Busy Bee

A little painting from my 4" square sketchbook

Trees and Lace Landscape

It's been a long time since I painted on canvas but I got the urge after seeing the work of Elf2mani on Pinterest. I started by trying to copy it but then went in my own direction so it doesn't look exactly the same [I wouldn't know how to do it the same anyway]. Check out her work, she combines various items and fabrics in her work, there are some lovely pictures with spoons.

Detail showing some of the lace. The other bits of texture were made from a painting brush - the painted outer edge of the handle crumbled away while I was using it so used those bits too.

Landscape Painting Practice

My version of a picture in the 5 minute sketching landscapes book

Baa

Android tablet art

Landscape and Horse

Quick paintings using a big Chinese paintbrush and acrylic ink.

With or Without?

With or without the tree?

I used the Corel painter app on my tablet to paint this.

Path

Illustration Friday challenge - Path

Watercolour and pen

Purple Rabbit

Letraset Flex Markers

Blue Pig

Mixed media - the background was painted with acrylics and the pig was drawn on my tablet.

Spring Time

It was a nice sunny day today so here are some Spring time doodles.

IF - Natural

Illustration Friday challenge

Easter Rabbits

Above- from a sketchbook, collaged painted leaves, the rabbit was drawn on fabric. Brusho, aquamarkers, posca pens.

Below - created on my tablet, a few of my drawings layered together.

Little Landscape Quilts

My A4 art quilts are finished and have been sent off for the Little Landscapes Journal Quilts challenge. They will be judged then go on a tour at the Spring Quilt Festival.

I used inketense blocks to paint the background, the hare was an inkjet print [t-shirt type] and I've hand embroidered extensively. The other quilt is similar except it is a view through a camera lens. The camera and hand was also an inkjet print and the background as the previous quilt.

This is a digital version I was experimenting with originally. 

Girl under a tree

I seem to be drawing lots of trees recently

My entry for the Daily Post photo challenge - layers - can be found here

WIP - Textured Art Quilt

Another small A4 art quilt with a landscape them.

I textured the fabric with Golden course molding paste and bits from a page of a book. Colour was added with inktense blocks. I quilted it with bamboo wadding and backing fabric and stitched some basic lines on the hills and around the trees on a sewing machine. It needs a lot more quilting but will my sewing machine like going through the paste for any length of time.

WIP - Landscape Quilt

I've done lots more embroidery on the A4 landscape quilt and I've lightened the sky as it was a bit overpowering. 

I've not done any on it today - my finger is a bit sore, caught it a few times with the needle.

This is how it looked before

See other folks's WIP at Pintangle and join in the embroidery challenge on a Tuesday

Yield [IF], Polar Birds and Tap Collages

Illustration Friday challenge this week is 'yield'.

Yield – to give up, as to superior power or authority - The pig has given up his sty to the giant frog

Below - Polar Birds - Collage/altered photographs, watercolour and white pen background, found images of polar bears and birds, white pen decoration on birds heads

Collage of found images/altered photographs

Liberty Bottle and Embroidery

For the Three Muses challenge - Bottles or Jars

The background is a drawing and the bottle is a photo of an old vinegar bottle, the label was from Graphics Fairy. The Statue of Liberty photo I altered, I've had the original photo for years and I can't remember where I got it from.

I got the embroidery below from my loft when I was clearing out, a sample from when I did my City & Guilds. It is stitched on fabric and stitched around a CD. What may look like shisha glass is actually the CD where I have cut holes in the fabric. It is just one CD enclosed in the fabric.

Unfurl and Rolling Stamp 52

I drew the flower for the Sketchbook Challenge - unfurl

I left the background white and thought I would try it in some real settings

in a bluebell wood

near a poppy field

near an unusual fence [I like this one the most]

Rolling Stamp 52 - this one is similar to number 46. I did this one first but the 'repeats' didn't match up at the sides,  I think it was a bit too holey and I'm not very accurate at cutting out. Number 46, shown on an earlier post, the side branches all join up for a neater edge.

IF, frog scarf, doodle

My frog garden sprayer has grown himself a scarf [ready for winter?]

Illustration Friday - the challenge this week is 'boundaries'

Another brush pen doodle