Beautifully adorned

I've collected an assortment of  "cow art", different beautiful cows.

Holy cow -Madurai Temple

A decorated cow

Barbara Philips- Watercolour.

Cant find the artists name for this work, but its striking.

A happy blue cow- Marcia Baldwin

This painting above is by Rebecca Colins, she specializes in custom pet portraits, painting colourfully over digital images. I really dig her fun and funky style. Check out her blog - Art Dog Blog http://artdogblog.blogspot.com

Cartoon style wood cow studs - Craftjuice

Whats cool?

 Colourful decorative painted furniture by Lucas Rise.....Verrrrrry coool :)

Makes me think of festivals and Indian hand-painted cows. For me it all invokes the essence of the word, "special". One of a kind; i just love this. And I want to translate it into my next piece, maybe a cow brooch. Lucas Rise, one day i will buy a piece of your beautiful furniture. 

Ever changing

On our Virginia bush walk this weekend i collected a couple of different pods, the cool thing is that i managed to collect the same pods, in different stages. I like the idea of using imagery in jewellery to portray a progressive life cycle, of plants or animals. Im sure its been done before.

This pod looks like a lantern, what i like most is the vein structure and the lightness and delicateness of it- I suppose if i wanted to re create something like it in metal, its those qualities i would keep in mind.

 The inside of a dry one.

These seeds are similar to Lucky beans, they make me feel happy. 

And what interesting pods.... 

Autumn-hunting season for the leaf jeweller.

Row of coral Trees in Kenton. EC

On Friday we took the doggies for a stroll at the La Lucia park.  Don't know if I've mentioned before but I absolutely love Coral Trees, hi-tech name- Erythrina lysistemon. Unfortunately i didn't have my camera with me, but I picked up loads of fallen leaves from the magnificent tree. I did Look through my photo folders,and  found some reference pics I've taken in the past. 

They flower in winter from about July-October, before the new leaves appear in spring.

I am particularly fond of the way the leaves bunch together.

Although I never seem to be able to catch feeling in my terrible photographs, they really do look amazing from below.

An open pod, a really beautiful form.

 My favorite thing about the tree (other than the long, narrow, bright orange-red-coral (my best colour) flowers, or the curvy pods that look pinched between the seeds, which then split to reveal the little dark orange seeds) is the leaves,of course. Their shape is almost like an upside down heart but with a drawn out tip, they sort of remind me of the Large leafed Rock Fig (one of my other favorites,which has special memories for me). They also have a very pronounced and beautiful vein structure on the underside. The funny thing is i love all leaves mostly for that intricate vein structure, and with all the leafy jewels i make, i have never captured that in a piece.

Perfectly Beautiful.

Autumn time- Some of the leaves i picked up.

 The one problem I have with the Coral Tree is the big black hooked thorns that cover the trunk 

and branches, this means no climbing :( no seeing the view from the trees perspective... 

               

Sharp black hook thorns