Painting
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I had hoped that the guy would have been dressed/assembled today, sadly though a complete failure for any clothes to materialise have meant that this hasn’t happened. I have however, completed my part of the group project though and spent a few hours last night (on top of the many hours construction time) finishing off the treacherous [...]
Continue reading about more papier mache guy – work in progress
This seems to be becoming an annual event for me, doing the guy’s head for the local playgroup that sees the fellow deposited in the local shop where he’s required to raise funds for the little kiddie-winkles activities, not that it bothers me at all. On the contrary it’s a good re-introduction to using paper [...]
I decided to do this after Jolene’s last post in which she was using toilet paper as a medium for her ATC’s (Artist Trading Cards). I really liked the way her colours worked out and I saw something dark in her little pocket sized pieces of art. I suppose some folks might consider this plagiaristic in some [...]
Continue reading about Devilish abstract in watercolours and acrylics
I think I’ve said before that painting is little more than a diversion for me and certainly not something I have any great talent for, although I would like to improve my skills at least a little in the coming years! Bearing this in mind I decided to make use of an online challenge, challenges [...]
Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest of places…no, I wasn’t sitting on the loo thinking about art; I spotted the toilet paper ATC swap on SwapBot (did I mention I’m addicted to that place) and decided to give it a go. Here’s what I did: Painted the background with black watercolour paint and let it dry, rolled [...]
First of all just a wee note on the runic and ‘little dancer’ pendants, I’ve now uploaded these to the shop and they’ve been priced at $7.50 incl. postage … UK buyers wishing to purchase in £ sterling should drop me a note either via the shop or via the contact page here. Now, on [...]
Continue reading about another abstract oil painting and some runic news
Jolene found this project back at the beginning of July and duly penned her contribution to Ola’s attempt to get 1,000,000 handmade giraffes. The only stipulation for the giraffe’s is that they must not be made on a computer … although I wonder if you could make one out of a computer?! Anyway Jolene talks [...]
I just found out about this great project today and had to share it. It’s certainly ambitious but I don’t think it’s impossible. Ola Helland is a guy from Norway who is trying to collect one million images of “hand made” giraffes by 2011. Besides a bet with a friend, he’s got a deeper reason [...]
Gosh! We’ve been so busy recently, it’s hard to know what to talk about. I’ve been feeling pretty ill this weekend so haven’t yet managed to put together the pattern for the owl brooches. It’ll come later this week as I start to feel more like my old self again…that along with some instructions for [...]
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