tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027524973380553062024-02-19T16:01:19.261+00:00Dust, Dribble and Dog Hairs.The musings of a woman over 40 with fat thighs with a house full of dogs hairs, dust and dribble. Laneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12980209891214714602noreply@blogger.comBlogger293125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802752497338055306.post-82081299575123623232020-02-01T07:00:00.000+00:002020-02-01T07:00:13.935+00:00Berry theme reveal for Art Elements <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Karen from the Art Elements team hosted this months themed challenge, the first one of 2020. You can see her post <a href="https://www.artelements.net/december-theme-challenge-handmade-christmas-2/" target="_blank">HERE</a></div>
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It has been so long since I took part in a challenge as my motivation to do anything art related has been at an all time low. So much has happened over the last few months and I am worn out emotionally and mentally, throw in the cold and grey days and I have celebrated getting out of bed in the morning and getting dressed! </div>
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Time has come to push oneself to do something other than wallow in self pity and greyness, so I decided to start small. Don't think too much, I told myself, just think berry and do a little something once in a while. So I did. Here are my three little somethings that came about because I was thinking of the berry challenge.</div>
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First up is Strawberry Nellie.</div>
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I had my first Facebook show of 2020 and was making characters (in glass as beads) for that. It was a struggle to get going and find my whimsical muse but I am pleased to say that getting into the studio and just turning on the torch has kicked started my arty needs and the grey days are starting to become a bit brighter. </div>
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The other 'somethings' are really just 'doodles' but art is art and creating is good for the soul, even if it is on scrap bits of paper! </div>
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I threw everything at this doodle. On watercolour paper, I started with a dip pen and some ink that Secret Santa from the team sent me for Christmas. It is a delicious green ink - which you probably can't see because I then layered over it many times as I got 'into the groove' and found that time stood still and I enjoyed 20 minutes of 'arting'. I grabbed the Arteza watercolour pens on the desk, I wanted a bit of brightness in my life, but it was too bright, so I dulled it down with a white Posca paint pen which I admit I over did it so I grabbed the purple Posca paint pen, then I went back to the dip pen but this time with black ink. I stopped just in the nick of time I think, I rather like this mixed media piece and I am going to cut it out and use it as a book mark as it has all the qualities of art I like, colour and lines. It is simple and it is over worked but I will use it to mark the pages in my book so I remind myself that all 'funks' come to an end eventually.</div>
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Lastly a Posca paint pen doodle on wood. It was a Sunday afternoon, it was grey and miserable and damp and dreary and again I wanted some colour. The great thing about Posca pens is they are so vibrant, the down side is they are so vibrant! I enjoyed messing about, again for probably only 20-30 minutes, mixing, layering, smudging.... </div>
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A doodle a day keeps the misery away ;) </div>
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</div>Laneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12980209891214714602noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802752497338055306.post-86245466568343548912019-10-31T06:30:00.000+00:002019-10-31T07:42:21.958+00:00Art Elements Challenge Reveal - Eyes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is the time for the reveal for the <a href="https://www.artelements.net/october-theme-challenge-eyes/" target="_blank">Art Elements monthly theme challenge.</a> This month I set the theme for the month and I chose 'Eyes'. I love eyes. I love their depth and mystery. I can't say I was over productive this month, I have a lot of various things going on and so my free time is a bit disrupted but I did have an idea to create something felted. I delved into the world of felting.. more dipped in a little toe... last summer. I blame Art Elements and the ladies in the group with their diverse and talented creations they show which inspire me to try new things and buy new materials! </div>
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I 'acquired' some soft round balls from someone who was selling them off as surplus to their requirements. I had absolutely no idea what so ever what to do with them but they appealed to me in their round white softness so I 'had to have them'! My daughter had this enormous pom pom on her car keys and she managed to lose it and wanted another one, so rather than her buy one I said I would make her a new massive ball and created this felted eye, added a key ring thingie and 'ta dah'..... it is now on her over night bag she takes to the boyfriends. I am rather pleased with how it turned out and she loves it so a good afternoon spent stabbing my fingers whilst felting I think! </div>
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This is still 'under construction' as I am not happy with the scale but I want to make some eye pendants with my eye doodles. I have rekindled my love of coloured pencils after a couple of years dabbling in watercolours... I always return to my beloved pencils.... This one is a little too big for the pendant frame, which when you consider the frame size is tiny. I also used the 'wrong' pencils. This is done with Derwent Coloursoft which do not lend themselves to fine detail but they have a great colour spectrum. I need to use some of my harder pencils like my Polychromos... I might have an eye wateringly large collection of pencils.....</div>
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To end my post a few doodles from this month in my sketchbook playing with various brands of pencils. This one is Caran d'Ache, nice pencils to use. I wanted a tonal study in colour rather than a realistic one. </div>
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Some blue eyes in Derwent Artist and Studio pencils - I did say I have rekindled my love of pencils and my collection is rather extensive..... These are harder pencils which lend themselves to nice sharp points!</div>
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And finally a quick study (actually they all are in my sketchbook....) of Gordy, my little cat, eye. He has the most gorgeous deep golden eyes with very large pupils due to his brain damage. </div>
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I think I need to get out some good quality paper and do a few big studies of eyes again... after a bit more practise that is ;) </div>
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This month's Art Elements theme was set by Claire and was Octopus. Not a subject I was overly familiar with and I struggled...alot! I have nothing 'concrete' or finished or even started really but I did spend a few evenings doodling and as octopus was on my mind here is a few of the doodles and experiments. I am sure that everyone else who participated in the challenge will have been far more productive and can show something rather spectacular.. or should that be tentacular? which according the Urban Dictionary means something of many parts which is difficult to manage! I rather like that word...tentacular... </div>
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So first up was Sharky Malone, actually he was last up and as such I got distracted so I never finished 'colouring' him in - as has been my way just lately my muse is being quite elusive, or is that my staying power for finishing <i>anything! </i> So Sharky Malone is a shark, obviously and I had this fleeting thought of how Sharky would capture his dinner if he was devious, why of course he would build himself an Octopus Theme Park and fill it with stolen pirate treasure to attract the youngsters.... </div>
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If you can't see the 'story poem' I wrote all over the page here it is...</div>
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A plan was hatched by Sharky Malone</div>
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Who pretended that he was still at home</div>
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But, down at the park, just left of the shell</div>
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Was Sharky Malone, disguised very well.</div>
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'Come closer little fish, there's treasure to see</div>
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Don't be afraid of little old me.....'</div>
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I brought some peg doll 'things' the blank wooden wotsits (all technical terms) recently and had this idea I would do a peg doll octopus - I have endless doodles of that but nothing came of it! I also came across some ply wood (I think) door hanging thingies and as I have Arteza watercolour pens AND Posca pens I decided to see if they would work together on the wood. They do! fancy that! I need to varnish this but I ran out of spray varnish so need to buy some more, then I will hang this on my bathroom door, my kids might have grown up but I think I am regressing! </div>
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Close up of the Octopus door hanging thingie... I was thinking of costumes for some reason, I think I had been in my wardrobe and spied my dragon onesie - for winter you understand ;) - and wondered if you could get an octopus one.. I bet you can! </div>
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...and another doodle in the sketchbook this time using my lovely Faber Castell Polychromos pencils, oh how they glow with colour and so gorgeous to use... I like layers and some evenings are just made for sitting and layering.... </div>
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That is all from me this month for the challenge. It isn't very much or very complete. I doodle a lot! I can't keep still! But I thought I would show that although I don't have anything particular I still was thinking of the challenge. I am looking forward to seeing finished pieces from those that have taken part as I have seen a few 'in progress' photos on Instagram and am intrigued....</div>
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This month the challenge theme for the Art Elements team blog was flowers and it was hosted by Marsha. To see the original blog post you can click <a href="https://www.artelements.net/july-theme-challenge-flowers/" target="_blank">HERE</a></div>
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It has proved a very popular theme with so many entries this month but given the time of year I am not really surprised nothing says summer like an abundance of flowers and even, if you are like me, I just love the fact that the garden is green and buzzing with life, the flowers are an added bonus to the beauty that is this time of year. </div>
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I have never thought of myself as a flower person, although I spent a good couple of years 'just' creating lampwork glass flower beads and I love looking through my huge book of Flower Fairies by Cicely M Barker, which was originally brought for my daughter many years ago and I have taken it back now she has grown up.</div>
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I have had a bit of a tough time this month and Lesley from the team sent me a wonderful gift of a set of Posca pens - I have admired her collection in several of the Art Elements blog posts. I was moved to tears; not all of it hormone induced! Having been in a bit of a slump creatively they kick started me into doing. Above is a wooden tag with bright Posca paint pen folk art flowers. I love using these paint pens and can't thank Lesley enough for dragging me out of my fog.</div>
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Before my lovely new Posca pens arrived I had experimented with using my coloured pencils on some other wooden supports. They give a love effect, grainy and tactile looking. The one above is a small disc for hanging. </div>
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I am a little addicted to paper dolls. They make me smile. This one, and others, will be in my Etsy shop as soon as I pull my finger out and list the pattern, they are most relaxing to just sit and colour in, cut out the pieces and by adding the brad pins you have used an hour by indulging in a bit of art therapy! The bunch of flowers is removeable and of course the head and tail move. I have stuck a magnet on this one and he is now on my fridge, you just can't help but move him a bit when you pass! </div>
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This came about because I was hanging out the washing! Honest! I have some wooden 'dolly' pegs. I got them last year because they reminded me of my grandmother every time I hung out my washing, all those long school summer holidays spent with my grandparents on their allotment picking flowers for market or peas for Sunday lunch. I have wonderful memories of those long sunny days.</div>
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Quite often, over the last year, I have looked at these pegs whilst pegging up thread bare underwear - they don't hold jeans very well you have to use boring old regular pegs - and thought they would make great wooden dolls. One day, thinking of flowers for the challenge whilst hanging out the clothes I had an idea of a wooden cat doll in a garden of paper flowers. I think Gordy must have been out with me that morning.</div>
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Straight after hanging out the washing I grabbed my little jewellery saw and on the garden table I sawed off the 'peg' bit and was left with a head and body which I painted with my Posca paint pens.. of course! I spent TWO evenings doodling small flowers and leaves and cutting them out. They are teeny tiny! I had this snow globe which makes the perfect 'home' for my garden and with some painted polyfill for grass I spent quite a bit of time getting covered in glue attaching small flowers to wires - I am that 5 year old with a glue stick it goes EVERYWHERE! I enjoyed this so much I might have ordered some 'proper' wooden peg dolls, for my Posca pens you understand....</div>
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As I said earlier I 'used' to make a lot of glass flower beads so my son asked me to create for him a special bead to give to his wife to be on their wedding day next month. I decided to go with 'something blue' as my daughter has seen the dress and described it to me - my son was obviously clueless! so the bead has to be small to fit with the neck line of the dress. </div>
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..and finally.. more glass and more flowers but his time more my whimsical style...well it is nearly Halloween - I did say the year is flying by! This pendant bead will be in my next show over on Facebook. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1716980505231257/" target="_blank"> You can find out more about the show by visiting my Facebook group</a></div>
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Considering I was very out of sorts this month this challenge has seemed to have helped me be creative! Hope you enjoy visiting the other blogs that have taken part. Thank you for the theme Marsha. </div>
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Jenny from the <a href="https://www.artelements.net/selkies-and-the-sea-the-june-theme-challenge/" target="_blank">Art Elements team launched the new theme challenge at the beginning of this month, Selkies and the sea.</a></div>
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Not an easy challenge! It wasn't hard to find references to the selkie lore, those mystical creatures that live off the coast of Orkney and come ashore removing their seal skins and walking amongst the people as one of their own. There are many stories surrounding the selkies and I have read widely on them, both in wonderful romantic fiction novels where you lose yourself in the words and are transported to the wild shores of the Shetland isles and also the more traditional fairy tale or folk lore that surrounds them.</div>
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I have loved the works of Brian Froud in whose art that depicts the fairies and more magical creatures of our richly woven history of Celtic tales he has given form to those which may.. or not.. have ever existed. As well as many other artists works of selkie genre. That didn't make it any easier for me to come up with some thing unique to this challenge. I dabbled a bit with the glass (above) and my little selkie girl was born in the flame.</div>
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I doodled 'endlessly' during the evenings in my sketchbook....</div>
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using my imagination to create a seal like creature that was uniquely 'my' selkie...</div>
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...the many pages I filled in my sketchbooks but still the idea just wouldn't flow....</div>
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So I wrote a small .. and unfinished.. story and had the idea to create a small story book dummy for this project but I never got round to finishing it but maybe you can tell the story with your own words using these thumbnail sketches that are the preliminary doodles for my story.</div>
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I have found with these monthly challenges that I don't actually 'complete' a finished 'thing'. I think I am challenge... er...challenged.... On the one hand I could have made a collection of glass creatures for this challenge and I did make a few because I was thinking about this challenge but the other part of me thinks I should be challenging myself, it is after all a ..challenge; but what actually happens is I dabble away and never seem to finish what I started. So here is part of the collection of 'things' that I was inspired to start, with the intention of finishing, for this month's challenge.</div>
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First up is this layered illustrative piece. It is approx 15cm x 15 cm round and is on a wooden disc that I painted with gouache paints in blue and green to create the backdrop for my forest scene. I then painted using watercolour and coloured pencil, trees in various shades so I could cut them out and layer them to give depth as well as the castle and the leaves. In this piece I imagined a castle deep in the forest, a magical place that lives in the heart of fairy tales and books. I had a whole idea planned for this, not least how I was going to mount it but at the last minute I changed my mind - I have a large circular metal 'thing' that I hoarded ...ahem.. thought I could use in the last month's challenge of repurposing..... but in the end I decided I didn't like that idea and I don't have a shadow box big enough for this one. </div>
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Next up is another wooden based piece and a ceramic owl from Jenny of the team. I have had this owl piece for some time and he needed to come out of the box he was living in. I came across the work of <a href="https://byart.com/gallery/latest-work/" target="_blank">Betsy Youngquist </a>a few years ago and her work has fascinated me, the patience she has for her work but also the macabre aspect that I feel when I view it. Take it from me that using seed beads to create a mosiac effect is exhausting and frustrating, as you can see I didn't get all my beads the right way up because those things are fiddly and I got covered in glue! My idea started with a simple (ha!) plan to create a tree like texture so the owl appears to be looking out. I quite like the concept but if I do it again I will need to use a different glue as the one I used did leave a residue.</div>
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Because I had the theme challenge idea in my head I quite often thought of creatures that might live in the forest. Influenced by the art of Brian Froud and the words and stories from various authors like CS Lewis and Terry Prachette who bring to life a world we can't see with the naked eye I doodled a few of these in my sketchbook. The one above is the 'Bird Lady' her hair is a nest of ever green (nothing ever dies or grows old in magic forests... you know... ) leaves and sprouting white delicate flowers, her limbs are twisted and gnarled - but not arthritic! - like an ancient tree.....</div>
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Then I had a bit of scrap paper and Bear Time Story Bear was born. I modelled her purple fluffy slippers on my very own ;) I am going to laminate her and use her as a bookmark as I seem to have a habit of leaving my bookmarks in the library books when I return them, I just hope they get used by the next person rather than thrown away. </div>
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..and last but not least, Felix the Fox in glass who will be in my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/artistspotlight/" target="_blank">on line glass show on Facebook </a> when this challenge reveal commences, he will be with his other glassy friends, just click on the link if you want to come and see them, but don't forget to pop back and hop the other blogs of those who took part in the forest challenge.</div>
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I keep everything although a recent allowance of the daughter into the studio meant my stash of cardboard boxes was reduced as she streamlined my 'junk' as she calls it. Priceless pieces of something waiting to be even more priceless treasure I call it! </div>
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For this challenge I was torn between using some reclaimed glass that I have from an old stained glass window I was given in which some of the panes of glass are missing/broken or some reclaimed yarn that I brought years ago from a lady at a boot fair. The yarn in question was once t'shirts that she has torn into strips and redyed to be one colour. It is still waiting in the big box of yarn for another day as is the reclaimed glass. </div>
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I have said before that my first love has always been drawing and paper and I have A LOT of paper, some old scraps from other projects, some cards from birthdays I couldn't throw away, wrapping paper, old calendars with pretty pictures on.... I keep the lot - and hide that box from my daughter! </div>
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cut up expensive watercolour paper that I painted on and didn't like and small treasures that have been gifted to me like the one in the photo above which I used in this challenge and </div>
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I decided I would make paper dolls. I like paper dolls and I have recently been reading about art dolls, I even brought a book on Dada dolls which both enthralled me and shocked me. The definition of doll is definitely out there for interpretation! </div>
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In one of the above photos you can see that I sat down one evening and drew some heads. I didn't have an idea for the bodies other than I wanted to use discarded bits and bobs I had in my varied collections. This 'cat doll' is made from one of that discarded envelopes and you could easily use an envelope that had been through the mail system - actually that one would be fun and you could use the stamps and have a travelling paper doll! </div>
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An old piece of card became the back of the skirt, a cheap metal costume jewellery ring was stretched out and became the skirt band that holds the pretty floaty folds of cut off material strips. A bit of old lace and she is done. All the paper dolls are articulated so her head and arms move. </div>
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Next up is the doll that sparked the idea of the challenge as she holds the special treasure piece as part of her body - close up photo below. </div>
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Jenny from the team gifted me this pendant some time ago and something about it really appeals to me. It does have two sides to it but I love this side. It says 'reflections of nature' and that is what inspired her 'theme'</div>
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Her legs are from an old calendar that is decorated with pretty flowers, her bodice is the same pretty flowers but a scrap of fabric. The russet coloured back of her skirt is from a swatch of material that was used in some packaging in a parcel I received from Nicky in the team from our Secret Santa at Christmas. The golden lattice style leaves I have had for so long I think they have their own air miles as they have travelled from house to house with me for well over a decade, they made the perfect 'front' of the skirt and the green leaves are cut from that expensive discarded paper painting.</div>
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But I wasn't finished. I have these spoons that were gifted to me a few years ago as they reminded me of my Grandmother and I love them. They are Apostle spoons and have been in a drawer as I won't use them for their intended purpose, we have normal spoons for that! Her face is a ceramic cabochon from Lesley of the team which I stuck down with some of that makeup sponge above as I need to fill the spoon space. Her hair is some bits of fleece.</div>
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Another saved treasure is this tile, again gifted from Jenny many moons ago. The yellow silk scrap was in a swop with Nicky - the middle bit that I cut out to go over the spoon body is the flower in the hair of the cat envelope paper doll, nothing was wasted in this challenge! The green ribbon was from a birthday gift I received last month.</div>
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Below is all the dolls altogether. I had a lot of fun creating these dolls. They are not gallery worthy pieces but they used up pieces that would normally have been discarded, laying at the bottom of a box forgotten, gathering dust or at the back of a cupboard languishing unloved.</div>
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This piece I haven't quite finished, it needs a frame and I have an idea of how to construct it but haven't had the time to do that. This was an old tobacco tin that I have had for 'ever'. I think it belonged to my son and I stole it for some purpose many years ago. I wanted to create a diorama in it, which wasn't easy as it isn't very big. I quite like where it is going but it does need a 'finish' to it.</div>
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The one other thing I have recycled this month is this cushion - not the cat that is Freddy Bear a recycled feral turned house dweller. My husband brought me as a surprise a V pillow as I like to read before I go to sleep at night and often complained I wasn't comfortable enough - I can read for hours and forget time if I am totally engrossed. Sewing isn't one of my skills although this last winter I was on my own for a few months whilst the husband worked away so I 'borrowed' my daughter's sewing machine that was in turn gathering dust in her wardrobe through lack of use and taught myself to sew.</div>
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</div>Laneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12980209891214714602noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802752497338055306.post-11888614326220021772019-03-24T10:55:00.000+00:002019-03-24T10:55:30.575+00:00So... the end of another week....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</div>Laneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12980209891214714602noreply@blogger.com1little Breinton,, Breinton, Hereford HR4 7PH, United Kingdom52.056218164167632 -2.765392804199223152.01716766416763 -2.8460738041992233 52.095268664167634 -2.6847118041992228tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802752497338055306.post-85680086307292440902019-02-28T06:00:00.000+00:002019-03-02T12:50:35.801+00:00Art Elements Birds of Prey Challenge Reveal.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This month the challenge from the Art Elements team was set by Cathy Spivey Mendola and was Birds of Prey. To read the post click <a href="https://www.artelements.net/february-theme-challenge-birds-of-prey/" target="_blank">HERE</a></div>
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At first, for this challenge, I looked out of my window and watched the birds of prey we have landing in the paddock. Unfortunately, other than I know they are birds of prey and possibly Red Kites or Kestrels that is where my knowledge ends. It isn't very extensive! I did look up a few of the birds, the ones native to the UK, to see if I could identify them but in all honesty I just got a bit more confused. I wanted to do something that involved the birds I see daily. I am really lucky to have this opportunity, in fact I have just been sat in the garden (unprecedented weather in February here in the UK) having a cup of tea and watching one of the birds circle round and round and dive down behind my hedge to its prey.... I did have one eye on Miss 'Mudge the only cat of the house out with me at the time! </div>
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I spent most of this month thinking of birds of prey and not really doing a huge amount about it as I really wanted to use the birds I see but not being able to find out which species they were I eventually 'settled' on the humble owl. A bird well known in all the world. Again I am really lucky to lie in bed at night and listen to the owls around me hooting away. It can get a bit creepy late at night if I am on my own. Anyone who thinks living rural is quiet has never left the city. It can get really loud here with the wildlife, but I am not complaining. </div>
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Last summer I was gifted by Lesley of the team three little frames that you hang from a hook. They are small and very pretty. I decided that being in a drawer wasn't doing them justice so I chose one, the green one - I have another green one and a purple one that I wanted to 'get round to' but this month has been a bit busy with vet visits and life as my big bruiser ex feral cat has dislocated his hip... I digress...</div>
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I wanted to layer a painting in this frame which was not for the faint hearted as the frame itself is only 2.5 x 2 inches and the aperture/window is only 1 x 1.5 inches. I managed 4 layers, the background, the rock, the owl and the grass in front. The owl is articulated in that his wing moves on a split pin. He is obviously in the frame so not easy to move but that was how I wanted him so I went with it. I am terrible at over analysing why I do things and if it is relevant, my promise to myself this year was to just 'do it' and stop waffling on!</div>
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I make quite a few owls in glass, I rather like them and they all come out so differently. Lord Winston is February's owl. I think he looks rather austere and could possibly be the chair-owl of the parish council, he just looks that sort of fella!</div>
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...and doodling.... I am rarely still and doodle constantly, these little owls appeared one evening during such a doodle....</div>
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</div>Laneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12980209891214714602noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802752497338055306.post-75010215877952142772019-01-31T07:05:00.000+00:002019-01-31T07:05:20.707+00:00Art Elements January Theme Challenge Reveal - Moon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This post is not very long because like everyone in January I think the month just got away from me. I had plans, actual plans this month but....</div>
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Anyhow, this month Lindsay from the team hosted our monthly challenge and she chose Moon. You can read that blog post <a href="https://www.artelements.net/january-theme-challenge-moon/" target="_blank">HERE</a> </div>
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Like I said I had plans and even though I didn't do what I wanted I did do something small.</div>
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I did spend some time coming up with an idea that was more based in realism - I once 'did' realism as an art muse but I found my way to whimsy and have stayed here, happily... - because of this I got cross with myself and made myself 'do' whimsy in my piece so this is a bit of a prototype.</div>
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In the end I opted for this shadow box and I have used layered paper as the medium - and actually rather enjoyed it. I like the way you get more of a dimension to the painting and as I like painting small illustrative pieces this way I can combine the elements/images and create a larger piece with texture. </div>
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Robert came about as I did spend quite a bit of time this month doodling away in both paper and glass, although not everything came to fruition. I rather like that these challenges plant a seed in your head that you muse on all month. Hopefully this year I will muse a little better and have a bit more time to create more. January is never the easiest month to get motivated or find the time between winter flu virus' and wanting to curl up on the sofa because it is so dark and cold. Thankfully today is the last day of January and time for the reveal so I hope you can visit the blogs below to see what those that took part in this month's challenge did with the theme.</div>
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<a href="https://bay-moon-design.blogspot.com/2019/01/art-bead-scene-super-blood-wolf-moon.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">Kathy</a></div>
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At the beginning of December Claire from the Art Elements team announced that the themed challenge would be 'white'. To read that blog post click <a href="http://www.artelements.net/december-theme-challenge-white/" target="_blank">HERE</a></div>
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To me white is not a colour, maybe that is the 'colourist' or 'artist' in me but I have always understood white to be a 'non colour' like black because it isn't present on the spectrum and can only be mixed by the eye mixing light wavelengths - I do love the theory of colour but that is not the topic for this blog challenge.</div>
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I love colour. Big, bold, vibrant colour. I love contrasting colours or clashing colours. I love black too because it is slimming! but white in our house and in my life is a no no....I have dogs and cats! whether that alone makes me avoid white I don't know but because I rarely use it in my art I decided rather than use 'white' for creating I would not use colour. </div>
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I concentrated my doodle sessions with just the white of the paper, but I couldn't avoid using black fine liner pens to define for me the white areas. I did try using just a pencil but for me the contrast wasn't enough. So really my challenge is more 'monochrome than white'. </div>
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I started doodling 'dolls'. I had this idea in my head that I could create a doll like figure in just white. I did think I would use fabric for this but then decided I wanted to use paper. Just white paper. The 'doll' above was originally going to be cut out and have some other outfits to clothe her like the dolls from my childhood that you used to get in magazines - the more I read about paper dolls the more fascinated I have become with them and their history is as old as mankind itself, well maybe not mankind exactly but certainly since paper has been used by scribes.</div>
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This little chap and the mouse below were just doodles in my sketchbook. I did enjoy creating 'just white' doodles although I will admit to be itching to colour them in!</div>
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Which brings me to my 'finished' piece.. well actually it isn't finished because I wanted to create more of a world for her but life and Christmas got in the way....</div>
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My little fairy mouse, Esme, from an <a href="https://laney-mead.blogspot.com/2018/09/art-elements-fairy-challenge-reveal.html" target="_blank">Art Elements previous challenge </a> </div>
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has grown on me and I doodle her quite often. I have got rather attached to Esme as a character, so I decided to create her as an articulated paper doll. The photo above is the original sketch working out where the pins would go and then separating the 'pieces' to cut out. Both papers are white and fascinate me that 'white' comes in many 'colours'.<br />
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I didn't have any white split pins so I decided to use beads and thread which works really well. I did attempt to create a tiny articulated doll with beads as the movable parts... it was fiddly!! </div>
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Below is a project I started and probably won't finish because it just didn't hold my attention. The idea was that I would gather together all sorts of bits of 'white' materials. So the base is a white felt over laid with white linen. White ribbon was attached and I glued on a white glass cabochon I fused way back when and I wanted to include paper as a material so I cut out a doodle I had of a dogs head and stitched it on with white embroidery thread. The idea was to surround the glass cab with white beads and embellishments but I became disillusioned with the lack of colour although all the white materials intrigued me with their different hues and tones.</div>
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We come to the end of November and the reveal for the Art Elements Challenge of the month. This month the challenge was set and hosted by me and I chose 'Star'. I thought it was quite fitting for this time of year, the long nights and starry skies, which promise the following day will be bright but frosty, creating yet more sparkle as I walk through the fields when I walk my dogs. (You can read the original blog post<a href="http://www.artelements.net/star-theme-draft/"> HERE</a>).</div>
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The same fields I found this rather nice flat stone and painted it with acrylic and some lovely shimmery paints, I hope you can see the shine. </div>
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For the best part of this month it has been an endless cycle of 'if it can go wrong it did' and 'when did we get this busy because I need a holiday'... hence the confusion when I was sending out the links to those that have taken part in the challenge this month - thank you all for putting up with my endless emails for corrections! and for most of the month I did think that this stone was going to be my rather disappointing entry to the challenge BUT... in between the chaos that has been November in this house I have 'rescued' my daughters sewing machine and been teaching myself to use it. Until this month I have struggled all my life to even sew a button on - I did write about my sewing adventure for Art Elements and you can read that <a href="http://www.artelements.net/sewing-adventures-part-one-zillion-and-ten/">HERE</a>.</div>
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As I say in the AE blog post, following patterns is not something I am good at - or following a recipe for that matter - so with my new found enthusiasm for all things needle and thread, I drew an outline of a doodle I did in a sketchbook some years ago of a MerCat... and yes they really do exist ;) </div>
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In the box of scrap material left over from my daughter's Textile exam when she was at High School (6/7 years ago!) I found some heavy-ish linen material and using a combination of Inktense pencils and blocks and acrylic paint I transformed the plain fabric into my illustrative doodle. I have to say that for any future projects (because they are already being done I have the sewing bug!) I will be sticking to Inktense as I am not so keen on the stiffness of the fabric once acrylic is applied. I have ordered some wax to see if I can soften it but only another experiment will tell if I like it.....</div>
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I wanted to add so much more embellishments to my MerCat but time has unfortunately got away from me and I had to stop.</div>
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On her tail is a little silver charm of an anchor because I was thinking about all the boats that MerCat has seen, those sunk beneath the waves hiding their treasure for ever.... I am an avid watcher of the History Challenge and stories of the deep ;) </div>
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Her crown is made with silver and gold coloured wire and I added a small sea horse charm.</div>
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My star is a star fish in beautiful gold raw silk, which I left the edges to fray. I have this sample of raw silk material in the box that I have moved from house to house, county to county, one end of the country to another. For someone that doesn't sew that box holds some treasures. This piece of silk was given to me by my friend as the remnent from the trousers and cummerbund my son wore as her page boy at her (first!) wedding - my daughter was the little bridesmaid in a beautiful white silk dress. It was a very glamorous wedding and my children were the only ones that were allowed to attend, they were about 4 and 6 at the time. The whole time I was stitching this star fish I was thinking about that wedding, the dresses of the guests, many from the other side of the world, the guests that is, most were London Couture outfits and I had a friend at the time - who could sew a button on - help me make my wedding outfit as I couldn't afford a dress from Harrods! .. my friend did do most of the sewing.. ok all the sewing I made the tea! I remembered my daughter getting chocolate sauce down her dress, which to this day is still stained, and my son looking like a wooden soldier as he concentrated so hard to be the perfect page boy for my friend. I remembered the room in the big posh country manor house hotel in Kent (where we lived once.. in Kent that is not the posh hotel!). We had a four poster bed and the bathroom was fitted with an antique claw foot bath and Victorian fire place and tiles.. it was so grand.... </div>
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I really loved creating my Mercat, finding a new muse with the artist style doll. I loved sitting and stitching on the sequins and the beads but most of all I loved thinking of the stories the bits of fabric held, even that ribbon was saved from a cake long ago.. not one I cooked I hasten to add! </div>
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I have to admit I didn't know the word or that it has any history to it but I have been drawing on rocks and just about everything for as far back as I can remember - and that includes walls, I used to do murals in my kids rooms and the bathroom.. the en suite... I might have done the downstairs looe in one house too... but I just love to draw, doodle, illustrate.</div>
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The oldest stone I have ever done that I still have, is from 2006 and I use it to stop my kitchen door from bashing into my fridge as the handle of the door just connects nicely with the corner of the fridge. I remember painting it, one summer holiday day, the kids were off school and the sun was beating down, it was 'almost' too hot to be outside so I was sat at the table in the kitchen painting a big old stone we had unearthed from the garden. </div>
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I love watercolour paint these days, after many years of hating them they are now my go to for any doodling I do but before watercolour paint my instrument of choice was the coloured pencil. The stone below of the orange cat is Inktense pencils, activated with water to make it smooth and many many layers later.......</div>
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A coat of spray varnish and this cat sits on my hearth, the only one in the family to not put hairs on the furniture! I have a few more on my hearth in the living room too but this one is my favourite.</div>
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When Karen announced this challenge I started looking around for stones to paint. This time of year the farmers are harvesting and plowing the fields ready for winter plantings so lots of lovely stones come to the surface of the mud but filling your pockets on a dog walk with stones a) makes people look at you funny and b) makes you walk oddly. I fancied sourcing some wooden pebbles that I had seen others paint on via Pinterest. </div>
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I found some!! I ordered 6 approx 2 inch ones, the shapes do vary and slightly bigger one of approx 3 x 2 inches. They are lovely wooden pebbles and for a while after they arrived I didn't want to spoil them. </div>
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Some of my problem in drawing on the wooden pebble was me. This last month, blame the weather, things going on at home, life in general and my creative muse was just not forth coming and when that happens I revert back to being very picky about everything I do and whereas I favour a looser illustrative style I tend to work very photo realistic when I am stressed. I used to work photo realistic in coloured pencil in the very beginning, that is how I learn't to use the pencils with the many many layers but now that annoys me, I like colour and fun and illustrative not formal. Thankfully I picked up the pencils and as I had 'ruined' one side of this pebble I just set about having fun and my muse didn't disappoint me. I rather like my little girl pebble. </div>
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I do paint on just about anything - by paint I mean use pencils or watercolour or acrylic although the latter is not fluid enough for me even with the flow medium to make it so. This little disk of wood is small, approx 1 inch round and I used Inktense blocks as watercolour paint. I love strong vibrant colours. I also LOVE outlines, just don't ever tell my art mentor from many years ago as he always steered me towards 'proper' art! </div>
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Varnishing these things is a completely different subject! You can't use a painted on varnish as it smudges the work - which is my favourite way of doing it - and on most I have used spray clear lacquer but I don't like it, the wooden pebble I experimented and sealed the surface first using a pencil fixative then when that was dry I used my acrylic matt varnish which you paint on, which worked brilliantly and I will be trying that again, hopefully it wasn't a one off! </div>
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Jill Egan: <a href="https://kilnfiredart.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">https://kilnfiredart.wordpress.com</a></div>
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Tammy Adams: <a href="http://www.paisleylizard.com/blog" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">http://www.paisleylizard.com/blog</a></div>
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Alison Herrington: <a href="http://alisonadorns.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">http://AlisonAdorns.blogspot.com</a></div>
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Alysen: <a href="http://chicchixnchampagne.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">http://chicchixnchampagne.blogspot.com</a></div>
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Sarajo Wentling: <a href="https://sjdesignsjewelry.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">https://sjdesignsjewelry.blogspot.com</a></div>
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Jenny Kyriach: <a href="http://anafiassa.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">http://anafiassa.blogspot.com</a></div>
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CraftyHope: <a href="http://craftyhope.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">http://CraftyHope.com</a></div>
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Kathy Lindemer: <a href="https://bay-moon-design.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">https://bay-moon-design.blogspot.com</a></div>
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Lesley Watt: <a href="http://www.lesleywatt.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">http://www.lesleywatt.com</a></div>
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Jenny Davies-Reazor: <a href="https://jdaviesreazor.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">https://jdaviesreazor.com</a></div>
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Cathy Spivey Mendola: <a href="http://cmendola.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">http://cmendola.blogspot.com</a></div>
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Sue Kennedy: <a href="http://www.suebeads.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">http://www.suebeads.blogspot.com</a></div>
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Caroline Dewison: <a href="http://www.blueberribeads.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">http://www.blueberribeads.co.uk</a></div>
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Laney Mead: <a href="https://laney-mead.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">https://laney-mead.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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Marsha Neal Minutella: <a href="http://blog.marshanealstudio.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">http://blog.marshanealstudio.com</a></div>
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Claire Fabian: <a href="https://saraccino.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2585b2;" target="_blank">https://saraccino.blogspot.com</a></div>
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September's <a href="http://www.artelements.net/september-theme-challenge-faerie/">Art Element challenge</a> was set by <a href="http://blueberribeads.co.uk/">Caroline of Blueberribeads</a> and she choose 'Fairies' as the theme.</div>
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I grew up with The Flower Fairies and the delightful drawings of Cicely M Barker. I also love the work of Brian Froud and Alan Lee. There are so many artists out there who specialize in art works of fae, Jasmine Beckett-Griffith, Amy Brown, Linda Ravenscroft as well as less modern artists, Edmund Dulac and of course the Cottingley Fairies by Elsie Wight and her cousin Frances Griffiths, these of course caught the imagination of none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who weaved a tale so believable that the public were divided as to whether or not fairies did exist.</div>
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Once the challenge was set I started to doodle and let my imagination loose, using stories from my childhood to guide me in my fairy quest. Of all the fairies from the stories of my youth they were mainly in human form. The Flower Fairies, Victoria Plum and others. But my muse doesn't really work with people. My illustrative doodle above came about after a lovely walk with my dogs watching as Autumn takes over from Summer and the fruits of the hedgerows and orchards swell and colour the landscape. I may have had a glass of something cold whilst doodling, even fairies like a tipple ..right? </div>
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I researched a bit for animal fairies and was sadly disappointed in their lack. They are there of course but writers of stories tend to humanize their fae. I decided to change that! I also discovered that the words 'fairy' and 'faerie' are a little different in interpretation. </div>
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I decided to have an animal fairy, after all fairy are small 'folk' and in my world (art) animals are dominant. After doodling some more in my sketchbook, my little scene developed and then to make it 'real'.</div>
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I have been exploring (read that as looking and drooling at lots of very talented artists on the web!) paper diaormas. I really want to experiment much more than I have been doing. I found in my cupboard a green 'thing' that was given to me by a member of the team (Niky Sayers). She found it last Christmas and liked it so brought a few of them and gave them to the members of the team who met up in London back in January. Suddenly I saw this green 'thing' as a mound in my world. A few little glass toadstools, some paper grass, a wooden plinth and some trees - which in hindsight I would have done differently - with some of my own hand made gold watercolour paint and some 'found' acorns on a beautiful Autumn day walk with my dogs completed my vision... oh and a sprinkling of fairy dust (glitter), completed the look.</div>
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I got rather attached to my little mouse and decided to create her in glass too, then she got a name and now my sketchbook is full of little mice hoola hooping, running, playing and having wings! </div>
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Thanks to Caroline for setting the challenge. I nearly gave up as I really wasn't feeling the 'human' fairy but I am glad I stuck with the muse because I think Esme might go on to be a staple character in my stories and illustrations.</div>
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This month the themed challenge over at the <a href="http://www.artelements.net/august-theme-challenge-swirl/">Art Elements blog</a> was hosted by Marsha. The theme was 'Swirl' and I almost didn't manage it!</div>
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All month I 'ummed and 'ahhed over what to do. I came up with nothing. Nada. Zilch. I will admit that with less than a week to go I was seriously considering opting out and that made me a little miffed. I felt I had let myself down. </div>
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This month I have been busy, not just with the last few days of the wonderful heat wave - we are now back to traditional British Summer weather and as I look out of my window on this Bank Holiday Monday in August I see grey clouds and the dull greens of the trees and hedges. It is a little depressing, even if Autumn (Fall) is coming and the leaves are slowly turning their glorious russet reds and golden browns, the glorious sunshine seems a thing of the past. Other than lamenting about the weather, another traditional British past-time, I have been moving all my art 'stuff' into my newly decorated studio room and sorting out my new space. The boy person isn't coming back now, his place has been taken by a fabulous antique oak desk I found on eBay and LOTS of books, paper, paints and pencils. This is my room! So I haven't had an awful lot of time in between organizing my studio room and being in my glass studio creating beads to think of challenges but this one was always at the back of my mind. </div>
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I thought about getting out my yarn - now moved into my new room - and practising some free form crochet. I used to love doing that last winter, but I wasn't inspired. I thought about getting out my wire, again now in my new room and playing with twisting metals into shapes but that isn't something I have a passion for. I thought about creating a 'normal' bead with swirls for decoration but was bored just thinking about that as my beads are not my beads unless they have a funny face and tail.</div>
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I was reading Jill's blog <a href="https://kilnfiredart.wordpress.com/2018/08/26/getting-to-grips-with-instagram-and-my-frame-has-arrived/">Kiln Fired Art </a> (she is taking part in this challenge too) and reading about her new frame and of course seeing her art work. It was then I thought to myself, stop trying to create something that isn't you! </div>
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I have three passions in art, one is writing, one is glass and illustration. I had discounted the glass for this challenge so it was either writing or illustration... off topic muse I wonder who would be interested in reading a challenge that I devoted to writing... ummm....</div>
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I decided that I would take inspiration from Jill and do some small illustrations of swirls. Just shapes and random ideas, then I looked up and out of my window and watched the wind bending the dull green trees and whipping up the dried and dead grass and leaves and wondered if Miss 'Mudge my only cat that was outside at the time, was still anchored on the ground! The wind was rather fierce that afternoon. I conjured up, in my imagination, Miss 'Mudge - this is her...</div>
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...hanging onto an umbrella, Mary Poppins style, and flying through the wind. Then I thought an umbrella would be too heavy for her paws - it is no wonder my family worry about me and my weird imagination - so she would be better holding a balloon. </div>
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And so, here it is! I am not sure if it is finished yet. I may yet add some more illustrative lines to the wind, maybe darken a few areas?.... I am not quite so sure but what I do know that is that when faced with a themed challenge work to your strengths! </div>
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Welcome to the Seed Pod Challenge blog hop hosted this month by<a href="http://site.glassaddictions.com/"> Jennifer of the Art Elements </a>Team. You can find the original link to the Seed Pod Challenge introduction blog <a href="http://www.artelements.net/july-theme-challenge-seed-pods/">HERE </a></div>
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I started off experimenting with wet felting something I had never done before. After watching various YouTube videos and digging out my limited stash of fibre materials and ordering a few more I made my felted piece that I wanted to turn into a 'sort of' sculptural piece. </div>
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As I am sharing my blog post with the very talented Paulette who is joining the challenge (and you will not be disappointed her entry is just stunning!) .. I realized that between us we had A LOT of photos so not to bore all the visitors to the blog if you want to read about my wet felting process I did write it up the other week for Art Elements blog, only I didn't share the finished piece you only get to see that here. <a href="http://www.artelements.net/exploring-wet-felting/">CLICK HERE</a> for the blog post in which I describe how my first piece of wet felting went.. don't forget to come back ;) </div>
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What will be the inside of my finished piece.</div>
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..and... the photos above and below is the outside of my finished piece. </div>
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The finished piece. My imagination took over with my seed pod challenge and 'sort of evolved'. I had this idea in my head that magic folk (I am a repressed children's author so bare with me....) live in the woods and they build their homes in the natural materials around them. Seed pods.</div>
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Just before I allowed my finished piece (photo above) to dry, I sat in the sun in the garden with soapy hands and sculpted and moulded the piece of felt into a shape I was happy with. In my imagination (story) my magic people wove threads of twine with seed pods and branches to create hanging 'pods' in which to live. I added some beautiful natural curls of wool (I name the sheep this wool comes from in the Art Elements post), to 'decorate' the opening of the 'door' to the home. </div>
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Now, if you have read the <a href="http://www.artelements.net/exploring-wet-felting/">Art Elements blog piece</a> in which I show and explain my working of the fibres you will know that my husband (a very un-arty man!) likened my 'pod' to a dead squirrel.</div>
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I added lots of seed beads and sequins in shiny silver to give the illusion of rain drops and the dangle at the bottom has a blue shell bead. Blue is the colour associated with the sea and the sky and also for wisdom and loyalty. These are very important to my magic people who live in the woods.</div>
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The Green Man is a beautiful ceramic cab from Jenny in the team and with my limited seed beading skills I beaded around him and added some bead leaves... every magic person has to decorate their pod house... right? </div>
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My husband still said it looked like a dead squirrel but I enjoyed the process and creating the story in my head (this is the abbreviated version for the blog!) whilst I wondered around the ancient woods with my dogs. Yes we really have ancient woods near us, we are very lucky. </div>
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I also did another seed pod piece, which sort of evolved from a video I posted in a sketch group I belong to on FB. You might have seen the video it has gone viral. It is of an artist filling a plastic up with various acrylic coloured paint and pouring it onto a canvas. I wanted to have a go but using my acrylic inks.</div>
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It is messy!! but fun. I did find I had to put 'glazing medium' on the surface of the canvas to allow the inks to move freely. I also didn't use a cup I just splodged it on and moved the canvas to allow the colours to blend.</div>
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When it dried - much lighter although the camera has washed out the colours a bit in the photo below - I left it on the side in the dinning room and 'umm'ed and ahhh'ed' over it for a few days, then I grabbed my Posca pens (I only have black and white) and added my favourite dried 'flower' heads that I see in the ancient woods. These plants start off as a cluster of white flowers in spring and when the flowers die off they are just as beautiful in their skeleton form. Each flower leaves behind a seed head. It is a bit abstract and not the 'norm' for me but I enjoyed the experiment. Not sure I would do it again though, it was super messy. </div>
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Thank you for reading my ramble and please enjoy Paulette's wonderful design with her very dangerous looking seed pods. Paulette did send me all the photos and words all done and ready to load but unfortunately they were too small to upload directly so I copied each piece out and hopefully have married it up correctly with it's right photo. </div>
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Well to start off I go out on a nature walk looking for Devil Claw seed pods (Proboscidea Athaeifolia) walk all along the Arroyo - dried up stream bed in the South of Texas, none to be found down here, I suppose we don't get enough rain in the Spring for them to grow, so I got on Etsy and ordered some. They came in on the 11th and they are much nastier than I remembered. <br />
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Those little curved points are very sharp and hurt! I have cleaned them and dipped them in polyurethane to seal them.</div>
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I sat there trying to decide what to do with the pods. I decided to create Dream Catchers with them, but I want them prettier than the regular 'Tourist Trap' ones (perfect circle metal hoops, artificial sinew and fake eagle feathers). I asked myself 'what is the prettiest inspiration I have around the house??' </div>
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Our little girl Ruby, a Rose Breasted Cockatoo.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"> Inspiration found, now to get all the rest of the supplies, a trip to the bead store for beads and the very thin rat tail cording. For the feathers, I am using all of Ruby's own feathers, she moults once, sometimes twice a year and I collect them. A quick trip out to Hobby Lobby for some cord crimps. </span></div>
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After poking myself a dozen times I put on a small drop of E6000 glue on those nasty little hooks and once again start the webbing.<br />
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After much sewing and fixing feathers I think I have them. I hope you like them as much as I liked making them. </div>
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I need to stop now, or they will never be finished. Here there are hanging up.<br />
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This month's challenge was set by<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/suebeads"> Sue from SueBeads</a> from the team and was for Sunflowers. </div>
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I was bemused even at myself because I can't even sew a button on straight and I hate sewing. When my son was still at school I used to patch his school trouser knees up with special fabric glue and patches - he was one of those kids that was never clean and always lost a jumper and ripped his trousers, I am quite glad he has 'grown up' and now provides his own clothes! My daughter is a wonderful seamstress, when she is motivated and does all her own alterations. Being 5ft and petite nothing fits her right so she has learnt to be quite proficient, even taking one of her high school exams in Textiles and gaining A* in her exam. She didn't get her skills from me. </div>
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So you can see I was bemused.... and interested.</div>
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So I hit Pinterest and collected together an enormous amount of pins that I liked with sunflower themes, here is just two of them, you can link to the original owner of the photo with the caption link beneath. </div>
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OK so the mouse is holding a daffodil but it is yellow and I liked it! </div>
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So I decided that seeing as some time ago I was gifted some felt for felting I would have a play. I wanted to create a mouse that was sit in his own sunflower. I did doodle the original idea but it was on a scrap of paper and it is obviously in a safe place... I can't find it!</div>
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I first did a mouse with the felt I had.</div>
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He really wasn't successful. I didn't have the right pink. He was too bright. The only other pieces I have ever done was when I was first gifted this felt and I made a cats head, which after watching lots of Youtube videos on needle felting turned out I had done it wrong and it was over 'stabbed' and quite hard. I don't have a photo and he is buried at the bottom of a drawer somewhere.</div>
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So there was nothing for it.. I had to order supplies and whilst I was at it, a few more needles and a new stabbing surface as mine was secondhand and well loved which, according to Youtube meant I needed a new one. Whilst I was watching videos on needle felting I stumbled across wet felting and seeing as I now had quite a bit of felting materials being delivered by my patient postman (my daughter does a lot of on line shopping!) I thought, 'I like that' ... and promptly went off to get some bubble wrap as told to by the video.</div>
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VOILA!! my first ever wet felted piece. The sunflower, which I 'stabbed' onto the wet felted background I did using yet another Youtube inspired technique in which I wanted to make a 'picture' so used shop brought felt as a base, I drew my shape on and 'painted' with the felt. I rather enjoyed both processes. The wet felted piece did make me be more abstract, which when I am illustrating I like to be a little more controlled so that was out of my comfort zone but I have to say I really did enjoy it. It is very 'zen' like to roll soggy wool into a shape, to squeeze it to rinse when it is created and to see all the fibres all matted together to create something out of wispy threads. </div>
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But I still wanted a mouse!</div>
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Meet Edgar, the pink I ordered was so much more fitting for ears and tails. I rather enjoyed making Edgar but have to admit the process of the wet felting did intrigue me more. Maybe it is the placing of the fine threads to create a texture and movement in a piece and letting myself be a bit freer with how the method works was extremely relaxing. I will be doing more wet felting... I probably didn't need those new needles as Edgar was fun but he didn't inspire me to create more creatures unlike the glass which I can go from creature to creature.</div>
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Although my finished piece isn't the sculptural piece I set out to do I did end up with my sunflower and my mouse in a fashion, just not together exactly.... the only problem I have now is what do you do with the finished felted pieces? This piece isn't huge, I thought about using it to cover a sketch book, my daughter suggested hanging it. Part of my inspiration came from the gift from Jenny of the team, hers hangs in my studio and I see it every day, which is probably why I was taken with the textile inspiration that Sue put up when she announced the challenge.</div>
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For now I will just look at it on my pile of arty stuff that sits next to the laptop.</div>
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I hope you can join me in the blog hop to visit the blogs that took part in this months challenge.</div>
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Last month <a href="http://www.artelements.net/may-theme-challenge-tide-pools/">Lesley from the Art Elements</a> team posted the challenge of Tidepool and today, 31st May is the reveal. (click on the link to read the original blog post). </div>
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May has been a busy month for me as I am getting ready for the <a href="http://www.tuffnellglass.com/contents/en-uk/p1752.html">Flame Off </a> which is a glass fair in Uttoexter. I am both exhibiting and teaching a small class of 12 on Saturday 2nd June getting people hooked on the art of whimsy beads in glass making. My little cat Gordy has been recovering from last months set back so I have been spending a lot of time with him getting him active and 'fattened' back up. We have had lots of lovely sunshine which has been great for getting Gordy into the garden but not so great for glass bead making as it has been too hot by 11 in the morning to light the torch and cook in the studio.</div>
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I was however inspired by the theme of Tidepools. I remember as a little girl we lived in Cornwall near the beach and I loved walking on the sand after a good storm - I do love a good storm. The waves would be crashing to the ground splattering foam and sea weed across the beach. The smell of salt and fish, of damp sand and mildewy rocks that are seeing the sunlight after the dark of the storm, assaulted your nose. The skies would be coloured in pink and purple with fading grey on the horizon and the tidepools, or rock pools as we call them here in the UK would be teeming with life. You could see starfish, anemone, sea weeds in all shapes and colours, small fish and limpets that had been trapped as the sea receded.</div>
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These memories sent me into the studio very early in the morning to create glass fish, in my style... </div>
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..and every good tide pool has to have a shark.. right!</div>
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I had fun creating my tide pool fish in glass, obviously they are not your normal visitors to these little rock pools nestled by the cliffs here in the UK but you just never know they might just live there if you look hard enough.</div>
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On a rummage through my cupboards of art supplies and beads I came across this beautiful cabochon by <a href="https://jdaviesreazor.com/">Jenny </a>, one of the members of the team, she had gifted me this piece when I first joined the team. I love the colours and the swirls, it just reminds me of water and Pisces. I am a Piscean. So using it as my muse I painted some goldfish (I am still learning my watercolours but loving the journey, I am finding painting so restful and relaxing... which after years of hating them and being so frustrated by my efforts I am finding using them something of an enigma! </div>
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This finished doodle illustration is not perfect, far from it and the fish are not as whimsy as I imagined nor are they realistic enough to pass scrutiny in the art circle BUT I rather like it! I love the colours and of course the 'doing' was something that gave me much pleasure. I stuck this on the front cover of my new sketchbook so I get to touch it and see it every day. </div>
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As with the 'sketchbook' piece I have found I am quite taken with creating mixed media flat illustrative work at the moment. I like creating levels of depth and combining cut out pieces to give a more 3D but yet still flat look. The other thing I have found is that when creating a 'full sized' finished piece of work I get easily bored and distracted. This is quite a revelation for me as I have never really understood or 'been into' mixed media pieces but I have found, I think through creating small glass sculpture animal beads and then dreaming up silly stories for them, that that is my niche. Small but lots of it! </div>
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I have been reading a lot of fantasy stories on my Kindle - another move from the norm for me. It wasn't until my ....ahem... 40s ....that I realized I love these stories of magic and folklore, before I read widely but it was biographies and classics like Little Women, Where Angels Fear to Tread as well as more modern works like The Colour Purple, and the likes of Joanne Harris, Lollipop Shoes and Chocolat.. but I digress...</div>
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My latest, reading, passion has been for stories of Selkies and the sea which has set my imagination off for this challenge. </div>
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I wondered what you would see if you gazed into a rock pool and there amongst the star fish and the shells was a Selkie in seal form.....</div>
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I used very rough watercolour paper for the 'base' or background, tinted in shades of yellow ochre, light violet for shadows and maybe a touch of grey. On this I painted star fish, shells, rocks and sea weed as well as the Selkie himself. I cut these out and arranged them how I wanted using a raised mount to give me depth. On the mount I put my person looking in and some more shells and rocks. I wanted to give the illusion of ripples on the water, another level and for this I used some clear film cut into ripply shapes. I rather like the over all effect and have plans to create more like this. This way I can indulge in my love of quick, immediate and 'movement' in designs, small pieces and link them all together.</div>
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I hope you will hop around the other blogs that took part in this themed challenge and I will try and do the same over the weekend, although as this weekend I will be melting glass in Uttoexter I suspect it will be early next week before I am able to do that.</div>
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It is the Horse Challenge reveal for <a href="http://www.artelements.net/the-april-theme-challenge-horses/">Art Elements, set by Jenny </a> (click on the link for the original blog post). This is a LONG blog post and very photo heavy as I am lucky enough to host two wonderfully talented Facebook friends, Raven from Raven Craft Creations and Paulette Scott from 'across the pond' on my blog who wanted to take part in this challenge but didn't have a blog of their own. Please grab a beverage of choice and see their wonderful creations.</div>
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Horses don't really feature in my muse, I love to see them from a distance but I am a little afraid of an animal so big and powerful. I have a wonderful friend who has horses and she brought one round to my garden a few years ago and let me have a go...</div>
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This was a few years ago... 2012! That is Tanya and the bum you can see is Jazz who came with her. Tanya was very patient with me she knew she had a complete novice and as you can see I was terrified! All I kept saying was 'where are the brakes!'. It is a long way to fall when you are looking down from up there, but I did love the experience and probably would try again.. maybe... in the garden... possibly...</div>
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My month this month has been chaotic. Gordy, my little cat, has been very very poorly and we nearly lost him but all is well now, except we have a few more grey hairs and worry lines but with my energy completely taken with caring for him and general life stuff I didn't create anything complete, but I did dabble.</div>
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I found a photo on Pinterest of a lovely horse with a rider and decided to have a go at a unicorn. I drew the one on the left one Sunday afternoon. I was tired, the weather was rubbish and I had a lovely time sat doodling. I couldn't quite put my finger on what was wrong with it but I carried on regardless. I showed my husband, who was on his way to work a night shift and he took one look at it and said 'the horn is in the wrong place and it isn't very you, other than that it is ok'. That put me in a bad mood so on my own I sat and watched a re-run of Speed 2 and sulked! Then I looked at the drawing again and thought 'he is right. So I doodled another (not shown). This one was similar but the horn was moved up. I showed the husband the next day and he said 'it is better but it just isn't right'. I tried to tell him unicorns are not real and it is an illustration doodle but something nagged at me. My third attempt (right) I put away the reference photo and just used my imagination, I work better that way. I giggled my way through this doodle and when finished I showed the husband. 'That is it' he exclaimed 'that is your style. It looks gormless'. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Now I get the pleasure of introducing my first guest for this challenge, Raven from Raven Craft Creations. You can find all the links to visit Raven on Facebook and Etsy beneath her challenge piece, which is amazing!! </i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f1f0f0; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">I live in the small town of Ligonier here in western Pennsylvania, USA! I have ALWAYS loved to work creatively, however my original medium was food!! I went to Johnson & Wales University in RI and earned my degree in Culinary Arts. I worked in restaurants in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and PA before moving out to Aspen, Colorado right after graduation. Learning to ski (and by that I mean “snowplow”) became a must to say the least! I moved back to PA after one ski season and continued working crazy hours and ALL holidays in restaurants, private clubs and catering companies for the next ten years.</span><br />
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I drew the pattern out and thought (wrongly) that I could just jump in and make a unicorn...nope.. I cut out the first one out of satin and, well let's just say it did not look much like a unicorn..( it looked more like a horse that hadn't eaten for over a month.. bad, very bad) made the pattern larger and still, no.. just no...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f1f0f0; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Next I made the pattern a bit larger through the belly, and made the head smaller...maybe it was the fabric that was the problem, so, I tried velvet, those of you that sew know this was the dumbest thing I could have done....big head and skinny body and legs and when I tried to stuff it....if I wanted something out of a horror movie maybe...nope...</span></div>
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Shrink the head and make the body larger but using up the last of the velvet scraps... oh God help me, I am, upset!?!..Nope didn't work and this one learns to fly across the room...4 tries 4 fails...was my ability to make a pattern lost to age??? One more and if this one fails I give up...</span></div>
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Pull a half yard of fleece out of the scrap box. I cut out the pattern I have adjusted (again) it is looking better...
I see it out and it looks a bit skinny but will keep the fingers crossed and stuff it.
This one is looking good!! So I sew the ears, horn and eyes on.
YES!!!HE IS WORKING!! </span></div>
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Next is the mane and tail, even better!! This guy is going to work!! </span></div>
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Well through the tears and the laughter I found this challenging and almost gave up, but after 4 failures number 5 turned out the way I was hoping it would...Thank You Laney for encouraging me!!</span></div>
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The first themed challenged for <a href="https://www.artelements.net/march-theme-of-the-month-nests/">Art Elements,</a> since the change from Component of the Month announced in February, was set by <a href="http://cmendola.blogspot.co.uk/">Cathy Spivey Mendola</a> and it was Nests.</div>
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I spent a few weeks going round and round with birds, nesting... birds... Spring but nothing was right for me. I searched Pinterest for ideas and again was coming up with birds, nesting... I was getting frustrated. Then like all good ideas this one happened as I was doing something completely different and the idea of 'leaving the nest' came to mind. </div>
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It is a bit of a standing joke in our house that I tell my 'grown up' kids that they need to leave home as I need an indoor studio - my studio for glass is out in the garden a purpose built shed studio and I love it but I need somewhere for my paints, my paper... I need a studio in the house and the only way I can have that is if one of them leaves home.... for now I use the kitchen table!</div>
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I 'knocked' this up literally within about 20 mins. I found a little box, some watercolour paper, grabbed my pen and paints, my new set of block letters to print - of which I get covered in ink! - and whilst waiting for some potatoes to boil I created this and stuck it all down with glue. It amused me and so I put it on the mantle above the fire in the kitchen and really didn't think more of it. As far as I was concerned this was the beginning of my thought process for this months challenge. </div>
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How amused was I when I got up the next morning and my 'grown up and still at home 24 year old son' had added to my 'art'. It has amused me so much that it is still like that now, a reminder that neither child is going to leave the nest anytime soon!</div>
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I have a love of words and puns and a chance remark from someone over on Facebook inspired this shadow box design. I forget whom it was but on some of my doodles this person had commented that I should sell the doodles to give me a nice nest egg... I ran with the comment.</div>
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I am still smudging my printed letters, I am too eager to cut it out and stick it down I need to leave it to dry! I wanted to layer this piece and contrast the greens of the money and background but still give a reference to leaves, nesting, trees... so used some yellow card to create the front layer of leaves which I then painted over with a light wash of green watercolour. I rather like the contrast and effect.</div>
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To see more of the entries in this months challenge, follow the links below.. I am intrigued to see how others have interpreted the word nest. </div>
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But before we head into new waters we had the pleasure of working with a wonderful piece designed and created by the very talented Niky Sayers from the team. A rune. My rune was Algiz the rune of Protection, of the all seeing into other worlds and represented by Odin the God of the Gods, known for his ability to walk in other worlds amongst the living and the dead. Odin is the God of War and is accompanied by his wolves Geri and Freki. It is said that Geri and Freki struggled to find food so Odin gave to them the gift of sight in the form of two ravens, Huginn and Muninn who would fly high and find the prey for Geri and Freki. The antlers from Odins helmet represent the antelope which is the animal normally associated with this rune. I took most of my inspiration from Norse mythology but it is sprinkled with the stories from other cultures. </div>
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I love myth and folklore and magic. I had my runes read when I was in my late teens, I won't share the experience from that as it was quite dark - my life was very dark at the time and not just with teenage angst! </div>
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This is the rune Niky created. It is so beautiful that I knew if I tried to create a wearable piece of jewellery I wouldn't do it justice so instead I used it to inspire me to draw.</div>
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My finished piece is not quite finished or quite right. The mount is the wrong shape but it was one I had already! This is the first time I have used acrylics as a watercolour, light washes and layered, but I wanted the vibrancy that the acrylic colours give as my first attempt (no photo) was too dark and heavy that I created with a different medium. In this finished pieced I 're-styled' the ravens to give them more of a illustrative look, something more in keeping with my style and I turned the wolves around and made them howl. This worked better than my original design (below) which was leaning too much towards realism and I lost the quirky narrative style I like.</div>
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In the original sketch Odin was too dominant and the ravens too 'real' compared to the more illustrative look of the wolves. </div>
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I won't be doing any more to this piece, I enjoyed the process and have ordered myself some acrylic inks - watch this space! - as I love the vibrancy of the colours. I need to concentrate more on not straying into the realms of realism, I prefer my work to be quirky although I have to admit the ravens in my finished piece do make me chuckle a little more than maybe I should! </div>
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I hope you like the inspiration for my piece maybe one day I will execute it a little better.</div>
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I have had this snow globe since last year. I brought it in a clearance in Hobby Craft round about this time last year and it has sat in a box gathering dust ever since, but in the recent 'tidy up' that my daughter insisted we do to all the cupboards in the house, including my art cupboards, we found it again.</div>
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Art Elements member Lesley offered up a challenge back in November to create a Christmas ornament. Click <a href="https://www.artelements.net/christmas-ornament-design-challenge/">HERE</a> to read the original blog post. So I decided to finally use the snow globe. </div>
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I am not completely happy with how it turned out, it was a challenge working in such a confined area, usually I just 'go with the flow' whether it is with glass or illustration doodles and the size is immaterial until I am finished so starting with a defined space was something I had to get my head around. </div>
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Back in October I created this 'bad Santa' in glass and he melted - forgive the pun - the hearts of many so I carried on with the same image for my snow globe. </div>
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I have always loved those layered pictures you used to see when I was a child so I decided to create my snow globe Santa in that style. At the moment he looks a little too stark, maybe he needs a background? I am hoping to explore this style of illustration in 2018 so not only did I finish (sort of) a project that was gathering dust but I gave myself a new arty idea to persue next year.</div>
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Here are the others that took part in the challenge, hope you take a minute to look at their creations for Christmas.</div>
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I don't make ear rings, I don't make any jewellery as a rule but when Diana suggested a 'tacky' ear ring challenge I thought, why not? my jewellery making skills are limited to simple techniques so what more do you need?</div>
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Turns out that you need more than a few skills, making ugly pieces is quite hard, so I settled for just grabbing a few bits I had found in a recent 'tidy up' and went from there, so there it is, my tacky, ugly - but actually not that bad considering they are 'bits and bobs' - mish-mash earrings!</div>
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This month, October, was the turn of <a href="https://www.artelements.net/october-component-of-the-month-design-challenge-and-give-away/">Art Elements Blog</a> member Niky Sayers to host the Component of the Month and she created these amazing coin clasps. Each one features a hare and has been hammered into shape before attaching the clasp fastening. It was love at first sight.</div>
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Before it even got to me I knew what I wanted to do. Life has got in the way a bit (when hasn't it just lately!) of experimenting and playing but in my head this was much bigger than it became and of course it is un-finished but I am working on it still.</div>
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I knew mine would be a story of a hare. It was around the same time that I walked my dogs, as normal, down at the river in the morning but we were early one day and as we quietly - for a change! - entered the fields there sat looking across the river and into the early morning sunshine was a bunny rabbit. He sat there for what seemed like ages and luckily my dogs didn't notice him so I could watch and be reminded of all the Benjamin Bunny and Peter Rabbit stories from when my kids were little. </div>
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Back at the end of April Lesley Watts from the <a href="http://artelements.net/may-component-of-the-month-design-challenge-and-giveaway/">Art Elements group announced her component for the month. </a> A selection of delightful ceramic cabs with gorgeous rich colours in the recesses of a mold she made from a section of shell. To read the full blog post of the original article click on the link above.</div>
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Lesley creates beautiful pieces in ceramics and in metal clays - you can see more of her work on her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lesleywattartisanelements/?pnref=lhc">Facebook </a> page. Lesley does favour the more organic style of work, compared to my wacky designs but I did fall in love with these pieces as soon as I saw them. There were several colour choices to choose from but the green glaze really appealed to me.</div>
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I chose one of the round cabs and when it arrived I was not disappointed, these pieces are rich in colour and really tactile, I did have it on my work space in my 'kitchen studio' - very posh sounding corner of the kitchen dinning room where I keep all my drawings and pencils for when I take over the table! I kept it out on the dresser so I could just pick it up and touch it, in the right hands this would make a really lovely tactile brooch or pendant but I saw dragons. My first idea was a dragon drawn with scales using the colours of the cab to guide my choices but then I went on Pinterest searching for a quote that appealed to me and found this one...</div>
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'Never stop looking up'.</div>
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What a lovely positive saying and I immediately thought of giraffes and was cross with myself for choosing a green cab rather than a giraffe cab that would have gone with this idea better. For a few days I mused over this and stroked my cabochon until my husband commented on some other drawings had I done, I was lamenting (again!) about being quirky and cartoony and as far away from my realism portrait days as is humanly possible, when he said to me 'don't stop being different that is what makes you you.' (once in a blue moon he can be quite sweet, usually ruins it by then telling me I have got a big backside compared to when we met 25 years ago.... such is married life!)</div>
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