Shifting Gears Shawl Design by Deby Lake

Shifting Gears is a Crescent Shape Shawl worked with 2 different long striping yarns to create this stunning use of color. Featuring a beautiful scalloped loop cast on, 2x2 Fair Isle knitting, short rows, and an I-Cord bind off. 
Model is shown using Louisa Harding Amitola colors 113 (2 balls) and 114 (1 ball).

If using Louisa Harding Amitola, you will need 2 balls of one color and 1 of another. 
All others, you will need 100gms of each.

Make sure to use a LONG stripe yarn.

You can find it here on Ravelry

http://www.ravelry.com/designers/o-c-knitiot-designs---deby-lake

Book 2014 - Week 26 - Sketching a Face with Kate Thompson

This week I sketched the face of my daughter. I had her take a picture and then I turned into black and white. I used pencil and charcoal for this. I was so surprised by the outcome. Who knew I could do this!

Life Book 2014 - Week 25 - Reverse Excavation with Effy Wild

 First collage

 then stencils

 then scotch my face and use white wash to fill her in but see through her.

 face

Complete. So Fun!

Life Book 2014 - Week 24 - Bonus: Studio Warm Up with Jane Davenport

I painted the background black, I think it makes everything pop!

Mermaid with Tamara Laporte

 This was such a wonderful class. Love her tangled hair.

Life Book 2014 - Week 23 - Stags, Pattern and Ritual with Tamara Laporte

One of my favorites. Would love to do a whimsical cat this way.

Life Book 2014 - Week 21 - The Wonderful World of Words with Jennibellie

Spray inks, modeling paste, paper flowers. Face was done with copic markers and cut out and put on top of flower.

Life Book 2014 - Week 19 Honouring Your Inner World with Danielle Daniel

Week 18 - Limited Color with Tamara Laporte

We could only use 3 or 4 colors in whatever medium we liked. Someone said she looked like Kate Winslet.

Life Book 2014 - Week 17 - Gratitude and Living in the Now with Tascha Parkinson

I enjoyed this piece. What am I grateful for.......

Life Book 2014 - Week 15 - Quirky Animals with Tamara Laporte

This was a very fun lesson. My bunny reminds me of Elton John with the glasses.

Life Book 2014 - Week 14 - Springtime Journaling Collage Bonus Lesson with Dyan Reaveley

This is one of my favorite classes also. Spray inks, journaling on flowers and using stencils.

Life Book 2014 - Week 13 - Tapping Into Life Book Bonus Lesson with Lesley Riley

 This was an interesting lesson. I photo copied a print onto transfer paper and then heat transferred it onto my page. The socks are from my knitting group. It was called the traveling sock and we all passed the socks around and each person did 2" on the sock in any color they wanted. It was fun.

Life Book 2014 - Week 11 - Tree of Life Bonus Lesson with Tamara Laporte and Gracie Howe

 This is one of my favorite lessons. Love the tree with all the dangles. And the girl on the swing is one of my most cherished so far. I used my copic markers on the girl, watercolor crayons on background and tree. Paint pens on details, and a few stamps for birds and flowers.

Life Book 2014 - Week 10 - Positive Life Connections: Paint Over Collage with Tamara Laporte

 We did collage then picked a persons head and some arms for page. We then had to paint over them.

We

Life Book 2014 - Week 8 - The Joy of Intention with Alena Hennessy

Life Book 2014 - Week 7 - Pop Up Positive with Jane Davenport

I probably will not use this technique much but it was a great learning experience.

 I used a dome cap I had been saving for some art purpose and glued dictionary definition to inside.

 This is the cover of my pop up page. Love collage. I used 2 buttons for closure.

Life Book 2014 - Week 6 - Spray Ink Love with Tamara Laporte

Tamera is one of my favorite multi media artist. I had a love/hate relationship with my spray inks until her lesson.

Life Book 2014 - Week 5 - Sugar Sugar with Marieke Blokland

I absolutley loved this lesson. So Fun!

Life Book 2014 – Week 4 - Be True To You with Kelly Hoernig

This was fun as I do love collage.

Week 3 - Creativity & Play with Carla Sonheim

 This first one is drawing with your eyes closed in one continuous line. After I embellished a bit.

 The first picture you layer small pieces of washi tape all connecting and then tried to figure out what it could be as a picture, well, mine was a donkey. Then the next three you just did paint blobs and then tried to picture what those blobs were shaped as.

 The top 3 pictures were just 3 pieces of paper connected, then we had to make flowers out of them.
The bottom 3 are called found poetry. She gave us a list of words and we had to make little sayings with them.

These are folders we made to hold all the little pieces of art.

Week 2 - Positive Affirmation with Micki Wilde

 Basically used paints and paint pens for this one.

Week 1 Life Book 2014

Week 1 with Tamara Laporte, warm up.

Then we drew an angel, my first face. I show the steps.

 There is collage in the background, then water color crayons on top. I then used Gesso to soften it.

 Spray inks on top and water color crayons for hair. We had to pick a word for the year and I choose Temperance.