MIGRATING SWALLOWS HERALD THE END OF SUMMER!

Our end of Summer window, at the One Craft Gallery, features migrating swallows and grasses, wheat and barley.  The birds are in silhouette and made from heavy wrapping paper by Caroline Tetley, who does the window dressing with me.  The grasses etc. were provided by Phil Davis, the wood turner member of the gallery, who cannot resist picking them when on his early morning walks with his dog...

AUTUMN IS HERE!

Autumn is here and we have just done a window dressing in the One Craft Gallery that reflects the season!  Our superb hat maker, Liz Oliva, had made some fantastic velvet pumpkins and fungi - see bottom pics, and top second left and Phil Davis, our wood turner had produced some toadstools (bottom left), apples,  pears, and a great sunburst bowl (middle right). These items, together with a trug of real apples, crab apples, paper leaves and other goods in keeping with the Autumnal theme, made up our window...

WOODEN CUBES SPELL OUT 'LOVE'!

One of my latest projects is decorating some wooden cubes given to me by Phil Davis, a wood turning craftsman, who is a member of the One Craft Gallery.  I sanded the blocks and painted them with black gesso, before applying an abstract background design over every face of four cubes.

Then, it was a case of printing or finding images of the letters L O V E. I collaged these onto the blocks, together with other papers.  One cube had four different Ls, one Os etc. to spell out LOVE.

The end result is an artwork which can be put on a shelf and changed according to what facet is shown, and how the blocks are placed.

You may notice that the tops of the cubes are plain black.  This is because when I had finished the sides, it looked too busy and the letters did not show up as much as I would have liked!  I then applied some black acrylic and varnish to complete the project...