This photo isn't great but I made a butterfly stamp out of children's foam. 

Home screen printing

Over the last few days, I have been trying out my home screen print....to varying degrees of success. After an initial attempt that put a hole in my screen from scrubbing with mr muscle, I bought the speedball cleaner and am now much happier. I have learnt that it would be better to use a standard size paper for aligning the image (next time I will do this!). I think I would also go for a rectangular image next time as well. I have enjoyed the process although it seems extremely long winded. I will definitely try to design some more images for screen printing in the future.

Tiny sketch paintings

Had a lovely day painting today. I was inspired by a sketchbook I saw of small painted landscapes and I had to go and try it. I have really enjoyed it and I think I will do more. Next time I might concentrate on really muted colours, because I think I like soft palettes to look at. 

Ok I also love Ellen heck and after looking at her lovely images I decided to play around with an old drawing......

My tutor suggested an excercise as a way to learn about character design. His method was to go and draw stuffed animals, drawing parts of different creatures together in the same image. I thought that I would try this in our local museum. I like to draw what I see, but this was a way of drawing without being quite so literal. It was a useful excercise. I also had to draw a badger and deer for a wee project. I will have to think about where I go from here.....

Lino day

Have tried to do some Lino cutting today. This is something I haven't attempted since school, so I am clearly a novice here, ancient as I am! I enjoyed it. I cut the Lino twice so that I had two tones of green with white. It is meant to be those plants that are in hedgerows everywhere at the moment. If Google is to be believed, then they are called; umbelliferae.

I went painting on wotton hill today....it was very hot!