Pastel green, fresh and minty

Pastel green beads and lots of stitch, the silver chain stitch is particularly pretty
with this hue of green. This edging was re-used,
or at least I have taken the beads to one side to be re-used into something.  

Lots of shots placed together so they line up in places.

Silver, white and light green. Bit of ashame the decorative stitching 

and some beads were loose on this, 

could have just re-used it as it was on some tunic or dress.

Peices of emulsion 'rock' forms

These kind of look tasty from a distance (if colourful things had food like taste to them),

but they don't smell of anything and feel very chalky - no surprise as I used matt emulsion

paints to make these by pouring emulsion mixed with a little glue onto plastic sheets,

from which the paint pieces then peeled from.  

I define these more as paintings than anything else, their forms are sculptural but their brush like strokes and spills of colours portray the personality of a painting and are reminiscent of colour field painters - with their staining of canvas, where as I have poured colours from tins of emulsion.  

 

 

 

I was hoping to include these in my degree show somehow, preferably making bigger pieces but because of their fragility I decided against it. They are brittle and crumble very easily, even after mixing three parts paint with one part PVA. Needs more experimentation.