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Cross Stitch Art
Jun. 12th, 2020 09:20 amThis popped up in my twitter feed today: Cross stitch mural by Ana Martins. Just so cool.
A Week of Skulls
Jun. 25th, 2017 05:03 pmMonday
Bookish...
( check the titles )
Tuesday
Preparations (tiny sketch)
( sketch )
Wednesday
Embroidered sample
( embroidery )
Thursday
The things we keep in our lives...
( candle )
Friday's serendipity
Seen in a shop...
( silver skull in dome )
Saturday
Buttons (a homage to Neil Gaiman's "Other Mother" in Coraline)...
( buttoned up skull )
Sunday's serendipity
Found on the side wall of Tesco...
( Grafitti )
Bookish...
( check the titles )
Tuesday
Preparations (tiny sketch)
( sketch )
Wednesday
Embroidered sample
( embroidery )
Thursday
The things we keep in our lives...
( candle )
Friday's serendipity
Seen in a shop...
( silver skull in dome )
Saturday
Buttons (a homage to Neil Gaiman's "Other Mother" in Coraline)...
( buttoned up skull )
Sunday's serendipity
Found on the side wall of Tesco...
( Grafitti )
SkullADay (10 & 11)
Jun. 18th, 2017 12:58 pmSo, after an abortive search for an old piece of calligraphy I did based round the Verlaine "Quatrain" and in a week where I was dealing with arranging translations at work, I fell to thinking about attempting a translation myself.
Et voilà:
That was Tuesday. But all the next day there was something bugging me. Here's the Wednesday amendment:
Reads better, even if "smile" might be seen as weaker (and less accurate) than "laugh".
(Also on Wednesday, I started another knitted skull, which became Saturday's effort.)
Et voilà:
That was Tuesday. But all the next day there was something bugging me. Here's the Wednesday amendment:
Reads better, even if "smile" might be seen as weaker (and less accurate) than "laugh".
(Also on Wednesday, I started another knitted skull, which became Saturday's effort.)
Private Viewing
Jun. 16th, 2017 09:33 amGot an invite to a private viewing of Quentin Blake's work for the Folio Society at what is rapidly becoming my favourite exhibition space: The Heong Gallery. Listened to the Master of Downing and the Production Director of from Folio and Quentin Blake. Bumped into my Tutor from university days (not entirely surprising).
And I drank prosecco and ate posh nibbles.
And the paintings from some of Blake's (does the surname go with great pictures?) Folio collaborations--Don Quixote, Voyages to the Moon and Sun, La Fontaine's Fables, The Golden Ass, Candide, and Riddley Walker--were even better in the flesh than on the page (however great the printed reproductions are [I have Don Q and Riddley Walker (that's my birthday and Xmas present taken care of this year: my copy is number 140) to compare]).
I'd happily pay huge amounts for "Cupid and Venus" and "Pan and Echo"; any picture of Blake's involving a horse is worth serious attention; but, but, but... The Riddley Walker illustrations are masterful. There are a series--I think it's "Goodparly and Orfing sitting...", "Bernt Arse dogs....", "Riddley walking with the dogs...", "Rightway and Deaper set off....", and "Riddley walking off..."--which have a quite shallow, landscape orientation, all with a primarily monochrome colour scheme, but (as a hugely-perceptive fellow viewer pointed out) each with a single accent colour, and they are mind-blowing.
And I drank prosecco and ate posh nibbles.
And the paintings from some of Blake's (does the surname go with great pictures?) Folio collaborations--Don Quixote, Voyages to the Moon and Sun, La Fontaine's Fables, The Golden Ass, Candide, and Riddley Walker--were even better in the flesh than on the page (however great the printed reproductions are [I have Don Q and Riddley Walker (that's my birthday and Xmas present taken care of this year: my copy is number 140) to compare]).
I'd happily pay huge amounts for "Cupid and Venus" and "Pan and Echo"; any picture of Blake's involving a horse is worth serious attention; but, but, but... The Riddley Walker illustrations are masterful. There are a series--I think it's "Goodparly and Orfing sitting...", "Bernt Arse dogs....", "Riddley walking with the dogs...", "Rightway and Deaper set off....", and "Riddley walking off..."--which have a quite shallow, landscape orientation, all with a primarily monochrome colour scheme, but (as a hugely-perceptive fellow viewer pointed out) each with a single accent colour, and they are mind-blowing.
Skull a Day (2)
Jun. 5th, 2017 10:21 pmLittle time today, so I grabbed what I could from my desk. Plenty of different hardnesses of pencil and some graph paper:
If you stand ...
Jul. 14th, 2007 12:42 am... in the Hayward Gallery on the far side of Hatch and peer through exactly the right endoscopic tube, providing one of the current pair of indwellers doesn't block the way, you can see through its entrance on the opposite side, through the doorways into and out of Drawn, through the gallery, out across the sculpture terrace to one of the watchers of Event Horizon neatly framed in the square of the peephole.
Glorious serendipitous magic.
Thank you Antony Gormley.
