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?

Bric a Brac Next Stage

The next part of this project was to attach the vase to some feet in flip flops. I wired up the base of the vase, made the feet and flip flop template out of polystyrene and wire then began to sculpture in cement. I have put sand inside the vase and I am keeping my fingers crossed that the cement does not expand too much and break the vase.

I am working on the balti pan while this dries out slowly and will put it together next week.

Bric a Brac

These are the start of my new project...a follow on from Bert. The vase was from a car boot sale, the copper pipe from my son in laws garage and the balti dish from a junk shop. I got the copper pipe riveted onto the balti dish as I haven't the equipment to do it myself. I have had a really enjoyable day turning this junk into a soon to be treasured piece of artwork. Lets hope the finished piece turns out as the image I have in my head.I have also bought myself 12.5kg of air dryed clay which I intend to sculpture as part of this piece.

A Different Way of Illustrating

Went to see Louise Gardiner's work at Quarry Bank Mill in Style today. She had some lovely pieces of work, I particularly liked her illustrative work. The very decorative pieces were very accomplished embroidery but were too complicated for my liking. I like work to have a sense of fun which I think these two images have.
Lousie's sketchbook was beautiful and very spontaneous. The exhibition finishes 10th Sept but she has her work on http://www.lougardiner.co.uk