Alan

Marion

Marion

Jas

Heidi

Heidi

Marion and Alan

Jas and Rose

Marion

Rose

Jas

Heidi

Alan's hand painted glass jar

Heidi getting ready for her art exhibition for Open Studios Cornwall - Heart of Roses

Slightly different take - Half Heart of Roses

Heidi's first crochet picture - Eden

Heidi - pastel picture of Trevose Head

Katrina's still life is done with coloured pencils and a very interesting way of using that colour where the fruits overlap

Katrina's pansy, again with coloured pencils

Katrina's fairy home in clay

Rose has reproduced her version of what she saw in a gallery, with felt tip pens and embellishments

Rose has taken her photo and turned it into a card for sale in her local shop

Rose - another beautiful photo, now a card

Rose - using one photo to make a lovely tryptic for another card

Marion's Easter Card made with ribbon

Marion's Easter Card from another flower card and a gold thread going down the crease

Jas has made a collage from cards with flowers and the vase is from a christmas card

Heidi has now finished her negative painting of her Autumn Leaves - watercolour and ink pen

Heidi has carried on with the negative painting for Green Leaves - watercolour and ink pen

And lastly Winter Leaves - watercolour and pen

Heidi has used a photo she took of reflections in a Venice canal - watercolour pens and ink pen

Heidi has dabbled in abstract with acrylic yellows and reds

Heidi this time has used the colours of yellow, red black and white

Heidi's last abstract uses blues and greens, the marks are made with an old credit card!

Heidi's first foray into collage - it's of Charlestown's beach - needs a bit more work

Marion has been enjoying her Kew Gardens colouring book - this one is with water colour pencils

This one is when the pencil has has been activated with water

Love Rose's button tree

And Rose's feather flower (Rose gathers feather from her local beach)

Heidi's try at negative painting (watercolour) - this is a process that starts with the palest colour first and then slightly darker etc

Stage two - make the leaves stand out a bit more with a fine liner - see March for the final stage!!

This is Heidi's rough sketch for a crochet picture of Eden Project

And here is the start of the crochet picture - where shall it be next month?

Katrina used greenery from her garden for her Xmas wreath - and next is her take on a greek statue

Katina's necklace is an ongoing project - and lastly a clay tile with leaves and seeds impressed on it and then covered in slip

Marion's Xmas tree - start with a piece of wood and a template of a tree, hammer tacks or nails around the template, take off the template and use string or wool to wind around the tacks. Finish off with a string of lights!

Jas's village xmas decorations

Heidi's sketches of Polzeath beach and below the progress with acrylics on board

Heidi's start on another Polzeath beach and the surfer - both are acrylic on canvas

Heidi's xmas wreaths - crochet, tinsel, baubles and foam sheets

Heidi's sketch book - a take on a New York street inspired by Kandinsky

One day Heidi may finish!

Heidi's take on Van Gogh - this is after seeing an exhibition of 'Immersive Van Gogh' in New York

Rose's dried flowers

Rose's leaf footprint and competition photograph

Heidi's next steps with her picture of boats at mevagissey

Heidi's start on Polzeath beach in acrylic on canvas and sketch book of Polzeath beach to go onto a canvas

Rose and her feathers

Heidi's Watergate Bay in pastels and Stag on the moor in acrylics

Heidi's Red Lion at Avebury in watercolour and pen, then Santorini in watercolour

Heidi's 2 salukis in watercolour pencil, then wooded walk in pastel

Heidi's 3 takes of a street

Heidi's sketch book - the bridge

More of the river - then printing on a lampshade using a stencil and gel pens

Heidi's Japan poster using acrylics and a card with pen and ink drawing of Lostwithiel bridge

Marion's start on an ordinary ladder - what will it end up being??

Rose's many meadows

Rose's book marks

Jas's bird sketches

Heidi's sketches - Venetian Mask and Italien piazza

Heidi - cheers! and boat in the bay

Heidi's twisted perspective sketch followed by 3 abstracts using acrylic

Heidi experimenting with watercolour

Heidi's apple blossom sketch

Rose's 2 robins

Rose's shadows on a road, (above and below)

Rose with a collage from a supermarket magazine - then under a wet piece of glass

Rose has used a downloaded picture and coloured in to create a one of a kind birthday card,

and two photos of outside light painting with a yoga instructor 

A bird made of fir tree and leaves - then the photo is 'enhanced' to look like an oil painting

Jaz with handmade cards

Marion's foray into pressed flowers

Heidi has been taking some 'me time' with the Secret Sketch Party on Facebook. Starting with a cheeky tree frog - iris - daffs - all in watercolour pencils

Carrying on with a looser style again with watercolour pencils

Extreme looseness! watercolour

Anne having fun with daffs - acrylics without pen, then with pen liner. And a pencil sketch.                         

 Deb's very first watercolour picture of a planter featuring alpines

An experiment in 'light painting'. Jaz using homemade twinkly lights with a slow shutter on her camera.

Marion's original abstract in gold, silver and black pens - Abstraction number 2 - Abstraction number 3   

  Easter Card by Marion - watercolour pencil and liner on buff card stock

Rose's birthday cards using her own photo and an app on her ipad - rooster collage

Heidi's month - pencil sketch of moorland with a sheep - collage based on a dream/nightmare

- a take on Mattisse drawing with scissors

Old photographic self portrait with spring flowers dropped in

- two crochet squares as the start of a blanket

Lastly, playing with paint sticks

                 Jaz has Xmas all sewn up!

Wonderful still life in acrylic by Anne.

Family tree by Heidi. Acrylic ink and acrylic paint pens.

Macrame necklaces - Marion's Xmas present!

An experiment in ink separation, highlighters on kitchen towel roll and then water put on them to see how the colours run. Well done Jas.

A collage (magazines and string) of the 'welcome home' trees on the A30 by Rose. 

What can you make with post-it notes, wallpaper and ribbon? Loving it, Rose.

Rose playing with bubbles and food dye.

A graphite pencil drawing by Heidi for her Mum at Xmas.

Jas is using old Xmas cards for present labels.

Food dye and Rose's finger.

Part 1 - poster paints.

Part 2 - knocked back with white gesso.

Part 3 - stencil with paint pens and sharpies. A good mix from Heidi.

A lovely bright collage by Rose. The back ground is a black and white photo of Rose's garden wall and the sunflower is from a magazine.

Crochet 'news boy' hat by Heidi. Another pressie for her Mum!

Anne has painted this poinsettia card

Another lovely close up poinsettia card from Anne

Bored with normal decs, Heidi decided to crochet around some baubles, and made a crochet star

Jas’s first go with watercolour pencils were her ‘magic’ mushrooms!

Jas’s second go was a robin

With some Vistaprint magic, Jas’s robin became Xmas cards

A Xmas star made of wood and painted red on one side by Marion

And Marion used a patchwork of material on the other side

Rose fashioned a book tree, sprayed painted it and added a star on top

And here, Rose shows us how to make the book tree