Mr Shapiro

Mr Shapiro (who is actually a Miss)

Would like to say a Big Thank You on my behalf.

I received so many kind birthday wishes yesterday

It's been a little overwhelming.

Love the work of Australian illustrator / maker Fruzsi Kenez (aka PeachPatrol)

Portraits & Masks

Fé's  (aka Miss Longstocking) self-portraits

My Images of the Day

Don't forget Mr Spoqui's recycled mask contest over here

Ends March 31st.

Dylan (14) got carried away in our workshop and made a dog mask:

Take an old cardboard box, an empty milk bottle, a pair of Savannah's tights,  plastic bottle caps, a dirty rag and a worn leather gardening glove... hey presto! You have a dog, of sorts!

Reduce-Reuse-Recycle

I always say!

Snippets

 

Snippets, magic moments...

A few photographs from Jubejuss's portfolio.

I love this Estonian photographer's portraits in particular.

Hope you enjoy browsing his work too.

Emily Ulmer

In many ways, I see my images as a momentary impression of a point in time that we all leave behind - Emily Ulmer

I admit quite freely that I know very little about photography. However, occassionally I happen upon images like these and I am in intrigued. Los Angeles-based Emily Ulmer's children's portraits have a certain je-ne-sais-pas quoi about them, an atmosphere, a quality of light, that draw me in and make me want to find out more.

These two girls are especially captivating, don't you think?

Emily began her career by taking portraits of young people in that pivotal moment of transition from adolescence to adulthood. She has since become attracted to documenting childhood, and attempts to show the beauty of this key moment in life in its most natural state, photographing children in their own environments.

Emily is currently doing commissioned portraits as well as children's fashion stories, and can be contacted via her professional website. I hope we'll be seeing more of her work in the very near future.

Christian Faur

The Dance

"My earliest memories of making art involve the use of wax crayons. I can still remember the pleasure of opening a new box of crayons: the distinct smell of the wax, the beautifully colored tips, everything still perfect and unused. Using the first crayon from a new box always gave me a slight pain. Through a novel technique that I have developed, I again find myself working with the familiar form of the crayon.

Because of the three-dimensional nature of the crayons, the individual surface images appear to change form as one moves about the gallery space. The images completely disappear when viewed from close up, allowing one to read the horizontally sequenced crayon text and to take in the beautifully colored crayon tips -- all the while being reminded of that first box of crayons." Christian Faur.

Departure

Mortgage on the Future

Amazing portraits created from hand-cast encaustic crayons arranged point up in a box. Like a Pointillist painter, Christian Faur uses coloured wax crayons as pixels, forming vivid images from rows and rows of dots of colour. Brilliant, ingenious work from this US artist whose art intertwines form and function, enabling the medium to become the message.

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Copyright: Christian Faur