Foiled

In between joining fabric for my curtains and unpicking them several times yesterday I also managed to play with these 70 cm squares of cardboard.  I glued small cardboad shapes to the surface with PVA before covering one side all over with crumpled baking foil, leaving a margin all round to turn to the back.

They were then painted with a combination of acrylic paints - black as a base and several of the quinacridone colours - definitely Nickel Azo Gold  I think there was a bit of turquoise too.  I was very pleased with the result and they will make some nice little book covers.

Just looked outdoors and see that the stream has now burst its bank in the middle of the Dell.  We have had heavy rain all night and it still persists.  This must be the third or fourth time this year the stream has been over the centre of the Dell.  At least I have got used to the speed at which the water travels and am amazed how quickly it comes up and goes down again once the rain stops.