#art in leicester

[juliekilminster]

Two Queens made the news

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[canisalbus]

seeing all those sheep/goat vaschete asks inspired me to draw these (they got a bit more lazy as i went on but it's whatevs)

i like to imagine that machete could be a long haired goat breed which would give him his signature floof! couldn't choose which one to settle with tho ^^"

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[squeaky-potat]

Black Eagles 🦅

Blue Lions 🦁

Golden Deer 🦌

[unknownarmageddon]

oh lamb

[dreamsinombre]

Warming up & getting excited for Tour de Fleece next month ✨ with team Camp Wooligan

Another superbly skilled spinner kindly suggested I try out the Corriedale I have waiting in my fiber stash instead of diving back into commercially dyed merino and merino blends (I treasure the undyed fibers I have more and wanted to do them more justice), and I am SO glad I followed their wise advice as I practiced practicing on these little ~2oz samples. I immediately could see why they recommended the corrie and also why BFL is often recommended for beginners as well: I felt like I was doing something close to right.

I have one more sample to get to once I empty at least one of these bobbins, and then all that's left is trying to contain my excitement and hold back on spinning until Tour de Fleece officially starts!

And the final plied results from brushing off the heavy coat of rust off my spinning and doing some samples of the breeds I currently have.

Not anywhere near the weight I eventually want to be able to ply to, but a small step closer, and a small step closer toward consistent, as well. It was fascinating seeing how each wool gave me a different experience, and how much each of the plied yarns bloomed after a soak.

I really enjoyed my first foray into feeling and seeing the differences in working with different types of wool, and I've got a bunch more on the way to sample for Tour de Fleece next month.

🤎 Correidale, ~1.8oz, ~30y

🤍 Cheviot, ~2.1oz, ~32y

🩶 Bluefaced Leicester, ~2.1oz, ~31y

🧡 Shetland (broken top), ~2oz, ~43y

All fiber from Blue Moon Alpacas (shop | IG) and spun on my one and only Lendeum double treadle.

I also have been knitting a lot of cardigans and sweaters this past spring, and hopefully will muster the gumption to block them & weave in all their ends to take some photos to share.

[classic-art-favourites]

A House in London Road, Leicester by Wilfred Bosworth Jenkins (1857-1936).

[world-of-celebs]

Hayley Atwell attends the "Top Gun: Maverick" Royal Film Performance at Leicester Square on May 19, 2022 in London, England.

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... mural ...

Gilgamesh and Enkidu in Leicester, England

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Valkyrie's Vigil

Artist: Edward Robert Hughes (British, 1851-1914)

Date: 1906

Medium: Watercolour and gold paint on Whatman paper

Collection: The Leicester Art Galleries, London

Description

Edward Robert Hughes was a notable and respected figure amongst the second generation of Pre-Raphaelite artists. Hughes, with a number of his contemporaries, was influenced by and continued to practice the painting techniques pioneered in the middle of the century by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; he, like Millais and Holman Hunt, was concerned with qualities of minute realism and bright colour. Hughes maintained these traditions, along with a fondness for romantic and symbolical subjects, well into the Twentieth Century.

The present watercolour is imbued with an extraordinary and phantasmagoric character, and may be seen as an Edwardian contribution to European Symbolism. Its subject The Valkyrie’s Vigil shows one of Odin’s war-maidens who, in Scandinavian mythology, hovered over battlefields selected those warriors who were to die and conducted them to Valhalla. Hughes was certainly influenced in his choice of subject, which he returned to on several occasions, by Richard Wagner’s Die Walkure, the second opera of The Ring, which had been first performed in London in 1882.

[rickyjoyceart]

Gustav's Girls 2018 - Original Painting/Collage (Oil Pastel, Acrylic Paint, Thread and Buttons)

[juliekilminster]

[lisaplant4]

Lovely afternoon strolling around the town with friends and family looking at the Bring the Paint festival art

[bmp-cat]

sheepy sheep doodles :3

[briefbestiary]

The witch with iron claws. Supposedly, Black Annis had carved a tunnel from her home to the cellars beneath Leicester Castle where she is known as Cat Anna.

[dreamsinombre]

Days 10-12 of Tour de Fleece:

Day Ten (monday july 8)—

Finished bobbins one & two of the lovely oatmeal bfl! Very happy with the thinness of the singles I was able to achieve here. Still working toward consistency!

Background Entertainment: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin (audiobook)

Day Eleven (tuesday july 9)—

Third bobbin done!

Background Entertainment: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin (audiobook)

Day Twelve (wednesday july 10)—

Did some spinning outside! It was too hot to stay out for long, but I wanted to soak up some sun's warmth in my bones.

I also finished up the fourth bobbin and started chain plying them. Here I ran into a bit of frustration: while my singles are balanced enough to be used as singles… it is not quite enough twist for the tension of chain plying. After the first bobbin had four places that just pulled apart, the first time it happened with the second, I immediately stopped and started running the remaining 2 1/4 bobbins back through my wheel to add more twist to them.

Background Entertainment: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin (audiobook)

[mostrandomgallery]

"Oh, Deer!"

A modern rendition of the Golden Deer.

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