More Fabric Swatches

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Altered Photos

Two altered photos, one of Molly in the snow and one of boats in Majorca.

I altered them using an app on my Galaxy Note.

Sketchbook 15 - 10 pages

I think these are the last pages from sketchbook 15 which was all about boats, sea, fish, coast, sea birds etc

Above - collage of found images

Below -brush pen drawing [that strange creature is a kind of jellyfish]

below - watercolour painting

below -watercolour background, found images

below- collage of found images [you can see it better by clicking on the image]

Below - watercolour background, found images

Below - watercolours

Forward [IF] and more Boat Pages

Illustration Friday challenge - Forward

I was in quilt mode when I did the above, just the painting though, I didn't get around to doing a quilt.  I did a series of polar bears and other wild animals.

Watercolours

Watercolours and collage

Pen, watercolours, collage

Pen background. The boats are made from painted papers and stitched

More pages from the Boat Book

Boats

Three brush pen drawings, one collage and brush pens and one painted fabric with machine stitching, distressed and on a stamped, painted background.

Boats - Collage, Rolling Stamps 72-75

A recent visitor said she quite often has problems with my blog freezing up and not behaving and I was wondering if anyone else has had problems too?

Pages from sketchbook 15, all about boats, sea etc

The boat above has been painted on fabric and a stitched outline. I attached the fabric to the page with stitching after I ripped the page out of the book, then reattached the page with hand stitches.

Below is a collage of vintage postcards and a found image. I removed the card backing from the photo by soaking it in water and then peeling off. It doesn't always work to well, hence the ragged look.

A visitor said she quite often has problems with my blog freezing up

Rolling Stamps 72-75

I've used textured wallpaper for all of these, some are the same wallpapers but different sections of it.

See my article in Cloth Paper Scissors about making rolling stamps, free download here

Sink [IF] and Rolling Stamps 76,77

I have two offerings for the Illustration Friday challenge - sink.

Above - I think cup boats would sink

Below - Be careful, he may sink those teeth into you

Two more rolling stamps, both of them are textured wallpaper

Bag Winner and Boats

The winner of the Snowman bag giveaway, chosen by a random number generator is

Sherry Edwards

I started a sketchbook earlier this year with the intention of filling it with things boat/seaside connected, so far I have but I'm not finding it very slow going at the moment. The drawing above is from a different sketchbook but done around the same time [probably was the nearest to hand].  

Two collages below

Machine Embroidery Book[3], Boats and Mermaids

More pages from the C&G machine embroidery book.

Mermaid doodles from an old sketchbook

I started a sketchbook earlier this year all to do with a theme of boats, these are the first pages. The sea was created using a handmade stamp.