Pensive

A work in progress or no longer ?

I like the unfinished kinda look to it

and the monochromatic with a hint of colour,

we'll see if I can keep my pencils

and brushes off her long enough...

A Mermaid Booklet and her value studies

I am doing colour value studies

for La Sirena

(the back-to-school-feeling is creeping up on me, haha)

but of course I cannot resist the odd little portrait in between the excersises

and some ATC's too

A couple ATCs for my Mum, together with some instructions so she might start to make some ATCs too ? Who knows......we'll see...

'Make a Wish' and 'a Kiss'

and another couple of pages I did in Mum's journal

playing around with profiles and frontal faces

Little Red

another spread in the journal

with my first succesful crackle ! Yay !

and little windowshutters that keep an old piece of parchment

to write on.

Toadstools & Ferns

This is one of my own favs from the book for Mum

Filigree Frame ~ The Lady

Another page from the Journal Book for Mum

Feather Lady

This is one of the journal entries from the coptic journal I made.
I found the Guinea Fowl feathers while visiting a kids-petting-farm.

The fowl were loosing their feathers and these were too irrisistible....

I could not take them back with me to New Zealand though, NZ is pretty stricked in bringing in animal- and organic bits and pieces,

so I just had to use them right there and then.....
A5 size - portrait on a piece of frayed and stained printed cotton fabric in the coptic journal

♥

The book for my Mum

I finally finished this book as a gift for my Mum
remember ?
It started as my first Coptic Book a while ago.......
I took it with me half finished...I always run out of time.
Now it's her turn to write some stories or poems in the open pages or in between the drawings and paintings.
When I get home I want to make another coptic journal, it's loads of fun !

A little girl's World

Another gift for a little baby-niece

8x12" canvas with a matt varnish
-I was too afraid to use the candle this time again-

Flower Girl

I made this little wallhanging for my niece,

had to be thrifty and use very limited art supplies

(I am visiting my family

and only took my coloured pencils and sketchbook)

My Dad found a piece of box in the shed,

my Mum had a white candle instead of my yummie beeswax

(not to be recommended b.t.w.)

and I used the specials guide from the local supermarket

and some cheap-o kids acrylic-tubs from the local store.

The gift was well received :-)

Teaser

teaser for something I am working on....

Brown Paper Booklet #1

I already have too many unfinished projects, too many ideas floating inside my head and definitely too little time, so of course I thought I'll sqeeze in this little project that has been nagging me for a while ever since I saw it at this blog by the very creative iHanna

-Painted brown wrapping paper (both sides) ripped into pages and making it into little booklets-

and the kids LOOOOOVE to do it too!!!

Mermaid Gemini

Two more Mermaid ATCs I made ~ my Mermaid Gemini....
(since I still have to finish Gemini for my self imposed challenge)

more Mermaids

More Mermaids for a swap with some Art Friends

Shattered

Mixed Media on woodpanel

11.5 x 15.5 inch

30 x 40 cm

Mermaid Garden

Mixed Media on flat panel canvas

10x12 inch ~ 24x30cm.

The Mermaid and the Shark

4x4 cardstock mixed media with dreamy beeswax finish

A little game I did at Art Trader ...pick 6 numbers...

find out what corresponds with these, make a Mermaid design...

Curvy,Reaching,Blue/violet,Blue-green/violet,Shark,French,Curious

Little Baker - Bakers Dozen

Another little Baker Girl

on MDF Block

4.5.x 7.5 inch

the Sisters together

Coptic Binding

I wanted to try out this coptic bookbinding for myself, and this is the result.

I used watercolour paper and covered the cover with textured paint.

I wanted to make it look a bit old, vintage.

I will still decorate the front and show it again.

The process is really enjoyable and will certainly make more journals/books in the future.