inchie alphabet

F for feather - of course

one of Ruby's my Rhode Island Hen.

Rusty treasure from the beach

lettering from Vintage postcard

coffee dyed calico

and the most stunning leaf from my red robin shrub

the red brown & rust look fantastic together

G is for Garden...

been out in mine and collected a leaf from a potted palm

my favourite favourite colour

a delicate skeletal dried hydrangea petal

and some tiny buds from a flowering shrub
The fabric is a pretty floral scrap I picked up at the haberdashers.

Background favourite colour again

( the inside of a Hollister bag )

dried gypsopholer I picked when working on a farm in Israel

twenty two years ago...

I pressed it in one of my favourite books

the delightful

In and out of the Garden

by Sara Midda

Ok Ok

I'm doing this back to front !

H is for Hair...

mine to be exact !

kept from my pony tail

cut off aged 11.

I had very golden blonde hair

& my secondary school blazer was bottle green.

I went off wearing green for years

but now

I wear it all the time !

The silk I painted at a craft centre I go to

every year with a bunch of mums

from our village.

The h is from my name labels sewn into school uniform !

and the background

I blew some green ink onto sketch book paper through a straw !

Earlier on I did

I

oh these are teeny !

I joined another challenge here :

http://inchybyinch.blogspot.com/

to create a piece of art in an area of one inch square

We are going through the alphabet and I have joined on letter I

My insect is on watercolour paper stained with inks

the image from a little book of insects

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