Thanks for your well wishes regards my eye everyone. It really is getting better, a little itchy still but I am back to being able to work on something for more than 5 minutes at a time. I've been working on personal and 'real' work these last few days. Real work meaning I get paid for it so I can fund my personal work.
My favourite media I love working with right now are fabric, paper and ink. I enjoy working with each of these separately but I am having fun combining all 3.
Here is the paper illustration I am contributing to the paper quilt project. The theme for January is/was 'A day in my life". I was going to illustrate the mess on my desk, the mess in the kitchen, the mess on the couch that is a so called 'cubby house', the mess in my car and the piles of linen stacked high on our bedroom floor awaiting for the new cupboard to be installed. But the format was too small, not enough paper to illustrate all of this usual mayhem. So I decided to illustrate my very dry garden. Water restrictions here mean we can only use buckets to water and only during certain hours on certain days, It is a very arduous chore. 
I also made this. A friend of mine came for a visit and she popped an idea into my head. The 2 on the left are illustrations and the illustration on the right is made with fabrics and stretched onto a canvas frame.
Your collage is just wonderful...how exciting to be part of the quilt project...and I'm loving the work with fabric,paper and ink!
Posted by: mariannealice | 02/03/2007 at 07:27
There we have two more gorgeous illustrations...I love the line drawings...can I embroider these? Just joking :)
Posted by: simple me | 20/02/2007 at 21:00
lovely lovely work - im also doing the paper quilt project (march). Really like the dry grass stems!!
Posted by: julie | 17/02/2007 at 22:32
love the art, congrats! i felt so inspired about the idea of the colors that i started my own color sketchbook, its a nice way of study the colors and the how to apply them...thanks
Posted by: Miguel Tanco | 14/02/2007 at 05:58
oh my! Pirate Perch is adorable! the canvas and the illustrations, just beautiful. happy to hear your eye is improving, and I can totally relate to mess!
Posted by: leesa | 13/02/2007 at 07:33
Oooh, I love, love , love the pirates perch stuff - it is adorable!
Posted by: Melly | 12/02/2007 at 17:41
is that what i think it is??? :) it looks fantastic!!!
Posted by: sarah | 12/02/2007 at 07:49
i like your contribution! i gotta get going on mine...i have an idea but have yet to start executing it.
and i love love love your birds with telescopes.
Posted by: risa | 12/02/2007 at 04:25
I'd never heard of a paper quilt before -- my son loves math quilts, but that's something different all-together... I think we're going to have to make a family paper quilt. Thanks for the inspiring post!
Posted by: Veronique | 12/02/2007 at 03:34
I love the paper quilt square. It seems I am a complete sucker for unusual uses of text and your text grass, well it is just fantastic. As is Pirate's Perch. What I keep coming back to is the telescope - something about it just being there in mid air, the watching. Again, fantastic. And before I sign off - herbally, a tea made from eyebright, cooled and used as a compress cures all manner of eye issues. Soothing, complementary medicine. Be well.
Posted by: Sonya | 12/02/2007 at 03:15
Love your 'word grass' and glad your eye is on the mend - why is it that eye stuff always really really hurts.
Posted by: Ali | 12/02/2007 at 02:39
how wonderful. I bet your letter one would look amazing in fabric too!
Posted by: monica | 12/02/2007 at 00:04
Love the pirate's perch piece. Lovely fabrics and colours I am very partial too. Great idea.
Posted by: Jo | 11/02/2007 at 22:05
Wishing quick (and painless) healing for your eye. You're still able to make amazing art though! Love the appliqued canvas.
Posted by: Jhoanna | 11/02/2007 at 20:51
They look great.
Posted by: Shula | 11/02/2007 at 19:57
Love the pirate's perch pieces - the blue background and white line drawings are beautiful. Good that your eye is feeling better.
Posted by: julie | 11/02/2007 at 19:47
I am glad your eye is improving. Love the picture on the canvas!
Posted by: Kate | 11/02/2007 at 15:01