Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Skechbook challenge: 7 days of drawing

Entry for June 8th
Pathways: Botanical gardens

Entry for June 9th
Pathways: Exploring roller stamps

Entry for June 10th
Pathways: Careers

Entry for June 11th
Pathways: Hut

Entry for June 12th
Pathways: Maori sculpture

Entry for June 13th
Pathways:  How many ways to describe and cook pears.

Entry for June 14th
Pathways: Mountains

Sunday, 12 June 2011

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

Skechbook challenge: 7 days of drawing

The new theme for June is Pathways.  This theme can be explored in any way the artist choose.  These are my first 7 for the month

Title page: Pathways

Entry for June 2nd
Pathways: Unexpected pathway-depression

Entry for June 3rd
Pathways: My travels today
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Entry for Jun 4th
Pathways: Dreams versus reality

Entry for June 5th
Pathways: Sketchbook mind map

Entry for June 6th
Pathways: Water pathways

Entry for June 7th
Pathways: Flowers

Monday, 6 June 2011

Quilted book covers

A couple of months ago I downloaded Lyric Kinard's workshop called the sample platter from the quilting arts web site.  It is a wonderful mixture of diffent techniques to try for surface design. At the end of this DVD she demostrated an easy way to make book covers.  So I decided to have a go at making one. 

I used a few techniques in the DVD. 
  1. Screen printing-The front cover of the book is a screen print I designed
  2. Stamping-I made my own rubber stamp and printed this image onto the spine.
  3. Rubbing-I did repeated rubbings of a flower stamp and a line printing block with shiva paint sticks.
In addition to these techniques I ragged colour onto the whole piece of fabric with 3 different colours.

The front of the book

 The back of the book


The spine of the book

I quilted the book cover front and back and added beads where the quilted lines crossed each other. 

It was a really enjoyable project and I am planning on doing many more covers.



Saturday, 4 June 2011

Skechbook challenge: Last few days of May

Entry for May 28th
Can't resist this: The family and the remote

Entry for May 29th
Can't resist this: Reading the story of Esther

Entry for May 30th
Can't resist this: Flowers

Entry for May 31st
Can't resist this: Sunset

Entry for June 1st
Can't resist this: Leaves

Friday, 3 June 2011

photography

I haven't posted anything photo realted for a while so today I want to share with you some photos I took in my back yard last week.  ENJOY!

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Sketchbook challenge: Flowers and leaves

This week I have been experimenting with wonder under, paint and crayon. It is so much fun. 

Let me show how I did the pages.



Thin down acrylic paint


Paint the thinned paint over the wonder under/Vlisofix and leave to dry.


Using thick acrylic paint in 2 colours of your choice, load a foam brush. 
Lightly paint over the surface of your page. Leave to dry

Choose 4 different tones of crayons in the colours of your choice.  Start with the lightest toned crayon and draw leaves randomly over the page. 
Using the next lightest coloured crayon add more leaves randomly.

Add the other 2 colours of crayon again drawing leaves randomly.

Paint a thin wash of colour over the page.  I chose a khaki green

Once the wonder under is dry draw the shapes of the leaves over the backing paper. Cut them out

Lay them on the page until you are happy with the layout.  Iron them onto the page. Peel off the backing.  Remember to use a protective Teflon sheet when ironing other wise all the wonder under could stick to your iron.

The wonder under leaves aren't sticky once they are ironed.  They stick nicely to the surface of your page.  They are transparent and are a little shiny and give added texture to the page.


These are another 3 pages I have done using this technique.






Have fun experimenting!
 


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