I've not had a chance to get on with my 'Layering' sketchbook in recent months so it has been lovely to finally have a flurry of activity and to complete a new section of it - from artichokes to feathers! In a previous blog that I wrote about starting this sketchbook (see here ) I explained how I started with a written mind map (which explored any links to 'layering' that I could think of) followed by 4 pages of those same ideas presented in a visual way. I have already explored the red onion layers so the focus of this blog is on the feather and lampshade images from the same page. I'm convinced that the lampshades were inspired by artichokes so that was my starting point. I used a black Staedtler fineliner pen to draw the artichoke using an image from the internet as a reference point. I machine stitched the card onto some green fabric to represent the colour of the artichoke and then photocopied the image, playing around with the scale and