A bit of a sea theme going on

 This little mermaid sits on top of a beautiful piece of Ocean Jasper.Her tail unfolds around the back of the crystal.
Approx 5cms long
£16 plus P&P

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 This mermaid is sculpted onto a piece of driftwood found on Binstead beach, Isle of Wight. She has a real ammonite fossil in her tummy and is finished with a gloss varnish.
Measures approx 15cm long
£25 plus postage

  

Beautiful Water element wand.Crackle quartz point for the tip, Goddess face and swirls surrounding the tip. She has blue suede cord wrapped around the end and 2 hanging charms of beads and shells.Perfect for calling or working with the element of water, or for beach workings. The driftwood and shells were collected on the Isle of Wight. Approx 25cms long. £25 plus P&P

(why oh why Blogger do you insist on turning my photos around?)

Mermaid painting

Mixed media on wood

Prints available

£14 each plus P&P

A Fishy tail

Hello! I haven't been about in blogland lately as life is just so hectic at the moment! Commitments are keeping me from my art work, I just cant seem to find 5 minutes!

I managed to do this journal page on the Saturday after Good Friday but have not had time to post it.

This is a new A4 journal I bought a few weeks ago as it was half price.

I could not get a good photo of this page as I used lots of silver glimmer spray which just keeps reflecting back at me! I also used Dylusions paints and sprays, twinkling H2o's crumpled up tissue paper and text paper for texture, embroidary thread, glitter, TH tissue tape and some net material. I cut the little fish out of a magazine page which was a photo of the sea.

I promise it looks better than this in real life! You cant see all the texture in this photo or the depth of colour as the flash has washed it out, but when I tried to take it without a flash it was all blurry!

I hope to catch some time over the weekend to be creative as we have our monthly crop on saturday.

TFL

Sami x

Mermaid

I have fallen way behind with my Magical, mythical makings course over at Willowing due to our house move. I started wk 2 which was an angel but I didn't like how it turned out so I will have to get back to that one. Week 3 was mermaids in the style of Chagall. Well I have done the mermaid but not in his style at all, but I am pleased with it. It was painted on plywood which was a bit of a challenge, the paint reacts so differently to canvas and it took lots of layers to build it up.

I used water colour crayons, acrylic paint and twinkling H2o's. I could not get hold of any of the 'Golden' brand mica flakes that Tam used on her painting so I made my own. When I experimented in my art journal I used gel medium straight onto the tail and then sprinkled 'magic scraps' on. This didn't work very well as the scraps kept falling off and the medium had taken away the shine of the scraps as it was matt. So on this piece I mixed the magic scraps(small crushed sparkly bits!) with a gloss gel medium in a little pot first to make a sort of sparkly glue, then I just smeared it on the tail where I wanted it. Because the gel medium had covered all over the sparkly bits when it dried they all stayed in place and kept their sparkle. The wood is about 15 inches high. Overall I am pleased with it and when I move back home I am going to hang it in my toilet!

TFL

Sami x