Batty Moon - a mixed-media painting on canvas

In the end, I didn't add bats to that sketchbook piece, but I did draw this, using charcoal pencil and normal HB pencil, to get an idea of how the painting might look:



So, using the above sketch and my previous moon painting as inspiration,



I painted this piece, Batty Moon, using acrylics, silvery poster paint, liquid watercolour and blue glitter glue. It depicts a cloud of bats, silhouetted against a bright full moon, in a dark blue night sky:



The dark colours of the sky continue over the sides of the canvas on which this is painted, as do the shimmer of the blue glitter and the bat detail, to give one continuous block of colour. This means that this piece does not need to be framed. This square box canvas measures 15cm square by just under 4cm deep.



Find it for sale here.

New designs - a full moon and a starry necklace

I'm working on a series of artworks at the moment, based on this piece:



Each will have a full moon motif:



Both the above sketchbook piece and square canvas are to have bats on, but the other piece is finished:

One of my favourite sights in the sky is when the moon is full, and the sky is cloudy. When the clouds part, and the moonlight catches on them, it looks magical to me.

This piece depicts a bright full moon in a cloudy, dark blue night sky. It was painted in acrylics, silvery poster paint and liquid watercolour. The colours of the sky continue over the sides of the canvas on which this is painted, to give one continuous block of colour. This means that it does not need to be framed. This small canvas measures 12cm (7") high by 18cm (5") wide:



Find it for sale here.

I've also recently listed a new necklace in my Etsy shop. To create this long chain, I re-assembled a chain from another necklace. I then added the twisted steel wire and pink beads. The pink star beads were repurposed from an old necklace, and the round pink bead was from an old bracelet. The pink star pendant was from a keyring.

The chain itself measures 82cm (about 32.5") long, and the main star pendant measures 3cm (just over 1") high.

Find it for sale here.

New design - a long star necklace

My latest design:



To create this long chain, I re-assembled a beaded chain from another necklace. I then made a star from steel wire and red beads, plus another wire star. I added these, plus two metal flowers, a small metal star and a red glass bead to the chain. The chain itself measures 76cm (about 30") long, and the main star pendant measures 5cm (about 2") high.

It's a great way to look individual, yet still on-trend. This long star necklace is fashionable, yet different to the jewellery you'll find in the shops :)



I also have another star necklace for sale. As the soft suede cord its pendants hang on is adjustable, this one can also be worn long, or adjusted to be worn short. This means that the pendants can be moved around, so that the wire star can sit on top of the plastic star, or so that the two elements are apart, however you want to wear it. Click below to go to its listing:



Don't forget my other necklaces, all of which are also adjustable:



All available at sneddonia.etsy.com

Happy shopping!

Pretty Flowers!

I'm such a girl :D



I love these type of brooches, and I'd had an eye on a few on Etsy for a while. I finally settled on the two above, from the lovely
clothcat.etsy.com and charlottenarunsky.etsy.com

Apart from buying things, I've also started a new job at New Look today. Eeek! No, it was good really :D

Sneddonia Designs at The Starkeeper

I visited a shop in Stourbridge with some of my work today, and they've taken some :) This shop is called The Starkeeper, and sells lovely gifts, jewellery, suncatchers, candles and other things. It even has a fairy section!

The items I've given them include:



Plus items similar to these:

Well that was short and sweet ...

That had to be the shortest unemployment in the history of me. Acme let me go on the first of this month, and I've been offered a job at New Look today :D So I start on Saturday.

In other news, I've done a new design:



I've named it Repurposeful Suncatcher, because almost everything in it has been re-purposed. It measures just over a foot long, and consists of gems and beads hanging from, and held together by, chain and twisted steel wire. The blue glass beads and steel wire are new, but the other components are not. The purple plastic beads were originally part of a bracelet, and the chain and faceted plastic gems were re-purposed from this belt:



It's not available on Etsy, (it's been given to a bricks and mortar shop) but something very similar will be soon. I also have a few other suncatchers similar to it. Click the image to go to those, and my other suncatchers:

The Escape

For the past few days, I've been working on a painting called "The Escape", so called because it depicts a tree escaping from its frame. I'd bought a second-hand frame I bought from a charity shop, and took a while deciding what to do with it. I remembered an idea I'd had for continuing a painting onto its frame, so I made a start:

First I sanded the varnish off the frame:



Then added some woodstain:



After adding a thin coat of blue woodstain, I painted some branches onto the green, using glass outliner:



After painting the piece to go inside this frame:



I then added a trunk onto the green, using glass outliner, and painted a coppery brown within the outliner:



After that I felt that it perhaps needed more blue, to balance out the inside, so I tried a couple of things:



In the end, however, I decided not to add birds or butterflies.

To finish the piece I wrapped some copper wire around the frame to hang it from. The curves and colours of the copper I feel compliment the glass outliner on the frame:



This piece is for sale here on DaWanda.