..or something.
Just thought I’d show you a few things I’ve been looking at for inspiration:
Anonymous Works is a blog that showcases just what it says on the tin. There is a lot of folk art and lovely bits and pieces that I’m not sure I would see without the blog.
Here are a few favourites:
…and the [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Inspirational Friday
Posted in Artists du Jour, tagged anonymous works, folk art, heart in hand, insipration, masonic, old worn shoe, skull on 22 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »
UK Etsy Swap
Posted in Art Projects, Salt Printing, tagged all those threes, amity, egg, hamsa, pinking shears, salt prints, scissors, uk etsy swap on 18 May, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’ve got involved in a UK Etsy seller’s swap recently. I’ve found that the swaps are a really good way for me to branch out and work on new ideas, plus there’s a deadline, which I really really need.
It also means I can show you some of the salt prints I made and talk about [...]
Part two of Salt Printing an introduction
Posted in Photographs, Salt Printing on 17 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So you’ve prepared your paper, let it dry and now you want to print.
First you need a printing frame which is like a picture frame with a hinged back, or you can use a clip frame (I’ve used both and the printing frame is much easier, but harder to get ahold of, especially in large [...]
Part one of Salt Printing, a brief introduction
Posted in Art Projects, Photographs, Salt Printing, Uncategorized, tagged hake brush, henry fox talbot, hill and adamson, Salt Printing, spirit of salts, traditional processes on 17 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The next part in my Introduction to My Favourite Photographic Processes (see part one here) will look at salt printing.
Salt printing was one of the first way that photographs were printed and was used by Henry Fox Talbot and others of the era (like Hill and Adamson who are worth a look but used other [...]
Great Minds
Posted in Shirt Quilt, Work in Progress, tagged blue, crafting in a green world, granola living, hexagons, inchmark, recycling, Shirt Quilt, shirting on 15 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just saw this post on shirt quilts on the Crafting in a Green World blog and thought it was high time to post an update on my own shirt quilt.
It’s still going, if a little slowly. I got two more shirts from Dad at Christmas, but I hadn’t factored in the design challenges provided by [...]
So much and yet…
Posted in Art Projects, Crochet on 14 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…so little.
I feel like I’ve been away for ages, except I haven’t gone anywhere.
Progress has been a little slow, stuff like having a job I get paid for (however briefly) seems to have sucked all the energy out of me (Excel’ll do that do you). I’m also feeling a little stuck with the whole art [...]
Painting
Posted in Art Projects, tagged hamsa, hand of fatima, hand of miriam, micrography, painting, scar photos on 1 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not a painter, by any stretch of the imagination. In fact my painting tutor (who was known for making people cry in their final assessment, which you had to pass in order to go onto second year) looked at me, sighed and said ‘Well, you turned up to every lesson and you tried all [...]
