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Saturday, April 18, 2026

creativity this week, drawing painting fabric arts

 


Because of rainbow scrap challenge's color of the month PINK

I pulled out the bag of tiny pink squares, some tiny white squares, and sewed them into little approximately 3" to 4" blocks.  many of them

I pressed them but didn't trim to any one size, just laid them out to kind of match the ones next to it, and began to sew the rows together. I sort of trimmed the rows to 12" X  3-3.5" 

then sewed rows together into this

which I like for the abstract design, 
see as kind of a garden lattice 
like the flower and other random prints
but
it's really quite small, 12 X 15 ish

so what if I added scrappy strips 
hmmmm maybe, then what? 

I wanted to do hexies again, by hand when I am sitting in a chair at night, watching tv, trying to ignore pain

a close up of the 37 prepped hexies in pink


I juggle paper art, fabric love, pain and puppy attention

I am enjoying Sketchbook Revival lessons, but am woefully behind. I sit long as I can, learn, draw, paint, stamp, collage. 
I always start with a quick impression painting of the instructor on the page... here are some of the early lessons.... click on photos to enlarge for detail




quiet eucalyptus leaves



Sumi painting style

dandelion study of brush strokes


painting with palette knife plus acrylic paint

collage of torn handwriting papers and watercolor

writing words as the art itself

I need to find my alphabet stamps to do this one
mostly I'm using my inktense pan paints this time, but also pen, inks, watercolors, acrylic, brush pens

This workshop is free, online, and lovely
I'll end with another piece of wisdom from my puppy, whom we've had for 2 months now


Alfie:   Which way should I go? "  why not choose both directions and go one at a time?!

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4 comments:

  1. Magpie's MumblingsApril 18, 2026 at 2:39 PM

    To answer your 'then what' question - what if you were to applique some flowers on top? The green in their leaves would play nicely with the pinks I think.

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  2. Debra She Who SeeksApril 18, 2026 at 3:45 PM

    I enjoyed looking at your Sketchbook Revival art -- your watercolour bamboo stalks and leaves are BEAUTIFULLY done! They have a real Japanese esthetic to the brushwork!

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  3. grammajudybApril 18, 2026 at 5:05 PM

    Love your abstract lattice. Such pretty pinks. And your sketchbook pages are so fun.

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  4. Tigger's MumApril 18, 2026 at 5:54 PM

    The workshop looks like a great way to practice a wide range of different styles, different inspiration, different mark-making and use of colour, even different materials. I shoyld make time for something like this - I hope they are still around whwn I have time, space and materials.

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