Lapwing Collage

Collage on canvas 60 cm x 60 cm

Painted canvas, painted papers such as book pages, hand decorated papers, inkjet prints, found papers such as maps, sharpie pen, white pen, markers and a layer of acrylic wax.

I'm linking with Paint Party Friday

Hand Crafted Silvery Baubles

I got the idea of using lace to decorate baubles from Pinterest. I decided to add the year too, the numbers were cut from fun foam.

Altered Art History Book

Way back in 2012 I sorted some books for charity and this one [History of Art - Impressionism] was among them. The spine was disintegrating and not good enough to give away so I thought I would use it for art work. The idea was to be inspired by the art in it, although this didn't always work. The book is not finished but I keep having a dabble in it. 

Leaf Printing

I got together with some friends the other day and we did leaf printing.

I used emulsion [tester pots] for the actual printing, then painted over with watercolours.

The leaf below didn't make very good prints but I like the leaf with the paint on it.

I like the colours left on these two leaves from the paint.

I think I will do something digitally with all of these at a later date.

Bottle, Glass, Dog and 5 Rolling Stamps

Pen drawings [above]

RS13 -fun foam around card tube 

RS14 - fun foam cut using crinkly scissors [pinking shears], around a tape ring

RS15 - wine cork scored with knife

RS16 - foam pipe insulation, pattern cut with craft knife [very easy to cut]

RS18 - lace was stuck to an empty aerosol

Rolling Stamps 1-4

I thought I would share some ideas for rolling stamps with you which you could use for painted backgrounds, journals, fabric, paper etc, above is part of the collection I have.

The one below is cut from fun foam and stuck round an empty carton.

This is another fun foam stamp, a small one this time, stuck around the middle of a cotton reel

below - This one is lace stuck around an empty paint bottle

below - Another one cut from fun foam in the shape of a leaf also stuck around a paint bottle