Friday, 17 January 2025

Friday Catch Up - 17th January 2025

Doodlewash Art Challenge
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11.Cow

12. Sarcastic Fringehead

13. Desk, 14. Pet
15. Fedora, 16. Hyrax

I combined the cow with a photo. I normally take my photos in the conservatory but I think there was snow on the roof one day and the photos came out rather blue, hence the blue cow.

Gelli Plate Printing
I used real flowers and coins on a small gelli plate




I found two old patterns on my computer I thought I would combine., one a tablet doodle and the other watercolours.



Have a great weekend!



 

Friday, 10 January 2025

Friday Catch Up - 10th January 2025

Doodlewash Art Challenge

4.Fan, 5.Snowy Owl, 6.Caracalla Bean, 7. Pig

8.Bubble Bath, 9.Sprite, 10.Swiss Cheese Plant

I made a mouse, I got the pattern from Etsy. It was quite fiddly but it is cute. I was going to make two for the Granddaughters before Christmas but only got to do one. They'll have to play with it here when they visit instead.


And the mouse needed a house so I made one from cardboard boxes, packaging and found objects. I just had to buy a lot of glue. The original plan was to keep it simple, making it up as I went along but I got carried away and I was enjoying myself.
The walls were papered with pages from a magazine.

I made a bed from cardboard, a mattress, quilt and pillow from fabric.

A chair and table from cardboard, I just painted these with a clear gel acrylic. The vase is a big bead with little flowers stuck in it. The planter at the front is made of two wooden beads stuck together, I painted them with a metallic pen. The flowers and leaves were in my stash.

The bath was part of a gift from years ago, I think it had little bottles of bubble bath in it. The sink and toilet are cardboard, painted, the toilet has an opening lid, and the sink has a tap. Both of these look a bit ropey to be honest.


I cut pieces of card for the brick look and roof tiles and path, then stuck and painted.
At the back is a wheelie bin with button wheels for rubbish and a washing line with cardboard pegs which can be removed. The thinner poles were made from paper then painted. The thicker pole is an empty tube of Steradent covered in handmade washi tape, the coloured one - this was the first one I put on and I wouldn't do it like that now.


The bigger planter is a plastic cup, cut which is a bit delicate. The shrub was made from deconstructed fabric flowers, reconstructed to look like a shrub then painted.

That's all folks, enjoy your weekend!








 

Friday, 3 January 2025

Friday Catch Up - 3rd January 2025

Hope you've had a good start to the new year.
Doodlewash Art Challenge
January 1. Polar Bear, 2. Cream Puff

3. Pega Donkey

December 28. Candles, 29. Cat, 30. Wondrous
I used some new water based acrylic paint markers for this Doodlewash Art Challenge. I wanted a light grey but the only light one was metallic so my cat is part metallic.

These are the markers, they are double ended.

Gelli Prints
Leaf print which I altered slightly in Photoshop.[I'm not sure how long I'll have Photoshop as it's going up in price so I'd better make the most of it while I've got it]

Another leaf gelli print, the first one is the original gelli print, then alterations in Photoshop using neural filters on the three below it.





Two gelli prints combined in Photoshop
The originals below



Did anyone eat turkey over the holidays?
They are quite beautiful apart from the blobby bits below the beak.
These were seen at Beamish Open Air Museum.



Enjoy your weekend. 
The weather forecast says snow, rain, wind and cold here for the next few days.










 

Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Happy New Year


Happy New Year!

Thanks for visiting during this last year, hope to see you again soon.

 

Friday, 20 December 2024

Friday Catch Up - 20th December 2024


I did these gelli prints a while ago
I used real flowers. Metallic paint was used on the picture above.



I layered this one with some of the green print.




I used a photo of roses on top of this print


Here are the roses

Tablet Art - A quick doodle of a face which I will use for
Friday Face Off

 My Granddaughter drew this cute chick so I thought I would do a coloured version.