Having watched various Youtube videos on eco printing papers, I’ve been trying a different technique. I soaked watercolour and mixed media papers in aluminium acetate and plant material in alum, though I forgot to do the plant material once and it didn’t seem to make any difference. I secured the layers of paper between two...
Author: Cherry Hirsch
An Altered Book Art Journal
There are so many inspirational vidoes out there on You Tube – I have been particularly inspired recently by Sanda Reynolds and Marta of Maremi Small Art. I found an old French book of my mother’s, full of notes, which she had obviously used for teaching and I thought it would make the perfect Art...
More encaustic wax
I really love the effects you can achieve with encaustic wax. I have been wanting to do something with all my old family photos and this was the first result: : Entitled Les Trois Soeurs, my mother and her two sisters all of whom had a great influence on me. I also used a photo...
Spring is just around the corner
Or maybe not, given the present weather, but it seemed like it at the time, with flowers blooming all through the garden. The cover is from a notebook I bought made in Thailand. The cover is made from leaves (banana?) stretched over board.
More pages in the Nature Journal
I spent the first two weeks of December in Malaysia where the temperatures were in the 30s C. Meanwhile, back home it snowed and I came back to this at the end of the month: Super moon on the first day of January: Thick snow for the end of February: