Concertina book

I used acrylic ink for the outside of the book and Indian Ink for the inside of the book.
The paper was a 140 watercolor paper ...a little bigger that A3 size (half Imperial size)

latest drawings ...ink and pastels

Here are some of my latest drawings. I am starting to experiment with pastel mixed with chinese ink and I am loving it.  

                                             pastel painting on canson paper

                                                      ink and pastel on grass paper

                                                        pastel on collage surface paper

                                    pastel on canson paper

                                                         quick sketch using pastel

                                                     chinese ink on rice paper

                                                    ink and pastel on tracing paper

Vintage japanese kimono shoes tutored by shoes desiger Hetty Rose

These lovely shoes were made from vintage Kimono fabric. It was a 4  days sessions spread in 4 weeks with the fantastic tutor shoes designer Hetty Rose based in London

http://www.hettyrose.co.uk/shoes/kimono-collection/ 

She worked really hard to make sure we understand all the way along the process of making a beautifil pair of vintage kimono fabric. It was my first time ever making a pair of shoes and I enjoyed the whole process from start to finish.


bellow are some samples of vintage kimono fabric left after we all had chosen our fabrics. It was a though decision they all look so lovely.  I was between the orange fabric  with the flowers and cranes or the blue flowering one.

This one was my choice for the shoes...

but I also bought this blue fabric as I couldn't leave it behind...maybe for a next project in the future.

a beautiful  golden pink soft leather for the inside of the shoes...

The yellow plastic shoes lasts, the insoles in between and the paper patterns...

here are the top fabric already saw and trimmed...

and here are the inside of the fabric the leather bit..I am sorry about my sewing I am not very good at it..I did this part in my sewing machine at home as I had to leave earlier that day to pick my child up at the school..I think the sewing machine at the centre would be a better one ..

again the shoes lasts and the soles spread out 

bellow... the edges of the soles with the leather strings all glued up drying out a bit before we stick it together...





leathers attached to the sole  and other bits...

Attaching the fabric to the sole with little metal pins and the shape of the shoes are beginning to take form..

Heals with glue drying out and later attached

drilling the screws to the beautiful shoes to make it strong bonding...

Voila!!!

here are all the lovely shoes made by the group of 14 wonderful ladies..we took a group picture of ourselves but I am not posting this in here without their permission but I am posting their shoes instead...

some delicate ribbons in the back..

ready to go home..Hetty Rose makes everything perfect even a little bag to carry our lovely shoes home with some tissue paper underneath

after 4 weeks my shoes are  finaly home. Now just waiting for a good opportunity to put it on :)

Linha do horizonte - Azymuth

short poses and paper collages

Here are so of my quick pose and pastel collage I did in the last 3 weeks...

 the drawings bellow were made using Canford paper and collage and ink on top also Chinese newspaper, gesso, fabric ink, roller printing, burnt sienna drawing ink, white tissue paper..just experimenting with everything I have in hand...

I also started my collection of different paper surfaces and textures..my favourite ones so far are the Indian and Japanese papers..they are lovely, exciting and so many variety to choose...