This is the start of the second image for my grid. The lovely black and white stones were my souvenirs from this years holiday in Wales. Somehow I can never resist a stone or a shell. A couple of years ago it was seaweed!! Something else I need to do something...
Jodrell Bank has been running a project to create a community quilt inspired by the celestial marvels that have been discovered. This is to help mark 80 years of discovery, exploration, and connection with the universe at the site...
I have done a bit more to the shells. It feels slow but the black and whites shells are quite intricate. The limpet has worked really well. Now I just have to make the broken shell at the back work. Hopefully I am going create a grid of 6 or so images, but I'm...
I have been having a go at a technique, involving pyrography, that was described in my art magazine. I thought it looked interesting and the example demonstrated was a bird that I really liked. I asked for a Dremel versatip for xmas, as dedicated pyrography...
Lucie from the dolls house gallery ( www.thedollshouseartgallery.co.uk) has created a new exhibition in Macclesfield town centre. Outside the visitor information centre there are two phone boxes, which for sometime have hosted art works. This month Lucie...
Our show, Birds on Paper, started on a couple of weeks ago at Teggs Nose Park. In 2o21 Macclesfield marked the 120th anniversary of wildlife artist Charles Tunnicliffe's birth with a series of exhibitions and events. Born in Sutton, Tunnicliffe produced a...
Having managed 51 of last years 52Frames I feel I need to maintain that momentum. I think I completed more drawing, painting etc than I have done since leaving college. So, I started this blog in January and never got to post it. I need to update it and put it...
The challenge this week is Redo. I chose the image I had done for Chaos for a couple of reasons. I enjoyed the process but was not happy with the end result. The oil pastel and Indian Ink etching is something I have wanted to experiment with. It was not a time...
Chaos is the challenge this week for 52Frames. I took some quite nice photos of fallen leaves; autumn chaos. Then, I was sitting in last night and there were fireworks everywhere. It seemed a shame to miss such an opportunity! This seemed an ideal opportunity...
52Frames set a challenge of night photography this week. This gave me a chance to use another photo reference I have had sitting around. A year or so ago I took some photos, with the ipad, of my neighbours house. The full moon and the house were behind the...