Cut Work Book - Pages 10 -15

All the cut designs were created on my tablet.

I used a digital cutting machine to cut them out. {KNK Zing Air]

Turtles and Nature Fabric

I've recently come back from a trip to Madrid, one of the days we went to Atocha railway station to go to Toledo. At Atocha station there was this pool with lots of turtles and a botanical garden.

My latest fabric sample came from Spoonflower, this one was printed on their new fabric - poly crepe de chine, it has printed very well. 

Lions, Turtles and Bees

More drawing practice.

Inspired by the book '20 ways to draw a cat' by Julia Kuo

The Other Reef

This is a new swatch from Spoonflower featuring the design I entered for a contest, I didn't win. The fabric is silky faille and I love how it has printed.

Which Reef?

There is a design contest coming up on Spoonflower for a fabric design on the Great Barrier Reef. I've done two possibilities but which one shall I enter, the more realistic one or the doodley one, although they are both quite busy.

What do you think? Click on image to enlarge.

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.

Click on the images to enlarge.

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

Doodles & collage, turtle, birds & faces

Collaged doodle - the turtle is from a magazine, it's the Wallace & Gromit creature comforts turtle

I collaged the parts of faces onto bits of the doodle that I didn't like

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.

Turtle in a Box

I did a series of turtle pictures a while ago, this is one of them. Below is another version of it which I altered digitally.

The Sketchbook Project [76,77]

Below the surface  ..... of the ocean.

Gesso base, metallic, gel, felt tip and brush pens.