Green Collage

A collage made up of artwork, some hand painted, some inkjet prints, doily, leaf print. The collage is on a page in an altered book.

Otter

Supposed to be an otter, but it looks a bit like a bear to me.

Drawn on my tablet.

New Calendar Design

My new calendar design for a tea towel. The elephants were a set of four mixed media and embroidered pictures which I altered for the calendar.

Fabric available from Spoonflower.

Faces

Penguins

My interpretation of three ways you could draw a penguin from the 20 ideas shown in the book - '20 ways to draw a cat'

Patterned Butterfly

Another drawing completed on my tablet, I used the mirror tool in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro for the butterfly but not the background.

Cat Face

A quick sketch of a cats face...

then coloured

Elephant Sketches

Quick Tablet Sketches

When my daughter was visiting the other week we had a drawing contest using our tablets. Someone suggested a title, ie clown in a canon, haunted house, fish on a bike and a flying monkey and we quickly drew our sketches. We both came up with completely different ideas of course.

Ten Cats

I've been getting drawing ideas from a book again - 

'20 ways to draw a cat and 44 other awesome animals' by Julia Kuo

Christmas Tree Tag

I made this at a play day the other week. Well I didn't really make it, I just decorated it. Helen had pre-made the blank tags before we got there. Needs a hole and ribbon to finish.

Tast 134

Take a stitch Tuesday - Fern stitch.

Follow along at Pintangle

There are quite a few Tast stitches in my new handmade book, you can see all the pages of Fat Book here.

Purple Flowers

Purple flowers growing..... and spreading.......

Giraffes

Drawn on my tablet. I bought another book about drawing. The new one is called '20 ways to draw a cat and 44 other awesome animals' by Julia Kuo. It's not a step by step book about how to draw but it shows how you could draw the same animal in different ways. The giraffe above is my interpretation of one shown in the book.

Fat Book Pages - 9

Velvet background fabric, dyed lace, handmade paper

Velvet background fabric, dyed lace, handmade paper, clay embelishment, embroidered brooch, stitching.

Fine cord background, layers of sheer, net and metallic fabrics, embroidery and beads.

Take a stitch Tuesday 106, 107 - looped cretan stitch, beaded looped cretan stitch

Transfer printed fabric [ie paints and pencils used on paper and transferred to fabric by ironing], dyed laces, machine embroidery.

Transfer printed fabric [ie paints and pencils used on paper and transferred to fabric by ironing], dyed laces, hand embroidery and beads.

Fine cord background, layers of sheer, net and metallic fabrics, embroidery, sequins and beads.

Take a stitch Tuesday 109 - rice stitch

See pintangle.com for Take a stitch Tuesday

Painted/stamped background fabric, black plastic skeleton, patchwork skirt with machine embroidery, ribbon.

Painted/stamped background fabric, organza scraps, plastic creepy crawlies under net, stitching.

This is the last page of the Fat Book.

Fat Book Pages - 8

Embroidery on a vintage tablecloth.

Embroidery on a vintage tablecloth, pens, lace.

Hand painted fabric was woven, machine embroidery, dyed lace, scrap of dyed net curtain, hand embroidery. 

Layered dyed net curtain, sheer fabric scrap, handmade paper, tweed scrap, hand embroidery. Running stitch and chained bar [Tast 122] 

Printed fabric remnant, layered sheer fabric and net, gold work scrap [from Indian garment], embroidery.

Printed fabric remnant, layered sheers/net/metallics. Hand embroidery and beads. Tast 111 - zig zag coral stitch, running stitch, cross stitch.

Fat Book Pages - 7

 Painted/stamped fabric, layered, dyed lace, art buttons, embroidery.

See the pages above for rolling stamp and art button tutorials.

 Painted/stamped fabric, layered evenweave fabric, embroidery, beads. The embroidery was part of Take a stitch Tuesday challenge.

 Painted/stamped fabric, dyed laces, organza scrap, embroidery, handmade clay decoration.

Painted/stamped fabric, dyed laces, sections of dyed net curtain, beads.

Painted/stamped fabric, dyed laces, sections of dyed net curtain, embroidery.

Dyed laces, handmade paper under organza and metallic fabrics, embroidery.