Get Your Art On Day 25 - Faces Faces Faces.

Today's art is all about the faces, purely for the love of it, and one for the love of the child I'm making it for. Below is the workings of the ATC from last nights post, its still rather wet so I can't add my white highlights, as they keep sinking into the wet watercolour. It was fun workin on that small scale. In the background is the covers for my neices to be's notebooks that I will bind myself once I finish cutting the inside paper for them.

I've been daydreaming about bookbinding lately reading hungrily all the info I can find on it, flicking through the books I've been given on the topic from girlfriends, that I started drawing little book sketches for when I get back to Inverell to have a play.

and the last face of the day, is working on the second doll for my mans little nieces, few more layers of paint then a sealer, then I'll knit them little scarves sew her head up and they are ready for their new homes.
that's all the art going on here, whats happening in your world art wise? I'd love to hear what you're working on! leave a link to your work in the comments so I can pop by and check it out, I love a good blog hop to see new things.
xx Courtney

oh and pop over to Traci's blog to see what shes doing for her day of art!

Get Your Art on Day 14 - Doll one Done..Almost

The night is young and yet I have alot of things to do, pack for sydney..clean the house well tidy up a little, make sure dogs stuff is sorted for his babysitting make sure my art journal is with me...and my new art journal since I have an inkling I shall finish my current one in Sydney.
This little darling is what I've spent two grueling days on, so my art time..is the art of doll making. I just have to knit her a little red scarf to go around her neck, and she be done. This little dear is Emma.

I'm so sleepy lol, these dolls might be small but they sure do take some fiddling. I have the proper enlarged size now, so if I'm game enough I'll make my little girl one, and my niece.

Pop over to Traci's blog to see her finished journal page spread, I shall see you tomorrow with whatever I do in between the crazyness of packing two small humans and a mamma up for two weeks away.
xx Courtney

Get Your Art on Day 13 - Doll Love

So today was sew boyfriends nieces a toy day, and I decided to do the Black Apple doll pattern featured on Martha Stewart a few years ago, I didnt enlarge the doll like it said because I didnt have the ability to do that, so I was making bubby dolls which are still cute too!

instead of doing the simple closed eye half moon eyes, like the pattern tells me too...I thought I'd get my art on and give it a Courtney touch....

so I got out my paints and pencils and started drawing, inking and reworking..then finally sealing them with a binder medium, attaching a little button and their heads are ready to be sewn to the little dress bodies. I did start their arms and legs...but there was some uber SEWING FAIL! and I will have to remake all their body parts tomorrow slightly bigger and with more seam allowance to stop seam ripping as I try to turn them out with a pencil.


sorry about the dodgy photos, I got so caught up in cutting and making these dolls that it was rather late when I photographed them so the light is appalling.

jump on over to Traci's blog to see her lovely jump start on a journal page, and I'll be back tomorrow with maybe *fingers crosses* finished dolls...if the sewing goddess isn't striking me down with a little bit of what my girlfriends and I like to call...a bad case of shit touch.

xx Courtney