Leather owls and Buttons

 

Ive been adding to my button collection again, and they have now taken over a whole drawer

ive got loads of tiny buttons that I use for birds eyes on some of my paintings,and I have got lots of  leather bits aswell so I thought I would try to make some jewellery

and these little owl brooches were the end result of a lot of fiddling about

they are aprox 5 x 4 cm with a brooch bar on the back

available on ebay

I am really pleased how they turned out

Autumn leaves

Another day over!

It has been really nice weather here for the past few days, the sun has even been out!

The leaves in the garden are turning into lovely shades of red, so have been out collecting them

and putting into the press,hope to use them soon.

 I do seem to paint a lot of trees

here is one i finished recently

the tree tops are painted in Gold, Copper & red,

 I have used skeleton leaves along the ground

size 50 x 120cm

more folk art flowers an little birds

Finished another little folk birds today,

looks really good on a chunky 8 x 8 inch box canvas

 

and another one in the making.....

quite a few more bits to do on this one! its 50 x 50 cm

Mixed media stitched folk art

well here goes second day of blogging!

I spent half the day yesterday trying to work this out!

and then I thought I had better do some painting,

I have had my sewing box out again and have been stitching a few thinks up to add to a new mixed media folk art painting, its working out quite well I think ..........

this is one of the two finished paintings

I reall enjoyed painting these two,
 so while my sewing box is still out I have started on another two
one small 8x8 inch and one large 50x50 cm

Folk art paintings

Welome to my first ever blog!

my name is Jane and i like to paint all sorts of things,

my style varies from animal portraits to Folk art and lots of other crafty things.

blossoming button tree

now available on ebay

Folk Angel Mixed media on wood