The crumbling ruin has been repaired -

my tooth, that is. I make no comment on the rest of me… The dentist does do Botox but that is one temptation I find it very easy to resist!

I’ve spent the rest of the day playing around with paper and paint. I decided that the problem with what I’ve been doing with the tiles is that they are simple shapes – and a simple shape and a simple treatment = blah.

So I turned to a book which I bought because Wensleydale likes Celtic designs – and then never did anything with. The basic Celtic knots are also simple, but Campbell-Harding and Grey do some very interesting things with them. So, following their example, I have printed some of the tile stamps in black to scan into the computer, made crayon, candle and oil stick rubbings of some of them, and splashed Koh-i-noor and Quink over the rubbings.

Of course I had just got a lot of wet painty papers spread over the floor when the meter reader arrived. And where’s the meter? in a cupboard just behind where I’d put the papers …

Piccies tomorrow. Probably.

Here is an unboring treatment of relatively simple shapes – a photo of a carpet in a shop we visited on our second trip to India. I just wish we could have afforded it …