Random Project

I submitted this image for the Random Project The information is on the website but you email the number you want from 1 to 100 and they will send you a word. You then produce a post card image. My word was STAGE and I decided the world was a stage.

Casapueblo

It may seem as though my holiday was all to do with art but I was just lucky enough to be going to places that had some really interesting work to look at.

Casapueblo is a museum studio of the artist Carlos Paez Vilaro. This is the Carlos with his

friend Picasso in 1957.

This is the Casapueblo museum and studio that Carlos built by hand with the help of local fishermen. It sits on the cliff side at Punta Ballena in Uruguay.

These are the most recent paintings by Carlos. He is now 89 and still paints at Casapueblo, he was actually there when we went but unfortunately we did not see him.

La Boca

This colourful street in Buenos Aires was in the La Boca area. I had read about this area and really wanted to visit it. There was a lovely atmosphere with street artist showing off their tango skills, outdoor restaurants with live music and tourist type shops. La Boca is also known as the artist area and there was some really interesting work to be seen. We liked quite a lot of the work and decided to buy one of the limited dry point prints shown below.

Christmas is coming

I was chosen to create an image for Its a shape Christmas and given the shape hexagon. This is the image I created but I do not know which date on their advent calendar it will appear

Own your own colour

I bought this colour in memory of my sister and its for a great cause, have a look at the website

http://www.ownacolour.com

It tells you what your donation will buy when you get to the donating stage.

Finished Sculpture

At last my sculpture created in memory of my lovely sister Carol is complete.

There is a reason for every item used.

When I saw the tall slim vase I thought of Carol.

The balti pan was because she always loved a good curry.

The willow pattern was because she use to buy me bits of willow pattern she found in junk shops.

Carol would have found it funny that I gave her big feet as she had large feet and found flip flops the most comfortable things to wear and if they had a bit of bling even better.

The necklace was a bracelet she persuaded me to buy in a supermarket in France.

This leads me onto her earing which is a small key from her house in France and its on her left ear as Carol was left handed.

Carol always wore glasses and seemed to always peer over the top.

Finally the rose is a link to me.

Bric a Brac Character Developing Stage

It's amazing what you can create out of a balti pan. I didn't think I would get this far with the project so soon. The watch eye is still working but for how long I don't know!

The next stage will be tricky... will the weight of the pan tip over the sculpture when I secure it in the vase?