altered-ego

Butterfly Swing - Sunday Postcard Art challenge

This is a collage postcard done on Tyvec. I've used irridescent colours to reflect the exhilaration and feeling of flight on a swing.

Cupcakes for Two

This is a collage on canvas (10x13 inches) - all stamped and textured. It all started with a paper serviette I bought in a pack on the airport in Amsterdam, - this I used as a base over the canvas. I like this happy piece and it's going up in my kitchen!

Robin pendant

My little hand-painted Robin on a collaged and stamped background in soldered glass.

More painting...and a pendant

I painted this teeny Blue Tit, placed it on a collaged background and then turned it into a soldered pendant   (5 X 6 cm)

Playing with backgrounds

I've been working up new backgrounds for new pictures AND practising painting my birdies. The robin is painted in acrylics on muslin. A bit of freehand drawing and quick paintwork gives me enough of an idea of a bird for me to play with.

The background is made by cutting and tearing various pieces of fabric and paper and pasting it onto a piece of felt fabric (actually it's one of those cheap felty cleaning cloths). I then mix a solution of glue, white paint and water and paint over the whole thing and leave to dry. Or, you can try to iron it dry and let the iron stick to it rather spectacularly...

  

I cut up the completed background into 5 pieces of various sizes which will potentially make 5 new pieces of art. I cut out my painted robin and added some word art and some of my hand-made stamps.

 

Once it was all assembled I sewed over a few areas

 

Yay, my completed picture.

   

 

I've been...

My challenge page...

Using the word art...

Challenge time!

Here's a challenge for you using some word art I made. What can you come up with? Make a scrap page with the tag,  or use the words in your own way. Use pictures and/or words in any way you want. Pick up the word art HERE . Post your pictures / scrap pages under "comments". Let's see what we can come up with.

Sunday Postcard Art - "Words of wisdom"

What a lovely theme this week. My mother was always one for little quote and mottos about every situation in lfe. I also find myself quoting little phrases or mantras. Here's a mixed-media postcard I made:

Signs of spring

I went on a snowdrop walk at the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens on Saturday. I joined a little group of people led by one of the garden "rangers" and we sped off all over the gardens to seek out many different varieties of snowdrop. What a beautiful promise of spring!