Bathroom Floorcloth

This bathroom floorcloth was designed to complement, not compete with or copy the sculpted tiles work around the shower bath and some other areas in the room.

I enjoyed using multiple glazes and loose, painterly effects on the waves. When a floorcloth can be painted no my work tables, (when it fits) I can have a lot of scope with the paint, more than when its painted vertically.

Seashore Pillows Made up

Here they are!

Seashore Pillows Finished

Here is the final pillow in this project, the crab. And the stripe fabric is for the rope piping. It will be cut into 4 narrower strips for that.


I also did some more work on the turtle and the seahorse today, depening the shadows, especially on the seahorse, which was looking a bit flat.




And here is the crab. He is a fine fellow. Or lady.

Seashore Pillows

This is what I am working on now. Four pillows depicting sea shore animals, some on land some from the water, and some that go back and forth! The fourth one, not finished
yet, and not shown here, is a crab.
The backs are stripped fabric, and there will be a fat, fabric covered piping around each one.































The pillows are commissioned based on a group of pillows I did some years ago. Its sort of hard, and then sort of easier to match previous work...in some ways, the new ones are much better. I like to think my skills improve...but the originals were very good too. Not requested this time around are the gull, the hogfish (wrass) and the view of the birds' feet on the sand. Have you ever seen how seabirds often stand on their own feet, and have trouble getting going walking from that pose? Pretty funny.

Underwater Seashell Pillows

Here is the next batch of fabric for the next batch of pillows....

The theme is seashells, and based on the colours in floor and cushion fabric, ''underwater'' seemed a good place to put them....
Here you can see the tile and fabric sample I have to work from. (Actually, the fabric isn't really as brown as it looks in this picture...)

See the ''eyes" inside the clam??

These pillows are going to go on an outdoor, covered, screened in porch.

Bird Pillows Made Up

Twentyone pillows all sewn up and ready for delivery! A satisfying accomplishment.Well, there they all are, lots of them!

Click on this, and the pictures below, to see larger.



Many of the geometric patterns I had intended for backs of bird pillows turned out so well, I made them into fronts too, and painted subsequent simpler backs for them. These geometric pillows make very good complimentary, or accessory pillows for the more elaborate feature pillows. (ie: birds, in this case.)


For now......Bye Bye Birdie. Next project? A few pieces of fabric yardage to replenish my inventory.....