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