Do's and don'ts of good health and long life or consumption and early death. A poster in the school at Beamish Museum.
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Tuesday 29 September 2009
Monday 28 September 2009
Saturday 26 September 2009
Friday 25 September 2009
Illustration Friday - Pattern
Although this is an old 'altered book' I've altered it again today as I thought it would fit in well with this weeks challenge - pattern.
Thursday 24 September 2009
Wednesday 23 September 2009
Tuesday 22 September 2009
Monday 21 September 2009
Inspiration from Paper Beads
Sunday 20 September 2009
Thursday 17 September 2009
Wednesday 16 September 2009
Tuesday 15 September 2009
Monday 14 September 2009
Friday 11 September 2009
From Sketch to Fabric
The fabric was for a competition entry a few years ago [while I was at college in 2005] held by the Bradford Textile Society, for digitally printed fabric [section 2] - my theme was Games. I started with painting a board and I collaged cut & torn papers. Then everything was scanned into the computer, and I separated the images from the background and arranged them on the screen. Other drawings were added and also an image of an old games board and after lots and lots of experimentation I arranged them so that the pattern would repeat. [Trial and error, although there was a program at college which could do repeats, I never did get the hang of it, (although I must admit I only ever tried it once - it wouldn't repeat in a way I wanted it to!)]
Thursday 10 September 2009
Snakes, Ladders and T-Pots
Wednesday 9 September 2009
Tuesday 8 September 2009
Monday 7 September 2009
Doodle to Screen Print
I altered the original doodle to make it into a repeating pattern, then made a screen using net [the plain type for windows] around a wooden frame. My picture was copied onto the screen using the Daler Rowney System 3 drawing fluid [then the screen block etc]. As you can see, although my pattern is a repeating one, you have to get the screen in the right position for the pattern to repeat properly and lets face it, mine doesn't. Oh well it was used for a background & most of it is covered up.
Sunday 6 September 2009
Saturday 5 September 2009
Friday 4 September 2009
Thursday 3 September 2009
North East Altered Sketch Book
Wednesday 2 September 2009
Tuesday 1 September 2009
Mini Art Quilt
My first try at mini quilts [I've done samples of quilting, but never made any type of quilt], this is one of three. The other two can be seen on the hand embroidery network exhibition [link below right]. The flower was silk painted and applied to a painted and stamped [rolling stamp of course] cotton fabric. It was then hand stitched in different colours, shades and thicknesses of thread. The flower edges and petal edges were stitched together with the wadding and background fabric to quilt it. The quilt was finished with dyed binding and a backing fabric.
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