Summer Umbrella Daze ——-The Christmas Install

For six Christmases, the front door has become a temporary space for something on the silly side to welcome guests, provide a frame for photo ops and photo bombing, test out how to make things, and how to make them stick  how to scale up and well,  make things like giant knives and forks, floral abours and here, this year, why not this shady character? That it flirts a bit  when the door’s wide open with wonderful work by Winifred Belmont is all the better.  

 

Happy Fishmas - At-Swim Ten Fish

The middle fish, top row, below set me off on this piscine pursuit.  It was in a sketch book, and an exercise in colour pencils that was left as a one is the loneliest number fish  some years back, but that a bad Prussian blue re-do - that murky face middle row below on the right, gave me the aha!’s - which is maybe a controversial aggregate of punctuation, and so now there is a little shoal of paper fish, ready to be suspended in a fake sea. That’s Fishmas for you. 

 

The Devil You Know and The Charcoal Burner You Don’t ?