Naarmamo Day 6

[sallymn]

And here is today's post, hope you're having a great weekend, and have been inspired to make art :)

Comments

[jossujb]

Today I was mostly experimenting with the texture paste that I have a whole tube and never use for anything.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BIvqqTnhF5W/

[kerravonsen]

Pretty polly!

[saki101]

I love the colours and the angle of the head. The texture evokes the feathers well.

[electricwitch]

Very beautiful, and she has real character as well. Texture works very well imo.

[kerravonsen]

Last month (or the one before) I'd made a bunch of ironed bubblewrap pieces (for earrings, pendants etc). Today I linked together some of the pieces (four parallelograms) to make a bracelet, but they were terrible as a bracelet (all the points were sticking out everywhere), so I put them aside and worked on an aluminium chain for one of the pendants (since the pendants are all very light, it wouldn't make sense to use a metal that was too heavy). Made about 2 inches of chain. Then I fiddled about with the parallelograms, to see if I could turn them into a pendant instead. Jury is out on that.

[saki101]

So much experimentation! Do we get photos soon?

[kerravonsen]

Maybe. Maybe not.

[electricwitch]

Sounds cool, but difficult. Experimenting is fun.

[sallymn]

These are simple, and inspired by the old "life gives you lemons" cliche, but I found making them soothing while waiting for a tradesman who was running late again... they also have lots of yellow on them, which is my favourite colour so that makes me happier too :)

[kerravonsen]

"when life gives you lemons... squirt life in the eye"

LOL!

[sallymn]

That one, I admit, came straight from my own brain...

[saki101]

These are all brilliant! :-D I'm not sure which ones I like best...although the comments about sugar and paper cuts are so delightfully pointed.

[saki101]

A graphite pencil drawing of a painting from the museum (reference). The assignment was to try to show what feature in the painting was closer to the viewer. Well...

[electricwitch]

That's a fun idea and I like the way the drawing looks. So much detail!

[saki101]

It was, but many people (including me) found it hard to recreate, even though they could see it.

[vjezkova]

Oh wow! This is a precise drawing and I love the details and ...all.

[electricwitch]

I'm posting three at once because I was at a conference for work the past two days all day.

I did two today and one during the conference on my notebook. I'm pleased even though they're all very simple because I got them done at all! I'll catch up with comments soon.

ETA: sorry for the way they're tilted, for the life of me I can't get them to look right. They were photographed horizontally!

[capriuni]

These are all lovely!

[electricwitch]

thanks!

[vjezkova]

Oh dear, these are great animals! I like the cockerel very much but I am a cat lover and your big cat is an elegance itself!