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an abstract painting with blue and green colors

Thank you for visiting me and for all comments on recent posts. It's lovely to hear from you and to see new followers I have a few things to share today ... Firstly, a couple of pages from my "sketchbook" which isn't really a sketchbook, but more like a sample book! I do draw and sketch a little, mainly still life. When I'm out and about I tend to use my camera for visual recording and a notebook for scribbling thoughts and ideas. Are you the same? There are so many ways of recording…

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several different pictures of blue and green fabric

I love to make photo mosaics - in this one I am looking at textures and colours in a piece of work I stitched with a watery sea theme To make the fabrics look "watery" I used plastics and chiffons that reflect light, distressed the chiffons so they look like air bubbles and used different coloured layers for different depths of water. The frayed edges show water movement. I added seed stitches and fly stitches to resemble coral

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an abstract painting with blue and green colors on it's surface, including circles in the middle

I was really inspired by the inside of this blue bowl. It has gorgous colours and patterns. It inspired me to paint this piece of silk. I love to use silk, it has such a beautiful sheen to it I am working on the piece of silk adding machine embroidery, hand stitching and beads and hope to post a picture of the finished piece later today. I will add it to this post, not post separately so please take another look later ... 6th Feb update - I have added a bit more stitching to this piece…

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