Good Morning !
Well, it is here at least, a very good morning it seems.
Like the majority of Sundays, I will be going to see my Mom in a couple of hours. I cooked a corned beef brisket last night and I bought some fresh sauerkraut to take for our lunch, along with some bolillo rolls and a triple filled cinnamon pecan danish. Sounds yummy right ?
Most of my life I wouldn't touch sauerkraut with a 10 foot pole, much less eat any of it LOL ! ....but I am lightly tolerant of it now. I really bought it because my Mom loves it. The only way I ever saw it prepared at my house growing up, was when Mom warmed some on the stove with some cut up hot dog weinies in it. She and Dad were the only ones that would eat it. Eventually I got where I liked the flavor of the weinie that was cook in it, if absolutely every bit of the kraut was wiped off of it. Anyway, that is what I'll be dragging out there this time.
I made this little art piece last night. I went through a lot of papers to see what I wanted to do and other ideas had many papers that would compliment them and ..... I kept wishing I had something good to go with the background paper in this piece. I had made multiple pulls off my gel press that caused the piece that you see. I did not add any paint once it was glued to the little canvas board. All of that paint was already on the paper. I really thought it was beautiful, but I really didn't have any other papers that I thought would be wonderful to go with it. In the end though I was stubborn and chose it anyway for a start. Let's don't wait for a great idea, right?
Anyway, there was the slightest smidge of yellow to the right and although barely perceptable, a little hint of yellow in the background here and there and bits in the top and bottom on the left, so yellow had to be good for an accent I thought. I cut some circles out of another painted paper and put them down the side. The color combo was right and to this point, it was all good.... but what next?
I had cut out this wonky something that hinted of a tree. That mostly yellow paper was a page from a word-find book. I reasoned cutting the tree'ish thing from it would be interesting with the letters on it. I had tried it right side up, like you saw above and was not sure, so at one point I "auditioned" it on the piece upside down. It didn't have a need to be a tree since it was abstract, but I eventually chose against it. Still, both ways, I seemed determined to have some little circles randomly floating above it.
After I made the decision to turn the tree thing back up and glue it on, I then played with the circles above it. As I was trying this and trying that with the colors, one of the little circles I had punched out had an O on it. At the time, the rest had no letters. I re-arranged and changed the colors in different ways until it hit me, that since the tree'ish thing was from the word page, shouldn't all of the circles have letters in them and then as I grabbed the punch and leftover paper, I decided I should spell something and what better to spell than the word LOVE?.... So I found the letters on the painted paper, punched them out and glued them on. (Isn't that background amazingly gorgeous with all it's layers for beautiful color?)
Not immediately, but pretty soon after, I thought I should put "you" at the bottom of the tree and as you can see, I decided to just use U instead, in keeping with today's popular communication methods. 😂 Funny right?
I believed the piece to be done after adding the U. Certainly it was an off-set design, but then, I didn't really want to cover up more of the beautiful background paper. I took multiple photos and called it completed although I can't say I was feeling the "masterpiece" glow about it. It was very late, (or should I say early?) in the morning hours. I was getting tired and was straightening things around the area I had been working in. I was about to get up and walk away when something whispered "that upper left corner needs a little something off the tip of the nub of paper that sticks out there". "What?? You mean you are not done?" I thought. But it was true, there was a space that needed a tiny balancer. Immediately I knew what it was, it was I.... Me... I that loves you and so I punched out one more letter and glued it on. It just would not have been the same without it.
