I found these cute bevaled square canvases in a pound shop of all places – so using acrylics I painting a mottled background using stippling. I then used a very liquidy metallic lavender that comes with a dropper! I dropped paint on the canvas and then used the ‘wronge’ end of the paint bruch i.e. the wooden handle to scratch the paint outwards to make flowers. I then painted magenta stalks in. I wanted it to be a diamond mount and painted it as such.
I love seascapes and have done ever since starting Secondary school at about 11 when the art teacher I later had for GCSE’s set me the task painting the abyssal plain. At the time I had just watched the film The Abyss and there were documentaries on TV about fish that glowed with their own light. I would then later spend time in my paleo-biology lectures and the like drawing seascapes on letters to my friends.
Anyway – this one is built up from dots! And it took an age. It is felt tip.
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This picture is drawn with felt tips, I wanted to represent the teaming world of just below the waves. The squid is there because I like squid 😉
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This is one of my seascapes that I love drawing – I wanted to build the picture up organically. It is drawn in felt tip.
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I love dragons but they appear in such diverse ways through out our different cultures and I know that say the welsh for dragon means worm – so I set out to draw a worm like dragon.
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I think there may already be a photo of this picture on the blog somewhere – but it is just a sort of chimera picture. Something from another dimension, something we have trouble understanding. To see a larger image simply click on the picture.
I love my seascapes and this picture was me thinking about how corals and things would grow in a mathamatically precise world – or say coral in LEMs world of robots. For a larger image just click on the picture.
Done in fine liner – this is my representation of an alien – dessicated and shriveled by a harsh atmosphere. If you want to see a bigger version of the picture simply click on it.
As part of the centenary of the Poetry Society they are knitting a giant poem! They are currently looking for people to knit or crochet more blank squares!
They have a facebook group too!
This looks like a fun project that combines handicrafts with writing craft 🙂
I wish I was a better knitter.
My mother likes earrings but does not have pierced ears so for mothers day I made her these star adn moon earrings. To do this I used:
*pink soft fimo
*white stone tectured fimo (ie it has flecks of grey and things in it)
*moon aspex cutter
*star aspex cutter
*UHU glue
*clip on earring backs
Fimo is a plastic clay that contains a solvent – this solvent can dissolve, certain plastics and ruins nail vanish if you are wearing it. For this reason I tend to use glass, wood and metal with it.
I rolled the limo out until it was about half a millimetre thick then I cut the shapes out using the spec cutters (little tiny cookie cutters), I did a large batch of different shapes and filled up a baking tray with them. For these earrings I lay the two shapes onto of each other slightly roughing up the surfaces where they over lap to help them stay together and become on shape on baking. I followed the instructions on the fimo packaging and pre heated the over and backed them for 30 an hour.
Once cooled I used the UHU glue to attach the jewellery findings ie the earring backs.
