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 

my creative week "everything I need exists within me"

 

for the last week of pink scraps at RSC, I pieced tiny scraps and turned it into a notebook cover

the back

the insides

That's silk on the binding for sheen!

for the last lessons on Sketchbook Revival... the parade starts now

this is a daily practice... 4 small blocks, an object, a sky scene, word, abstract

daily gratitude words and image

I LOVE the area near the bottom where two colors blended

And two morning paintings this week on my own

"Life goes round N round" 

this one to use up some gouache on the palette (yogurt lid)

And this one from watching a Buddhist video.... hope you can click on the image to read some quotes

inks

do not rush to be "more"

loved this orange flower image from https://llbinourbackyard.blogspot.com/

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 

watching paint dry, and watching fabric growing

 

welcome to this week's creativity round-up starting with evening handwork on hexie spiral in pink

being sewn together one hexie at a time! 

Mostly I am working my (slow) way through sketchbook revival lessons and getting to know my art supplies again by using them

First the fabric work this week, usually pink scraps for RSC

used tiny triangles to do improv geese to be added to last week's work

used tiny scraps to build a book cover (it will be quilted then folded in half) 

lots of blocks made for the "parts dep't" 

and sewing this way calms me 

now the parade of sketchbook work... sometimes I paint the lesson on watercolor paper, and glue it into the sketchbook. I had limited bandwidth internally to do all the lessons started, but hope to eventually catch up before the season is over. On with the show

play with stamps and inks

what a fun technique starting with rolling a paint loaded brush on watercolor paper

crinkle squeeze watercolor paper

ink the fold lines then use tombow markers (water soluble) to color in, I also used pan inks to paint in

then for fun inked over some shapes

oh how I like this artists work.... (D. Gregory) who paints, writes over it to create a journal of memories

I still need to write about being 18 and spending countless hours at the beach to heal and find myself

I'll write over the blue area. This will be one of my best lessons, as it will allow words to join the party

pink tulips  for pink month

my snoopervisor drying off after rain/snow flurry freak storm

again he reminds me our choices in direction shape our lives

sent from my friend Sonja in Hawaii.... we share life from a distance

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/62g0ijN-dik

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