WOYWW 872 Art mistakes, glueing on an opal and new gadgets

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

Here’s my desk first, at art class. I made a big mistake towards the end of last week’s class. I was painting dark inner shadows and our tutor said ‘Use a big brush’ so I did without thinking and made my main cast shadow far too dark. 

I tried lifting it out with a damp brush but it wasn’t working. 

At home, I got the idea of using my ‘magic sponge’

(There are many brands online, you can use them to clean all sorts of things)

This reduced my cast shadow to a more acceptable level. I tried to get the eggs closer to their colour but, having over-worked them, the graphite had mixed with the watercolour and made them muddy. A lesson learned for another time! 

Another gadget arrived this week:

It’s a Yarn gator I bought it off a site on Facebook ages ago, but it’s taken so long to arrive I’d forgotten it. It’s handy to reduce yarn tangling - its advantage over ones I’ve seen before is that you can open the two sides. My waistcoat is growing under Bella’s supervision, and she sends you all purrs. 

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My most delicate work this week had me sticking an opal to my thumb. I bought this gold charm of the NASA Friendship 7 rocket (John Glenn’s earth orbit mission of 20.2.62) 25 years ago, when I passed my MSc, to remind myself it wasn’t rocket science. I told Brian I’d bought a NASA rocket off eBay and he was expecting it to come on an artic 😀. Anyway, when you open it, it has a little figure of John Glenn but the face plate is empty. 

I always thought of adding a little opal and found a 1.2mm one recently. Of course, I first stuck it to my thumb but have sorted it out, and now I think it looks better.  

And finally: 

I think that one might be true! 

I’m sending healing hugs to all of you who are poorly or recovering from illness and accidents, including our Neet, who I hope is now recovering. 

No art class this week, so I’ll be round earlier. It’s my turn to bring biscuits, which are your favourite?

Happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx