got to “walk on water”!! Yay me!
There is about 7 - 10 inches of ice covered by loads of snow. That makes me happy because the last time I was out there was a lot of “black ice” on the lake. It creeps me out to look into the abyss like that. Yes, black ice is a scary thing especially when you’re driving too! Ugh! When you start sliding, there is nothing you can do but keep calm and hope you can slide through it without damaging your car.
As you can see there are a lot of thin layers: line work, stamping, stencilling, paint, napkin, gluing and a silk tie for the landscape and clouds. Yup, this isn’t something I normally do. I had loads of fun making this and I have lots of pages to work on yet. It isn’t the type of project that is necessarily finished, I even tweaked this page.
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