Sunday 22 May 2011

My Sonshine

We seem to have jumped from a cold, wet, dark early Spring into full-fledged, fiery Summer up here in southern Ontario.  In keeping with this, and as my finish example from last week's challenge, "With A Little Help From My Friends", I am sharing the string and resulting tile from a collaboration with my 22 year old son.  My son is an artist, too, although I don't know that he recognizes this himself yet.  He writes the most amazing lyrics and poetry with a depth of understanding WAYYYYYYYYYY beyond his few years.  He also makes the most incredible art.  From early on he always processed his life through writing and drawing and by his early teens had developed a really singular design aesthetic to his work.  He created little characters that made repeated appearances in his artwork and developed a really unique and proficient style of pen work.  He is the third person I asked to draw a string for me; my parents also participated and their strings have already been shared.  I only asked for a single, continuous line that could be as long or short, curved or angular, open-worked or crossed-over as he chose.  This is what he drew:

And this is what I made of it:

Happy Sunday!

7 comments:

  1. Love it - my kind of tangle, full, dense and mesmerizing.

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  2. Fantastic great simplicity giving depth XOXO Zoe

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  3. Just saw it and love it! It is simple and the shading has a great effect!

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  4. Wow! I looked at the string and said, oh my! tough one - I looked at the tangle and went ooooooo

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  5. Sonshine is Fabu! You took his wonderfully complex string and ran with it. Great collaboration.

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  6. Haven't heard from you in a while. Everything OK in Ontario?

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  7. This is a cool looking design. Very tribal!

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