Festive spirit

Yay, I am now in the festive spirit, all my presents are ready for wrapping and I have to write all my Christmas cards.  To help me I have some friends.

I am linking this to Artists in Blogland, check what everyone else is up to. 

Have a good weekend everyone!

Show and Tell Saturday - You like my boots!

Another birdie in boots has appeared in my sketch book.  I feel that this little chap is rather proud of his boots and wants everyone to admire them.

I have also been busy with my Creative Tuesdays challenge of Autumn, that will be posted on Tuesday.

Hop over to Artists in Blogland and catch up with eveyone else.  Happy weekend!

Black and white week

This week has felt a little meditative, I am having hectic days at work, so I need a little calming when I am at home hence the following. I find just doing repetitive line work so relaxing.

Well that was my week, so drop over to Artists in Blogland to see what other lovely artists have been up to.

Show and tell Saturday - whimsical bluebird

Well another week has gone by, my how time flys.  For this week's show and tell for Artists in Blogland I have been busy painting this whimsical bird in mixed media.   I have cropped the pic for this blog but am intending to use is as a basis for a card.

I am also doing the fabulous Jane Davenport's great Supplies Me class and this is my first coloured pencil face, trying to get some shading as Jane is teaching us.  Looking at this I feel that the whole face is not strong enough in colour, but I think that will come with confidence and practice.

The next challenge for Mr Toast's Creative Tuesday is all done and I will put that on my blog probably tomorrow.

It's Marcia's birthday today, she is the lovely lady who runs Artists in Blogland, go and send her best wishes.

Well that's what I have been doing this week.  Happy weekend everyone!

Coffee flowers and Zazzle cards

This is my update for the week for Artists in Blogland.  Well, I finished my Creative Tuesday's challenge of Kitchen.  My witches kitchen can be viewed here or in the blog entry below this one.  The next fortnightly challenge is Morning and I already have ideas for this one.

I have also been playing around with coffee, yep using coffee as a basis for a picture.  Not only is it wonderful to work on but smells heavenly as well.

Also I ordered some cards from zazzle of some of my designs to see what they would look like, which have now arrived and I am soo pleased with them. So I have now decided to open a Zazzle store, I will keep you all posted on that.

After reading my update for the week, check out what everyone else has been doing at the Artists in Blogland page. Thank you so much for dropping by and have a great weekend.

What have I been doing this week?

Well, I have joined the oh so talented and lovely Jane Davenport's Supplies Me on line workshop.  This class looks fabulous, with such lovely other participants.  I have not yet managed to start on my first assignment but am hoping to do that this weekend.

My beach huts bag arrived from Zazzle, it was a good test as I realised that paler items on frabric are not so vibrant.  But I think I will open a shop once I can get my head around all the correct sizings (pixels and ppi's), its another world!

I am part of a fortnightly co-op called Creative Tuesdays, and next Tuesday's entry is Kitchen, so I have had my thinking cap on and have been working on that, this is a sneaky little bit of my entry still being worked on, but I don't want to give the whole game away.  Visit my blog next Tuesday to see the finished item.

Finally, I painted four ACEO size owls.

 Hop over and visit the fabulous Artists in Blogland to catch up on everyone elses week.

Good weekend to everyone and my thoughts and best wishes to those who are were affected or are still suffering from the terrible 9/11.