At work with my quilts..

Its like my own little art gallery at work :)
They moved us around in the office and I had this
blank canvas.

Whats a girl to do ? Fill it with her Quilts !

I do get a fair amount of compliments on them.

textures

I am way busy with online courses ... and trying out new textures.
These are samples well some are larger then others ..
I have the last lesson from Lynda and Carol online course.
I have their new book ... which is fantastic ...
I have the new felting book by Lizzie Houghton and
going to be doing a painting textures workshop with
Gary Reef ... keep your eyes peeled for this .. his work
is super fantastic ! SSSoooo not enough hours in the day
keep your eyes here .. I will be doing a give away in the
near future so once again WATCH THIS SPACE.

Paint, Paint and more paint

These are some works in progress and some are almost done .. except for the stitch and or mounting .. What do you think ?

Africaan Rusks

In preparation for Laura and Fred coming to visit here is Lauras' blog.. I have made some africaan rusks so they feel at home when they come over to visit us next weekend.... hopefull they will last till then ... Laura gave me the recipe and now I am hooked.
Awaiting your arrival :) Laura owns trapsuutjies company which sells fabric paints and supplies. I believe I did a piece which I blogged using some of Lauras' paints. Dijanne and Annette both use these fabric paints and love them. I am sure alot of others use Lauras paints as well.
Laura will be attending the Festival of Quilts and I shall go for a few days to help them out at the stand as well. Watch this space for some work with the paints.

Lynda Monk and Carol McFees online workshop

I am having the greatest time doing the workshop with Lynda and Carol online....
these ladies are very very talented and innovative ..
Keep your eyes peeled for more sample pieces.

Few more samples

I really like this one it looks like metal and the fleur de lis .. they are fantastic as well

lesson 2

This is the same piece as below with more paint on it ... wow I love these techniques

Textures workshop

Here is a piece I am sampling from the workshop with Lynda and Carol Textured surfaces. This is the first step.
Stay tuned

Evening sky in suffolk

Ok I am way busy with the final stages of getting the Evolon pieces

ready for Marion who is hoping to finish up this book by the end of this

week or so. She is going to get a photographer to take the pictures and wants

a blurb about me wooo weee how lucky am I ...

I dont want to post any of the pieces as of yet until I get permission

from Marion to do so but I can tell you they have turned out really really

well .

Two rusted pieces done into books and a transfer dyed book as well as

another one using a technique from textured surface workshop as well

as Evolon. ohhh I cannot wait to show you !!!

As soon as this is done on to lesson two of Textured surfaces .. pics to come

they are in white right now so they dont show up so well in a photograph so

lesson two we paint them ...

The muse is back :)

Busy busy in the background

Well I know I have been quiet lately .. I have three things on the go right now .. first and foremost is doing some work to go into a book for my friend Marion ... she is doing a book on evolon so I am frantically trying to get those pieces done.

In the meantime I doing a online course with Lynda Monk and Carol McFee its called Textured surfaces ... I have admired these ladies work for some time now and just had to take the course ... already doing some samples that are fantastic and its only lesson 1 LOL .

The other thing I have done was get the latest book out by Lizzie Houghton whose work I also love, she works with felt and that is YET another passion of mine....

So keep your eyes peeled here for some new work to come out of me!

Nag me if you like :) to see the work .

Some work finally mounted

I have been busy mounting a few pieces that I have made , sometimes I find you just need the right type of way to mount your work to show it off at its best.

What do you think ?

Someone asked me on the technique I used for the brownish piece. She said she had a hard time with the tissue paper and putting this on the stamp.
Let me tell you how I did this if I remember correctly.
Take any stamp and I then took some tissue paper and wet this down on the stamp with a paint brush and water making sure that it gets pushed into the holes and crevices and repeated this with about three layers making sure to stick it down then when dry did a glue layer .. I then repeated this about 3 or 4 times pressing it down each time.
Once this was dry I painted this with acrylic paints ... put some puff paint or you could use gesso or golden gel to raise the surface a bit . I highlighted this with some metallic rub on the high bits to pick up a sheen.... wet the edges to make uneven tears .... mounted this on a background and sewed it down to the backing .. I then sewed this on to the mounted canvas.

work mounted

Here are a few more pieces of mounted work .

Rusting evolon

Here is some evolon fabric I am rusting to do an article that could possibly go into a book.
I am rusting some evolon with washers in vinegar in the airing cupboard where its very warm making the vinegar react to the metal.
How cool is this?

Marion Little Green shed Open Studio

On the weekend I went to visit Marion Barnett in Norfolk . It was her birthday and she was having Open studio. Check her blog for more details.
We had a wonderful visit and were greeted by Marion and her husband Robin with a wonderful cuppa and some very nice biscuits indeed. We had a long overdue chat and she showed me around her Little Green shed and work she has been doing.
She is a busy little beaver this girl... painting , lutradur and her newest love evolon to which she is writing a book about.
Marion is running workshops, playdays... how fun is that ! once again check her website out for more details.
All in all it was a very nice visit and if you have time I would defineatly go for a visit.

Open studio for Marion

A few more and working in a series. Nice work Marion.