Collage - Vintage Series

Painted background, vintage advert

Collages - Shoes and Crazy Whist

I was given a pack of replica vintage papers which I decided to use in collages

Deer Me

WIP Art Quilt and Dubai Gifts

My friend Marian has recently come back from a holiday in Dubai and she brought me some gifts in the cute little bag above.

Inside the bag were two other bags and in the blue one were some empty tea bags. We have seen art made with teabags and assumed that people emptied them to use in art but it appears you can buy them empty and in different sizes too.

In the pink bag were these adorable miniature embroidered shoes or slippers. I should have put a ruler next to them so you could tell how big they are but I never thought at the time. Anyway they are about 5" long. 

Love those curly toes.

Even the underside looks great.

WIP - art quilt

This is a start for an A4 art quilt of a hare on a bank of flowers overlooking the fields and hills. The background was painted with inktense blocks, the hare was a print on fabric done on my inkjet, and I've added some embroidery, first on the machine then hand ......but I'm not sure about it. The hare is quite pale [but they don't want to get noticed in real life either], the background is quite bright. I don't like the sky. Anyway I don't know whether to carry on with it and hope it looks better when it's done [some things do] or leave it and start something new. I have spent quite a bit of time doing the embroidery but there is a lot more to do. If you click on the image you can get a better view... any thoughts?

Beamish

Last week I didn't post much as I had visitors and one of the places we visited was Beamish - the living Museum of the North. I have been many times before as it's not far away, and I have lots of photos and now I have even more. They will be the last ones from this camera though as it broke while I was there. More to follow tomorrow - click on the images to enlarge.

Shoes, Roses and Fluid [IF]

Brush pen drawings, my version of shoes from an historical costume book

I drew around a coaster for the shape below

The Illustration Friday challenge this week is 'fluid'.

Farrah the frog

Couldn't see the hole

Now she has found

She is stuck in the bowl

Butterflies[IA] (Skele-shoes)

Inspiration Avenue challenge - Butterflies

All images from the Graphics Fairy except the shoes which I drew.

(the bird is saying "I do like your new hat and shoes")

The Sketchbook Project [80-85]

Below the surface.....of the banana skin, ......custard,

..............tongue,

.....................shoes

Which shoes shall I wear?

Sheep with shoes

Screen printed fabrics, applique, machine & hand embroidery, dangly legs & shoes, beads

I've got to hand it to you

sketch book doodle [sb1p69]