The Friday Archives
Hello! I am starting a new thing (meme?) here. I am calling it “The Friday Archives”. Feel free to join in!
I have been digging around in my old sketchbooks and discovering recurring themes in my work and I am thinking that every Friday I might post a picture of some art work from ye-olde-days (university, high school, TAFE, primary school etc). I thought if I called it “Friday Archives” it’s pretty open, so apart from old art, photography and craft work, even a poem, short story or some 21 Jump Street inspired Fan Fiction (lawd help us!) might even fit the bill. (If a meme like this already exists, please let me know).
This is my first piece – from 1994. I was doing my first year of Art Teaching Education at Melbourne Uni and was loving printmaking class. I was already using a computer (corel draw from memory) to come up with designs and when I wasn’t playing on the computer I was burning the images into steel plates with acid. This is an artist’s proof of an etching of my Grandmother and her siblings when they were young. I think my Grandma must be the one on the right. They are all looking at the little blonde girl – who was the sister who died when she was just a girl. This ghostly, fabled little sister has always fascinated me.
If you decide to join in the fun – please leave a link in my comments!
Yep! I’m in : )Thank you for your meme!
I love hearing the backstory on artworks. I like your blog, so much interesting and cute stuff. I loved your skipping girl prints. Will you be doing some more?
Great idea! I’ve been trying to record some of my older work on my blog every once in a while- same reason- To see the connections through the years. I will try to join in on a weekly schedule although I am not so sure I’ll get to it today.
What a fabulous etching, and story behind it.
It is fun to see past works/posts on blogs. It is hard to find the time to search a blog’s archives so this is a great idea!I love your first print!
Great idea. I’m primarily a quilter, forever careening between the artsy and the traditional. This sounds like a fun way to show some of my old time stuff. I’ll give it a go…
I’ll play – not much historical art/craft around my place. I think that they were tipped in about Skip #2 but by next week I’ll be able to come up with something archival.
this is a really lovely idea – i’ve been meaning to dig out some photos i took when i was younger and this is just the excuse. good call!
what a great plan!can’t wait to see what you find each week – I love this one.I am pondering joining in, i’m tempted!
I’m a joiner!
I really enjoyed reading the story behind this great print. I can’t seem to stop thinking about the ghostly, fabled sister. Spooky.
Looking through piles of old artwork makes for some of the best procrastination around, count me in!
I hoped on the bus. The link is here:http://joybucket.typepad.com/joybucket/2008/04/friday-archives.html
Thanks for the idea. I love the print and the story behind it.Susan
I’ll play! Mine is up here: http://creativetoday.typepad.com/creative_today/2008/04/friday-archives.html
I love it – I wish I had kept more artwork from my college days, I tossed a bunch in a big purge during a move a few years ago. We were taking art classes about the same time – I was an Art major at San Diego State University from 1992-1997 :). I only took one print making class and I didn’t really care for the teacher, but I loved the processes we learned. I should look into taking another class, I wonder if I could find one around here.
i’m in! i have a lot of old sketchbooks/journals in storage that i’ll have to forage through…also i just started making stamps and my mom told me she found a bunch of old half-done handmade stamps I had started when I was about 10 years old! funny how i’m still doing the same things almost three decades later. i’ll definitely participate next week. 🙂
I love this print. The colors of very “now”. I like the expressions on their faces. Looking forward to checking out your Friday pieces.
You can count me in! But first I need to wipe the inch-thick dust off my old portfolio cases. It’s been a very long time since anything in there see the light of day.
Oh, I love this idea! Consider me a ready participant–also thank you for taking some “posting pressure” off, this one’s so easy. I’ve posted one today and linked back to you.http://ilovegreyskies.blogspot.com/2008/04/friday-
Oh what perfect timing! Just the other week I found an old photograph of my very first cloth doll that I had made in the late ’80s. Here’s the link:http://www.lemontreetales.com
I’d love to participate. I’ll plan to post my first “The Friday Archives” image next week on my blog. Thanks for sharing a great idea!
I’m in! What a grand idea….
How to entice someone back to posting who was meant to be having a wee break! Great idea…I’d love to join in.
i realized my link was faulty….sorry!
I love the idea, as I have stacks of old sketchbooks. I decided to use this opportunity to shoot two birds with one stone and dug out an old polaroid picture I took and use it for the final day of Polaroid Week 2008 and your Fridy Archive. You can see it here:http://www.robayre.com/news/2008/04/25/polaroid-week-final-entry/
I’d love to be in it. Good idea.
Hi thereI have been looking through my old drawings too – last month we moved the office and as a result I had to look through my bits of paper. I was pleased to find this drawing I did before I was married and had kiddies – but here they are draped all over me like they do now!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tjoyy/2444711834/
Endeavor to join in Claire
Hi ClaireI would like to join as well.What do we have to do?Yxx
We’ll join in next Friday–what fun!!
I’ll try and have a go – don’t have much art around from when I was little, but I have a bit from Uni, and lots of embroidery pieces. Must check on copyright issues though to make sure I don’t tread on toes for the ones already published. Great idea though Claire! And I love your etching – but then I am always a sucker for etchings.
I’m joining in on The Friday Archive. I wonder how long it will take me to run out of stuff I have made.
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This sounds like fun, I’ll start playing this Friday!
hey! our mutual pal pip led me to you and by sheer coincidence i’ve been posting a few accidental dips into my own archives. i would love to play along with you… i’ll start this friday! thanks for the invite (love loobylu, too)!
It’s a little late but I would like to join! Now I just have to dig up some of my old arty stuff . . .
consider me a member! Great idea! I’ve linked to you about a zillion times today in my post.;-)