mercredi 27 août 2014

New Visual Obsession: Falling Raindrops

Hello Lovelies,


image source: tumblr

As you may know, I'm a highly visual person. My mind/eye connection work in a peculiar way - maybe it's the same for other visually-trained creatives, or maybe it's just me, but I tend to see things in recurring patterns, that i call my (visual) obsessions. An obsession is a visual pattern that currently interests me and that I tend to see everywhere I look at a given moment. After the while, the novelty of it wears off, and I move on to the next obsession. Some obsessions remain with me at all times, they're my core obsessions.

Anyway, I've been subscribing to a lot of tumblr blogs lately, perusing litterally thousands of images, and connecting the dots between seemingly unrelated images - my fave kind of intellectual sport. A pattern that has stood out was the one showing raindrops fallung,n be it in animated gifs or otherwise.

Here are a few favorites:

Literature-inspired graphic poster by Evan Robertson 



Above: both silk Ikat weavings by Polly Barton

 

 
Above: both ceramic bowls by Lucie Rie.

 I've also been researching a lot of David Lynch's paraphernalia, more on that in my next post. Here's just a preview, from Lynch's "Nudes & Smoke" photographuic series:


Other obsessions currently include: b&w home decor, with a heavy accent on the black side of things, artists at work/play in their atelier, as inspired by the photographs of David Seidner, with close-ups of tubed of pain, brushes, back of canvases etc...Also: anything Cy Twombly, artwork - usually the typographic kind - that is decoupaged then reconstructed, lots of scenes involving tea-related objects as usual, and for a quirky side of things, funny elephants' images that I collect for my nephews!


mardi 8 juillet 2014

Creative Every Day 2014

Hello Lovelies!



I'm a bit late in updating this but here goes: I'm renewing my pledge to daily creativity and I'm signing in CED 2014! You'l find the CED logo on the right column of this blog.

I like a challenge that is calling to add more creativity in our everyday lives, art-wise or otherwise. To learn more about this challenge, you can read here.

So... to get my creative juices flowing I got myself a notebook from MUJI and started doodling away. Here is a preview of I've done sone far:


I'll post a whole new series of drawings soon!
 

Isn't that notebook lovely? I'm a stationery junkie!

Alix of TeaButterfly.








Tuesday's Butterfly is... Extravagance!

Hello Lovelies,



I recently stumbled upon this extravagant Schiaparelli dress and thought it would be perfect for a "Tuesday's Butterfly". Isn't it just grand?

I also love this quote involving butterflies:


Enjoy!

Alix of TeaButterfly.


lundi 7 juillet 2014

Monday Mood: the Blues

Hello Lovelies,

picture above: painting by Helen Frankenthaler






As you may well have guessed, I'm in the Mood for Indigo!

picture above: painting by Cy Twonbly

 picture above: painting by Martin Formgren, 2014






I hope you enjoy all these deep blues to the full. See you tomorrow with a new "Tuesday's Butterfly". By the way... Did you know? You can now Follow my blog with Bloglovin'!


Alix of TeaButterfly.




samedi 5 juillet 2014

Weekend Thought

Hello Lovelies,


image by Kim Carney, via her blog


Think a happy thought today, it's the weekend! Will see you on Monday for a new round of drawings,

XO,

Alix of TeaButterfly.



mardi 17 juin 2014

The Curtain

Hello Lovelies,
 
The following combination of word and image symbolizes the epitome of summer and its easy livin' to me:



"The curtains blow back
and the wind ushers in the
soft light of morning."

~   Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson

Enjoy!

Alix of TeaButterfly.

mercredi 28 mai 2014

PLEASE, DON'T KISS ME

Hello Lovelies,



I've always liked this one... not sure I could have tea with her, more like.... Dry Martini, perhaps? This one? Rita Hayworth, of course!


PLEASE, DON'T KISS ME 
Lyrics: Allan Roberts 
Music: Dorothy Fisher 

Please, don't kiss me ... 
But if you kiss me, Don't take your lips away. 
Please, don't hold me ... 
But if you hold me, Don't take your arms away. 
Comes the change in weather, Comes the change of heart; 
Who knows when the rain will start? 
So I beg you: Please, don't love me ... 
But if you love me, Then don't take your lips or your arms or your love away.


Enjoy!

Alix of TeaButterfly