I have been very quiet on the blogging front, and perhaps even the creating front.
I have hit the mid winter doldrums, I think. It is so cold, especially here out in the bush with only a wood fire. Mornings are are bit of a struggle, until the house warms up. I have been working, on my Tangled Textiles piece, and two swaps, which I am extremely late finishing. But of course I can't show those, so here are some other bits and pieces.
Here is the foundation for a quick collage. I have used lots of blue scraps, cotton, stamped organza, and rovings.
Here I have free motioned a seahorse and shell from one of my sketchbooks.
Then I did some free motion on the background, pebbles and waves in variegated blues.
and a few close ups of my messy free motion.
Here I have started beading and some hand stitching. I like this one, but the beading and hand stitching will take a while. I have had to put it aside for a few other more urgent pieces at present.
I have been working in my sketchbook-
The first one is a sketch for a collage piece that was in my head for a while. The last two are sketches from old masters' sculptures.
And I have been working on this new york beauty - a la eleanor burns, which has been sitting in my ufo collection for a bout a year.
I also made a little sketchbook after seeing one a friend had made
I used some painted paper for the cover and some scrap paper from a failed experiment for the endpages.
And that's enough for one week, don't you think?
