Tag: design

Experiments in casting

Design, Sculpture

I have never tried casting anything in plaster until now, using the large nylon salad bowl my mother gave me 20 years ago as my modelling form.
Playdough walls to define the shape and everything covered liberally with Vaseline. I poured the plaster and allowed it to thicken and spooned out the excess. I made two castings and after finishing them to a smooth polished surface, I glued them together.

Geometric Sculpture - Relueaux Triangle on a copper rotating base
As I failed to realise how fragile it was, ordinary Plaster of Paris without an armature, it broke . . .
Now I am starting again but bigger and better. I have acquired a large wok and a bag of terracotta coloured sculpture plaster which not only is very tough but also has iron inclusions which will gradually rust on the surface.

Repetition

Design, Photography, Sculpture
Cobbled Bridge
Cobbled Bridge in Warkworth

My booted friend saw this grating in Portmerion and knew I’d like it.

Crossing over thew railway line in Blaenau Ffestiniog, I presume the wooden rails are to stop people wandering off from the official route.

Railway Lines at Blaenau Ffestiniog

The watermill at Blaenau Ffestiniog, water drips running down in the gaps between the railings and below, the hods of thre wheel juxtaposed against the perspective lines of the slates on the roof beyond.

Watermill at Blaenau Ffestiniog

Watermill at Blaenau Ffestiniog

Slatted Shadows and Reflections 2

Architecture, Design, Photography

Straight railings casting their shadows on a rough stone wall.

Straight railings casting rippled shadows on a rough stone wall.

Accidentally having the camera on the wrong setting caused camera shake during the long exposure but made an even more interesting image from this quilted copper-lined elevator in the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.

Quilted Copper lined walls in the elevator in the Art Gallery of Ontario

And these over-sized wooden blinds were marvellous, maybe I’m addicted to parallel lines.

Over-sized wooden venetian blinds in the Art Gallery of Ontario

Colour 2

Architecture, People, Photography

On a photo course in Italy with Frui , given free access to photograph the interior of a grand old house in the Abruzzo,  I chose to concentrate on the juxtaposition of colour, the light was intense with deep shadows.

Just about to eat the last peice of orange melon, pink lipstick – perfect .

More on Stairs

Architecture, Photography

The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto staircase designed by the Toronto-born architect Frank Gehry.

I spent quite a while taking of photos of this staircase. Walking down feels unusual as although the stair is open, the views outward are limited and you are enveloped in warm, subtly lit flowing forms.