Colour blocking window display

Continuing with recycled materials this months window display uses the inside of a printer cartridge from a digital printing machine.

Karla Black

I have only seen her work online and within books and periodicals. I really need to see it in the live to fully appreciate this amazing Scottish artist.

Latest Arthouse Installation Project

Jessica Pearless www.jessicapearless.co.nz

The Arthouse Installation Project Nelson NZ

 http://arthousearchitecture.co.nz/installation-project/arthouse_site/

Documentary Charles & Ray Eames

IRA GLASS

http://punchedandruled.tumblr.com/

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.” — Ira Glass

Hoot Hoot Christmas Window

With all the windows I make I upcycle as much as I possibly can. For 'HOOT HOOT' 

I collected postal tubes, shoe boxes, polystyrene packaging, and even lolly sticks for the branches.

Wish I had thought of that.

Amy Joy Watson
http://www.amyjoywatson.com/
http://www.saatchionline.com/profile/293349

Using balsa wood Amy stitches together these geometric sculptures (yes you read it correctly stitches together by hand). swoon...

ENVIOUS OF: Kristiina Lahde

Just amazingly stunning work,  I would love to think I would have done this with the simple envelope, Im utterly envious...

http://www.kristiinalahde.com/?id=7

Missile Toe. Creating opportunities to get fresh.

Its that time of year again and I was delighted with last years card I made for creating opportunities to get fresh, and have a blast...now what about this years card...

front and back

inside card

double sided missile toe hanging in doorway

How to make a paper rosette

How to make a gift bow

Heres how... 

Bows and Curtseys

New Window Display made using recycled paper, hot glue and staples. 

Heady Rushes

I was just looking at my blog and was thinking I should post some of my own work again and although Im ferreting away immersed in paper mache and colour cards. Im not at the stage to be able to show and tell.

In the mean time here are two short films I made on a digital camera some time ago, 'Heady Rushes' and 'Wheat Free' (nee field of dreams). They remind me of summer. I love the sound and light on these two films, and how much fun I had making them in the fields and bog around where i lived in Scotland. 

'Heady Rushes'

'Wheat Free'

I made these well before art school, and the naivete` of these films is what makes them so charming I hope you enjoy them too.

Katie Bell

Despite having bookmarks and google reader bloglovin etc etc... It drives me truly crazy when I can't find something I have seen and love, hence for the last few hours Ive been tracking down Katie Bells work. So I am posting it straight away.

http://www.katiebellstudio.com/work/

Katie also has a blog home work like the title love her work.

http://katiebell-homework.blogspot.com/

WIN !

Anna J Illustraor/character

If you would like the chance to win this wonderful illustration by Nelson Anna check out her page
https://www.facebook.com/artbyaj and like.

my art

SHED

Get up and Go and See this... 17 September - 23 October Tuesday-Sunday 11am -5pm

Nelson claims to be arty farty. (I have my own views on this marketing myth), yet the 'Shed'  is a stunner, housed in a Warehouse behind Guytons on Wakefield Quay, and organised by Rebecca Hamid of Nelson Sculpture Trust.

Im not sure if Im just in awe of the location, the warehouse is where customs store confiscated goods coming into the Nelson port. Its open space conjurs up images of drug hauls and the odd Rhino or illegal banana haul, not likely but I have a vivid imagination.  

I'm so delighted to see this exhibition in Nelson, an amalgamation of 'seven artists who challenge the dimension of jewellery and sculpture'.

This for me is what its all about, turn up, take it all in, experience something unique, and have a wee blether about art.

My favourites were Areta Wilkinson and her Stuffed Titi ( using parcel tape see below).
and Niki Hasting McFall's Waterfall - Papase'ea.

 

Niki Hasting McFall
Waterfall - Papase'ea 2011
Synthetic lei, cable ties, wood.
approx 8500mm height.

Joe Sheehan
Shit Creek 2009,
various river stones,plywood,stg silver

Joe Sheehan
Bulb, 2011
Jade, brass, electrical wiring, led bulb.

Jason Hall
Boundary 2007
Whitewash, pigment, polyurethane, charcoal

Areta Wilkinson
Stuffed Titi (Puffinus Griseeus,Sooty Shearwater, Muttonbird), 2006
Mixed media.

The curtain twitchers

Artist Asrid Jaekels wonderful window installation which comes alive at night by the use of light, is an artist after my own heart.

The papercut installation ‘The Curtain-Twitchers’ is a light hearted look at the tensions that can often occur between generations.  

her work depicts four elderly people in various poses who are all observing the goings on within Edinburgh’s Victoria Street during the Festival.

http://www.astridjaekel.com/index.htm 

http://www.astridjaekel.com/index.htm