Monday 29 March 2010

Buddha painting (mixed media in progress)

Did this Buddha painting a few days ago. I used Bird grit for the texture and acrylic paint, its not quite finished yet I'm trying to get hold of some resin which i want to pore over the top to hopeful give it a glass like finish i'd like it to be about 1/2 in think, but we'll see i will probably muck about with it some more and it will end up completely different.


Saturday 27 March 2010

Altered dominos




I'm taking part in a domino swap on Aunty's forum and i have altered 3 dominos kinda gone for the distressed grunge look, I used my stampin up stamps that i bought from Julie alcohol inks and gold gilt cream

Friday 26 March 2010

I look Journal page

I have know idea what i was doing with this page i just added an old page from a book stamped on it, doodled, slapped paint, water colour crayons and ink on there. I really wanted to use the image on the top right so just went with it.






Thursday 25 March 2010

Another paverpol figure Zuzu the Africian Lady

This is Zuzu the Africian lady made form paverpol shes made the same as the others, (wire armature, cloth and fibres) , i dipped fibres in the paverpol to make her basket, and painted her nice and bright.




Wednesday 24 March 2010

wheres the birdie

A while ago i took one of Marie's from evbstudioHome mini shop clay classes for Birds, Marie does a new mini shop on the first Saturday of the month, classes are only $10 and are really fun.


Here's one of the little birds i made they look really sweet sitting in a plant pot or on a shelf.




Thursday 18 March 2010

Another Paverpol Garden Statue Meet Steffen

Following the previous post on paverpol Here here's another figure i have made this time a boy called steffen. He's about 20" tall

I think he looks quite dashing standing in the lavender plant LOL again i painted him for a bronzed look .





Paverpol Garden statues meet Emmie

Last year i made some statues made with paverpol ( A textile hardener ) these can be put in the Garden as the paverpol makes them frost & weather proof.



You start by making a wire armature (I used Garden wire) cover that with tin foil to bulk it up then wrap masking or florist tape around it.Then you cut fabric in to strips (i used an old black cotton T-shirt) dip the strips in the paverpol and wrap the strips of cloth around the armature to make the body, then you basically drape and layer the material on top to make the clothes.



They look great amongst the plants in the garden




This is Emmie i went for a bronze look by adding bronze and gold paint to her








Monday 15 March 2010

A little bit of Folk Art I think ?

I bought this little foot stool a while ago in a charity shop for £1.50 it was just plain wood so i thought i would funk it up a little bit. I'm saying folk art but i don't know what to call it
kinda pink Huh? LOL








Friday 5 March 2010

Crafting with Julie

Today i went to Julies and we made cards, we haven't crafted together for such a long time like years.


It made such a lovely change I cant believe I made wait for it 3 cards, I have to be honest I haven't made a card in ages and they arnt my fave things to do as I just get in a big flap when i do them LOL.
But i enjoyed having some one to craft with, made a lovely change, plus i used all Julie's stash and didn't have to clean up the mess after. THANKS JULIE FOR A LOVELY DAY.


Here are the cards i made.