Art
f/4 photography collective are a small group of photographers Russell Sherwood, Tim Wilcock, Marcus McAdam and Pascal Bobillon. The group was recently founded on the Isle of Skye and they run a facebook page showcasing some of their extraordinary work. The image below is merely a taster, check out their sites and facebook page at [...]
So you think that all grafitti is vandalism? This looks like art to me.
I was browsing through the photos on Alisa Burke’s site earlier (on this post) and her picture of the 3 shells reminded me of reading many months ago about a process to create a natural colour palette that can be used in any art or craft. I grabbed a picture of the new shoots in [...]
A quickie again today (I’m exhausted) to share with you the work of Meagan Ileana who I came across via the Feeling Stitchy blog. She has such amazing patience and artistic ability. Check out all these tiny stitches… Meagan says: I draw from true moments in relationships and also from bodies. Things I return to: [...]
I came across Irish artist, Anne Ellard’s Sketchbook Project while browsing through Issuu. I just love these silhouette’s she’s created with collage. You can find out more about Anne and view some of her other artwork here and here, or follow her on FaceBook.
Just a couple of bits of news to share with you today, with it being Sunday and with me having spent the day away from home not making anything. Alisa Burke has announced her online sketching class this week to start on Feb 7th. Sign ups are open now for the most reasonable price of [...]
Regular readers may remember a post I made a few weeks ago, Trial by Clay, in which I featured a rough attempt at a clay bird, I’ve since refined the notion and have been merrily creating a range of slightly smaller free standing birds with a simplified design in red and white, the scheme works [...]
Paper fabric is fabric made with layers of paper and other bits and pieces, in this case glitter and threads, covered with a whole layer of tissue paper. I used an old sewing pattern instead of plain tissue paper. All of this is glued in sequence on top of a piece of muslin with watered [...]
Regular readers will realise that there has been something of a focus on gardening, growing, polytunnels and stuff on this blog over the last few months … in fact some might say there has been a general focus on grown stuff, given that I have decided to launch a new site focusing purely on this [...]
Continue reading about Chinese Lanterns, it’s just more GrownStuff
It was about two years ago that someone suggested that I should have a go working with clay when they saw the wood carvings I was turning out, at the time it wasn’t a suggestion I took particularly seriously, not to say that I wasn’t interested I just couldn’t get my head around it as [...]
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