Sue painting and preparing.

Sue continues her journey with painting ,venturing into water mixable oils and exploring adding people to the scene.

She had also taken out suggestions and stitched out some of her local scenes in black and white.

Some watercolour depicting trees,looking very realistic.

Some preparation for her kinoptic pieces .You should come and view them in Centrespace 18-23 October.

In October she had been working on the above .A view near the Severn Bridge taken as part of a Sally Tyrie Fibre Arts Take Two course. She had it printed and has added lots of stitch,both hand and machine.

Her latest painting adventure  has seen  an exploration of acrylic paint. Sue wasn’t that happy but we think they are just great for a first attempt.

She was much happier returning to watercolours with these two.

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Kirsten’s September show and tell.

Kirsten has enrolled in a Fibre Arts Take Two course

Her tutor is Anne Kellyand the course is Collections and Cloth

It suits Kirsten as she has lots of collections and can put them to good use .

She loves to draw and depict them in stitch ,as well as paper clay.

Her illustrations capture subtle detail.

Her workbook pages contain so much intricate and interesting detail they are lovely to explore.

                

Meanwhile she had put some of her work for HiddenGems into frames.

We hope you will come and see them for yourselves.

 

September/October.

Janis and Jenn both interpreted the ‘book title ‘ prompt from August .

Jenn’s above was ‘Gone with the Wind ‘by Margaret Mitchell and below Janis took ‘Catch 22’ by Joseph Heller.

Would you have guessed correctly ?

I expect you’ll recognise this next set of work .Of course it’s Fumi ‘s.

Some colourful origami ,which is also on our flyer for Centrespace starting on Saturday 18th October.

We thought it could be printed commercially and be made into a delicious luxurious scarf.

Some tiny delicate crochet seaweed in strings and in tiny shells.

Native flowers displayed on slate from the Lake District .

Eternally linked to Wordsworth and his poem ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’

Lots more  origami pigeons ,in matchboxes of the seasons

Flying free in a mobile .

In October she has worked on some Autumn leaves beautifully stitched and edged with tiny beads .She was pondering how best to display them .We wondered about suspended on a branch ?

Her ‘Pearl’ piece is ready for stretching on canvas .Such beautiful even stitches one for each day of 

Thirty years.A real labour of love.

Some of her pigeons have been displayed as if flying across a blustery Autumn sky with billows 

of leaves flying into the air too .

Favourites.

Debby had produced this print with Sue Brown and used it to create printed lengths of fabric.She decided she would create a quilted hanging from this one .The fabric she has used for the edge makes a lovely foil especially with the accents of colour on the top right .She found just the right match in a charity shop.She will add accents of metallic to highlight areas such as the beetle.

She had sourced Konjac Gum powder  for laminating paper and strengthening them for for momigami  

www.japanese paper place .com

She had also been experimenting with using a laser cut garden ornament to create a rust print .To make it safer to handle she had used tea to dye with .Tea binds with the rust and neutralises the iron oxide.

She also came across some Cyanotype prints she had set aside and is thinking how they might be used.

Another piece she had found was a favourite transfer paint piece.She had made a start on some stitching but intends to go back and add more .

While on holiday in Chichester she found this in a charity shop .It ties around the shoulders like a cape but is a polyester fabric.She bought it for inspiration and had some interesting facts about butterflies and moths.Butterflies navigate by the sun while moths do it by the moon and stars ,hence their diurnal and nocturnal habits .

 

Fishing.

Jenn printed one of her drawings onto cotton for her ‘Red’ interpretation but didn’t get around to adding any stitch.

She was trying to work out how she might use her fish prints on cotton to create a larger piece.The problem was her printer only prints to A4. Joining them left a harsh line of stitching ,so she thought about piecing them like Bojagi.

Then she tried using a cording foot and stitching curved lines to mimic water.The jury is still out !She was disappointed that Prinfab www.prinfab.com no longer offered organza as one of their fabrics.She may try Contrado www.contrado.co.uk. 

After taking an online workshop with Kate Semple www.katesemple.co. uk  making card jugs Jenn had used the idea to make an oval dish. She had the song ‘When the boat comes in ‘ playing in her head.

Tetrapak prints of Mackerel sit on it .She has plans to create a matching piece which is in the early stages of production.It may happen or not .

She had found a frame ,with three apertures ,locally and was trying out more tetrapak prints.These had included’chine colle ‘,she thought she might get another frame and do some more .