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took me forever to come up with the right size template to make handmade envelopes. i finally got it right, but then i glued several of them shut!
Workin' on some postcards for Val. Day postcard swap. I think I may add some gesso to "pull" this busy collage together...
p.s. this is an altered card..the original is a very large childrens playing card.
Continuing my experiments into the question of identity.
These wrapped figures are only temporarily attached to the canvas: their position in the group can change how the viewer reads their relationship.
Mixed media: brown paper, computer paper, stitch and gesso.
just discovered i can put these straight into a wall in a hole made with a pin. Would like to make hundreds, a whole wall of them.These are in my studio.
I was given a sheet of magazine scraps which had been applied to a background in a haphazard manner and was asked to use this as a source of inspiration!
I find this sort of challenge VERY difficult as I usually work to an idea, not an image.
After a mild panic I decided to gesso the whole page in an attempt to tone down the images and then I used it to create a folder which I then die cut and embossed.
I then grabbed the scrap bag and started to machine embroider images which started to leap from the page.
This is one sample.
King of a faction I'm working on. He has an outer cape from Royal Brick Customs, over a standard dark blue cape.
This shows just some of my thread collection.
I recently won an embroidery competition and the prize was £100 worth of threads. Help.
I've been finishing off the edges of the ties on my Political Jewellery book.
Fabric, felt, knitted and plastic beads imprisoned in wire structures.
The Weston Sub is a work in progress, changing day by day. As you can see, the old main has been torn up in certain sections and moved off to the side, the new main to the left is now in service. In a few more months, there will be three main tracks as evidenced from the signal bridge in the back ground.