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Bella Bee
Jan 30, 20191 min read
Ice sculptures
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....
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Bella Bee
Jan 17, 20191 min read
On the wire
Using lead hand cast forms of common place structure (chicken wire). Describing the common threads of found and formed history we use to...
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Bella Bee
Jan 10, 20191 min read
Sprouting
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...
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Bella Bee
Jan 3, 20191 min read
January peace
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...
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Bella Bee
Dec 30, 20181 min read
Goodbye, old year
Christmas usually sees a few new sketchbooks, their pages clean, inviting the stroke of a brush. Up by the lake the banks have been...
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Bella Bee
Dec 27, 20181 min read
Going gold
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...
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Bella Bee
Dec 15, 20182 min read
Newsletter time
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...
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Bella Bee
Dec 11, 20181 min read
Video short
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...
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Bella Bee
Dec 7, 20181 min read
Twig
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...
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Bella Bee
Nov 29, 20181 min read
Leaf on concrete
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...
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Bella Bee
Nov 28, 20181 min read
Quietening the noise
Sometimes, when considering a problem, it is necessary to shift the mind into another gear. When seeking to see in another way, the...
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Bella Bee
Nov 17, 20181 min read
Autumn Comes
A break form the meting of lead. Oil on paper #art #painting #landscape #abstract
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Bella Bee
Nov 16, 20181 min read
Leaf off
You know what they say; practise makes perfect. It's no where near perfect, but improvements are under way. There has now been enough...
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Bella Bee
Nov 14, 20181 min read
Panaeolus Semiovatus
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...
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Bella Bee
Nov 13, 20182 min read
Open cast moulding
The material is possibly one of the easiest; lead. However, we are still dealing with metal and so rules apply. Everything that is...
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Bella Bee
Nov 10, 20181 min read
Copper leaf
This project is not going to plan. After collecting leaves, an easy task in autumn when they litter the ground, they were dried before...
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