Mhoti Studio

Yesterday I spent the day at a workshop hosted by a fellow artist and friend, Wendy Southin of Dragonfly Dreamers  studio.  We were playing with Gelli Plates and making mono-print artwork.We began by creating standard mono-prints on various paper types.  After a lunch break we got down and dirty with making layers on our base prints. I came away with an incredible assortment of art prints that I can add to in future, (they don't LOOK FINISHED yet). But I did get three that I am very pleased to say are done, that is I don't think they need anything else other than to be framed or mounted. I don't have titles for these. They haven't divulged what they want to be called yet. The first one is a yellow-toned study with touches of dark green and metallic copper.  I decided to be a bit brave and work in black white and grey, an odd choice I'm sure the others thought when I started. In the end we were all impressed with how they tur...

Today is Friday the 13th.  Tammy Adams from Paisley Lizard set this blog hop up, made a whole slew of polymer clay pendants and shared them with a group of jewellery artists.  What a sweetie. It is now our mission to make something in keeping with superstitions and to share it on our own blogs as part of this Superstition  Hop Now a lot of people fear the number 13, and especially as a date when it lands on a Friday.  I'm NOT one of them . I have always had very LUCKY Friday 13th's.  In fact it's often one of my luckiest days, a day when things always seem to go right. Some folks don't like black cats. Again I'm NOT one of them, I LOVE black cats, and have shared my home(s) with them since childhood. Ladders ? Don't walk under them something bad will befall you! Mirrors ? Don't break one or 7 years of bad luck will come to you! Spill salt ? throw some more over your shoulder! Step on a crack ? you'll break your mothers back.! superstitions ...

It's here;  it's  BEAD SOUP showtime. This is going to be one GIGANTIC PARTY  Thanks for stopping by to see what I've been up to lately.  Lori Anderson , our fearless leader (there are over 500 of us) assigned us partners in March; we then sent our bead soup mixes to each other and once received, we then spent the interim weeks planning, designing, creating and assembling.  The requirement was to use the focal bead, the clasp , and as many beads as we desired; adding if necessary supplies and beads from our stash (and we all have one), to create a piece of jewellery or art or whatever took our fancy.  (or wherever our muse led us). If this is your first time to my blog , WELCOME!   To save you from having to search through past posts here is a photo of what my partner   Heather d'Entremont sent me and then  photos of the finished piece.  Lots of polymer clay goodies; lava rock beads in three sizes; some crystals; t...

we finally get to reveal our finished projects to the world, well at least to the rest of the Bead soup Group. Nikki sent me some awesome beads and I had this preliminary idea of what I would make.(see photo below) Ha , the best laid plans don't always work out the way we thought they would. I fiddled and diddled and fiddled some more.  BUT I have finished my pieces and I am quite pleased with myself (and them) Here is a reminder of what I received A gorgeous ceramic leaf focal, ceramic/raku  rounds, creamy fossil stone,  large smokey quartz, faceted amethyst,  and a hammered copper toggle clasp. My original idea was to use the layout you see here (above), I thought it made a lovely choker style necklace. That didn't work out so well. Here are the finished results. This first piece used the focal leaf, the fossil stones, ceramic beads and two of the smokey quartz, the copper toggle clasp from Nikki, plus from some brown bumpy glass beads, purple mini c...