I had chosen a sweet photograph of our cat Pig when he was a young kitten to use in this weeks entry, but as the previous post is about the old dears death last Friday evening, I thought that a stamped image would be a better idea...
For the colouring this week I simply used my old set of SU markers...I was going to use Memento inks and my Dove Blender Pen which doesn't get much of a workout, but quickly realised that was a bit silly as the various componants of the image are so very tiny.
Using the markers was very easy, I finished off the little fish with some red gold metallic paint from my Gansai Tambi "Starry Colours" watercolour set...after the colouring was dry I added a couple of tiny dots of shine over the bubbles with the pointy end of a toothpick...cut it out and adhered it onto a 1.5 inch square piece of mountboard. I like the wider mount much better than the small mount of the two previous weeks, so I have also altered them to match. The wider board also allows me space to date and name the inchie, something I have seen and likes on others, inchies, especially as this challenge is over a discrete period of time...
I have a lovely stash of variously coloured mountboard, courtesy of our local framing shop, so this will be a good way to use some of that resource and add some additional colour into the canvas...
Sarah and Karina came for lunch yesterday and afterwards they accompanied the lads to the allotment while I stayed home to have some doggy time with Bonnie and Hollie and also to repot and tidy up the succulent pots..
When Tim and Dud went to the cricket recently they were given lots of freebie advertising items, some of which I will pass on to my grandsons in the next parcel, their father is a Hobart Hurricanes fan. However, the silly KFC bucket hats were being used as picking buckets for the beans and peas...see below...
Now I am definitely not a fan of either sporting events nor the fast food product advertised, but I cannot imagine the sort of mind who thought up the gimmick of handing out these fast food buckets as sun hats at Australian events...neither can I imagine anyone actually wearing them...what a ludicrous waste of resource! Anyway, the few that Tim and Duddles rescued are being recycled as (hideous) bins and will end their days as compost...
The succulent pots lived on a shelf below the mirror and he simply mashed them down with his great flippery feet while trying to argue with the seagull he could see in the reflection.
We eventually had to remove the mirror to get rid of him, and even after that it took about a month for him to finally give up trying to locate the "other seagull" and leave...He was so irritatingly raucous that I really could not work in my craft room. I certainly couldn't make videos until quite late in the evening, when he had finally left for home...
Bye Now,
Di