At the begining of the year I came across three china masks in a charity shop. At the time I had no idea what to do with them but at £1 each I snapped them up anyway.
So they stayed as they where (above) for a while until one day I had an idea after digging out my out water colour set.
And here is how they look today
The other week my lovely friend gave me an amazing gift which was this ‘fanciful faces’ colouring book.
I have only completed a few of the pages so far but I love it!
The other day I felt like painting, which is something I have not felt like doing in a very long time. Mainly because I have found it a quite difficult medium to work with in the past. But I decided to dig my old water colours out and give it a go.
These are my first two experiments so far I find the back ground washes of colours the most enjoyable to do and hope to improve on the black silhouette ‘doodles’.
None the less, not to bad for my first attempt in quite a few years. What do you think? 🙂
Do you have any tips or hints for working with water colour?
I have a pretty long wishlist for things on Amazon, and when I received I gift card for Christmas I decided on getting the Wreck This Journal Everywhere
I already own two copies of the original ‘Wreck this Journal’, one of which I have completed and the other is still in progress. So I was excited to get this new journal in my collection.
I enjoyed my last cat transformation project so much I went back to the charity shop and got the other 2 cats from the set. To be honest I felt bad about leaving them anyway :p
I decided to start on the biggest one of the kitties and do a newspaper type collage on him. But instead of using Newspaper I ripped up the pages of a book, as the pages where had a more old/ yellowish look where as the newspaper was a bit to white for my liking.
Today I completed a new page in my Smash Book. A list of things I would like to do in 2015. I have never been one for making new year resolution and when I have I have never kept them. So I have made this for myself as more of a little list of goals I would like to achieve for the upcoming year.
In 2011 a cute little bundle of black and white kitty fluff came to live my parents and I. Meet Eddie.
About a year later I moved out to live with my partner Saul. Eddie didn’t move with us as at the time Saul had a very old lady cat, Saffy, who at the old age of 19 was quite rightly grumpy! As the months went on my parents became more attached to Eddie we decided it was best he stayed with them (although I still see him every week).
Hes a pretty big (fat) cat and has an odd personality. He either loves you (although only for a couple of mins) or doesn’t want a thing to do with you. But my parents love him and wouldn’t know what to do without him now.
So when I walked past the charity shop and saw this kitty I knew I had to have him and evolve him into Eddie!
The Anti Journal team and I have teamed up to hold this giveaway, where one lucky reader of my blog can win their own copy of the Anti Journal
If you would like to know more about this great interactive journal you can check out my previous review post here.
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For my Birthday in December I received the ‘Anti Journal’ by David Sinden and Nikalas Catlow. I added this journal to my wish list after being followed by the Anti Journal team over on twitter (@anti_journal).
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