Glastonbury hawthorn decoration

Off to Glastonbury today, with my friend Cath.  She just rang me to remind me that we're taking a decoration each to the hawthorn trees in Chalice Well Gardens - oops.  I forgot about that.

Hopped into garden for some fatsia berries and sandwiched them between two discs of skin from a clementine, stitched them together with some red thread - et voila!

Can't help thinking it looks like a starfighter... :)

Here it is, in situ :D

I think I love it!

St. George in Berlin

I was in Berlin for a short visit last week.  The weather was miserable - wet almost constantly, so I didn't get to create much art worth sharing.

Saw this statue on a street near where I was staying.

Staggering detail.  The thorny hide of the dragon is what captivates me the most.  I chose this angle to capture the reactions of the dragon, the horse and St. George all at once.

The artist's name is August Karl Edouard Kiss and the statue was cast c. 1855.

Sci-fi birthday card

I wanted to do something special for the birthday of one of my nephews.  He's nuts about a certain space franchise, so I did some research and made a couple of sketches, suitable for a linoprint.

Then I painstakingly cut the lino - it was a lesson, to consider how you will eventually reproduce a line-drawing in lino: too much detail in a small area (this was approximately the surface of a postcard) just can't be done this side of a microscope :)  In addition, the 'rubber' of the lino gets soft as you work it and a lot of cuts in a small area is most likely to result in chunks of lino coming away from the woven base :(

The finished linocut wasn't half bad, I think.

I love it, to be honest - hope he does too!