Consequently I have a number of sketch book pages underway. I have posted
a few in various states.
Non of them are anywhere near complete, but it gives you some idea of how I build up these drawings.
A quick list of techniques used here, gum arabic transfer, photo copy/magazine and acrylic transfer, white acrylic paint drawing, indian ink washes, bleached Quink ink, label collage and a sneaky bit of pencil drawing.
It is still all a bit hit and miss, but I am enjoying the challenge.
I particularly like the effect of this stamped and sifted red.
If in doubt hit the sketch book, I have been trying to find a way to include the moths into my
beetle work. I want to create a homage to the museum collections of insects, particularly the Hope Entomology Collection in the Natural History Museum, Oxford which I am going to take a closer look at later this month.
In the meantime the magazine, Cloth.Paper.Scissors has included the moth collagraph house in their readers challenge 'home sweet home' in the Nov/Dec issue. I called it a light house!! Get it?
This set of teaspoons will be at Nature in Art, Gloucestershire in their Contemporary Craft Exhibition. www.nature-in-art.org.uk 
And this spoon and fork set will be at the Twenty Twenty Gallery, Much Wenlock for their Christmas show. www.twenty-twenty.co.uk
In the mean time I am still working in my sketch book.
I have been filling up the pages of my sketch book
with these incredible creatures.
These drawings have been a starting point
for more enamel experiments.
The beetles give me an excuse to start using some bright colours.
This collection has been made specifically for them.
So if you missed out on the last set it will be worth popping back to take another look at the exhibition. 
The exhibition continues to the 20th November.
The exhibition Only Words will be on until 20th November at the New Brewery Arts, Cirencester. This is a taster of some of the exhibits, but there is so much more to see.
