Animals Ink Drawing

A busy page in my A3 sketchbook

It's Paint Party Friday!

Busy Bee

A little painting from my 4" square sketchbook

Tiger and other Cats

Is it a Leopard?

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Sea Creatures

Flamingoes

Small Animal Paintings

I've done nothing new this week as I've been away in Rhodes so I'm posting these paintings from my little 4 inch square sketchbook

I've just got back in time for Paint Party Friday

Horsey

These were painted in a little sketchbook, just 4" square.

Ostriches

Zebra and other cuts

These are pages from a sketchbook I keep for my experiments with my cutting machine.

The zebra was cut from. black card on a painted background.

I used the apple cut as a stencil [not the neatest painting]

The butterfly is yellow card on a painted background.

The following I cut and used as stencils, some from card [cereal boxes] some from plastic [folders].

Pink card cut outs. 

The green bricks are part of stencil - I stopped the machine half way through as the plastic wasn't fully secure.

I'm linking with Paint Party Friday

Baby Dress and Cardigan

I've not made any clothes for quite a while mainly because they didn't fit that well but I thought I would make a dress for the baby. I didn't think it would take long to make with it being small but I seemed to be making it for days.

My sister made the cardigan out of leftover bits of yarn she had and luckily it goes well with the dress.

This is four day old baby Joanie wearing the dress and cardigan laying on the quilt I made with a teddy bear that her other Grandma made.

From Sketch to Fabric - Ladybirds

I started with ink drawings of ladybirds, flowers and leaves in my little sketchbook.

And a painted background.

The drawings were also painted.

And then everything was transferred to the computer, where I separated everything and made lots of layers in Photoshop. Then everything was arranged and rearranged until I was happy [enough] with the repeating pattern I had made. 

I sent for a fabric sample from Spoonflower using their new fabric, Petal Signature Cotton. I altered the scale for the fabric because I wanted the bugs to look small so it would suit a small child.

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