Stencil Girls

Here are my two latest pages in one of my Art Journals.  These are based on stencils from Jane Davenport's girly series.  This is only one face of four stencils - all the painting, shading and hair is my design just the face shape is from the stencil.

The first one with the peacock has napkins under the image to give it a bit of depth.  There are three other stencils which I will play around with soon and see what I can create.

Side one of two pages - can't quite get the second page to match up!

Finished Graffiti Pillows

From looking at my last posts I realized that I have not posted any photos of "finished graffiti pillows" so I now will.  These are my finished ones which I am will either give away as pressies to friends (of course that is if they like them...) or sometime in the future start my online store and sell them.  So here are some photos - let me know what you like or don't like so I can improve for future ones.  I do have photos of others but just can't locate the photos on my computer - so here are a few different pillows I have created with my graffiti pieces of fabric.

Update - I'm Back

Life gets busy and other things get in the way sometimes so I can't believe my last post was in 2012!!!  Shock horror - so have decided to get back into the swing of things.  Am looking at other sites so I can restart my blog with the idea of setting up an online store of some sort but in the meantime I will continue with this one which has been forgotten about.

So keep posted and I will add some more crafty things I have been up to.

Making Graffiti Pillows

These are the start of my graffiti pillows - I have taken a couple of my hand painted fabrics - I selected two colours, cut them up into different size pieces and sewed them back together with lots of white zig zag and curvy sewing.  Then I cut out my words and sewed them on in black zig zag.  Now I just have to hand paint a couple of back pieces and put them all together as an actual pillow.  I do like them so far but also think I could be a bit more "wild" with the graffiti on the backgrounds.   But these are my first two so will see how we go.

Fabric Painting

Been having fun creating hand painted fabric pieces following Alisa Burke's book "Sew Wild".  Before I can do any sewing which I can't wait to do I have to create lots of painted fabric pieces.  Here is a selection I have already done - all different styles and colours.  The first item I want to sew is graffiti pillows which means a lot of writing all over my painted pieces and some messy painting - don't have any photos of those ones yet. 

Pink Water Lilly

Can't believe it's been months since my last post - I will have to try and post something more often - not that I think I have many people following me!!  Anyway - here is another reworked painting of a pink water lilly - it was too plain so I totally reworked the background and extended out the flower - made it all a lot messier.  I was trying to be a bit wild and loose.  Still don't know if it looks OK but will stop here for now.

Reworked Painting with Birds

With all this rainy weather I have busy pottering around in my craft room. Decided to rework an old painting I didn't like - you may recognise the bottom half of this painting from a previous post. This is a mixed media piece with paper collage - I just love the little birdies and the background texture - I was hoping it would look like a forest with lots of suggestions of background twigs, grass and trees. Just not too sure about the white writing - maybe it should have been a bit bigger ?

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