Fiona Watts bird-spiration 2: be-birded tray

Fueled by the success of my other bird doodle projects( see http://thefeverishfeltist.blogspot.hu/2013/05/fiona-watts-bird-spiration.html) (and also the fact that I enjoy drawing them) I made a tray for my husband's grandma as a birthday present. I bought a plain wooden tray at the craftshop and used acrylic paint and a permanent marker for the contour and varnish.

I was able to finish this during roughly 1.5 nap-times discounting the varnish. Of course nap-times are subject to variability given the difference between children... so I'd say about 2- 2.5 hours for the whole tray, but I used a hair blow drier to hasten the drying of the paint.:)

I plan to make one for our house as well.

City scape on wood

Another Fiona Watts inspired project...

In her book 365 things to make and do, there is a section that shows readers how to doodle cityscapes.
I took it up a knotch and drew the cityscape on painted wood with a permanent pens (fine and medium) sized tips. I liked the outcome so much that I made a second one with colorful buildings.

Fiona Watt's bird-spiration

I have already blogged about Fiona Watt's great book from Usborne before (http://thefeverishfeltist.blogspot.hu/2012/11/finger-printed-giftcards.html)

and now here are some projects that were inspired by the bird drawings the book teaches.

This is a piece of wood I painted with acrylic paint and drew on with a sharpie type pen. I first drew the birds with a pencil and retraced the lines with a pen and then erased the remaining pencil marks).

The other project is a pencil box for my cousin. Here I painted on the wooden base with acrylic paint, drew the bird shapes in pencil, painted the the birds then using a (fine tipped) permanent marker, I retraced the contour of the birds and drew the faces, wings. Finally, used an acrylic varnish to protect the surface.

Ikea Plyssa Beads: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Coaster

Another  plyssa bead project made by my son! See the others here http://thefeverishfeltist.blogspot.hu/2013/04/more-plyssa-beads-fun-star-wars.html

and here

http://thefeverishfeltist.blogspot.hu/2013/03/angry-birds-coaster-from-ikea-pyssla.html

Now all we need to do is make a girly one for me :)