Category: Nature

Nature Journaling – Elmstead Woods

During the summer I did a wildflower survey in Elmstead Woods (South East London) for Plantlife.com and collected leaves from some of the plants I saw. I decided to make a nature journal page using paper copies of the leaves and thought I’d share how I made it. Firstly I pasted a brown paper bag…

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Design inspired by nature

Hi all, I’ve been in my craft studio all weekend as its cold and damp here in London. Yesterday I felt inspired to make an antelope head style motif, I knew how I wanted it to look, I just couldn’t remember the name of the species etc. After a good look around the internet I…

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Crystal Palace Park

Hi all, today Cha-guy and I went for a long walk around Crystal Palace Park in South East London. We passed some ruins of the old Crystal Palace erected on the site in 1854 This magnificent building was designed by Joseph Paxton and hosted the Great Exhibition of industry and technology. It was burnt to…

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Paper Graphic Design by Natasha Molotkova

The ‘new’ art of paper graphic design is portrayed here in the work of Natasha Molotkova and her company http://www.papergraphic.co.uk. Natasha grew up in Siberia, studied Fashion and Surface Pattern at the University of Worcester and now produces colourful tangible campaigns for a variety of clients.

Paper Bird Sculptures

I’ve recently discovered the work of artist Diana Beltran Herrera. She makes exquisite bird sculptures out of paper. Originally from Colombia this very talented 25 year old is currently studying for an MA in Bristol, UK. Be sure to check out some of her more abstract sculptural work, an example of which is linked below….

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Silhouette Sketch pens

I’ve been playing with sketch pens on my electronic cutter the Silhouette Cameo. I replaced the blade with a pen then converted some cut files to sketch designs in the Studio software then sketched onto watercolour paper before painting them with my new Gouache paints… I luv gouache!! :) I’m looking forward to the weekend…

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Recent Sketches..

I started painting and drawing for the first time last year and its been a great journey so far. I’ve mainly been using watercolour and inks but more recently I’ve discovered the joy of graphite pencils. Oh yes, and different types of paper for painting on, my most recent discovery is Glassine paper, I just…

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