Zen spa still life with Raku vase, natural dried flowers, basin, and stones.
All the delicious delights and colours of beautiful Tuscany painted in a stylish, colourful, lively composition.
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I spied these beauties all lined up ready! Lovely colours and shapes. All made locally in Gharyan, Libya. / . / ! http://images-3.redbubble.com/img/art/border:blackwithdetail/product:mounted-print/size:medium/view:preview/666779-1-gharyan-ancient-pottery.jpg!:http://www.redbubble.com/people/craigshender/art/666779-1-gharyan-ancient-pottery / . / / . / / . / / . / / . /
This is another shot taken in Pakistan capturing the beauty that is created by the hands of the people. Here you see a man’s hands forming a bowl identical to the tens and twenties he has already created that morning. What you don’t see is that he sits on a flat rock on the floor surrounded by sand and gravel under a tattered tent shielding him from the blistering heat. But these conditions do not effect the perfection of his craft. In the hour I spent with him, never did a bowl turn out to be anything other than what he expected, perfect.
Oil. 80×80cm ‘Experts calculated that in the heyday there were up to 4,000 bottle kilns in Stoke-on-Trent with as many as 2,000 still standing in the 1950’s. The Clean Air Act of 1953 sounded the death-knell for the smoky, coal fired oven. There are 47 still standing today – all are listed buildings.’
I use to do pottery and this is one of my pieces I did. Edited in Photoshop
Just finished this historical journey through the cultural and tribal advances and achievements of a prehistoric people called the “ANASAZI” – pronounced ah-nah-Sah-zee, as my granddaughter gets ready to journey there and other parts of the Southwest.
This is an incense burner that I bought on Koh Kred island; a small man-made island just outside of Bangkok, Thailand. It is home to the Mon community, known to be skilled potters. The island is small enough that you can go around on foot in about a couple of hours (no cars are allowed). The guide told us to walk so that the water was always to our left so that we would not lose our way. I of course realized at one point that the water was to my right … typical! In trying to find my way back, I stumbled upon this building that had pottery work as far as the eye could see. As I was taking photos, a woman grabbed my arm and lead me in to a row of four men who were spinning pottery … my own private showing!
Female figure in mind body immersion with cracked earth.
Old scratched and dented clay pot! All of my photographs are now available to buy in gallery size prints, on paper or canvas* Please contact me directly for sizes and pricing! My Sales / UrbanArt YOU CAN VIEW MY STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY here
Oil on canvas. 70×70cm . / A view of Stoke-on-Trent in the past before the Clean Air Act of the 1950s. Some of the tenants used old ‘saggers’ to make walls. Saggers being the earthenware pots used to stack crockery for firing in the bottle ovens.
Featured In: / -Layered With Texture This is a piece of my daughter’s pottery and one of my favourites. I love the shape and glaze on this one and, of course, I’m so proud of her and that her teacher has told her she’s advancing surprisingly quickly. I’m not surprised. :-D
You know, the wonderful thing about still life is that the subject is still ....a very big plus after spending so much time trying to get macro shots of flowers that blow willy nilly in the slightest breeze and create a memory card full of out of focus shots. The other thing that I’m loving is the way the subject doesn’t mind all the fiddling ….being arranged and re-arranged…although I do think I heard a bit of a squeak from these onions and potatoes. They may have been on the verge of going on strike after all the manhandling. :-D HollyCawfieldPhotography
Featured In: / -Still Life And Food Photography / -Fabulous Flowers The roses that were my Valentine’s gift have dried and the pottery vase from my daughter has just been waiting for the right ‘something’ to fill it. My plan with these photographs of my daughter’s pottery is to photograph as many of her pieces as possible before they’ve all been given away so she’ll have a record of her work. I’ve mentioned before that I find roses difficult to photograph. Well, dried roses are even worse! LoL The camera picks up every very dry area and makes a spectacular blown-out highlight. You wouldn’t think a photograph of roses would be accompanied by some rather awful growling noises on the part of the photographer but maybe those growls added some texture. :-D HollyCawfieldPhotography
The pottery series continues. After a visit to my daughter’s, I came home with quantities of it to photograph. She’s obviously a trusting soul….I think she expects me to return it. :-)
The potter’s son. Potter’s colony, Pune, India.
Fourth in the Stoke-on-Trent series of paintings of the Potteries before the clean air act of 1953. Oil. 70×70cm / giclee prints available from www.creativestoke.co.uk
About a month ago I was bought some beautiful tulips. I sketched them in pencil hoping I could use them in a later painting, here they are. Of course, there had to be a cat too, this one is called Tulalah. She is shy and likes to hide, she loves only the best things in life, so has her favourite Clarice Cliff pottery on show. Acrylic on boxed canvas
70×70cm. Oil / 5th in a series of oil paintings of Stoke-on-Trent. / This one is loosely based on the Spode factory (now largely demolished) / ‘Spode has been part of Stoke-on-Trent’s industrial heritage for almost 250 years. On 6th November 2008 it called in administrators, who said the china maker had been hit by the recession and left cash-strapped because of a failure to sell part of its Church Road factory for development. In April 2009 it was announced that the Stoke based Portmeirion pottery company had bought Spode and Royal Worcester from the hands of administrators, thus ensuring the continuance of these names’. / (source: www.thepotteries.org)
Captured with one studio strobe. Nikon D200, Lens Nikkor 28-105 f3.5/4.5
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