Silk Painting Video

I have taken photographs of my silk painting yesterday and today

as I produced the piece of work. It is quite hard

to keep remembering to take photographs at each step.

I have then edited it and made it into a video for You tube,

my third now!!!

I used the Mandalas card as a starting point.

Enlarging the pattern and using silk painting techniques.

I will then make a quilted and embellished wall hanging with it.

Hope you like the results so far?

More Mandalas Cards

Kim's class finished at lunch time so I went over to the Bead Shop

in Dereham that sells all sorts of craft items and

brought some card and of course a few pots of the

wonderful shimmer paints and Embossing Powders. Yum!

I had the quickest lunch I think I have ever had and

started stamping and embossing in gold.

Kim had given a demonstration of this earlier,

I always use it on textiles and in moulding plastics

so using it on paper is just magic.

Then to cutting out and figuring out what lines to choose!

Not easy when you get confused what line is what

and there is no tutor to hand!

The best bit for me was painting with the

shimmer paints, so iridescent, beautiful.

Above, you can see my second finished card,

completed all on my own with encouragement

from Haydn and Judy the Gallery owners.

I am quite pleased and Thank You to

Kim for inspiring another creation.

To see more of my creations visit

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Card Making

As some of you know I like making and learning different things.

I often learn a technique or skill at a workshop and

this in a way adds to my mixed media work as an artist.

I always learn something and find it humbling to be an

student. Different Tutors have their way of

setting out and using equipment that you would otherwise

never come into contact with or you have been doing

something the same way for years and you are

shown a new or easier way to do it, wonderful!

I am going to Kim's (a tutor @ The Gallery Dereham)

scrapbooking class and she mentioned that she does

different card making techniques too!

So I went along on Wednesday and

look at what I started on! these Mandala tile cards,

the rest of the group were already doing theirs and

I really jumped into the deep end.

I just loved it, the stamping and cutting out of the different layers

and then building them up again.

The shimmer paints are beautiful to use and so glossy!

I will be doing more of these.

See more of what goes on @The Gallery

www.thegallerydereham.co.uk