Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Drawing #31 - Gardens of 20 Centavos
Hooray! At last another drawing is complete.
Many years ago my brother-in-law and I bought a mystery shoe box at a stamp auction. It was salted with some nice things, so worth the (small) price. Mostly it was filled with a large quantity of common used stamps from around the world. I've been thinking about them as collage material and have used five examples of one stamp in this drawing. It is a 1950 stamp of Mexico in the value of 20 centavos and pictures the Puebla cathedral. If you're into stamps, its Scott catalog number is 860. I used one copy intact but the other four are cut in various shapes. Remember to click on the image for a larger view.
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I can´t say that stamps as such particularly interest me though the motifs on them are often attractive. I love the way you´ve integrated these stamps into your landscape, and what an interesting landscape it is with its flowing waterfalls, flowers and birds, and I can even see several heraldic images among the flora and fauna.
ReplyDeleteThis is quite remarkable and, as with all your other landscapes, I´ll copy it and examine it more closely at leisure.
I like the way you have incorporated the stamp designs and cut shapes in your drawing, I think it turned out great. I love the colors you worked with, on my monitor it looks like sage, greens and blues. I think it's a marvelous mental landscape drawing. Great job Jean. With the beautiful weather we've been having, it's so hard to stay indoors, I am surprised you got this one done. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you both for your comments. I love the feedback and interpretations. And I mostly worked on it at night, so no conflict with the outdoors. It also was in progress for a long, long time. A large one is still in its early stages.
ReplyDeleteJean! You have to check this out! This link goes to a web cam that is streaming live on a Great Blue Heron nest! I just watched and the bird stood up and rolled the eggs, then it changed the direction it was facing in the nest and sat back down on it's eggs! Wow! That was so cool! Lynne Taetzsch posted the link on her new blog, the nest is in Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York... Here is the link: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=2433
ReplyDeleteThis one is neat! I like your use of the stamps. This one makes me think of old ornate buildings with waterfalls falling through them.
ReplyDeleteThey also have a Red Tailed Hawk on the nest and the eggs have hatched... http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=2422
ReplyDeleteWow...there's so much going on here that like Helen, I need some leisure time to study it all. I love that you included the stamp. I started a stamp collection as a child and must admit was inspired to see if I could find my album and I did. And, I found your stamp pictured in the album though I didn't have an original. The only stamp I had from Mexico was an 80 CTS CORREO AEREO. I'll return the album to where I found it and pull it out one of these days when one of the grandchilren shows an interest in stamp collecting. Thanks for the memories!
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