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Books & Eyes

I've been a busy bee, making these Georgian inspired eye charms.  More of those in a moment though as I've also been messing about with coffee dyeing paper and making swirly patterns with watercolour pencils and oil pastels.  
The coffee dyed paper were pages torn from a sketchpad, and took the colour nicely. I laid stencils over the pages as they were drying, and they took the imprint of the stencil patterns but only delicately.  Perhaps I need to weigh them down a little next time.  

I watched this video while I was eating my bowl of porridge for breakfast, so had a go at making Kandinsky inspired pages afterwards.  
These two won't win any artistic awards, but it was fun to play with colour and there is something genuinely pleasing and calming about just letting your thoughts go and making circles.  
Now, for more of those lover's eye charms.  So much fun to create these! 
I'm planning on making a short YouTube video tomorrow showing the process, so I'm going to do more reading tonight about the history of the real Georgian love charms.  It can't do any harm for me to actually sound like I know what I'm talking about, can it?!!
Before I go, here are four books to add to my dwindling To-Be-Read pile.  All found for 50 pence each from the charity shop.  
Each looks really enjoyable in their different ways.
And finally, here's a treat that the often-baffling YouTube algorhythm threw in my direction. A gentle little film about artists living by the River Thames.  Hope you like it too.  

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