#decorative art

[danneroni]

🎶🎪 circus music playing 🎪🎶

This is a OOAK Decorative piece of wood art, a collaboration between colorfole and I!

Available now in my shop 🤡

danneroni.etsy.com

[daughterofchaos]

A Lady, said to be Elizabeth Coombe, cabinet panel, British, ca. 17th century, satin worked with silk and metal thread +

[disease]

TIFFANY STUDIOS | 'POND LILY' MIRROR PATINATED BRONZE, MIRRORED GLASS CIRCA 1910 — 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 10 3/4"

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday

In Praise of Patterned Papers was printed in an edition 360 copies by Graham Moss at his Incline Press in Oldham, England in 1997. It includes dozens of paper samples and a collection of essays by noted British designers and patterned-paper experts Tanya Schmoller, Paul Nash, Phyllis Barron, Enid Marx, Alan Powers, Sebastian Carter, Victoria Hall, and Graham Moss himself. Moss writes:

What you have here is a guide book rather than an encyclopaedia, not a study so much as an exuberance. . . . Patterned paper is a particular type of decorated paper, and has as many uses as you might put it to. The main emphasis of this collection of essays is to take a look at its use as a book covering, with a little but the occasional turn of the head to look at other decorated papers used in bindings.

The patterns shown here are by Sarah Nechamkin, Hans Schmoller, Edward Bawden, Enid Marx, and Robert Simon.

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[alexdreamart]

Warframe fanart stylised after cinematics in The Sacrifice questline

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... amethyst ...

The Precious Stones, 1900

- Alphonse Mucha

The birthstone for February is Amethyst

Mucha's preliminary sketch and correspondence show that he originally planned to depict the figure of Amethyst naked from the waist up, but the printer Champenois requested that her top half be covered lest there be objections on moral grounds!

[norapotwora]

Here's a commission of Church Grim with spider lillies!

The Church Grim is a mythical creature from English folklore, that is said to be a guardian spirit that protects churches and churchyards. It is believed to take the form of a large black dog, often with glowing eyes, and is said to be the spirit of the first person to be buried in the churchyard. The Church Grim is said to be a friendly and protective spirit, but can also be mischievous and even vengeful towards those who disrespect the church or disturb its peace. The belief in the Church Grim is still present in some rural areas of England, although it has largely faded from popular culture in modern times.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldJellyfishDay 🪼:

A "Méduse" (#ellyfish) stoneware lamp foot

Designed by Joseph Mougin (France, 1876-1961)

H 46 cm

[improbable-implosions]

Another multi-parter for both thighs across the main seam of a pair of jeans! This is a VERY common canvas for sashiko 'round this household, seeing as both Razz and I have pretty thorough thighs. Luckily, having learned my lesson (somewhat) from the giant patches in the same area I did previously, I split this into two designs, even if the patch fabric itself was one piece. Both designs are from wrenbirdart's stick and stitch collections, barring that little section on the first one I pencilled myself, as the main pattern was slightly too small.

First up we've got this genuinely delightful set of little asterisks, formed out of vertical, horizontal, and two diagonal sets of stitches. The first set of stitches immediately make clear that I really should be more careful about my math when I'm trying to duplicate the wrenbirdarts patterns onto my own dissolvable backing. Sure, that set all the way on the right is off by increasing increments of a quarter inch with each set, but I actually don't mind that look too badly in the end. The general look of all the eight-pointed overlapping crosses works super well, and I may take some inspiration from the mildly-fumbled pattern on that hand-pencilled section to make an alternating pattern of standard crosses and the asterisks, in the future.

Secondly, there's this pine forest design! I really had a love hate relationship with this one, as the pattern itself is SUPER pretty, I mean, look at that final picture! It's so beautiful! The major downside, though, is that it doesn't lend a lot of opportunities to load up straight stitches in a row. As you can kinda see in the progress shots, you do that central "coordinate grid" of a given pine top, then go quarter by quarter, filling in the other stitches, one by one, individually. Which, to me, is SUPER boring, I much prefer to load up a bunch of straight stitches in a row, then pull them all through, smoothing the fabric afterwards. So, partially because I wanted to get it done and over with as fast as possible, and partially because my jean shorts were in DIRE need of fast repairs before I could wear them in the (then incoming) summer heat, I somewhat sped my way through the pattern, in hopes that I can later come back to this pattern, and develop a more-loadable version that still keeps the pine-like beauty of the finished piece here.

[solcattus]

Lute Player set in Cartouche with Putti

By Sebastian Lucius

[waldires]

Frame, design 16th century

[discocuttlefish]

Egyptian frog cosmetic box 500-600 BCE from Museum of Fine Arts Boston

[daughterofchaos]

Bouillon Julien in Paris, France +

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday

The Warli are an indigenous tribe of western India, living in the mountain and coastal areas along the Maharashtra-Gujarat border north of Mumbai. Their artistic traditions date back 5000 years, with patterns of circles, triangles, and squares that accrete to form dynamic natural forms like expressive, fluid pictograms. Today, these patterns may be found on the walls and floors of both domestic and community spaces in Warli communities.

In The Deep, a limited-edition, hand-bound book, silkscreen-printed by hand on recycled cotton paper with unique cover marbling, and published in Chennai, India by Tara Books in 2020, the brothers Mayur and Tushar Vayeda adapt the Warli style of their community to present the dynamic relationships between human habitation and the depths of the sea. The text by Arun and Gita Wolf is derived from an oral narrative by the Vayeda brothers.

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[alexdreamart]

I played through the newest quest in Warframe and I wanted to draw fanart for a while now. It took forever as I always draw lineart on max zoom focused on details that don't really matter hah. One thing about warframe quests that I adore is how much depth and focus on humanity is in most of them.

[wormyorchids]

Calcium Ornament is up on my sh0p!