This month the challenge of 'Goed Gezien - Goed Bekeken' is called 'Papier hier!' translated to 'paper here!', the words that come from the large trash collectors in the famous theme parc 'De Efteling'. A fairy tale figure - always hungry - cries for the paper (and other trash) and answers with a 'thank you' if he is given something.
For the challenge we were asked to do something creative with paper - not an ordinary material, but in fact really versatile.
This was a bit of a challenge for me, I'm not much of a crafter anymore - especially since I started painting. So I had to think about what would be best to hand in.
For this work I tore up old printed matter (with a collection of watercolours of mine) and pasted it on a sheet of A3 paper. On the back I very roughly drew an indication of the annual rings of a tree stump and cut the rings out.
I traced the structure of wood - but as planks - on a sheet of watercolour paper and coloured it with watercolour markers.
I glued the cut-out collage on top and the rings that I did not use immediately were applied upside down at the top right. Because this turned out va bit too white I glued narrow edges of collage on top.
So I did some crafting, some drawing and I used trees as my inspiration again.
The information about the materials I have used, the size of this work and its availability can all be found in my Tumblr blog.
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