Hi Everyone!

Just posted some new Pics, Ive been experimenting with Chalk pastels, There really different than watercolours, 'The Witch and her Cabbages' is from a book called 'The King of Elflands Daughter' by Lord Dunsany, The Witch lives on top of the hill & the little village is called Erl, (in the fields we know) beyond in the distance you can see the peaks of Elfland, The lifeline pic is watercolour & I used a compass to get the patterns, hope you like them Kate x

Hi Everyone,

I just found a great site on the internet for buying all what you need for making cards but recycled & at good price, I've been wanting to make all my cards from recycled card for awhile but couldnt find a good place to get everything from, this site does good deals for bulk buying & even has fully biodigradable see-through sleeves for displaying cards made from corn, It also sells print papers & envelopes, I just recieved my order & its good Quality, the Hammered Ivory card is ideal for handmade cards,

Take a look its www.eco-crafts.co.uk

Kate xxxx

Just posting this again as it went abit pixualated xxxxx

My first faerie sculpture, I used fimo for her body, embroidary thread for her hair & made her dress & wings with organza, beads, feathers & shells, you can see more photo's at www.freerangefaeries.co.uk

My names kate & Ive been painting faeries for about 3 years, I used to collect flower faeries when I was little, then rediscovered my love of faeries when I was about 18 & a friend showed me the Brian Froud pressed faerie journal & Ive been obsessed ever since! I soon had a large collection of Brian Froud books,

I studied art & design at Yorkshire coast college in Scarborough, then went on to gain a degree in fashion & textiles from Liverpool John Moores university where I drove my tutor mad with my faerie obession! filling my sketchbooks with my poor copies of Brian Froud drawings & even a phase were all my fashion designs were on figures that were green with pointy ears!I soon realised the fashion world wasnt for me! but the design & illustration background has helped me alot in my painting & still now one of my favourite things when im doing a painting is deciding what outfit the faeries going to wear!

I didnt start painting my own faeries till I got the book 'The art of Faery' by David Riche, before that I spent many years copying Brian Frouds work, so he's definatly my biggest inspiration, I find I get inspired my loads of things now, all the faerie artist in 'The art of faery' such as Amy Brown,Linda Ravenscroft & Jessica Galbreth, I love the books of Marrion Zimmer Bradley which are so magical & always make me want to paint Goddess pictures. I love the fantasy writer Jack Vance too, his books are full of legends, magic & faerie. Lots of my friends are inspiring too as lots of them remind me of faeries & I just want to paint them!

Once I started painting my own faeries, i was thinking what to do with them so I started making cards, then this turned into faerie notebooks & photo albums & so in 2005 I did my first faerie stall & loved it so much, Ive done quite afew since then & at one of them in Wimslow near Manchester I took my paints & started painting faeries for people there & then, as I discovered I could paint a really quick faerie in about 30mins (my blue faerie & Lilac faerie are quick ones) this was such good fun & hopefully will do another faerie stall soon xxx

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