Weekend post

  Hi Everybody!

It's weekend - enjoy!

Today I am sharing another piece made in one of our Lifebook lessons with the wonderful Danielle Mack who was teaching us about creative flow. I made an A4 piece on water colour paper using a mix of acrylics and water-colours. I was quite happy how this one turned out:

And for Pinky's 'Trees' challenge at Tag Tuesday I have another autumn tree tag:

I also made lots of twinchies to use up left over paper and paint. I mounted them onto an A5 piece of designer paper and sewed around the edges

I am linking to  Chris' 'Hold the Line' challenge at AJJ

And a mix of photos from the last 2 weeks:

I'll be back with my next post on Monday!

Have a great weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

TGIF

 Hi Everybody!

It's Friday, hope it's a good one. Yesterday we had yet another bus/tram strike here, the Trade Union is going crazy. We are all fighting Covid on all fronts, and they keep calling out strikes in all public services, not only transport but also in clinics, Kindergartens etc. I think this is really irresponsible at this time. Apart from that it's cold and damp, and I still haven't got any heating. Things can only get better!

During the Lifebook Taster Course with Effy Wild we made a little book with 4" x 4" squares - I used coasters. I decided to make another 4 squares to complete my book. One side was painted with acrylics and decorated with some washi tape. The reverse was covered in a coordinating designer paper with an added quote. I stamped images using the linocuts I carved 2 years back, stamped and embossed them onto white tissue paper, and then stuck them down with potch. I added some details with a white pen:

This is the complete book with the old and new squares:

And I have been busy with collage. I got a beautiful free catalogue, very nobly made with photos on good paper, 134 8 x 8" pages:

I am using it as a journal. Each double page gets lightly gessoed with a brayer so that the background remains visible:

Then I did some painting and collaging and made an autumnal / Halloweeny spread. The tree was quick to paint, and I kept the colours as transparent as possible, so that the printed background makes a surreal layer behind the scenes:

I am linking both pieces to Art Journal Journey, Chris' 'hold the line' challenge, and to Paint Party Friday.

The photos are mostly sunrise and sunset scenes, my fave times:

May the light be with us all!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!