Bear bits!

Making a new tiny bear...

A Dog called Baxter!

Here are some WIP drawings on a characterful dog I just produced for a valentines present! The starting out I find difficult, as I only see part of the dog in front of me and I quickly want it to look right!

Then, once I have him all in, in this case I started with black, I can add in the other colours. I am working in coloured pencil here, and I make them very sharp with a blade! This is inportant for areas around the eyes and where fine hairs show up ...

Finally he is done, I can see from his eyes that he has collie in him!

WIP goat doll

Working on another of my fun goat dolls, who like to wear steam punk waistcoats with cogs for buttons...

Another Dog Drawing ...

How I love to draw ....here i am building up colour and depth on a black, curly haired dog...some of you know that black dogs are not easy to draw!

And here is Archie, my friends dog, an older boy with a young heart! Archie I mean, not my friend! :-)

Altered Art ....

Took some old picture frames with potential, and sanded any that needed it. this green one had a wash of white acrylic too ...

A donated old bible, which i had been after for some time, gave the frames a new lease of life ...

And with more precious pages and two Lovely quotes I created small pieces to fit into the frames.

These will be on display in Bridport soon :-) I had fun with collage papers, chalk and gold paint.

Making a colourful banner ...WIP

piecing some colourful scraps together into word length strips ...

sewing from the wrong side of the fabric around some hand drawn lettering, then cutting away the excess fabric, the next stage to finish the letters will be a fairly close zig-zag stitch around each letter ...

It's quite long, and also good fun - I have never made a banner before!

Adding the Chapter and verse, with hand embroidery and in a hoop for stability. I usually use this hoop in my sewing machine, for adding texture to owl wings! Gold gel pen was used to trace the lettering from my cartoon.

I hope to have this finished soon!

I do like Donkeys! WIP ...

WIP Donkeys ...

MY favourite thing about seaside holidays as a child was a donkey ride accross the sand ...

How about you?

Pippn-Papillon! Pet Pawtrait!

The basic outline - pippin's eye were flashed-orange in the photograph, so i quickly fill the pupils in black, with an added white highlight ...

Putting in the mail colours, building up depth gently as I go ...

Looking very hard to pick out all the colours I can see, traces of strong pink and even blue for some of the shadows!

WIP - Drawing Max ...

Goat Doll WIP

I am working on this lovely chap, goat doll the forth ...

He likes his new waistcoat!

Drawn Dog!

Meet Herbie - hairy dogs are fun to draw! This pic is almost there!

WIP - Owl nearly there!

Much better, thank you - can you see what else needs adding?

Owl-eyes!

Edward is coming along nicely ...

He wants me to do his eyes, and put buttons on his coat, tomorrow!

WIP - sneaky peek!

cutting stencils with a very sharp blade ...



preparing to sew from the wrong side ...



Now to turn red lettering, black!

Goats in knickers ....

Three Fairies! WIP

in need of hair, clothes and definitely wings!

Russian Doll making - WIP

Recently the girls had been doing some Russian Doll colouring, and designed some of the own for some handmade cards. I decided to buy a set of blanks for us to have a go at the real thing!



I made a Flickr gallery for inspiration, and off we went, starting with some fabric collage and some acrylic paint ...


From left to right, the work of Daisy, Matty, Mary and four for Mummy - the fiddly ones!

Round up ...

I am going to make more bunting, but first, Mary had a go at decorating my pattern!



But what's this in the corner? Mary said she forgot to put her name, so I wrote on the board M-A-R-Y and I think she did very well, for a three year old!



This woollen tank-top feels lovely - it will soon be a fun crop of hamsters, though!



The face of barn owl number 5 appears!



and here is a little treat I got for myself, well for the family room...



On a sad note, skinny-chicken decided to leave us, and we all felt a bit sad. My older girls Drew her picture and gave them to me. This is Matty's...



and Daisy started her drawing with skinny-chicken's bright yellow legs - she was the only one of our girls with yellow legs!


Have you been busy? I feel as though we have!