Goodwood Weekend and more Dolls

Last Sunday DH & I went to the GoodWood festival of Speed. It was a VERY hot day - hence we both ended up with sun burn =(
But had good timewatching the hill climb, the F1 guys show boating and the rally drivers going through the forest.


The forsest stage was great as there was lots of shade. As we walked round there were a number of famous faces to spot ! Here is David getting into a Williams F1.


This weekend spent a little time on my Petit Doll. Finally have a piece of wood to work on. Been building the background layers. As you can see I am working with purple , green and gold. Although not sure the gold shows in these pictures too well. Used some parchment which REALLY did not work.

I just laid the doll and the cat on to see how it was building. I need to do something for the cat, it looks quite lost !

Art Journal !

Yes finally got back to working in my
Art Journal.

First worked on this inches design.
The concept came from the latest copy of
Somerset Studio magazine. The same idea was shown with instructions to repeat this.

Well I mostly followed the instructions. But still used my own ideas too. I had fun finding the papers to cut into inches!



I have also been working on
my Suzi Blu Petit Dolls.

I should be working on creating backgrounds on to wood, but as yet not got the wood sorted out. DH said he had the wood in the shed but as it needs cutting to size it willbe another week before I can start.

So thought I would use one of the first girls I had drawn to try out a few techniques Suzi has been covering in the videos.

I don't think I have got the 'push/pull' quite right. The background is too strong for her. I do like her dress. As I was working on paper I could stitch the buttons on .... How will I do that when working on wood !?!?!
I had also been worried about the legs and arms, but in the end cut these from a piece of checked paper.

Once I have wood to work on - I need to spend longer on building the back ground. Also I know that although I love the Wiccian lady I had drawn, I really love the simple shapes that this girl has. So lets walk before we run !