Marble Road http://www.charlottekoster.com/blog A blog of my travels, ideas, art and work Wed, 02 May 2012 21:15:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Design of silver tie-pins and a silver sculpting for veterinary business http://www.charlottekoster.com/blog/2012/03/design-of-silver-tie-pins-and-a-silver-sculpting-for-veterinary-business/ http://www.charlottekoster.com/blog/2012/03/design-of-silver-tie-pins-and-a-silver-sculpting-for-veterinary-business/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:07:01 +0000 Charlotte Koster http://www.charlottekoster.com/blog/?p=2656

tie-pins made of silver with silversmits marks/stamps 2001

scultping of cow nipples and syringe for veterinary business 2001

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It came out in pieces

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clay sculpting

Clay with some pieces of the mold

In the oven to bake

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Potatoe Tea Warmer

Harvest of today; Wild Coastal Mushrooms

These teeth are giving the typical circular scars that spermwhales have near their head..Sperm-whales feed on squid

the suckers of this animal has teeth which I think is not common with calamaris but is a feature of a gigantic squid...who can grow up to 14 meters.

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Dear dear Petros

Michaeli and one of the most beautiful woman on the island

One of the best dancers of the evening

Carnaval Alkiona

Petros Party at Alkiona

Dancing petit lady

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snake with peanut

work in progress

welding production-material

Teaching myself how to count in Chinese

Tools

Local bikeshop contact information

Post voor Bert
Post voor Bert

paul and the assistants

the assistants

We have bycicles is China:-)

Harvesting material

Wirting the workers a letter in Chinese as a thank you for using their welding machine photo; Noortje Storteler
Writing the Chinese workers a letter in Chinese to thank them for using their welding machine photo; Noortje Storteler

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welding Photo made by johannes

welding as a start of the sculpting. photo; johannes

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My idea was to make a series of drawings from Santorini with  self caught squid ink. A nice concept but more difficult to execute then I thought…it took me more than a week to catch a squid…or calamaris.

Every night I went out to fish…in vane…till the moon got full and the weather got more cold and the calamaris came out of the dept to feed up along the shore.

Every night for a week I tried to catch a squid so that I could start drawing with the squid ink.

You can see the bate exist out of a fake schrimp-thing that you can charge with your petzl. There are rows of hooks on the tip end.

The winter-wind playing inside the island

Tiny rain clouds that pass by the island..dragging along their curtains of rain

Petros in his boat

Dimitri is a dear friend of the bookshop who has his atelier a few doors away.
He paints Icons in a traditional style that is quite rare nowadays.
Dimitri works with Tempera or egg-tempera which is a permanent fast-drying painting medium consisting of natural pigment mixed with egg yolk.
Tempera paintings are very long lasting and exsamples of the 1st century AD are still here to prove this.
Artists used this technique till the 14th century/late middle-ages when they switched to oilpaint which is having more deep and durablitiy

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Petros taking out a splinter

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Santorini 2003 Tim and I eating squid ....the eyes waiting for desert and the ink to be used to draw


This was the first time I wanted to draw with squid-ink. I asked a friend who owns a restaurant in for the ink-bladder but got the whole sepia to take.
Ammoudi was the beginning of our walk along the beach and after a few hours our hungry bowls made us cook the Sepia on a hot stone from the campfire.

We ate the body and the tentacles and the eyes whom you can see on the picture. The eyes? yes and we did that because the Inuit/Eskimos give these to their children as candy…so we tried the same to feed our curiosity. The conclusion is that they are nice …funny enough even better then the rest of the quid… I think this is because the eye is salty and is a welcome taste if you have not been able to season your outdoor meal.

While eating you can find the hard lens of the eye..you can take it out and get fascinated by the light spectacle inside and then throw it away since it is not eatable.
You can find a bright purple chalky substance which reminded me of the color of purple violets.

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