Butterfly Postcard and Digital Art

Digital postcard. The butterflies were from the Naturalist Library and the text, stamp and marks from a vintage postcard. Painted background

Flower drawn on my tablet then grown in the garden below.

A picture drawn on my tablet blended together with a photograph.

Moleskine Sketchbook [the last pages]

collage, wax, watercolour, white pen 

[the nib has gone funny so the ink comes gushing out all at once]

I got two kinds of  pens for my birthday, some were posca pens, I did the doodle above to try them out

watercolours and pencil

promarkers, liner pen and watercolours

collage, watercolours

Ice and Collages

We are having a conservatory built and this was the ice on the window this morning - hope it is warmer in there when it's finished!

Below- pages from sketchbook 15- collage incorporating postcards and found images

Miscellaneous Pictures

Above - collaged, stamped, real plant, paint

Below - old C&G artwork - Snakes and Ladders

below - doodles from sketchbook 14

Shape Collage and Doodles

I used a free download from shapecollage to arrange 199 of my flower photos in the shape of a teddy and the flower below. Click the images to enlarge.

 More doodles from a sketch book. I used a letter/number stencil in this one.

Update - Fabric Samples

This is what I have done with the fabric samples so far.

This piece was cut up then stitched together. After sandwiching with some thin wadding and backing fabric I quilted them together with a decorative machine stitch.

For the boat I outlined with freehand machine embroidery, then stitched it to a sketchbook page which I had torn out. I reattached the page with hand stitches.

Another boat also outlined with machine embroidery.

I used a red thread for the freehand machine embroidery to quilt the three layers together.

This one is my favourite so far.

I have one large piece of fabric that I've not done anything with yet

Fabric Printing Workshop & Sketchbook Challenge

I got together with some friends for a fabric printing session. I used water soluble pencils and crayons, chalk pastels and emulsion paint, some marks were drawn freehand, some with a handmade stencil and some using texture plates. 

To fix onto the fabric we used screen print binder applied using a screen print screen and squeegee, then iron fixed and rinsed. You can see what happens if the binder is not applied properly [below]

The printing was inspired by watching the dvd of Kerr Grabowski [deconstructed screen printing]

I've been sewing!!, I shall show you the results tomorrow [if I get the photos done]

I've done another couple of drawings for the Sketchbook Challenge - Everyday Items

Sailing

Another one from my doodle book. I was wondering how long it has been since I started using this style of drawing with the diamond shapes. I can recall working in the general office of an accountants when I was in my teens [a long time ago...] and sticking the waste edges from sheets of stamps onto the petty cash tin and then drawing lots of irregular stripes with the triangle pattern in them, similar to the waves on this picture. I've evidently not got tired of doing it yet!