An autumn collection of your own this year?
As a young girl I collected napkins,
Victorian bookmarks and rare marbles. I also had two butterboxes filled with bottle caps.
They were my treasures! As an adult there's less of such items, now I collect smart ideas
that can come in handy in my creative work. I've bought two solid books with files and
empty sheets. There I stick those new ideas as they enter my mind or turn up accidently.
I've collected and separated them in topics such as doors, houses, vases, mosaic tiles,
chairs, plants and lots more.
I cut spectacular, beautiful and original photos of items
from interior decorating magazines and glue them in under each topic. In addition I write
down and scetch ideas from exhibitions or whenever an exciting thought or idea comes to
me.
For those who enjoy applications these topic-pages are great; you can enlarge, diminish
or transfer on to fabric, you can combine items in new ways or change the colour a bit.
Interior decorating magazines have such a good photo quality that they are highly suitable
for colourplay with geometric figures. I may, i.e. cut out a lot of different blues and
unite them so that the blue shades form a picture in itself. You have to acccept that your
magazines are recycled in this manner. On the other hand they last forever in new ways.
We can also make a book of ideas at our computer at home and by using scanner. I prefer
leafing through the books just like I've always done. The camera is also of help.
Specialized books with lovely drawings and pictures in them are great ideas for patterns
or to apply and practise a bit of painting. Books on mushrooms, flowers, birds etc. are
fantastic when used as templates or to improve scetching. The great masters used to copy
first. You knew that, didn't you?
There's so much to look forward to next fall!
