creative space . white out

this is my space today! i'm trying out some new ideas/techniques with the pendants + brooches. some of the wood pieces have absolutely beautiful grains that can be highlighted, but some are a little dull. i've used a gesso base on these which works better under a sketch than acrylic as it's chalky rather than plasticy to draw on. i'll coat them with a glue-like medium to 'stick it down'. this coating may also lift the surface a little too.
the last pic is one that i'd almost finished ~ i was was liking how the outlines were working then slipped up with the brush and totally wrecked the whole thing with a blob of blue on the right! o well! am wishing my paints were safer to use ~ am so scared of getting any on my skin with all those cancer warnings on the bottles that it makes me clumsier . . . {how can something you love so much give u cancer??}
i hope to get round to everyone's space in the next couple of days {sorry in advance if i don't straight away} ~ i have my dad and his wife in town and my husband's 40th birthday 'festival' starting tonight!

for more creative spaces, go see kirsty :)