More collaging

I cant seem to stop collaging...I have a book partially done but i forgot to take pictures of it...I think i will chronicle the trees that i live among thru their seasons...Right now i am painting the pages and stenciling and stamping them...wrapping fabric choosing paper so its NOT much to look at ...

BUT this one is coming along nicely The Tea Angel.


I painted the background with alot of Golden acrylics NOT fabric paint and NO GAC to make them soft on a piece of pima cotton just to see what would or could happen. So far so good...


It lay around a couple of days but today I started collaging fabric scraps someone gave me..bright chunks of color...I glued them down with gel...painted a table and the wings with thinned Titanium white...lightly stenciled swirls on the "tablecloth" Conveniently the bag had a head shaped piece in it too...so you know what happened to it:>



So here she is right now...comeing along nicely...with her cuppa in her hands...and a tray on the table with a tea pot...still gluing all this stuff down with gel medium...I HOPE i am not sorry when i start to sew this ...but lifes an experiment right?? also added irisdescent pearl to the table and the wings...over the penciled letters tea tea tea tea tea...

Clueless as to what i will do about her hair...couch some yarn??? cut out some brown batik? Dont know at this point.

Heres a close up of the top of the tea table...

NOw to quilt this piece...and thread paint it some...

For a long time I have been meaning to paint the vast assortment of tea pots at the Inner Bean...i collaged this background for it this morning...now to paint over it to even the colors out...or MAYBE not:>


This one is going to have Bella painted on it I think..unless other inspiration comes along..its been lying around all week waiting...but i think it needs something dark on it which Bella is...or who knows maybe a black teapot to go with the oriental theme? Smeared with Phthalo blue and gold paint mixed and the geisha is a gel transfer

So this is my block for Siobhans birthday quilt...I think we need two more blocks to make 25...then the sewing can commence...done with tsunieko inks, and gold golden paint. Sio made a witch's hat like the one the pumpkin is wearing and since shes irish she LOVES Halloween!