Collage cards

In the summer I'd painted fabric by using plant leaves (poppies and eucalyptus). I've made the first three collage cards with it.

Stamp

Some eraser offcuts and a rainbow dye inkpad makes a great border!
Initially I was trying to make a bird stamp, to illustrate a poem, but I wasn't happy with the result. And when I glanced at the offcuts I saw new possibilities.

Still life with leaves

I've made several still lives with leaves that had some paint on them because I had used them for gelatin painting. The leaves were so beautiful that I rescued them from the waste basket.
The photos were taken with my phone and I don't know how it happened but now it's a motion picture. Did I do it or is my phone that creative?

The ones below are really still.

Plastic monsters

These strange creatures I made with melted plastic that I sewed together.

Graphics Course

This bookcover was the inspiration for my lino cuttings. The method I used was to cut away more and more parts of the lino. And to print each stage in a different colour. Here are a few of the prints.
I'm doing this course at the studio of Annemieke Waasdorp.

Still lifes from nature

For the Art Academy I had an assignment to photograph nature elements. So I played around with things from the garden and stuff found on the beach.

Bookbinding Fair

  

This post was still in concept-mode in my computer... 

I'll be there the whole weekend, but on Saturday I will be was sitting behind our bookbindingclub table with the results of this year's theme book. I'm showing you already one of the two books I made.

 

Gelatin prints women

Besides playing with plants and a gelatin plate, I've also been printing with stencils of women. These are a few examples that are still to be made in birthday invitations.

Autumn tote bag

I made this tote bag for my eldest daughter. She has an internship at a kindergarden and is doing a project about autumn. She will put things in it that are related to autumn, e.g. a children's book and some craft examples. The purpose is that it's going to be passed around the kindergarden parents and that they use the stuff that's in the bag and that they also put in all kinds of autumn elements.
I'm quite pleased with it.

From scarf to cushion cover

Last winter I forgot to wash my felted scarf (made in 2007!) with a wool programme in the washing machine. Grmpf! I didn't want to discard it, because I liked it very much. So I decided to cut it up and felt it to a brown cotton cushion cover I already had. For extra sturdiness I handstitched around the borders. I also added some extra felt circles to cover some of the silk underlining of the scarf.

This photo is made just after making the scarf. It hangs a bit limp because it's still wet.