The finished garden feature. No mortar, every stone placed carefully by hand, unbeatable sustainability credentials, and guaranteed to last hundreds of years. What's not to like?
The niche is also a very unusual design. I've never seen a niche with a vertical stone backing and wanted to try to make one. It worked a treat, and our clients have something really unique.
I also love how the colours of the stone really come through after the rain.
Ok, pour celui-là vous allez avoir envie/besoin d’un peu de contexte :
La semaine dernière, à peu près au même moment où un ministère examinait les tests PISA et concluait que les jeunes sont pas des lumières, chez nous une élève s’énervait car sa feuille d’exercices mentionnait un pays qu’elle connaissait pas : le Goéland (prononcez « Goélande »)
Loin de se laisser abattre, le prof m’a demandé une carte de cette terre mystérieuse.
La voici donc :
I wasn't able to be there for the finishing touches (last of the copes, shaping etc etc) but I took these photos anyway. I'll pop back for 'final' photos in a few months when our customer has finished their garden and the stone has settled in.
This is a 3.5 metre curve, 1.2m on the tallest side, 1m on the shortest side, two cheekends, a niche and undulating cope line to mirror the beautiful hills behind it.
The evil queen, the evil mother. The one who can't stand the time of her beauty passing.
In the brothers Grimm version I own the queen asks „Mirror mirror tell me...” there's no wall mentioned so I decided to go with Heather Pollington interpretation which is very #symbolic for our times.
This year I'm going to try doing my own inktober comic! I've been mulling on this idea for a while now and I've finally decided to just try doing it. I'm not sure it'll quite end up how I want, but it'll be good practice. Here's page 1: #inktober#inktober2023#TraditionalArt#ink#comic#comicart
Il y a 3 ans, j'avais commencé à essayer de faire des impressions lino en deux couches, j'ai tenté avec des montagnes, c'était un peu long fastidieux, mais j'aime toujours autant le résultat 💙
In the last few days I've switched my painting style almost exclusively towards the cottagecore aesthetic, with very limited palettes of muted gouache colors. It's possible that I'm entering a new phase in my art that might last a while. While cottagecore is not a new style for me, I was switching to other themes whenever I felt like painting something different, mostly with watercolor. But having done a few paintings of that style now, it's obvious that gouache is the right medium for it. You need the layering complexity to get the best out of the style, you need the painterly feel and thickness of the paint. So far, I'm having a blast!
I was a big Greek mythology buff at school. My dad had bought an encyclopedia in the late '70s, and I was learning everything about it via it. Naturally, my favorite character was goddess Athena. All about knowledge & wisdom. The most kind-hearted of the gods too. So I had to paint a portrait in her honor.
A few years back I did pet portraits for my followers in the other place, both for some change because I was broke and for free when I felt like drawing something cute but had no ideas and liked to make people happy. Some of them turned out quite nice!