I’ve been working fairly small lately, and my latest work has been getting even smaller. This little piece is only 20cm x 25cm. I’ve also been doing work with not a bird in sight!! Lots of flowers, though. Here is a piece called “Summer Field” and it’s an embroidery over…
I had the urge to do a monochromatic piece, and what better bird to pick than one that is black and white. So the Australian Pelican it is. Mind you, there is still a lot of colour in the pelican, all the sublteties in the shading and the soft pink…
For my latest birds, I decided to do the colourful Major Mitchell Cockatoos, also known as pink cockatoos. They don’t come native to my part of Australia, but they can be kept caged as pets, so I have seen them in real life. I wanted a nice fun vibrant piece,…
Recently I was picking basil from the garden to pop into the evening’s dinner, and there upon the basil bush was a beautiful delicate and small butterfly. I raced inside, grabbed the camera and started snapping madly. afterward, I poured over “The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia” and…
Just in case you thought I’ve been quietly doing nothing (and yes, I admit it, there has been plenty of that going on this year) I thought I should inform you all, dear readers that I have had a very busy week preparing for my group’s bi-ennial quilt show. Today…
Good Morning dear readers, today I am going to show you from go to woe my latest little piece and how it sprang to life from a little pile of bits and pieces. For interests sake and to see what would happen, I decided to take the same starting point…