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Build of the 1/72 Revell Transall model kit. Here a shot of the interior parts. Note that the Revell instructions have you assemble the side, top, and bottom parts of the inner fuselage tube, and fit the two outer fuselage halves over it. However, this famously does not work at all and does not fit. The way to go is to stick all the relevant interior parts to the outer shells first off, and to glue the bottom cargo floor to the bottom fuselage part. and only then assemble everything.
getting ready to tie in another thread & work the 4th pass, then the beaded band will be rolled together and woven into a round rope
some beads for another project have started sneaking onto my work tray (pretty pink porcelain donut)
BUT now i'm going to crochet, I think I will finish my green scarf today. I don't feel any real urgency to finish this beadwork, just enjoying the process, very zen.
I am re-visiting stumpwork and I have unearthed some old pictures from a time when I used to teach this subject.
I have put aside my womens' suffrage studies to ready myself for the General Election which should be in the early part of this year.
I have always made a piece for the Election, and this year I thought that I would revisit stumpwork and in particular the padded faces I used to embroider. These would be interesting made into political jewellery.
Watch this space!
I sat for two and a half hours last night, painting the watercolour paper with water and rubbing it with my finger.
This had two results: it broke up the surface of the paper, so that the paint will sink in, and it gave a distressed effect to the whole piece.
Also, my finger was sore!
It was whilst I was waiting for paint to dry on another project that I spied an abandoned canvas in my workroom.
I coated it with tissue paper, acrylic paint and gesso, and then added various paint effects on top.
After sanding it with a sanding block I added tea stains, buttons and dyed lace.
This canvas will hold my collection of "glitzy" necklaces and is destined for my bedroom.
It is a work in progress as I have lots more memorabilia to add.
After four hard months of a total rebuild and extension I am now in possession of a studio. This is still a storage area pending decoration, and as I have to complete a four foot hanging in the next two days I am forced to work in a very tiny area in part of this room.
I have shown here my pin board with my "tapestry" attached to it. I am trying to position the daisy and the bottom border here. Lots more work to do!
I'm committed to a selling exhibition next week - I thing I avoid if at all possible.
So it's down to batch production methods.
Here is the start of some of my whimsies which I make out of air dry clay and fabric.
These are tiny creatures - the largest is two inches in length.
A mock up using newspaper. I thought that I could individualise these boxes by using photographs of the intended recipients.
Grease Alley, an industrial backwater neighborhood in a blade-runner/fifth-element genre. These shops back onto a trash and old parts-strewn gully, where the junk skiff comes by to pick up broken components, industrial leftovers, and the occasional "borrowed" part.