I still cannot figure out how to make this blog look good. Uploading pictures is fine, but how to control the layout so the pics are discrete, without text in the picture boxes is right now beyond me.
Doing it straight from the iphone is very easy, but the quality is rubbish. Then suddenly the text is enormous, and BLUE? What's that about?
Time to do all this....
Friday, 16 November 2012
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Gilding
I am using moon gold for the ornament. Here the glass is half gilded. Once dry I will turn th glass over, or round, and gild the other half.
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Video link
I am exploring all the ways I can promote the book, video and ebook.
It strikes me that while I am working on this latest project, using materials and methods that have served well and remained unchanged for some 500 years, as
far as todays' communication possibilities are concerned, I am shifting into another dimension!
For example, I have today discovered that yesterdays post could have been done not only quicker but better if I had used my iphone.
No, I am not correct. The pics were taken with a camera, and I edited them. And I typed at the computer and not on that tiny screen. But, anyway, I will in future use the phone more and see how it works, and looks.
On another subject: I have reduced time in the studio as ( I am sure I have mentioned) we care for my parents (90's) and that means LOTS of cooking (and the rest). And I am really getting into it. Necessity has led to this new passion; I LOVE it.
Maybe there will be pic of the latest dish next time!
More soon.
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Back into the studio, at last
After a whole year of other work, my first project in the studio is to make a reflective or mirror-like panel that is to be hung on the wall behind this mantel clock (1). I was given some recycled window glass 48 x 23 in/117x 59 cm. I could envision the side panel (2) of pierced brass as engraved gold, and I could simulate the background in a translucent pink.
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| 1. Clock, front |
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| 2. Clock, side The first thing is to make the design fit the glass. By chopping off the bottom set of scrolls it fits well, and I go on to square it up so I can enlarge the design to life size. (3) (By the way, it is proving a nightmare to organize the pics and text so I shall just carry on with the commentary and hope it is clear. I shall have to learn how to do this.) |
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| 3. Squaring up the design |
But he design of the pierced brass is degraded, that is to say it has been copied over and over with the result that all the detail has broken down. I study the back of the clock (4) which is engraved steel but the style of ornament there is quite different! It is earlier, rococo, when it was fashionable to turn classic acanthus ornament into forms such as waves and clouds. The two styles are miles apart.
I will have to go back to basics so I have more information and better understanding of what I am doing. To do this, I turned to the source, Michelangelo Pergolesi, c. 1780's, (5) and now attempt to marry all 3 styles.
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| 4. Detail, back of clock |
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5. Pergolesi
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Next to do, draw the other half, all on the front of the glass (using tracing paper),, turn over, clean thoroughly and gild!
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| Removing window putty, nasty job. |
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| 7. Drawn onto tracing paper |
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| 8. One half is drawn out More in part Two. |
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