Fuchsia-Jay

Had a busy morning printing the rest of my petals to turn into flowers, hopefully I should have enough cos I'm looking forward to a rest from printing and having normal coloured hands!

I did have a bit of time free at the end of the day to play with some very nice silks I'd dyed and made some Fuchsia's but they were coloured like a blue jay...

The big one is for my neckpiece and I got so excited after I'd made it I had to make some little ones for earrings!

#fuchsia #jay #flower #silk #earrings

Leaves

Been playing with leaves the past few days. I've hand embroidered these ones and the one on the right has wire in it to shape it a bit.

And I saw this great artist who embroidered onto actual leaves and I really wanted to try it, I made a petal and a jay feather

 

#leaves #hand embroidery #blue jay #petal

More Blue Jays...

Been playing with the Blue Jay feathers again, decided to turn them into petals and made a little flower..

It took a while, I thought with it being so small it'd be dead quick but with all the different stripes of colour it was a bit fiddly. This is what it did to my desk haha

 #flower #bluejay #feather #drawing #workbay

Feathers and Flowers

Here are my Blue Jay drawings as promised! It took a while but I kept being a bit dippy and forgetting my camera.

You wouldn't have believed me that the feathers were so tiny so I had to use my trusty Lion King ruler to prove it haha.

This was done in fine-liners and because it's s big it took me forever to fill in.

 

Now we're up to date (I might have missed the expressive drawing work we did because I was quite shocked at what I produced, interesting mark making but looked nothing like a feather half of the time!) I can show you what I made today. I decided that I might want some smaller flowers on my neckpiece and it's always best to draw first so I made some of varying sizes - all are smaller than my original ones even though I have no Lion King ruler to prove it - to use for design development. These are what I made...

 #feathers #blue jay #flowers #LionKing #drawing

Feathers and Wings and Exciting things...

Been doing a few more drawings at Uni, theres some leaves and feathers that I've been working on the last few days...

And I had a surprise waiting for me when I got home today - I'd ordered some Blue Jay wings off eBay and they'd arrived. How gorgeous is that blue!

 #feather #drawing #leaves #bluejay #wings