Recycled Flowers

I ran a little group at work this week making flowers from plastic bottles. This was inspired by some I clocked at Glastonbury last weekend (See here). They are going to compliment real flowers in a mass window box planting session next week. Here's my shiny example complete with buttons in the centre. Thanks to a Fruit Shoot bottle and my dad's glue gun.

Change in direction

Have needed help in navigating since this time last year. Here's a little something to help me find my way from here..  

Step two

Progress. With help from the Prü. 

Step one in something new

Started something a bit different this month in keeping with the making-use-of-existing-stuff-policy in force at home. Took a canvas and covered it in a heap of what was nearly binned paint. Mainly a process yellow acrylic.

I'm going to work up from here adding texture and collage to see where it takes me. Haven't quite got rid of the canvas texture, so there's a lot to add, but hoping to keep the the yellow glowing through in a sunshine-y positive fashion.

Where it goes. No one yet knows. 

City of Culture

Daniel and I had a little adventure into Hull at the weekend, primarily to see the monumental wind turbine blade residing in Queen Victoria Square.. but we also perused a couple of artsy sites including Humber Street Gallery and Ferens Art Gallery where I found the following delights.

Georgie by Arthur Gaskin (above) and Study of a Young Woman by Thomas Cooper Gotch (below), both of which got me wanting to place bold colours next to elaborate patterns on paper..

In contrast, I also enjoyed this mellowed yin yang avocado painting by Helen Bradshaw from within the open exhibition..

And last but not least, these underfoot floor panels with their pressure shifting ink were addictive..

Pompompompompompomming

I made a chinchilla and I love it. It's soft, misshapen and all the colours of my mood. Thanks to Abel and Cole for the delicious flecked grey thread.

Sparkly Production Line

This year's Christmas cardlets have been influenced by my quest to lovingly rehome and/or productively use up the contents of mum's home.. 

Take one sewing machine, lots of sequins, some glittery thread and an old unused sketchbook. Here's a pile of results.. 

#thankyoumum #sequins #happy #merry #christmas