Love is All You Need...

The banner is finished ...

Windy...

But a lovely day to be at the bill of Portland again!

Stewarding at the Exlab...

The natural history of pseudo morphs

Hop lil' rabbit!

A new bunny, in cream fleece fabric with a sweet furry cotton tail ...

Seen here having a hop at the Portland Exlab project!

Another Dog Drawing ...

How I love to draw ....here i am building up colour and depth on a black, curly haired dog...some of you know that black dogs are not easy to draw!

And here is Archie, my friends dog, an older boy with a young heart! Archie I mean, not my friend! :-)

Cute Sock Elephant!

Art and the Spirit Exhibition, Bridport ....

I have 5 pieces on display this week, This one i borrowed back from a good friend ...

I really like these mixed media pieces, plus the altered frames, I had a lot of fun.

And these Cartoon ones were taken from Mary's current favourite song, which makes her laugh out loud.

All set up and ready!

Altered art finished ...

And with a couple of licks of Rosenthal on the frames, the pictures are ready to take over to Bridport on Wednesday!

Altered Art ....

Took some old picture frames with potential, and sanded any that needed it. this green one had a wash of white acrylic too ...

A donated old bible, which i had been after for some time, gave the frames a new lease of life ...

And with more precious pages and two Lovely quotes I created small pieces to fit into the frames.

These will be on display in Bridport soon :-) I had fun with collage papers, chalk and gold paint.

Making a colourful banner ...WIP

piecing some colourful scraps together into word length strips ...

sewing from the wrong side of the fabric around some hand drawn lettering, then cutting away the excess fabric, the next stage to finish the letters will be a fairly close zig-zag stitch around each letter ...

It's quite long, and also good fun - I have never made a banner before!

Adding the Chapter and verse, with hand embroidery and in a hoop for stability. I usually use this hoop in my sewing machine, for adding texture to owl wings! Gold gel pen was used to trace the lettering from my cartoon.

I hope to have this finished soon!

Special ...

I shared this drawing on the Facebook Raggy Rat page, and no one knew what it was! It's a very simple looking object, that can be music to your ears, and I have drawn it for the illustrated book I am working on at the moment ...

Here it is in use ...

Visual Arts Weymouth and Portland ...

There are lots of other things going on around Weymouth and Portland besides the Olympics ... I went on a Visual Arts Tour and became a citizen of nowhere-island! He we are at the wonderful embassy parked at Bowleaze cove!

On the harbour-side, visit the Collective Spirit, and enjoy a boat made from meaningful wooden objects with stories to tell...

On Portland, next to the coastwatch tower, there's the ExLab Project , where I was lucky enough to meet the artists in involved, too! I will be doing some stewarding here over the next few weeks.

And the coastwatch guys let us in a few at a time, to see what they do and enjoy a stunning view of the lighthouse, and the race!