ARTS AND MINIATURES: julho 2010

segunda-feira, 12 de julho de 2010

A sketch

Today I found a study in my files I´ve done before decorating this japanese lacquered tray, I´ve done it years ago but I still like it. Gouache over paper (scale 1/1)

Lacquered tray, hand painted with egg tempera over gold leaf l/1

Also when I found today the photo of my last oil paintings, I wished to restart soon, my recovery from the brooken foot is doing well. Thank you all to the ones who were concerned about me.

Oil paitings in scale 1/12

terça-feira, 6 de julho de 2010

My 2nd adventure in the Pastry World

These last months I had to avoid the real world of desserts. Because of my broken foot I had to make some diet, I didn´t want to get more weight, and I succeed, but I took some revenge, as I had my box of FIMO kept at home, one day talking to a friend who also appreciates good pastry I decided to do again some desserts to compensate myself, and I was lucky to have by the hand some material to distract my mind from my problem.

I´m very fond of good pastry in the scale 1/1 and unfortunately in my Country the confection of pastry is very industrial nowadays, although we have very good pastry-cooks in expensive Hotels and Restaurants which are recognized internationally.

In this Blog World I´m very attentive to Blogs regarding original desserts, and lately I´ve seen wonderful works in this area, congratulations to all of you.

Now I will show you only some of my experiences in this area, I did a lot of cakes but some of them are still unfinished, this is a work that I think I will repeat and hope to improove . All the following cakes are made of FIMO and SCULPEY. For instance the Lilac Fantasy one of my preferred, is inside made of "Chocolate", and then all covered with thin round petals. All of my cakes are original.

Marzipan Star

Orange Sensation Cake

Lilac Fantasy

Angel Cake

Quetzalcoatl

Fruit Selection

Cake stand

Wedding Cake

In my projects I have two room-boxes and one Corner Shop which I intend to decorate as Pastry Shops, and a few years ago I bought in Thailand three pieces of furniture and some cakes to decorate this last one. By that time I liked the cakes very much but now I think I will keep them hidden because I´m not fond of them any more, but now I´m glad I have already enough cakes for the three projects, later I´ll show you more.

Cakes I bought in Thailand

My Corner Shop

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.