Frida is on my mind...

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Frida Icon's 

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Papier mache, acrylic and real gold leaf

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Free standing Frida figure.

 (25cm)

Angels Wings...

Looking at medieval church angels gave me inspiration... 

What started off with a simple idea... 

I then got carried away and made them much larger than I intended..

Phew! 

I should have made them in the summer when papier mache dries out much quicker...

Bumpy sea's, teacups? Or lifeboats?

A quick update...

Progress is slow...

Diorama's always take longer than I imagine.

The 'Treweek Weather House 'is finished and has been delivered.

 Here are 'Joy and Brian' in their 1970's bungalow weather house complete with seagull. 

 Before the painting started..

Trying to get the mechanic's to work... Lets just say that plastic tubing, butterfly clips and a lot of patience came into play.

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 Dear Brian, I love the way his head has shrunk into his shoulders.. How I've grown to love these oldies although I've never met them.. All painted from photographs.

 Back drop kitchen and shed.

 Just working on a few details.

Naughty seagull asking joy for something to eat. 

 On the sides are Joy's painting corner and Brian's shed.

Turn the seagull on the roofand Brian and Joy swing in and out. 

Joy into her kitchen and Brian into his shed.

 So cheerio my little seagull 'Merry Christmas' to you and your new family.

Week 8. On my work bench....

I'm lagging behind a bit this week..Sorry to be a day late.. Never mind, here is some of the work on my bench this week... My first printing this year.. Trying to get back into it, I've been a bit sidetracked with other ideas, which I shall tell you all about in due time.. These are to become covers for some handmade books using recycled paper. 

Cherry Hall and I are getting ready for the first Colchester...

Stick, Staple & Stitch Artists’ Book Fair

Stick, Staple & Stitch is Essex Book Festival’s first ever Artists’ Book Fair 

10am – 4pm Saturday 17^th March 2012 

at the Colchester Arts Centre

Quite a daunting task, trying to get work organised and actually deciding what to make and take, strangely enough.

Here are some other pieces I've been working on.. Carefully wedged with pins on the studio pin-board for the moment.

 

Also a little beauty, I bought this at the Church St gallery in Saffron Waldon which has to be one of my favourites, well worth the two hour car journey the other week.. Don't you just love it.. I can't for the life of me remember the name of the artist... I promise to find out for you... 
 Ta da... I found the envelope..... Mark Hearld.