More old bottles

From a Johnny Walker, to a small Jack Daniel, to a soy sauce bottle, and an emptied mustard bottle: they're all here :)

... pansies and forget-me-nots

... roses

... another view

... and another

... the biggest bottle: daisies

... drying on the shelf

... drying with the mustard bottle with scrollwork

Yellow and white daisies and forget-me-nots

I have been struggling with daisies for the longest time. You'd think they are a simple flower, and so easy to paint, but they aren't. At least, I am never happy with the way they turn out: always looking stiff and wired and as if they're made of plastic :(

Well, today I tried them again, on an old Nescafe bottle - after watching Rose Stallcup paint them like it was the easiest thing in the world!

I think this is the first time I'm happy with my daisies :)

The daisies are sitting on a bed of green fern - but they don't come out in the pix :(

- a close up -

The other side: I painted the two main faces of the bottle,
leaving the sides clear

Mandala and bookmark doodles

I attempted to 'grow' a peace mandala, and here it is:

I started at the centre, with a seed, and grew the design around that.

Then, I went on to do these, which are just doodles - but they are also called zentangles, and if you just Google that word, you will see lots of patterns and ideas for them.

These are all small - ideal as bookmarks, if I add a little ribbon - and I plan to give them away to friends.

An old glass container made to look older!

This one is actually a glass bowl that we got free with Fernleaf milk. Over the years, we lost the cover, and this has been sitting on a shelf somewhere, gathering dust.

I wanted it to look like it was earthenware - so I slapped on creams and browns for the background, and worked in copper and black for the scroll-work. I quite like the way it's turned out :)

... sitting pretty in my living room 

Bits and pieces

Over the last few days, I have been working on a few projects:

I actually did this one before I did the bottle - I just forgot to photograph
it, I guess.

Two cheap little planters from Ikea.
I decided on matching designs, for a change.