Dogs, Eggs and Hare

Altered book [Altered Somerset Studio art journal calendar from 2003]

Painted and stamped backgrounds, collage, found images of dogs, eggs from a greetings card, homemade stamp of hare

Painting and Drawing

Painted background with ink flowers, also real carnation.

More drawing practice below.

Getting some ideas from a book called Fancy Designs 1920

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Take a stitch Tuesday - buttonholed herringbone.

I found the stitches twisting as I worked but decided I liked it on this experimental piece, but then when I tried to twist on purpose it went all untidy. I've done the stitching on a recycled face wipe, painted and stamped, then machine stitched it onto plain fabric which is on top of painted stamped paper [purple book page]

Queeniepatch has some tips and links on her blog about how to stitch without twists.

Take a stitch Tuesday  - sailor stitch.

I've just done a very small sample of this stitch, it looked a bit like a caterpillar when I had done two rows so I'll bear that in mind if ever I need to stitch one. The background is fabric this time, mono-printed on a gel printing plate.

Chair Stencil

Above - the finished picture

I started with a photo of a chair and my challenge was to make a stencil

I drew the chair, then simplified it to make a stencil, I used it both sides to make facing chairs. The background was painted and it was collaged to a doodle in a sketchbook.

The ladies in the finished picture were added digitally.

They were from a Women Archive book.