Beryl Cameron blog

POP-UP CARD

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:23:50 +0200

PAPERWORK : POP-UP

I am very fond of pop-up books /cards etc. So now I have tried to make one myself. It's a card for my little niece.
Here are some photo's of the process. First the base, then cutting out the pop -up bird with its tail and body structure. Loads of fun to do !!

William Klein

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:37:00 +0200

WILLIAM KLEIN

Born in New York USA on April 19, 1928 is a photographer and filmmaker noted to for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojounalism and fashion photography. Trained as a painter, Klein studied under Fernand Leger and found early success with exhibitions of his work. However, he soon moved on to photography and achieved widespread fame as a fashion.

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/K/klein/klein_candy_store.html

PAINTED CHECK

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:07:22 +0200

PAINTED CHECK PRINT

Print made from real flowers

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:40:35 +0200

FLOWERPRINT
made from real flowers.

GARDENTIME

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:33:00 +0200

THE SPRING HAS STARTED ON MY BALCONY

SOCKTIME

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:26:31 +0100

SOCKS SOCKS SOCKS
some of my springtime sock designs

Let the socks rule the world !!!

SPRINGTIME PRINTS

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:28:57 +0100

SPRING 's in the air -

allover bright flower print

allover soft triangle print

BOOK BORO

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:03:40 +0100

BOOK - BORO -2008
Rags and tatters from the Far North of Japan

Only a few decades ago, Thoku (Aomori) was synonymous to most Japanese with dire poverty. A home to dirt poor farmers who, out of desperate necessity, created an astonishing textile aesthetic out of BORO = rags. The frozen north was too cold to grow cotton, so the local folk grew and wove hemp for clothing. The tiniest precious snippets were saved. They soaked worn-out old clothes in rice-rinsing water in order to loosen an pull out threads, stitching over ripped and ragged layers as thick as they could. Long before ' recycling ' was drummed into our heads, here were people whose loving frugality towards cloth was a genuine engrained in their lives - yet total forgotten today. The beauty and sheer compositional skills of these boro creations inspire the fashion and design circles everywhere.

VALENTINE CARDS

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0100

VALENTINE MESSAGE

A variety of Valentine cards I love :

Embroidery

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:37:00 +0100

EMBROIDERY
Machine and crosstitches on paper collages

COLOURS 2012

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:20:00 +0100

COLOURCOMBINATIONS - 2012 PART 1

COLOUR FLOWERS

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:36:00 +0100

COLOUR COMBINATIONS 2012 PART 2

I took a picture of a beautiful vase of flowers and turned it into a colourcombi project.

Collection Hankerchiefs

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:17:00 +0100

Collection handkerchiefs
I have started sorting out my collection of handkerchiefs, here is a start:

Collection of some of my vintage embroidery:

Bee's world

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:32:08 +0100

Bee's world

For a while now, I have been making dolls, which consist of different kinds of paper - vintage material - knit - old print designs -tapes etc.
My idea is writing a story to go with these girlfriends living in bee's world, ........when I get the time.
I would like to present : bobbi - sherry - doris

PRINTS swimming

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:50:00 +0100

I WISH IT WAS SUMMER - some new prints ideas

BOOK POSTCARDS

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:18:00 +0100

BOOK - POSTCARDS OF THE WIENER WERKSTATTE - a Catalogue Raisonné

The Wiener Werkstatte, or Vienna Workshops, was founded in 1903 by architect and designer Josef Hoffmann. In 1907, the Wiener Werkstatte began publishing a numbered series of postcards. Many of them were designed to celebrate holidays, fashion and humorous topics. A selection of these cards will be on view at the Neue Galerie New York on a regular basis as part of the permanent collection. All the mayor WW designers created postcards including Hoffman, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele and Dagobert Peche.

For myself it is a spectacular book, very inspiring. The colours and the combinations are really special, as the style of drawing and composition. A few samples:

TIME FOR TIGHTS

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:15:00 +0100

TIME FOR TIGHTS

Some fun tights I have designed

Gerhardt Richter Exhibition

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:11:00 +0100

GERHART RICHTER

A visit to his exhibition at the Tate Modern in London.
I was fascinated by his early work based on black and white photos. When you get up close , his technique is incredible and the effect is amazing.

The grayness of Gerhard Richter's work is instructive, and distressing. It comes, of course, from black and white photography, from snapshots, newspaper pictures, portraits. In any of these forms, precisely because they purport to be records of reality, photographs are actually furthest from reality. The moments are not false but the records are falsifications that inherently disregard what came before and what came after. They are, in other words, or can be, works of art.

Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, where he lived through the rise of Hitler, the war, and the installation of Communism in East Germany. He studied art there, was successful in a kind of modernist Socialist Realist style of painting, and then left in 1961 for West Germany (Düsseldorf), where he remains (near Cologne). Most of his work in the 1960s is photographically based. He had been a photographer's assistant as a youth and now made scrapbooks of photos, some of which he projected and rendered into paintings. Most are of families, vacation scenes, fashion shots, but occasionally a newspaper photo intrudes of American planes bombing or of emaciated naked dead bodies attended by vultures. The references to tragedy in his paintings are sideways, often personal, sometimes private.

Richter enters a spiritualized realm in the 1970s, a realm of abstraction, revered art of the past, mysterious and familiar landscapes, and eventually, in the 1990s and beyond, of maternity, paternity, and self-portraiture. Gray seems still to be behind everything, but color becomes more prevalent. He literally introduces many of the possibilities of color with a very neat and large color chart of 1974 called 256 Colors. In the 1980s and '90s, his abstractions are increasingly formulaic, made with a squeegee that pushes across the surface in straight paths the way his brush did in "unpainting" images during the 1960s. They constantly reveal new accidents of color and shape but also cover up and hide.

Holiday times in London

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:28:37 +0100

LONDON

One of the oldest pubs in London - The LAMB & FLAG - Rose Street - Great food and a lovely admosphere.

The Oldest Restaurant (1789) in London - RULES - Maiden Lane -
Fantastic food - great cocktails and charming waiters. You can just image yourself dining in the 19th century. What an experience !

gardentime at Christmas

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:26:32 +0100

GARDENTIME at CHRISTMAS
In my mother's garden in England

My inhouse garden in Amsterdam - The 2011 Xmas tree

BIRD

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:09:00 +0100

Collage

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:29:18 +0100

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Sock AD

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:19:56 +0100

Advertisement in the VOLKSKRANT MAGAZINE (dutch main newspaper)

One of my sock designs for winter 2011-2012 KIDS

BOOK SIMPLE STITCH

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:06:14 +0100

BOOK : SIMPLE STITCH

Very stimulating book with brilliant photos on simple stitching. The photos are so good, you can understand without reading the japanese explanation.
Contents: back stitch - outline stitch - running stitch - chain stitch etc etc.

BEE KNITTY

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:25:40 +0100

BEE KNITTY

Just finished my smartphone woolly. Knitted in lovely soft japanese Sonomono wool (melange and boucle)......maybe the start of a BEE KNIT LINE.

Saul Leiter Exhibition

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:44:34 +0100

SAUL LEITER EXHIBITION

Joods Historisch Museum - Amsterdam 2011

KNIT

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:05:00 +0200

KNIT
Jaquard knit in combi jersey+purl stitch

PRINT TREES

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:36:00 +0200

PRINTS - Trees in a different perspective

' The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the next best time is now' - Chinese proverb

KNIT jaquards

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:25:00 +0200

KNIT - JAQUARDS
I am just addicted to designing jaquards and fairisle, knitted in a combination of different yarns (hairy/boucle etc) or in a combination of different gages. This can be used in allsorts of articles. Here are some ideas.

COLOURCOMBINATIONS

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:27:00 +0200

COLOURCOMBINATIONS PART 1

COLOURCOMBINATIONS PART 2

PAPER BAG

nospam@example.com (Beryl Cameron) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:04:00 +0200

BAG - BIRDS ON PAINTED BASE