creative tuesdays - nursery rhymes

Hello all at creative tuesdays http://www.dottyhill.com/blog/

I am on the road and were it not for a stop in Chattanooga on the way back from Texas to Asheville Nc, I would probably not participate today. Been in cars for 30 hours this week,  man...

Have been all week on the road and all weekend at an art fair which was cool

I am writing on a tablet so don't want to write too much but more later. This is a nursery rhyme we had in Chile, analogous to the black Sheep have you any wool one from Britain.  I am embarrassed at my horse drawing skills which is why I ended u p doing 2.

Have a great day!


This is the song.
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=196&c=33
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=196&c=33

The words of the song are here, and the link above has some videos of folks performing it

Little White Horse

Canción infantil

(Spanish)

Children's Song

(English)

Caballito blanco,
llévame de aquí,
llévame a mi pueblo
donde yo nací.

Tengo, tengo, tengo,
tú no tienes nada,
tengo tres ovejas
en una cabaña.

Una me da leche,
otra me da lana,
y otra mantequilla
para la semana.

Levántate Juana
y prende la vela,
anda a ver quién anda
por la cabecera.

Son los angelitos
que andan de carrera
buscando la leche,
pa' la mamadera.

Little white horse,
Take me away.
Take me to the town,
Where I was born.

I have, I have, I have,
You have nothing.
I have three sheep,
In a cabin.

One gives me milk,
Another gives me wool,
And another, butter,
A whole week's worth.

Get up, Joan,
And set fire to the candle,
Go see who's walking
On the headboard.

It's the little angels
Who go running
Looking for milk
For the bottle.

Paint Party Friday - late and a bit on edge

Thanks much to Eva and Kristin's Paint Party Friday for giving many of us this cool chance to paint!

Chose to, in a pre-boat-painting mode, take out temperas and see what I could come up with. Was discussing with a friend earlier that it is very difficult to come up with something creative out of wholecloth, with nothing photographic or life-like to refer to. It's an interesting problem - coming up with new stuff. Part of it is brave - confronting the blank paper with no plan or preconceived notion. Part of it I think involves having the ability to channel the freefloating creativity existing within so as to come up with something specific. The third test of course is being able to access the skills and techniques of painting/rendering with no outside guidance (IE no model of any sort).

These areas are one I have lacking which is why free form things I do come out a little weird. Hence, this man that reminds me of some of the weird things I had to cook up for life drawing class! On the other hand, one's mood informs what comes out and this piece captures the fact I feel more than a little 'on edge' right now.

Was at a community meeting last night and ate waaaaaay too much sugar - then over to the pancake place for biscuits and such - and this comes out! In the interim undergoing the stress of translating my project idea to reality - don't know. On edge. This is what being on edge looks like I guess.................