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Friday, 10 January 2025

Friday Catch Up - 10th January 2025

Doodlewash Art Challenge

4.Fan, 5.Snowy Owl, 6.Caracalla Bean, 7. Pig

8.Bubble Bath, 9.Sprite, 10.Swiss Cheese Plant

I made a mouse, I got the pattern from Etsy. It was quite fiddly but it is cute. I was going to make two for the Granddaughters before Christmas but only got to do one. They'll have to play with it here when they visit instead.


And the mouse needed a house so I made one from cardboard boxes, packaging and found objects. I just had to buy a lot of glue. The original plan was to keep it simple, making it up as I went along but I got carried away and I was enjoying myself.
The walls were papered with pages from a magazine.

I made a bed from cardboard, a mattress, quilt and pillow from fabric.

A chair and table from cardboard, I just painted these with a clear gel acrylic. The vase is a big bead with little flowers stuck in it. The planter at the front is made of two wooden beads stuck together, I painted them with a metallic pen. The flowers and leaves were in my stash.

The bath was part of a gift from years ago, I think it had little bottles of bubble bath in it. The sink and toilet are cardboard, painted, the toilet has an opening lid, and the sink has a tap. Both of these look a bit ropey to be honest.


I cut pieces of card for the brick look and roof tiles and path, then stuck and painted.
At the back is a wheelie bin with button wheels for rubbish and a washing line with cardboard pegs which can be removed. The thinner poles were made from paper then painted. The thicker pole is an empty tube of Steradent covered in handmade washi tape, the coloured one - this was the first one I put on and I wouldn't do it like that now.


The bigger planter is a plastic cup, cut which is a bit delicate. The shrub was made from deconstructed fabric flowers, reconstructed to look like a shrub then painted.

That's all folks, enjoy your weekend!








 

Monday, 4 July 2016

Handmade Stamps and Sketchbook Pages

Stamps - I drew them, pixel traced them into 'Make the cut' then cut them out of fun foam on my Zing cutter. I stuck them onto various bits of wood or strong card.

Then used them in my sketchbook. The beaver and panda didn't print too well so I will do them again sometime.








Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Sketchbook Collages and Fabric Design

Mixed media collage - watercolour, found images [painted over] and drawing/painted eagle

Mixed media collage - watercolour, pen, found images [horse and paint brushes]

Mixed media collage - watercolour, found images and drawn/painted bird

Mixed media collage - watercolour, found images

Mixed media collage - watercolour, found image and drawn/painted mouse

Mixed media collage - watercolour, found images and pen drawn skipping rope
I've recently been designing some fabrics and putting them on Spoonflower with a view to selling the fabrics once they have been proofed. I've also put some old ones there that I did when I was at collage. They have weekly competitions so I've entered a new one for the mid-century cocktail dress print.  See it hereIt is an art deco stylised flower inspired by the fabric of Lucienne Day called calyx.


Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Altered Flower Book [p39], Mail Book [Pussy Cat], Felt Brooches

the flowers on the left are made from paper and painted [close up below], the one on the right is both fabric an paper, machine stitching, wrapped string [stem], string centre
I took the photo of the wild mouse below, it was eating from a coconut shell in my garden. It looks big below but it was really a tiny cute little thing.
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I thought I would try my hand at making a brooch from felt, then I tried making one in leather [left]