It’s occurred to me that I haven’t yet posted pictures of all the things I showed at this year’s NEOS exhibition, so that’s what we have this week. This is a first attempt of an idea that’s been haunting me for a while. When you spend a lot of time watching natural things like birds and plants and insects, sometimes they can seem to be turning into each other, That is, if you look at a mass of coloured butterflies fluttering above a bed-full of colourful flowers, it can be difficult to tell immediately which is which. So I’ve been working on some designs that use this idea, and this is the first one to be finished. I’m not sure just how successful it is, but it was popular at the show and I think it was eventually sold
Transformation
There are several other things in the pipeline that are along these same lines – I’ll post them when they’re finished
Now – in the good old days, I used to have no problems posting new designs here every week or 10 days – but that was when the things I did were a lot simpler! Today I work just as much on the designs, but the problem is that because they’re becoming larger and more complicated, there’s usually no way I can finish them off in just a week. So it’s just not going to be possible to post as often as I once did, for which I’m very sorry – I really enjoy posting and reading readers’ comments. But I’ll still post whenever I can, and will keep on putting up free designs every few weeks, so I hope you’ll know that I’m still here
Good morning from the continent!Back from Newcastle and the stormy sea, I know what you mean when I remember the white top of the waves and the wild gulls, which I just saw seconds before and lost in the spray….You did a wonderful work!Looking forward to see all your ideas on secretsof.com!
Tomorrow I will start with my clothes for Marsa Alam, using your fishes, mermaid , crab etc.
Hope you all have a wonderful crative week!
I like your idea of the butterflies transforming from the flowers. The shapes you created look good for the transformation. The colors work well for the butterflies. I just wonder if this should be a growing bush of flowers creating butterflies as the process of growth, as the petals wilt and drop one and the old flower morphs into a single butterfly with other flowers starting the process but not done. This would save work on doing a lot. I know that is a lot of work to create such a process. It is difficult to make new ideas work, with so many possibilities of how to set it up. Your idea and finished work has a created a visual possibility of extending life. Linda
it’s really nice to see your beautiful work nomatter if it is once a week or not! let it take the time it needs to take and don’t stress 😉
Mia, once again what a wonderful collection you have created. Love the vase and flowers, combining the butterflies in the same shapes and colour tones is an added bonus. WELL DONE. I am amazed at the amount of things you achieve, and just love to see your new creations. Perfection takes time, and many hours of testing, but what a result in the end. You must be very happy, when you complete a project.
This is very pretty. I do like how the flowers transform into butterflies, or is it butterflies transforming into blooms? Your rendering is perfect.
Your work of art reminds me a bit of M.C. Escher’s art in it’s basic idea. Yours is not so strictly graphic and looks natural and alive. I like it very much. Thank you for sharing!