Friday, 15 January 2010

Layers [almost the end]


mini quilt - digitally printed fabric [one of my fabric designs in miniature], hand quilted

patchwork of papers, painted
acrylics, ink pad [edges], chalk pastels, stamped

recycled calendar & watercolour paper
acrylic paint, ink pad, chalk pastels

recycled calendar cut & patched
acrylic paint, gold ink pad, stamped

Thursday, 14 January 2010

Layers Book [pages 50-54]


back layer - paint & metallic crayon, top - stamp & inks,
painted braid [metallics], machine stitching

wallpaper fragments, painted
fragment of embroidery [which was also layered & stitched]
hand embroidery

layers of painted paper fish
[stamped, painted, stitched]

sky - bleached fabric
grass - scrap of fabric
house - layered fabrics, stitched & cut

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Layers Book [more and more]


painted background, hand made stamp

there were many layers on this because I kept going over it because I didn't like it
print, paint, machine embroidery, ink pads, hand stitching

painted fabric, glitter paint, plastic rectangle around fragment [does not show up on photo], fragment of recycled embroidery, hand stitching

background-flower wrapping, layers of nets, organzes etc - trapped between machine stitching

 patterned fabric, the gold fabric & dyed net have been distressed, hand stitching

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Layers Book [5 more pages]


the layers of a landscape - watercolour & acrylic paint, stitching

layers of leaves, layers of colours - handmade stamp

background - watercolour
ground layer - acrylics/dyes
trees - handmade stamp
the front tree is stamped on a print of layered leaves

textured background paper [tissue, fruit bag, stardust, metallic crayons]
lace [dyed]
? strawy stuff - always forget what it's called [dyed]
stitching

lazertran transfers [paper strips on fabric]

Monday, 11 January 2010

Layers Book & Snowman



corrugated card, metal heart, machine stitching

painted background paper, printed lutradur, handstitching

layers of sweet wrappers sandwiched between a clear plastic ATC and card, hand stitched ribbon thread

painted paper, print layer in centre, top layer is a clear photocopy [recycled from a screen printing design], brads [the photocopying has added extra colours ie yellow - I couldn't shut the lid as the book is soo fat]

not part of the book, a snowman my son made the other day. It is looking deformed today because it's melting.

Sunday, 10 January 2010

Layers Book [another set]


paper layers

layers of clothing [collage]

layers are found in food ie sandwiches, vegetables, cakes, pies etc

Saturday, 9 January 2010

Layers Book [half way]


a planet has layers - drawing, collage, paint, dye

collage - a book page, digital image, wallpaper, packing material, pencil sharpening cone

the layers of petals on a rose

Friday, 8 January 2010

Layers Book - more


the layers of a life - the bird story

forest layers

top - pastels on paper, stitch. bottom - wallpaper. centre - corrugated card, paint, stitch

part of the angel of the north over images of the north east

Thursday, 7 January 2010

Layers Book [another 5 pages]


paint, newsprint

a bird is a layer - of eggs

plants sandwiched between fabric & plastic

layered look landscape, fence is like layers [mixed media]

photo of layered linens at Belsay [partly outlined in pen]

Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Layers Book [continued from 3rd]



recycled business cards - paint, stamped [handmade], pastels, ink


rock layers of the grand canyon, bottom picture - digitally altered

photo of bricks, flower on top was made up with a lot of layers of petals

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Layers Book - part 3 [continued from 3/1/2010]


layered cake - brown magazine page, check wrapping, cake - magazine stamped with straw & brown paint, free hand machine embroidery

paper background painted with brusho, handmade flower stamps [acrylic]
fabric flower [orange], machine embroidery, blue sand

brusho background, jug - handmade stamp painted with watercolour pastels, flowers - pen

layers of torn coloured tissue & newspaper, shiny squares

Monday, 4 January 2010

Layers Book


Layers Book ......continued....

layers of hand produced & printed papers, decorative machine stitching

hand decorated, textured & printed papers, hand embroidery

painted background paper, layered tissue papers, cut outs, freehand machine embroidery

layered recycled hand painted papers,  layered ?[grid like straw fabric], hand embroidery