All about a Hat [TAW]

The Take a Word challenge this week is 'All about a hat'.

The top painting of watercolours on paper is from my 'shelter' series - frogs finding shelter. This little froggy has found shelter under a hat.

"Cyril frog needs to shelter

And then he spots a hat

Under he goes, nice and safe

A good place to hide from the cat."

Now the collage below is a little weird, I cannot remember what creature the legs were from, maybe a little pony but the upper half is cat, he is holding a bird and wearing a hat.

Watercolour background and found images of animals

Mail [TAW] and Frog Paintings

Take a Word - Mail

The map of France & the Victorian Beauty [in a circle] from the Graphics Fairy

The letters - public domain images, cannot remember where from.

More frog paintings from the 'shelter' project.

Click on images to enlarge

Tortoise & Flowers Embroidery

I started with a drawing which I blogged in January [link]. I made the drawing larger and printed it in sections on a laser printer, then I transferred the drawing to a blank piece of canvas fabric using oil of wintergreen. Have you ever used this stuff? It stinks! It smells like a strong 'germolene' and can be quite overpowering. The smell seems to linger for ages too even with the windows open. So I think if I use it again, it should be when it is warmer and I can do it outside. I then painted some of the areas on the fabric, such as the tortoises and grass with liquitex inks and airondack color wash. Lots of freehand machine embroidery came next. The longest time was spent doing all the hand embroidery and beading. The whole shell on the main tortoise is beaded. One of the things I wanted to do this year was some beading so one goal achieved. After finishing all the embroidery I wrapped the fabric around a canvas frame with thin wadding sandwiched in between.

Frog Picture

This is a picture that I've done for my 'Shelter' project.

'Freddie frog shelters under the flowers from the midday sun'

I painted on a canvas with acrylic paints, then glued on lots of beads.