tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20178268195441845532024-02-07T19:22:57.595+00:00shabby dandelionJohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09785406385693485063noreply@blogger.comBlogger243125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017826819544184553.post-58141475584297356842017-03-12T07:21:00.000+00:002017-07-07T20:22:46.238+01:00Welcome home<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its been a long time, old friend, I hadn't forgotten you completely and I wondered how we could make up and start again on our friendship. Oh I haven't got anything to say, I'm not really making anything to share, I haven't been well .... excuses all of them, apart from I needed a break to deal with some stuff and sort my head a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But in the end its just a case of opening up the page, flexing your fingers and start typing isn't it?.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But what to type?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well I've had thoughts and ideas and I have been making, but what I do know is, that I wanted to change the blog slightly into a writing one that ruminates on stuff as well as show cases stuff that I'm making on (I like the word stuff, its so useful for when your brain can't quite drag out the word you really want and most people get "stuff". they have stuff, we all have stuff, its a good word stuff). I like writing, so the blog seemed a good place to practice that writing</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this weekend has been (and still is) my birthday weekend, It isn't quite the half century, but lets just say this time in 12 months it will be. Time to take stock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How did I get to be this age? Where has the last the 49 years gone? What on earth have I achieved in those years? Well I have a good education, I have a good job (even though the commuting kills me), I have a nice house(that desperately needs cleaning and some TLC in the decorating area) and I've been married for 23 year's this year (on the whole its been good, hasn't been easy, no marriage is and on occasions its been at the big crossroads point of the Clash song) . I don't have kids (one of the biggest failings in my life) but I do have a cat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But all those are external things that visually demonstrate who we are. Internally, well lets jut say sometime I feel like a swan, elegant on the outside but paddling my legs like hell to keep afloat. Poor self worth, low self love and depression have been a big part of my life. Its an ongoing battle to gag those little voices and put them back in the black box marked do not open. But sometimes those crafty escapologists get out and have a riot and one hell of a party in my brain. I wouldn't mind but they leave the mess for me to sort out and it can be draining.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I'm getting better at sorting it out, I don't sit in a heap surround by the fallout of that good time , despairing on where to start clearing it all up. I calmly guide them into their box and lock them in, find the bin bags and start putting the rubbish they've left behind in. As I'm doing it I remind myself that there are lots of people who like, love and care about me, that I'm very good at my job, that I'm clever and very creative, that I'm caring and loving, that I'm funny and thoughtful, that I have a loud raucous dirty laugh and that when I smile my face lights up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And I think about what makes me happy, the need for quiet (hard when you are married to a massive music fan who has very different tastes to you), being outside in the sunshine, listening to the rain softly coming down,listening to the birds singing and welcoming a new day, seeing things, experiencing things, whether that be art, nature or new cities to explore, eating good food, being by the sea, train journeys, good coffee, going to the cinema and the theatre, chilling with friends, getting and giving hugs, cooking for friends, watching rugby and shouting at the TV, rest and sleep in fresh bedlinen, sewing, crocheting, getting messy with paper and paint, photography. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doing these things starts filling up the happiness batteries, gives me energy, reminds me that I'm a good person and not the useless, worthless, pointless person those escapologists enjoy telling me that I am. I'm getting stronger at shrugging and saying whatever, that's your opinion, not mine and I choose not to listen to you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But as I said its an ongoing battle, because sometime those batteries are a bit empty and that's when you need those around you who love you, who care for you, who'll put am arm around you and give you a hug (I think hugs should be on the NHS) and say you are alright, you are good, you are loved, I want you in my life because you make my life better, stay with me, connect with me, be with me, you aren't alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And I think that understanding comes with age, when you are facing less years on the planet than you have spent, you start to think about the important stuff, the stuff and things (another good word) that really matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So this year I am determined not to "waste" my free time waiting for others, I will have my own life, I will own my life and take responsibility for it. I will share that life with others that I like and love who want to be with me, but I'm not waiting for you to make it complete. I will do things and this year so far I've been to the cinema more times than I did the whole of last year! there are more theatre and cinema trips booked, weekends away booked, music festivals booked, art exhibitions to book, rugby to watch, lunch dates booked with friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm doing things, I'm living, I've not been dragged into the box marked do not open, sitting in the corner curled up head in hands thinking I'm worthless, useless, pointless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Can't promise all the posts will be this heavy, there will hopefully be funny ones and crafty ones, because hey, all those things rants, humour, creativity make me the person I am.</span></div>
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09785406385693485063noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017826819544184553.post-20472536072085518272016-09-17T06:25:00.002+01:002017-07-07T20:22:46.196+01:00Handmade Fair Day oneGosh, well after months of making stock and a frenzied fortnight putting into frames, designing stand, painting furniture, getting packing staff and admin I've finally made it the Handmade Fair. There nothing like jumping in at the deep end with your first fair / show with a big one like this!<br />
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For those of you who follow me on Instagram (jlmyhill) you'll have seen what my stand looks like, simple, understated, muted vintage shabby style with just a hint of soft green in the bunting and the cute little cupboard I distressed.<br />
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After setting up in 30 degree heat in a marquee on Thursday, Friday was rain and more rain. So lots of wellies and waterproofs of all conceivable style! It did finally brighten up late afternoon, typical English weather!<br />
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I wanted to say a big thank you to everyone I spoke to yesterday, who said how lovely my artwork was, it's was lovely to see the happy smiles on people's faces as they looked at the pieces on display, seeing all the layers of paper, paint, ink and distressing topped with photographs or my log cabin linen squares with vintage lace, buttons and linen thread.<br />
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Once I get home, I'll start adding photos of the unsold pieces here and on my Etsy shop (link on the left), but if you spoke to me at the show and wished you'd made a purchase and didn't and would like to know, drop me an email jlmyhill@googlemail.com and let's talk!<br />
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Day two, here I come!<br />
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JoJohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09785406385693485063noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017826819544184553.post-67281547657606585662016-05-09T18:30:00.000+01:002017-07-07T20:22:46.244+01:00More Gelli!<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And finally added one of my image transfers of a faded decaying tulip. I edged the tulip with a graphite pencil to frame it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finished piece, I like the juxtaposition of the squares and grid against the circles. Plus the pop of burgundy from the tulip draws your eye in to the focal point. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Again this will be for sale in my Etsy shop, framed at £45.00 (plus pnp) or unframed at £25 (plus pnp).</span></div>
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09785406385693485063noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017826819544184553.post-70458402267669531292016-05-08T07:55:00.003+01:002017-07-07T20:22:46.250+01:00It must be jelly 'cos jam don't ...<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So the other week I went to Hope and Elvis (run by the lovely Louise) on the Wellbeck Estate near Workshop. Oh I love going to workshops at Hope and Elvis, they are havens of peace and tranquillity, full of lovely like minded fun, artistic and creative people. Louise and the artists who run workshops are so generous with providing materials for you to play with, its always fun rummaging through paper bits, fabric bits, lace bits, threads and buttons ....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I'm renowned for getting my head down, completely in the zone, only surfacing for the delicious lunch created by Maggie. Intense days but so inspiring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So the latest workshop was on mono printing with Gelli plates with the gorgeous Letitia known as Mrs Bertimus. Now I've used Gelli plates before, but always taken the fabric or the paper to the plate. This time we took the plate to the fabric or paper and used like a stamp. Letitia showed us how to add paint to the Gelli plate, how to square of the paint with a rag, add marks to the paint that would be transferred, using stuff to act as resist on the which ever surface you were using and much more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So I worked on some fabric and a strip of lining paper that I'd glued various bits of paper ephemera on (still haven't quite worked out how I want to use this) . I decided on a colour palette (greys, browns and white and a touch of olive green) ) and got stuck in creating a master board of colour in a 50's Festival of Britain style.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have been steadily (actually you might say manically) collecting old vintage fabrics especially linen, cotton and lace. I'm quite happy sitting there with my seam ripper taking the lace off old tablecloths, placements and antimacassars, smoothing it out and rolling it up gently and placing in my wicker basket (the image wouldn't look out of place in Simple Things magazine). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As Maria would say, just a few of my favourite things: distressed paper, paint (PaperArtsy), stamping (PaperArtsy), ink, lace, linen, muslin, photographs and stitches. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Since doing the CHSI Stitches I've been having anxiety dreams virtually every night. The dreams are full on, fast paced, technicolour Hollywood couldn't make up this storyline of jumbled together action and images. They are waking me up (or it could be the cough lingering on my chest and / or he sinuses lingering in my head) and I lay there with a what the .... was that all about???????</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So here is my take on an art doll, she isn't funky or quirky or arty, she hasn't got riot girl striped legs or punky hair who glares at you on the bus with bright red lipstick and Goth girl heavy Kohl make-up . No, she is a shy shabby style peg doll, who takes the window seat on the bus, takes out her crochet, lays it in her lap and stares out of the window dreaming about what ifs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lots of layers of PaperArtsy paint and paper on the heart, sanding and scratching and flicking to get the distress look. The wings are a MDF butterfly, crackle glazed, distressed and stamped.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As she gets off the bus at her stop, he swings her basket of crochet, gives a tiny skip and a flap of her wings and although its a bit scary not walking on the ground, she smiles to herself as it feels good and exciting to take that step and try out the what ifs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well its been a week I have to say. This time last week I was trundling up the M6 to the NEC for the first day of Stitches, the crafting trade show. I was there to sell "me" in terms of showcasing my style and seeing if people a) liked it (they did) and b) was anyone interested in me running classes / workshops (potentially, just need to work out what and prices).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But the best thing was the networking, the talking, asking questions of people visiting, exploring new avenues I'd never thought of (was that weddings I hear you say), talking to suppliers (and not baulking at minimum order costs). Lots to think about what I want to do and who in a business sense I want to get into bed with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My contacts book is bulging and I need to start going through, following up, planning workshops, putting together brochures for that and booking a stall at Kirstie's Home Made Fair in the Autumn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But in the meantime - art!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The theme over at PaperArtsy (can't thank Leandra and Mark enough for the support they've given me for NEC) is image transfer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've wanted to work on plywood for some time, the solidness of the substrate and the tone of the wood. So the nice man at B&Q cut me some 6x8" pieces the other week and early one morning before the NEC I had to have a play.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Basically I used Chalk and Brown Shed to add colour and Red Geranium and Potting Soil to stamp with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The photograph was taken at <a href="http://hollowellsteam.com/" target="_blank">Hollowell Annual Steam Fair</a> which is about 6 miles away from us. Its a glorious affair, with vintage cars, farm machinery, heavy horses, traction engines, hounds steam fair rides and organs, donkeys, small animal petting areas, junk stalls and real ale. And when the sun is shining you think you are in the Darling Buds of May! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I do love this, I could have added more embellishments, but I quite like the simpleness of it and solidness of the plywood is very tactile and fits in with the rustic nature of the image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, some of you may have realised from my sneaky peeks and hashtags that I've taken a big leap this year in brand "shabby dandelion" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Actually Ive taken two big leaps. Ive finally set up my Etsy shop "theshabbydandelion" (link on the left). there isn't much to buy at the moment but i will be adding more after completing my other big leap. I like my artwork and I hope that other people might and like to buy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The other big leap is that I have taken a small new designer stand at the <a href="http://www.chsi.co.uk/" target="_blank">Stitches</a> trade show at the NEC this weekend to showcase me and shabby dandelion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its a great opportunity for me in my grand plan to become a demonstrator / teacher and share my techniques and ideas with other crafters.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">muted</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">backgrounds </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Secondly marketing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The blog is my main showcase for this but also Instagram has been a fabulous tool to get my images out there internationally, to follow like minded artists and comment on their work and hop that they follow me! ~Its called developing a community of practice in academic circles which basically means like minded people getting together, sharing and communicating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also had to design a business card to give out at Stitches. I wanted it to "show" my style so it had to be one of images of a dandelion of course on a crackle glaze and ripped text layer background in nice muted tonal colours and a simple font with contact details. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wanted to make some big impressive pieces that would be eye catching and draw people in. So in my 2x2m space with a back wall I've created 3 A3 size canvasses using my favourite techniques and products (PaperArtsy of course). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm also dressing the set with props to showcase some of the smaller items I make like my rusty tins, smaller canvases, scrapbook and fabric collages and raggy garlands and hoops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So Saturday is set up day, I'm bringing along my trusty husband and brother to help and then doors open on the Sunday through to Tuesday. so if you are attending come and say hello, you'll find me on Stand LO5 (near ther seminar theatre and workshop area) smiling! </span><br />
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<br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09785406385693485063noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017826819544184553.post-53439312647873363452016-02-14T08:37:00.000+00:002016-02-14T08:37:09.152+00:00Experiments with Wax #1<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wax, I like using wax in my art, I like the resist you can get in a batik kind of way by rubbing a wax candle over areas of art you want to protect. And I like the soft ethereal look you can with wax when you spread it all your art. I even gone so far to buy books on encaustic art, but that a whole new resource requirement and the subsequent drain on finances!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So when the <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2016/02/2016-topic-3-wax-challenge.html" target="_blank">challenge topic #3 Wax</a> was announced on the PaperArtsy website, I knew it would lovely to play along.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I used an old A4 canvas that was originally dark green with texture on it and painted over with a few coats of white acrylic. I used an credit card to scrape the paint over and that left interesting marks. I then went over this with Candy Floss Fresco in the same way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Over this I added a washes of Blush and Chalk to tone down the "pinkness"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Once dry I rubbed with my fingers some watered down French Roast into the cracks and also spritzed with water to get drips. To be honest I could have left it there as it looked so good!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then it was a case of just adding more layers of paint and stencilling. In the picture below you'll see I stencilled in Chocolate Pudding and added some smears of Chartreuse. Using Chalk when I needed to knock back the colour and blend it together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now I knew it needed a focus, so I had a look through my photo and transfer image folder and found this altered images of Lupins taken last summer. the colours were a spot on match for the background. It needed a frame to sit on so I got out my Portfolio pastels and some more pastels Id got and selected greys, whites and browns. I just scribbled them on and then heated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oh er, it was alchemy! The Portfolios melt and set, but the oil pastels moved around and spread. I got so excited by it I forgot to take a picture of that stage. But of you enlarge the picture below you'll see where the colour spread. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A layer of clear wax pellets to seal this layer. It needed some extra elements to frame the image so I added some of Emma's lovely scribbly blooms in Coffee Archived and lightly painted in Chalk to get a scuffed translucent look as I didn't want them to distract from the main image. I added a quote from EEG14 as well (oh so very true).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> As I said on Instagram, (see links on the left), I really, really love this, some definite actions and some happy mistakes to make gorgeous, if I say so myself, art.</span><br />
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<br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09785406385693485063noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017826819544184553.post-88313727658988285902016-02-03T19:43:00.002+00:002016-02-03T19:43:06.685+00:00Daisy, Daisy ....<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is very different for me colour wise and at times I nearly lost my nerve and painted over it. But I stuck with it and I'm really, really pleased.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At the PaperArtsy Christmas Day we learnt some great techniques on shading from Tracy Scott. I liked the concept but wasn't keen on the design and wanted to create more of a patchwork effect with straight lines rather than curves. Well this week as I've taken some annual leave (my tooth still hasn't cleared up after numerous dentist visits, got another one on Friday that I might just have a hissy fit if nothing is done and frankly I'm tired and still dealing with infection pus with isn't a public viewing activity if you get my drift) I decided to try out my idea. I was also inspired by the <a href="http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=4157" target="_blank">Simon Says Monday challenge of a Ray of Sunshine</a> which means yellow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Um, yellow, not a great fan of yellow, whether its buttery or zingy. But hey this year is all about saying yes to more to art / craft related things. So I put my sunglasses on and set to work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had a long thin canvas knocking around that had some texture on and was painted white. Over this I added some colour as a base (Cheese Cake, Submarine Yellow and finally Nougat) with a credit card and baby wipe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I marked out a grid with pencil and started adding colour to each of the squares. I used a whole range of PaperArtsy pastels in orange, pink, green and mauve. Those that know me, know I don't do pastels, first step up the ladder of moving out of comfort zone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To add another layer of depth I stamped the square clocks image from Clocks 2 plate in Watering Can archival in the squares. Added some shading in each square using the mid range colour for that square.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And then to make matters worse I added a wash of Submarine Yellow, <b>EVEN BRIGHTER! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Left it for a while and thought no, still too bright for me, Chalk colour wash time. Back down the comfort zone ladder I know but it worked for me. Finally went over the lines with a soft brown watercolour pencil and soften the lines with water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That was all yesterday. This morning I stamped the large heart from <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/eclectica-emma-godfrey-13-6013-p.asp" target="_blank">EEG13</a> onto some white Japanese calligraphy paper in a soft green Archival, created a mask and added some text. these were glued down and edged in the soft brown pencil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now the fun bit, the daisies. Using both sizes of flower from EEG14 (only just released from PaperArtsy, check out the <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2016/02/new-pa-products-feb-2016-emma-godfrey.html" target="_blank">blogpost</a>) I stamped in black Archival onto linen sandwich of linen, Bondaweb, linen. These were then painted with Snowflake and Submarine Yellow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Over on the SimonSays Monday challenge the theme is <a href="http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=3941" target="_blank">Love is in the Air + red.</a> As I had some scraps left over from my PaperArtsy heart I thought I'd have a play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I started with an old 7x5" canvas and gessoed to try and eradicate the previous colour (orange / pink). Plenty of layers later I added some book text and then began adding layers of paint. First up, a very watered down Mud Splat and then washes of Chalk and Snowflake (all <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/fresco-acrylic-paints-269-c.asp" target="_blank">PaperArtsy</a>) to give some opaque and some translucent areas so the book text could peep through in places..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Why the clocks? Well lust can be sudden and fleeting, but love, love grows and deepens over time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The heart was a left over scrap from my <a href="http://shabbydandelion.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/grungy-heart.html" target="_blank">Grungy Heart</a>. Edged with charcoal pencil to define and some charcoal marks around it to frame and reflect the grey of the Watering Can archival. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grungy, shabby, distress, ripped, layers, collage, depth, that pretty much sums up my art and this encompasses all of that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've had the idea of strips of distressed card layered onto more card for ages, its sometime I do with fabric and I wanted to see how it translated to card. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Picture heavy, but I know that's what everyone likes! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I started by creating an master board using a PaperArtsy paints. I brayered and wiped,, scraped and stencilled with Buff, Cherry Red, Garnet, Vanilla and Chartreuse. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then I created a large collage style stamping plate using a variety of Ink and the Dog stamps and stamped over the card with Red Geranium Archival and finally some stamping of numbers in Watering Can Archival. A light wash of Chalk was put on to soften everything down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well I have to say it hasn't been the start to the year I'd envisaged, by now I would have been to the gym a 3 times a week, planned our meals weekly, dragged my husband into the study to start de-cluttering (we have different working styles, I like clean spaces and no clutter, he likes to be surrounded by piles of what appear to be waste paper). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But no it wasn't to be the planned for January, that month of new starts, reflection, cleaning the decks, planning, setting goals in motion hasn't happened Instead the past two weeks have been sort of on standstill as I tackle my tooth abscess. It's finally going down (fourth lot of antibiotics) my face is almost back to normal as in not looking like I have a grapefruit trying to push its way out from the inside. I'm still in some pain and achy, but no where near as bad as it was, thanks to everyone who has sent best wishes, social media is fantastic when you are cooped up in your personal pain riddled insular world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The theme at the moment at <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/2016/01/2016-topic-2-hearts-challenge.html" target="_blank">PaperArtsy</a> is hearts (ummm, I wonder why as we hurtle towards February)) and this is my contribution using a empty grapefruit tin, <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/fresco-acrylic-paints-269-c.asp" target="_blank">PaperArtsy paint, </a>some card, <a href="http://shop.paperartsy.co.uk/grunge-paste-4129-p.asp" target="_blank">Grunge Paste</a>, embossing powder, rusty wire , ribbon and string. Yes I know I sound like Lesley Judd but as a kid I loved Blue Peter especially when they did craft!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The tin was painted with Little Black Dress all over and then I stippled Grunge Paste that had been mixed with Cherry Red. Over this I stippled Burnt Orange, Garnet, Plum, Chartreuse (just a little bit) in various places. Lots of water was spritzed and paints allowed to drip to soften. I then went to town adding texture and contrast used a variety of embossing powder. I used some WOW powders, Frantage and Distress to get the effect and colour I wanted. I just lightly sprinkle pinches of powder onto the tin, have the heat gun very high up until it starts to stick and then move in closer to melt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you seen tonight's post on the <a href="http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/" target="_blank">PaperArtsy blog</a> tonight on my take on wearable art then you might like to see the second wrist wrap I made using the spare strips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I joined them together in the same way and did lots of zigzag stitching using pink variegated thread on my machine. I then added lace trim to one side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Disaster (not really in the worldwide scheme of things, but ...) I'd run out of this trim! Plus the length of the wrap was a big long. So I cut it in half and sewed one layer on top of the other so I had lace trim on both sides and a much thicker wrap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I love the roughness of the stitching with the softness of the fabric and lace and the stamping just peeping through!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">xx </span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09785406385693485063noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017826819544184553.post-37714298018023111472015-09-06T19:15:00.000+01:002015-09-06T19:15:00.304+01:00Its Ally Pally time (nearly)!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well the affectionately known Ally Pally (Big Stamping and Scrapbooking Show) has rolled around really fast again and as you'd expect PaperArtsy are going to be there with LOADS of new stamps and paints, makes and takes and demos to tempt you and hopefully inspire you to have a go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm going to be there on the Sunday demoing my style of art using PaperArtsy stamps and paints. I'll be making backgrounds, layering, image transfer,using different types of paper, fabric, lace, string, and even some buttons and sewing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And to further tempt you I've got two free tickets to give away courtesy of PaperArtsy to lucky readers of Shabby Dandelion all you need to do is leave me a comment telling me your favourite colour and I' ll pick a winner in time for you to receive the tickets and come and see us.</span><br />
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09785406385693485063noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017826819544184553.post-80787516259461433922015-09-02T08:44:00.000+01:002015-09-02T09:04:00.171+01:00By gosh the roads are narrow!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, we are in Cornwall and for us town dwellers gosh these country lanes are narrow, very narrow, twisty and surrounded by high Cornish hedges. Who needs roller coasters for a adrenalin rush of the unknown. Mind you if we do come face to face with a tractor on the lane to our barn, the tractor wins, thank goodness for parking sensors!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've been coming to Cornwall for most of married life (20 plus years) so we've done all the National Trusts, Heligan, Eden etc, so we don't feel the need to whizz around this time, we'll just do our favourite things: walking on the Lizard, eating Roskillys ice cream, St Ives, the Tate and Barbara Hepworth and just chilin'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided not to bring any art supplies with me as I'd got my crochet and some magazines to catch up on, but you visit the Tate and you just have to put something to paper! So as per normal I had to buy emergency supplies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the theme is circles over at PaperArtsy, I'd had an idea to draw lots of circles joined together, so gave it a go this morning. I had intended it to be the beach as we'd sat on Porthmeor beach yesterday and it was quite pleasant with some sun ( seems we were the only ones in the UK going by the grumbles on social media) But then it sort of morphed into becoming one of those high Cornish hedges covered in vegetation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now the bottom half of this was an experiment. Because poppies are such a strong image of war and remembrance I wanted some gravestones. My library at work looks over St Mary's Church in Luton and right by the back of the library are some old gravestones. so I went out early one morning took some snaps on my phone and then came back and manipulated them to create a long horizontal image. I used the photocopy of the image to image transfer on to the background using gel medium. You can't actually see the grave stones, but it added another layer of texture and contrast colour.</span><br />
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<br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09785406385693485063noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017826819544184553.post-73833603830586534692015-08-09T08:26:00.001+01:002015-08-09T08:27:15.977+01:00Ideas and inspiration<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Get a cup of your favourite tipple, this is a long post with lots of links!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">so where do ideas and inspiration come from? Is it images, is it techniques, is it other artists, emotions, the need to say "something" themes or challenges? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What ever it is there is plenty out there and sometimes there is none to be found and no matter how much "stuff" (paper, fabric, yarn, paint, stamps ...) you have, they stay unused or whatever you do make you don't like and it gets discarded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Two events have sparked my creative machine recently. A workshop at <a href="http://shabbydandelion.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/an-away-day-to-recharge-batteries.html" target="_blank">Hope and Elvis</a> and meeting other mixed media artists and a visit to the Festival of Quilts (FoQ) on Friday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I really could have done with two days at FoQ, the amount of shopping opportunities, the quilts, the art exhibitions and the artists themselves is impossible to do properly in one day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whilst I like looking at the quilts, I prefer looking at the modern art exhibitions, talking to the artists and the students who have the opportunity to have a small stand to show their degree and City and Guilds work (see you can't take the encouraging librarian put of me event at a quilt show).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So what inspired me at FoQ? Well here's a list and links so you can have a look at their work:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thebluehare.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Deborah O'Hare</a> and her amazing hares, you can also see here work <a href="http://quiltroutes.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">here </a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.annettemorgan.co.uk/index.htm" target="_blank">Annette Morgan</a> and her image transfers </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://carolinebelltextiles.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Caroline Bell </a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://chainstitchreaction.com/" target="_blank">Linda Onions</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.marymcintosh.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mary McIntosh</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.susanchapman.com/" target="_blank">Susan Chapman</a> and Granary Studios, works with Linda Onions</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.valhughes.com/" target="_blank">Val Hughes</a> and her gorgeous textured white felting</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.janetclare.co.uk/" target="_blank">Janet Clare </a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.christinechester.com/" target="_blank">Christine Chester</a> and paper lamination's about her father </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://quiltart.eu/" target="_blank">QuiltArt</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thefestivalofquilts.co.uk/Content/Fine-Art-Quilt-Masters-2015" target="_blank">The Fine Art Quilt Masters</a> exhibitions especially <a href="http://www.thefestivalofquilts.co.uk/Content/Gravitational-Force-1687" target="_blank">Gravitational Force</a> by <a href="https://susiekorendotco.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Susie Koren</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://katecrossley.com/" target="_blank">Kate Crossley </a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.throughourhands.co.uk/" target="_blank">Through our Hands</a> collaborative </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.elsvanbaarle.com/" target="_blank">Els van Baarle</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lukehaynes.com/" target="_blank">Luke Haynes,</a> just love the tonal backgrounds of log cabin</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All of these artists use texture and colour in a contemporary way and gave me loads of ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> If you want to see some visuals of the quilts I'd recommend going on Instagram and use the hashtag #festivalofquilts to see what everyone else has posted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And of course I bought fabric, a lot of fabric and I'm not exaggerating. I washed most of it yesterday and my dining room table looks like a jumble sale table as you can see!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In terms of the shops I purchased from,here's a list:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.thevillagehaberdashery.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Village Haberdashery</a> (chambrays and modern prints)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://simplysolids.co.uk/" target="_blank">Simply Solids</a> (modern prints)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sunflowerfabrics.com/index.htm" target="_blank">Sunflower Fabrics</a> (great colour combination packs and Liberty Tana Lawn)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mulberrysilks-patriciawood.com/" target="_blank">Mulberry Silks</a> for silk thread</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The most gorgeous Swedish flax threads from <a href="http://linladan.com/" target="_blank">Linladan </a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And whilst I love the modern contemporary art look most of this fabric will be used to make quilt tops, the back pile has some great prints of cats of mice and birds to make a fun scrappy quilt and the front pile is chambray's that I'll use to make a raggy quilt (look it up on Google to see examples).</span></div>
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<br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09785406385693485063noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017826819544184553.post-60788967250947252922015-08-05T18:30:00.000+01:002015-08-05T18:30:01.275+01:00What kind of an artist are you?<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm not a neat artist, (yes I'm calling myself an artist, trying to get used to using that description of me), I like to splodge paint around, make marks, make and use texture in an abstract way (yes another label) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And i like imagery especially in photographs, not broad landscapes and not people very often, but objects and close up objects at that, flowers, ironwork, decayed wood, decayed animals. as a colleague said to me the other week, detail, that's your thing. He was saying it bout work but I reckon it could apply to my art. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So I'm a detailed abstract splodge kind of artist.and here is an example of my detailed abstract splodging.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I started with the central panel with my favourite neutral colour palette using PaperArtsy paints, lots of washes, candle resit etc. Added a sheet of text paper that I ripped and sanded to get a shabby look and added Walnut Stain Distress Ink to get the base I wanted. Added some scrunched and inked brown paper again sanded and ripped. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I didn't want to use stamps for this layer so I got the pencils and watercolour pencils out and drew some lines and shapes to look like naive art flowers (they are naive I can't draw figuratively at all)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The rose photograph which had digital layers on it was stuck down, sanded in places and some washes of chalk paint added over the top to allow it to fade into the background. I added white pencil marks around it to act as a frame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'd left it at this for a while put felt it needed another layer behind it especially if I was going to frame it in one of my A3 frames. So an A3 piece of white card had some Distress Ink and paint added to it a small amount of stamping. The A5 art was stuck to this base and some more pencil lines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm glad i was brave enough to add my own marks and its something I'd like to continue doing, they may not be expertly and neatly drawn but the perfectionist in me can just about live with it if I remember its naive folk art not botanical drawings!</span></div>
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<br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09785406385693485063noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017826819544184553.post-2465410801121343102015-08-02T07:09:00.002+01:002015-08-02T07:38:10.734+01:00Homage to Hermione<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This year I've decided to tackle the garden, bit by bit, focus on certain areas because its a big garden. Its only taken us 10 years but who's counting! The first space was the border near the patio and conservatory, we like cottage gardens so there are lots of cottagey plants and the bees and butterflies are certainly enjoying it. We planted three new <a href="http://www.davidaustinroses.com/" target="_blank">David Austin</a> roses, a white (Winchester Cathedral), a pink (Gertrude Jekyll) and a pinky mauve (Gentle Hermione). They all smell divine and the Winchester is a gorgeous repeater.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So the theme over at PaperArtsy is flowers, so I made some flowers and the colour scheme was chosen by the beautiful mauve of Hermione. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I started by colouring an A4 sheet in Dolly Mix and Chalk, stencilling in Elephant and stamping in Watering Can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now you could use the roses as they are, put I wanted to put metal stalks on them and "put in something" (I hadn't quite decided what). I took some metal wire, flattened it by bashing it on a metal block and shaping one end into a spiral, bent the stalk at right angels so the spiral would sit on the base of the flower. The stalks were stained with alcohol ink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These are really fun to make and it made me laugh that Jennie over at <a href="http://jennie-livethedream.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/blousy-summer-blooms.html" target="_blank">Live the Dream</a> was doing the same thing! Nothing new in art, just interpretation and variation. </span><br />
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<br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09785406385693485063noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017826819544184553.post-40015356489287148672015-07-29T18:00:00.000+01:002015-07-29T18:00:00.331+01:00A study in grey (but not that "Grey")<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I made this a little while ago and just haven't got round to sharing. It's a return to some of my favourite things, paint, layers, distress and image transfer all in a monochrome palette with just a hint of pink pulled out from the image transfer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lots of layers of paint and washes, candle resit work, scratching, sanding more layers of paint washes, stencilling and stamping. to get a really subtle background of layers and contrast, nothing too jarring on the eye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The tulip image transfer was on top of some book text which you cant see but I wanted there just in case the image didn't take and I wanted the contrast of the text peeping through the image. Once the backing was removed, some sanding to distress and then stencilled the circles, these has pencil on them s well in green and grey just to give some shadow and contrast. White pencil round the edge (still loving this shabby rough framing) and a lot of layers of Gloss glaze to seal and brighten the image. </span><br />
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<br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09785406385693485063noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2017826819544184553.post-19951926863043926282015-07-26T07:52:00.000+01:002015-07-26T07:52:38.583+01:00An away day to recharge the batteries.<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Its been a long time for me to have difficulty sleeping because you've got so many craft ideas racing round my brain (work issues do keep me awake, thank goodness for Iplayer, it took me 10 attempts to listen to Benedict Cumberpatch in Rumpole the other week) but last night loads of what ifs and oh would that work?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Why, well I had a fantastic day at <a href="http://www.hopeandelvis.com/index.html" target="_blank">Hope & Elvis</a> near Worksop run by Louise on a <a href="http://lizcooksey.com/index.htm" target="_blank">Liz Cooksey</a> workshop. I spotted the workshop ages ago and Liz's use of metal and grid arrangements with mixed media elements really spoke to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After a horrendous journey up the M1 I made the 10.00am start - just! Liz explained her methods and design principles and she made loads of metal elements for us to use if we didn't want to have ago ourselves. Although all materials were available Id taken a load of stuff as I'd decided I wanted to work with a neutral colour scheme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First thing I did was nick some used teabags and dyed some cotton scraps I had and the A4 Kraft card, left them out in the courtyard to dry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I then stated to have a play with the metal elements thinking about what I wanted to "do" Started doing some crochet with linen thread (bit of a faff, think I needed a bigger hook) and sticking. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Once my A4 was dry I added some book pages and then layered the cotton and some silk strips on the swankiest sewing machine I ever seen, I felt like I was driving an Aston Martin, so many buttons and oh so quiet. I felt really naughty sewing on paper with such a majestic beast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Metal and shaping and bashing, oh how I enjoyed that, all afternoon you could hear the rhythmic ringing of metal on metal out in the courtyard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The flower on the left is one I made, I love how hitting the metal wire with a hammer of a metal block stretches the metal, flattens its and changes the colour The wire Liz supplied was malleable enough to twist and make shapes and the tendril on the flower on right was done this way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The day ended at 4.00pm and that was good because I was knackered, all that thinking and pondering had taken its toll! I knew the piece wasn't quite finished for me as I wanted to add some pencil marks and little bit of highlight colour. So once home got the water colour pencils out and added in the brown, purple and red. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was a great day, working with all my favourite materials in a beautiful space created by Louise and talking to other like minded people creating and chatting, lovely, lovely, lovely.</span><br />
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