Felting Friday - the Cockapoo!

Today I threw together some wool and made a quick little felt figure of my mum's dog Maia. She's a cockapoo, but not a 'pure' one, so she's essentially a cocker spaniel that occasionally gets this massive wooly fluff around her legs.  A gorgeous dog, but an absolute monster. Needlefelted cockapoo, merino wool & wire I used a wire frame for this one to handle the extra...

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Scotland paintings

Sorry folks! Unfortunately I fell in love with Scotland too hard to get around to doing much art. I DID manage to sit myself down by a river and on a hillside and have a go at a couple of watercolour paintings, but I mostly had the camera out shooting reference photos. So I'll be rummaging through them, grouping them and using them for inspiration in the future.  We did quite a lot of forest...

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Watercolour practice pt.2

I've been at the watercolour paints again! I'm intentionally trying to get some practice in with waterbrushes and working with minimal equipment ready for my trip to Scotland next week. We'll be staying around Cairngorms National Park for a few days, zipping around the highlands in the car, so I want to try and capture as much as I can while carrying as little as possible. The Pagan Vixen,...

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Felting Fridays - the Pigeon!

Over the last few weeks I've acquired enough wool to build my own life-size rainbow-coloured sheep, so I put it to some use and had a little needle felting session.  Here's the little rock dove I made for my boyfriend. If you can't tell already from the content of this blog, I've got a bit of an obsession with pigeons. Well, birds in general, but I have so much time and love for these little...

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Lord of the Deadwood - a work-in-progress

In the interests of building up a catalogue of references I went wandering 'round Arnos Vale last week and took some pretty interesting photographs of trees and old, mossy tombstones. Everything's really ancient and overgrown, and the elegance in design of the architecture and sculpture is something that you just don't find anywhere else nowadays. It's an incredibly peaceful place, almost ethereal...

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Tiny watercolour practice

I've seen a lot of nice illustrated prints of different subspecies lately, so I thought I'd try my hand at it a bit too. It's a good excuse to get some watercolour practice in.  Although I've done a lot of digital watercolouring recently on SAI, I have a habit of dipping in and out of traditional watercolour before I get a chance to get a good method going. I'm using a (roughly) 5x3inch...

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