Inspirations



I have always loved History, Literature and Art.........................................................................................................
beautiful things, the stuff of dreams..................................................

flowers, butterflies, fairy tales, embroidered fragments, Chinese blues, Botticelli angels, Blake's visions, Burne-Jones pictures............................................................................................

amongst many other hints and wisps of the past..........................

to catch in my net and weave into mydesigns..................

which I hope others might find as beautiful as their inspirations.

Sunday 26 June 2011

Iris

I love blue and so blue flowers are my favourites,as well as white! Blue iris are so wonderfully constructed and look lovely, however they are depicted !! The orientals (followed by Van Gogh , among others) loved them too. Here is one of my own attempts.




It was painted using watercolour crystals, called Brusho, that are dissolved in water but, due to variable solvency, give the lovely varied colours perfectly suited to an iris flower. These can be easily bleached and drawn into with pen, biro, crayon etc., so are more versatile than ordinary watercolour, it seems to me. This is one of my favourite studies, hope you like it too.

4 comments:

  1. Chris, thank you for your thoughtful comment on my blog. I think I have explored every option possible including doing a full time course, although I couldn't afford to give up work (or if I did I couldn't afford to do the course! I'm currently looking to do an MA in contemporary textiles and have an interview next week so fingers crossed. Your painting of the irises is beautiful by the way!

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  2. Do hope you are accepted. Have you thought of part-time/hiours reduction? I did study tutoring at Durham Uni (where I did my Geography degree)to pay for my part-time degree. Sometimes I wasn't able to attend all the sessions due to work committments etc. but being p/t they were more accomadating/accepting. Glad you liked my iris-sorry about the typo's, even with my improved computing-due to the course- I still seem to manage to have more than anybody else!!!
    GOOD LUCK! :-)

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  3. p.S.If you are accepted, your hard work will have all been worth while and you won't need to worry about a BA- an MA is better!!!!!

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  4. PS I wonder where you are hoping to study your MA?

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