ISLAMIC ART ALBUM - SECOND GEOMETRIC PATTERN This is pattern B1 from Samira Mian's collection of 6-fold patterns. For further information about this, please see my earlier post. This is the layout for Pattern B1. As before, the basic pattern repeat (on the small piece of tracing paper on the left) looks pretty…
FAUX WASHI TAPES For a long time I didn't really know what to do with washi tapes, and what I'd seen online of people using them hadn't impressed me much - not that I had looked much beyond their use in decorating planners etc. Once I got into the serious mixed media stuff…
MESSING WITH MESH - PLASTIC DECO MESH Shoshi the Mad Scientist has been at work again... Some time ago, I bought a set of four rolls of a kind of plastic mesh which is used for forming Christmas wreaths and other decorative items. (This is Amazon's picture.) The main reason for this was…
EXPERIMENTS WITH UV RESIN AND SOME TINY CHARMS I had another session in the studio today, experimenting further with my new UV resin kit. Tiny charms I got out my "Rings, Shapes etc." box and had a rummage. This small box contains all kinds of rings - curtain rings, split rings, openable rings...…
WORKING WITH UV RESIN I am following Crafty with Toni, one of my favourite YouTube artists. She recently posted a video about UV resin. I have steered clear of resin until now as I thought it would be too much hassle, mixing the two parts, and expecting to have to buy a lot…
THE VIDEO SETUP IN MY STUDIO My friend Caroline on the ArtKula forum asked me today what video setup I had in my studio. Rather than trying to answer her in the chat on the forum, I decided to do a separate post on this, because it might be of interest to others…
EMBELLISHED SKETCHBOOK To go with the Box of Delights that I made for my friend Caroline on the ArtKula forum, I made a small sketchbook. I have a few sheets left from an A3 pad of Daler Rowney hot-pressed watercolour paper. This is pretty heavy-weight and I've been using it for my detailed…
A BOX OF DELIGHTS Recently I decided to make a gift for my artist friend Caroline on the ArtKula forum, who continually inspires me with her fabulous art, her encouragement and her wonderful sense of humour and fun. I had several tiny gifts I wanted to send her, which were trivial and amusing…
COMPUTER NEWS - LINUX ZORIN OS ON SECOND LENOVO THINKPAD I had a dig around on Ebay and found loads of ThinkPads, and found one almost identical in specs to my own but a slightly later model, and cheaper than what I paid for mine. I bought it for my hubby, and it…
COMPUTER NEWS - ACER UPDATE Since my last post, there have been further developments. Not booting into Linux The USB drive with the Linux installation on it functioned perfectly and I was able to install Linux Zorin on my hubby's Acer laptop. However, the computer would not boot into Zorin whatever I tried.…
