Emotion

EIM's keyword this week is Emotion. This painting has continued to impress me with the same intensity as when I first discovered it, aged 14 or 15. Not many things scream emotion like this does.
Also, tomorrow, Nov 3 is Melbourne Cup Day. While I am not complaining about having a paid day off, I am screaming about all the horses that are killed and maimed each year at this race. I would give up this public holiday (and demand they bring back Easter Tuesday and Melbourne Show Day back as public holidays), if they stopped abusing horses.
So here is my arrrrrrrrgh:

Texture

Every Inchie Monday's keyword for this week is Texture. I have a simple inchie display of a couple of textured papers. Simple, but nice, aren't they?

Various Autumn Moods

And it's not even autumn here  :)

For the Diva challenge, which requires leaves this week, I found the perfect background:

Do you know what the leaf is  -  an ad from a real estate agency that was left in my mailbox. The reverse is disgusting with all the contact and show off detail.

Then I just went for it with other tiles. Another autumn look:

The above tiles, as well the Moo below all qualify to make an appearance on Moo Mania & More, where the challenge this fortnight is Autumn Mood.

And here are the other tiles:

Who's done this?

Have you ever had a yogurt mask? I don't think I have. My inchie is having one this week, as that is the homework on Every Inchie Monday - Yogurt.

Munchin

is the tangle to try on Diva Weekly Challenge #239. I am on a grey kick at the moment, trying out Strathmore toned grey artist cards.

Stuff

Finally finished tangling for the calendar I'm preparing as a gift for 2016. Here is the 12th page using Tri-Bee (among other patterns), as per the Diva's weekly challenge:

I adoooooooore quilled keys. Love this week's EIM topic - Key! You should check out Ann Martin's quilled keys here and here. And generally google 'quilled keys' to see what's out there. I've quilled a few real sized ones over time......
'bout time I did some more. This week I have tiny ones:

This fortnight we need to Show Patterns on Moo Mania & More. The most mysterious pattern I know (and it's my favourite by far) is the DNA coil with its chromosomes:

And this piece, approximate size A3 and completely covered in quilling, was inspired by a medieval book cover. I was going to enter it in a show, but decided to stop with the agricultural shows - I've won enough there. I will now start working on some pieces targeting galleries. Gotta progress.

Monty Python lives

As soon as I hear Lumberjack (which is this week's theme on EIM, btw), how can I not start humming "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK....."?
It is also our 9th wedding anniversary today - my inchie collaborator's and mine, which is supposedly ceramic, and that has nothing to do with lumberjacks.

I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK, lah, lah, lah..........


Strathmore Artist Papers ran a product catalogue cover competition for 2016. One of the things I use their smooth paper for is tangling. So I decided to enter a page of tangling, but in quilling. This page is 23cm x 30cm (9" x 12)", and is done in bronze, copper and dark gold 6mm (1/4") quilling paper (like the one in the horn of plenty in the tag below). I don't care if I won't win; at least now I've finally done what I wanted to do for ages - a whole page of zenquilling.

And this is my tag for Tag Tuesday: