WOYWW 838 Thrones and apricots

Hi all, I’m back for bloghopping care of Sarah’s craft shed, though it doesn’t seem like a week has passed. 

Here’s my art course desk for our ink and wash paintings. I’m now doing one of the logs and two details, one of a carved woodland throne in the park and another of animals on it. 

Claire asked us to go straight in with pens rather than doing pencil first - (“its summer, we should experiment”) it’s scary and when I got my hare wrong it looked like tracked motion 😹. Hopefully it’ll be better once I’ve added shading. 

Here’s the classes wild leaf and flower paintings from last week in the style of Sue Lewington,( not Levington, sorry).

Bella’s been helping me with emotional support chicken no.3. She sends you all purrs. 

I wish she could talk our apricots into ripening. For once we have an excellent crop. They’ve coloured but are still hard. 

Could they ripen in the car? (Next week’s blog will be dependent on hotel WiFi ). No, I’ve just checked and bl@@dy Brexit means we can’t take them to France. Brian’s ready to stuff our unripe apricots down the throat of the person I’ve called niff Sewage. 

For so many years we’ve had a poor or no crop, and now look at them! Hopefully our neighbours and Aunty Liz who’s feeding Bella, will get the benefit of them. 

And finally, 

I’ll be visiting tomorrow 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 837 Chickens and leaves

Hi all, I’m joining in with our weekly bloghop care of Sarahscraftshed.co.uk/?m=1

This's my art class desk. 

I’ve now added notes:

📝 

I should’ve done them all in ink, instead of inktense pencil but never mind. I like the whimsical style of them. 

This week we’ll be starting ink and wash studies of the cafe at the country park where our course is now held. 

They’ll be in the style of Sue Levington, with several views per page. Here’s one of her books and an example of her work:

I’ve also finished my second emotional support chicken, received happily by my cousinette. 

I’m happier with the wings this time, sewn all together rather than just down the middle. 

Her name is Minnie Chucklebutt. 

Bella helped and sends you all purrs. 

And finally:

Happy WOYWW to you all,

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 836 Leafprinting and chickens

Hi all, 

I’m back for our weekly bloghop care of Sarah’s craft shed. 

Here’s my desk from our summer art class. 

We’ve started the season with leafprinting, painting the backs of leaves with watercolour (the secret is to paint them with washing up liquid first) and pressing them down, rolling over them. We also painted around the negative space, such as the dandelion leaf on the left, and rolling leaves on an inked plate then transferring them to the page. This week we’ll add watercoloured flowers. 

My second emotional support chicken is on its way. I call this the spatchcocked stage. 

Bella has been helping and sends you all purrs. 

I had a lovely birthday, thanks for all your good wishes. After my art class we went to a local restaurant, the Hide and Fox, which now has 2 Michelin stars and is very grand. The five course tasting menu looked like a lot but was lovely and not too filling, though there were salmon and tomato starters, turbot and pork mains and an almond and caramel parfait. 

And finally …

Happy WOYWW, 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 835 Chickens!

Hi all, 

I’m back for our weekly bloghop care of Sarah’s Craftshed. 

I confess I’ve been obsessed this week with making my first Emotional Support Chicken. 

Please meet our cockerel, Billy, named after a bantam rooster we had when we lived in the North East. 

I got fed up of doing tails using a French knitting tool so did crochet tail feathers with notional wing feathers. 

He’s been fun to make and I’ve learned some lessons for my next one!

Bella’s not keen on him - a bit big for her. She loves  belly rub though, and sends you all purrs. 

The specialist reviewed my knee MRIs last week and confirmed it’s arthritis. Not bad enough for a knee operation yet, but they can replace knees with a spinal block so he reckons it would be possible, eventually. 

Till then it’s ice and my walking stick! 

We’ll be going out on Thursday evening for my birthday, to a 2* Michelin restaurant nearby. It’s new to us so 🤞🏻🤞🏻. 

And finally…

Happy WOYWW

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx