BELLA BEE

Massive waves of winter, pastel.

#ice #frozen #lake #winter

It's been cold. Water sitting in once soft mud, footsteps of people walking round the lake, dries and cracks making little works of art....

#lane #drawing #hedgerow #trees

#charcoal #copse #drawing

Using lead hand cast forms of common place structure (chicken wire). Describing the common threads of found and formed history we use to...

The second week of January. This time last year saw posts looking to Spring with the fresh shoots of new growth and then, bam, heavy...

As ever, the year starts with a peaceful lull as people settle back into their routines. It takes a while. As most, I usually find this...

Christmas usually sees a few new sketchbooks, their pages clean, inviting the stroke of a brush. Up by the lake the banks have been...

It is the end of the year, so possibly it is that giving inspiration to the final incarnation of the lead casting project? Just a small...

Every quarter, there is a newsletter sent out. It is kept at just four a year as who wants to read more? Also having three months to...

It's not always easy to remember to take pictures and short film shots when working on a project, but I think there are enough here to...

This is the hardest of the three to cast, fungi being the easiest and leaves the next. Probably the tiny nature of the first done, it...

It seemed organising my mind (last post) worked, and I now see the act of putting the stones on top of each other has likely lead to the...

Sometimes, when considering a problem, it is necessary to shift the mind into another gear. When seeking to see in another way, the...

A break form the meting of lead. Oil on paper #art #painting #landscape #abstract

You know what they say; practise makes perfect. It's no where near perfect, but improvements are under way. There has now been enough...

It only seemed right to look up the name of the fungi which have been giving me so much fodder for casting in lead. I didn't quite get...

The material is possibly one of the easiest; lead. However, we are still dealing with metal and so rules apply. Everything that is...

This project is not going to plan. After collecting leaves, an easy task in autumn when they litter the ground, they were dried before...