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Leslie Avon Miller

My life flows when I'm in my art.


Jean De Muzio

Monday, May 6, 2013

The Small Things of Life

Leslie Avon Miller, accordion fold booklet






The small things of life were often so much bigger 
than the great things . . . the trivial pleasures like cooking, 
one's home, little poems especially sad ones, 
solitary walks, 
funny things seen and overheard.



~Barbara Pym

Leslie Avon Miller, paper construction




Small things I like today:




Casual

Twirling

Juicy

Small boxes with lids

The word “evening”

Roots of trees

Soft

The smell of clean 

Leslie Avon Miller, paper construction


 In the studio I now have photography back drops of a variety of neutral colors. They are actually sheets, but they seem to do the trick, as long as I have a lint brush handy. The gray and coffee-with-cream colors seems less harsh than white or black. 

I continue to experiment with water colors, washi papers, various fibers and powdered graphite. 

Leslie Avon Miller, paper construction

If you read and posted a comment on the last post, you will want to know who won the drawing for one of these paper constructions.

Liz Davidson's name was pulled from the basket. A package is on the way to her as we speak.Thank you all for your comments. 

A note about the quote which begins this post. I was not familiar with Barbara Pym, but now that I have read more about her works, I look forward to reading them. You can read more about her books here at a blog called A Fondness for Reading. 

What small pleasing things are on your list?