Tiger Book [C&G]

This is an old sketchbook in the shape of a tiger's head I did for a City & Guild's embroidery project. I painted the fabric, embroidered it, cut out some thick card in the shape of the head,  then covered the card with padding as well as the painted fabric. I made a cord to keep the book and pages together. Inside I kept research for the project about tigers and markings. The research was for a fitted [?!] cover for a sofa bed.

This was another sketchbook with samples of painted fabrics for the same project. I made the finished sofa bed cover out of a pair of recycled velvet curtains.

Butterflies Flutter By

TAST and 3M

The stitch for Take a Stitch Tuesday is Feather Stitch. I've used a patchwork of vintage fabrics and transfer printed lace [not sure the green works]. This will be a page in a fabric journal eventually.

The Three Muses challenge is Animal Kingdom. This is a painting from one of my sketchbooks, I had quilting in mind when I did the background. I call him Snooty Bear.

Quilted Batik

I did this batik last year and have been hand quilting it on and off since. The circular marks were made by dipping a kitchen whisk into the wax, and I also used a stick and paint brush. Then I painted it with fabric and silk paints. I'm thinking it could become a book cover.

Butterflies[IA] (Skele-shoes)

Inspiration Avenue challenge - Butterflies

All images from the Graphics Fairy except the shoes which I drew.

(the bird is saying "I do like your new hat and shoes")

Fish [TAW]

The Take a Word challenge is fish, so I thought I would share some pages from a sketchbook I finished recently.

All collages include found images except above which includes fabric, plastic and stitching and the picture below includes prints of my artwork [the lovely brown fish and text is a found image].

Ice and Collages

We are having a conservatory built and this was the ice on the window this morning - hope it is warmer in there when it's finished!

Below- pages from sketchbook 15- collage incorporating postcards and found images

Doodle Patterns and Prepare[IF]

The challenge at Illustration Friday  this week is 'Prepare'.

There always seems to be a meal to prepare.

Above - brush pens

Below - mixed media- painted fabric, metal, photo [fish head] plastic, stitching, paper, pen

Boats

Three brush pen drawings, one collage and brush pens and one painted fabric with machine stitching, distressed and on a stamped, painted background.

TAST 1 & 2

Take a stitch Tuesday is back on again.

The first week was fly stitch and this week it is buttonhole stitch.

This time I decided to make a fabric journal and include the stitches with patchwork of both fabric and papers, buttons, found items etc

Paper Dolls [IA]

Inspiration Avenue challenge - Paper dolls.

I've always loved paper dolls and recently my daughter bought me [usually the other way round eh?] this land army doll with various outfits, a pig and chickens. he background photo was taken at Beamish [Open Air] Museum. Click on the image to enlarge.

Nature [TAW]

I did two pics for Take a Word - Nature.

Above -own photo and sketch

Below - own altered photos, text from Graphics Fairy

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More Doodle Ribbons and Lace

Continuing from the last post - If you want ribbons with a more delicate pattern use transfer paints instead of crayons. These can be applied to the paper with a very fine brush. If you want text remember to paint the words on in reverse.

Besides ribbons you could also use other items to print on such as nylon lace or elastic. For the samples below I used transfer crayons and I did them very quickly, they could be better if more time was spent on them.

Transfer Printed Doodle Ribbons

A friend gave me a roll of paper a while ago, looks a bit like a till roll but I don't know if it was one. Anyway  I thought I would use it to transfer print some ribbon. I have a few different kinds of transfer crayons such as the ones shown in the above photograph. Most ribbons are ideal for transfer printing as they are made from man made fibres which is the kind of fabric you need for the most successful transfer prints. The colours always look different to the actual crayons. I used the roll of paper for the wide ribbon but for the narrow I just used a slice cut from a sheet of inket printer paper [don't use thick paper, the thinner the better]. After drawing your doodle on the paper, iron it onto the ribbon.

Crayons being quite fat, you'll not get delicate looking patterns, but you would not find any like these in a shop!

More Shape Challenge Doodles

I used the plastic shape below to create the above doodles, something one would normally throw away.

and this one was created with a cardboard shape, although I did alter the shape with scissors. I used the shape in its original form the other day. [the one that looked a bit heart shaped]

Miscellaneous Doodles

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