Brand new in my shop this week, a series of 38 miniature, mixed media paintings.
Brand new in my shop this week, a series of 38 miniature, mixed media paintings.
Inspired by ICAD {Index Card A Day} instagram challenge organised by the lovely Daisy Yellow, these are on 3 x 5 inch index cards.
While being weeny small in size, they are all bursting full of texture, juicy colours, and collaged pieces of book pages and found papers.
Mounted and ready to frame
(to fit a 6 x 4 inch / 10 x 15 cm frame)
£23.00 GBP + shipping
See the full collection HERE and tell all your friends!
There have been many trips I’ve taken where I didn’t even open my sketchbook. This holiday I made a deal with myself to find time, and I’m so glad I did!
If you caught my last newsletter you’ll have read about my holiday sketchbook, and the thoughts behind these images.
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Over the years I’ve been honing the optimum ‘studio away from home’.
It’s a perpetual work in progress, but every time I take a trip away I feel more able to capture my ideas on paper. This is what resulted from a visit to one of my favourite parts of the world last month, Cyprus.
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Sharing a sneaky peak into the first 100 pages of the GINORMOUS sketchbook!
Every week since the summer of 2020 I’ve been adding a new double page spread to my ‘Book of Days’, this 600 page sketchbook.
Periodically I update the progress with flip through videos. Picking up at page 94 where I left the last flip through, here’s a look at the next few pages.
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I’m taking a break through May so my online stores are closed until 1st June
Everything in my Etsy store is 20% off, including my brand new Art Postcard Series.
Digital collages of drawings and sketches from my art journals to create 12 brand new curiously quirky designs.
Visit my Etsy store for these + many more designs, sticker sheets, zines and original art. Everything is 20% off in the Spring Sale 🙂
Art Postcards are A6 size – approx 10 x x 15 cm / 4 x 6 inches, printed on premium quality 330gsm matte finish card.
The reverse is blank with just the artist’s contact details, perfect to be sent as a postcard or framed to hang on your wall.
Lovingly curated collections of colourful, multi-layered, painted papers. Perfect for art journals, collage, mixed media art.
The first FOUR collections of Painted Papers are now available in my new online shop 🙂
Color family:
Teal, turquoise, aquamarine.
Blues and greens,
Splashes of lime, yellow and gold.
Color family:
Pinky-purples, pomegranate, plum.
Ripe Raspberry to rich ruby red.
Magenta, Maroon, mauve & fuchsia.
Color family:
Bright sky blue and grass green,
Golden buttery yellows, floral peachy pinks and violets.
Color family:
Woodlands, meadows & moss,
Cool misty pine, verdant viridian,
Avocado, olive and luscious lime.
Collections include a mix of painted, printed & dyed papers ranging from vintage book pages and sheet music, art experiments, printed papers, maps, wrapping paper, wallpaper, magazine pages, envelopes and cards.
Coloured with watercolour & acrylic, inks, dyes, pens, pencils & pastel.
Ink dyed, stained, paint splashed and splattered; doodled, drawn & scribbled upon.
Multi-layered, irregular shapes, cut outs & torn edges, textured by crumpling crunchy paint layers and piercing. Some pieces have little bits of stitching and fabric.
Each piece already has a rich history in its layers and is ready move on to its next life in your art journals, mixed media art and collages.
5 Large Pieces
approx A6 / 3″x 4″ / 8cm x 10cm
10 Small Pieces
approx A7 / 2″ x 3″ / 5cm x 7cm
15 Mini Pieces
ranging 1-3″ / 2-8cm
My next collection launches in the autumn – sign up for my newsletter to get first dibs and special discounts as a thank you for supporting my art ❤
Hot on the heels of last week’s flip through from the Book of Days, I bring you Part Five
I often talk about the tidal quality of creativity.
There are times when the ideas and energy to dive into their exploration is abundant.
Other times we feel beached and deserted with all that wants to be made, written and invented all the way over there on the horizon.
Following this analogy, I’m welcoming the inspiration back after a long spell of nothing but metaphorical driftwood and dry seashells to play with.
Hot on the heels of last week’s flip through from the Book of Days, I bring you Part Five:
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In July 2020 I began this enormous sketchbook, with a new double page spread every week. I posted a few flip throughs in the first year, and although the project is still merrily trotting along at a spread a week, I fell out of the habit of posting updates.
Today I set myself the task to root about behind the metaphorical sofa in my mind and show you some of what’s been going on in my world of art making. Beginning with a flip through of the enormous sketchbook.
This brings us to page 73, although in real time I’ve already clocked up >100 pages, so I’ve more to show you yet. *Watch this space!*
On top of this, it’s been a reeeallly long time since I posted a studio musings newsletter, apologies for radio silence, this is on the list to be revived in the next few days!
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I spent most of a day putting together the little concertina sketchbook that I’m using for the 100 Day Project this year AS WELL AS the Sketchbook Project.
Most every time I’ve taken on these projects, I’ve overclocked myself.
Given that I’ve already missed the deadline for the SBP by 6 months I thought to mash up these two projects.
Let’s see what becomes of it.
As I cut and glued and trimmed and finagled together the concertina pages, I watched the ebb and flow of acceptance that the stuff I make will inevitably have a wonkiness to it.
Yes, I measured and cut with a ruler. Also Yes, the pages came out a bit skew-whiff.
Yes, I cleaned my brush before I primed the paper, and also Yes, there was still a bit of dark blue paint on it that’s got them a bit streaky already.
Theme established:
It’s all part of the Quirkfulness.
Now, every day as I film and photograph steps in the progress, I remind myself:
Through the ugly stages, the layers i know will get covered up, the point is to carry on.
Quirkfulness is my style, it’s a feature not a bug.
It’s a sketchbook, not rocket surgery.
It’s okay to be okay with this.
Today we reached day 17 and I’m fully in my stride with daily progress, an idea of what the finished piece will look like, and all manner of chaos on and around my desk!
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Two art journals filled up gradually over two years. Here’s how they turned out….
I chose these two big sketchbooks because I just couldn’t resist the cherry red & magenta pink covers!
Over the next couple of years, one or both of these books sat perpetually open on my art desk, and whenever I had extra paint to use up, or new pens to try out, these pages began to take shape.
This is where I’d scribble notes to myself, idly doodle in between times, while I waited for a zoom call to begin, and during online classes.
I’d see a face in the doodles and gradually these new characters began to show up.
As the pages got heavy with collage and paint, I tore out and tore up and glued back with wild abandon.
There are no rules in these books, there’s no upside down, no right and wrong.
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