Marius Markowski- Collage

Marius Markowski creates these impressive collages from torn up magazines. He also is a digital painter whose digital paintings look like they have been created with oil paint. I like his use of colour and texture in his paintings, however I am awed by his collages! The detail and realism in the final product!

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Close-up image

Scream- digital painting

Digital Painting

Lui Bolin- camouflage

Similar to Cecilia Paredes or Emma Hack, Lui Bolin in his "Hiding In The City" series paints himself into the landscape and disappears. Aptly named "The Invisible Man", he stands for hours as he is painted stating

“My intention was not to disappear in the environment but instead to let the environment take possession of me.”

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Other great body art here.

Ladygirl Vintage Refashion Blog

Ladygirl Vintage has some great refashion creations with a vintage twist. I love the cut little dresses she makes using ugly over sized and unwanted op hop finds. She even has tutorials on her blog.

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Rebecca Vincent- Monotypes

Rebecca Vincent is a UK based artist and printmaker who uses etching and monotype to create beautiful layered prints and cards. I love the bold patterns and colours in her works along with the abstract qualities.

Blaze of Glory-monotype

On the edge

Earth lines- monotype

Birch lines

Wind Power

Crashing Waves

Radiance

Dawns Early Light

Edgeland

Enchanted Forest

Rare Birds

Em's Jumper/Sweater Cushions #2

 

I made these cushions from recycled jumper/sweaters. I chose 2 jumpers in the same shades for each, one for the cushion base and the other ribbed ones to make the flower rose. I got the idea from here and here, but had to make up the process of making them myself. I played around with various ways to create fabric roses and ended up cutting numerous semi-circles from the jumper and then sewing them in a long line along the straight edge before sewing the line in a spiral onto the first jumper, which I had made into a simple cushion. Once that was done I made a small fabric rose for the centre and hand sewed a cushion inside. I also hand stitched the floppy petals down at various points so it stayed more in shape. They go really well with the orange jumper/sweater cushion I made previously.

Em's Latest projects

Hedgehog Doorstop

I made this hedgehog doorstop as a Christmas present out of calico and an old striped shirt. I based it on the pattern from Do Crafts. Hand sewing on the strips of fabric took a while and I ironed them folded on an angle to try and make it look more haphazard rather than formal. I used Jasmine rice (all we had) to fill it, which actually made it smell nice (I was thinking of adding essential oils but the Jasmine rice was fragrant enough). I then sewed on two buttons for eyes and made a tiny pompom on a fork for the nose! I already have people asking me for orders for next Christmas!

Hand Towels

I bought these tea towels a while ago to make hand towels for the kitchen for everyone for Christmas. This year I made some for presents with scrap fabric. I love the retro yellow fabric one, I nearly kept it for myself! Originally I was going to use the more traditional pattern from Creamer Chronicles but really like the clever "big button hole" design from here, so tried it. I sewed the middle of the towel to the fabric to create a double thickness.

Mugs

I made these mugs for my cousin who had their first bub this year. I used an oil based paint texta and used the instructions from Something Turquoise to set the design. I waited 72hrs after drawing on the design, then put them in a cold oven and turned it on to 200C for an hour, turned the oven off and left it to cool down over night. They came out a little darker but otherwise the same.

Em's Lego Crafts

 Lego Head Gas Bottle

 Ever since I saw this idea on Pinterest I have wanted to paint our gas bottle to look like a Lego head! And how effective it is!! Such fun! Using up some left over yellow paint our BBQ gas bottle now looks like this:

Can't wait to see the look on the persons face when we have to swap it in! :)

Lego Tissue Box

A very simple project but very effective. A bought plain tissue box cover and wooden beads from the craft shop, glued them on and painted it red! Cut up pieces of dowel would have a better ratio for the knobs but was 20 times the price of these ready made beads. I think it still gives the right idea. Inspiration from here.

Derek Gores- collage

Derek Gores creates these fantastic collages! Wow! So clever, intricate, detailed and realistic! I also love the subject matter!

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