watching paint dry and fabric grow

 

welcome to my (2 ) week creativity round up... might be picture heavy, it's full of drawings, paintings, supplies, and improv sewing in orange scraps! 

Let's go! above is a sketchbook painting one morning. Instead of a neurographic abstract I drew a bottle then random lines crossing. Paint with windsor newton watercolor pens and water brush

this tine Ill start with fabric scraps... lots of hand embroidery/stitching on works in progress. 

remember the three teensy tiny collages I showed last time? I slow stitched each, then joined them into this  and I enjoyed each step especially the hand stitching click on image to enlarge photo

at the start of may I turned really little scraps into this 15" X 19" work (on Right) and may join it to last month's piece , for now It's a flimsy.... 

the strip project on the upper left here started in Zen Stitch workshop, tiny strip to tiny strip then hand stitching

love the texture and when it's folded up it's about 5" by 7" with a folded over closure

but now I need to shorten the legs of my new jeans... 

that is no fun

orange even made it's way into my mixed media workshop lesson

paint pastels on paper

one lesson using stamps inspired a lot more use of them in different ways...

just my own sketchbook morning page.... stamps, then a quick sketch of a woman

she looks as over it as I feel now. The triangle strip became a sort of bush there

I tried another stamp using this inkpad

free form rose

morning pages using caron d'ache crayons and posca pens for dots

another morning page, painting in diagonal diamonds and using the same stamps

playing with the windsor newton watercolor pens and water 

the pigment flows if pushed with the brush. I see kind of a cat on the left

more morning experiments with color... Pretty Mess

this time while the page was very wet I tried lifting color with a dry stamp 

Mama! put down that brush and let's go for a walk!

now that's my next face to paint

linking to some or all of these

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/

patchwork Sunday   

oh Scrap Sundays

 slow stitching Sundays

sewing daily challenge

https://melvalovesscraps.blogspot.com/

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

https://songbirddesigns.blog/

http://www.sewcando.com/ 

https://myuncommonsliceofsuburbia.com/inspire-me-monday-335/ 

http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/

finished or not

https://myblog-lunchbreak.blogspot.com/

https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

friday face off  

https://frenchethereal.net/2026/02/18/share-your-style-487/ 

art on sunday DVArtist 

https://www.pamspartyandpracticaltips.com/2025/09/its-time-to-dare-to-share_0372312595.html