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.
This week I’m doing a happy dance! The pain in my hand has finally gone, disappeared as quickly as it came, all very odd but a big relief. I plan to keep doing posts with pictures though and minimize typing. So here are my dragonflies and dolphin, dancing with me! Colorful Lily Pond with Dragonflies …
Since finishing my alphabet challenge my blog posts have reduced, down to about once a month. I definitely want to change this but at the same time need to minimise typing, computer use and paint more. A tricky one as I’m getting pain in my left hand, possibly arthritis but not to be defeated my solution …
Can’t believe it’s a month since I did my last blog post! However I needed a rest after Devon Open studios and had a short break to the beautiful North Devon coast. We were incredibly lucky to have glorious weather with summer temperatures in October! These were taken at Woolacombe. Devon Open Studios wasn’t as …
It’s the first weekend of the open studios event and after a busy time preparing, I was just about ready in time! Had a few frantic moments losing blue tac and some price labels but now feeling relaxed! Here are photos of my set up A very sunny day yesterday kept numbers low I think, …
My cat Lottie was walking on three paws last week. It looked as though she had been bitten or possibly stung by a bee – My ceanothus was in full flower and swarming with bees, although heavy rain and wind has sadly battered the blossom since! She had a small raised bump on her paw …
A caption competition seemed a good idea at the time but with no entries, it obviously wasn’t 😐 No worries, I will write about bits and bobs instead and hopefully something else will interest or inspire you! First up I wanted to share a wonderful way to deter ants from your house. I’d not had …
Here are the first two photos for the caption competition. Please leave your caption suggestions in comments and at the end of May I’ll set up a vote. There will be prizes 🙂 If you’d like me to feature your art work for this caption competition, please do contact me.
So I’ve made it to the end of my animal alphabet challenge. It’s been good and I’ve discovered quite a few animals I’d not heard of and I hope you’ve enjoyed it too! The letter Z gave me little choice, a zebu or zebra. I’ve only painted a miniature zebra before so had a go …
I’ve discovered Zazzle, an on-line print on demand service, so my penultimate letter Y challenge is a few days later than planned! Zazzle is great because you’re able to add your designs to a variety of products without having to keep stock yourself and zazzle does all the posting too. Customers can also customise items …
Hope you’ve all had a good week. We’ve been teased with some lovely warm sunny days, only for it to turn cold again! Mind you it was unseasonally warm, so I guess we’re just back to normal March weather. Since having my cat Lottie she rarely goes out, although I can’t blame her with the …
