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If you join two motifs together.... you get a bishops hat!! Hah.
There must be someone, somewhere who needs a miniature bishops mitre.
What if you used these motifs to create flower trumpets for an exotic flower, or even make them larger and create a bag?
Shown here on top of my Jenny Oliver chest of heads, and with my Orkney triptych.
A convenient ledge for work in progress.
I am due to deliver a finished piece for exhibition on Saturday, and it isn't even started yet.
This is my first piece of panic sampling.
The theme is (of course) the suffragette, Emma Sproson, who was placed in solitary confinement in Stafford Gaol for her activities.
This confinement took place just after her "confinement" with child, and she was obliged to leave the baby with her husband as babies were not allowed in gaol in those days.
I imagine Emma yearning for her child and sitiching a cap for it for when she was released.
This small sample is worked on linen with crochet cotton and shows images of bars, crosses ( for kisses) and Italian knotted border stitch which appeared to me to look like nappy pins.
One of the pleasures of working a piece like this is that I get to research some unusual stitches.
Work in progress.
These hang around the studio, getting in the way and looking more and more bedraggled.
I have taken the bull by the horns and made a hanging display book so that they are now all in one place and out of the way.
This is the first stage.
As I wanted the pages to be easily removable I have safety pinned these to individual pieces of dyed blanket which will act as the book hinges.
Close up of some of the details I am working on for my big space/scifi painting!
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I attended a class given by Anne Conybeare yesterday at Westhope College during which we looked at the work of Andre Gurtler and Denise Lach.
We had a session using a "Cola pen" which was fun, and then we did some "nonsense writing" using a medium of our choice.
I enjoy writing with correction fluid, so this is what I used, and I then ran an ink wash over it. I used cheap brown paper for the backing.
I am now translating some of the marks into stitch and making a small book to showcase the samples.
Just starting to gather possible ephemera and papers for a new piece which will be my contribution to the forthcoming "Adhesion" exhibition
Please see previous posts regarding the making of the face.
I have now coated the face with several layers of soy wax and then I padded it underneath before stitching it to the croched and knitted background.
This picture shows the extent of the moulding of the face.
Mixed media.
I'm not any good at buildings, but they're not really the focal point of the eventual scene here. Respect to those who can build non-shite-looking buildings; I promise to try and silently mock you far less.
Still a lot of details and work to do yet, just wanted to show off what I've spent most of my weekend on so far. Not perfect, but satisfactory as a WIP.
darkroom print. this was my first attempt at using filters in the darkroom. and my first attempt at using split grade printing. this was a 30 sec burn. 15 sec with 0 grade filter, and 15 sec with a 5 grade filter. still working on perfecting this print.
I want to improve my previous camera (www.flickr.com/photos/effixe/sets/72157601000121315/), so i have to design a new one.
i drew this out shape based on pictures i have seen of the abelson Omniscope but the guide film is different. It's made from polarized circular filters that will act as ball bearings with more frictions...
this first design (with illustrator...) lead me to learn SketchUp and now i'm working on it : www.flickr.com/photos/diy-effixe/6352411763/in/photostream/
I've just finished a sketch book so I sat down this morning to decorate the front.
As usual I took a drawing from inside, which I scanned into Photo Shop and then manipulated it and printed it out on to a sheet, using four images to a sheet.
Two of these were to decorate the front and back of the book, and two were "stock images" for cards(Numbers one and six)
I then had a search in my scrap paper box and found some previously prepared strips of card which had flower shapes punched out ( Number two) These were applied round the image as a frame, together with some scraps of gift bags. I also glued scrap paper to pages of my new sketch book (Number 3), and added some gesso.
Whilst glueing the flower strips I noticed that the PVA had come through on to the newspaper I was using as a table protector, so I sprinked embossing powder on the glue, heated with a heat gun and then overpainted with crayons. (Number 7)
I then PVA'd the two remaining images to calico (Number 6) and then when these were dry I overpainted with PVA both these and the journal front.
I then painted copper acrylic paint on to the journal front, and the images, and the remainder of the paint was left on the brown paper bag I had used as a pallet ( No 4). This will be used as either a base for jewellery or to puch flowers. I keep all these paper and painted flowers in an old cheese box( Number 5).
The remaining sample ( Number 8) is from an old table cloth I was cutting up while I was waiting for things to dry. This is intended for the suffrage series.
Of course other things were going on at the same time....the washing machine was rumbling on, I opened the greenhouse and did some watering, I put the four recycling bins out for collection, spoke to my son in Australia via Skype and burned a disk for a friend.
Pretty typical morning at home really!!!
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Quilt top for the Doll Quilt Swap II. Made from fabric scraps I inherited from my Great Aunt Madeline.
(snapshot directly from inworld, Caliah Lyon's windlight settings, no postwork)
Since the release of Sayuri I've been working on a softer skin again, a softer version of Eva if you will. Though I try to make my skins look "real", I find my personal preference fighting that all the way, and I want to stick to the handdrawn/pastel look.
For the interested: The bikini is from Artilleri and the hair is from Fri.day