It’s my daughter Lola’s leaving ball next week, and she decided to make a hundred origami water lilies to hold sweets and goodies at the school tables.
She finished making the hundred tiny folded cups (plus one spare) this morning, and put them on the ironing board, which happens to have a Friesian cow hide pattern.
The [...]
A couple of years back, I was having a good old moan about The National Portrait Gallery website, and its pathetically small images.
The good news is that The NPG site has had a complete makeover recently, and you can find large versions of just about all their stock of images. That’s only a part [...]
A group exhibition in Paris at the Palais de Tokyo, shows this work by Daniel Firman called ‘Wursa, 18,000 kilometers from Earth’.
(You MUST Click the picture!)
Firmin’s calculations establish that an elephant could balance on the tip of its trunk at 18,00 kilometers from the Earth, though it’s motivations for doing so remain enigmatic to [...]
Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published.
This chapter deals with Alfred Junge (1886 – 1964)
‘Asked by friends or relations: “What will you be when you grow up?” my answer was invariably: “I’ll be an artist or a Kaiser.” When the [...]
The fourth snow themed painting in this series is by a favourite of mine, the Danish artist Peder Mork Mønsted, who lived a long and fruitful life as a painter from 1859 to 1941.
This canvas dates from 1918, and goes to show that a snow scene does not necessarily have to be rendered in blues. [...]
The work of Rowland Hilder (1905 – 1993) is held up for your admiration in this snow scene, #3 in the advent series.
The painting is from an advertisement for beer, and it’s titled ” Whitbread Stout at the Cross Keys Inn”
Please click the thumbnail to see a bigger version.
I swiped this mini-bio from the Kings [...]
Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published.
This chapter deals with John Howell.
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Fame Is The Spur was Honor Blackman’s first screen appearance.
John Howells started his long cinematic career in the 1930’s. After the second world war he [...]
I must be a bit slow. After months of almost daily visits to see Luc Desmarchelier’s blog Ushuaia, and admiring the beautiful concept artwork he created for Dreamworks’ feature films, I discover I had not noticed a link in the sidebar to a blog called Harmattan.
If I remember rightly, that’s the name of a very [...]
This amazing series of prints by Emily Allchurch turned up on Art Knowledge News recently, and I was immediately captivated by the mixture of wit and seriousness behind these large backlit prints.
They are based on Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s (1720-78) famous series, Carceri d’Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), first published 1749-50, and give us a sharp reminder of [...]
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