Johannes Itten as his colour theories in the Art of Color is one of the key influences in my ideas about colour. In fact I would say he is my grand master as Itten is a colour genius. As a student we had his Elements of color as a text …
Thankyou everyone who has dropped me an email about cyclone Larry. I appreciate your kind concern. I live well and truly south and inland so all is fine here. The cyclone hit coastal areas in northern Queensland literally hundreds of miles away from me. A map showing the area hit …
It was a long weekend this week in Canberra and as you can see I have finished the block I was working on. I went a bit mad with the buttons and beads I think but nevertheless it turned out OK
The idea of sketching to describe something is not new but to use the concept to find imagery online is experimental. A new search engine based on this idea is very much in the experimental stage. Retrievr allows the user to find related Flickr images by drawing a sketch. It …
We have a huge table which thinks it is for dining from, but everyone knows it is really a cutting table and general sprawl area for costuming, quilting and all sorts of craft and stitching related stuff. We all know this is actually a craft table with prententions to being …
Digital Color Wheel is a wonderfully simple interactive site. You can use it as a tool to either teach the principles of colour, as a resource to draw on for information it is laid out succinctly or if you are in the mood for a dash of inspiration this will …
After Sunday’s incident Jerry pointed out to me that Mercury is in retrograde. Yes, the man has TWO PhD’s and still knows about such things. I may call him doctor squared but who am I to argue. As he pointed out to me “Computers and other processes that work with …
