amazing paper animation – so creative
November 26, 2009
design for an aged glass panel
November 26, 2009
Horse Boy
November 25, 2009
At last I watched this documentary. Last night I sat tranfixed as I watched this small boy riding across the Mongolian Step with his father. What an amazing story. The power of shamanism is such a powerful force, this is living testimony. the following is just a short clip
skeletal mass
November 23, 2009
and paper shoes all in a row………….
November 22, 2009
Carol, Carol quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
with silver bells and cockle shells and paper “shoes” all in a row
see more of my paper sculptures HERE
Painting with words – tutorial
November 22, 2009
Sunday what a sunday, the wind is howling and the rain is coming down in sheets, so happy to b e indoors and in the warm. From my window I can see people walking their dogs on the common, looking miserable and wet, not the dogs though they dont seem to mind. I decided I would like to try some new painting effects with Photoshop, and here it is.
Using an image of my daughter Kirsty and her partner Yao I used a paint brush made of their names, some masks and hey presto. Actually it was a piece of cake because I followed a tutorial on adobe ! click here to access.
I love photoshop, but there is much to learn and it does seem overwhelming at times,however playing with all the filters, paint brushes etc and making something pleasing is very satisfying.
Dia de los Muertos
November 21, 2009
Day of the Dead, its passed now, November 1st. Inspired by Moctezuma exhibition at the British Museum.
A day to celebrate the deceased and enjoy their memories. I like this, it s a day when families go to clean up and decorative their ancestors graves, everyone comes out, street vendors selling sugar skulls, music, fiesta, brightly coloured paper ornaments. I picked up a few paper skeletons whilst at the museum, it was really interesting, although it lacked something, cant quite put my finger on it.
Playing around with the images I came up with the following
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kathy dalwood studio blog
November 21, 2009
I came across Kathy’s inspiring blog this morning, sipping my coffee, reading emails, checking through updates etc, as one does, croissant dunking with one hand and tapping with the other. Wonderful creative image this, an idyllic french mademoiselle is being revealed in the cast concrete…….. an extreme hard edge material. Her soft smooth flesh, her alluring smile, the swirling swag of her skirt, the delicate flowers……. all so perfect. There are many like this fully completed and more, I recommend you visit her site, there is much here to inspire
Vivienne Westwood
November 21, 2009
Mmmmmmm I like this, a new purchase I think
The Frog by Hillaire Belloc
November 20, 2009
A priceless ode to Billy Bandyknees – especially for my dear friend Seanpaul whos frogs appear in the image and were my inspiration for this blog
Selected verses from
The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts
- Be kind and tender to the Frog,
- And do not call him names,
- As “Slimy skin,” or “Polly-wog,”
- Or likewise “Ugly James,”
- Or “Gap-a-grin,” or “Toad-gone-wrong,”
- Or “Bill Bandy-knees”:
- The Frog is justly sensitive
- To epithets like these.
- No animal will more repay
- A treatment kind and fair;
- At least so lonely people say
- Who keep a frog (and, by the way,
- They are extremely rare).
by Hillaire Belloc
Mr Kapoor’s work – just in case you don’t get to go see the Anish Kapoor exhibition
November 20, 2009
I sauntered around Anish Kapoor’s exhibition last Sunday at the Royal Academy, London, rather amazed and wowed by the colour and scale of it all. However as the days have gone by, and now its Friday, I cannot seem to get the “red” out of my mind especially the huge leviathan that glides so slowly that you don’t even realise its moving……… Its blood, its pain, anger, anguish, sorrow and oh so SILENT. Is it the pain and suffering in the world that we choose not to notice as we go about sleepwalking in our daily life. Or is the red congealed petroleum jelly / wax/ blood train shaped like a giant loaf of bread really our “daily bread” is this what we are being fed by the media onslaught…….. Oh gosh I could go on with some totally over the top metaphors that would be unprintable here, my creative mind gone wild
Morphing 7
November 19, 2009
this image was part of a morphing series which started out as small eggs, all I could do for a few weeks was to draw these shapes. They were full, ripe, bursting to take on a new life, but frustratingly I could not seem to move. Then one day, I drew them with sprouting life, like seeds germinating, the floodgates opened and the small egg shaped “seeds” grew long tendrils, and gradually morphed into fluid body shapes . Unusually never with heads, just long “searching” tendrils, both male and female forms who nurtured “eggs” of their own,
This time I felt the need to create a tributary, take one of the images into a new direction, chose morphed image no. 7 and these are the results
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Anish Amour
November 18, 2009
Aren’t these magnificent………………. Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy was amazing, only had my iphone to sneak a few pics, they all turned out rubbish, guess its because cameras are not allowed! I thoroughly recommend you go visit the show before it closes in December, it really is quite something.
Anish Amour, originally uploaded by carolg2007.
If you go down to the woods today ……. dream
November 14, 2009
“The greatest achievement was at first, and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities”
James Allen (statesman)
so when you go for a walk in this deep dark woods of the soul, listen………… underfoot things are stirring.
I took creative inspiration from the quote and created this image. Its layered from photographs I have taken in nature, ferns unfurling, grasses swaying, teasels drying in the hot sun and sketches that I drew from my own souls journey .
YOu can see more on this image at http://www.livingenergyhealer.com
Transformation, from 3D to a wall of mosaics
November 11, 2009
Persephone needed to keep moving, she rose from the depths and transformed herself from three dimension to a creative wall design and then a a mosaic design to cover a full wall………….
