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Colour Cottage

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Tag Archives: crafts

Do you facebook?

01 Tuesday Feb 2022

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat

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crafts, intention, social media

  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest

I have to admit that I do, just a little bit, even though I don’t like most of the platform. I don’t like the ads, I don’t like the way I can’t choose to get all posts in chronological order instead of the same few ones more than twice, I never play games or surveys, they don’t have my phone number, there’s no messenger on my phone. I also don’t like how one “must” have a “Page” to get more followers and sales, therefore I suck at both. And yes, I know they are connected to Instagram, which I do like, there’s no black and white.

But my friends are on FB, not here, locally, so if I want to keep up with them it’s a must. So how do I connect the dots? Blogging, newslettering, showing off photos and maybe eventually projects for sale, community, sharing and building more connections, learning.

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Paper mache

25 Wednesday Nov 2020

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Sculpture

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art, crafts, creativity, figurine, papermache, Sculpture

While I’m not done debating what to tell you first from my accidental blogging hiatus, I can see I wrote something last summer about the Alebrijes class I took. Alebrijes are specifically Mexican mythical creatures and I’m not really staying within the confines of that, but the technique I initially worked on comes from that tradition.

So why not round that off by creating a mini exhibition of my first pieces. I’m still working on the subject in fits and starts, multiple ideas on the back burner; but this summer was quite warm aka the past dries too fast and goes mouldy + we had people looking in the windows which I’m not super fond of I must admit. Most of these figures have already been aired on Instagram, so please excuse me if this is a recap for you. Continue reading →

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Alebrijes

09 Tuesday Jul 2019

Posted by Pia in Painting, Show-and-tell

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alebrije, crafts, creativity, inspiration, papier maché, papir, playdate, Sculpture

I’ve been asked to begin blogging again, but all the fiber stuff has been dormant (I put up some old handspun for sale and then forgot to tell anybody…) as I’ve focused on painting, which isn’t our usual focus here, so I’ve been reluctant to share. Today however I’ll tell you about another rabbit hole I fell into. Continue reading →

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Yoga poses with a purpose

27 Wednesday Feb 2019

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat

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crafts, exercise, fitness, intention, link love, wednesday workout

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2019

10 Sunday Feb 2019

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crafts, intention, weather, winter

You don’t know it, but I’ve actually started writing you a number of times, planned photoshoots of what I was up to but then abandoned it all mid-project because I felt it was just more of the usual stuff and so not very exciting? Does it have to be exciting? Continue reading →

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Lake pigments continued

03 Monday Sep 2018

Posted by Pia in Garden, Painting, Pigment, Plant Dyeing, Show-and-tell

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closetohome, colour, crafts, DIY, mordant, nature, plants, primitivepaints, scruffyartsupplies

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Now that I have a small first collection of pigments to play with before new plants can be tested next summer (I do have some old dried things I can try too), there are multiple ways to use them. They need some kind of binder, although I suppose you could just soak them in water. Alcohol? But even watercolours have binders added to add intensity to the colour as well as make it stick to your paper.

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Plant pigment

27 Monday Aug 2018

Posted by Pia in Painting, Pigment, Plant Dyeing, Show-and-tell

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close to home, colour, crafts, DIY, garden, mordant, nature, plants, primitivepaints, scruffyartsupplies, summer

Five years ago I did a brief test of concentrated plant dye baths to see what they were like as watercolours. I didn’t add anything to it as I recall and I’m not sure where my sample is now!

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Paraphernalia

20 Monday Aug 2018

Posted by Pia in Painting, Show-and-tell

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crafts, creativity, DIY, inspiration, papermaking, tools

Didn’t get ready today to show you a full version of my pigment experiment as planned, as I’ve had other things to attend to. So I thought I’d show you my latest finding, a book press which I thought could help me get water out of new paper sheets, rather than stacking cinderblocks on the floor. One way of tackling multiple projects could be doing so as efficiently as possible!

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More on local art supplies

13 Monday Aug 2018

Posted by Pia in Garden, Plant Dyeing, Show-and-tell

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close to home, colour, country life, crafts, DIY, dyeing, mordant, nature, plants

During an investigation into using dry pigments and beeswax for painting rather than oilpaints, which I’m not enjoying, I’d been reading about making lake pigments and thought it would be fun to give it a try. These are pigments from plants as opposed to rock/earth/metal based colours, and since I already had some remedies as well as dried plant materials for dyeing wool, it wasn’t too much trouble to give it a try.

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Monk

06 Friday Jul 2018

Posted by Pia in Show-and-tell, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

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clothing, colourways, cotton, crafts, handwoven, inspiration, weaving drafts, yarn

It’s taken me a long time to write this post, simply because the project never seemed to be quite done. It still isn’t – but now it’s on hold until I make it round to that end of the circle.

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