Play Video Happy New Year! This is my Snow Dragon diorama. It’s been so much fun playing with ink pads, stencils, embossing powders, fineliners, colored pencils, watercolor pens, texture paste, and of course loads of glitter of many sorts! The good thing is that the diorama is easy to store flat, so that I can create many more and change the one on display according to my mood/season.
I was going to make a diorama for Yule, but I started too late. Nevertheless, it will be a seasonal diorama. It will be quite big, perhaps 60 cm high. I started painting it with mixed media, it is now well on its way to be finished. I’m having loads of fun with ink pads, watercolour pens, coloured pencils, glitter, embossing powders and all kind of (legal) powders! Merry Solstice! Although that was a few days ago. I haven’t posted for a while. The last pictures I took, the sun was still shining and then we went into the polar night but the weather has been fantastic with a lot of snow
I’m having such a cosy time painting my Snowy Town. This is a close-up of my Work-In-Progress. Looking forward to snowy weather! Play Video Frost at last! It’s been so mild lately. I love all the glitter (no surprise here). Working on a scrapbooked pocket on the Dragon theme. This will go to my … cutting machine! Nothing too intricate, it is not a laser one but it will do a better job than an arthritis inducing manual blade. And then, I will colour it with watercolours, sprays, pencils, whatever takes my fancy! And yes, a bit of glitter and most certainly some embossing. Play Video I really enjoy my walks at
I finished this card all too soon! It’s been a delight to create it. There will be many more, but for now, back to digital painting! All the way Home, it follows meThe patter of rain on the pavementA whiff of smokeAnd the evening glows with visions ofBooks and hot chocolate! Play Video It’s going to get darker and darker every day, so I thought I’d take at last a few decent pictures and videos of my dioramas with my new camera. Play Video Pixie’s always tilting her head when I speak to her. Play Video My creative corner these days. By now, I really have everything I need, I won’t be
I finished the Forest Diorama for my altar! Play Video The latest walks: Play Video
My Hounds of Love… Play Video The bisque firing I had planned months ago but couldn’t do because to carry intricate ceramic items down to the cellar when there’s still so much snow is asking for trouble. Now, I have to decide which glazes… So excited! Play Video I had so much fun with my Polychromos pencils! I first used them to enhance my watercolour but I soon found out that I prefer working with them first and then enhance with watercolour washes. I’m glad I bought them, the colours are very intense and they stay quite sharp, which is very important to me since I work on miniature pictures. I am
Now… I’ve been thinking about the handmade book I wanted to make, drafting ideas for hours and I finally had my Eureka moment. I’m not going to make a handmade book, not enough space on my altar and the format is just too small, it would be too frustrating. Dioramas too would be just too big to fit in these little boxes of my altar. BUT I remembered I had great fun making scrapbook loaded envelopes and they could fit! I could even make a pile of them and display them in turn. There are some fantastic themes I want to work on, I feel so inspired. I think it’s the right
Play Video Now, two weeks holidays in my own sweet Home! This is actually the only holiday I get to spend here on Lofoten. The rest of the year, I get mini holidays of maximum three days. At last, the moment I’ve been waiting for! Play Video A powerful Kitsune, the Japanese fox spirit, has found an alcove on my altar. It has no less than 9 tails, it is very wise and magical. He is dancing just like in the dream I had when I was a child. In my dream, the magical fox was dancing around my bed and he was talking to me. He had a funny way of
