January 26, 2010 – 2:25 pm
This is just what I needed. An event to make me find time for myself. I am juggling so many things at the moment–the children, afterschooling, looking for a new house, trying to keep on top of work, plus the usual home chores–that I have dropped anything not desperately necessary (such as making art, blogging, [...]
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October 14, 2009 – 3:17 pm
I have a chronic need to start from scratch. I try to fight it, but inevitably end up succumbing to the urge. Take the twelve weeks holiday art making journey, which I embarked upon earlier in the month. I started making a Halloween banner, but couldn’t possibly use anything ready made—oh no. Instead, I had [...]
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October 7, 2009 – 2:54 pm
It’s raining outside and, for the first time in weeks, it feels really autumnal. If truth be told, I fancy some pear and chocolate crumble, and damn the diet I always want to go on (but never really do).
Perhaps this is why I felt compelled to put some pears in this paper?
I just couldn’t [...]
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Wow, what can I say? I am overwhelmed by your kindness. Thank you so much for all the lovely comments and inspiration. I have decided I am going to make a summer journal to start with, before tackling a more ambitious altered book project.
However, for a bit of instant gratification, I have decided to put [...]
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OK, I clearly needed to get that collage out of my system, because after I finished it, I managed to work happily on the background paper. The giveaway package is not complete yet, but I am posting a sneak preview of a corner of the background paper to whet your appetite.
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This is a little background I made today for the summer. The base wash is a pastel blue, with layers of yellow, pastel green, phtalo blue and phtalo green—the idea was to capture the colours of the sea. I am going to use it for a collage, but haven’t quite decided what will go with [...]
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Maybe it’s because I am craving a picnic on a lush green meadow with a glass of lemonade, but this is what I felt inspired to make today—a simple, refreshing background with layers of green acrylic washes over a thick layer of gesso. For some reason, though, it looks like it has measles in this [...]
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OK, I just couldn’t leave it alone. When I started experimenting with tags for a painted tag swap a while ago, I made a little tag that I wasn’t happy with. It wasn’t a big deal since it was just an experiment, but it bugged me.
I went on to make the tags for the swap, [...]
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There’s a lot on my mind these days. I feel I am at crossroads with many opportunities in front of me, which is both scary and exciting. But it also means that, while I am weighing options, I am not spending as much time as I’d like making things. This is a collage in the [...]
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These days, I am busy making backgrounds for a little secret present I am making for my husband’s birthday. This one is an experiment in distressed image transfer.
I started out by gessoing watercolour paper on both sides, then painted one side with an Ivory White wash. After that I layered several washes in Sienna, [...]
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