Showing posts with label project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label project. Show all posts

Monday, 31 August 2015

Making designer cushions home-ed style! 1

The last day of August is as rainy as ever .... So having spotted some expensive designer wildlife cushions on line we decide to make our own. Only better!


Using Flickr as inspiration each of us chose a different animal and despite the grey day, the window still worked as a light box ...


Mary has been in a meerkat phase for quite sometime now... Waxy coloured pencils are being used to trace the basic shapes. Topsy the cat can be seen clearly not helping ...


We are working on pieces of toile that have been washed and pressed, using acrylic paints. Most of us used them like watercolour but Matty has applied much of hers quite thickly ...



Mary doenst think she is good at painting! She is going to do the eyes in fabric pastel! That's the next step once these all dry.

I painted a familiar pet ...


Clean up time while the paint dries!

Sunday, 7 June 2015

Drawer fronts ...

Here are collaged, over painted drawer fronts for the dresser. We put back the existing handles without removing any of the chipped white and gold paint. 


Here they are back in place, I'm really pleased with them. Mike says they look old and girly!


Next I get to age the cabinet part, and decide what to do with the top, which will be covered in a piece of glass. 

Saturday, 4 August 2012

Visual Arts Weymouth and Portland ...

There are lots of other things going on around Weymouth and Portland besides the Olympics ... I went on a Visual Arts Tour and became a citizen of nowhere-island! He we are at the wonderful embassy parked at Bowleaze cove!


On the harbour-side, visit the Collective Spirit, and enjoy a boat made from meaningful wooden objects with stories to tell...


On Portland, next to the coastwatch tower, there's the ExLab Project , where I was lucky enough to meet the artists in involved, too! I will be doing some stewarding here over the next few weeks.


And the coastwatch guys let us in a few at a time, to see what they do and enjoy a stunning view of the lighthouse, and the race!


Thursday, 29 March 2012

Union Jack!

Remember all that bonding over some cutting out?



It was time to do some sticking!



And we think it worked out very well!

Friday, 16 March 2012

Collage ...

The girls and I have been collecting colours for a fun collage project!



We are working together and the colours are red white and blue!



Meanwhile, over at the pond, things are afoot - or is that a-tail?

Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Bunting Template ...

I fired up my scanner after hand drawing this pattern...


Do you like Bunting? and Cushions? How about foot-rubs and blessings? Stay tuned for a sweet little community project ...

Sunday, 18 December 2011

Winter Lanterns ... Found photos!

I took part in a project in Edinburgh as part of a centre for adults with learning difficulties, back in the early 90s, and as well as working along side the users, produced a lantern panel of my own ...



the images were projected onto cotton using photographs we took on each other, and then we used batik to create the colourful images ...


That's me on the right, just a wee slip of a girl back then!

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Push-along Dog Makeover ....

do you remember This project?



Well it's all ready for Mary now ... the poor dog sat most of this year with no head nor tail! He is vintage and heavy-framed, but throwing him about should help build up little Mary-Mary!

Sunday, 4 July 2010

WIP - molly the barn owl ...

I love to work on a new project, and a dear friend asked me to have a go at Molly the Barn owl, you do know about molly and her babies don't you?

I started by looking at owl images and owl videos a lot, and then made a few drawings, to help me feel my way around the shapes ...



I love hunting out the fabrics and textures i might use ...



a hint of the gently face of a barn owl appears ...

Monday, 24 May 2010

We Also love FREE HUGS!

many of you know how much me and my children love this video!



so we got busy with some card and some black crayons - Matty spent a long time doing some careful colouring ...



and Daisy did all this lettering herself ... nice and big isn't it ?



Mary eats as the girls display their hard work and talk about what they might do ...



FREE HUGS!



then we got together with our friends, and made this ...