Pages from Sketchbook 16

pen, paint and butterfly stickers

pen & paint

pen, paint & collage

pen and paint

found images on watercolours

the petals are bits of recycled envelopes

Frames

These three collages are from sketchbook 16, I chose these pages to enter this weeks Three Muses challenge - Frames.

The backgrounds are textured with magazine/newspaper and painted with watercolours. The images were found in magazines and additional decorating with pens.

Insects and Altered Photographs

Something strange has happened to the photos I took on my recent mini break.

This bee has gained an extra head. The background is a Norfolk Broad and the head is part of the Westminster Abbey building. Click on the images to enlarge.

The geese below have crowns.

And the skeletons have risen and are having a cuppa.

OK, I admit I have been messing about. My husband bought me a wacom pen for my birthday and with it came a copy of Photoshop Elements, so I have been trying them out.

The extras are from The Graphics Fairy as is the lady below. I gave her a bee necklace to join in the challenge at Take a Word - this week the word is insects.

TAST 24 & 25

Two more pages for my fabric journal.

Week 24 - Take a stitch Tuesday - Buttonhole Wheel Stitch

The blue fabric is a mono print, I used a gel printing plate for this and some bubble wrap. The top fabric is a piece of devore I did several years ago. Devore is where the top layer of fabric has been burnt away with fibre etch and just leaves the see thru part, on my sample it is where the blue fabric shows through. I have also put on a couple of bits of lace and some running stitches.

Week 25 - Cable Chain Stitch

On this fabric page I have used a bit of digitally printed fabric on a sheer material, some painted and cut fabric, beads, lace, and running stitch. I've not done the cable chain before but I kept doing a twisted chain by mistake so I had to undo it quite often.

Ladybird Cushion, London and Norfolk

I've not been around for the last week, hence no new posts. I've been to London to visit my daughter and husband and I took this cushion for them. The ladybird and flower was a screen print which I had done some time ago, but my daughter said she liked it so I thought I would 'do' something with it. I made a stencil out of an A4 plastic pocket and used a hand made screen to make the print. The screen was made from a wooden frame and some old plain net curtain. I beaded the spots and eye and then quilted it with wadding and backing fabric. Then I used wonder under to attach it to some vintage fabric and finished with hand embroidery [knotted cretan] around the edges to make sure it will stay on. And then made it into a cushion.

While we were in London we went to the Natural History Museum - I love looking at the building, both in and out as much as the things in it. The decorative ceiling for instance, click for a better view [although the photo is not the best you will get a good idea of how intricate it is].

This rabbit was part of the staircase.

We also walked around the Westminster area, I couldn't resist a photo taken through the railings of the Houses of Parliament.

I have and will be putting more photos on flickr

We had a couple of rain-free beautiful sunny warm days! in Norfolk after visiting London, this scene was at Happisburgh.

Back home and its raining again........

Sketchbook 12, the last pages

The last pages from sketchbook 12.

All the backgrounds are watercolour, the top two have a wax resist too, probably made with a candle. I have used found images to collage.

this one has woven newspaper on the background

doodles drawn with black and white pens

wax crayon tree

the cat[s] tail hangs over the page edge. This one looks very crumpled, not glued very well at all.

TAW - Floral

It is a while since I joined in the Take a Word challenge, this week the challenge is Floral and I am hoping the summery flowers will make this miserable dull cold day a bit better. [what happened to flaming June?] 

I was rummaging through my picture folders the other day and came across these two creations which I had forgotten about which I did a while ago. [Jan 2011]

The backgrounds were originally pages from one of my sketchbooks which I had altered digitally and my flower photos which I also altered a bit.

More animal collages from Sketchbook 12

watercolour backgrounds, found images, some altered

Frog under a Spotty Toadstool Fabric

Remember my frog shelter series? I've altered this one to put on a t-shirt [or could be anything else they sell] at the Zazzle store.

Click here to see him on a t-shirt 

I altered this frog a few weeks ago to make a fabric design for a Spoonflower competition - I didn't win. The fabric is not for sale at the moment but it could be, I only have to order a swatch to check it out, then Spoonflower would sell it. See here.

This was the original watercolour from my sketchbook

The flowers were originally white but I thought the bluebells would show up better. I also added a little rhyme after scanning.

Pages from sketchbook 12 - animal collages

watercolour, wax resist, bird, found rhino image

watercolour, wax resist, found images - altered

 watercolour, found images

watercolour, found images - altered, a bit weird eh?

watercolour, found images - altered

watercolour, white pen, found images