Today is a full day of Olympics – sports I don’t want to miss so have been purging through papers and magazines that have been piling up. I got alot of decorating magazines from Mom as she purged and from the local library magazines like Real Simple, House & Home that they purge after a few years.
I go through the magazines and tear out anything the strikes me…..
Here is a wallpaper page – that I can use as inspiration for a quilting or a stencil design. The eagle – I want to get better at drawing them and it would be great for a quilting design as well.
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Here are some more items I cut and/or tore out.
The eye – I want to practise drawing a better eye.
Architectural elements that spoke to me….for quilting or stencil designs….even that light fixture has a neat design on the globe.
And, of course a tree….
So 15 magazines, I have the pile down to about an inch or even less high pile of tear sheets. Full pages go into sheet protectors (note to self, buy another box at Staples soon) and the cut pieces I’ll glue into my sketchbooks where I’ll make a couple notes beside them.
Sometimes I tear out a page just for the colour combinations, but this time none popped out at me.
