Butterfly Postcard and Digital Art

Digital postcard. The butterflies were from the Naturalist Library and the text, stamp and marks from a vintage postcard. Painted background

Flower drawn on my tablet then grown in the garden below.

A picture drawn on my tablet blended together with a photograph.

2017 Tea Towel

My tea towel arrived today, a fat quarter of linen cotton canvas ultra.

Spoonflower are offering 2 for 1 fat quarters at the minute.

Toucan

I copied an image from a brochure onto fabric and painted it with Koh-I-Noor watercolour paints. Then I used enhanced it with freehand machine stitching.

Feather and Stitch

Painted background fabric. Real feathers. Embroidery and beading on aida fabric.

The Witching Hour

Skeleton in a Graveyard

Altered photo

Pear

Another one drawn on my tablet using the Corel Painter App

Rose Doodle

Beetles

Drawn on my tablet.

Tulips

Drawn on my tablet using Autodesk Sketchbook

WIP

Tea Towel Calendar Design 2017

This is my entry for a Spoonflower contest, the t-towel calendar design for 2017.

This month I've also been taking part in the Inktober challenge. The idea is to do one ink drawing every day for a month. I've been posting my drawings on my other blog and Flickr.

Dress Apron and Glass Bird

This is a design I did at college many years ago and I had it printed on a linen type fabric in a dress shape for a display. I found the sample recently and thought I would make it into an apron. I sewed it to a background fabric to make the sides a bit bigger. It isn't the best thing I've ever made and it certainly needs ironing!

 My sister and mother were staying last week so I didn't do a lot of creative work. We went around a garden centre with a big Christmas display and I saw this bird which I thought would be nice for any time of year hanging against the window with the light catching the shapes.

More Angelina and Embroidery

I used open cretan stitch and fly stitch to decorate. I was given the background fabric from a blogging friend.

Angelina Fibres

I found some Angelina [heat bondable fibres] in a drawer which I've had for years so I thought I would use it.  I layered it and trapped some sheer fabric in between and after melting it I cut it into four and turned two sides over. It looked like a different fabric on the other side, a different colour as you can see. I up-cycled a shisha mirror with a stitched surround from some fabric I had then applied all to a background fabric with running stitches.

Butterflowers and WIP

I drew the flowers and butterfly on fabric with a pen, painted them, cut them out and stuck them to a re purposed  hankie. Then I enhanced with running stitches - thread not drawn on.

I think this one looks better in real life.

I'm working on a bigger piece, bet you can tell what it is.

Flowers and Lace

The flower heads were upcycled from an old top. I've added various lace lengths and embroidery on a layered background. The embroidery includes running stitch, fancy hem stitch and lock stitch.

Snail House

A little doodle I did on my tablet last night.

Sardinia

I've just come back from a lovely holiday in Sardinia.

Above is a photo of cork trees.

We visited a museum one day when it was raining and saw this rack of shoe forms and this unusual picture frame below.

On the day we were coming home I was up earlier and caught the sun rising.

A Land Far Away [30 -33]

The last four pages of sketchbook 49, also my last post for about two weeks. I'll be back.

A Land Far Away [25 - 29]

In a Land Far Away [19-24]

In a Land Far Away [13-18]