Showing posts with label other cool stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label other cool stuff. Show all posts

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Oh my! Dalton M. Ghetti's 'sharpened' pencils

I absolutely adore miniature things and you know that I am quite obsessed with up-cycling mundane and every day objects.  Well I think I may have found my favourite sculptor EVER!

Dalton M. Ghetti must have the steadiest, most brain surgeony exact hands - he carves the most exquisite miniature sculptures out of the ends of lead pencils.  They are amazingly worn and battered pencils at that, so happy they are not new :)  I am still finding it so hard to get my head around the scale of it all - they are tiny!  How on earth does he get them so perfect and so exact - it is completely mind bending for someone who breaks my pencils just about every time I go to sharpen one!

Here are some of my favourites but you absolutely must go and check out his page here to read all about this guy. 
 


























............and the entire alphabet is just simply amazing!



oooh doesn't it just make you happy looking at them - love artwork that does that!


Wednesday, December 14, 2011

I'm so in love with...... felissimo’s 500 pencils!

This may be hard to understand for those not completely obsessed with colour and pencils and storage like me.  But I really NEED this......... it is an illustrators dream!!!! I am just beyond excited about this amazing wall of pencils - 500 to be exact.  Actually so far beyond excited I was seriously jumping around in my seat grinning like an idiot when I first saw it.


This set was designed by felissimo for social designer .  The complete set of 500 coloured pencils consists
of 20 units with each pencil telling its own story with a unique name - lemon drop, Norwegian sky, drizzly afternoon and tragedy - the names themselves are as interesting as a story book and the colours as beautiful as a piece of art.  If you buy the Aurora display case, the impact of all the colours together is just stunning.


25 colors x 20 months
"It's about enjoying an unhurried creative process.  As you build your collection, the pencils become your story and your experience.  Each month for 20 months, 25 colors arrive by mail from Japan - packaged in like tones and hues.  The collection gradually takes shape as each colored pencil set arrives, expanding the possibility of all that has yet to be dreamed."  Eeek! how exciting - this is totally the way to build up a collection - I know I would be sooo excited waiting for each new package to arrive.


hmmm, now how to justify this as a must have expense (especially difficult when most of my illustration is with porcelain paint on plates)  Perhaps I could just call it a piece of investment art?



Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Kill your TV, bake cake, drink tea

Love this!  Adding to the Christmas wish list (hint hint)

Printed using red and black ink on recycled cream paper, using traditional letterpress type by Aardvark, in Hastings, UK


Buy it here - and it just happens to be one of my favourite shops too :)

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Now if I had a castle.....

Far out!  I love, love, love this awesome chandelier by awesome Dutch makers Rock and Royal.  How have I not seen this before?  They have been around since 2005!

Now if I had a castle or even just a teeny little renovated Gothic church I would so be calling them up!  (assuming said castle or church meant that I was swimming in money)


and maybe these for the smaller rooms ;)


They even do custom mosaics - sigh!


Yep that's a mosaic fly alright - a lovely piece for the kitchen!

                         

Monday, August 22, 2011

Something to think about.....

“Draw something, sew something, cook something, sing something, build something, make something .... 
buy nothing.”


Original quote from Gala Darling - found on Pinterest and I even found the stencil if you feel like spreading the word! ....