chicken and egg

just came across this little chicken - ian put it up on the shed wall the other day so we're reconnecting with it.

Doorways...

Mosaic

I've got that must-do-it feeling for mosaics at the moment. I think it was my visit to the Harlequin Gallery in Taunton (it used to be Makers - my favourite craft shop). Artist Jenny Dutton creates these amazing mosaiced female torsos using old china including pieces of charity shop ornaments - the odd horses head or figurine, with a few cup handles or china flowers thrown in. They are stunning.

My current 'must-do-it' is to mosaic a shoe - that is a real shoe - in china.

Here is part of an earlier mosaic project. She has been unwrapped from storage and currently sits in our house-shed next to the fridge.

just ballet shoes...

A burden lifted...

Finished at last (I hope). This is the second of two bridge illustrations for a Council leaflet. No idea quite how accurate I've been but they seem happy. It feels like a real burden has been lifted - I hate these sort of things hanging over me although when I get into them they are usually alright. (I think I need to work on my figures a bit more!) The foreground is a little weir with the stream down below. The weir bridge is falling apart so this is the proposed replacement - the picture is supposed to give some idea of what the bridge will look like in situ.

The nagging commission...

Wonderful as it is to actually have a commission to do some artwork, the prospect of sitting down and getting on with it becomes more wearisome with each day that it remains undone. Now, with only a four day deadline, i HAVE to do something about it. Must just have a second cup of coffee though first - oh and a quick blog post to tell the world. I am suddenly longing to get outside and finish my path, or do the washing, or ..... sigh - ok then I give in.

The commission by the way is a little artists impression of a bridge for a council scheme. I have the scheme plans, taken the photos, spread out the paper and board so I just need to sit myself down and begin......