Happy Christmas and New Year!

In my usual tradition, here is the round up of featured posts for 2011.  It’s been a pretty tubulent year personally for me and I haven’t blogged as much as I usually do – but my New Year resolution is to do so, so get ready for more eclectic mixes of art, design and quirkyness! 

The forever changing face of women in art (and film)

As promised, I have found a video featuring famous paintings of women in art.   As an added bonus, this video also includes many old film stars, as well as contemporary women stars of stage and screen.  There were several videos to choose from, but I have chosen this one because of the astounding amount of women thought

Cheesy Art

Theres quite a few artists that work with dairy products like butter and cheese.  this piece of art was created for the Great British Cheese Festival in Cardiff.  The sculpture is of Cardiff Castle and this time-lapse video shows how it was done.  I suppose the cheese must have to be kept at a certain temperature to make it

Spray it with art!

Theres something so relaxing in watching an artist at work.  There are all sorts of artists and all sorts of ways of painting.  Everyone has seen graffiti and knows about the use of spray paint.  But I thought that this way of using the paint was a bit more unusual.  I don’t know which paper

Hello? bring on the painted ladies?

I wrote a post  called the Painted ladies last night.  I schedulled it, everthiing and put quite a bit of work into it , only to have it not come on.  Fuming! and I AM! .  here’s the the one I did last night – also another that may inteerst you..

Fingers in the sand

I came across this sand drawing artist and just had to include it.  How the drawings start off have l no bearing on  the end drawing.  Amazing!