Tattooed Strong Men

Rob Dunlavey III

Thanks Rob, he is a safe driver and made it all the way from America. It was great to see your work featured on a Book By Its Cover as I caught up on some of my favourite blogs this evening.

Carol W

With sculptures whipped up from paper, slime (as my students call it), stories and fairy tales. Carol W's work is tingling with imagination and fun. Her paper mache creations have graced galleries, shops and cat walks. Please visit her flickr or website as this is a needle in the haystack of her portfolio.

Anton Apchehov

Needed a splash of colour and Anton Apechehov certainly provides that with his wonderful Fish Mask. Antons work is very varied, quite graphic but with some plasticine works and some graffiti work.

Ice Pole Paint Sticks

These ice pole paint sticks were made in a silicone ice tray with a watery paint solution. I made them specifically for one of my students. They are good if you have problems holding materials, and would also be great on hot days for small children to do paintings outside.

Abbot Mead Vickers

Above: The Museum Of Childhood's promotioal poster from 2008
A fantastic award winning poster from advertising giants Abbot Mead Vickers who have produced some incredibly diverse and inspiring advertising campaigns.

Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw II

Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw's wonderful pictures Bottom: Red Bird Cages, Top: Mason Jar Fish.

Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw I

I love these wonderful illustrations and paintings by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw, which I found at Dom's wonderful blog today. Jenny is an illustrator who lives in New Mexico and has had a successful career designing cards and publishing children's books.

Nathan Pendlebury

Bold, bold colour, traces of abstraction mixed with fragments of text and numbers, this is the work of artist Nathan Pendlebury who is one of a family of Liverpudlian artists.

Joel Henriques

I have been aware of Joel Henriques inspiring 'Made by Joel' blog for some time, but then I found his web page which is a treasure trove of his paintings, mobiles and designs. The compositions here are created using ink and textiles.

Sally Welchman III

Sally has been very busy during her build up to the Brighton Art Festival. This is one of my favourites where Sally has incorporated a nail in a piece of flotsam into her composition, 'The bird with the rusty nail beak'

Zip Lines and mini me's

Taking a lead from the wonderful Joel we have had amazing fun making Zip line mini me's and racing them (often with unfair weight advantages; magnets, erasers ect). Not high art but fun art.

Jumping Jacks

We have also made jumping jacks, here is Lindsey's dalmatian.

Flights of fancy (flying toys).

Above: My demonstration flyer's; Below: Iain Denwitt's Puffin.The beginning of this academic year has been concerned with movement, so we started with balancers, and since then we have had flying toys. These are tricky, you will need to make the wings big . . . find the balancing point with your fingers, by resting the wings across your fore fingers and then string up where they balance best. These models are made with dense cardboard.

Mayako Nakamura

Mayako Nakamura is a Japanese artist who has a wonderful place to show you, in her paintings. Her lines traverse outlines of reality whilst taking you on paths of dreams and abstraction.

Karen Betty Tobias II

Mixed media boats by Karen Betty Tobais, constructed from felt and paper mache.

Karen Betty Tobias

Karen Betty Tobais is quite amazing the the variety of her artistic creativity, here is a tiny selection of her paintings, but Karen is makes wonderful sculpture and textiles too, more to follow.

Marie Christophe II

I found some more works by the fantastic French wire artist Marie Christophe, again and again I return to artists in this medium, I just love the quality of the lines and the loosely held (caged) space. In this instance it is also the movement communicated in wire form of the afghan dog which is magical.

Satomi Kawai

This is the beautiful work of Satomi Kawai an artist from Iowa, who creates monoprints, mono objects and amazing jewelry. Satomi's work has a wonderful peace about it, it is very organic in form and has an incredible elegance and style.
I especially love the wooden ring group in the top image, thank you Satomi.

Cleo Thorpe-ngata II

Cleo Thorpe-ngata's 'A pocket full of posy' a memory piece of seven tiny felt dresses naturally dyed with beautiful organic hangers.

Cleo Thorpe-ngata I

Knitted birds is the seemless link between the last post and this one about Cleo Thorpe-ngata. The top image is a detail from a knitted dress which is stunning (and which I cannot get a photo of) so please follow the link to Cleo's wonderful blog. Cleo is an artist and crafts person based in New Zealand.

Christine Robson

A pet at work! Thankyou Christine it was just what I needed on a Thursday morning.

Marchi Wierson

Stunning recycled blankets made into beautiful scarfs, Marchi has a shop selling these and textile jewelry. Marchi also has a great blog especially for those who love textiles and fibre arts.