Tea Ceremony cut down to fit on a card

 I'd been aiming for a while to do this, but found myself dithering about where to make the first incision,

Here's the original post with the portrait-format image. I did a lot of playing around with a card mask before deciding where to do the cutting. There were a couple of altternative possibilities, but I liked this one best, preserving the whole of the hand holding the cup.

Preparing for Warwickshire Open Studios 21

In preparation for last year’s Studio-visits-that-never-happened, we made an exhibition space at one end of the barn. So the challenge this year is, what do I want to show? And more importantly, what will fit? 

I soon realised that working from a list wasn’t going to work. And I was unwilling to frame everything and then decide – so I resorted to some cardboard modelling.

So here it is: a one-tenth scale model. 

 It has helped enormously. I’ve ended up with an arrangement I don’t think I’d have come up with otherwise. Shuffling the tiny pictures is a really low-stakes method. 

I really enjoyed doing the little drawings of my work. Much more fun than photo-editing on the computer. Using the woman for scale is an idea I’ve shamelessly stolen from Eric Gaskell’s class. Actually I think I stole the whole cardboard-engineering thing from Eric, really. 

And finally here’s an aerial view that you won’t get in real life.