Sunday, November 27, 2011

Little patches found lurking in sewing box

Having opened up my sewing box, I found no blue cotton - needed to repair daughter's school jumper. To the cotton reserved for art - yay blue! But also rediscovered some patch badge things I made a while ago. Had great intensions of sewing  them onto clothing, but then couldn't see myself wearing them.

May need to make some less challenging images - maybe a dog!

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Pencil Drawing

Time to get the pencils out. We have moved into our new house, I have space to create, I'll start with a few simple drawings, this being the first. Pretty pleased with it but I couldn't quite get the mouth right, I wanted a hint of a smile. I enjoyed all the cross hatching for the hair and clothing.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

White lines

I sketched my father in law when he was visiting in October '10. I felt there was a good likeness so transformed the sketch into a lino cut. Printing with white ink on black you get a sense of the original sketch. I thinks it looks like him, but his wife doesn't like it because of all the sketchy lines - makes him look old.