Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art

A collection of #adrawingaday sketches

Thumb nail drawings inspired by recent reading about other artists.
Mandala drawings, stickers and other sketches completed in December, 2013.
Mentioned in last post, I have been doing some small sketches. I have compiled them here for posterity. All of these have been posted to friends and family, added to collages and postcards and glued to the master copies of zines. Enjoy!

I needed large handmade postcards for a recent spree of letter writing. I enjoy sending snailmail to people. With the assistance of Muzy, I have put together a compilation (or series of) the cards I collaged together from reused file partitions and leftist newspapers. Beards, helicopters, insane horses, swingsets, prosthetics, sarcasm, thumbnail sketches, plants, phrenology,

Works in progress I have been drawing a little bit of late, and wanted to share the skritchy-scratch biro ones. They are small-scale and I am so rusty with bone structure, so they look awkward in places too. But, it’s an encouraging start, as I haven’t created any 2D works for years. The ink layers glide
The Travelling Journal was a project I collaboratively worked on with a number of interesting artist types. In no order, my partners were: Joeli Eastell Kathryn Shewring barek Cherie Strong Little Detour And it spent six to eight weeks being passed aound the Eastern coast of Australia. I got it first, my contribution is the four anatomically-themed textile panels
The other day I had one of my arts based workshops reviewed. According to this small sample, I am pretty much a total boss at arts based workshops. Writing a survey, and choosing targets wisely….less so. But why the review to start with? I live in a perpetual state of maybe-write-a-grant. Retrospectively, I’ve had no overwhelmingly expensive artists’