Watercolour and pen doodles 27 and 28

 

Mini watercolour doodles 25 and 26

 

Fantasy Flowers (both 3" square)
watercolour and coloured pens

Watercolour and pen doodles 24 and 25

 

Both 3" square in watercolour Moleskine
Watercolour, coloured pens and a touch of gouache

Mini watercolour doodles 21 and 22

 

Both 3" square - watercolour, pen plus a touch of gouache

Some of this series are based on past studies of plants, while others and purely imaginary.

Lockdown Quilt

Back in March I mentioned that I was contributing a small embroidered square for a lockdown quilt project. A couple of weeks ago, six of the panels made so far were being exhibited during Cheltenham Open Studios so I, and a couple of friends, took the opportunity to go and see it.

It really was an excellent exhibit in a beautiful church setting, we could have spent hours discovering all the different images and imagining the stories behind them.

I have included pictures of 3 of the panels and you can find more information about this continuing project and my contribution here and here.

Photos courtesy PK

Eco-dyed book (Part 2)

Eventually, I have finished recording the remaining flip-through of my eco-dyed book.  (Part 1 can be viewed here.) 

I have strengthened some of the fragile pressed leaves with tissue, either on one side or both.  In addition, the veining in a couple of them has been highlighted with metallic wax crayon.

The book measures 8" x 4", using 140 lb watercolour paper (mainly Bockingford hot pressed).  The buckle is made of a couple of layers of the same paper, the band from some calico which was dyed in the same pot.

More watercolour doodles

 

Both 3" x 3" - watercolour, white and black pens in Moleskine Watercolour Notebook

Catching up with the mini doodles

Watercolour - Cad Orange, Light Red, Cad Red,
Ultramarine Blue, plus sepia and white pens

Watercolours - Quin Gold, Perylene Maroon, Opera, Mauve,
plus sepia and white pens

 

Eco-dyed artist's book

 I have finally got round to utilising some of my eco-dyed papers in a handmade book.  Much of the inspiration has come from following the Instagram accounts of Sue Brown #sb.brown21 and Jo Horswill #paper_cloth_studio.

So far I have only added a few pressed leaves to some of the pages, but I might add some prints or drawings later.

The full filmed flip-through was too long to be added in its entirety, so I might re-film the second part later.