in Italy

I am here

in Asti - Italy.

Our vacation finally went through -yeeaah

blue skies and sunny - we're enjoying this as much as we can.

sunday was the monthly antique market

much better than we had hoped for.

here's a few pics.

lots of great stuff

pretty old marionettes.

here's what's coming home with me

a big old book with lots of pages with cools fonts,

a silver plate and

a huge lot of vintage envelopes and letters.

I'm pretty sure there's enough to share some in the shop too.

have a beautiful day

Tina ❤️❤️❤️

Making Bears

Its been a while since

but I´m working hard on new bears

aiming for a june update

Have a beautiful day

Tina ♥♥♥

They don´t always looks like I see them in my head

this is my worktable

as it looked like earlier

paintings in progress.

Little girls heads - that is

still practicing from the 

Primitive Portraits Class

they don´t always turn out

like I wanted them too.

I guess they decide themselves.

Have a wonderful day

Tina ♥♥♥

Mixed Media Art Book

I´ve been working on a little

Art Book these last couple of days

The base is an old phot album I found at the flea

a long time ago.

This is the first page.

The album was filled with old photos

I pulled them out to use them in the book later.

See the remnants from where the were glue in

using some of my vintage fabric

and old stamps

and a lot of bird images.

I recently found some old book filled with bird drawings

in a second hand store. I´ve been cutting all the image out

of the books, to use them in my art.

(there were tons - I´ve made a few packages with lots of images and

listed them in the shop

if you would like to get your hands on some)

vintage book pages.

And here you can see some of the original

photos from the album.

I´ve incorporated them in my pages.

details

more details

this is the cover in the making

six pages

collaged on front and back

front cover

It ended up being a bird  and nature 

Mixed Media Art Book

I seems to have a crush for the 

natures theme at the moment.

Have a beautoful day my friends

Tina ♥♥♥

ps: a replacement vacation is book

leaving on May 24th

cross my fingers