really cool pavement art

this is the work of Julian Beever, someone sent this pic to me. I think it is really amazing... click on his name for more.

have a good day!

christmas cake - continued

So this is how it turned out... all good, i am surprised i have not baked to a recipe in ages. normally when i bake cakes, i just mix in whatever comes to mind or is available in the fridge or cupboard. i never fully expect them to be a succes and there is nothing to really measure their success against. they are experiments. however this cake had to be right and fit in with the tradition. it had to be mixed by hand because i don't have an electric beater, so i was doubly worried. I am taking it a christmas gift for francesco's family, that is whay it really had to be right...and breathe!

christmas cake

Frances, my dear sister always makes the Christmas cakes in our family, she is good at it and she loves it and she is more organised (and it quite a process so this is helpful). i decided to make one this year since i won't be home. my mom sent me the recipe the week before last and i made it this evening, well actually it is still in the oven, but the house smells like Christmas so that is something to warm us on this bitter eve... the temp has dropped from 7 to 0 C.

I watched a DVD of animations that go with an animation book. It was really inspiring to see everything again. Francesco and i really want to work on something together. I still want to do some drawing tonight, but its really late now and i am feeling quite tired.

Some new drawings

I have been working or playing on some drawings, they are sketches or doodles really. I took out some books from the college library... one on Rodin, i suppose the idea was to prepare myself visually for seeing the exhibition. And i am still minus life drawing classes, so i thought it could not harm. Anyway, without over discussing them, these are images of states of mind and states of being and hybrids, inspired by various images that i like. something like that, anyway i like them.

also, some little symbols which i thought could be buttons or an alphabet or something, started with doodling something that reminded me of a part of my fourth year exhibition, but now i am playing with them. everyday object, sayings, emotions, shapes that give the idea of things but don't quite represent them. (thought of willem boshoff's blind alphabet) This process seems to be working because, i am getting all excited about the symbolism of things and the stories that link in, basically i am biting into what i love again. reading Tori Amos' biography, she's got some interesting ideas.

any of you at home.... can you tell me other names for what the americans call sand dollars... those flat sea urchin skeletons.

No picture today

I don't have any pictures to add today because i am not working from my computer. It does not work if you try and add pictures via email. Anyway London is cold and miserable today and even the hardened Londoners seem to be depressed by it. today was quite and flat in almost every way. I feel like ripping some one's head off but maybe that's just my way of dealing with this weather... don't know.

Anyway at this point i will explain my name, i wanted to go for crimson sky, but that was not available, then i thought of mixing the languages a bit and having crimson and sky in Italian, (this is what i thought i was getting) but i was working on how it sounded to me and Francesco thought, that i meant cello so there was no further question about it. I also had to change crimson to krimson, now that the matter is cleared up... it should be crimsoncielo... so i am going to try for that now.