Recently I’ve been experimenting with colour intensity and they’re beginning to convey my sense about how we work and contemporary working environments.
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First Signs of Spring 🌼 2023: The Cotswolds
Visiting old friends in the English Country side. I managed to capture rare Images of flowers starting to bloom at the arboretum.
So it’s a short post this week, the pictures of flowers I might use in a photo collage project later.
Process Inspiration From the Bigger Players
We have a new Ikea (well, it’s one year old) in Hammersmith, and I popped in there to get my lamp base, as it is those that I use in my photo shoots for my lampshades.
However, I found the new shapes and colours on display inspired me. It was mostly monochrome (black and white on display there). I grew curious about how they managed only to charge £8.00 for a floor lamp. I then began to look more closely at how these were made and noticed how they used plastic clips to attach the ring to the fabric.
I wondered why this form of making lampshades might exist and then realised it might enable the scaling up of the production.
Normally, the fiddly bit in lampshades is tucking the fabric into the metal frame. Some artisans get over this fiddly bit using a lampshade binder; see Lush Designs in the video below.
Seeing this and other lampshade manufacturing videos made me think of what is possible beyond my art being a hobby and into a full-blown business in the future.
However, a big part of me wishes to keep my hand in the work and mix a combination of digital technology and manufacturing equipment to still allow my items to emit a personality while offering a personal and even bespoke buying service to potential customers.
Although I didn’t make much this week, I made a lot of progress with decisions on what equipment to invest in to increase my making while developing my unique style to more customers.
Maximal shape and colour time
This week I experimented with the new smart French bell-shaped lampshades in gorgeous vibrant colours and curious textures. These new pieces are a start of an impressive new collection. More cool in situ images of these lampshades will be on the Wednesday posts as they will be at the product showcase. I’m excited to share items in the product showcase posts every two weeks. And you can find the product showcase tab under its little tab on the website menu here.Click to find the product showcase
I’ve been immersed in producing decor items lately. It will be wonderful to finally share my most recent efforts with more people online as I list items for sale in my Etsy shop and insert fabulous images here. Below is a little taster of items coming up in the product showcase soon.
See you next time.
Character as the X factor in portrait paintings
Less beautiful people make the best models. This week I discovered how people with more character in their faces contribute to making the most interesting paintings.
This picture is about a life model who had a very amazing head shape. In this painting, I am halfway through and hope to have finished it next Sunday.
I still have fine hair details to include and I must get the interesting skin tones and textures sorted.
Only time will tell whether I manage to do justice to this man’s interesting face. Whatever the outcome I shall post my result in a future post.
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