Day 167: Another horsey doll

This is a good way of exploring collage and using funky paper together with textiles. I really like making these but should probably expand from making horses and elephants.

Day 166: My name

I am well late with my 365ers inspired projects but here it is. Inspired by lauren who makes her name in different fashion every day: http://thetwinoaksplace.blogspot.com/. Check it out!

Day 165: Cowgirl luggage label

I love easy assemble, creative kits:) This one is from crafts paper Mollie Makes and it's easy day project. My hand sewing is not that brilliant but I am going with rough home made style of Wild West to go with my horses:)

Day 164: Drawing 15

Soldiering on with my drawings. I left this drawing after the first arch and thought of giving up but then when I came back to it I found it a bit easier. Didn't bite the pen in two so that's progress. Perspective is a bit all over the place but that is not main focus anyway, it's those pesky stroke directions and shadows. A friend of mine, who works with architectural illustration, made a small demonstration of perspective drawing for me the other day and that was complicated. Never thought that so many lines could be involved in one drawing. But she knew her business...

Day 163: More horses

So happy with my Winnetou horse I made another one. Brought up in communist country, we never had 'My little pony' so I am making up for it with a collection of my own. Who knew string was so much fun:)

Day 162: A 2D elephant toy

This is my new 2D type of toy made of fabric and paper. Really pleased with it:)

Day 161: Winnetou's horse: Iltschi

The other day I was lookinf through my fellow 365er Rebecca Jones artworks and she makes lots of different horses. I love horses and I do draw them often but I haven't actually made any for my blog se I intent to rectify that so here he is: Winnetou's horse -  Iltschi. 
Winnetou is a fictional character from books written by Karl May and it's kind of germanic phantasy about Wild West. As a child I was deeply influenced by these books as well as by Jack London's books and one of my alter ego's was Winnetou, a bit strange for a small, croatian girl but hey, my friends were not much to write home about...

Day 160: A little toy elephant

My dear husband has found my book with toy pattens that I have lost several months back..turns out, it was in  my shelf all the time...fancy...Anyway, this little chap is made from my old sweater and I like this edition of sweater much better:)

Day 159: Drawing 14 and also a sunday project

My blog has been on hold for three weeks now because life got too busy but now I am back and clearing the backlog. This is a Sunday project three weeks ago when we were taking inspiration from Jill Gammon Carillo:  http://flora365.blogspot.co.uk. She photographs different plant every day and her photographs are absolutely beautiful. I thought about the easy option of photographing one too but then changed my mind as I need to carry on with my drawings, so here it is. My first, ever drawing of a plant...

Day 158: Knitted hearts and some art fair evaluation

I haven't knitted anything for ages now so I thought of cleaning the cobwebs by knitting something easy and small, hence little hearts. I recently went to my first art fair as selling artist. Big step for me as I never dared to do that before and thanks to my 365 project I had some work to take. It all looked very nice but I was to stressed to remember to take a photo :).
I sold for £40, paid £25 for fees and spent the rest on lunch. But...I didn't make a loss, so happy with that. Small, inexpensive items are definitely a eay forward. Thinking of maybe trying a Christmas fair next. I should have enough stuff:)

Day 152: 365 days of love

This is a Sunday 365ers project. This week we are taking inspiration from Rebecca Borowski and 365 Days of Love: http://rebecca-365daysoflove.blogspot.co.uk/ Her blog is truly inspirational and full of both love and humor. So here is my love for you, Rebecca:)

Day 151: Toy Mouse

A 10cm toy mouse climbing the tree. I rarely give sense of scale so I thought this would be a good opportunity to do so:)

Day 150: Rose and Cherry - photo shoot

After all that hassle, I decided that a photo shoot was in order. Really proud over myself, I didn't throw it all in the bin after all...

Day 149: Rose

One day at the time and I finished Rose too. I had to cut a new dress for her since the first one got all ugly from many times turning in and out. I had difficulties attaching limbs but finally managed so it looked neat:)

Day 148: Cherry

Tadaa...legs right way round and all. This is Cherry as she has little cherries attached to her hair.

Day 147: Rose and Cherry - part 2

Got my stuffing and started sewing...The first doll was so badly sewn that I had to take it all apart because I wasn't following the technique correctly. Dress part got so badly abused I cut it all off and left it at one side. So I made a start on the other doll, Cherry, it all went really well and I got all parts together as I should. The trick was to sew on arms and legs,fold them inside the doll and then turn the whole thing right way round. I did...and after all that I managed to sew both legs wrong way rounds..AAAAARGH!!!!! So I threw everything in the box and left.

Day 146: New dollies - Rose and Cherry

I got so fed up with drawing so I decided to get my trusted buddy  - the sewing machine and make something else. This pattern is from magazine Mollie Makes and it seemed simple, so I cut out all parts, made the hair and then run out of stuffing, easy-peasy, I thought, I'll carry on tomorrow. For sure I will finish this tomorrow...

Day 145: A small film about guilding

This video is result of our weekly Sunday project with 365 group. This time inspiration was taken from Gabrielle Soileau and her daily vlogs (video blog). You can find her work here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFrqvS53rak&feature=g-user-u Enjoy!

Day 143: Drawing 9 - more directional strokes

More of directional strokes and tonal values...I can't believe this is so difficult. I sit there and grit my teeth because it is difficult. Instant re-aligning of attitude is needed if I am to continue on these drawings without biting my pen into two (or several) pieces. The exercises are getting harder, after I finish tree-section, water section follows:( It is worth adding I have never bothered to draw anything like this before so no use moaning it is difficult:)

Day 142: Drawing 8 - directional strokes

Short, directional strokes should give an illusion of foliage, something that resembles a birch believe it or not.... in my case I think it is more like a pine:(