Moonflygirl

So many people draw cats, dogs, foxes and hares (as have I) but very few people do pigeons on cards, so I took up the challenge.  I have fiv...

 I decided to have a sketchbook with me at all times so I can collage on the go.  (We'll see how that works out). This collage was made ...

 My latest collage is of Goldcrest birds in trees on a golden day in May. This one took ages, as each and every bird was done full size, but...

I received my first batch of  Large Blue butterflies back from the printers, and sadly the vibrancy of the one on the screen didn't tran...

I finished the Great Blue butterfly collage a few days ago. Today I finished this one - The Great White Egret.  The idea based on the collag...

So after 18 months I finally got round to making a new collage.  I decided to explore making collages of my local wildlife, and started with...

This is really the last pair in this series. I love the colours, but will need to explore other ones as well. These a a smaller pair (1.5 cm...

 Ok - I think I'm done with this exercise for the moment...  With these two pairs I decided to try and rectify the obvious colour mistak...

Today I made two pairs of spiral earrings, one larger, one smaller, with differing results.   As I (still) don't have any thick fine sil...

 This is the pair of the earring I did in the last post. I made the spiral a lot looser, so that the gradient of colours is more visible tha...

 This time I soldered on a sterling silver edge as I don't have any fine silver handy. I just wanted to see if I could get the wires to ...

 Another few hours of learning - I decided to make a pair of earrings from a tutorial by Sandra MeEwen. It was so I could learn her techniqu...

 Since I had some colours already washed and prepared, I decided to do another cloisonne with them, but in a different pattern. Then I decid...

Sadly lockdown is looming and my enamel classes have cancelled for the time being. This means I will have to continue working on my own, I s...

 I felt brave today so I decided to enamel my etched Anglo Saxon inspired pendant.  I did two layers of SOJE 239 Light Turquoise. It needs a...

These pieces of etched silver were soaked in glass etching solution for two weeks and brushed twice daily with a glass brush, to get rid of ...

This is what I prepared for enameling at today's lesson.  It is an Anglo Saxon inspired disc, which - if successful - will be a pendant....

 Yesterday, at last, I made test samples for all (18) of my shades of grey enamel. Grey is one of my favourite colours, and a few years ago,...

Giving some shape to metal before you enamel it makes it stronger. I learned how to shape copper pieces, then tried to enamel them.  The ena...

Once a year it seems, I get an urge to try something new.  Last year (time flies, even in a ''pandemic'') it was all about c...

Mixed feelings! On one hand I'm absolutely exhausted, and my brain seems to have been wrung dry. On the other hand - it was lots of fun,...

Not that much time today, also had to dismantle my collage corner as I need the space for something else (only temporarily, it will be back)...

Today I tried to collage Madox my cat. I already know that it is very hard (for me) to capture the full character - but I had a good try. ...

Today and ice-skating pigeon. There are two backgrounds for the pigeon, and can't decide which I prefer. I did the top one first, the...

Some days are just pants...

Today I was trying to work out how to do robins. Quite tricky - it got easier as I did more. Here is a selection: And of ...

I have done a few animals in woods, which is fun - but this one was a special request (snow rabbit). I did silver birch trees for a change. ...

Today I followed a prompt from the Daily Creating Group 'Edward Gorey'. It reminded me I had a photograph, taken last November in W...