Saturday in isolation - put together a quick still life to draw. Not entirely successful but a nice way to spend an afternoon!
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Showing posts with label fruit. Show all posts
5 April 2020
21 May 2018
20 December 2017
Burst of green
Gorgeous belated birthday card in the post last week - really brightened up a drizzly day and turned thoughts to sunnier times!
22 June 2017
Andalusian Still Life
A blissful trip to Southern Spain where at times everything looked like it could be a painting
25 January 2017
13 December 2016
Clementine
Christmas day outfit inspiration? Makes a change from sequins...
Bruce Weber and Clare Richardson for Vogue Italia last April
9 December 2015
15 July 2013
5 May 2012
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
This smashed Watermelon on a road near by my house somehow reminded me of these paintings by 16th Century Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Famous for creating portraits out of natural objects, Arcimboldo's paintings are awe inspiring, if a little unsettling. When I was little my Mum had a postcard of this head made up of sea creatures stuck on her diary
Water, 1566
Vertumnus, 1590
Summer, 1573
15 February 2012
Watermelon Frida
Sugared jelly fruit segments and a glitter encrusted Frida Kahlo matchbox. What finer souvenirs could there be? Courtesy of Hermione who recently got back from a holiday in Mexico. Both remind me of sunnier times, even as far flung as Summer 2011 on my beloved Uxbridge Road:
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