Bogged Down

I have been busy for the past week making books for the Cut Fold Bind group for upcoming events.  I have forgotten how to do lots of things so it took me twice as long.

Moated House

Had a lovely day out today at Baddesley Clinton. Lots of ducklings and goslings around the moat and in the yard near the restaurant.  Fabulous house too and we managed to do the 45 minute walk around the grounds which was very pleasant.  Shall definitely go again.

The Peacock Shed

The fox sculpture at the start of the walk

Not so Moth Eaten

I seem to have spent an awful lot of time messing about drawing this past week.  I may now use one or two of these images in some of my printing.

Moth Eaten Sketchbook

I was given a challenge recently to work in a sketchbook with black pages.  Whilst we had a break for Half Term I decided to concentrate on 'playing' in this wonderous journal with it's dark sheets full of opportunities … little did I know how hard it would be to come up with ideas.

I decided to develop the moth drawing I had been following since using the moth trap.

Markel oil stick stencilled moth, sketched moth, printed circle and punched circles revealing the page behind ….

More stencilled moths using both positive and negative images and the reverse of the same punched holes mentioned above.

Negative images sponged over and a cut out moth with a map pasted behind it.

Patterns from moth wings - holes punched through. The page folds up to show just one individual image.