I have seen mandala drawings and zentangle doodles online for years, and I’ve experimented with them myself. I’ve found Mandlas in collage and through photography, and if you know my fascination with the circle this comes as no surprise. I’ve even doodled a few before (but they’ve been more flower like). But now I’ve fallen […]
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Watercolour engraving with a knitting needle
Have you ever tried doing a watercolour engraving? It’s a wet technique where you paint a surface with lots of water (and a watercolour of your choice) and quickly, before it dries draws a sketch or doodle using a sharp object like the end of a knitting needle or paint brush. So what you are […]
Take a stitch Tuesday
The flying stitch. I’m trying it out for the first time. I read about TAST, the Take a Stitch Tuesday Challenge arranged by Sharon of Pin Tangle, on Natalie’s blog and was imidiatelly intrigued by the idea. When I went there to read about the first week’s stitch and learned that it was such a […]
Inkblot creatures revealed
My inkblot number 1. What did you see? In my last post I asked if you could see or imagine anything in these inkblots that I made into my art journal, and I got some fun answers. Thanks everyone! The more I think about this exercise the more I see its value. I realize how […]
Embroidered ball / Singlad boll
My embroidered ball is finished, and I am very proud. It took quite a while to cover the whole surface with stitches but I looove how it came out! My embroidery group have been learning to make these and everyone has been fascinated by it. Most of da ladies have done three or more balls […]
Masking Fluid for Watercolours
If you paint with watercolours you should try using a masking fluid sometimes. I just did, and it’s a lot of fun. A new thing to play with, yay! I got this one from Schminke, for my birthday (thanks mom!). You cover the part of the paper that you want white. When the masking fluid […]
Painting makes me happy
I long to paint again, especially when I see this painting. It hangs above my bed and it makes me happy. And proud. And amazed, because it was me who painted it. Me! I have been so unusually busy away from home lately that my acrylic paints are soon to start collecting dust, settling in […]
A Personalized DIY Planner
Can you believe I did not have a planner during last year – at all? Crazy I know! I did draw a grid of some months in my diary instead, adding tabs to find them between all the writing. This system has worked for short term planning but not for goal-setting or getting a proper […]
Fearless Painting
Another idea, inspired by a 21 Secrets Class. Connie calls her class in the first edition of 21 Secrets 2010 where I too taught; Get It Out – Get It Down, and in it the students are allowed to explore an intuitive way of painting, you know, painting without a plan or too much thinking. […]
The start of a wool embroidery
After reading nightly in this very cool new Swedish book about wool embroidery called Yllebroderi (a must-own-book!) I was very eager to start a wool embroidery of my own. A bit too eager (plus watching a movie at the same time). I tried drawing a flower and filling the contours of it, but because I […]
List: Creative Experiments to try
There is many many fun things to explore in the world, creatively talking, and I have already experimented a lot as is evident here on my sweet blog. Still, there is a lot of things left that I haven’t even touched yet but long to try. Sylvia Plath was right, I am horrible limited! My […]
My First Try: Painting Abstract on Canvas
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. Buddha I have covered almost all of the first layers but that was how it should be. How it had to be. This time in front of my square formed canvas I was trying to feel abstract inside. […]