Jan 22 2012
Here is a simple ink and watercolour of a Japanese Girl in black wooden frame by Stephen Powell….
This second picture I think was inspired by the idea of the Japenese ink but took on more psychedelic abstract idea of local Cotswolds Hills and fields…
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Dec 14 2011
The slideshow below is a fraction of the amazing ceramics created by a Gloucestershire Potter Stephen Powell.
The colour of the glazes are a vivid eclectic mix. The collection here inspired in part by functional items but also includes others of a purely artistic merit.
Stephen is an accomplished artist in his own right and has certainly moved the production of pottery to a new level.
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Jun 11 2011
Here is an introduction to the Orchestra using the soundtrack from Young Persons Guide by Benjamin Britten. Click on the image for the animation. The animation plays each part when you click on instruments. There is also a drag and drop game and fill in the blanks for each section. It takes me back to the time when I played in Gloucester Youth Orchestra as lead EEb Tuba.
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34, was written by Benjamin Britten in 1946 with a subtitle “Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell”. The work is one of the best-known pieces by the composer, and is one of the three popularly used scores in children’s music education, together with Saint-Saëns’ The Carnival of the Animals and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.
If you cannot view as a flash animation, I have zipped up all the sources files so you can download and play locally….Orchestra (zip file)
Also if you need a “local flash” player, pick the “projector” and install on your local PC and play the SWF directly. Everything will load from there.
Click below to launch the animation….
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Jun 11 2011
This was an animation made to help out GCSE Expressive Arts course at Ashfield School. Just click on the image to launch!
They had to do a critical analysis of 1960’s Pop Art based on “In the Car” by Roy Lichtenstein (1965)
The images load dynamically and there is a sound track with controls.
It seems quite basic now but it I did make it in 2007
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Mar 20 2011
Here are three examples of my own paintings as the first post in this area..
Spain – This is a thickly based acrylic painting which took an age to dry. It is currently in Spain as a gift to a Spanish friend of mine when he got married. It was designed to capture the vivid colour of spain with a Salvador Dali / Henri- Matisse twist.
Animal – This painting started off an a computer generated image in MS Paint on Windows 3.1. I liked it so much I painted it on board in primary acrylic colours. It is now my logo for the website and Animated Science!
Reflections – This painting was inspired by my techincal drawing lessons. I wanted to look at the idea of a refection of a shape which is subdivided. I used a board which my art teacher gave me which curved a lot in the end!
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