Week three of the daffodils… I think they might finally be on their last legs!
For Easter greetings visit Jenna at Timballoo and see what she’s got in her sketchbook this week.
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged daffodils, drawing, flowers, narcissus, sketch, sketchbook, spring, watercolour on March 31, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Week three of the daffodils… I think they might finally be on their last legs!
For Easter greetings visit Jenna at Timballoo and see what she’s got in her sketchbook this week.
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged daffodil, drawing, narcissus, sketch, spring, sunday sketchblog, timballoo, watercolour on March 24, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Well, last week there was a flurry of activity in my sketchbook, and I had hoped for the same this week… but it turns out that the first week of the daffodils was by far the most exciting, and I’m also coming to the conclusion that I’ve bought magic daffodils that are refusing to age and die.
Here they are on Monday…
… and here they are on Saturday…
No bloody difference! So I’ve been peering at them very intently every day, and then sighing a lot, but basically haven’t had much to draw at all. I do refuse, on principle, to draw the same thing every day just for the sake of it. So here are a few little close-ups which hopefully show the very minute changes as these magic daffodils very slowly start to age…
I trust you’ve all had a good week, and hopefully Jenna has got over her lurgy now and has something new to show off!
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged daffodils, drawing, flowers, illustration, narcissi, narcissus, painting, pogle paints, sketch, timballoo, watercolour on March 17, 2013| 2 Comments »
Another busy week here, topped off with a weekend of decorating and DIY, and to be honest I am so tired I’m amazed I’m managing to get this blog post out on time!
I loved Jenna’s sketch of an apple at various stages of being eaten, and so my little sketching project this week has been a vase of daffodils. I’ve been sketching them each day at around the same time, and having started on Monday I’ve only missed one day (yesterday).
I did actually haul my tired backside down to the studio very late last night with the intention of getting another sketch done, but upon close inspection the flowers hadn’t changed: it’s the first day all week that there’s not been a marked difference in them – clearly fate was smiling on me!
It’s my intention to continue charting the progress of the daffodils with a daily sketch until they fade entirely, so wish me luck!
If you’ve enjoyed this post then please visit Jenna and Hayley to see what they have in their sketchbooks this week.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bilbo baggins, daffodils, drawing, lord of the rings, narcissus, recycling, repurposing, sketch, sketches, the hobbit, watercolour, work in progress on March 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »
What a week it’s been – last week it was warm and sunny enough for me to be sitting out in the garden, and this week we’ve had snow! Still, I’ve been keeping busy…
I’ve spent a vast amount of time cutting up cardboard boxes so that they’re ready to turn into trinket boxes. I always use old cardboard boxes to make the layers as they’re free, which helps keep costs down, and of course repurposing/recycling is always a good thing… but finding the right sort of cardboard box is trickier than you’d think. Ideally I like to use boxes which are quite thick, and not printed with anything too garish in case it shows through the envelopes – and whilst my local shop is happy to supply me with boxes, they aren’t always suitable. Anyway, I’m waffling a bit but basically at the weekend I ended up with two ENORMOUS boxes from IKEA, as a friend was throwing them out. They were too perfect to turn down, so I took them home… but they filled my studio entirely. Not good! Thus I have spent the best part of two days chopping them up into the right sized pieces, and then desperately trying to find room to store those pieces.
I’ve not been entirely successful, as you can see from the photo above I’m surrounded by towering piles of cardboard. There may well be a promotion on trinket boxes running in my shop very soon! I have made a start on making some boxes though, and the first to emerge this week was a Lord of the Rings/Hobbit themed one.
I want to make some Discworld themed ones too, but am currently stumped as to where I’ve put my Discworld stamps. Hmm.
One last thing that’s in progress at the moment is a series of sketches – I’ll show them off properly on Sunday, but in the meantime here are the first two…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged flowers, galanthus, photo, snow, snowdrops on March 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged apple, crocus, drawing, EDM challenge, fruit, galanthus, pogle paints, sketch, sketchbook, snowdrops, timballoo, watercolour on March 10, 2013| 2 Comments »
Tuesday was a truly glorious early spring day: blue skies, bright sunshine, and warm enough to sit out in the garden sketching! I had a wonderful afternoon sat outside with a cup of sweet chai and my sketchbook, and am very pleased with the results.
Not bad, eh? After mainly using a biro for my drawings over the last four months it’s been nice returning to watercolours this past fortnight. I didn’t ignore my biro completely though, here’s another addition to my EDM sketchbook.
Jenna had some rather lovely shoes in her sketchbook last week, I wonder what she’s got this Sunday? Hayley I think has been a bit busy to be blogging, but go and check her blog out anyway 🙂
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beekeeper quilt, hexipuffs, knitting, recycle, repair, tiny owl knits, work in progress on March 6, 2013| 1 Comment »
Another week seems to have flown by, and it’s now March – it’s definitely been quite spring-like so far this week, fingers crossed that it continues!
I’ve not been able to settle on anything for very long recently, perhaps the restlessness is related to the changing season? Anyway, I have done a bit of knitting and since my last hexipuff update I’ve added another 56 ‘puffs to the stash. Not bad! I have now accepted that I won’t get the quilt finished by the beginning of April, but I am confident that I’ll get it finished before the summer.
On Tuesday I got to make treasure out of another man’s trash, which was quick and easy, and also very satisfying. A client had thrown out a broken box…
…which was really easy to fix, just some wood glue, a hammer, and some tiny panel pins just for extra insurance and voila!
I do like immediate gratification. So now I have a nice new storage box, happy days.