knit one

Our y3's are currently knitting! Most of them, having mastered the basics are flying along. As their current study theme is to do with cold places I had the brilliant idea (!) of getting them to knit a bobble hat! It's been a struggle but I think we may be getting there.

Meanwhile on my painting board - 'A Close Finish'. Acrylics on paper, roughly A4 size.
Playing around with my 'new', extremely pared down and simplistic style, to see if I could do more than footy players and folk diving! I would more than welcome any feedback.

cars

Some vehicle based pieces that I've been doing of late. The first is a ceramic bodied old-style racing car. Am really pleased with the deep red colour of the body - I used a terracotta clay. Am just painting up the wooden wheels and axles that will finish it off. I decided not to have a 'driver'.

 

These are a couple of acrylic on paper paintings of one of my all-time favourite cars - a 2CV - pottering through picturesque landscapes. I constantly regret the day I parted with mine!

more finds

Came across a huge outdoor 'jumble sale' in town yesterday. Spotted these and snapped them up - though not too sure what I'm going to do with them! They appear to be gaming pieces. They are metal and the stand works as a small spring, making the horse and rider wobble backwards and forwards. If anyone can shed any light I'd be most grateful. Each piece stands about 5cm (2") tall.

 

The sad thing is that there are only 17 legs and 4 tails between all 5 pieces.

 

 

 

Also bagged a scrabble game with wooden letter tiles that I was going to sell on - but my wife might have nabbed them for jewellery purposes! Interestingly, being a German set the o's and u's have umlauts.

card racers

Had a few moments to play around with some pieces of card and create a simple racing car model. Here's a picture of prototype 1 and 2. Found out that you can 'blow' them along, so you could actually 'race' them using straws (a la blow footy) should you so wish!