Sunday, 20 February 2011
Monday, 14 February 2011
Friday, 11 February 2011
White Lady
A new figure, a lady dressed in white. She will be one of my mixed media, textural ones I think :)
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Monday, 17 January 2011
Chief Bromden
The glass splashed out like bright cold water baptizing the sleeping earth. 'Geese up there white man. You know it. Geese this year...and last year...and the year before and the year before...and I knew this time I had them beat.'Chief Bromden
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Friday, 7 January 2011
Friday, 3 December 2010
Christmas Edition of AIM magazine
The Christmas edition of the Artisans in Miniature
magazine is now available to read here:
I know I seem to say this every time...but it's the biggest one yet! 148 pages of brilliant miniatures with something for everyone and all absolutely free as ever!
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Artisans in Miniature Advent Calendar
The AIM Advent calendar is available from today...
...each door will reveal a different miniature project
as usual it's totally free of charge!!
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
'Who is this Harlequin?' said the Ticktockman
"And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes goes goes goes goes tick tock tick tocktick tock and one day we no longer let time serve us, we serve time and we are slaves of the schedule, bound into a life predicated on restrictions because the system will not function if we don't keep the schedule tight."('repent Harlequin!' said the ticktockman by Harlan Ellison)
Inspired partly by that story ... a celebration of civil disobedience!
Harlequin further details
The Harlequin laughed and laughed, and apologised profusely....everyone was dumped thisway and thataway in a jackstraw tumble, still laughing, popping little jellybeans of childish colour into their mouths...it was a holiday, a jollity, an absolute insanity, a giggle, but.....Monday, 22 November 2010
Standing at the Crossroads
12th scale figure of Baron Samedi, Vodan Loa of death and resurrection, keeper of the eternal crossroads.
Baron Samedi
I standin' here waitin' baby
With my heart right in my hand
Been thinking 'bout my baby
But she's out with another man
Saturday, 6 November 2010
Wuthering Heights
Cathy and Heathcliff from Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights.
"I was going to the Grange one evening...a dark evening threatening thunder
...and just at the turn to the Heights I encountered a little boy with sheep and two lambs crying terribly....'There's Heathcliff and a woman yonder, and I daren't pass them!"
'I know that ghosts have wandered on earth.....'
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Wuthering Heights
I first read Wuthering Heights in about 1976 and it has been my favourite book ever since...Heathcliff has always been the love of my life...carved 'in a wild workshop...the crag took human shape...dark and frowning, terrible and beautiful...the moorland moss clothes him and heath with blooming bells and balmy fragrance grows faithfully close to the giant's foot' .
( currer bell)
I have dared to try to create him at last....
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
November AIM magazine
November's Artisans in Miniature magazine is out again!
As usual packed with wonderful things including an article on my friend Jain 'the Giddy Kipper' and dolls by Julie of Bellabelle Dolls :0)
I also loved the miniature potter feature...114 pages of amazing stuff, and all completely FREE as ever to download from here:
Monday, 1 November 2010
Jimi Hendrix
I think I've completed the study of Jimi...
there are some words in the background taken from 'love or confusion' which relate to the story of Icarus... as does the verse :0)
Saturday, 30 October 2010
Drawing Jimi
I started a drawing of Jimi Hendrix about a week ago... and I took him on holiday this week and have been working on the face...this is another wip as a few folks have asked me how he was going ;0) It's really quite a simple pencil study...about 90cm square...to make me really look carefully at his face...he's another figure I am just aching to make soon :0)
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Voodoo Chile...the Demon Lover
A 'seasonal' theme for Samhain and All Soul's towards the end of the month...'the demon lover'. ...it's a muse about what constitutes 'reality', the power of the mind, about taboos, and a few other things...
It's linked to the voodoo chile song...and I also found a poem by Sylvia Plath which is wonderful too 'On Looking into the Eyes of a Demon Lover'
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Eliza
A young woman c1896 ......perhaps off to work in a flower shop.
"I want to be a lady...
I'm a good girl I am!"
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Venus in Furs
A drawing using the song by the velvet underground 'Venus in Furs' as a starting point...although this is not Severin and Wanda...this is perhaps more likely the Unknown Man from the original book... I wanted the image to say something about strength in vulnerability, trust and intimate love....amongst other things...
Sunday, 3 October 2010
Dionysus...the Green Man
I love stories about the green man...found in so many myths legends and other beliefs...here he is as Dionysus the god of wine and grapes...
...he is the dying and returning god...of fertility, sensuous abandon and the freeing of the mind through ecstacy....part of the eternal cycle of life death and rebirth....
" ...I am born in the dark...
...I shine with the sun...
....I burn with desire...
...I have paid for your pleasure"
( william anderson 'the green man')
Friday, 1 October 2010
October AIM Magazine
I have an article about one of my recent figures...Old Mother Shipton on pages 104-107
the magazine is free as always...please pass on the link to anyone you know who enjoys miniatures :0)
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Reflection
I feel the need to do some drawing again...
Found this to finish off from 2004...
I've been doing some reflecting recently so it fits!
Gold and rose,
the colour of the dream I had,
not too long ago,
misty blue and lilac too,
never to grow old.
...you smiled...and stole my heart away.
( jimi hendrix)
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Who will Buy my Sweet Red Roses...
A little more done today...
Now all she needs are all those fiddly touches!! :0)
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