I found this article while looking for collagraphs, and absolutely loved Eunice’s work and way of producing it… so clean and simple!

Read the article, and have a look at her website afterwards :)

Here’s the hot-air balloon tattoo I had done last February, here in Leeds. 

My first big adventure, all by myself, deserved to be embedded in my skin :)

Today I want to feature one of my favourite artists, who by coincidence happens to be my brother. He specialises in photography, but does sculpture, painting, and drawing as well. He’s studying to be an architect.

Here is his portfolio, show some love! :D

Tea, powdered rock from the mountains of Petra, and lemon + fire can be used for screen printing or painting, simply by adding a medium to them! I got some interesting results by screen printing these materials.

I was invited to take part in the International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day, and thought I might spread the invitation.

“Guerrilla gardening is gardening on land that the gardeners do not have legal right to use, often an abandoned site or area not cared for by anyone. It encompasses a very diverse range of people and motivations, from the enthusiastic gardener who spills over their legal boundaries to the highly political gardener who seeks to provoke change through direct action. The land that is guerrilla gardened is usually abandoned or neglected by its legal owner. That land is used by guerrilla gardeners to raise plants, frequently focusing on food crops or plants intended to beautify an area. This practice has implications for land rights and land reform; it promotes re-consideration of land ownership in order to reclaim land from perceived neglect or misuse and assign a new purpose to it.”

(Definition from Wikipedia)

RUSSIA IN COLOUR… 100 YEARS AGO!

Here is an article featuring 34 beautiful, striking, full-colour photographs of the Russian Empire, taken more than 100 years ago! Really amazing.

“In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images… When these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun.”

Click here to go to the article.

I’ve been printing linocut stamps onto fabric for the past 2 days… t-shirts anyone? :D

Motifs are from carvings found in the Shobak (Montreal) Castle in Jordan.