WOYWW 811 Waves and Pignoli

Hi all, I’m back for our last Wednesday bloghop before Christmas care of Sarahscraftshed. First of all, I wish you all happy Christmas! On my desk, I’m finishing off my Stormy Seascape. 

Last week we were starting to add pastel to our seascapes. 

I think I’m done! We’re doing a quick study of a bit of Xmas tree and a clothes peg tomorrow. 

We’re taking treats to class so I made some Pignoli, Sicilian almond, lemon and pine nut cookies. 

I have 10 put away for class or we’d eat them! 

They have a soft almond paste centre, and are a mix of almond paste, pine kernels, sugar, bit of flour, egg white and lemon zest. It’s Nigel Slaters recipe (updated) but I used almond paste rather than marzipan (less sugar I think: Odense sell it on Amazon.) It’s the first time I’ve made them, and I think I’d make them smaller next time, but I’m still pleased. 

B’s slipover is nearly finished. Bella’s supervising as ever. 😻😹 She sends purrs to you all. 

And finally…

Ain’t that the truth! 

Take care and happy WOYWW 

hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 810 Waves

Hi all,

I’m back for our weekly blog, care of Sarah’s Craft shed. Here’s my desk: 

My seascape will be finished in my Wednesday art class. We’ll be using soft pastels to make sea foam, which will hopefully cover the join down the middle. I’ve no problem with painting with unusual shapes but I’d have preferred to take chunks out of the edges rather than tearing the whole sheet up. Ah well, in the name of art! The middle right section was done by creating a wet base, laying and stretching clingfilm across it then introducing more paint and tilting it to run down the clingfilm creases. 

Here’s our wall of glass-distorted postcards from last week. 

Bella has helped me finish the back of B’s slipover and I’m doing the front. 

I’ve also added buttons to the baby cardigans. My goddaughter’s second child is due next February and will be a girl. 

Bella sends purrs to you all. I love her little smile when she’s having her chin chucked. 

And finally…

II’ll be back this afternoon (Wednesday) as we’re going for lunch after art class. 

Take care and happy WOYWW

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 809 Late blog

I nearly forgot it was blog day this week. It’s 1am and . Bella just woke us with some zooming about. Good job she did! 

I’ve been trying out my pastel colours for this week’s seascape. I won them as a prize when I wrote a letter to an art magazine about the brush rest Brian made for me from wine corks. 

This is the seascape I’ll be copying. The pastel is used with/ over the watercolour for spray. 

We’ve had to tear up and glue random pieces of watercolour paper together and I’m not sure how it will work - more details next week. 

My knitting has progressed and I’ve finished the back. 

Bella’s been supervising again! She sends you all purrs. 

And finally…

Take care and happy WOYWW

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 808 Shadows and ribs

Hi all. I’m back for our weekly bloghop courtesy of Sarah’s Craft shed.

Firstly here’s my desk:

I’ve been adding shadows to my glass-distorted postcard watercolour. It’s better than my first attempt but it’s still a bit wobbly. 

I’ve put crochet on hold for now and am back knitting as B’s chosen a ribbed slipover. Bella’s doing a spot inspection here 😻. 

She sends you all purrs. 

And warns you to stay clear of any rogue tape measures.😹

This Wednesday we’re starting a stormy seascape watercolour, using soft pastels as foam apparently and torn/reglued stripes of paper to add texture. I’ve found a few images:

I’m not sure yet which will be suitable but I love the colours of the last one. 

Folkestone book festival has been interesting. On Sunday we saw Jay Rayner. He was there on time despite two train routes cancelling all trains due to storm damage - he then hired a car and got to Folkestone on time. Very resourceful and an entertaining speaker. 

And finally…

Take care and happy WOYWW

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 807 More ellipses, hexagons

Hi all, I’m back to join in with our crafty blog hop care of  Sarahscraftshed.co.uk. I hope you’re all keeping warm and dry. Some parts of the UK have had snow already, and it’s cold down here. 

Firstly here’s my desk as I struggle to improve my glass-distorted postcard. 

Here’s the original postcard

I like the irony of painting a glass on a postcard of a cat fishing in a glass. 

My two attempts at reproducing it with a glass of water:

The one on the left was done in class and my tutor didn’t have a good word to say about it. She didn’t want me to start again but the glass colour and proportions were wrong. I also didn’t like the paper - Saunders Waterford hot pressed and have now gone back to Arches hot pressed, which lifts out (to correct errors or make soft highlights) much more readily. This one’s not perfect but I’m much happier with it. Tomorrow we paint the postcard so I’ve applied masking fluid ready for it. 

Last week, all our country path paintings were on the wall, both those who used sepia ink and those of us who used liquid charcoal.

It’s a nice group; tomorrow we’ll have lunch together in a nearby cafe after class. 

Bella keeps looking for the sunshine door when she’s not hibernating. We haven’t had snow yet down here 🤞🏻🤞🏻 but it’s cold and damp. She takes her supervisory duties serious, 

except when she takes exception to my tape measure. 😹😹. 

I’ve just started the second hexagon. 

Bella sends you all purrs. 

And finally…

Happy WOYWW to you all

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx 

WOYWW 806 ellipses

Where did that week go? I’ve just realised I’ve not done my blog. We’ve just drawn our distorted postcards. We’ll be painting them tomorrow. 

Not much to see yet!

Claire’s very keen we get the ellipses right on our glasses; I ve just realised I’ve got 3 lots of ellipses to do as my postcard has a bowl of fish, and it’s on a table, plus there’s the glass distorting it. 

Why do I make things harder for myself??? I did like the irony of looking through a glass at a glass a cat is trying to fish in, though. 

Bella approves and sends you all purrs. 

My hexi cardi is progressing slowly but she doesn’t mind!

And finally…

One for you, Jan!

Take care and happy WOYWW

hugs

Lynnecrafts xx