Beauty is everywhere throughout the Copley Square branch of the Boston Public Library. You just have to look up. 🙂
Posts Tagged ‘colors’
decorative doorways, ceilings and more
Posted in Inspiration, tagged art, Boston Public Library, colors, Inspiration, interior decoration, painting on April 11, 2018| 1 Comment »
spring colors and textures
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged colors, Inspiration, nature, Photography, urban landscape on April 2, 2018| 1 Comment »
A gentle snow falls so that white now covers these colors I saw yesterday at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
dried flowers
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged baby's breath, beauty, bouquet, colors, dried flowers, flowers, Inspiration, Photography, white on January 11, 2018| Leave a Comment »
a new year in color
Posted in Inspiration, tagged coasters, colors, creativity, designs, geometry, GIMP, imagination, Inspiration, painting, Photography on January 3, 2018| Leave a Comment »
It is a new year and one of the things I intend to do is continue to tap into my inner child and play with shapes and colors. These images, produced with GIMP, begin with a tiny detail from the beautifully painted ceiling inside Trinity Church Boston.
playing with shapes and colors
Posted in Inspiration, tagged art, colors, creativity, design, glass decoration, Inspiration, Mondrian, Photography, samuel west on December 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »
While Mondrian came to mind once I stared at the image on the screen, it was in fact the 19th century glass decorator and stained glass designer Samuel West who inspired this work done in GIMP.
It is a work in progress. Perhaps the first of a coaster set. Maybe the beginning of a larger design for a scarf. We’ll see. Meanwhile here’s a peek at the decorated window found inside Trinity Church that inspired this flight of creative fancy.
harry clarke’s mother of sorrows
Posted in Inspiration, tagged beauty, colors, creativity, dublin, Harry Clarke, Inspiration, Photography, sorrow, stained glass, stained glass windows, travel, travel photography on November 5, 2017| 1 Comment »
I’ve long known of Harry Clarke and his illustrations and during previous trips to Dublin I learned of his work in stained glass, like at Bewley Cafe, but for this trip I was a bit by the seat of my pants and so I did not know there was some of his glass on exhibit at the National Gallery. And as we chanced upon his work, a docent for the museum led in a group and began to talk about why Clarke was so special in his use of layered glass for jeweled effect and his use of dark colors to direct the eyes of the viewer to the lighter glass to see what he wanted you to see. One window on view was the Mother of Sorrows, depicting the story of Mary holding the lifeless body of her son.
According to an accompanying curatorial note, the window had been designed as a WWI memorial but instead became a memorial to Sister Superior Mary of Saint Winifred who had commissioned it.
In addition to Mary holding Jesus, St. Francis stands to one side and St. Catherine on the other.
And always angels looking on.
The window is currently on view at the National Gallery. Entrance is free (though not all exhibits are free).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Clarke
https://www.nationalgallery.ie/
the startled bird
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged birds, colors, creativity, dublin, Inspiration, National Gallery of Ireland, Norah McGuinness, painting, Photography, travel on November 5, 2017| 1 Comment »
Detail from The Startled Bird (1961) by painter Norah McGuinness on view in Dublin at the National Gallery of Ireland. Many beautiful works in the building but the colors and textures of this painting especially caught my eyes.
