I love Christmas and the holiday whizzes by so quickly, but the New Year leaves me feeling a bit
panicky about starting again.
So December the 31st found me in the shed drawing and planning a big project.
These sketch book doodles are a plan for an enamelled concertina book,
it will be about the Oxford Natural History Museum and will be about 6ins x 9ins.
The plan is to make it in enamelled steel with screen printed transfers and drawing.
I can't wait to get started with the metal cutters.
Happy New Year to you all, lets hope it is a busy one!
I am still trying out different ways of working in enamel using this concertina book form as a vehicle for my experiments.
I have used my own photographs of early entomological collections making them into enamel transfers.
Then I have sand blasted label shapes and beetles into the enamel surface.
cutting and enamelling steel to make this concertina book about the
Oxford University Museum of Natural History. My dilemma now is, do I 
enamel the end boards or leave them in bare steel to let them rust?
So December the 31st found me in the shed drawing and planning a big project.
These sketch book doodles are a plan for an enamelled concertina book,
it will be about the Oxford Natural History Museum and will be about 6ins x 9ins.
The plan is to make it in enamelled steel with screen printed transfers and drawing.
I can't wait to get started with the metal cutters.
