Hi, this week on Mushroom Moon designs I have created four 60 second mini how to videos which will be arriving, one each day, over on my socials (Facebook and Instagram). In these videos you can find quick and easy makes for your junk journals including a mini book made of scraps, a collaged journaling …
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This weeks Mushroom Moon Designs Freebie is this lovely Mushroom ephemera sheet! Click on the download link to get your free instant download! mushroom-freebie-may-2ndDownload This Instant Free Download contains one A4 size printable sheet of Mushroom themed ephemera, including 3 French style Champignon vintage labels, 3 Organic mushroom vintage labels, two mushroom bottle images, a …
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This week on Mushroom Moon Designs we are going to be exploring Mushrooms! There are so many amazing mushrooms and fungi in the world and I for one am fascinated by them. I love walking through the woods and spotting a hidden toadstool in the soft Earth or a balcony of mushrooms perched on the …
Aren't old photographs, documents, letters and postcards fascinating? They provide such an intimate snapshot into the life of our ancestors. I for one find it so interesting to see how my grandparents, great grandparents and beyond communicated, what they looked like and what they valued. I love the texture of old, delicate, stained paper. The …
Here is my latest painting based on a photograph of tulips. I enjoyed sitting and painting this in the garden over a few days during quarantine. Here is the photograph I based my painting upon. I didn't use a grid this time to help me draw the image first, I just drew it free hand …
I have been doing a lot more detailed paintings recently, trying to achieve more hyper realistic effect. Here is one of my most recent paintings, it is based on a close up photograph of a grass hopper. Here is the photograph it is based upon: The photograph is by photographer Levon Biss (You can see …
Here are some pictures I have been working on in my own time at home. I have really been trying to be more accurate with my drawing and have used a lot of pencil and pencil crayons, a medium which I always shied away from before. The coloured pencil pictures take around 4-6 hours to …
Over the past few months I have been attending the Blackburn Artists society on Thursday Evenings. Each week we are given a "theme" to work with from chickens to sky scrapers and we've recently been out on location drawing the amateur dramatics society during a live dress rehearsal! I've really loved attending Blackburn artists society …
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Over the past few months things have been very quiet on the blog, so thought I'd do a series of posts updating what I have been doing behind the scenes. I have been focusing on improving my drawing skills over the past few months and have been attending the "Ribble Valley Urban sketchers" and "Blackburn …
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This week I have been busy making these super cute miniature junk journals! Just the right size to pop in your pocket, slip into your handbag or hide under your pillow! These mini treasures measure 13 cm x 8 cm and average around 34 pages. Each journal consists of a soft back cover with pocket …
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