I love circles more than other shapes (maybe that’s why my brain tends to run in that direction as well, or is it the other way round? Ahem, anyway…..) so I’m always interested in circular artwork by other people too, no matter which medium. Circular flowerbeds, shamanic drums, circular shapes in nature.
So I just wanted to share thisAustralian gallery project on the theme of Circles.Cool, colourful, circular stuff!
Jeg fik lige lyst til at dele et link til et galleri i Australien hvor temaet er “Cirkler”. Det er min yndlingsform, sÃ¥ det interesserer mig altid hvad folk kreerer pÃ¥ den front.
Years ago (like, around 1995 or so) I did a couple of experiments with marbling techniques. One of the things I had in mind when I pondered recycling my old stuff was getting some use out of these sheets instead of just storing them. Gift wrapping has come to mind, but it would be fun to get more out of them (first) somehow.
So I’m going to scan them and see if fun can be had along the way. In fact I think I may want to make more of these at some point, perhaps using better paper. I can’t remember which type of paints/inks I used, but that can be researched I’m sure!
First I’ll need that studio, I think. Or just more hours.
En gang midt i 90’erne eksperimenterede jeg med at lave marmorering, brugte forhÃ¥ndenværende papir, tapetklister i et fad og ja, jeg kan ikke engang huske hvilket farvestof jeg brugte.
I stedet for at de bare ligger og glor i en mappe syntes jeg det kunne være sjovt at bruge dem, måske lave små gaveæsker, men først har jeg tænkt mig at scanne nogen af dem for at se om man også kan bruge dem til noget i Photoshop.
Og så fik jeg i øvrigt lyst til at prøve igen på et tidspunkt, evt. med bedre papir. Når jeg altså lige finder en tidsmaskine, sådan en som kan lave mere af den!
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Never mind what the rest of the house looks like, I’ll only visit it rarely and briefly. 😉 (actually that’s not true, I do have a lot of ideas about what my dream house looks like. And the garden. And the location.)
I don’t think that’s too much to ask, so I am. With colour and doodles and fairy glitter on top.
Not to mention all the ideas I get from the magazine “Studios”. Yes, I torture myself reading such things…. I call it visualization. 😉
This is a 3D image I did years and years ago of the office in our flat. I even had an equal room next door for a studio, but at the time computers was the thing. And myself with the wacom tablet.1970’s style 😉
In the mean time I guess I have to live with a corner of the kitchen for an office, library and stash, a corner of the guest room (no it’s not big enough for a studio in any which way) for stash and the dining table for crafts. Our kitchen counter is really small and fortunately old and worn, because dye does get spilled… But cooking and dyeing and doing the dishes clash very often.
I’ve perhaps scored a piece of wall currently occupied by my husband’s entertainment center (great big tv). Turn it around, turn the sofa = added bonus we can see the fireplace from the sofa and I get a place to hang canvases. Yes, I’ll splotch the walls, but at the rate that we’re not entertaining dinner guests I honestly don’t care. I live here every single day, and doing is so much more important than showing (off) in my humble opinion.
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I’ve got soo many old photos, mainly negatives, that I really still quite like. And never really done anything with after clicking and developing. Yes, I have some harebrained assumption that I’ll one day scan them all in super dooper quality all ready to use, show off, play with, manipulate in Photoshop.. I also have some old 3D images that I might like to revamp (haven’t done any 3d graphics for years), old notes keep surfacing with sketches and ideas. I even have a roll of old, half finished paintings somewhere (the garage probably).
So I’m wondering if it would be fun to mix and match, use oldies but goodies in new contexts, print out photos and sample them onto paintings or fabric, use 3D art as background for masked photos – or should I let bygones be bygones? Always look ahead for/at fresh ideas, let old horses have their rest and ride the young ones?
I’d like to hear from people, apart from recycling actual materials, do you ever revamp old finished or unfinished pieces? (I have an ulterior motive for asking – I think my camera is close to going on the blink. Exposures seem to be happening at random, so the shutter could be suffering from the over 30.000 exposures that I’ve seen as the first likely breakpoint on the Canon 20D. I’d love to get a new one, but that means $$ have to happen…)
New photoshopped background
And speaking of old canvasses, my acrylic paints survived 10 years in an uninsulated garage, the oil paints did not. I do however have some very nice quality canvasses that are either halfdone or I don’t like the motif, colours are great to build on. I know I can’t use my acrylics on top, so what, apart from investing in oil paints (which is ridiculous in a tiny house like this unless we want a perpetual headache and cat hair built into the paintings), can I do to salvage these? I hate to just throw away perfectly good materials…
Jeg har længe haft en ambition om at scanne alle mine mangemange negativer ind, fordi jeg aldrig rigtig har fået brugt mine billeder inden det blev digitalt og mange af dem er jeg egentlig stadig glad for. Der er sikkert også mange som er kandidater til Photoshop collager eller andet lir, man kunne printe dem og sample (har vi et dansk ord for sampling?) på malerier eller stof, blande dem med (gammel) 3D grafik osv.
Jeg finder også tit gamle noter omkring billed- eller farveideer jeg har haft og nogen giver mig stadig billeder på nethinden.
Det kunne være sjovt at høre fra andre, uanset om vi taler strik eller billedkunst, om I genbruger jeres gamle ting eller om I kun ser fremad. Ideer fÃ¥r man jo nok af… Og hvordan genbruger I det sÃ¥? Det kunne være fedt med noget inspiration…
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What exactly is the Colour Cottage? Well, it’s what I do AND where I live. Seeing and playing with colour gives me a kick, doesn’t matter if it’s photography, computer graphics or making a salad, as long as I get to be creative and use colour.
My latest passion however is dyeing yarn and fiber for spinning, so this is probably going to be the main topic of my blog. I don’t claim to be any kind of expert on the matter, but I’d like to share what I learn along the way, and yes, you can try this at home! A workshop area or a kitchen slightly larger than mine is however preferable. 😀 Messy doesn’t quite describe the process, and I’m lucky that our kitchen counter was old and ugly from the get go.
I also have too many ideas for colour combos than I can possibly ever spin for myself, so I’ve been entertaining the notion of offering a few braids for sale, just to get the ideas out of my head (gotta have room for more, you know!)
If you’d like to get started without me, here’s a couple of resources for you.
