Well, I’m back, and I’m at full speed already. I had tons of emails when I returned, and there are a whole bunch of work voicemails waiting for my attention. In my email there were three requests for photo shoots and three requests for time for prints modeling work. Apparently my name is getting out there somehow.
I’m exhausted now. It’s 1:30am, and I still have a touch of jetlag, so it feels more like 6am. I’ve been going all day. I had improv class in Toronto, which was kind of fun. We just did three person conversation scenes today, and many of them worked out great. I haven’t done improv for ages, and I thought I’d be rusty, but I felt pretty good today. I guess it’s like riding a bike.
I’m having to get used to grocery shopping and cooking my own food again. I made jerk chicken tonight with corn on the cob. Nice and easy.
After dinner I went to Gage Park to catch David Wilcox performing at the Festival of Friends. The park was just absolutely jammed with people. Wilcox’s blues/rock music suits Hamilton’s working-class masses perfectly.
There are a lot of artisans selling their wares at the Festival. The only ones that really interested me, and actually made me pay attention were these Chinese silk embroidered images. From a distance they looked like paintings done in traditional watercolor, or charcoal drawings. But on closer inspction it was clear they were entirely embroidered with fine silk thread of many colors. My favorites were the subdued black and white scenes of an old village in China. I’d love to have one of these some day 🙂
There are many more of this kind of thing at www.silkart.ca
Anyway, I keep passing out in my chair as I write this so obviously I need some sleep. More later 🙂
that’s embroidered?! *faints* amazing..
welcome home 🙂
amazing doesn’t even begin to describe it! i stared at them forever 😛
nice to see you are back. Glad you had a safe trip. Gotta see you at Improv one of these days. Your Brother.
the silk art is breathtaking 🙂
Rest up ! and welcome home
Glad to see you are interested in the silk art. I am Susan Yip from Suzhou, China, a city where most of the silk embroidery paintings you saw come from. I sell silk embroidered paintings online at much much cheaper price since I make them myself. Please visit my site htpp://www.suembroidery.com in your free time if you want to learn more. Thank you. If this message annoys you, please delete it immediately.
To be honest, this embroidery is not that fine. It can be done in 3 days. But some really amazing embroidered paintings may take months to complete.