Watercolours, Sewing and Fabric Design

 Doodlewash Watercolour Challenge

Wooden Toy

Hands and Gloves - I'm not very good at drawing hands so I thought I would do a silly drawing instead.

Sewing

I made a baby dress and bib for my new granddaughter due next month, this should fit when she is about 3 months.

The fabric is purchased, not my design.

I also made a summer dress for my other granddaughter who will be two in May. 

I found this pattern on Pinterest.

Spoonflower

I've been working on a design for a Spoonflower contest, the theme is hand drawn florals. Use of earth tones and florals from native [backyard] botanicals are suggested. Also think of the end product as blouse fabric - this I forgot about plus the backyard bit so I'm not sure either of these will be suitable. Can you imagine either of these as blouse material?

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Watercolours- Igloo, Heart Black Swan, Bread

Doodlewash

Igloo

Heart

Heart with additional white pen lines

Black Swan

Bread

 

Doodlewash and Digital Faces

 Doodlewash

Cup and Saucer

Squirrel

Shadows

Experiments with Faces

Made up faces drawn on my tablet then made into repeating patterns on my computer

It's Friday so it's PAINT PARTY FRIDAY

Watercolour and Digital Paintings

Doodlewash Challenge

Yellow rose

Kingfisher

I normally use watercolours for the doodlewash challenge but I went digital for the next three for the prompt kaleidoscope

Other digital art done on an android tablet

 

Paintings, Hexies and House

Doodlewash Challenge

Penguin

Clock

Fairytale, Frog and Apple

Big hexies for my next bag

Rustic House

It's made from modelling compound. My husband is not impressed, he says it's good if a five year old had made it.

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Patchwork Fabric Design and Watercolour Sketches

Next week there is a Spoonflower contest entitled Patchwork. I've got two possible designs I could enter but you can only enter one so I have to choose which. I spent a long time creating fabrics for the lower of the two and 'patching' them. Then I thought I could use one of my embroidered crazy patches as a design which I did by mirroring etc. That one came about quite quickly [although the original patch didn't].

So which one? Click on the image for a better view.

The final three paintings for January's Doodlewash Challenge

Puppy

Green

Dawn

 

Watercolours, Topsy Turvy Doll, Fabric Design

Doodlewash Watercolour Challenge

Door

Launch

Opening

Topsy Turvy Doll

I've been wanting to make one of these dolls for a while. I was going to make my own pattern but then I saw some on Etsy and decided to buy one. I'm not that good at following patterns so I had problems all the way. Having said that the instructions were not that good, quite confusing at times. She has an unusual shaped head for a rag doll and together with my cutting out, stitching and stuffing the shape was even more unusual. I also decided to paint on her features instead of embroidery. This didn't go well and one head ended up really messy so I decided to make her into Cinders and have a patchy and grubby dress. She looked a lot better after her hair was put on but her features could be better. She was supposed to have a smart dress one side and housecoat on the other, I made the housecoat into the patchy dress with added 'dirt'. It was really hard sewing puff sleeves into the dress. I used fabrics and wool I'd already got. How do people sew really small fiddly things? I may make another tospy turvy doll in the future but I don't think I'll be using this pattern even though I quite like her now.

I've entered a design contest at Spoonflower this week, yellow and gray challenge. Anyone can vote for their favourites by visiting the Spoonflower site.

I'm linking with Paint Party Friday

 

Watercolours and Digital Paintings

 Doodlewash Watercolour Challenge

Seeds and Small [bird]

Beginning [a sketchbook]

Digital Paintings