Monthly Archives: March 2010

29 Mar

Living Jade; the pea family visits the Orchid Show

Living Jade; the pea family visits the Orchid Show

It is certainly not everyday that one sees a flower with petals in such a hue. The stems are equally enchanting in a vibrant spectrum of purple, lilac, lavender and blue all melting into each other.

 
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27 Mar

compelled to make marks: Ingres; Line

compelled to make marks: Ingres; Line

The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings.

 
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25 Mar

compelled to make marks: a classical perspective

compelled to make marks: a classical perspective

I’ve been thinking on the question of what compels me to draw. This has led to questioning what has moved other artists to pick up …

 
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21 Mar

Faces of the wild : Robert E Fuller

Faces of the wild : Robert E Fuller

There is something truly engaging in the visual rendering, or articulation, of living things by a human hand.

 
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20 Mar

Alisa Andrasek: Biothing; the curve and the built

Alisa Andrasek: Biothing; the curve and the built

Andrasek’s practice works under the studio title ‘Biothing’ in which embodied feelings are entwined with abstract relationships. The creation of ideas for Biothing are based on this relationship and harnessed by the use of digitally generated diagrams.

 
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18 Mar

Christian Fletcher: the Australian Landscape

Christian Fletcher: the Australian Landscape

Christian Fletcher‘s photograph has been on my wall for some days now, exhibited in the 2009 Australian Professional Photography Awards and recipient of the gold …

 
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17 Mar

Pietre dura vignette

Pietre dura vignette

a duck in inlaid malachite, marble and other semi-precious stones

 
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16 Mar

Scarpelli Mosaici

Scarpelli Mosaici

Boxes of stones lie awaiting placement, sometimes sitting for years on the workshop walls until such time as they will be called upon to provide the right shade of shadow on a lemon, or the right tone of pink on a cheek.

 
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13 Mar

Manufacture des Gobelins

Manufacture des Gobelins

Here are some detailed views of the tapestry Cupid and Psyche, woven at Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris and hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, …

 
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12 Mar

Jacob Hashimoto: Armory Show 2010

Jacob Hashimoto: Armory Show 2010

Constructed with techniques used for handcrafting kites, they are made from bamboo, natural-tone rice and silk papers. These are dipped in acrylic polymer and then strung together.

 
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