ATC Alphabet Experiment E is For….
Posted by: trishbee on: July 11, 2009
I made this atc for the ATC Alphabet Experiment over on Next Generations Group. I couldnt think what else to do for the letter E so I just sat down with my sharpie pen and doodled on the atc.
The theme of this atc is Elements – each section represent each of the 4 elements – Earth, Air, Water & Fire. I decided to add colour using the Van Gogh technique.
The theme of this atc is EYE, Im fascinated by eyes, I truly believe they are the windows to our souls. I decided to go with the ‘zendoodle’ style which I seems to be doing a lot these days for this atc.
More Watercoloured Zendoodle Atcs
Posted by: trishbee on: July 11, 2009
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Another doodled atc which I did with my sharpies. I added colour to this one using a mixture of gel pens and marker pens. I decided to add the colour in the style of the Van Gogh technique.
Im addicted to doodling on atcs at the moment, they are a perfect size, not too big and not too small. I added colour to this using Inktense pencils.
Another artist trading card using the Zendoodling style Ive grown so fond of recently. I added colour using Derwent Inktense watercolour pencils.
More Zendoodle ATCs
Posted by: trishbee on: July 11, 2009
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Surely having this much fun with sharpies is illegal?
Look what I found!
Posted by: trishbee on: July 11, 2009
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I found this in B&M shop for just £1.99, its one of those small garden fences which you use to edge the lawn. I thought it would be perfect to take apart and use each section as a wooden HOUSE to alter!
Cant wait to have a go with it…
Grab Bags on Ebay
Posted by: trishbee on: July 11, 2009
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Ive bundled up my grab bags and put them on ebay as buy it now:
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/pennylessartist_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZ
Revisiting Dream
Posted by: trishbee on: July 11, 2009
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This week we went back to see Dream over at Sutton Manor, the last time we went they hadnt totally finished putting it together and the park was still a mess from all the bulldozers and workmen and I wasnt too impressed by Dream to be honest.
On Tuesday we decided to go and have another look at Dream and see if the park had improved now that all the workmen and their machines have gone.
We took our dog with us for a walk over there, the sky was a perfect blue with one or two clouds scattered in the sky and the sun was shining, overall a nice Summers day.
As we sat down on the seats situated in front of Dream and contemplated, something inside just clicked, all of a sudden it made sense.
Id previously watched the artist Jaume Plensa on a tv program on Channel 4 discussing his idea for the Dream and how he imagined the little girls head would appear within the clouds as if she was dreaming.
Maybe the viewing conditions where just right that day we visited but suddenly I found myself falling in love with Dream. She really does look as if she is in a dreamlike state, the stone is almost luminescense and as a glow about it.
You can see more photos of Dream on this flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/plensasdream/pool/
Some Doodle ATCs
Posted by: trishbee on: July 7, 2009
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Im going through a stage of doodling on atcs with my drawing pens. I find it very relaxing. I added colour using Derwent Inktense pencils.
Meander Book Pages Finished
Posted by: trishbee on: July 7, 2009
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Ive been pretty quiet the past few days as I have been finishing off my Meandering book pages for a swap I am in, the deadline is fast approaching and I needed to get them finished off so I didnt get told off by Ms Bossy Boots who is hosting the swap! Eeeeek!
Heres my completed pages below and blurb about how I did them etc…
This is Annie’s book page, she chose a theme of Birds. I dont know what it is about birds but I find myself drawn to them. To make the bird shape on the page I got a silhouette of a bird and I transformed it onto a cereal box and cut it out to make a stencil. I then added the white paint using a paint marker I had. It didnt feel complete so I added a tree branch and a zig zag border and a moon – or is it a sun?
This is Rachels book page, her theme was anything with wings 
I was in full bird mode having just finished Annie’s page, so I decided to carry on with the birds! I made the bird outline using a cereal packet and a craft knife. I created the bird shape using silver contour paste to give it a raised glossy 3d feel. Once the paste was dry I outlined it with black marker and added some metallic outlines to accent. Plus I added the obligatory black and white border and quote
This is my book page for Wendys book, her theme was all things Vintage Heres my contribution….
This is one of 2 pages as I decided to decorate the fronts and backs of Jessie’s page, her theme was Vixens. Not vixens as in lady foxes but vixens as in Foxy Ladies! I decided to opt for a real women meets feminista approach and used some images of cowgirls for my pages. I actually did some sewing on this one!!! Dont all faint 
I was searching for a suitable quote and this one on this page made me smile.
This is Carols page, her theme was Faces. But we werent allowed to use wings or hats with the faces – a bit cruel I thought!! I decided to go with the moon face for this page theme, I made the face using air drying clay. The background was already painted metallic paints so I decided to optimise the metallic by adding some 3d texture using silver contour liner. When it was dry I used my markers to add further accents and also the quote was added.
Relisted couple Stamps on Ebay
Posted by: trishbee on: June 30, 2009
Ive relisted a couple of stamps which didnt sell on ebay and also put on 2 grab bags of rubber just to see how they go.
The url is: http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/pennylessartist_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZ
If anyone is interested in buying grab bags direct without going through ebay, just leave me a message and I’ll contact you with details. Ive millions of stamps in this box, everyone different which is amazing as I thought I would have one or two duplicates but I dont! I just need to get rid of them all.
D is for Doodling ATCs
Posted by: trishbee on: June 30, 2009
Heres my ATCs which I made for the ATC Alphabet Experiment over on my yahoo group.
I created the doodles onto inchie squares which I cut out using a craft punch and stuck down onto the atcs:
Z is for Zendoodling Alphabet Journal Page
Posted by: trishbee on: June 30, 2009
I made this art journal page for the Alphabet Discovery Workshop. I wanted to do Zendoodling for my page, Zendoodling is my word which I use for describing the Zentangle inspired doodling I do. Its not strictly Zentangling, its just inspired by it. So I call it Zendoodling
To make the 1″ squares I used a craft punch and then doodled on the squares with a black drawing pen. I then layered them onto the page and stuck them down. I then added a nice Zig Zag border all the way around.
I love Zendoodling
Made some mouldlings
Posted by: trishbee on: June 30, 2009
The weather has been playing havoc with me lately, the sun has been really warm but the air has been very humid and we keep having torrential downpours. This doesnt help with my walking and mobility much, I feel knackered! Ive not managed to get much art done because of it. But I have managed to squeeze in a little bit here and there, thankfully
Heres a couple of mouldlings I made from the handmade moulds I showed you earlier, I made these moulds from some old brooches I found:
The mould taken from a flower shaped broach:
Mouldlings made from Crayola Model Magic, they arent very detailed, I just wanted to see if the mould had worked:
I cant decide whether I like this mouldling as the full round mould as above or with cut out petals as below:
Finally I made a mouldling out of Friendly Plastic! I didnt have any strips of friendly plastic big enough for the mould so I cut up a few pieces and laid them over the mould and heated with the heat gun, when the plastic melted and shrunk a little I would add another piece of friendly plastic to patch up the gaps forming. I continued doing this till the entire mould was covered with friendly plastic, then I dropped water onto the reverse of the plastic so that I could touch the hot plastic and pressed the friendly plastic right into the recesses of the mould:
Heres another Mould and Mouldling, this one and the one above are my 2 favourites:
Air Drying Clay and Friendly Plastic Mouldlings:
More moulds
Posted by: trishbee on: June 26, 2009
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Made some more moulds last night:
Made some moulds
Posted by: trishbee on: June 25, 2009
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I found an ancient pack of molding compound in my stash which must be over 5 years old! Finally I got it out and used it! And surprisingly it hadnt gone off. Its similar to the mold n pour stuff except it isnt
I had a small pack of 35grams each of the compound and the catalyst and managed to make 7 moulds in total using charms and buttons.
Im getting into practise because I have a huge stash of things I want to make moulds out of for clay 
Here’s my first attempts, the one at the top had an air bubble in it as you can see its not totally smooth – that was my first mould I made and learned how not to do it
C is for Clay and Cut Outs ATC
Posted by: trishbee on: June 23, 2009
This is an atc I made for the ATC Alphabet Experiment on my group. I had some left over leaf cut outs and decided to use them for my C page
Green Man Meander Book Pages
Posted by: trishbee on: June 23, 2009
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These pages are for Mawgans book, her theme is Green Man.
This is the first stage where I inked some papers up using various shades of green inks and cut them out into freeform leaf shapes using scissors.
I then stuck the leaves loosely down onto the book page using double sided tape. They arent stuck completely down onto the background, this is so the leaves kinda flutter upwards and are 3 dimensional.
See below:
I dont have any green man stamps or moulds I decided to improvise and used a clay mould of a tribal face mould I have.
I painted the face with forest acrylic paint and then swipted over the top with Stewart Gill Bright Gold paint.
I decided the page didnt feel finished so I edged each leaf with green marker pen and then added a dotty border.
Now its finished.
Van Gogh Technique Sunflower
Posted by: trishbee on: June 23, 2009
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I love this technique I cant seem to stop doing this style of doodling. Its so relaxing to just sit and dot with your pens.
Heres a couple of Sunflowers They make me smile – funny how sunflowers have the power to do that
Van Gogh Technique Multicolour Fish
Posted by: trishbee on: June 23, 2009
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I decided to do some experimenting with fishy scenes and the Van Gogh Technique. I wanted to use the same stamps and yet experiment to see if I could make them look totally different.
For this one I created lots of multicolour fish aided by different colour gel ink pens.
This next one I did using only shades of green:
Alphabet Discovery S Journal Page
Posted by: trishbee on: June 23, 2009
For my art journal.
I decided to go with Sunshine as inspiration for my S page because Ive gotten a great deal of strength from the sun recently. Whenever the sun is out I feel ‘normal’ or whatever normal is I can walk properly, I dont feel sick or ill and I am pain free as long as there is sunshine and warmth. I now worship the sun!
To do this page, I created a gradiant wash using gouache paints in 2 shades of yellow and orange, this reminded me of a sunrise.
I added doodles using my marker pen and my trusty signo white pen. I had a lotta fun with this page.
Some idiots on ebay
Posted by: trishbee on: June 16, 2009
Just recieved 7 negative feedbacks on ebay because the idiot buyer DIDNT wait for me to send her a revised combined postage invoice on ebay. Instead she checked out and paid before I had the chance to send it! By which time it was too late and there was nothing I could do about it! I cant UNDO what she has done.
Then instead of emailing about it so I can do her a refund, she proceeds to leave 7 negative feedbacks – flippin eck! Im being punished for her idioticy huh? I didnt send the invoice soon enough and she accuses me of ignoring her email – erm I dont LIVE on the internet 24-7! I do have a life too….forgive me for not being there to send you an invoice that split second you decided you wanted to pay….
Anyway she wont get her chance again as Ive added her to my blocked bidders list. Ah go take a long walk off a short pier why dont ya….life is too short.
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Welcome to my blog, my name is Trish Bee & I live in the North West of England.
My other blog became corrupt so I had to import all my older blog posts into this one as to serve as a back up.
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art n. the products of human creativity; works of art; the creation of beautiful things
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