Approx 19 x 12 cm. Technical drawing pens and black ink, Derwent Inktense pencils with water wash, Uni-Ball Gold pen.
abstract art
Earthy Mandala 13 June 2012
Today’s Mandala or Auragraph
Approx. 18cm in diameter.
Sakura Glaze pen, Derwent Coloursoft pencils, Derwent Metallics pencils, Derwent burnisher, Cosmic Shimmer iridescent watercolours and Uniball metallic pens.
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New Textile Art
Nebulous contours 7 June 2012
Approx. 17cm x 11.5cm. Needle felted dyed goat hair on a black felt background. Patterns picked out with copper ‘Japan’ threads, various beads and metallic threads.
Inspired by the flow of gases in nebulae and of contour lines on maps.
Nebulous Rainbow 7 June 2012
Approx 11cm x 10.5cm. Needle felted rainbow dyed synthetic fibres on a black felt background. Patterns picked out by gold ‘Japan’ Thread, various beads, sequins, polymer clay tiles and metallic threads.
Shapes and patterns inspired by contour lines and also the flow of gases in photographs of nebulae.
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Abstract Rock 2
13cm x 13cm. Rotring pen, Inktense pencils with water wash, gold metallic watercolour paint.
A small section of the previous Abstract Rock 1 reworked.
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Abstract Rock 1
Rotring pens with black ink, watercolour paints, Derwent Inktense pencils and wash, and gold Cosmic Shimmer watercolour paint.
The shapes and colours in this experiment were inspired by a photograph of some Australian sandstone.
I’m not happy with the middle more ‘scribbly’ bit, though the gold highlights have helped to make it part of the the whole. It’s similar to other work, yet different too.
A busily creative and productive couple of days off work – at long last, hurrah! I do so feel out of sorts when a busy life gets in the way of creativity.
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Harvest Angels
12cm x 12cm. Derwent Metallic pencils, Sakura glaze pen and Cosmic Shimmer metallic/iridescent watercolour paints.
Just finished … kept me busy for a couple of hours…again, I’m not good at photography, this time the colours are washed out … sigh…one day I may crack it!
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Energy Flow1
16cm x 8cm. Sakura Glaze pen in black, Derwent colorsoft pencils, Derwent metallics pencils and Cosmic Shimmer iridescent/metallic watercolour paints on black card.
I started this one before my return to work a fortnight ago. I noticed as I was completing it this weekend that it’s a little disjointed in places which may symbolise how I was feeling about the return to work. The photograph really doesn’t show the colours properly, nor the shimmer and shine of the metallics. However, you do get an idea of what it looks like.
Returning to work.
I made it back to work for the start of the Summer Term. My voice, however, is still not right. Work have referred me to occupational health and for speech therapy. Also, there’s a microphone/speaker system on order for my room so that I won’t have to raise my voice. My doctor has referred me to ENT to have my voice checked out.
The worst thing of all, is I still can’t sing. I love to sing, have always sung with one choir or another since I started secondary school. I join in the singing at any gathering where there is some. This bout of laryngitis has affected that part of my voice, and I really, really do hope it will return properly and fully.
Not the car, again!
The handbrake broke on the car a couple of days ago. As I’m writing this, I’m waiting for my nephew, who’s a whizz with cars, to come and see what needs to be done.
This is on top of a water leak from the toilet cistern a couple of weeks ago that came through the downstairs ceiling.
The ‘earphone’ on my mobile has stopped working too.
I hope that’s the triad of breaking done with!
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For Debs
11cm x 11cm. Sakura ‘Glaze’ pen, Derwent Coloursoft pencils, Derwent Metallics pencils and Cosmic Shimmer metallic and iridescent watercolour paints on dark blue drawing paper.
A little birthday gift for my pal Debs.
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Autumn Flow 1 and 2
Two teeny tiny little pieces of textile work. The photo doesn’t really show the sheen on the mohair that has been used in the needle-felting on the black felt background. They are approx 2″ square-ish. Copper thread has been used to add the lines and shapes, along with copper, gold and red beads.
The colour reminds me of autumn, but I also think it may be how I seen passionate love too. It has a wonderfully warm, deep, intense colour to it that I find quite irresistible, not a colour I would have usually loved. I think this could be becoming my favourite colour!
The lines remind me of contour lines on an OS Map. I feel a new source of inspiration for art coming on… maps and satellite and aerial imagery perhaps. I know my fingers have been fair twitching for paper and pens and inks and paints and pencils to use my textile work as an inspiration for other forms of art, so my textile work may become an inspiration for me too. How weird is that?
These may be for sale on Etsy…I’ll have to decide if I can part with them!
Art is the Adventure 