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Category Archives: Arty Projects
Knitty Gritty
I took a notion to try out some knitting. My mum taught me some basics a few years ago and I knitted a small scarf then never bothered again. Maybe it’s age, maybe it’s my restless mind or maybe it’s … Continue reading
Eggstravaganza!
Painting eggs at Easter is good fun and we like to out do each other with our efforts. There’s usually one or two that explore the theme of horror though.
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Tagged Easter, easter egg painting, easter eggs, egg painting, eggs
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Birthday Banner
My dear friend B has asked again, this time for a banner for her son’s 18th birthday party. The remit this time was black and silver. This is what I came up with: I used Daler Rowney Ice White A1 … Continue reading
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Tagged banner, birthday banner, black and silver, black card, black glitter, celebration
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Lanarking About
A colleague’s brother is turning 40 and said colleague has bought him a first edition of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. Said colleague asked me to make a birthday card in the style of Gray’s illustrations for Lanark. A lot of black … Continue reading
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Tagged Alasdair Gray Lanark, birthday card, detail, illustration, ink illustration, Lanark, pen and ink, prismacolor, Rotring Tikky Graphic, Zig
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Summer Horror!
An English teacher I work with is planning on doing a media horror unit with his pupils – he’s written this himself with a little help from others and it is very good, I can’t wait to see the pupils … Continue reading
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SalemSkye goes Street!
I’ve mentioned before that I work in a school and often I do little pieces for classes or pupils. The English class that I am honoured to be a part of is reading Catherine McPhail’s Tribes – so I did … Continue reading
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Tagged Ecoline, Ecoline Watercolor ink, Ecoline Watercolour Ink, Gellyroll, grafitti, ink, sponge painting, stencil, Watercolour, watercolour ink
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Communion Banner
I have a lovely friend, let’s call her B, and B is a great person. She also knows how to twist me around her finger so I end up doing little arty projects for her (See ‘A Fling with Bling … Continue reading
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Tagged banner, classic, communion banner, Copics, glitter card, ProMarkers, retro, vintage
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Trees and Colourful Skies
In an effort to get this blog back on track and likewise my drawing after Puppy-gate, I have been doodling a new header for the blog today. Trees and colourful skies. I am obsessed with both and my iPhoto library … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud, clouds, colourful skies, pink, purple, silhouette, sky, tree, tree silhouettes, trees, winter sky
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Educational Drawings
More work for school. Recently a group of pupils in our school sold poppies and cupcakes for Remembrance Sunday and they wanted a display for the photos of the event. They asked me if I would mind drawing up some … Continue reading
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November Round Up
I still haven’t got round to doing any coloured pencil work – blame the new dog – but we haven’t been completely devoid of creative projects over here. A pupil in the school where I work asked me if I … Continue reading
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