BS: Your 6 items for a still-life

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 09:32 AM

Well, I'd have a hand (1) comin' in from the left side with pen (2) writing in a "I love you_________... See you tonight..." on a scrap of paper (3). Above the scrap of paper would be a rose (4) lying at a bottom right to upper left for composition with the hand's direction intersecting. Under the rose a cloth napkin (5) that extends off the top right portions of the scetch. with some contrasting folds with just a portion of one of it's corners overlapping the scrap of paper. The finish off the still life a crumpled scrap of paper (6) somewhere in the upper left area for balance and symbolism.

Now you know why I drove my professors nuts when I was in art school...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Mooh
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 09:15 AM

Fishing rod/reel.
Guitar.
Knife.
Canoe paddle.
Hymn book.
Wedding ring.

Alternatively: family photo, pocket knife, mandolin...

I think I'll try the still-life photo. Cool idea.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Allan C.
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 08:58 AM

To truly represent my life I'd need to bring in six other people. It is the people I've met that have made all the difference in my life. However, I'll try to play by the rules and list some things instead. In no particular order…

The Mudcat Adventure Guitar (a memento of one of the best times I've ever had and symbolic of the many people here whom I have grown to love so much)
A painting that Alice (in Montana) made of the family farm in West Virginia
A ceramic hand my mother made (It has a green thumb. She was quite a gardener.)
A set of woodcarving chisels my father used and then gave to me to use
I wish I had some objects other than photos to represent my two daughters; but I don't and so photos will have to suffice.
Two coins I still have from a trip to Ireland (mementos of the very best time I ever had)

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 08:43 AM

..good one sandra..


my coloured pencils & song/sketchbook

a patchwork bedspread, made by me

a program for gleebooks or politics in the pub

a shawl of some sort, embroidered & long

a packet of crystallised ginger

a bottle of sandalwood oil or ylang ylang oil from Newton's Herbal Pharmacy

my signed copy of Hathaways's the Law of Refugee Status



freda

Subject: RE: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 08:41 AM

Banjo, mandolin and six bottles of Glenmorangie.
eric

Subject: BS: Your 6 items for a still-life
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 07:28 AM

I half-heard a bloke speaking on the radio this morning about a photographer who gets her(??) subjects to bring in 6 items that represent their life.

So I thought about it today & decided the following are my life.

A teddy bear (I make them & collect them)
A book (I've been a reader all my life)
A poster for my folk club (always have a few in my bag)
A song printed out from Mudcat or another source (& always printed in 12 or 14 font Arial so I can read it!!)
Sushi (I take it to clubs & sessions & often have it for dinner)
A waistcoat (I'm never seen without one, ditto a hat but that would make 7 items)

what's your list?

sandra