I do play it from time to time, but only for myself these days (I used to play it at gigs, but I’m no longer in a band). Living in an old terraced house, though, I wait until the neighbours both sides are out before doing anything percussive 
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Oh no, I’ll be spending money again after reading that! 
I do fancy trying some sepia ink in the fountain pen at some point as well. Maybe with some very pale watercolour washes?
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Beautiful stitching Sharon, it looks like you took a great deal of time to make it so precise!
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Wow! This thread is amazing! I’m not really a creative person, but I can appreciate beauty when I see it, and the items I see here are truly inspirational! 
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That’s really beautiful work, Marilyn! I have no experience of creating textile artwork myself, but my late Mum was a wizard with a needle and thread and made lots of textile pictures and cushions, many of them Celtic-themed. Incredibly hard wearing. Still gets used every day after all these years. Posting this example in memory.
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Really beautiful work. Perfect patterns of circularity. Well-loved and obviously used.
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Ab Fab! And thanks for posting the video which is fascinatingly revealing.
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Love it! Wish we lived nearer, in case you could be persuaded to part with any of your work. The sort of outdoor sculptures you see for sale in garden centres, I find, are generally not very satisfying. They are certainly not unique, original pieces like yours.
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Wish I lived in Wales. But at least, here in Caerlwytgoed (Lichfield), we have a very friendly, 18-strong Grwp Cymraeg, affiliated to u3a, which meets in a local pub every fortnight for Welsh speakers and learners of all ability levels to chat, learn and socialise. Here’s a watercolour I did back in 2016 of the cathedral.
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wow - that sky is amazing!
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That is beautiful! Do you still paint?
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Most of my sculptures are probably too small to be outdoor sculptures. I might do some more, bigger, outdoor ones at some point, but the bigger they get, the less I trust my judgement with glues!
Here are the two ‘biggest’ so far - Tyfiant and Pwmpen
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Yes, I still paint and draw. And sculpt. Nowadays, I tend to do both digitally, rather than physically. I’ll share a few more watercolours and physical clay sculptures that I’ve done in the past, but I’ll also post things that I’ve done more recently on my iPad as well. I’m more motivated these days by discovering and learning how to do things I haven’t done before, than trying (and failing) to master a previous skill. The learning curve for creating 2D and 3D digital artwork is a steep one, but it’s enormous fun. It’s not better, or worse, than traditional mediums. It simply offers different creative challenges and possibilities.
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I’ll look forward to seeing your work👍
I’ve never seriously tried digital art. Maybe because I sat behind a computer for most of my career, maybe because I still get too much fun from watercolours doing their own thing 
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Thanks. It’s either a sunset, or a bomb going off! I’m pretty happy with the way the cathedral turned out, though it was a complete accident, as is so often the case with watercolours. I was so disappointed with the clumsily silhouetted building I originally painted (which looked horribly ‘stuck on’) that I took out my frustration by nastily attempting to scrub it off the paper. Too late! The pigment stubbornly refused to disappear completely with the result that the cathedral receded mysteriously into the background in a way that I could never have achieved myself. At least, not deliberately. Do take a look, if you get the chance, at the spectacularly illustrated book by the wonderful American artist Nita Engle, appropriately called ‘How to Make a Watercolour Paint Itself’. ‘Utter genius’, thinks the viewer of her work. ‘No’, she honestly says, ‘the effects are usually complete accidents!’.
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‘Tyfiant’ is a good title. For a moment, if it was hung the other way up, I was reminded of ‘Y Nod Cyfrin’, but that’s because my current project is designing a chair for the next Eisteddfod Genedlaethol. No, not a real one for consideration by the selection committee (submission deadline 1 April). Just a 3D artwork project to amuse myself. Bonkers. I know.
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Shh, don’t tell anyone it was a mistake. However you got there, it looks very “Turner-esqe”!
The book looks interesting. I must get hold of a copy. Most of my stuff is really quick line and wash stuff that I can finish within an hour (or even quicker if I’m painting outside).
I did this little view this morning…
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Well it definitely worked! And certainly echoes the SSi ethos of “mistakes are good”!
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That’s lovely Des. I think line and wash is particularly effective for urban architecture like this. My attempts, (many years ago during A level Art - which I failed) were hopeless.
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Thanks Siaron!
I stumbled across a guy called TobySketchLoose on Youtube and his free and easy approach inspired me to get back into sketching again.
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