This week’s new Spoonflower fabric design is Elizabethan Blackwork Knotwork. This black and white fabric is based on the blackwork embroidery visible on an Elizabethan period portrait of Mary Hill. The line weight is balanced so it may be used as printed or embroidered over. This design is also available as wallpaper and wrapping paper.
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This week’s new Spoonflower design is Elizabethan Simple Floral Blackwork Bands. This black and white fabric is based on the blackwork embroidery on an extant Elizabethan coif.
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This week’s Spoonflower fabric print-on-demand design is now available!  This print, Swirly Elizabethan Floral Blackwork, is based on the blackwork embroidery on an extant unfinished Elizabethan coif.  The line weight has been balanced so it may be used as printed or embroidered over. This design is also available as wallpaper and wrapping paper. Find all the
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This week’s Spoonflower fabric print-on-demand design is now available!  This print, Elizabethan Blackwork Barberries, is based on the blackwork embroidery on an extant jacket.  It has no filling design so it may be used as printed or embroidered over. This design is also available as wallpaper and wrapping paper. Find all the currently available designs at http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/sidney_eileen A
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Last weekend I created two new minimalist cat drawings. Here they are for your perusal. Both are drawn in black brush marker on paper.
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The end is finally in sight! This is another entry in the continuing saga of my Elizabethan English style blackwork forhead cloth, embroidered in flat silk on linen. Â The design is my own creation. Â I should have the embroidery done any day now, and then I just need to sew the forehead cloth into an
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I have been wanting to create at least one piece of art for the coming Yule, so in the previous two days, between housecleaning in preparation for a holiday visit, I created “The Longest Night”. It’s a drawing of a stag, representing the horned lord of the forest, pausing in the moonlight on the night of the winter solstice.
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In October I was approached about creating a minimalist painting of a wolf for a tattoo design. The specific concept was a wolf, walking up a hill, pauses to look back over its shoulder at the viewer.
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6″x9″ white pencil on black paper, drawing of a clockwork doll that has seen better days.
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Today I have been working on a drawing featuring a post-apocalyptic neo-bedouin steampunk woman. At least, that’s my main inspiration personally. I could see her in any near-eastern or multicultural steampunk world. Her outfit is inspired by Renaissance faire tribal fusion belly dance wear, with the addition of a few re-purposed machine parts, moccasins, Native American style warrior feathers, and a really big knife.
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