My latest project is simply called “Sweet”, the name of a girl who turned 18 this month. This piece was commissioned as a birthday present for her by her aunt and uncle. The brief was to make a scene capturing flowers in a riot of colour. There are eighteen main flowers in this work, some…
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Flower Spray
This little card is indeed based on the ‘little’. The biggest flower here is about a 50p-sized coin. The petals are quite a challenge to do if you do not have small enough fingers. Luckily I have nimbler fingers and can manage them, but I do warn anybody wishing to attempt quilling at this scale.…
Read MoreQuilling with Crayons
This is my latest visual work. I quilled some flowers and then spattered some crayon colours on them. I quite like how it turned out. It’s a work in progress. I quite like the process of this approach because of its two contrasting ‘tendencies’: the control and bordering-on-obssessive approach of the quilling against the broad,…
Read More"Hello, Leo!"
I quilled this impromptu work months ago. I just thought of making a fresh and vibrant card for a very special baby boy, who was born this year. This is his “welcome-to-the-world” card. Made it like a tableaux in the naive manner (I suppose), as no planning was needed for this one. It needed to…
Read MoreIssa’s 35th
I quilled this Birthday Card for a friend who turns 35 tomorrow. She had her birthday party celebration yesterday, well in advance, so people can all come. It was full of laughs and gaffs, and we all had a blast. This card was a free style design, intended to evoke colours that a girl would…
Read MoreFloribunda No. 2
Floral themed card made on ‘brushed satin’ paper/card. This design is available to be made on request.
Read MoreFloribunda No. 1
New card with floral theme. Made on ‘brushed satin’ paper/card. This design is available to be made on request.
Read MoreAlexander The Great
This piece was a birthday present to someone very special. The quilling here is very fine 3mm paper. The coiling process changes a bit because of this because handling the paper requires a level of dexterity and attention to timing the length of time each strip is coiled. This is a little tip. To maintain…
Read MoreAbstract Crustacean
I have rediscovered this piece amongst my stored stuff and today I finished gluing the final piece, and it is now complete. I got the resolve today to correct this and finish the work for good. The photo above is the object viewed from the top. It is a collection of all those loose ‘leftover’…
Read MoreA Leaving Do Poster
This poster was made for three colleagues leaving their current posts to go onto pastures new. One of them happened to be moi. So to mark the special occasion, I made a poster for the three of us as we are celebrating our leaving party together. The quilling work on this scale took 16 hours…
Read MoreGarden Variety
Here’s another card I made to thank someone. As from previous posts, I have continued the colourway, using my available paper. In this one, I thought I’d make some foreground grass-like foliage and made the leaves of the flowers smaller and daintier. I added yellow to the colour way, which I think, was a good…
Read MoreTulipa
The flowers in this composition are not really an accurate representation of tulips. The foliage is wrong for a start (they are not long and spindly enough). I just wanted to create tulip-shaped flowers. Nature as inspiration can be easily stylized. I think this is an example.
Read MoreSpring Has Sprung!
It’s finally spring, although the weather still needs to catch up, as it is wet still. But hey, in England we are thankful for any passable weather. But I can feel the temperatures increasing a little bit now and am able to shed those thick woollen coats. This has inspired some card making. Here, I am…
Read MoreDiscworld-Narnia
I am showing today another archive piece. This cutout and quilling work was commissioned as a wedding present for a couple who both loved to read. Their favourite books were the Discworld novels (groom’s) and the The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (bride’s). So I played with this theme and created a wardrobe showing…
Read More‘Made Up’
I’ve drawn a pastel study of a very good friend of mine. She has modelled some of my clothes before and this was one of those moments when we were putting on some make up and coiffing her hair. That day was such fun! I shall forever cherish that photoshoot. Anyway… For her birthday, I…
Read MoreHearsall Common in Snow
There have been moments of picture-perfect snow in the U.K. last week. It inspired me to get out and take the scene in and paint it in watercolour. This has been a stab at it, that was partially successful (as a study, perhaps) of a row of houses overlooking a park or what is known…
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