Hello again, I'm back with my monthly WOYWW check-in. Lots been going on so this will be a bit of a mish-mash post. My husband and son have been away for the past 12 days on a trip to New York, along with my brother-in-law and his son (a boys trip!). They are now on their way back from Heathrow as I write this. I stayed at home to look after Oreo (and water the garden!) and had a good time indulging myself in all sorts of selfish endeavours, like art-making and experimental cooking that no one else would eat. Cabbage soup, anyone? Of course, I missed them, but we spoke every day so it didn't feel like they were that far away at all and the time went so fast.
So what have I been up to art-wise? Quite a lot as there are back-to-back challenges on Instagram, starting with #makecreateexpress22 - I completed a couple of florals for this event:
Then there was Laly Mille's annual #artistsoulretreat - I think this was my third year taking part in this challenge where we made four mini abstracts followed by a canvas project:
Currently, I'm doing Francisca Nunes' #flowersmagicchallenge where we first made a journal and then ecoprinted it. I'd tried ecodyeing/ecoprinting before, but I always worked with individual pieces of paper - this was a different experience and again so addictive! Below is a photo of my journal before and after ecodyeing it, followed by photos of some of the pages while they were still wet. At the end there's a video flip-through of my journal once dry - just listen to those pages turning! We'll be doing some more work in this journal during the challenge, which runs until August 10th.
