Retirement almost upon me and should have more time to post my creative endeavours.  I just need to get up to date on all the new technology that's available to me to make this blog worth following.  If anyone is reading this can you please test my comment tag as I am not sure that comments are getting through... Many thanks........ The Cornish Artspert
 

Success ............... two tickets to the last evening of the World Athletic Championships 2017 and
the closing ceremony.  Not quite art but perhaps I can get some great action photograph for action sculpture.

Back and up and running.................technical obstacles now sorted so lets get going with some blogging...

Just love playing around with mannequins' but came across this one this one....  The Bolt.
Just waiting to see if we have been lucky to be in the draw for tickets for the closing ceremony to see him at next year's World Athletics Championships in London. 



 

Back again..... well there has been some activity on this blog.............. so I better keep putting something on it.

Drawn to the Valley is about to start in a few weeks... but before that Saltash Arts Week is about to kick off ....................... first for Saltash.... so it will be interesting to see how it goes.....
If you are down in Cornwall next week pop in and see what on...

Take a peek at this website.... for links with Arts and Crafts Artisans in Cornwall.......
www.cornwall-arts-and-crafts.co.uk

Be amazed....

Just fabulous... painting or photos, photos or paintings???

http://www.viralnova.com/realistic-paintings/

Americas Cup

 

For all those sailing enthusiasts ........................ nothing more exciting than this at the moment.... USA with British Ben Ainsley as tactician is no creeping up on New Zealand..... This is the longest Americas Cup for some time and the first to get to a clear 9 wins............. WILL IT BE TODAY?
LOOK AT THIS LINK.................................................................................
 http://www.americascup.com/en/news/3/news/18399/oracle-team-usa-takes-another-step-towards-defending 

I might be back but am I going to be productive..............

Yes I am back and ready to refire my blogging but as for the Challenge I set myself a few months ago...................well life took over and I failed miserably with my efforts..........a realistic challenge will be to blog at least once a week with something of quirky interest for you to share with others. Watch this space  

I'm back.

Its been some time since I posted on this site and was wondering if someone could test 'comments' for me as this site seems to have traffic but no comments or people joining it and if I have few followers I am wondering why.
Is it the content, format, or is there some difficulty with the links to comment or follow.
SO PLEASE SOMEONE .............. TEST IT FOR ME.    I need to hear from you ...

Another small knitted
hanging.  I will
most probably mount
this on felt..... watch
out for the next blog...
on this little beauty. 

Continuing with my small projects
this is hand knitted wire with beads.

This series of 3 doodles again stared with a
wavy line and developed into 3 different
views of it.
1.  This one is 'Lady with parasol and recliner'



Rotate 90 degrees clockwise and you get view 2



2.  This one is 'Sitting lady at work'








Rotate another 90 degrees clockwise and you get
view 3.....

'Lady washing clothes in the river'

Catching up with sharing my doodles
which I should have been putting on the
blog for my one a day challenge started
some time ago... but computers being
computers..... when up dating the
printer scanner it completely disconnected
itself only to find it took endless phone
calls to correct the installation which should
have been ..... so easy peasy..... watch this
space I am now on a roll...............

Just love the quirky door handle this one is
a definite 'thumbs up'.

Another Doodle....
Started with 4 simple lines

A little late to post for Halloween but
this decorated Pumpkin is a brilliant
idea for when the event is over.
I must remember to do this next year.

This is a quick minimal line sketch of the J Class 140ft yachts
that were racing in Falmouth this summer.  Amazing sight with about 30 racing crew.

This is another of my doodle pictures inspired by the weather, beach and the tide.

Having to catch up as my scanner is not working to get some of the work onto my blog.  I have had to revert to photographing it and then putting it into a folder and uploading that way. So catch up time if I can.  I have been working with copper wires for many years but decided to go back to gypsy knitting using silver wire. This is purely experimental and even included a section of beads which had already been threaded onto the wire.

Unfortunately I find the fine silver wire tarnishes and would need dipping in silver cleaner to keep it pristine but experimental work is always exciting and often leads you onto other things even though silver wire can be quite brittle if handled well you can create a good length to work with.

This is a piece of silk painting that I started several years ago and thought I should try and complete it. I have cropped it when scanning to get different interpretations of the work.   

Although I say its silk painting I actually used polyester fabric, silk paints and fabric pens.