Mandela
Art by @Ilga
Definitely doodling---This is my first mandela and it ranged from great fun to great frustration. It ended up a little "waby swaby," but I suppose that's in keeping. It's 12 inches across with 32 points. Drawn with a micron pen, then colored in markers (in whatever colors I happened to have) and has colored pencil shadows. I scanned it into PhotoShop and played with altering colors. Made a green one for my green-crazy friend and a subdued desaturated one for myself. It's quite printable on my oversized color laser printer---so ill be a fun "social distancing" poster gift for my friends. Each one with a personal color range.
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14 Comments
OKAT (@okat)
Wow, these are gorgeous! The first is my favorite of the color combos.
Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)
@okat Thanks. Ah, that first one is the original----as it was drawn.
Anne Lotz (@AnneLotz)
Great idea. Great job !
Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)
@AnneLotz Thank you. It was fun....I'm starting another one. Fills the spaces between more exacting work. I guess that's the goal of doodling, eh?
Anne Hill (@Whitepyne)
This a fun idea! The muted one reminds me of textiles and wallpapers at the living history museum where I work.
Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)
@Whitepyne Thanks. Many years ago, I was a living "exhibit" in a large Seattle museum (MOHI) as a weaver on a complex draw loom. What sorts of exhibits do you have?
Anne Hill (@Whitepyne)
@Ilga I work in an 1830s living history interactive village. We have weaving as well, in one of the houses, and we use the products produced on the loom in the household lifeways, such as diapered cloth for toweling, and woollens for blankets on the beds, etc. We demonstrate in costume the crafts and household tasks of the period in NewEngland. I do a lot of hearth cooking and sewing.
Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)
@Whitepyne Sounds wonderful! A couple of weeks ago, I ran across this site: https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson/videos and spent hours watching various recipes and crafts. Do you know these folks? Great fun. Many years ago, during the bicentennial (1976), I taught "colonial crafts" for various parks departments in the Seattle area: tallow candles, soap, natural dyeing, spinning, weaving, simple wooden toys and some cooking and baking (built a brick/mud oven at one of the parks). But, alas, haven't done anything like that since.
Anne Hill (@Whitepyne)
@Ilga The work you describe doing in the Pacific Northwest parks sounds like a lot of fun. What was the reason behind the project? It’s just that colonial history happened in the easterly part of North America, so I’m curious what prompted an exhibition of it there in the Seattle area. I had not ever come across the Townsends, but I’m glad I did just now. I like the looks of their site and their work. In the village I work in, we have our own costume department, but some of the costumed historical interpreters like to accessorize with historically accurate items, such as the ones on the Townsend site. We are very circumspect about historicity there, as the focus is on education. Everything we use is either an artifact, or (more commonly) copied directly from items in our huge Collections.
Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)
@Whitepyne I'm guessing that you might be a bit younger than me. In 1976 there was a huge national celebration for the 200th birthday of the Declaration of Independence. Colonial and early US historical stuff was everywhere that year. My husband and I had moved to the PNW and I didn't have a teaching job lined up yet, so when this opportunity came up, I threw myself into researching the era and developing a program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bicentennial
Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)
@Whitepyne Ooops, forgot to do the "direct response." PS. I was a child in Connecticut (into high school), so have a little bit of east coast in me. (see response above)
Anne Hill (@Whitepyne)
@Ilga Haha, nope; I well remember the bicentennial, and it all makes sense now. My older brother “earned” quite a bit of money from a friend’s coffee service honor box that year; people frequently paid for their coffee with the bicentennial dollars, thinking they were quarters, and he would replace them with actual quarters, keeping the dollars. Even as an 11 yr old, I saw the irony in his money-making scheme based on an “honor system” of paying for the coffee, but I also saw his logic—the owner was still getting all the money actually owed to him. I’ll admit I envied his rapid wealth. Until he was caught and had to work for the friend until he’d paid back all the dollars.
Ilga Jansons (@Ilga)
@Whitepyne Great story! I don't think I have any Eisenhower silver dollars, but I have a Morgan and a few Peace silver dollars from my childhood somewhere around here. Alas, none of the really valuable ones.
Anne Hill (@Whitepyne)
@Ilga Now you mention it, I wonder if they took all those bicentennial dollars out of circulation? I haven’t seen one in many years. They were someone’s ill-conceived idea; dollar coins the same size as quarters! I may be mistaken, but I seem to recall that they worked in vending machines as quarters, too. Must have been plenty of chagrined vending customers.