As I was reading in the garden at lunch, a strange and beautiful insect landed on the edge of my kindle. He was a pert and quirky little fellow, only 0.5cm long, with a tail not unlike a scorpion’s, and entirely lemony-yellow; I first noticed him because of his peculiar stance which was to rock…
We are into 2 weeks into our current job of painting the ceiling above a swimming pool. The first few days involved Graham and I installing and building the bridge, and carrying out what we call “the protection racket”, which is covering and protecting everything that is likely to get splashed with dirty brown liquid when…
Last week on Feb 12th the cranes started flying North, their rasping cries lift the spirits for I know now that Spring must be coming, especially as I hear swarms of tiny bees buzzing in the sun collecting pollen from the flowering remnants of an old box-hedge and from the catkin lanterns high up catching the sun’s…
You may wonder why Graham is peering at the roof through binoculars, well, he is checking his handiwork has been properly carried out, scraping all the moss off each individual tile of course! ( A task that could have been set by Rumpelstiltskin.) I’m sure passers-by think he is quite mad, but when he sets…
As a member of the Metiers d”arts Bergeracois, an association of about 67 artists and artisans, I’ve just completed a small “fresco” for our next group exhibition. The group’s previous touring exhibition was themed “La Bestiaire”, our size limit was and still is anything up to 40 cm square; with 67 different makers, including jewellery…
The annual Cart Race Day has been and gone like a flash, I’m rather late in posting this. It was in late July and Graham has participated in most of them; this year the theme was Kings and Queens, and G chose to be the The King in the Carpark. The beginnings of a great idea,…
Well it’s been over a month since I posted a blog, the days fly past and summer is here. Last year I accidentally dug up some lizard eggs, (here) and found some more the other day in the same place, an earth-filled cavity in the low wall, obviously a favourite spot for Mme Lizard to…
Some more photos from the Basque country. Château Abbadia, completed in 1884, is a neo-gothic building built by the eccentric Eugène Viollet le Duc; he was a scientist who was passionate about the Middle East. The decor was heavily influenced by his many travels to Africa and Arabia. The interior decor is rather similar in…
Last year I bought a mini ipad, principally because a friend taught me how to use an art app on her one. I was lured into buying one by seeing the diversity of ‘tools’ to hand, and the ease with which you can draw and paint, at any time and at any whim. So, having had Ellie’s…
The soap-box cart-race day has been and gone, and I have only just found time to write and show the photos. The theme this year was ‘musicals’ and Graham chose “Springtime for Hitler”, which , strictly speaking is a musical within a musical. The cart’s dimensions and weight have to be kept scrupulously within the…
Firstly here are the links to parts 9 and 10 of the Puppet Challenge, the art still keeps on coming, each one so original, the artists so varied. http://clivehicksjenkins.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/the-puppet-challenge-part-10-phil-stephanie-anna-charlotte-and-janet/ http://clivehicksjenkins.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/the-puppet-challenge-part-9-shellie-leonard-and-the-unknown-claire/ The rest of this blog is going to be rather disjointed, but it’s about our daily lives, so it’s bound to be so. A friend…
Clive Hicks-Jenkins has very kindly devoted a whole post to my efforts for the Puppet Challenge Exhibition; he has edited them nicely to contain the whole conception from start to finish: from the storyboard, through the drawing stage and onward to construction and presentation. I felt compelled to create the storyboard in order to get to know the character,…
This is to show some graphic design work I’ve done. My design work can vary enormously: whole rooms, murals, screens, chandeliers (which Graham makes, although the best chandelier he has made he designed himself, which I will post later), furniture ( ditto), letterheadings and wine labels. Whatever it is, after an initial meeting, I present…
I first posted this pic vertically, a mistake presumably, because I really like the composition and shapes, but on close inspection I find it should be horizontal, never mind I’m posting them both anyway! I have not posted lately because Graham and I have been busy with…
Every year I let the wild flowers self seed in the flowerbeds whilst the perennial summer flowers develop amongst them, once they die off I clear them away, to reveal the summer blooms. This is the view from the kitchen window. The view from my studio: Wildlife : On my daily walks with Meg…
Putting my thoughts about classical music into words.
Lily S. May--Life with Art
sharing the creative process of artist, illustrator, and book lover, Judy Watson
Sharing my work and thoughts....
painting...drawing...making small worlds
Essays on Mathematics and Culture
postcards from the hedge - a blog by Phil Cooper
views from the artist's studio.
ARTIST: oils, watercolours, trompe l'œil and design
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