what we saw at art class

As soon as I am finished posting, I will be going to my needlefelting machine to get to work on my Tangled Textiles piece hat is due in under a week.  I have been so busy it has slipped by!
I have been working on the landscapes I started, for Elizabeth Barton's course.  They are all very simple, but Today, whilst I was supervising my students I had a play with coloured skies

Here are a few more I have been working on.

This format is inspired by the work of Gilda baron, who is an extremely talented fibre artist.  I know I could do something a bit less 'pretty' but these are what is inspiring me at the moment. I am actually itching to transfer them to fabric and embroidery!
Also at art class we had a little visitor - a bogong moth, looking very bedraggled

and here is something one of my students is playing with.  I have introduced her to textured acrylic and she is hooked.  But I am glad she is learning to play around.  She is quite a talented watercolourist, but she gets very locked into perfection and doesn't like her work.  We are all guilty of that, aren't we?

This will probably be just a background, but I love the texture she has put on it.  I think it will probably be floral.  We will see where this one takes her!

Happy Creating!

A couple of collages

I was absent without leave yesterday with a blazing migraine. i found it impossible to even look at the computer screen.  but back on board today.
I have not been posting all of my work from my collage a day challenge, but if you look to the top of the screen, there is a link that will show you a slideshow of all the ones so far.
Today I thought I would just show you a couple that I enjoyed a lot.

This one is made with painted fusible web and I have ironed a little bit of wool roving on the border and the little bit of land.  The sun is a tiny bit of organza.
I used lumiere paint watered down to paint the fusible and you can see the metallic streaks have separated out, which i think is lovely.

This one used some gorgeous batik I bought a few months ago and a piece of black polyester linen-like fabric, which I ripped to create the border.  The focus in the bottom right was the technique I was playing with.  It is a piece of vanishing muslin, which I free machine embroidered then ironed a little.  Vanishing muslin was originally used as an iron away stabiliser, so when you iron it it becomes crumbly and flakes away.  In this case, I just ironed around the edges and a little bit in the middle then scrunched it up to crumble the fabric away.  It gives a great distressed look.
Some of these odd, hard to get things, I get from The thread studio, which specialises in these things.  I subscribe to a product a month with them and each month, I get a sample of something interesting to play with!

This one, which you can see I have started stitching on, was a piece of fusible stabiliser i have ironed pieces of painted nappy liner on to.  I have then done a little free machine scribble and added some circles of red organza.  I now need to add some hand stitching and more organza circles, between the ones already  there, so that the 'poppies' stand up and aren't  so circular and flat.  This is inspired by Gilda Baron who is an english fibre artist.  Her work is amazing and you can read about here here.
I love her work so much and she seems such a lovely person.

Happy creating!