Beautiful wire sculptures.

I think these are really lovely, beautiful wire sculptures by Cathy Miles.

Eviction.

Teapot.

Stone Curlew.

Starling plate.

Minton.

See more of Cathy's work www.cathymiles.com

Weekends don't count unless you do

something absolutly pointless.

Bill Watterson.

Have a peaceful weekend.

Wire drawings from a Jeweller.

For our final look at this type of work I have chosen UK jeweller Cathy Miles, she works in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham. Much of her work is to do with birds and it is quirky and fun.

Great fun aren't they and the birds each seem to have their own character.

If you enjoy working in 3d have a go at this technique, use a medium gauge beading

 wire or strip down some electrical cable and use one of the three wires from inside.

Find more of Cathy's work at www.cathymiles.co.uk

Midweek meander, Armel Barraud.

Continuing the theme for this week looking at wire drawings, the work of french artist Armel Barraud.

Armel makes her work with a technique similar to bobbin lace, beautiful and interesting work.

To see more www.armelbarraud.com  

The wonderful world of Alexander Calder.

During the 'machine stitched drawings' workshop a piece of advice that I gave to the students to help them was, ' if you like working in 3d, forget that you have a pencil in your hand and imagine you are drawing with wire'. So with this in mind I thought that this week we would look at the work of some artists that 'draw' or sculpt in wire. I personally really enjoy the freedom of this type of image and the looseness of the line, drawing with wire is like a continuous line drawing. My first experience of this type of work was the wonderful art of American artist Alexander Calder 1898-1976.

This wonderful sculpture takes the wire drawing forward to a new form.

Three dimensional drawing at it's best!