Experimenting with watercolours has been enjoyable so far and has certainly been convenient. I haven’t got a lot of space to work and it is easy to get set up and clear away when there are limited supplies. My lovely big sketchbook, with the quality watercolour paper, is proving a bit daunting – both in … More Odds And Ends
A photo of my seemingly not very limited supplies! This is in preparation for a six month journey around different parts of the UK, while my husband and I search for a house in a coastal area – North Norfolk hopefully! I packed up a box of art materials, focusing on watercolours for ease. I … More Doodles and Supplies
If anyone is still checking in on my website – and it seems by the stats they are! – then hopefully this blog post will be read. Does anybody want this Wisteria panel? There is very little stitching on it, but it is very obviously a textile piece, with layers of translucent fabrics put onto … More Wisteria Panel
This photograph shows the front of one of my large Pink Pig sketchbooks. I have about a dozen of these A3 size books, in both landscape and portrait format, and I find the large size excellent for samples, drawings and design work. I like the coloured covers, which can be successfully decorated with collage or … More Last Post – Sketchbooks
Collect together a pile of fabrics in all the colours you love. They can be plain or patterned, smooth or textured, but the colours should sit well together. You could use one of the patterned fabrics as inspiration for your colour scheme or select a favourite postcard or picture as a way to co-ordinate your … More Instructions For Mosaic Project
In preparation for a workshop I am running soon, I thought I would make some samples in colours that weren’t my usual ‘coastal’ selection. Deliberately choosing the bright yellow and blue of ceramics tiles seen in Portugal I made my choice of fabrics accordingly. I made one large, layered piece, using a variety of fabrics, … More Mosaic Workshop
Not normally one to use pictures of myself on this blog, I thought I would include this as the source of inspiration for some potato printing I’ve been doing today with a group of friends. We had seen Grayson Perry printing a travel poster on his recent Channel 4 Art Club programme and he had … More Potato Printing
I took this lovely photograph on a recent trip to the Farne Islands, with my cheap little point and shoot camera. We were able to get very close to the puffins and they didn’t seem to mind nearly as much as the Terns, which kept dive bombing everyone and making a lot of fuss. I … More Sea Parrots
I purchased this little leather bound journal while on holiday in Israel. I particularly wanted to buy something that I could fill with pictures and jottings once I returned home and I found this book in the flea market at Jaffa. The leather needed a little cleaning, and the metal front piece a bit of … More Travel Journal
I have recently returned from a holiday in Israel where I was lucky enough to find a wonderful fabric shop! In fact, there was an entire street of fabric shops, lots all side by side, the wares spilling out into the road – such a choice! People always say about taking an empty suitcase on … More Fabric Spree
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