Saturday 8 October 2016

Felt Fox


A felt fox for my baby's first room. 
I started by drawing and cutting out the separate pieces in paper.  Making sure it fitted in the frame I wanted to use.  Using the paper shapes I cut the pieces out of felt and sewed the pieces together. 
I mounted it onto light green card using double sided tape. 

Sunday 12 June 2016

Cumberland Lodge

This is the result of my first time sketching outside.  I found it quite relaxing and glad there was no one else there to look over my shoulder.  This took me around 3-4 hours, which includes washing in with a little bit of colour.
The building is Cumberland Lodge in Windsor...



Fairy Lantern


The theme was 'Shiny' for the creative challenge at my Local Art shop. So I decided to the make the fairy lantern.  You will find lots of tutorials online for this, but this is how I did it...
Drew and cut of the shape of a fairy in black card.
PVA glued white tissue paper all over the outside of a jam jar.
Let dry and glue the fairy on the inside of the jar.
Sprinkled glitter on the outside of the jar (on top of the dried tissue  paper)
and then tied a glittery ribbon around the top of the jar.
some tutorials include the lid, but I left this off as I thought it would be easier to access the candle inside.


Tuesday 26 April 2016

Stag Silhouette

I haven't painted for a while so wanted to do something simple to get me back into it.  I did cheat a little.  I hand drew a silhouette from the internet. Using modelling paste and blue acrylic I got the texture of the stag.  I tried to do the background in strips of different shades of green to give the impression of trees.
DollyX





Saturday 9 January 2016

Carnations

My husband brought me some flowers.  I know, sickening isn't it.
This was my attempt to paint them.  I used a ink pen and watercolour. Dollyx
 This is my little workstation on the floor.  Look I have toes!

Work in progress.  See the finish painting below.