There’s an old saying – ‘all that glitters is not gold’. Well, be that as it may, the work of Jacky, a super talented RedBubble artist, is definately gold. 24 caret gold.
I’m not going to waste my time with words – click on each of these images and page through the calendars. Don’t, under any circumstances, stop there. Check out her entire portfolio because she has stuff so good, you’ll buy extra walls just to hang it on!
Isn’t it time for you to ‘go for gold’?
Another fantastic artist I have discovered is Denzil. Denzil is advancing her art bit by bit and has number of pieces I just have to highlight here.
Can’t you imagine these wonderful pieces hanging on your wall? They really are gorgeous and would compliment pretty well most decores. But another reason to buy is because any proceeds from Denzil’s sales on RedBubble will be donated to Riding for the Disabled in South Australia. This is a very worthwhile cause and one that you can support while enjoying some truly amazing wall art.
The shops are chocablock full of calendars. So why bother paying more than a couple of dollars for one? Well the answer to that is quite simple. Do you want to spend 12 months looking at cheap, ordinary snaps that everyone else is literally giving away – or do you want to indulge yourself with 12 months of sheer delight? The two calendars I am highlighting here work out at less than 7 cents a day – aren’t you worth 7 cents a day? (and that’s Australian cents too!)
Elaine Catherine is a volunteer at the Humane Society working with the kittens, cats, puppies and dogs. All the profit she makes from selling her images and calendars goest to the Toronto Humane Society. So how’s that for a Christmas gift? You get 12 months of ecstasy – and you save the lives of your fellow creatures.
Elaine’s calendars are beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Click on either image to go directly to the calendar pages where you can then view each month in turn. These are pictures that you wont get in Kmart, Walmart or whatever. These are pieces of art, each one of them. And for the 6.5 cents per day that these calendars will cost you, you can own these wonderful images knowing that while you are being delighted every day, every month, your money is going to a good cause. The Toronto Humane Society.
When you click on the above images, then step through each page – you’ll see, as I did, that not only are they fantastic value for money and a delightful way to enjoy each month of the coming year, but also a terrific way to give a wonderful gift now only to yourself, but also to the many dogs, cats and other animals at the Toronto Humane Society.
Heard about the new film called Australia? It’s due for release on the 18th of November.
Well Australia is a big place with countryside as varied as the people who live in it. I could fill a terrabyte hard drive with completely different pictures of Australia – and still have pictures left over. On that basis, it’s hard to even think about what images you might want to adorn your homes, but never-the-less, I have come up with a few, and they’re posted here.
Click on the image to go to each picture’s page. It’s a glorious country and every home needs a piece of Australia on it’s wall.
Alien beings and alien worlds have been adorning the covers of legendary sci fi novels for years. In fact, Art and science fiction go together like cheese and biscuits (or chocolate and more chocolate!).
Nothing compliments a fantastic science fiction story like a magnificent cover. Nowadays, though, there are limited numbers of artists capable of creating the sort of extra-terrestrial vista that a really great story deserves – and even fewer who can produce the sort of work that you’d like to hang on your wall. Such artists are indeed an endangered species!
But fortunately, endangered is not the same thing as extinct and I and delighted to have found at least one such artist – the amazing David Jackson aka RedBubble’s Alien Visitor.
Just take a look at the following images.
City in Flight
Who would not want to join the crew of this massive inter-galactic starship, trawling the universe in some long distant future? Who could resist reading the story behind this glorious image?
Party Headquarters
Reminiscent of the planet Trantor from Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ series. This is a world devoid of natural beauty – filled to the brim with city. But this image would not only inspire the average self-respecting sci fi enthusiast to buy the book, they’d be hard pressed not to want this one hanging on their wall too.
Green Hills of Home
What could compliment Robert A. Heinlein’s famous story The Green Hills of Earth better than this?
We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on the friendly skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
It yearns, it demands, to feature on any serious sci fi buff’s wall – a monument to a great author, a tribute to a glorious genre, a window to a fantastic world.
Be sure to check out David Jackson’s amazing collection of alien worlds at RedBubble.
It’s not that hard to take photographs of flowers – though don’t expect to see me do it because it is not my forte. So when you see horticultural art that takes your breath away – well that’s something very special indeed. That is an artist you need to see.
One photographic artist I have found definately fits this bill, and that is pene. She shoots beautiful macros and some wicked infrared photographs, but just take a look at these two superb images.
Sun Dew
Firstly, it is an exceptional macro. But macro just means close-up and for all of it’s technical brilliance, it is not art.
But this is art. Look at the image we have here. It is a glorious flower, adorned with dew. It is the morning, it is the beginning, it is creation in the making. The dew and the flower are life – and life at a scale and at a time that we are seldom able to perceive.
It also presents us with a tease – which way round is this flower? It is so hard to define – it dares us to make a judgement, but denies us any chance of ever determining whether we are right or wrong. You can look at this image on your wall for days, weeks and months yet never tire of it’s complexities, it’s symmetries, or it’s sheer beauty.
Reach For The Sky
This picture is full of vibrance and life. The flowers almost appear to go on forever, but the foreground three are presented almost as a sample for our admiration. They are not shown top-down, as is usual to present their blooms as a final fait accompli. They stretch upward – oblivious to our observations. They present themselves to the sun, to the sky, to the birds – to all that is above but certainly not to us. For we are there to appreciate, not to be appreciated.
You can see more of her work at her RedBubble Site
A special interest group on RedBubble – the Geelong Throng recently ran a challenge (i.e. competition) to find their favourite bollard.
A video of the entries was made, and this is it!
Most, if not all, of the images are available to purchase as cards, framed prints and/or posters.
With Christmas and the New Year coming, now is a great time to take advantage of the many calendars available to purchase.
Now all the shops are, of course, full of calendars – but if you really want class, if you really want quality, and you really want to impress yourself – 7 days a week and 12 months a year, then you want something a little better than the usual department-store offering.
Just take a look at these wonderful offerings that can be yours:
And for a smaller calendar filled with a hauntingly beautiful collection of Churches and bible quotes, there is also chIRches – An Infrared Odyssey
You can preview it here:
A special interest group on RedBubble – the Geelong Throng recently ran a challenge (i.e. competition) to find the image that would most make you live in Geelong.
A video of the entries was made, and this is it!
Most, if not all, of the images are available to purchase as cards, framed prints and/or posters.
This is a great example of how passion for where you live together with artistic flair combine to create not only great examples of art at it’s finest, but also opens up possibilities in life for others in a very real sense. After watching this video, and especially visiting the artists involved, it is easy to see why the Geelong Waterfront literally is a Must Sea!
Welcome to RedBubblers. This is very much a work in progress and it probably wont progress for a day or so, so maybe check back around the 16th of November!
