The Whitmore Square Fair was a bit of a disaster weather wise – we were in serious danger of losing our tents – but it was a brave effort…
The Whitmore Square Fair was a bit of a disaster weather wise – we were in serious danger of losing our tents – but it was a brave effort on the part of the organisers. I’d like to see more artists demonstrating next year – this year it was just art therapy and children’t painting workshops. Sometimes I draw portraits at markets and fairs, but last year there were six portrait artists! I think there was just one this year – I didn’t do it, I was too busy packaging cards and holding my artwork down in the gale! I’ll be doing a couple of weeks at the Festival Centre art market at the end of November, to coincide with the Guitar festival. That’s on every Sunday, plus you can exhibit your work inside the Centre if you want to. Go along and see, if you’re in Adelaide. I did well at the St Catherine’s school exhibition in Stirling, selling all four of the pictures I put in. I like not having to collect pictures at the end of the exhibition. It probably helped that my pictures were small and affordable! Next exhibition is the Painted Dog exhibition at Belair schools Novemer 30 – Dec 2, / in aid of African painted dogs – Monarto Zoo bred 13 of them last year. Previously they bred a litter of 11. Then straight after that we have the opening of the Studio Artists’ exhibition on December 7 at the Hahndorf Academy, and at the same time. the Miniatures exhibition at Red Poles Gallery and Cafe in Mclaren Vale. So I am stupidly busy.
Tomorrow – Dec 7 – we open ‘Show and Tell’ at the Hahndorf Academy / Studio artists, ...
Tomorrow – Dec 7 – we open ‘Show and Tell’ at the Hahndorf Academy / Studio artists, friends and students. And on Sunday Dec 16, there is a Miniatures show at Red Poles / in Mclaren Vale. / 15 south Australian printmakers, including me if i get the work finished!
For those of you that have had a chance to peek at the miniature horses this is the story that accompanies ‘the event.’ Carol, the lov…
For those of you that have had a chance to peek at the miniature horses this is the story that accompanies ‘the event.’ Carol, the lovely lady who sends me on the horsey escapades knew a long time ago that when a miniature horse event came up, I would be the woman to photograph it. Now the thing with very small horses is that they are looked down on by the other horses. Woops I didn’t mean that literally, admittedly they would have to be on a step or a hill to be looked up at. Or maybe one wearing a parachute would shock the shire horses. Anyway enough of my creative meanderings, oh and please note horses in parachutes is not something I condone…. Anyway miniature horses are often sneered at by the big boys in the arena. Who knows why because these dwarf horses live longer because they are lower to the ground, we are talking biology, circulation and pressure on the heart… I bet you didn’t know that. Or those that did… Well done. So prior to the event/ photographing I was advised not to laugh. If I was going to laugh I had to be unobvious about it. How on earth you hide a hearty cackle is beyond me. It would be like asking a lion to roar subtley. Anyway the first thing that happened when I arrived and witnessed my first miniature horse was that I pointed and said ‘ahhhh’. That was completely against protocol. The next thing I said was, ‘God they are so cute.’ Still against protocol. Anyway I soon noticed that these little guys were feisty blighters; whenever they could cause trouble or generally rebel they were going to do it. Many were giving their owners a run for their money and rearing up. I particularly enjoyed this because even on their hind legs they weren’t beyond a five foot six ladies shoulder. So this event the owners walk the horses around the arena, in a display. The way they walk and are presented gain marks. At the end of each round a prestigious rossette is given to the best in each category. Whilst the high society showed off their lovely little horses, George the goat snuck in. He wanted to be a miniature horse. No joke, a goat who wanted to be a horse…. I think there might be a book there somewhere. Anyway George was escorted off by the horns. In the mean time numerous rounds took place and I was asked to do specific horse portraits… It was brilliant until I had to do a portrait of the stud horse and mare. Now let me give you idea of how this event was…. War of the worlds was played from tannoys as miniature horses pranced past, each trying to b feistier than the next. Then came the music from Charlie Chaplin, the music where he seems to be getting in trouble. At this point bear in mind I can not laugh and there are a crowd of miniature horse admirers mesmerised by these two fine specimins. So I go to take an image that advertises this stud farm perfectly and notice that the stud has an extra leg. The little guy was not that little and the mare was quite aware of it. So I asked the handlers to ‘push it back in’ I will leave you to work out how they did it with a stick… Anyway for about twenty minutes I tried to get a clear picture without any appearance of a sausage. Could I? It was like the stud was glancing at me and laughing to himself. At the same time Charlie chaplin music perfectly in time with the roll out of the sausage display. All the while I hid behind the camera in hysterics. Finally I took the camera from in front of my face and the crowd realised that I was struggling. So I laughed heartily and it was infectious. It seems that a woman laughing hysterically was enough to put the stud off and enabled me to get the image I needed without additional appendage. It was sausage free! One more note. Afterwards one of the horse owners came over. You can use photoshop if any of those photos are good. I said yes I might do that, Imagine a horse with six legs rather than five…. Moral of the story: when attempting to create a sausageless image make sure you laugh hysterically and loudly!!!!
Akiko left comment on one of my photographs so I thought I’d go have a look to see what she does. I was blown away with her ‘big cat’ ar…
Akiko left comment on one of my photographs so I thought I’d go have a look to see what she does. I was blown away with her ‘big cat’ art, please pop in to visit her bubble, what amazed me even more is that most of her works are miniatures. Akiko Enjoy Kind regards Macky
Hi All : ) Miniatures and Mammoths is up and running. So this is an official invitation to all my redbubble friends…old and new..( and …
Hi All : ) Miniatures and Mammoths is up and running. So this is an official invitation to all my redbubble friends…old and new..( and some yet to be : )) to join up. We can’t wait to see your small and large inspired photographs,art and writings! / I won’t be online much as my daughter Sarah is in hospital.. but as soon as she’s home I will go through everyone’s work and comment. Thanks to Daniel and Trena for your offers of help….I couldn’t do it without you! Wen xoxox
Toy Poodle Alex is the winner of the The eyes of a friend challenge-...
Toy Poodle Alex is the winner of the The eyes of a friend challenge Toy Poodle Alex This got me by surprise since so many beautiful shots of lovely dogs were added to the challenge! So I feel especially humbled. / Thanks to all who voted and Thanks to the administrators of the Group for their great support. Congratulations to all the other 9 artists who scored, and to everyone who participated.
Thank you so much to two new groups I have just found for featuring my photos: To the hosts of “Endangered Plants” for featuring “Show…
Thank you so much to two new groups I have just found for featuring my photos: To the hosts of “Endangered Plants” for featuring “Showy Lady’s Slipper” thank you Very much To the hosts of “Miniatures & Mammoths” for featuring “Nice Rack” thank you Very much as well. This is a second feature for both photos, I am just delighted.
a huge thank you goes out to the group hosts of “Miniatures and Mammoths” for featuring my photo “In Mommy’s Hands” this morning. I am…
a huge thank you goes out to the group hosts of “Miniatures and Mammoths” for featuring my photo “In Mommy’s Hands” this morning. I am so very happy for this. I called my daughter to have a look and this brought tears to her eyes. Thank you once again!
Thank you to the hosts of “Rivers, Lakes and Dams for once again featuring one of my photos “Beaver Creek” / !http://images-1.redbubble.ne…
Thank you to the hosts of “Rivers, Lakes and Dams for once again featuring one of my photos “Beaver Creek” / also, thank you to the hosts of “Miniatures and Mammoths” for featuring “Village Carolers”. This has really made my day special! / Dear friends, I don’t expect you to make comments on all of my journals, although I do so very much appreciate them with much love. I journal these to thank the group hosts for choosing my photos and to show all of you how much I appreciate them, as I appreciate each and every one of you for helping make my work what it is.
Wow what a beautiful morning……I would like to thank the Hosts; Daniel And Wendy (sweetscent62) for making my day by Featuring two of my p…
Wow what a beautiful morning……I would like to thank the Hosts; Daniel And Wendy (sweetscent62) for making my day by Featuring two of my pictures; “There is a Dinosaur in the Park” and “Hi Chuck, Out for Your Morning Walk” in the “Miniatures and Mammoths” Group.
I have been featured in the Miniatures and Mammoths group! My work, ” Tampa …
I have been featured in the Miniatures and Mammoths group! My work, Tampa Bay Lightning has been featured in the Bubble Jeopardy group. I am truly honored – thank you!
Wow what a beautiful morning the day before my birthday……I would like to thank the Hosts; Daniel And Wendy (sweetscent62) for making my d…
Wow what a beautiful morning the day before my birthday……I would like to thank the Hosts; Daniel And Wendy (sweetscent62) for making my day by featuring my picture; “Acorn Woodie’s Looking for Love” in their group.Thanks for the early present!!!
Big things come in small packages! Two FEATURES in one group. / I would like to express my thanks to the Hosts, Win x & Daniel for Featur…
Big things come in small packages! Two FEATURES in one group. / I would like to express my thanks to the Hosts, Win x & Daniel for Featuring my artwork “ Grain Millers Inc, 20-silo Mill” and “Damselfly on a Blue Summer Day” in “Miniatures and Mammoths” group. What a wonderful day this is tuning out to be.
_(If you’ve only added me to your watchlist recently and don’t know me very well, this journal would be easier to understand if you read …
(If you’ve only added me to your watchlist recently and don’t know me very well, this journal would be easier to understand if you read my profile description first.) Hello everyone :o) Well, it’s been about 2 months since I finished my previous school semester. It feels good to be back in this community again; though I’m still falling greatly behind. I already expected that I cannot be as active as I was before Rome; but at the same time London is keeping me busier than I expected. My job has been pretty stressful; I’ve had to work a lot of overtime and sometimes I brought work home over the weekend. Things have been crazy; for myself and the world; Recession, sudden heavy snowfalls (back in Canada that’s normal, but here in London it caused so much commotion to the extent that public transportation got suspended), Victoria wildfires… I’ve been working hard; but I’m in a different city so I also go out a lot and make the most out of it. I’ve written to my previous supervisor long ago about how I spent New Years, and he said I’ve done more in one day than many Londoners do in their lifetime world (Can read about my New Year’s eve here then in the comments I added how I spent New Years day). Since then I’ve been visiting many museums and galleries, and once in a while spending the day outdoors. The past few weeks have also been full of activity due to the Chinese New Years festivities. This year is the year of the Ox; a strong animal that endures hardship, and we too must endure during this difficult period. While this may be a difficult period, people know how to have a good time here. Things have been getting busy at work lately, but thankfully I’ve done a lot before I started working, and I do as much as I can on the days I go out. While I was studying in Rome I had not uploaded any new origami works (aside from origami calendars) on Redbubble, but my collection has actually been growing. The past semester the profs would often urge us to arrive some place by a certain time, only to end up waiting there for a long time before getting a tour or before the bus arrives. So I killed my time by making little miniatures. I’ve been doing the same at work; in my office I don’t have a permanent desk; so whenever the staff are finding a free desk for me, I’m either standing around, or doing origami. There was also once a blackout; hence we could not do work on our computers, which we rely on heavily. So I was doing origami while waiting for the power to come back, and apparently the person in front of me was also killing time with origami! He has the most awesome calendar :o) each day of the month has a set of origami instructions for different kinds of paper planes (you make the plane out of the calendar paper of the previous day; which would have the fold lines marked on it). This happened during the last week of January; which meant that the following Friday the Victoria and Albert Museum would be holding its Friday late event (which they do every last Friday of the month). The January 2009 event was in honour of Chinese New Year, and many workshops took place. I spent the evening at the “Fortune Boats” workshop, where I learned to fold a fortune boat. I tried doing some miniature ones (looks like I have not mastered that yet) and just for fun I did a bunch of other miniatures. So now my miniature origami collection (since September 2008 – earlier creations are back home in Canada) looks like this: Anything that is red – or that has any hint of red – was done at the Victoria and Albert museum. Usually I do my miniature origami with a square piece cut from a sheet of lined paper, and sometimes trace paper. At the museum I was provided actual origami paper :o). On the very left I have sasanqua flowers like the one in my Bloomed from Fingers. Next to the sasanquas are lilies; I’ve folded normal sized ones in my Substitute for a silent mouth of sorrow. Just below the lilies is a star, and below that are penguins; one of the small ones is in Penguin in a Snowstorm (the other small one is just one of those I folded during the blackout) and the bigger ones are from Arctic Playground. Above the lilies are camels (see The Search for Water). The top middle are the fortune boats, which I learned at the museum. To the right are two different groups of sailboats (see Life is a Journey and Sailing Along the Lifeline – apparently now my most viewed work; 3070 views.), and below are my typical miniature cranes (all my origami works on RB can be seen through the link in my profile description)… That week I really wanted to post a journal, but then I was overcome by the past two weeks by work and the Chinese New Year festivities during “China in London”. The last “China in London” event took place last weekend, and so the Chinese New Year excitement ended; though this past week brought me more surprises. On Monday as I was looking through my activity monitor I noticed that many had commented and favourited my Every Little Peace, and then I realized that it made the featured pages! I had stopped posting journals about features for awhile but this one had me blown away; no other feature ever brought this much attention to my work (it seemed to encourage viewers to explore other works in my portfolio as well…). In fact “Every Little Peace” was not very popular initially, and now it is my third most favourited work; the day it was featured it received 12 favourites; which may possibly be the most favourites I ever got on a single piece of work in one day (that or Born from the Hand which I recall getting a lot of faves on the day I uploaded it.) In the days that followed it got 8 more favourites, so since the feature it has received 20 more favourites, and now it has 28 favourites. No doubt I was excited about the feature, and wanted to post about it right away, but there was already so much more that I wanted to share first that I didn’t know where to start. I put it off… and then the next day my latest T-shirt design Song of the Wind gets featured on the homepage! It doesn’t end there… yesterday I got a surprise when I read a comment on my work stating that it was used as the cover image for a group challenge! And I’m not even a member of the group hosting that challenge! So yeah, this year has been intense – stressful but exciting at the same time; and there is much more to look forward to; I’ll FINALLY be graduating this year (5 and a half year university program – it’s too long :P – and it’ll be longer IF I do masters); I have to go through the pain of a school semestre again to graduate :-P; I’ll be back in school again in May… It’s also a very important time in my life for me; a time for developing my career, and establishing what I really want to do… I’ve starting getting a clearer idea, and realy should be getting on it; but I’ve been too occupied; but for some parts, that’s actually a good thing. Anyhoo, hope you all have a lovely weekend and thanks for reading :o)
to my 65th birthday…..just found out my ‘Tom Thumb’ picture has been featured in the Miniature and Mammoths group. ( I really will have…
to my 65th birthday…..just found out my ‘Tom Thumb’ picture has been featured in the Miniature and Mammoths group. ( I really will have to learn how to do the link thingy) Thanks so much to all concerned…you have made an old lady very happy…......Pat
Thank you for the featuring of both I’m the king of the castle and Looking to eatyou, to be a part of the Red Bubble Clan is something e…
Thank you for the featuring of both I’m the king of the castle and Looking to eatyou, to be a part of the Red Bubble Clan is something else, thank you all the host of Miniatures and Mammoths, kind regards Rob
Remember the fun we had creating Little Planets? W…
Remember the fun we had creating Little Planets? Well here’s another cool technique we think you might enjoy playing around with. Tilt shift miniature photography uses a technique where a tilt shift lens is used to make real life scenes appear as miniature scale models. / / The good news for those who don’t have the budget for an expensive lens is that this effect can easily be achieved using photo editing software like PhotoShop or Gimp (which is free). Below are some amazing tilt shift miniatures from around the web to get you inspired: / Keith Loutit’s time-lapse tilt-shift videos / Serpentine by Harald Kirr / Harvard Book Store by Azripal / Tiltshift, outside Waterloo station by Cloudsoup Keen to give this a try? The following links should help to get you started: Creating the tilt shift miniature effect in Photoshop or Gimp: Gimp tutorial PhotoShop tutorial by Alison Johnston Faking tilt-shift in PhotoShop by Martin Pot Using a tilt shift lens: Build a DIY Tilt-Shift Camera Lens Using a tilt shift lens Using a tilt shift lens (video) And just for fun … (purists – look away now): A website that will do it for you An app for your iphone that will allow you to achieve the miniature effect For more inspriation, look no further than these tilt shift miniatures from our very own talented bubblers: / US Open final … in minature by hazy / Sydney Opera House by Lorraine Creagh / Robin Hoods Bay, Tilt Shift by TallGuy / Monsal Head – The Peak District by Steven Lee / Minature Bangkok by David Goymer If you’d like to give this a go, please feel free to post your results below … and don’t forget to add them to the The Tilt-Shift Photography Gallery. Good luck!
Thank you all so much for your lovely comments and compliments on this photo of Snowflake, our baby! The BIGGEST compliment is to have th…
Thank you all so much for your lovely comments and compliments on this photo of Snowflake, our baby! The BIGGEST compliment is to have the photo put up as a Feature on this group. Once again, thanks to all… / Hugssss / Andrew
I would like to thank the Mediators and all members of Those Colorful Paints (APHA) and Pintos for the feature of my photo “Snow Flake …
I would like to thank the Mediators and all members of Those Colorful Paints (APHA) and Pintos for the feature of my photo “Snow Flake – 2 Weeks Old”. / This feature is very much appreciated and, unfortunately the only thing I can do is to say “Thank You all as a gesture of my appreciation.
Actually it all started back in June, while I was still in school. A writer for the Montreal magazine Plaisirs de Vivre/Living with Style…
Actually it all started back in June, while I was still in school. A writer for the Montreal magazine Plaisirs de Vivre/Living with Style just happened to come across my bubble and was particularly interested in my origami. She got in touch with me proposing to publish my origami in their next magazine (which is out now), and said she would send me a pdf once the magazine is published. I have been eagerly waiting for her e-mail, which has finally arrived. Actually she sent it last week, but for some reason I wasn’t notified about it; I had been communicating with her using a different e-mail address than my usual, which is supposed to automatically forward everything to my usual e-mail address, which it didn’t this time. But today I checked that other e-mail address and there was her e-mail with her pdfs… sent last week :P You can see my work on the bottom right corner of pg3 here / / And I wonder why everything looks brighter in this pdf; makes me wonder if the published version looks like that~ Update: I have a hard copy now The works published here are my Born From the Hand, Born From Fingers and 3cm Family Swim
Hey all. I posted some photos of my artwork at two different exhibitions up on my blog. I could post them all again over here, but I am l…
Hey all. I posted some photos of my artwork at two different exhibitions up on my blog. I could post them all again over here, but I am lazy ;) Please click on this link to view my blog post with the pictures Also you can see some pictures of my latest min artworks, along with my tubby cat Harley for size reference ;)
I suppose one can refer to my work as “nano-origami” but the term has a more specific meaning. Some may remember my last post where I sha…
I suppose one can refer to my work as “nano-origami” but the term has a more specific meaning. Some may remember my last post where I shared some insight on my research on how origami inspired technology. Today it is also providing a new revolution in the field of nanotechnology, which usually consists of flat surfaces since small devices are already difficult to fabricate. But researchers at MIT have come up with devices that are first fabricated as flat surfaces, and then folded to create devices with better performance. The folds accomplished right now are very simple, yet it makes a difference; just like how the human brain is folded so information can travel more quickly from one region to another. You can read more and see a video here The same applies to architecture as well; one of the first things I learned was that if you fold something, it becomes stronger – this is what led to the evolution of the arch. Amazing what a fold does! / / / / On other news, today I made a sale on my Tiny Treasures – Miniature Origami calendar! Thank you so much to the mystery buyer! This is actually my first calendar sale (other than to myself) so it means a lot =)
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