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

WOYWW 871 Tricky perspectives and crochet

Hi all, 

I’m back for our weekly bloghop care of Sarah’s Craftshed. Sending healing hugs to Neet, and hoping you’re recovering. 

Here’s my desk:

You wouldn’t believe how tricky egg boxes are to draw, they’re a minefield of tricky perspectives. We’re doing watercolour over graphite so the shading is all done in graphite and the watercolour is applied on top. 

I have yarn left over from Brian’s slipover so I’m making myself a waistcoat (not to be worn at the same time he’s wearing his!)

I’m making this with just two colours of the yarn, plus cream, under Bella’s supervision, of course. She sends you all purrs. 

There’s a rainbow one and shades of blue & green, which seem to work well. 

One thing I don’t like about this King Cole yarn is the neps which are supposed to give the yarn a tweedy vibe. 

They’re only loosely attached so I’m pulling them out. They look dirty to me. 

I’ve also tried a ‘Melt the ICE hat in support of the people of Minneapolis. 

And finally ….

I’ll be round to visit when I come back from art class -I hope there are biscuits😀

Happy WOYWW

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 870 Tricky drawing and a completed slipover

Hi all,

I’m joining in with our weekly bloghop, and sending healing hugs to our Neet

Here’s my desk. This graphite and watercolour painting of an egg box is a dastardly exercise in perspective. Here’s my desk:

Here are a few of our winter landscapes from last week:

I managed to finish Brian’s slipover the evening before his birthday. 

I have some yarn left over so I’ve started a waistcoat for myself, under Bella’s supervision. 

She sends you all purrs. 

I’m using only two colours with the beige, a green mix and ‘rainbow sky’. It’s a little darker but I’m happy with it. 

We had a lovely lunch at Francs in Canterbury (which had an excellent review recently from Grace Dent). B wore his new cotton waistcoat:

And finally …..

 

I’ll be around after class so put the kettle on! 

Happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 869 Scribbly trees and crochet

Hi all, I’m joining in with our weekly bloghop care of Sarah’s Craftshed. 

I hear our Neet is out of hospital so I’m sending healing hugs to you Neet!

Here’s my desk at art class:

And my completed Kent Winter Landscape, of Princes Parade, from a photo by my friend Chris Farrell, which she very kindly gave me permission to use. 

I’m happy to have painted Prince’s Parade as I was part of the successful protest against it being used for luxury housing. 

This week we’re doing graphite and watercolour study of an egg and eggshells in an egg box. 

My crochet slipover is progressing and I’ve now started the scary part of decreasing in pattern for the neck. 

 Bella’s supervising and sends you all purrs. 

And finally…..

I’ll be round after art class so put the kettle on!

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 868 Scribbly trees and crochet colours

Hi all, it’s bloghop time again courtesy of Sarah’s Craftshed. Sending healing hugs to our Neet who, I believe, is still in hospital. 

My desk shows the work in progress of my winter landscape. Claire has us using twigs and feathers to scribble trees, using only flat brushes, and keeping to a restrictive palette. Mine is mainly shades of blue and eventually orange. 

The greys are ultramarine or indigo with burnt sienna. 

I’ve applied gesso in the foreground but I’m working down to it. We’re working in the style of an artist called Michael Morgan. 

Here’s a link to a short extract about him from the book Watercolour Innovations by Jackie Simmonds.

Michael Morgan winter painting.

I’m still working on B’s slipover and have moved onto the front. I’ve photographed them both together with a red mark to show where the front is up to. 

I’m using one of my Mum’s old knitting needles to organise my colours. They’re all variegated King Cole Prism yarn, between Stylecraft special yarn in silver (though it looks more cream to me.)

These yarn bobbins are helping me keep the yarn untangled. (I guess ‘in a robble’ must be Potteries dialect for ‘in a tangle’ as even Brian said he hadn’t heard of it.)

Bella is supervising as ever and sends you all purrs. 

And finally…

I’ve been guilty of this but I did tear myself away from crochet and art to do my tax return. 

 

 Jokes seem ever more essential these days. It’s getting so that even this crazy film by Peter Sellers seems more sensible than the news:

I’ll be round to visit after art class - put the kettle on😀

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx