Finally back to my sketchbook

I have been lost in French script and busy designing fabric on Spoonflower, adding things to my etsy shop and blogging on A Scrapbook of Inspiration and For The Love of Old books, and taking photographs.

It's never too early to begin creating Christmas designs.  I have turned this mixed-media design into  prints and fabric, but I am thinking maybe Christmas cards too.

and another,

I must remember to update my sketchbook

A more traditional Father Christmas

more often. Happy creating.

Chandeliers

Creating new art using ephemera or restoring Antique artwork with my digital paintbox is fun. Here I created a chandelier book plate for the inside of books using my original design.




A bit of Jane Austen from a 1917 MANSFIELD PARK





And a bit of Alice in Wonderland



Frances Burnett's MY ROBIN

MY ROBIN

One of my favorite authors, Frances Hodgson Burnett who wrote The Secret Garden also wrote a little book called MY ROBIN.



I have been lost in restoring these Antique prints found inside this wonderful old volume from 1915.



A new passion of mine is restoring Antique artwork from wonderful old books found on the dusty shelves of old book shops. Dusting them off and setting them free to be seen as new repurposed artwork is my new passion.