Emotion in Art

I love this blogpost below found here http://retinart.net/graphic-design/power-emotion-graphic-design

Oh, what emotion this logo pulls from me!
The typeface gives a fitting air of femininity and gentleness.The heavier strokes of the letters negate any delicateness that one may consider this logo to have. The exclusive use of uppercase, the elegance of the lettering—especially the finials of the R and the E—lead to a quality of stability.
Then there is the child-in-womb beauty that the ampersand creates. This is the moment where my heart swells. The head of the fetus as ampersand that is sitting safely within the O just works. This is elegant design thinking at its best.
Not only does the ampersand look beautiful in itself, but the slight curve and attention to detail of it—especially the back of this child—and how it derives its shape from its mother O sends a tingle through my spirits. It looks so comfortable. It looks like the ampersand is fittingly the child of the O as their shapes compliment and reflect one another so well.
Reminiscent of a baby in the womb with face and feet so close, balled up, waiting for oxygen to fill its lungs, the ampersand creates a beautiful illustration that wouldn’t work if on its own. In lesser hands, this may not have been pulled off with such grace, but Lubalin manages it so well here. The concept is great, the execution perfect.
And it breaks my heart. - Herb Lubalin’s Mother & Child was originally designed for the masthead of a magazine, but it was never to know the light of day.

Customs

Just before bedtime in the little villages of Japan, the Hinayogen reminds every home to extinguish unnecessary fires, for to lose your house to fire is sorrowful but to lose a neighbours house is a shame that lasts generations.

As I get older I am becoming more attracted to Japaneese ideas. Oh and color schemes too.

Dads Beauty Tools

Nursing & Toilet Roll Races

Chook Feeding Lonely Child

I Need So Many Of These Signs

Now I Know Why I Always Loved Linen

BE LINEN MOVIE from Benoit MILLOT on Vimeo.

Kim Holding Simmone

For the first time. That's before I tried get rid of the opposition, as dad calls it.

My Storyboard

I'm doing a storyboard of my life with 75 miniatures. This is Mum with the completed toffee apples, cigarette burning and the radio on the servery. Simmone and I waiting patiently for the action.

Mums been gone for 16 years today and these little moments are memories I treasure.

My Knee Rug

For putting up with myself for the past 50 years, I decided that this year I will make a hand crocheted rug for myself. Which brings to mind the words of great aunt Caroline who replied when asked what she was doing "I'm making a knee rug for my old age". At the time she was in her 70s. Bless her.