A few more samples

Not a lot to post tonight, but it is a while since I said anything, I really felt I should put something up. These are some samples from the Ratty Tatty Papers course which Dale is running. The one above is some silk paper, made the easy way with spray starch on baking paper, very quick and easy if it is going to be backed for a project. I do love the textile medium method though if I am making a bag or something similar.

These silk paper castings are fun to do and a different effect from paper castings.

I had never tried making silk paper from rods before - so easy!
These couple of photos are from the Fibre-in-form class I am doing. I am reasonably happy with the colours which have come out, though I don't think this is the effect the class was actually about!

These are two little canvases which were coloured over moulding paste stencils. I like these, though as I said in another group, I wouldn't necessarily have chosen to put a heart in the lower one. Hannah, my grand daughter was with me when I was doing it and insisted! I will give her the canvas later.

This is being written very slowly while I have one eye on the tennis - I think we will be very late going to bed tonight, it looks like being a marathon, and is too exciting to leave!

There is no doubt that Australia is a land of complete contrasts - the poor souls in Victoria and South Australia with that terrible heat, and also the awful fires in Victoria. We have been coasting along with some light rain every day, but now it is our turn to be concerned - there is a cyclone off the North Queensland coast which is slowly deepening. We have had about 150 mm rain in the last 24 hours, with lots more to come, plus the winds have been gusting up to 60 km hour for the last couple of days. I imagine the people in Mackay who were flooded out last February will be getting a bit worried again. We have very large king tides next week also - 6.59metres.

I can't keep writing, the tennis is too exciting - more anothertime.