Hi there! Thanks for popping in, Have just finished putting the finishing touches to the TV demos, have checked and double-checked the gear to take. And now I just want to sit for a bit and chat to you before I go pack my overnighter. Just went through the artboxes with all the fresh samples from our Design team. Wow. What a brilliant group of artists. They make my job so much easier! If you think I have vision, wait until…
Hiya! Sorry I am sooo late today. It has been a very long day. Seven hours of live TV on Sunday/Monday to prep for – and the clock tick-tocking on the wall. It’s the Groovi Prep which takes so long!! Paul and I were cracking up by 10pm tonight. Remember Peter Cook and Dudley Moore? Well, in those voices, this is how it went… “Well Paul, tell me, when did you start making that card?” “In 1946.” “No, no I…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Having had a fabulous day at the V&A and an excellent evening at the 2016 Folk Awards yesterday, today is catchup with TV prep day! All good though. I am actually enjoying revisiting a bunch of old stamping and brayering techniques, and I look forward to sharing them with you on Sunday. preppy preppy preppy. Stagey stagey stagey No wonder you think I know what I’m doing by the time you see it on…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in. I have got exactly one hour before we have to catch a train to London. What?? Another day off, Gray?? Yeah, well, Bank Holiday weekend I is slavin away on telly…. you’ve got to get your R & R where you can! Really excited to be going up to the Albert Hall for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Joan Armatrading is picking up a Lifetime Achievements award. I want to stand up and give…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Can’t stay long myself this evening. Am still at the office with Jim, working on new designs and trying to get ahead before our hols. Funny old day. I don’t enjoy being the boss really. But somebody’s got to do it. Here’s a little piece of art which I did ages ago, but which I thought would make a pleasant blog. Can’t do step by steps every day, but I am sure you understand…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in. I am so excited!! I couldn’t wait to get upstairs here to my little den and share some (what I consider to be) VERY BIG NEWS with you. Today I had the pleasure of meeting a certain young lady called Tina Cox. Do you know her? She is a parchment artist, and her art is fabulous. Absolutely sublime. We spent the day together at the house, and she taught me so many new parchment tricks!…
Good Morning! Thanks for popping in! Sun’s shining, birds are nesting in the garden. All good. Here’s a little easy step by step, combing stamping and Groovi One of my favourite stamps is our Lily of the Valley, which our Melanie drew a while ago. It comes in a little 2-stampset, with the verse I used here yesterday: Thought I’d combine it with our new coloured parchment…. Ready? Using an Archival Olive ink pad, stamp the stamps onto the colour…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Was watching Paul on telly earlier, using the lovely filigraphy foliage stampset + stencil, and thought, “I know! I’ll use them in the blog today!” They are so lovely. Filigraphy Foliage stamps! I used them a while ago with one of the Clarity Characters…. 7th September last year to be precise, if you want to get the step by step. Clarity Characters Anyway, thought I’d just have a play with a scrap piece in the…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in. Hope you are happy? TGIF !!! No work this weekend for me! Well, no exhibitions or TV shows. Anything else doesn’t count…. So maybe we can let our hair down, pick a flic, bake a cake chillax, do nowt. niddip niddip…. Up for a limerick? We do like a limerick don’t we….. I shall give you the first two lines, then you copy – paste them into the comments box below and add your…
Happy Thursday Thanks for popping in. Here’s another step by step project for you to try…. I am on a roll this week! Actually, I have had a lot on my mind, and the arty interludes have been like a real tonic. Which just goes to prove that Craft is a real mindful therapy; just stick at it until the pain or the panic fades. Remember a couple of days ago I did a Goosey canvas? And in between layers…