Endpaper Challenge Day 6: Sea

To make my 'Sea' Themed paper I again used pastepaper, but his time with layered and combed white paste on top of the dried blue and I then used the grainy white paste to paint on all the whales. I haven't cropped and digitally polished this because I like the rough wavy effect.

Below; are some of the paste textures and tools used in their creation.

                       Above: Bamboo knife

Above: potato masher

        Above: Bamboo cutlery, Below: Meat tenderiser

The extra papers were too nice to leave so I made Narwhals ... chasing cod and squid.

A Favourite Plate

We lost a plate this weekend, it's been cracked for a while, but it gave up holding together and broke.

Now I love beech combing and I adore sea ceramics, I have gathered bags of them . . . one day soon I will do something good with them. At our old home I used to beach comb the sea of ploughed fields, for once it had rained, all the midden crocks would rise to the surface of the chocolate sea of ploughed soil, ready to be harvested.

A fitting way to dispose of a favourite plate then? take it to the sea, and throw it in deep at low tide, so that the sea can soften it, then hopefully one day in the future you or I might find a piece.

Gerald Rose's Illustration

Another favourite children's book from Gerald and Elizabeth Rose the wonderful story of 'Old Winkle and the Seagulls' wonderful evocative illustrations and a generous spirited story of kindness and hope.