27-02-12 Love Art & Design Weekly Showcase
Anyone who’s had a go at creating knows how hard it is to come up with something original. The agonising over ideas, perspiration to achieve perfection, then self-doubt if we’re any good at all.
Perhaps we’re all too hard on ourselves. Did you know that all the great artists learned from copying? Here is a wonderful short film by New York filmmaker, Kirby Ferguson, called Everything Is A Remix: The Elements of Creativity (Part 3) to inspire you.
Everything is a Remix Part 3 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.
“The most dramatic results can happen when ideas are combined. By connecting ideas together, creative leaps can be made, producing some of history’s biggest breakthroughs.” ~ Kirby Ferguson
So go forth to copy, transform and combine. And most importantly, enjoy yourself.
Karen
Actually Mummy… – Mood Lighting 
Last weekend we visited my Grandma, and dropped in on my favourite place, the kind of room that could feature in my ideal home. E.ON Innovation are featuring stuff just like this in tandem with an upcoming show on Channel 4, and I want them to choose this as a key feature in their home of the future:
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harvey and quinn – Harvey and Quinn jewelley
Jewellery made from unusual and interesting vintage buttons with a contemporary twist.
Rachel and Lucy scour the country sourcing beautiful buttons that are lying in forgotten corners and highlighting the fine details of their design with gold leaf and Japanese washi paper. They then find the best combinations of shape and colour to create unique earrings, brooches and rings for people who appreciate the unusual and the beautiful.
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DorkyMum – The Beach Debris Family
DorkyDad went out for a walk one day, and came back telling me about a brilliant bit of beach art that he’d found – some pieces of rubbish that folk had found by the shore and turned into sculptures.
The next day I went out to try and find them myself, and it took quite a while… my eyesight is a bit rubbish and I’d been avoiding getting too near the group of sculptures because I thought they were a group of real people sitting relaxing!
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The Camel’s Hump – The Right to Create
I do some creative things. I’ve hosted a few art exhibitions and displayed my stuff in public and all that kind of arty crap, so I like to consider myself an artist. (No, please don’t stop reading. It makes me feel better to consider myself an artist when I’m at work stacking shelves in a supermarket at 3 in the morning). But because I need to earn a living I have to go to work full time, so I can only be a part time artist. And this pisses me off. And gets me thinking.
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House With No Name – Lucian Freud at the National Portrait Gallery
The exhibition is, quite simply, stunning. It spans seven decades and gives a real sense of Freud’s world – his family, friends and lovers, many of whom sat for him. The paintings themselves (more than 100) are a tour de force, scrupulously detailed, often very personal and not necessarily flattering. I’m no art critic but stand-out portraits for me included Girl in a Dark Jacket, a wide-eyed portrait of his first wife Kitty Garman and a series of life-sized portraits of the late performance artist Leigh Bowery (famed for his amazing costumes and body piercings, he sat naked for Freud).
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Love Chic Living – Chic Showcase: Tea Towel Heaven
Ok, so maybe it’s not something that we all get enthused about every day of the week.
Tea towels, I hear you say. Really?
Oh yes, tea towels I reply, they are definitely to be desired.
Well these are anyway. A friend recently hooked me up with fabulously named store ‘To Dry For’ . Tea towel nirvana, she described it as. And oh yes, it certainly is.
Here you will find all sorts of designer tea towels to covet. All kinds of wonderful, bold, quirky and funny designs all waiting to adorn your hands during the drying up.
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Not Just A Mummy – New textiles & sketchbook stuff
I started textiles this week but i started my sketchbook last week as i had to do research. My inspirations have been Carolyn Saxby, Alice Kettle, Pauline Bubridge and Henry Moore. I did do a post called I’m In Love which was about Carolyn’s work. I thought i would share some photos of work i have done so far plus some in my sketchbook but not all of it as i have done lots of writing and research.
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Mammasaurus – If I could have any job in the world
Living the hedonistic bohemian dream I would rent a little studio in a grotty but classical building in the centre of the city, high up with amazing views when I could express myself. I would spend hours there every day drawing sketches of attractive naked young men. Of course being the true bohemian artiste I would have to have meaningless sex with them all afterwards so that I could really ‘become one’ with my work. I would suffer this for ‘my art’.
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