The Natural World - Sea & Fish

This is a layered peice - the bottom layer is a light weight fabric which has been coloured by transfer print [painted paper transferred with heat press], on top of that is very thick tracing paper which has been painted, then it has freehand machine embroidery through both layers. The fish are paintings from a sketch book which have been scanned and then printed on transfer paper.

Hello Sweetie

Sweet wrappers trapped behind organza with machine embroidery and in several layers

Need a new car[riage]?

Beamish Museum

Which shoes shall I wear?

Bayeux Bird

Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and stitched in Bayeux laidwork, one of the stitches used in the original tapestry.

Layered Mixed Media Sample [C&G]

This is a sample piece I did for City & Guilds many moons ago [1995-99]. The background layer is handmade paper [probably from egg boxes] The darker red, green & blue shiny stuff is [I think] glass paints applied to plastic, removed when dried and placed under a peice of chiffon headscarf, then handstitching - running stitches and loose french knots were stitched thru the lot. On the lower photograph I have played with the colours as it was a little dull and it makes it clearer to see everything. Which do you prefer?

Batik samples

Marks are made with a fork dipped in hot wax [kitchen type, not garden, ha ha]

Altered Book - Red

Workmen Notice - Beamish

Another old poster seen at Beamish Museum

Altered Book - Bows

I'm not sure what my grandma would think of her outfit (or new body) if she were still around?!? [bottom picture]

Reflections from a boat

These are a series of photographs of the reflections in the sea taken one after another at the same spot, but with different settings on the camera. They are reflections from a colourful boat similar to the boats in the background on the photo from yesterday.

Malta - boats

I've just come back from a lovely holiday in Malta. The place in the photo is called Marsaxlokk and there were hundreds of boats of all shapes and sizes and different colours. I love the two little ones in the front of the picture, the one on the right looked a bit like a box, it makes you wonder what it would be like to use it.

Dominoland [Altered Art,3D Art]

This is a painted and collaged games board with domino animals and creatures made from modelling clay

Vintage Health Poster

Do's and don'ts of good health and long life or consumption and early death. A poster in the school at Beamish Museum.

Dog looking at a flower

Screen prints, applique, decorative machine stitching, beads & sequins

Seahorse

pens & watercolours

To be Sold - old poster

Beamish Museum Auction Poster 1810

Illustration Friday - Pattern

Although this is an old 'altered book' I've altered it again today as I thought it would fit in well with this weeks challenge - pattern.

Butterfly sketches

Fish sketch, Shakespeare poem

Altered Book - North East [ATC's]

the 2 page spread

below - the ATC's can be removed -

the dragon is the Durham Oriental Museum logo, the sea horses are part of a sculpture on Newcastle quayside, the angel of the north has changed its head with a rock sculpture at Herrington Park & the horse statue is at Alnwick Castle.

Inspiration from Paper Beads

Below is the original city & guilds (embroidery) sample - handmade paper & clay beads on cord -

it's so awful, I thought I would mess about with it - resulting in the picture above.

Do Not Spit

A sign seen at Beamish Museum. [a working museum which recreates how the people of the North of England lived and worked in the early eighteen and nineteen hundreds]

Sea Shells and Frog Sketch

Drawing with pens from a sketch book

Goose with Bag

screen prints on paper & fabric, applique, machine embroidery

Lizard on Rolling Stamp Background

Mixed Media - rolling stamp background (acrylic & dye)

[see 'handmade rolling stamps' in August], CAD lizard

Cherub & Pigeon

From Sketch to Fabric

The fabric was for a competition entry a few years ago [while I was at college in 2005] held by the Bradford Textile Society, for digitally printed fabric [section 2] - my theme was Games. I started with painting a board and I collaged cut & torn papers. Then everything was scanned into the computer, and I separated the images from the background and arranged them on the screen. Other drawings were added and also an image of an old games board and after lots and lots of experimentation I arranged them so that the pattern would repeat. [Trial and error, although there was a program at college which could do repeats, I never did get the hang of it, (although I must admit I only ever tried it once - it wouldn't repeat in a way I wanted it to!)]

I had to show the design on boards in different colourways






And the finished design was printed on linen at college [CCAD] on one of those big digital textile printers.I was awarded a commendation by the Bradford Textile Society.

Snakes, Ladders and T-Pots

I've been drawing a lot of snakes recently, and this picture combines them and a lot of the other things I draw regularly such as t-pots, cups, games related items, cakes and flowers.

Crowned Angel of the North

Altered images

LollyPop Tree

This lovely round tree was spotted in Paris, France

[Louvre Museum] & now it's grown some lollypops.