Waiting for the thaw

a painting detail edited in iphoto

New digital oil painting

Um............ so there you go.

This stuff should be on tumblr really shouldn't it. Sorry :-)

Juicy Jewels - new poster sketch capture

"heARTh huddle" - New Etsy Fine Art Treasury

( Click in image for larger version)

New Flickr Group for Etsy Fine Art Treasuries

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1333584@N23/pool/

Please join and post your fine art - or majority fine art - Treasury/Poster Sketch screencaptures.

I hope that we can steadily build up an archive that helps to

support and promote fine artists on etsy. Thanks!

Fire inside a Snowball - Latest Small Paintings

Fold

Wintergreen

Sunken Pleasure

Vanishing City

Vintage pick: Suede Pumps -Bold and Graphic

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=37233813

from

prairiefirevintage

...And here's a 1960s mod take on the same theme, from

dandiesndames:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=37583184

Then there's:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30943852

from trashyourself

(I'd love to mix this colour combination with the style of the first pair!)

Cat ornament - first attempt

Die Tatzen Uber Berlin, anyone?

It's all about lighting; Dietrich knew this.

Trouble with Polymers

Alan Weisman's articale "Polymers are Forever":

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/270

There's a useful A-Z guide here to reducing the everyday individual use of plastics:

http://plasticisrubbish.wordpress.com/a-z-plastic-free/

Russian Animation on YouTube

Above is a capture from Russian stop motion animation, "Old House",

based on a Hans Christian-Andersen Tale, directed by Irina Sobinova-Kassil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGh2k4G1Yns

This image is from the astonishing paint-on-glass film,

"СОН СМЕШНОГО ЧЕЛОВЕКА" by Alexander Petrov / Петров

(1992) based on the short story

"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" By Dostoevsky

this film stirs memories of the intensity I felt when I first read

Dostoevsky in translation as a teenager:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tin6ScqzKCc

Many more wonderful Russian animated

films here:

Early scene from the celebrated "Tale of Tales" (1979) by Yuri Norstein.

You can see the film in several parts on youtube here:

All I want for Christmas is...

...an Hieronymus Bosch Tree Man Figurine (deluxe model, please).

Over the weekend I was toying with this idea to make a Bosch figurine, specifically the blue flautist.

But someone had got there long before me. Typical! :-)

Talaria Enterprises' Hieronymus Bosch range

Art of Eternity

I've been catching up on the BBC iPlayer's arts documentaries.

I found the Coptic paintings and Mummy portraits in "Art of Eternity",

Andrew Graham-Dixon's exploration of the development of sacred art,

particularly compelling.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074t92/b006qzkp/Art_of_Eternity_Painting_Paradise/