Art and crafts blog posts about all things art, crafts and design by Annabel Potter. Includes other artists work as well as Annabel’s and art found during her travels.
Today I’ve a selection of crafters work from Etsy. Click on the photos to go to their shops Jilly has some great sale items, like this Christmas brooch. Her sale ends 1st Dec as does mine. Brenda from Teabreaks has a new collection of cards. I love this poinsetta one Louise Mead has some beautiful …
With Christmas not too far away and many of us trying to keep costs down thought I’d start a series of posts highlighting special offers. Today Zazzle UK are offering 40% off clocks & watches, 24% off anything else until the 17th with code WATCHTHISNOW. Here are a selection of watches for animal loving men …
Every now and then I feel the need to do something different, as my regular readers know! This time I decided on a zebra painting in a semi abstract style, which you may have seen if you’re following me on Instagram. Keeping with glass painting I painted this zebra on a windy plain, streaking the …
The difficult thing with painting on glassware is to stop the paint from running. To prevent this I paint in stages letting the paint dry in between but I’m always up for experimenting! Today I decide to experiment on a chipped bowl, which I can’t sell, and paint quickly without waiting. With gravity the vertical …
My bird paintings are flying out the house lately with a few commissions for birds! It started with this primrose vase and a barn owl. Another customer requested a hummingbird on a bowl Then my most quirky custom order so far has to be for tealight holders with chorister ducks! They loved them, as did …
Had a lovely trip to Dartmoor yesterday, so thought I’d share a few photos. I was there to deliver more of my moorland themed glass paintings to Widecombe in the Moor National Trust gallery. They have a great selection of local crafts, this photo shows just a small area.
I have pots with remnants of glass paint too solid for normal painting. Finally today I got round to using them and had fun scraping out the paint and putting it on plastic packaging to create some recycled art. It’s turning out like an abstract coral reef and with the dried blobs of paint has …
Now I have a space where it doesn’t matter if I get paint everywhere, I decided to experiment with splashing paint onto some kngfisher bowls. I still covered the table however, after all it is a new workshop! It wasn’t as easy as I imagined as the paint didn’t flick off the paint brush that …
This is my cats favourite spot. She spends hours looking through the gap in the blinds, mind you it’s above a radiator too! Her other resting place is the conservatory, a more interesting view to the garden. I’d love to know what she’s watching. Seeing lots of cats gazing through windows inspired my painting below, now …
I came across this great blog, perfect if you missed an exhibition or can’t get there. I love Picasso’s quirky creatures, do take a look at the videos too, they are very short. To mount the blockbuster Picasso Sculpture show, closing February 7, MoMA cleared out Andy, Roy, Jasper, and all the Judds from the …
