What is a lucky dip? The Keirunga Book Arts group had brief instructions.
A game in which small prizes are concealed in a container and chosen at random by participants.
Now my ‘prize,' was the words peach and light blue.
Some small black safety pins and an adjective ‘Colourful,’ to be used somewhere in 3 books of 6 pages.
That got me thinking.
Colourful was no problem as I have often had that label. Safety pins I could accomodate but the thing that was missing was a theme.
It made me realise that the work I create starts with a title and things just follow along as I create with no plan at all.
After weeks of thought I decided on a topic that I know a lot about, children.
I had been a teacher for 25 years and that included from 5 year olds to teenagers and I had learnt the stages of my era.
I have always loved children's art so made my own colourful childlike portraits as a beginning.
My progress is in pictures. Not quite completed with a container but I have plans for the fabric I made.
