DARTINGTON TREASURES Just over a week ago, we had another sketching outing at Dartington. I picked up several beautiful little natural treasures and stowed them away in my bag to take home and draw. There is such beauty in these tiny fragments of nature! I love trees We had lunch in the shade…
UV RESIN - SMALL CIRCULAR DIGITALS Shoshi is resinating with a new art form! I've done a bit of UV resin work with a small starter kit, but the lamp proved rather inadequate. I have now bought a new one which is much better. Some time ago I downloaded some digitals from Dragana…
UV RESIN - NEW UV LAMP I have recently taken up UV resin work, in order to make small embellishments for my mixed media projects. I began with an inexpensive starter kit which included a small UV lamp. This proved to be pretty weedy and it took ages to cure anything, so I…
DIY WASHI TAPE - FINALISING THE CANDY STRIPE PROJECT A quick addendum to my previous posts about this DIY washi tape. Cutting the strips After thinking about this further, I managed to cut the strips using my guillotine. With the faulty-printed edge on the right, I lined up the other edge to the…
DIY WASHI TAPE - PAPER, PRINTING, CUTTING AND STORING The washi paper I really shouldn't say "washi paper" because "washi" means paper in Japanese! Anyway, the paper arrived. I was a little disappointed initially because it was not self-adhesive as I'd expected. After further research I discovered that the self-adhesive version is only…
FUSSY CUTTING DIGITALS I have recently downloaded quite a few digital kits for printing, mostly freebies from very generous artists who often create these to celebrate milestones in YouTube subscriber numbers, or for their birthdays and so on. I have also purchased a few kits. These are always very reasonably priced. Once you've…
FAUX VINTAGE TAPE Grunge Rules, OK! I am following Crafty by Toni, and Sevenplaza with Margareth from the Netherlands on YouTube, and love their grungey mixed media and mass makes. A lot of people lately have been reproducing the look of old Sellotape which you often find mending the pages of old books…
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…
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…
DIVIDE AND RULE - ISLAMIC ART No - that isn't a political statement - it's an art project using some exciting new drawing equipment! Divide and Rule Some time ago I came across a YouTube short, showing an exciting collection of specialist drawing materials. I was intrigued, and visited the site, "Divide and…
