Cotton Bag: Coffee for Two

This is a special bag, done for a charity coffee morning. It's based on "Coffee For Two" - can you tell which version?

Cotton Bag: Poppies

Who'd have thought it, eh? Poppies on a cotton bag... it just had to be done. No hill, no sky, but still it turned out a little more complex than my initial idea. That's the trouble with including backgrounds, y'see.

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Cotton Bag: Driverwolf *Special*

This is a special bag, made as a raffle prize for the Driverwolf Quiz Night at Kingsclere Primary School in September. Driverwolf are a British Formula 1 Sidecar racing team (as in motorbike and sidecar). The guy at the back - he's the passenger, although his role is anything but static - is a friend. Which is why I did this bag.

                                                                                       
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Cotton Bags: Two more Lego Minifigures

Two Lego figures for the petrolheads; here are the Biker, and the Champion Racing Car Driver, rendered on cotton bags.

Another motor-related bag is right ahead of you...

Cotton Bag: Eager Companions

This is a "special", done on request for a friend, who has a friend, who dotes on her pets. Well, soon she will have her pets on a tote...

Cotton Bag: Red Admiral

I feel that I've been neglecting the "real" butterflies. Here's one familiar to many - the Red Admiral. This large, distinctive butterfly is a summer migrant to Britain; its favourite food is nettles.
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Cotton Bags: 2 Lego Minifigures

Apparently there was a tennis thingummybob on today, but I think my tennis player is the wrong gender. The fellow in blue - well, he was Brick Bond in a former painting. I suppose he still is; he's just changed his waistcoat. And maybe he's watching the tennis. The lady has been painted but this was done straight from the figure.

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Cotton Bags: About

I dread to think quite how many cotton bags I have decorated over the last few weeks. It's been fun - more akin to craft than art at times, perhaps, but that doesn't really matter. Anyway, as Oscar Wilde once inferred, if it's useful, it can't be art.

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Cotton Bag: Yin Yang Dragons 2

And here is the second of my attempts to twist these flexible fellows into the Taoist symbol for light and dark. I wasn't quite satisfied with the first one; while it did work, it had too much space in it. This time, the dragons (a different pair) are trying really hard - you can see that they are both having to hold their tails in place!

Cotton Bag: Yin Yang Dragons

I had thought that I had done with the dragons for a while (they're great fun to draw and noodling with the Celtic-style knotwork and borders was fun, too, but after a while you just need to do something else...) but then I had the idea of using the dragons' vaguely comma-like shapes to make a yin-yang symbol. Or something rather like it.

Cotton Bag: Dragon Knot 2

Here's another tangled dragon, a development on the dragon knot design. I thought it was going to be the last - for now - but I had a new idea for the dragons.

Watch this space blog...

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Three Cotton Bags: Five Dragons

Double trouble! These two dragons are rather tangled up in the single strand border... maybe they ate the other strand(s)?

Cotton Bag: Dragon Knot

It looks happy enough, but this dragon seems to have got a bit tied up in the border - maybe it's pretending to be part of the border. Whether it's lying in wait or hiding from someone (or something), I wouldn't like to say.

Cotton Bag: Red and black dragon, entwined in Celtic border

Is this one more gothicky?

Cotton Bags: Ice and fire, together, with glitter

I added a spot of glitter to the fire dragon, and here it is with its deadly rival, the ice dragon.

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Cotton Bag: Black Spiral Dragon

More glitter! This started off as a gothic dragon - all black and purple and red - but then I added some yellow and orange in the background to enhance the contrast and I wasn't quite so sure about the description. "Black" will do.

Cotton Bag: Celtic Ice Dragon

If there's a fire dragon, it's perfectly reasonable to expect there to be an ice dragon.So here it is. I'm not sure that you can tell from the main photograph, but I added some glitter to enhance the icy effect - and because the glitter fabric paints I had ordered arrived in the post yesterday. It might be easier to see in this oblique close-up:

Cotton Bag: Celtic Fire Dragon

Everybody knows that dragons (sometimes) breathe fire. This one certainly does! I think it might be a bit annoyed that it's got its tail caught in the loop of the Celtic border, actually.

Cotton Bag: Blue Spiral Celtic Dragon

The second stage in the (r)evolution of the spiral dragon design. This fellow is largely done in ordinary wax crayons - apart from the paler green background, which is fabric wax crayon simply because I liked the colour better. I added a few loops to the border to make it more interesting.

Cotton Bag: Spiral Celtic Dragon

The dragon has got longer and acquired wings... he's also moved out of the butterfly house and into a circle (or should that be a disc?). I have plans to sell these bags at a local fete and it occurred to me that the butterflies might be ever so slightly challenging to the masculinity of some potential customers (and other customers might just prefer a disc). Plus, it's always nice to try new ideas out. This one might (r)evolve a little over the next few iterations.

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