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 Hi,

I just popped by to tell you that it is three years ago today I posted here for the first time. It was a tag that I made for Tag Tuesday. You can .see the original post here


I was thinking of marking the anniversary with a 'GIVEAWAY' of a small piece of my artwork. I'm not sure  how many of you would be interested but if you are then watch this space as I will be posting about it shortly.

ENTRY INTO THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.

                                                 

Thanks for visiting.

XXX

Material Girl

This little one is created with my Portfolio pastels, which I am absolutely loving at the moment. I can't seem to put them down.

I used fabric for her dress this time and also for the flower as the theme over at Mix it Monthly is fabric.

So today I am linking this post to both Paint Party Friday and Mix It Monthly.

Thanks for visiting. x

woyww and AJJ

There wasn't much to speak of on my desk half an hour ago. Just a lot of mess. But out came my Portfolio pastels and 'Hildy' was born.

I like creating these ' naive' girls.

Linking this post to WOYWW and Art Journal Journey.

Paint Party Friday on Saturday.

Just a quick post to update you on my latest project. If you would like to see it from the start take a look at a previous post here.

Thank you to those of you who left comments suggesting a mixture of paper for the pages. More details of the pages I am planning will follow in my next post............... x

Linking to Paint Party Friday.

WOYWW

On my desk today I have the leftover packaging from some new pillowcases.

And some painted papers.

The packaging is ideal for a book cover so I am just mulling over some ideas for the cover  and the binding. I am also undecided about what paper to put in the book. Watercolour paper, sketchbook paper or painted papers. I take an age to decide on these things.

Thanks for visiting. x

Linking to WOYWW

She is Now Complete

For those of you who saw my last post here and left a comment expressing how sad my latest 'girl' looked after being parted from her background. Even though I saw her as my first 'art doll' I felt guilty.

So here she is with a new background made especially for her.

The background is made up of gesso, a script stamp, book papers, painted papers and black gouache paint which I used for a matt finish. I would have liked to have used black gesso but alas that is on my ever growing shopping list of wanted materials.

I used a piece of card from some leftover packaging.  You can see where the paint has caught on the corrugated card under the top layer and in the top corner (detailed below) you can see some old book paper which was already stained with black ink which I absolutely love.

 Strange, isn't it, how you can get excited about a little piece of scrap paper when it is just right for what you want.

Going back to the leftover packaging. I bought a set of bed linen and the card I used for the above piece was 11 x 5 inches. There was a smaller piece 5 x 5 1/2 inches which was off a pack of pillow cases.

It is just crying out to be made into a book cover. Don't you think?...............

As always , I love hearing  your comments, and they are very much appreciated.

Thanks for visiting. x

Paint Party Friday.

In my last post I gave a sneak peek of what I have been working on over the past few days but unfortunately it didn't go to plan.

In most cases I have found that if you keep working at it you can pull things around again but not this time. The more I worked on the background the more I hated it. So in the bin it went. Well........the background went in the bin after I cut out a the bit I did like.

She reminds me of those paper dolls you used to get back in my childhood days. But for want of a better word I am going to call her my first 'Art Doll' !!!

I am linking this post to Paint Party Friday. Click on the badge in the side-bar and join in the party.

Thanks for visiting. x