Turtle Study

 Turtles have always been one of my favorite subjects for driftwood art. On my latest piece I started with two great stones -- they were the perfect shape and the green/black color had just the right texture for turtles. I'd been saving a piece of sun bleached driftwood I found a while ago. I thought this was a great size for this project. 

The question was, the composition. I found a few different pieces of driftwood I thought might work and did some rough arrangements. I changed out the driftwood, the placement and the direction of the turtles. See these variations below.

   

And here is the final!

Porch Pillow

 I have a couple new chairs on my screen porch that I made new cushions for this year. The chairs are quite deep so I decided to make a lumbar pillow. I decided on colorful beach huts which I roughed out on some graph paper, selected my thread colors to match the fabric, and started stitching.

It was fun trying to make each of the beach huts unique. Once I finished the beach huts, I added sand, sky and water. I'll keep adding sky and water until I reach the size I want. Stay tuned for finished product!