Oscar´s Portrait

This is going to be a pretty quick post because I´m not happy with the outcome of my Oscar Portrait, but I have to post about it anyway, because this blog  is essentially my journal, and also I´m tired of thinking about this horrible Covid-19 pandemic! I started it before the Jack portrait but I put it aside to make Jack Here which I thought would be much harder, but it actually wasn’t.

I really battled with Oscar, I chose a horrible photo, which really doesn’t do him any justice at all, and it all just went downhill from there. So now Oscar´s face kind of looks like a koala and the fur is so….boring.

Oscar has 2 coats, one for summer and one for winter, here he´s wearing his summer coat.

And here he´s wearing his winter coat 😊

Well, the most important lesson I took from making this portrait was   – Make sure you love the photo that you will be working from and that it truly inspires you. I am currently choosing a photo for my next subject, and this time I’m really thinking about it and taking my time.

Even though I´m not overly pleased with the result I still hang them up on our home office wall, nobody really goes there, except me 🙂

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Handbag

One of my recent finishes is this handbag, I bought the pattern from SOTAK Handmade, its called the Finley Tote. The fabric I bought from Ikea

Must say I was quite daunted by installing the 3 zippers, especially as zippers here in Portugal are in centimeters in increments of 5cm, so I had to adapt them to fit. Amazingly enough, it all came together quite well and looks very professionally done, actually quite a few people found it hard to believe that it was handmade, so Yea me 🙂

It´s a really nice size too, not too big or too small, it´s about 32 x 34 cm.

So this is my go-to handbag at the moment 🙂