Happy New Year

I may not get a chance to use the computer tomorrow so I thought I would wish everyone a very happy, creative and wonderful new year. Thanks for visiting and for all of your comments. Hope to see you next year!

Ragged Robin

Mixed Media

Church graveyard in Suffolk

A wintry scene in Boxford, Suffolk [photo taken Dec 2008]

Car window snowy scene

This [middle bit anyway] was the view through the mucky car window today travelling up the A1.

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays everyone, I hope you have a lovely time. Thank you for visiting my blog, whether just for a look or to leave lovely comments. I will continue to add posts & I hope you continue to visit. Bye for now.

Santa

Santa - another Christmas card design

Weebles Christmas Party

These cards were inspired by a set of 22 bronze figures at Little Haven, South Shields [North of England], sculptured by Juan Munoz. It is called the Conversation Piece but they are known locally as the weebles.

This is how 4 of them they really look

Frank at Christmas

My photo of Frank, a friends dog with a few Christmassy alterations.

Knitted santa & snowman, snowman in snow

Knitted snowman & santa - these were made when the kids were small so probably about 20+ years old

 I wanted a photo of a snowman [for artistic purposes, you understand] so I went out to build one [by myself, I'm still a kid at heart], but the snow was so crumbly it wouldn't hold together, so I just drew one in the snow instead with a trowel

Statue of Liberty - Christmas

A card design I did a couple of years ago. The background of taxis was an applique, the statue is a photo and the rest was drawn.

Snowman cards

These are cards I designed in 2005 of the same snowman

Snowmen Applique

Another applique of snowmen. It started snowing here today, first I've seen here this winter, perhaps it's because I keep putting pictures of snowmen on my blog.

Blue Snowmen Family

snowmen family hand stitched in a variegated coloured thread

Snowman with tartan accessories

Applique - fur fabric snowman, tartan fabric accessories, hand embroidered trees on a speckled fabric background.

Penguins

It's getting colder by the day so I thought I would share my penguins with you today. I like the ideas, but the execution is not the best.

The top one is all machine embroidery and the bottom one is machine embroidery & paint on stretchy fabric - experiments for t-shirt designs.

Fish & Seaweed

Another picture in the Arc exhibition [see Thurs 12th]. This one has a top layer of transfer printed fabric [paper was painted and then was transferred onto fabric with a heat press]. Under the semi transparent fabric is a painted fish which has been hand embroidered and has threads hanging from its tail [but trapped under the top layer]. The seaweed was painted on the canvas and also hand stitched on the top layer with added beads and sequins. The fabric is wrapped around a canvas frame.

Exhibition - A bit of a Mixture

Exhibition - A bit of a Mixture

Echinacea on the run. Another picture at the exhibition [see yesterday's post].

Exhibition - A bit of a Mixture

My friend Helen and myself have a new exhibition which we put up today. Helen's pieces are of birds and animals and mine are floral, fish/sea and abstract. The space was supposed to be for another friend and daughter, but due to illness they didn't finish the work, and had to cancel. Well we couldn't see an empty gallery space going to waste could we, so we volunteered to fill it.

Below - One of the pieces on show - Dahlia & Fly

Statue of Liberty has a makeover

Bag design. Mixed Media. Dyed hair, bit of lippy, jewellry, new clothes.

Robins

Sketch Book - trying to draw european robins, a symbol of wintertime and Christmas - in the UK anyway, are they in other countries?  I have seen pictures of the American and Australian Robins and they look totally different to the European type, bigger but they do have a red breast too.

Stumpwork samples

These are the first experiments with stumpwork when I was doing my City & Guilds Embroidery. I like the lady with the green scarf the most.

Fairy's and Butterflies

Another doodle from a sketch book - various kinds of pens

New York yellow taxis - Bag & ATC

The ATC above is part of the bag design below.

Applique on a velevet background with a plastic top layer.

Bird & Leaves

Another sketch using the parallel pens & felt tips for colour. These are the Pilot calligraphy pens - the nib has two parallel plates and they are available in different sizes.

Danger - Woman at Work

This is an oldish 3D experimental picture - stumpwork, embroidery, applique in a painted sponge frame

Postage Stamp Art

I thought I would have a go at designing my own postage stamps and these are 4 of the results from over 20 that I did - they are quite addictive. But if you are like me and save odd bits of painted paper, then here is a use for it.

Domino Bird

Two versions of Domino Bird

one is a collage on a fantasy game board - paper bird & feather with dangly cord legs

the other is made from fabric which has been printed on an inkjet, then stitched and stuffed, cord legs and a real feather

Alhambra, Spain - Pattern

You can find patterns in all sorts of places, this one was on a wall at the Alhambra, Spain.