Get Down

A constant stream of reference images for Halfland come into my view each day, many from traveling the internet. These get titled, tossed into a folder, printed out every few months, cut out, and sorted by category. When the stack of images gets unwieldy, I begrudgingly carve out the time to paste them down onto large blank boards to post them on my reference wall (tour of the wall below).

My friend Martha Ringer was looking through the original watercolors she had made here while producing her first book and asked if she come come down from Ojai for another art session. She sweetly offered to give an hour of work for Halfland for every hour she'd spend making her own art here. Her art session was a big success as she got the visual concept for her second book that she was hoping she might. Martha threw herself with relish into the task I gave her of pasting the current crop of images down. Thank you so much for the help again, Martha!

I was able to get all that and then some printed out and added in the days after Martha left. And in case anyone is interested in looking at it all the excitement in further detail, a 3 minute tour begins, after this public service announcement...