Making glass pieces

Posted on July 2, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Cabochon, Design, Eleanora st, Glass, Glass workshop, Jewellery, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent6 Comments

I went to a glass workshop with my friend Angela Ashton at Spode today. I’ve previously made square or oblong pieces but today I had a go at curving the edges to make round glass cabochons. I was allowed to use a glass grinding machine to create the curves. Then you place coloured glass on top in strips and small pieces. I used some glass with a special shiny sheen, dichromic I think it was called. As you tip it in the light it changes colour.

At the end of the workshop I decided to create a long coloured strip that could be hung up in a window. I’m hoping this will be an interesting piece. I used clear and opaque glass in horizontal layers over the top of a long transparent oblong. Once the coloured pieces were laid on and tacked in place with glue I placed clear glass in vertical strips on top. Each of these will prevent air getting to the glass. When the glass is exposed to high temperatures it can change colour due to chemical reactions including oxidisation. The heat fuses the glass together.

I should get the resulting pieces in a few days. Then I will go back and may make holes in them using a diamond bit drill so they can hang up or be turned into necklaces.

Twins in masks.

Posted on June 30, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Design, Digital art, Flipped photo, Fun, Humour, Life, Mask, Papier mache, Photos, TwinsLeave a comment

Playing with duplicated images, me and my hubby. I want to visualizer us without the clarity of a painted portrait.

Most faces are lopsided, by duplicating and flipping them you can get an interesting mirror image. I used the layout app on my phone to do this.

Anyone who has seem mirrored images of Edgar Allen Poe will see what I mean. He has a very lopsided face, one side stretched and the other side slightly shrunken. When you see his face mirrored on the right then left side it looks like you are looking at two seperate people.

In my case I changed my selfie to black and white, then I drew over it. The second picture had the exposure altered as well. Then I flipped the right hand side top to bottom but not left to right.

Glass window?

Posted on June 28, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Design, Flood fill, Micro poetry, Playing, Poem, Poetry, Stained glassLeave a comment

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I was playing around with a photo of the stained glass windows in the church and came up with this. I sort of like it although I’m not sure the church would. When you use flood fill it causes a loss of details so you can’t see the faces on the image. I chose a rainbow flood fill so could create circles on top of the image.

Circles

curves and angels

winged with colour

flying high.

Art with rainbows

Black reflections,

illuminating and obscuring.

Circular arguments,

simple shapes

scriptural thoughts

saints and sinners,

seperated by glass.

Tiles in the church

Posted on June 28, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Colours, Design, Geometric shapes, Life, Minton, Minton tiles, Tiles2 Comments

Today I got some photos of Minton tiles in St Thomas’s Church penkhull. I’ve got to paint some for the Mystery play so I needed to see the genuine article. I’m hoping I can get a realistic look to them. They are in a scene where they have to be sold to raise money.

What I like are the simple colours, browns, pale ochres, blues and white. The interesting geometric patterns and curves. I may struggle to replicate them. But you have to try!

View

Posted on June 25, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Design, Environment, Garden, Life, Plants, Trees, View, WindowLeave a comment

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Looked out of a friends window at the weekend. I decided to take a photo. I love the delicate frame with thin wooden sections to allow more light in. Shrubs and perennials surround a neat lawn. Mature trees grow up on the boundaries of the property. The large spiky leaved plant is Gunnera I think.

I’d like such a beautiful view (apart from the cars). I would love such a beautiful house. It will never happen though. I could never afford anything like this, but I can dream.

Colours

Posted on June 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Design, Digital art, Digital sketch, Drawing, Fun, RainbowLeave a comment

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An explosion of colour makes me feel joyous, excited, satisfied, sainted with brilliance. I would love to turn this into a tee shirt, a throw for a sofa or a bed. It’s a bit bright for a painting on a wall.

This was a quick drawing in ArtRage oils, then I used a rainbow flood fill in the gaps and then a smudge tool. Finally I used the layout app to duplicate and rotate the drawing.

I know they are only simple tools but you can create some interesting things with them.

Nice bowl, too expensive

Posted on June 23, 2019June 23, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bowl, Ceramics, Design, Interesting, Pottery, PrettyLeave a comment

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I saw this gorgeous large bowl for sale today. The diameter was about 2 foot. The colours and pattern were right up my street. But…..

£200! Beautiful but too expensive for my tastes.

It was one if many bowls and pots for sale, including a tapas dish. It’s nice to look at things like that, but you don’t have to buy.

Making again

Posted on June 20, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Chinese lacquer, Design, Fun, making, Making props, Painting, Penkhull mystery playLeave a comment

Today was all about making and painting things for the Penkhull Mystery Play this year. I reused two boxes from previous plays. I was asked to paint them black and then to use gold and yellow paint for the decoration.

The idea was to create boxes which would look like they had been decorated with Chinese lacquer. I didn’t know whether the idea would work, but it seemed OK.

Other work to do include sticking paper plates together to make them strong enough to be passed between 50school children and painting two large papier machè birds that represent the birds on the willow pattern plate.

One box has a landscape on the top of it, the other has a circular coin like shape on the top.

Cafe sketch

Posted on June 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Cafe scene, Design, Doodle, Drawing, Life, Pen and ink, Pink cake stands, Small sketch, Supermarket, Urban sketchingLeave a comment

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Drawn while waiting for a friend, the cake stands are bright pink and full of sugary delights that I avoided. I had strawberries and cream and a fruit smoothie which was made of smooshed frozen berries and very cold! This was a 20 minute drawing so didn’t go for any details. The woman walked along to the till as I was drawing so fitted her in at that end. Since urban sketchers last weekend I’m doing more of this kind of thing.

Cat doodle

Posted on June 15, 2019 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Blue, Cat, Cat drawing, Contours, Design, Heavy paper, pet cat, Shading, Windsor and Newton sketchbook, YellowLeave a comment

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I’m trying to do at least one drawing a day, this is actually the second picture I did but I’m posting it because it’s slightly different. Firstly I used a blue glitter brush pen to draw one of my cats. Then for slight shading I used a plain yellow brush pen. When it was dry I decided to use a 0.6 tip fine line black pen to draw in darker areas. I then drew lines over the darker areas and decided to do the lighter ones too. Finally after adding the lines in the background I drew a line round the edges of the blue and yellow areas and picked out any patches of white that had been missed with the blue ink at the start of the process. I didn’t take any work in progress photos. The drawing is in a Windsor and Newton sketch pad, heavy weight wire-o, A6 size. 50 sheets 170gsm /80lb.

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