Crafting a Life

Art, craft, projects and life with Gillian Cooper... Artist, Tutor, Writer and Mother

Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Muses in clay

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  As well as experimenting in fabric, I have been making little plaques of my figures in modelling clay trying out different ideas.   Origi...
Tuesday, 22 February 2011

Chinese New Year at the Nursery

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Since the start of the term, I have been helping our local school nursery (kindergarten) with art activities for the children.  The theme wa...
Thursday, 27 January 2011

Figures set in stone

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This week I have been playing with the idea of my figures and how to get them onto fabric.  These have all been made using paintsticks, rubb...
Monday, 17 January 2011

Snow Dyeing - the results

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The snow here finally went on Saturday - a full seven weeks after the first snow fall, so it now seems a good time to show you the result...
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Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Drawing the Figures

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  As this is the start of a new project, it is time to get back to drawing.  Drawing is not one of my strengths, but it is useful spending t...
Monday, 10 January 2011

Gemma's quilt

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Here is another quilt I made in the latter part of 2010 for a friend's new baby.  A had a second girl and she loves pink and lilac - col...
Saturday, 8 January 2011

Logan's Quilt

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C's piano teacher had her first child at the end of the summer and he wanted to make her a quilt.  This is the result.  I meant to post...
Monday, 3 January 2011

Creating Again!

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As you can probably guess from the lack of blog posts recently, I've been having a really fallow period.  However, it is time to break i...
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Tuesday, 30 November 2010

Snow dyeing continued...

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We uncovered the pieces of fabric we had left out in the snow today.  It had snowed several inches more (as you can see from the blue box p...
Monday, 29 November 2010

unexpected holiday - snow dyeing

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Scotland, or at least where we live, is under an unexpected blanket of snow.  It's really early for snow here and in the six years since...
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