by Sydney More.
A Golden Butterflyfish.
A tiny watercolour and ink illustration, about 3” in diameter.
It’s a Moray!
The original painting measures about 3” in diameter and was done with watercolours and ink.
A Big Long-Nosed Butterflyfish. One of the many cuties of the sea.
Another 3” diameter painting in watercolour and ink.
A Beaked Butterflyfish. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a butterflyfish I didn’t like the look of.
The original painting is about 3” in diameter and done in watercolours and ink.
A wee illustration of a Pennant Bannerfish, one of a series of small watercolours of tropical fish. The original painting is ink and watercolour, and about 3 inches in diameter.
Soon be be printed into pinback buttons.
Here is a rough watercolour from my sketchbook:
Two Golden Butterflyfish hanging out at home.
Another Mossy sculpture.
This one measures about 3” wide by 3.5” long by 3” tall.
I really love making these. Needle felting is a little like meditation, but with the added excitement of occasionally stabbing yourself.
My recent foray into needle felting has made me look at my gigantic yarn stash in a whole new light.
I had a little length of roving in a beautiful brassy orange and chartreuse colouring, and it reminded me very strongly of moss sporophytes. After I got playing with some of the handspun and roving that I had laying around I made these.
The first little guy is quite small and only measures about 2.5” around and 3.5” in height. It was tricky to work on being so tiny, and I stabbed my fingers quite a bit. I didn’t know this, but piercing one’s finger with a half inch of barbed needle will cause some pretty immediate and gross bruising.
I liked the idea of little needle-felted lumps of moss and dirt and fungus. They are like little glass-less terrariums, and soft.
This one is larger, and measures about 2.5” wide by 4” long by 3.5” high (still pretty tiny!) I included more mushrooms and a little mossy stone. I like the idea of fake rocks made from wool: they are lots of fun to play around with a squeeze.
I’m really happy with the result of these experiments. I’d like to make some more of these and put them under glass. So pretty!
Vanessa Atalanta
Their caterpillars feed on nettles. These were one of my favourite moths as a kid.
This was a little brush and ink sketch (no pencils) that I liked. I coloured it in photoshop real quick so it looked more like a Red Admiral.
3” by 4”, sketchbook and ink
the Orange Birch Bolete has:
pen and ink, watercolour and pencil crayon, 4” by 6”
