Monday, 16 November 2009

The Olde Abbey has stained glass


Working 13 days in a row has left me with no time to make minis, but I did manage to have a little play around with the glass paints for some of the Olde Abbey's stained glass windows. For the top window, I used a picture of a real church window as my template and placed it under my acetate. I then drew around the outline with a black outliner glazing pen and filled in the design with my own colours, which I mixed up from red, yellow and blue glass paints. The large window is going to take some planning, as I want it to be really impressive, but for now, I have leant some 'leaded' glass against the middle section of the window.




For the side windows, I used the same outliner pen to draw the lines of 'lead' and then made up a slightly mustardy yellow colour to gently 'wash' over the windows. I was pleased with the way it  turned out, as it looks as if the glass is really old.



I also did a bit of work on the roof and subjected it to some lichen and moss!!
Oh, and we have grass!!

Julia :0) xx







Thursday, 12 November 2009

I won a give away :0)

I just had to pop a little post on and share my wonderful news.
I am one of those people who never wins anything, but enters just in case!! Well, I just quickly popped on the computor to list a couple of things on Ebay and I had an email from Teresa at http://minimadwoman.blogspot.com/

I won

I had entered Teresa's surprise bithday giveaway and her darling cockatoo, Bijou picked my name as the winner. So a huge thankyou to Teresa and Bijou and I hope you have a wonderful birthday on saturday, Teresa :0)

Pop over to Teresa's blog, the link is above,  it is full of wonderful things.

Julia xx

Artisans In miniature have a blog

A quick post to highlight a new blog.

http://artisansinminiature.blogspot.com/

Pop over for a peek at all the lovely work from various miniature artists.
They also have a fab, free downloadable magazine, packed with heaps of great articles and how-to's. Just click the AIM logo on the right of my blog to go stright to their main site.

Monday, 9 November 2009

The Olde Abbey has a roof!!


Work on the Olde Abbey has been slow, but tonight we found time to paint window surrounds and wood stain the roof shingles. All the roof needs now is a bit of moss and the roof will be done. Next, I have to paint the stained glass to go in the windows!