Las palabras mágicas: January 2011

Sunday, 30 January 2011

Slowly falling in love with

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GOTHIC INTERNATIONAL
(or how cultural globalization is nothing new)

Upper Rhenish Master, Little Garden of Paradise (ca. 1410-20)

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

FOTO:

arttatler

A pinch of colour

Honeysucke 18-2120 : Pantone Colour of the Year 2011
"Energizing Honeysuckle lifts spirits and imparts confidence to meet life's ongoing challenges"
what do you think?

photos:

french garden house

borrowedandbleu

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Because I think it is a great way of starting the new year, today I would like to thank real funny lady, the writer/author/player/maker??? of this live journal, for all the great moments of joy and amazement I've had looking at her great selection of images. I found your website by linking from le divan fumoir bohémien. I think that half of the ideas in this humble blog derive from your approach of pattern recognition. Thank you for the luxury of endless inspiration.
The images that I've posted appear in this page
Always grateful

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Las palabras mágicas

Great find: The Grammar of Ornament

The Grammar of Ornament

Owen Jones, 1856

via the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture

University of Wisconsin

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the textile blog is also a great find for patterns.

I found this great link in a blog about shoes, but I didn't keep the link!! oh dear

This made me smile today

via maiagifts.co.uk

Sunday, 16 January 2011

I've been reading and loving

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..art is life, playing to other rhythms..

about painting

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Jakob Alt , View from the artist's atelier, (watercolour - 1836)

Albertina collection, Vienna

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January's quiz

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This is officially becoming an obsession, spotting these wandering ladies in XV century paintings. Where will you find her this time?

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Windowshopping: Perfume

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I love cards!!

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Here and there

After due celebration of the winter solstice, the time of the year when light starts to win the battle over darkness in so many cultures, but that's anothe story..., I don't know where to start. There's so many things I would like to share with you here! Maybe I can start by sharing a link to a post I read a few days ago in the blog cherry blossom girl and I really loved. She took some photos when she went to visit the Lesage Atelier of hand embroidery in Paris. Here's some of them: