Art and Crafts

Art and crafts blog posts about all things art, crafts and design by Annabel Potter. Includes other artists work as well as Annabel’s and art found during her travels.

Exhibition

I’ve not exhibited in a gallery exhibition yet, so can’t really tell you the pros and cons. However I do enjoy looking round them. Gloss art in Exeter have just opened a new one displaying work from Devon based artists. I went to their open evening last night and it is definitely worth a visit, …

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Card Making

For the first time I failed to do 2 blogs in a week last week, unless you count reblogging! I do have a good excuse, a customer wanted a pet portrait but she needed it by the end of the week, which gave me 3 days. This was achieved just, I was baking the glass …

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Sunflowers

This weeks theme is sunflowers, inspired by a commission and the fact that I’ve grown some from seed. Last year I had a monster sunflower: As you can imagine this produced a lot of seed. Some went to the birds and I planted a few seeds but to my dismay 3 of the young plants …

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Crafty ups and downs

So that I don’t miss my target of 2-3 blogs a week here is a short one. I’ve called this post ‘Crafty ups and downs’ because there are bound to be some! Since my last blog I’ve made new listings on both Folksy (made to order hand painted photo frames) and Etsy (flower champagne glasses), …

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