Dove Real Beauty Sketches

I saw this Dove advert and like many would have skipped it but due to it being art based I watched all the way through. The genuine comments and views of how women view their own beauty struck a cord. I meet many throughout my creative day who are so hard about themselves and negative in many ways. It was so good to see the contrast of how the women described themselves to the FBI forensic artist,Gil Zamora and how they were described by others. The Dove campaign highlights how we see ourselves and how others view us, often completely differently. A must for all to see. Congratulations to Dove for expressing these views in such a visual way. "You are more beautiful than you think"

Cas Holmes

I went to the NEC Birmingham yesterday to visit' The Festival of Quilts', Exhibition. There were so many wonderful quilts, textiles, artists showing and demonstrating their work and of course lots of opportunity to buy amazing materials and books for inspiration.
Several of us spoke to Cas Holmes who is originally from Norfolk, so we had some fun with that!
"Normal for Norfolk!".
I brought her latest book, "The Found Object', and as you can tell by the title, what her work is all about. Her exhibition was outstanding and the integral way she joins art mediums together is often invisible, making the work seem transparent in nature.
 As you may know my work also encompasses found and recycled objects. I am always trying to find the 'magic within' everyday often overlooked objects and extol the virtues of recycling.
The interview above is an overview of Cas and her work in her studio.
Visit her website at www.casholmestextiles.co.uk

Digital Collage

Most artists start with their practice and now move through into other art skills and develop a completely new piece of work.
I think, create and make the work then photograph place on a blog or website and then go on to manipulate into digital imagery, combining further to create something unlike the original.
This video shows some of this content.

Inspiration

I am going to add more videos to express the ideas of where my work is going. I will start by adding other peoples to capture the essence first and hopefully this will share the inspiration with you.

I have been going down this avenue for some time and it was when I went on a fellow Wordpress bloggers site that it hit me what I needed to do and it has opened up an even bigger creative world for me, adding videos to your site to express and aid ideas. My Blogger and Wordpress website had been pretty static, so for the last two days I have been playing with putting videos on and also viewing videos out there. I warn you I have really diverse tastes and it all mixes in how I relate to the world and how I create my work. You can see a small selection so far in the Vodpod Viewer opposite.

This is another creative side of me from tradition to contemporary.

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This video inspired me so Thank you Kira.

I love the animation and the textiles.

First Post for Art2Inspire Tech

Welcome to my new Blogsite, Art2Inspire Tech.
This site will enable me to display and share my experience with contemporary art, the inspiration and contact with technology especially videos within my art practice. I often start my work by traditional practices then expand them into modern art pieces. These works I felt needed a contemporary site for sharing.