Another studio session this afternoon, which I wasn't expecting to have. We had a phone call a couple of weeks ago postponing our dental appointment to 31st August (today). We have to travel about an hour to get to our dentist - we have always been with him and decided to stay with…
At last I have got around to doing a blog post about my DIY foam stamps! I've been promising to do this for ages. Fun foam and yoga mat Looking up videos on YouTube, most people seem to mount their DIY foam stamps on cardboard. This didn't seem very satisfactory to me because…
Another session in the studio this afternoon began somewhat unpromisingly, but it redeemed itself in the form of "practice makes perfect," and another page in my Organic Journal. Ink dipping I'm not sure what this technique is really called, because I couldn't find the video I saw several months ago. Froyle was doing…
It's been several days since I've been able to get in my studio and actually create something. We went out for the day on Friday (I will be blogging about that as soon as I've sorted the photos) and yesterday I was too exhausted and headachy to do anything at all. Apart from…
Today we had another National Trust outing, this time to Coleton Fishacre, which is a little closer to us than Castle Drogo, where we went last week. Another gorgeous art book! As with that visit, it is going to take me a few days to sort through all the photos and edit them,…
I have finally managed to finish sorting through the huge number of photos I took of this outing, and then selecting the ones to upload to my blog. Castle Drogo - Background Castle Drogo is one of our local National Trust properties, here in the County of Devon in the UK. It is…
A couple of fruitful hours in the studio this afternoon. Well, mostly... Paper Mesh Thinking about my paper mesh experiments recently and how generally unsatisfactory the results were, I thought a bit more about it and decided that the sprayed pieces might work best photographed and used as printables. In their "real" state,…
Paper mesh I did some more work on the packing paper mesh pieces I was working on recently. I didn't like the sheet from the scrunched up paper mesh stamping: so I added some coffee staining - which I also added to one of the baby wipes that needed a bit more attention…
Faded Fresco Walls At last I've managed to get the effect I want, as shown by Robyn McClendon. I wasn't able to get the Stainz product she uses during the first half of the video because the shipping to the UK is totally ridiculous. You can get the effect without it, though, with…
Yesterday I had fun in the studio, with more experiments in mixed media. Paper mesh I've only just discovered what this extraordinary paper is called. I got some in a parcel recently, wrapped around a glass jar. When I first came across what I used to call "expanded paper" (because it is like…
