Hi everyone!
It is a sunny day here in Berkshire, but we did have some snow at the weekend!
Great Book tags last week. I only had chance to comment on one of them, but I did
enjoy them all.
For this week's theme of Birds, I immediately thought of the stencils my mum bought for me when I was about 9. I remember going into the art shop with her to choose them. Little did I think I would still be playing with them so many years later!
Keeping my tags simple, I stencilled using Koh-i-Nor watercolour paints on Indian paper, giving a blurry effect as the paint bled into the paper a little. There are five different birds. I am not sure which birds they are meant to be, so made up my own colours.
I photographed them on an old biology book, which I found at a summer fair.
Oh I remember these! I had forgotton oall about those stencils, I had the fruit ones, I particularly loved the grape one.....unfortunatly I dont have them anymore :(
ReplyDeleteLove your painted tags
Love the blurry effect, the birds look all fluffed up!
ReplyDeleteLove what you did with the stencils... where the paint as bled...great effect! :)They are all fab...but no.3 is my fave.
ReplyDeleteJan x
Very nice, and how neat to still have these stencils! Good for you!
ReplyDeleteHard to choose, but I think number 3 is my favourite. Love the soft fluffy edges where the paint has bled.
ReplyDeleteLove them!! I had stencils like this too but sadly, no longer. The blurry effect is a great touch. xx
ReplyDeleteThese are lovely - I particularly love number 1, who looks like he's just had a bath!
ReplyDeleteWonderful! such a hard choice as the all are fabulous, Great idea, May x x x
ReplyDeleteThese are all lovely, The blurred images are great, I like No. 2 best, Jane xx
ReplyDeletewhat talent. i wish i could paint but i'm lousy with forms and shapes. i totally adore these.
ReplyDeleteLovely, like watercolors of the best type.
ReplyDeleteWell done on using something in your stash - beautiful ;-)
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