Fabulous book and junk journal

A friend of mine gave me a copy of her fabulous book that she has had published, it's beautiful. Sabine has created this wonderful picture and story book. It features lots of Sabine's digital art and gorgeous graphics. The story is about the tales of everyday happenings of humans as overheard and told through the eyes of Frederic and Kate, a cat and mouse. It's called 'The Artful Correspondence of Frederic and Kate' and would make a great gift for young and old. If you check this site you'll get the best price for your region.

The above are just a small selection of the pages from the book, all of the pages are beautifully decorated and have so much detail you can spend hours taking it all in.

I'm also working on a commission that I've had for awhile now, it's a junk journal and I've loved creating the pages. It only needs it's cover now which I will be working on next week.

Just a random selection of the pages in the journal, there are lots more.

Going round in circles on my own

I've had this HUGE cream curtain stashed away and re discovered it when I had a clean up to get ready for the new doorway into my studio. I now have the doorway but no door as yet, so I decided I'd paint the cream curtain and that will suffice for the time being. I only had my little apprentice to help and she couldn't stay very long so I ended up 'painting in the round' on my own. I still have more graphics to add but it's getting there.

As you can see it really is huge, it hangs right down to the floor on both sides of the table.

Progressing.

The start of the doodles.

This is where my new door way's going.

And this is it, looking into my studio, the curtain will hang here until I get the door.

This is inside my studio looking through to my workroom where I hold my workshops.

It's made such a difference, it was definitely worth all of the dust, dust and more dust (I began to wonder at the time though).

These lovely ladies were the first to see it. This was another great group making and using the foam printing plates they made. Thanks Deb, Kaye, Maha and Marg for another terrific day.

Patsy's Exhibition

My friend Patsy Worledge is holding a solo exhibition at Beaumaris Art Group Studios, Reserve Road Beaumaris, over the next three weekends.
The opening is tomorrow night, Friday the 2nd September, between 6.00pm and 9.00pm,  it's being opened by Beverley Dunn a fabulous Aussie actress. Feel free to drop in tomorrow night or over the next three weekends, between 11.00am and 4.00pm, Patsy would love to see you, she's such an inspiring artist. Patsy will also be teaching here next March too.

I helped her set up the exhibition today and took some photos of her amazing work, she's so prolific.

The lady herself.

Some of her paintings, rickety stitching and bags.

More works of art.

Just a small selection of Patsy's bags, she has nineteen altogether.

This is one of her coats she made from recycled clothing. Patsy and I will be teaching classes for recycled clothing later this month. If you're interested in attending a workshop please email me for details.

A beautiful painting, so much to see in the many layers.

Another one of Patsy's beautiful rickety stitching quilts.

A close up detail of another quilt.

Next post I will definitely show you pictures of my new doorway.

Journal has a new home

The journal I've been making, my largest ever, is now in it's new home. I enjoyed ever minute of the process and am soon about to start some smaller ones for my etsy, first though I have to complete another order for a junk journal, it's all assembled, just waiting for it's covers. I'll post photos when it's complete. Here's some more shots of the 'big' journal.

This is the cover and spine.

I created a pocket inside the cover with a piece of embellished felt, I then added one of my owls.

These pages are similar to what I will be teaching in Sydney next year, see here.

As are these.

and these.

I also have a workshop coming up at home this weekend. I will be teaching the foam printing plates again. We will be printing on tissue paper and also on fabric. I made some more foam plates and did some fabric printing on calico with them. There are still a couple of vacancies if anyone wishes to attend, just email me for details.

Foam printing plates.

Printing onto fabric.

Next time I hope to have some photos on my new entrance into my studio. I can now access my studio from my work room where I teach my classes. All of the students who attend my classes at home know how I've been hanging out for a doorway to connect the two rooms. Previously I had to go up and down stairs to get from one to the other.

Collage Cards on Etsy

I had a rotten throat bug last week that left me without my voice for a few days, not that it mattered, when I work from home I don't get to speak to many people during the day. I was confined to the house, very lethargic, so didn't get an awful lot done. I'm back in action again now so have made some more collage cards for my Etsy. These cards can also be mounted and framed.

Card 1.

Detail of card 1.

Card 2

Detail of card 2.

I will have more listed as they become available.

I also photographed this beautiful detail in a window a couple of weeks ago. I love how it looks like a piece of decorated or printed paper.

Decorated papers and collage kits

I've been busy decorating more papers for journal making and decided to add some to my Etsy. They are decorated on both sides so are ideal for journal making. They are the same papers that I use in all of my journals, including the one in Cloth Paper Scissors.
I've also added some collage/mixed media kits. These consist of a selection of my papers used to demonstrate techniques in class. Some are gelatin prints on tissue, papers from my decorated papers workshops, some of my foam printed tissue paper and scraps of fabric papers, a mixed bag of a variety of styles and colours.

The above two images show one pack of decorated papers, 10 sheets per pack.

This shows both sides of the papers.

Theses two photos are pack two.

The above four photos show the selections of papers in the collage kits.

Off to bed now then sketching class tomorrow. Loving life and art.

Hand carved stamps

I've been carving up a storm recently making stamps. I've added these to my Etsy .

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If you're looking for more great things on etsy you should visit this site for these gorgeous, character filled cuddly mascots, one watches over me everyday as I work in my studio. They're delightful.

Finally, on a sad note, one of Australia's finest icons passed away last week. She was an inspiration to us all. Margaret Olley, a magnificent artist died in her sleep at 88, she was painting right up until her death, what a life.

At work in her 'studio' which was her whole house. What a lady.