After a brief hiatus I am back and ready to be creative once again! It's that time of year when my age turns to another number I'd rather forget about!
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| Cake from the Boys |
I recently visited
Kew Gardens (not very far from where I live). I was very impressed by
The Temple of the Imagination - or rather the metal flowers adorning it! I would really like this at the bottom of my garden with the addition of some lockable doors so no one could disturb me!
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| The Temple of the Imagination (photos J.Hannah 2010) |
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| The Temple of the Imagination (Kew Gardens) |
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| The Temple of the Imagination (Kew Gardens) |
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| The Temple of the Imagination (Kew Gardens) |
These remind me that I have quite a large collection of Silver leaves I made a while ago out of Precious Metal Clay. I still haven't got around to doing anything with them!
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| Some of my Pure Silver Leaves |
I particularly like anything forged out of metal at the moment as I have been learning how to use a jewellers saw and how to create pierced and cut pieces. I am getting through a lot of blades...it's not easy! One wrong move and PING - snapped!.
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My Saw with a surprisingly unbroken Blade (for now) & work in progress
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Now in praise of people with real artistic talent! I recently commissioned a Pastel drawing by Artist
Sarah James of three dogs from my childhood. It was a gift for my Mother and it was nice to have a picture of all three dogs sitting within the same frame! This never happend in life. Sarah only had the most awful pre-digital photos to work from and did a magnificent job.
More interestingly if you visit
Sarah's Blog you can see the process by which an Artist creates a piece of work - from rough sketch through to finishing touches. It's fascinating to see an Artist's "Work in Progress".
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| The Dogs by Sarah James |
Finally - if you have a Twitter account please feel free to click on the Tweet button at the top of this post. It took me ages to figure out how to install it! xxx
