Photo Of The Day - Day 3

Number 3 - 18th Oct 2008

Today my friend Judith and I went for a road trip to Naseby to collect my art that had been in Christchurch (thanks Shelly for bringing it down that far!!!!). Along the way I finally figured out what I am going to do for my Project Drawing assignment - good thing to, its due on Monday afternoon!!! It will involve photos of fences so every 5 mins or so on the way back I stopped to take images of random fences (I'm sure people going past wondered what the hell I was up to). This is my favourite shot of the day.

Photo Of The Day - Day 2

Number 2 - 17th Oct 2008

I managed to get out in the garden for all of 1/2 an hour today (I was meant to be inside doing one of my 4 assignments due next week - WHOOPS). These forget-me-nots are growing wild in amongst all the weeds and grass.

Photo Of The Day Challenge

I've set myself a challenge: to take at least 1 photo a day and load my favourite to my blog. I plan to do this till the end of the year and then see how I go it I'll carry it on. These images can be of anything - but have to reflect some part of my life that day and may or may not be edited or manipulated. N.B. The exception will be the 2 & 1/2 weeks in November where I'll be tramping on Stewart Island - I'll still take photos but I wont be anywhere near the computer or even have cell phone reception (OMG - How will I survive???) so will load them all when I return to civilisation.





So starting today here's number 1:

Number 1 - 16th Oct 2008

I went into class this morning to check on my work that had been in the kiln over night, this is a photo of my favourite piece - I wasn't expecting this finish, it was meant to be a brilliant blue - but I got a little excited when adding the glaze ingredients and went a little overboard with the Cobalt (Oops!) but its a happy mistake! I love the surface and the deep rich purple colour!

Handmade Xmas Decorations

I took a day off from work the other day (no school, house, art guild or other forms of work) to create and play and generally just have fun. Here's what I came up with... the latest xmas decorations that will be winging their way to the Starship Fundraiser (http://www.starship.org.nz/index.php/pi_pageid/1389/pi_eventid/215). These ones are made of bottlecaps and resin

As usual I've made a few extras as well so if you are interested in purchasing some of these decorations for your xmas tree email me - 3 pieces = $12 (NZD) plus postage

Huge Artwork Sale!!!

Last week our dear cat Fidget got attacked by a dog. Marcus and the wonderful team from vets @ st clair tried their very best to save her but unfortunately she didn't make it.

In order to help pay for the huge vet bill, I have opened up my private collection and all the paintings of mine that I was planning to keep are now for sale on Trade Me at prices well below even 1/2 of what I'd have them for sale for in a gallery.

Also by the end of the month I will have all the pieces back from the NZ Art Guild South Island members exhibition which will also be added to Trade Me at greatly reduced prices. Keep an eye out for these!

The last photo taken of Fidget

New Website!

I have a new website YAY! (the other one through artfind is no-longer available) I'm still working on getting all my photos loaded but I've started. You can either click the link on the right hand side of the screen or go to www.nzartguild.co.nz and type Tanya Dann into the search function and you'll find me :)

Ceramics Efforts

This is my first piece in my ceramics workshop. I have created this beautifully smooth body-like form and then glazed it with a very organic looking glaze. There will be a whole series of these pieces with different glazes on them. This peice and the series are as yet untitled.

NZ Art Guild Masters Challenge

Every month NZ Art Guild members are given an artist master to use as inspiration for a work of their own. Last months master was Andy Warhol (one of my personal faves!). I submitted the following piece and was lucky enough to be voted 'Most Creative Use of Theme' by my fellow guild artists for my efforts

'Sir Ed'
Acrylic on Watercolour Paper
150 x 105mm

Playing with Photoshop and Illustrator

For once I've actually been enjoying my digital classes at school. The last few week's have been learning to create digtal works with Photoshop and Illustrator.

Further details about this work can be viewed on my artschool blog

http://tanyadann-artschoolartblog.blogspot.com/

This image was created in photoshop and was inspired by the work of Martha Rosler.

This is a vector image of myself created in Illustrator. Over 10 hours of work went into creating this piece.

Bearish Things

Yay, my sewing machine is finally fixed - which means I got to start sewing more bearish things! Here's the latest 6:












Some of these will be destined for the Starship Hospital Fundraiser I'm involved in, I haven't decided which ones yet, but I'll be donating at least 4 of them.