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Art and Crafts … well, mostly crafts. I have been busy making birthday presents and celebrating my own birthday as well!
For my ma's birthday present I wanted to make something in memory of the puppy we rescued. We only had her for a couple of weeks before we found out she had internal problems, that no amount of love, time or money could help her. She had two weeks of affection and I thought it would be nice to make something to remember her by – esp for my mum, who mentioned framing a photo of her. I had the idea of a wall hanging, something based around the puppies name – Poppy. Unfortunately I couldn’t find an oval frame to use as a base (their always rectangles!) so I bought a plastic mirror to use instead. Actually it worked really well - I decorated the outside with clay poppies, covered the back with clay and painted a portrait of Poppy on some watercolour paper. Hopefully mum wont see this online before her birthday in August <<
It was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever painted, partly because she was so young I found it hard to paint the detail I normally would with older dogs, but mostly because of the subject matter. I decided to draw her at about 6 weeks old instead of 5 so her features look a bit more developed (or how I’d imagine them to be). I’m quite pleased with the final result and I hope mum is as well.
I’ve had a couple of commissions for the pens that I make. One was of a falcon -
Also, (and rather random) I've painted some miniature plates for dollhouses (ebay of course!). They seem to be selling well and attracting a lot of attention. Everyone is asking me if I use a magnifying glass – believe it or not, I don’t use anything! No glasses, no magnifier – nothing but my own eyes. My sight is awful far off, I have glasses but surprise, surprise, I never wear them. My sight is, and always has been fantastic up close. I even had to scan the plates because my camera couldn’t pick up the detail!
I plan to commission these and place photo's on my website as soon as i can.
Apart from the art i wanted to mention that earlier in July we had some crazy weather! I thought they were tornados until someone corrected me and said they were waterspouts … hmm, it doesn’t have quite the same impact does it? "Run! A waterspout is heading towards us!" as opposed to "Run! A tornado is heading towards us!" Oh well, waterspout it is, even if it does conjure up images of a garden hose >> ho-hum.
Behold – the dreaded waterspout!
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