New Year Sunrise Video
Here is my video of the New Years Sunrise – with added avian content! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RQnIoA6i58] Time lapse animation using 40 photos. It is an unrefined “sketchbook” video!
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Didn’t get far building a sledge yesterday, but walked across the fields with the kids to the village. The snow is blowing across the fields like a sand storm. It is so fine, not like the wet slushy stuff we usually have. On the steepest hill just above the village there are quite a few…
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Snowbound
I had a manic morning finishing a model for a commission entry. Then taking the photos , printing them and putting together the statement, and cv. It is a crafts council competition , the commission is to make a work for a UK official VIP gift at the Shanghai exposition. The entry needs to be…
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New Years Day 2010
It was a beautiful day today. Cold and sunny. I took my family to Westhay nature reserve. It is an area on the Somerset Levels beside lakes and rhynes (pronounced “reens”) where you can walk and watch different water birds coming and going and being. From a distance, we saw geese, swans, coots and cormorants….
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New Years Morning 2010
I was up at dawn to watch the sunrise this morning. I tramped over the field to get some photos. The moon was full. It was very cold, the ground was crunchy with frost. The sky had a muted pink glow and it was gradually brightening. My fingers were numb (wearing my newly acquired fingerless…
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Winter Greetings!
……. and Best Wishes for 2010!
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Christmas Shopping and Serendipidy
I was doing some Christmas shopping yesterday in Exeter, and trying to find a cd for my son. On scanning the aisles, from quite a distance my eye caught onto this cd ( you may have heard that the eye seeks faces in all kinds of surface, but in the eye of a mosaic artist one only seeks…
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More on zellige, zillige, zellij or zillij
There seem to be many ways to spell this Islamic method of making tiles, but perhaps it is correctly spelt zillij. Having researched it a bit more, I was fascinated to find out that once the biscuit fired tiles are cut into shapes , glazed and put together as whole geometric tiles, it doesn’t end there!…
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Space invaders, cake and mosaic
Yesterday it was my son’s 13th birthday. I bought him this “space invaders” wallett. (He is almost too young to remember space invaders, and for anyone reading this who is also too young – it was designed and programmed by Toshira Nishikado for Taito, Japan in 1978 as an arcade game) It seemed pretty cool to find this…
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And now to something more serious
A sneak at something I am working on. This was originally intended for an open BAMM mosaic exhibition that was held in the summer 2009 “Music of the Eye” As you see I still haven’t finished it. I work on it from time to time in between other mosaics I make for exhibitions and commissions. The mosaic is…
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Onions and mosaic
My partner cut up the onions and as he was frying them he told me to take a look as they looked like my birds in “Dawn Breakers. ” Quite a good likeness don’t you think?
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Lions in Bath
Last year I made Prince Ropork for the King Bladud’d Pig project in Bath. This year the project are running a Lion project with similar aims. Full size lion sculptures will be displayed in the summer of 2010. Many will be painted some will be mosaiced. I have my name on the list of artists…