AN EXCITING NEW ART MATERIAL - GRAF ART TAILOR SHAPES I first saw this product being demonstrated briefly by Denise Love, a wonderful artist whose YouTube channel I follow. After that, I kept tripping over this product and was intrigued, and knew I had to add it to my studio arsenal. Background The…
DOMESTIKA COURSE - ENGLISH CALLIGRAPHY - FINAL PROJECT At long last I have completed this course. It did seem to drag on, partly because I was waiting for materials to arrive, and also because of other things going on in my life. I had already decided not to tie myself down to completing…
OUTING TO THE CAT CAFE Birthday treat Yesterday was my birthday, and for my birthday treat, my hubby took me to the Cat Cafe. We've been before, and it's a whole lot of fun. They have lots of comfy chairs for people and cats to sit on, and there is always convivial company…
DEVON COUNTY SHOW 2025 Our annual treat has come around again! Looking back, I see that we have missed a few over the years but we do try to go each year. This year the weather was perfect - really hot and sunny without a cloud in the sky, and everyone seemed in…
A NEW SHELVING UNIT FOR THE STUDIO A big clear-out At the moment I am having a blitz on the studio and getting ruthless. I've got far too much stuff and it's high time I went through everything and got rid of a lot of the excess. I'll do another post about that,…
FUUMUUI NEEDLE POINT WATERCOLOUR BRUSHES Today I got a new set of watercolour brushes. They are rather special. The beautiful box Such pretty packaging! The brushes There are four brushes in the set. These brushes are made in China, and have smooth wooden handles with minimal varnish. So often, the varnish or paint…
HEBREW CALLIGRAPHY PICTURES FRAMED Today the parcel arrived from the online framing shop, with the mounts and frames for my two Hebrew calligraphy pictures which I did during the latest Domestika course. My name in Calligraphy This was the first exercise we had to do on the course. The calligraphy didn't have to…
SCRATCH PAPER Having recently started a new scratch paper with gold on tea-dyed paper, I thought I'd do a post about scratch papers in general. What are scratch papers, and why make them? Paint is expensive. I hate waste. I love recycling and upcycling! Watercolour on the palette will dry out, but you…
NEW DOMESTIKA COURSE - HEBREW CALLIGRAPHY Background The teacher of the course is the first female Soferet (Hebrew scribe, feminine) for 250 years. In the introductory session of the course, she shares her background which is extremely interesting, and it's so positive that Orthodox rabbis were prepared to take on her training and…
MARK MAKING ON THE ABSTRACT WATERCOLOUR MINI-ALBUM Shoshi's gone marking mad! I had soooo much fun with this latest project. It wasn't a lengthy project - I could do a page or two per session and just bung stuff down and see what happened. Quite different from my recent highly disciplined projects. Nice…
