Not Bad Thing: Playing with Color and The Big Cut

Monday, February 20, 2012

Playing with Color and The Big Cut

Percolating with ideas for Lisbeth's big new cuts. I'm particularly keen on this design...

Wouldn't these make great tiles? Or fabric squares...

I pulled my palette from a couple of photos of bouquets from last summer's flower gardens...

1 comment:

ElizabethMarch 11, 2012 at 11:38 PM
I don't know how I stumbled upon your blog, but I am so glad to have done so. These snowflakes are wondrous --

I have a seventeen year old daughter with intractable epilepsy and developmental disabilities -- I look forward to reading more of your blog.
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Lisbeth's Blue Bird Angels Mandala

My daughter Lisbeth suffered a traumatic brain injury when she contracted a viral illness in 1988 at the age of six, and she continues to be challenged by multiple difficulties including uncontrolled seizures, behavioral disturbances, learning disabilities and developmental delay. Despite these challenges, Lisbeth's mighty spirit and creativity are remarkably intact. She creates extraordinarily beautiful cut paper snowflakes - hundreds of them (it is ironic that a cluster of seizures is called a "flurry...") and like real snowflakes, each one is unique. Lisbeth sometimes refers to her creations as "brains," which is poignant, for in the making of each snowflake/mandala, it is as if she is recreating her brain. Lisbeth sees figures, animals, and objects in the cutout shapes of each one of her designs, and says that these are what the brain is thinking!