#dailyart2025: Half Way Through

 Half way through 2025 already with the end of June.  Here are the second half of my #dailyart2025 drawings.  Completed in my Clarity Petite watercolour journal using Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer watercolour pencils.

You can never have too many!

Werder Bremen my German football team.

Parfait and mint tea.

Most recent visit was for Calamity Jane.

Just had solar panels installed.

Coincided with our 35th wedding anniversary.

Hope it's obvious.

Memories of The West Wing!

I prefer pickled onions!

I wouldn't mind one of these.

Hope the map is not too far out!

 

Through the Round Window Mini Make

I needed a quick project and once again turned to a background made at a recent workshop - this time with Barbara Gray, using alcohol inks on a gel plate to create landscapes.

July Calendar Page

 I was cutting it fine to complete my July page so decided to start with a background created at a recent workshop with Leonie Pujol using alcohol ink and a gel plate.

In The Garden Projects

Following up to Deb Wheeler's show on Clarity Social TV yesterday afternoon I thought I would share the projects created with some of the Linda Williams' In The Garden stamp sets.  Details of the project are linked below each photo.

Masking and repeating (see HERE). 

Coffee and Tea Themed Projects

 I love these coffee, tea and cake themed stamps designed by Linda Williams for Clarity Crafts.  Here are some projects using them.  Links to each project are below each photo.

The masks are really useful (see HERE).

Journal Page - Memories of 2020

The prompt over on Try It On Tuesday is Add some Text.  As you can see, as well as the stamped text on this journal page, I also used book paper to create the flames.

I added transparent gesso to a double page of handmade paper in a journal and allowed to dry. I then added Fossilized Amber Distress Paint roughly to the pages and dried thoroughly.

Next, I added some Terracotta Adirondack paint through the Clarity Wild Privet stencil in places.

Black card was trimmed 4” x 4.5” and the 3.25” nested square picot die used to cut an Aperture from one end.

I stamped the Phoenix stamp onto stencil card in Terracotta Adirondack ink.

It was coloured with Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer watercolour pencils blended out with a watercolour brush pen.

Fussy cut and attached behind the die cut.

The image and die cut were attached to the left-hand page, sealed with matte medium and dried thoroughly.

I added shading around the image with a Faber-Castell Big Brush marker and blended it out with a Pergamano blending pen and nib.

Doodles were then added to the edge of the frame round the phoenix in white gel pen.

Pieces of book text were torn into the shape of flames and added to the right-hand page. They were sealed with matte medium and dried thoroughly.

I went over the flames with the Cobalt Green, Dark Naples Ochre and Terracotta Faber-Castell Big brush markers blended out with a Pergamano blending pen and nib to echo the image.

Further doodling was added to the flames using a white gel pen.

I stamped 2020 in Versamark ink below the Phoenix using the Word Chain Numbers,then heat embossed with white embossing powder.

To finish, I added ‘Still I Rise’ to the right-hand page using the Word Chain Alphabet stamps in Nocturne Versafine Clair. Heat emboss with clear powder.

Memories of the pandemic in 2020 and how we overcame it.

WOYWW 838/58: Time Flies

Welcome to the weekly sharing of desks which is WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?), the brainchild of Julia, who kindly entrusted it to me to continue after the first 15 years of togetherness.  Please feel free to link up your desk and visit others' - we are a friendly bunch.

My desk this weeks shows some of the projects that were produced at the workshop with the Craft Collective that I went to on Sunday.  Great fun and I will be going to another one in the future I am sure.

Werder Bremen, the German football team I support.

Parfait and mint tea.

Fabulous show at the theatre last Wednesday!

The new solar panels (scaffolding sadly still here though)!

Our wedding anniversary coincided with the prompt.

A nice easy one!

The parents' evening went well, as did the workshop as you can see on my desk.  Had a stomach bug in between the two but was well enough by Sunday to head up North for the day.  The solar panels and battery are working well and apart from the standing charge we have been self sufficient for electricity since they went online.

This time next week I will be in Paris with the Y8 trip so it will probably be a short post.  I will get it sorted on our arrival at the hostel next Tuesday evening I think.

Stay safe and Happy WOYWW everyone.