I've finished a few things and have got round to taking some pics... bit of a mish mash of the last three weeks. Bored of working with sticky enamel paint and having a liking for vintage ads, I painted a couple in acrylic , what a joy.. no waiting for each layer to dry!
Loving the flowers summer brings, in particular a mexican hat plant which looks like a sculpted piece of jewellery, the turqoise 'beads' surrounding the leaf are the seeds.
Painting on slate for a change
Painted a watering can for mum (Mrs. Tiggywinkle.. not Tiggywrinkle!) and fiddled about with other things... a demijon Ben originally cut a entrance for a candle which I popped a plant in for the 'summer'.... I love these.
Found a piece of Ivy that lent itself to being wrapped round a candle, and almost finished Ben's sign!
I'm currently trying to make a frame from a rescued piece of Georgian ( I think) mahogany furniture, the top piece is stunningly carved, with a leafy and shell like design. The plan is to be able to do several paintings to fit in it, probably advertising signs, one depicting something of that period, one comic..a circus perhaps or cures for dreadful ailments and something else I know that is wedged deep somewhere in the somewhat fading imagination!
As I write Ben has just come in with a beautiful bowl he just 'knocked up' on his new lathe, and a gorgeous ash bowl, AND several little chopping boards..(very sweet) for the Buzzard Fayre down in Cornwall. ( No doubt he will proudly show his latest wares soon!)He seems to be having fun on the lathe, bought from Harry, one of those priceless craftsmen, full of knowledge and handy tips, his wife decorates beautiful lace bobbbins (which Harry makes) with the most intricate detail I have ever seen, a masterful couple indeed!
Anyway, enough of blethering on, our weird chicken Korma has had her first brood of chicks...she really is a strange fowl.
A double sided sign for Loggi... his fav quotation being on the backside!!!
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