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

WOYWW 805 Hexi cardies and Margate art

Hi all, where’s this week gone? Here I am for our Wednesday bloghop care of Sarah’s craft shed. 

I’ve bought a trolley off Temu to collect my art stuff in one place. I’m not sure this is the right place for it, but we’ll see. I was curious to see how Temu are and while they deliver what they say, they bombard you with “credits”. I succumbed to some Baohang watercolour paper and a notebook, but I’m glad I didn’t sign up for notifications from them; at least I can ignore them unless I want to look at the app. Since the minimum order is £15 I’d end up buying more stuff I don’t need. 

It was half term this week so no art class desk to show. 

I wasn’t very happy with my first hexi cardi, so I’m trying a new pattern in Hobbii winterglow, under Bella’s supervision, of course. She sends you all purrs. 

It decreases on the sleeve side of the hexagon. If anyone’s interested I’ll send details. 

B and I had a day out in Margate on Thursday. I took some flowers for my parents in the cemetery and we went to a gallery I’d been recommended; the Carl Freedman gallery for an exhibition called Realms. 

Some were fantastical,

And some were entirely sewn. 

We had a lovely lunch in Bottega Caruso and walked back along the front, behind the Turner art gallery. 

This Wednesday we will be posing glasses of water over postcards (Matisse for me) and paint them with the distortion caused by the glass. 

You can see the effect in this ‘selfie’ photo by Picasso. 

And finally

I’ll be round to moderate and comment after my art class. 

Please sign your comments at least; I’m not comfortable with totally anonymous comments although Google might make you post without your name at the top. Thanks xx

I sincerely hope that the news in these coming days will be good for us all. 

Take care and happy WOYWW 

hugs

Lynnecrafts xx