Tuesday, 31 January 2012. Lil Pixie left a comment here. Is thin cushioned material sometimes added to clothes. Hope this has been of help. Sunday, 20 March 2011. Click in the side bar. Friday, 24 December 2010. And best wishes for a creative New Year. Wednesday, 1 December 2010.

This is a distance-learning course in design, textile arts, creative embroidery and mixed media based in the UK. Thursday, February 25, 2016. FURTHER EXPERIMENTS IN TEXTURE AND SURFACE RELIEF - Chapter 3. After the first set of warm-up experiments in texture in my sketchbook I concentrate on more considerate exercises meant for inclusion in a portfolio later. Here a detail of this texture. A HEAD BY GEORG BASELITZ.

This is a record of my work on the Distant Stitch Level 3 Certificate. Friday, 14 June 2013. Wow - at last! Here is a photo of my finished wallhanging. The theme I chose was conservation of water.

Sunday, 23 October 2011. Chapter 3 - Texture and Relief in Paper. so have used all 3 in this investigation. Tissue over very small pieces of ripped tissue showing texture of flaking bark. To show the change in texture of Norwegian bark.

Sue had been given some art materials and she had been using them to create some art work. I think this was with some chalk pastels and inspired by her garden. This was some crumpled brown paper with added inks,I think. This is a lovely technique producing some leather -like paper especially if it is painted with acrylic wax and crumpled some more. It makes for a good book cover. Viv had been doing the same ,as we saw in an earlier post though she had added some gold highlights.

Fiber Arts Festival in Townsend, TN. Townsend hosts a wonderful fiber arts festival every April. Gorgeous setting, adorable animals, and fiber vendors of all kinds. Let me begin with the critters who always enchant me. Sheep, llamas or alpacas, goats, and dogs. Feeling quite peaceful and attractive. I am unhappy in this enclosure. I am sleeping through all this commotion. Loved this door design, glowing in the sun.