ONLINE ART COURSE - THE LANDSCAPE CHALLENGE PART 2, AND RUBY HAS BEEN HELPING For Part 1, please go here. I have been working on the actual landscape, and have completed the initial drawing and the painting. The initial drawing Just as a reminder, here is my reference photo, of the gardens of…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Wow, this is the 600th desk sharing session! I haven't been involved in this longest blog hop on the web from the start, but I've been around for a good number of years now, and have made friends, gained inspiration, had great encouragement and comfort in difficult…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Give-away reminder Just to remind you all that I am offering the final needle book as a giveaway to a WOYWW member, to celebrate WOYWW's 600th week, and I shall be announcing the winner at our Zoom session on 5th December. If anyone isn't already aware of…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Tiny Carpet #6 Good progress has been made this week, despite having to unpick a few errors. Mapping out the design with the dark red thread. I had to unpick and redo a bit at the top because I mis-counted. When I added the top diamond, the…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? As usual, my desk has been the recliner and the kitchen this week! I am continuing to make good progress on the Tiny Carpets project and have finished the red stitching for the border of Carpet #4. There's a lot of red on this one. At this…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? I'm happy to say I've completed tiny carpet #3. A close-up, showing the variegated background. I'm really glad I did this. If I hadn't seen a TV programme with an oriental rug on it which had this, I would have gone ahead and just done the plain…
First of all, sorry not to have got round to visiting everyone last week. I seemed to have a very busy week and time simply ran away with me and I got behind with everything. I hope I'll do a bit better this week! What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? I'm still working…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? I finished my set of mandalas, and did another batch of Celtic knots, all with backgrounds created with Distress Oxides, and the motifs coloured with Tombow Dual markers. However, before I forget again: the answers to the Bird Quiz that I shared with you a couple of…
Time for my annual review at the close of the year. This year has passed so quickly that it has left me gasping. The days seem to have flashed past me like for the hero of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine... For some of the time, it's been more a case of what…
Friday - Sorry folks - with all the stress involved in my PIP assessment on Thursday, I completely forgot to upload the draft of my WOYWW post! I did wonder why I wasn't getting any comments that actually referred to it... Duh... Too much on my mind, and the whole thing has exhausted…
