JEWELLERY TO 14 JUNE 2013

Crocheted Wire with beads and earrings 

                                         Crocheted necklace done for a friend by request using amber and 
                                         drawbench beads plus swarovski pearls

                                       

                                          Wirework Ring

Wirework necklace I made for myself

                                         Crocheted necklace with small square amethyst beads

First wirework ring

First pair of earrings made

Coiled wirework beaded bracelet

Necklace made from buttons and wirework

Crocheted necklace made for Dorothy for her nephew's wedding

Brooch made at Class

Crocheted necklace made by request with choice of beads by request

Romanov Chainmaille necklace 

CRAFT BEGINNINGS

At the end of November 2012 I started going to a Craft Class called 'Colour Your Life'.

We have 8 weeks with an artist and do all sorts of work with them.

The first few weeks was card-making.

Then we had a textile artist and did angels and stuff for Christmas, wet-felting, fabric pictures. 

We did some brooches made from scrap fabric -

I then went to a private class taught by Namirla Bankhead and did needle-felting 

Then did some wet felted balls to make a necklace -

We then switched to an artist in oils.  I inwardly groaned. I could not paint. All the art teachers I had ever had said I couldn't paint. Sometime in the 1990's I paid for a watercolour class, did two weeks and the tutor declared that I was wasting my time. So I gave up.
So - I was dreading this new artist and what she would expect us to do, more specifically me!
Jilly presented us with some photos of artist's work by Turner and Monet. I chose a Monet and it turned out quite well!

That progressed to an oil painting from a photo of trees in a forest

Then chinese birds.

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The next 8 weeks was taken by Trish Hudson-Moses, another wonderful artist.

We did Pen & Ink drawing followed by watercolour tinting.

The a watercolour landscape

Followed by a chalk pastel landscape,

 then an oil landscape painted with our fingers.

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Then decorating a ceramic flower pot

Finally doing glass painting.

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