Holiday

Away for two weeks, hope they are good for you and me. xx

Birds are flocking.

Thank you kath for bird number one, today he was joined by a yellow cockatoo. These wonderful clay Indian birds are from Bohemia in Edinburgh, I finally managed to get to the metropolis today, it is sometimes so near and yet so far. http://www.bohemiadesign.co.uk/

Tamar Morgendorff

I have admired the work of Tamara Morgendoff for a long time this is her beautiful Bumble Bee. Tamar creates crazy things out of textiles, my favourite madness being textile sprouted avocado stones, have a look at her website and be inspired, http://www.tmogy.com/ image care of the wonderful http://www.kindergallery.com.au/ .

Seams by Caroline Broadhead

I like the structure, the skeleton of clothes that Caroline Broadhead has exposed in her work Seven Seams, that was part of the Brighton Art Schools 150 years exhibition. c/o http://www.thylemma.blogspot.com

Karrina Kiakkonen

Above: Father 1997

Above Shadow Helsinki 2005

I love drying washing as an image and so found the work of the Finish artist Karrina Kiakkonen wonderfully appealing, she makes large site specific works from discarded clothing and shoes.
Her work is haunting, stunningly visual and very inspiring.

Black Sea Bream

Environmental art to draw attention to the amount of "flotsam" washing up in Japan 15 million tones every year.

This exhibition "Is it waste? - Art drifting over borders. Waste floating in society -" aims to share and create awareness regarding environmental issues, marine pollution and mass consumption society, focusing on growing concerns about marine debris and wastes. '' This is part of a current exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture.

Mermaid

Sorry, I have had two days and nights animating frantically for a competition dead line. I was allowed out today for a wee while and I took the opportunity to do my pebble beach art work, it is amde from coal stones as alot washes up here.

Lion Tamer and Lion

Lion: Eating my family

Above and Below: Lion Eating Lion Tamer, Lion and Lion tamer's Hat

Yesterdays fun with cardboard.

Beautiful Blue

This blue is so lovely, stunning Rajesthani Bone Inlay furniture available from Graham and Green http://www.grahamandgreen.co.uk they also have black and pink pieces.

Twig Designed by Pinch

Above Twig Panel, Below Two pictures of Twig Bench and Cube

Love this work by the designers Pinch, always love tree rings and bundles of twigs. I like the way it is made from copiced Hazel, it is a good harvest, made into beautiful furniture. It was originally designed for Neals Yard Remedies head office in Dorset but is now for sale from Pinch. http://www.pinchdesign.com

Winsor McCay

The colours used by Winsor McCay are just beautiful, the quality of the drawing and the story's is fantastic, there is alot of his work on Flickr that people have uploaded to share, you can also still get his comic books and some of his animations. Winsor mcCay was a prolific artist and animator 1867-1934.

Robert Leisham

Above: Sleepwalker
Below: Kingdom By The Sea II 1976

Robert Leishman's work is very much akin to Mary Newcomb's in style and subject. Robert Leisham (1916-1989).

Michael Lythgoe

Above: Egret and Wee Fishies
Below: CootBelow: Bewicks Swan

Michael Lythgoe has always loved birds, he trained as an engineer, but the purchase of an old wooden decoy at Cape Cod caused a complete career change and since 1986 he has become a master carver of these stunning decoys and sculptures. You can catch his work at The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh until August 5th. http://www.mikelythgoe.com http://openeyegallery.co.uk

Wet Day Faries

It is a wet day, the perfect day for drawing fairies.

Olle Eksell's City's

Maps by Famille Summerbell

Below: London, Above: Paris

Paper Cuts again, the wonderful Famille Summerbell's new prints of their original paper cut cities, so far London and Paris are available, but more are promised.

http://www.famillesummerbelle.com/

Flenstead Mobiles

Above Ole Flenstead

Left: Expecting Fish, Right: Jonas.

These Whale mobiles are by Flenstead mobiles, A Danish Family who have been creating modern mobiles for the home since 1954. They have some wonderful designs, see their website here http://www.flenstead-mobiles.com/

Friends Fresh Eyes

It's my back door, but you stop noticing the obvious, and its great when your friends photo's give you a fresh outlook, thanks Cathy. Cathy took some wild pictures of Kirkcaldy yesterday you can see them at my flickr in their own set.

World Beach Project

Above: Sue Lawty's stone art at South Devon
Below: Left to Right contributions by; Jo Kehyanian, Jo Kehyanian, Chris Dunseath, Mikhail Balasyuk

These images are all from The World Beach Art Project, masterminded by artist Sue Lawty and produced in association with the V&A.

It is a beach art project restricted to stones, rocks and pebbles.

To participate you will need a photograph of your art, the beach that you created it at and a picture of the creator/ creators in action. Go on have some fun at the beach this summer.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/textiles/lawty/world_beach/map_gallery/index.php?section=1

Many Thanks for this link go to Deborah at http://kickcanandconkers.blogspot.com

Razor Shell Daisies

Inspired by our finds on the beach last week, today I composed a reply to leave on the sand of Kirkcaldy. There are lots of razor shells at the moment and their whiteness is very effective against the sand, its fun to leave surprises for people to find.

Olle Eksell

Wanted to share some treasure from Olle Eskell (1918-2007) the Swedish graphic designer today, the simplicity of line, colour and the wonderful humour. These Illustrations are taken from a book Olle Eksell Swedish Graphic Designer 2006 published by Pie Books (Japanese)

Lili Scratchy

Love this humorous bright friendly work by the artist, illustrator and ceramicist Lili Scratchy.
Like the way the stacked cups peep out at you.
Lili has a blog with shop and links here: http://liliscartchy.blogspot.com/