The wildness of tigers in Sumatra and Chinese scroll paintings.
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My Olympic Bid
A retro souvenir tea towel
Unravelling a ball of string
Today’s studio try outs
An afternoon at RCA 2012 show
This is what caught my eye at the RCA Fine Art show. A pile of sherbet or similar sulphur coloured yellow powder. A pile of gold leaf, which seemed alive as it fluttered continuously. Pasticene lumps of meat, packaged in polystyrene and cellophane. One of a few references to analogue technology, a tank full ofContinue reading “An afternoon at RCA 2012 show”
Sixty days after Easter
In 1311, the Pope told everyone Catholic to celebrate Corpus Christi
Muster (River Thames)
[portfolio_slideshow] Photos taken on a Thames walk the day before the Jubilee Flotilla. “A vast range of vessels also plied their trades upon the water. Barges and barks sailed beside chalk-boats; they were joined by small work boats, by pikers, rush-boats, oyster-boats and ferry boats, by whelk-boats and tide boats…. There were boatmen and chalkmen,Continue reading “Muster (River Thames)”
Aquatics centre
The Olympic site is looks like an unfinished airport today. There is a lot of tidying and simplifying to get to the aquatic centre and its surroundings to look like the space age park of the original artists’ impressions. [portfolio_slideshow]
One point perspective in Singing In The Rain
And Fred Astaire dances on the ceiling.
Drizzle
A new piece of work. A cast resin drizzle that could be an abstract gesture made in paint or a fruit coulis styled on an contemporary restaurant plate.
A collection of book covers
I came across this impressive set of book covers collected and photographed by a Flickr photographer, Calsidyrose Just Book Covers, a set by Calsidyrose on Flickr.
Coffee Table TV 