Homework for my textile course

The homework this time is one of our final pieces. We had to crop photos or drawings and make some work with them. I chose poppies and put them on three separate canvases. The background is stitched to represent fields.

Tag Tuesday -- Here comes the sun

Gosh, have I struggled with this theme. Michele has chosen 'Here comes the sun' for her theme on Tag Tuesday
https://tagtuesday.blogspot.com/2019/07/here-comes-sun.htmlNone of my stamps seemed to fit the bill, so I have used a photograph of some Californian poppies that I grew from seed. This one seemed to say sunshine to me.
The background is distress inked with texture paste used through the sun ray stencil.

Thursday Journal with Neet

This week I have been out in the garden working on three new flower beds. I was very relaxed about doing my journal page early evening on Wednesday. Wrong, my daughter called us Wednesday morning for us to spend the evening looking after the two youngest grandchildren, as the oldest was in the school play and dad was in London. Over we go and sort the youngsters out and then eat with Claire when she came home with Max ( a barber in the play)

This lefts me an hour to do my page when we came home, fifteen minutes to make my scanner work and a few minutes to get it on my blog. So much for a relaxed evening.
The background is inked with Dylusion inks, with stencils used afterwards. I used one of Dyan's border stencils with black soot distress ink. The main figure is Dylusion with some Paperartsy stamps for the little people.

Thursday Journal with Neet

Another difficult one to find the right figure for, the words being 'Of course I talk to myself, I need expert advice'
Again the background is distress inked with stencils and stamps used on top. Although I have inked some double pages for the next few weeks I thought this one only needed a single page. I did it Monday night as I need to get this done early as I am off on my textile course on Wednesday.
I also have a really bad stomach upset and feel awful. I rarely get anything like this and must have picked up a bug somewhere. Anyway I don't feel like doing much and am not eating, hopefully I will manage to go on Wednesday. Not a very nice way to loose weight.

Art Journal Journey -- Words to live by

My second page for Halle's theme of Words to live by on Art Journal Journey. This time I distress inked the background and added some pieces of watercolored Tomoe river paper ( a very thin paper that takes watercolour inks really well) I then added some stamping and some stamped fish. The saying is 'Who knows what the next tide will bring'

Thursday Journal with Neet

'The only person I trust is me, and even that's iffy' are the words for this week on our Thursday art journal. I have used a mop up page for this one, as I didn't think it was enough to use a double page. The faint stencil marks in the background are the ones made after I had used the stencil for another page. I used a baby wipe to clean it and the shapes came out on a clean page.
The figure is made up from three different stamps.
I did some stamping on the background using distress oxides.
This post is scheduled as we are in Derbyshire to celebrate Peter's eldest brother's 80th birthday.

Art Journal Journey -- Words to live by

On Art Journal Journey 'Words to live by' is is theme chosen by Halle of Halle's hobbies.
I am very late joining the challenge and have made a fairly simple one with the words ' Art washes away from the soul the everyday dust of life.'