Vintage Collage/Memories and End of Sketchbook 9

The Three Muses challenge is Vintage Collage/Memories and I have to confess the two above that I am showing are old ones but I do still like to look at them. They are actually part of an altered book, a vintage sewing book, which had some informative and very amusing pages in it. The face in the top collage is my grandma who died in 1993 and the girl in the lower collage is my big sister as a tot in the fifties so they do bring back memories.

Below are the last pages of sketchbook 9

Shapes and Pleats

Two more shape challenge pieces  - you can see what I used at the bottom of each page. They are very similar shapes except the bottom one is longer. I prefer the tree doodle.

I'm also posting pictures of another C&G sample - different kinds of pleating with calico fabric. My sister wants me to make it into a cushion for her.

Skeleton Dance and Time

Still messing with skeletons.....

Below is my entry for Take a Word challenge  - time

My own photos with flower clock drawings. The song is an old one by the Bryds ['Turn, turn, turn' which was  from the Bible -Ecclisiates 3:1] although I remember the version by the Seekers more, but since doing it I keep thinking of the Freddie Mercury song 'Time waits for nobody'.

Skeletons on Holiday

Been having a bit of fun with some plastic skeletons and fluffy toys, but I'm afraid my photography is not that good today. 

Two Doodle

I used a plastic shape stencil for the doodle below and promarker pens on both

IF-Scary, more Weird Creatures, Patchwork

The word is 'scary' for the Illustration Friday challenge

pen drawings, digital background, digital collage

Another sample from C&G work, this time patchwork

And some more weird animals, elefishsquid or eleoct?

Flower Doodles and Insertion Stitch Sample

A couple of flower doodles and a sampler of insertion stitches from the C&G course. I don't know why it is the shape it is?

Wings and Web

 Three Muses challenge - wings

The sky and squatting man are my photos - the man is a wooden sculpture and was seen in the Chocolate Museum in Bruges, he's sipping hot chocolate and gazing at the world. His wings are part of a butterfly from The Graphics Fairy as are the toadstool and bird and insect, both of course with wings.

I thought I would also share this old piece of art, from a C&G project as it also has butterfly wings, not very good ones I may add, I prefer the web background to which they are attached.

Girl and Cat Collage

I recently completed this collage and the various collaged papers are on a canvas. The girl, cat and tree are painted with a thin wash of acrylic paints. You can see more images here.

The picture is now in my website shop here

The original doodle from my sketchbook is below

Black and White

Take a word challenge - Black & White

all my own bits & bobs put together this week

Beaded Fringe and Shape People

Another C&G item, a beaded fringe. I remember with this one we had to follow the colours from a small section of artwork.

Below are two more shape challenge pictures. 

I used little metal cutters for the face details, shapes are shown in bottom right corner.

And for this one I used a regular plastic stencil sheet which had a variety of circles, ovals and rectangles.

And Shirley of shirleystwistedthreads - if you are reading this I cannot see your blog posts, it says it is open only to invited readers only, so I hope that will help you solve the problem.

Fuel and Mixed Media Embroidery

Illustration Friday challenge - Fuel

Some kinds of fuel are fun!

Paper collage  and digital collage

The mixed media picture below is an old one from my City & Guilds Embroidery days.

I cannot remember what the coils are exactly but they look like giant pencil shavings. The picture includes fabric painting and embroidery.

Circles and Squares

For the Three Muses challenge - Circles and Squares

Weird Creatures

the weird creatures find a home