Blogging award- who me?

How lovely! A dear friend many, many miles away has sent me an award for my creations...

Carmina is a great talent so it is even more special that she has chosen my work for this award. You can find Carmina's blog here.

Thankyou!!

I now get to choose 4 blogs that I feel deserve a viewing and recognition for their wonderful work, so here are my choices;

Sonja's work is varied an amazing, from weaving to journals and mixed media art, find her work at Art from my soul

Louise's work is both unusual and stunning, see her work at River Girl Art

Robin is an absolute inspiration for bead work, so many gorgeous pieces and styles, check out her website and blog

Fourthly, if you want some inspiration for some really funky fun, you cannot do better than visit Gas Art's blog

 I'm sure you'll enjoy your visits!

Totem Animals spread

I've had Louise's scrummy journal a while now, trying to gather the courage to get going in it... finally I did. I knew how I wanted it to look, and it's always a challenge so I tend to do anything but... and now I've done all my swaps for the month...

here it is...

Journey with my animal totem

I used acrylic paints, gesso,photos of mine, white gel pens and black technical pens. The cat doodle is embossed from a linocut and over-inked to highlight, gold/silver and bronze on black. Hope Louise likes it....

Flip section with cat doodle

Embossed and inked print/ linocut