ARTS AND MINIATURES: junho 2010

domingo, 27 de junho de 2010

A gentle gift from Australia

This week I received a very gentle gift from Australia. Norma from - http://www.makeminemini.blogspot.com/, wished to send me some souvenirs for my grandchildren (one of them has two months). When I opened the parcel I was delighted with the contents, thank you Norma, I apreciated your gift so much, and the little koualas are amazing.

domingo, 13 de junho de 2010

One more wellcome to my new Followers

Sorry, I´ve been so away from my blog, but I´m still recovering from my "accident" and I´m so stressed because I didn´t start yet to work in my studio, but my process is doing well with the phisiotherapy,.

So today I would like to thank you to all my new Followers, thank you for visiting my Blog.

As for the moment I have no important new work to share with you I decided to show you some of my small porcelain boxes painted years ago, although they are not miniatures, some of them have miniature paysages, and I remembered to show you these because I´m thinking of painting some miniature paintings for my projects. The only problem is that painting on porcelain, is a slow process, because the colours have to be prepared with oils, and the porcelain must be fired at the kiln at 730º to 830º at least for three times , and I have so many projects in hands, but we are allowed to dream aren´t we?

The Paysages have between 2 and 4 cm

Welcome to my new Blog

I hope that you will enjoy my new Blog, I intend to organize it in a diferent way of the others, I will mix images of my work regarding miniatures and other forms of art like artistic paint, but I will also include lots of photos , because I have a passion to photograph, although I know very litttle about it, but I have my artistic filling to choose interesting matters. All the photos in this Blog shall be mine.

In which concerns my miniatures all of them are hand painted, and that´s a work that I love to do, enjoy it.

You are also invited to visit my other blog:

http://am-ambientes-em-miniatura.blogs.sapo.pt/

http://am-artes-e-miniaturas.blogs.sapo.pt/

http://am-bonecas-e-companhia.blogs.sapo.pt/

AM

HERCOLANEUM AND POMPEII

Hercolaneum was founded by Hercules according to mythological tradition . In 63A.D. the town was hit by a earthquake which attended all the Campania, and a few years later in 79 A.D. was devasted by the eruption of Vesuvios. When the eruption ended Hercolaneum was covered with a thick layer of mud (at some points over 10 meters deep). Abandoned by its inhabitants this town was never rebuilt.

The same happened to Pompeii, the reconstruction work that followed the earthquake was not yet completed when on August 24th, 79 AD Vesuvius unexpectedly awoke, submerging the countryside with ashes,, cinder and eruptive material, while rivers of lava mixed with mud followed down.

In 20 AD the Volcano was considered extinct by Strabone a geographer, therefore the population was taken by surprise and many of them were killed trying to escape. The eruption of the Volcano was so imense that the top part of the crater collapsed forming the present caldera.

This tragedy that lasted for three long days arrived to us through the letters of the writter Pliny the Younger to Tacitus.
Pompeii remained buried under a layer of ash with more than six meters deep preserving all the evidence of life by that moment, which came mericulously to light more than two centuries ago.