Friday, 31 January 2025

Friday Catch Up - 31st January 2025

Doodlewash Art Challenge

27. Redpoll, 28. Kazoo

25. Pressure Cooker, 26. Aurora Borealis

29. Glacier National Park

30. Cloud Rat

31. Sunshine

[or should I say flowerS] Copenhagen, Denmark

- a cupboard door at Beamish Museum

I don't know what kind of tree it is but I saw it in Bangkok

- on the ship Discovery at Dundee


Monday Window
looking at the ship Discovery at Dundee with the V&A behind it

That's all folks
Have a great weekend!











 

Friday, 24 January 2025

Friday Catch Up - 24th January 2025

Doodlewash Art Challenge
and
18. Bear Hug

17. Corn Bird

19. Popcorn

20. Cashew

21. Flying Squirrel

23. Ylang-Ylang

22. Polka dots, 24. Fin whale

Stitched Portraits
I joined in with the Textile Artist free taster course
This is my portrait with the appliqued top and black stitching. The background is a page from a book made and given to me by a friend.
I've added coloured thread next.

Tablet Digital Doodles
I combined two flowers to make one which I then made into a repeating pattern





Photo Challenges

It was a very grey day with as much ice as water in the lake at Herrington Park


Church door in Ripon

That's all folks, enjoy your weekend.








 

Friday, 17 January 2025

Friday Catch Up - 17th January 2025

Doodlewash Art Challenge
and

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!