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

Tortoise Embroidery

Take a stitch Tuesday has started again which got me thinking ...I never did show the finished embroidery I was working on last year. There were a number of TAST 2012 stitches used in the piece, which I posted about as I did them. I started the piece as a painting on fabric, then did a lot of freehand machine embroidery mainly on the grass but also on the tortoise and flowers. The picture directly below was taken after I had first started on the hand embroidery.

The entire tortoise shell is covered with beads, sewn on.

I also added beads and sequins to some of the flowers.

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I didn't show it before Christmas as it was a gift for my daughter.

Inktense Blocks

I bought myself a new 'toy', a tin of inktense blocks - they are inks in a block. You can use them dry or with water, below shows the colours both dry and wet.

I did a few quick, very quick sketches in my sketchbook.

Then I thought I would try them on fabric. I used my gel printing plate, but on the first experiment the ink was to dry to transfer to the fabric. When I applied water to the plate then drew in it with a block, it worked just fine....but I was quick.

The tortoise was a freehand drawing directly onto the fabric.

I wasn't sure about washing, so I rinsed out a sample and the inks stayed put, so it looks like they will be good for fabrics. They have inspired me to start a bigger project......

Two more Tortoises, Imperfect & Rolling Stamps [23-25]

Two more tortoise paintings for the 'shelter' project.

Below is a flower you have seen before but has been altered for the IF challenge - imperfect

[the original]

Three more hand made rolling stamps

Stamp 23 is a very large stamp made from fun foam

Stamps 24, 25 are made from textured wallpapers

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Pages from Sketchbook No10 [128,116,118,114]

Another Tortoise & Rolling Stamps 9-12

I've done a few watercolour & pen paintings of tortoises/turtles

Below - more rolling stamps

above - fun foam wrapped around a plastic cork

fun foam [leaf shapes] wrapped around 2 corks stuck together

scored polystyrene

fun foam with holes to make a lace like pattern wrapped around a plastic/rubbery cork. I used a hole punch, the type you would use to make a hole in a belt.

Tortoise with Flower and Stamps 5 -8

I've shown this tortoise before, but not this watercolour.

The picture started as a pen drawing below which I developed into the embroidery shown below .

Four more rolling stamp ideas

This one was made from an old [painty] textured dishcloth wrapped around an empty paint bottle

Shapes cut from fun foam were stuck to another bottle

A similar repeating shape was stuck around a paint roller.

a fabric doyley was stuck around an empty salt box