Block week – Roger Key painting on something weird
A trip to two junk shops gave me ample ideas of what to paint.
My first idea I had worked out before the week started. Having something in the back of your mind before you start a block week will get you going early and you can utilise the whole week to create.
I took an old skill, weaving flowers out of flax, and applying colour to the flax, the weaving it. I split the flax and then painted it, very time consuming but fun.
In the first junk shop bought a wooden blind and painted a dancer on it in greys and blues and it took ages! The other junk shop yielded a flax woven panel that I painted a scene of Ruapahu, a flax bush and a toitoi bush. This has been framed and was exhibited in the Stokes Valley Library.
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