ARTYADVENT: 9th December

Hellooooo ArtyAdventers!  I hope you are well today.  Thank you for following me on this artistic journey through advent so far. 

I hereby admit to a new addiction - snowflakes!!!!  Inspired by last week's ink painting of a snowflake, I am dreaming up new ways to create snowflake artworks.  They are such wondrous, fragile  and temporary creations of nature.   

So today, I present to you Dear ArtyAdventers paper snowflakes!  O yes indeedy. 

The last time I was set loose with paper and scissors to make these wondrous creations was when I was a wee girl.  Probably early primary school.  I have memories of making paper snowflakes in nursery, although admittedly it was about 400 years ago!  Or so it seems. 

I can't tell you how much fun this was!  Tee hee.  I felt like a wee girl again!!!!!  Such a simple idea, such a simple process and yet they look rather good!  Here's the 3 I've made so far.  I say "so far", because I could (and probably will) be making these into infinity!

And mucking about with the arrangement, the lighting and taking close-up pictures with the camera has given some rather stunning results:

 

 

 

 

I have used decent, white paper for these snowflakes. I love the effects of the white paper snowflakes on the white paper background.  Some aspects of the snowflakes look sky blue in the pictures!!!!! 

If I remember right, the paper of choice at school or nursery was tissue paper - not very robust!   And the ultra thin paper mixed with PVA glue was a cocktail that could only end in disaster.  The snowflakes that did survive my hacking away with scissors and my heavy handedness were quite pretty!  Maybe......

Well I for one am well pleased with these snowflakes!  

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Wendy