Satnav

Sometimes I just stick things in I want to keep, and do nothing else. The section of dress pattern came first and might have been used as a background, but then I stuck in the plastic sticky label from the front of my satnav (bought a couple of months ago and a most useful purchase I must say!) I liked the little picture imitating what you see on the screen as you are directed effortlessly around.

Tudor Wives

A much happier outcome for Anne of Cleves than for Katherine Howard.

Cassie and Abstract

Ink drawing of Cassie on a tag, with watercolour added much later. She has such a strange shaped body, totally different to my other two cats. Overall she is much longer! I don't draw the cats very often but enjoy it when I do. They always move though so it can be hard!
The other page is oil pastel and gouache I think. I liked the colours next to each other-the yellow and the purple particularly.

Swan

This page is just a doodly page. It started with the swan which is a photo transfer. Then I stuck on a part of an ink doodle. I painted around and over. By this point I had had enough of this page and didn't want to do any more! Not one of my favourite pages but I like the swan.

The Queen of Hearts

This page was prompted by the words in the book which say ''She was just like the Queen in Alice in Wonderland'' to which I added ''except that she smiled!'' The blue dress is made up of mini paintings of pieces of china from the river shore. I love the tiny glimpses of what must have been a beautiful and intricate pattern. The variety is huge. I like it when a tiny figure or building appears on the fragment. The face is copied from Tenniel's illustration-exept that she is smiling.

Party Souvenirs

These two pages are from Andy's birthday party a few weeks ago. The pretty foil is from Tunnock's dark chocolate teacakes-a biscuity base with soft marshmallow on top, all covered in chocolate. The foil is lovely I think. If it had not been for writing this post I would never have thought to visit Tunnock's website, and I am glad I have as it is a good one! It has fifties looking graphics and little interesting facts about their products which appear across the bottom of the page. My favourite Tunnocks biscuit are these. Anyway, a few of these wrappers were smoothed out and left by one of our friends, so I stuck one in. I had already made the hole in the page and stuck the little clown drawing-a result of that game where each person draws the next part-behind-looking through the hole. The pages help me remember a great party!
I have just noticed how fairground like Tunnock's packaging is, which goes well with the clown!

Man From a Magazine

This is the second picture I painted of a man on the front of the Guardian magazine last week. I want to make a doll like him.

Here he is...

The first picture I did of him with staring eyes, and a doodle about painting faces, done on a piece of cardboard and stapled in. The doodle is gouache and the man is watercolour.