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vilakins

Day 29 - Twisty Kenyan Soapstone Thing

Aug 29, 2009 21:43

I wasn't feeling well for some of the day and also had to go out, so I cast about for a quick subject for today's naarmamo. This is an ornament my brother gave me a few years ago, a lovely smooth golden thing made of some sort of smooth shiny stone with tiny little mottled marks on it. It didn't look right till I found a suitable brush and added speckles ( Read more... )

art making month 2009

Comments 16

ultrapsychobrat August 29 2009, 09:53:39 UTC

Oh, very neat--love the finish and shadows and mind twisty shape.

vilakins August 29 2009, 10:06:34 UTC

Thanks! It really needed the speckles and highlights to look rounded and right. :-)

jecono August 29 2009, 10:03:59 UTC

Very pretty! Are you and your brother close? It sounds like you are. :)

vilakins August 29 2009, 10:05:13 UTC

We don't see each other that much, but we've always got on very well, having a lot in common.

sallymn August 29 2009, 10:45:09 UTC

Oh pretty! You have some wonderful ornaments :)

vilakins August 29 2009, 22:39:16 UTC

I think you'll like tomorrow's ones. :-)

san_valentine August 29 2009, 13:45:43 UTC

I thought it was two, fairly straightforward interlocking loops at first. Then I looked again and realized it is one continuous thing, and went 'Aaaaa !" as my brain tried to make sense of the different planes.

Again, you've successfully captured something with a difficult perspective, and again also, achieved a lovely sense of texture. You're really rather good at this art thing, you know.

My brother gave me an ornament of a simplified, fat cat for Xmas a few years ago. His wife had tried to dissuade him, as she didn't like it. Chris was right though. I love my Fat Cat. He sits on top of the wardrobe with Buster, the Stoned Ginger Cat, who's clearly done far too much catnip and is about to zoom around the house, breaking things. Together they guard my wooden chalice, which is also up there.

vilakins August 29 2009, 22:43:32 UTC

I have some beautiful, very simplified cats, but didn't think they'd come across in drawings well, being marble, terracotta, and white stone and thus not having many features. I do live their elegance and smoothness that demands a stroke though.

entropy_house August 29 2009, 14:33:35 UTC

Inedible Pretzel! Mmmm, toasty golden and speckled with salt. :^)

vilakins August 29 2009, 22:43:59 UTC

The golden-brown colour is very edible!