Fine Art Blog

Category: Humour

  • Caroline Shotton’s ‘Dairy Milk’ – warning cow seen inside a Cadbury’s dairy milk bar bar & they are not Moovin’


    (‘Dairy Milk’ by Caroline Shotton)

    Well not quite! Oh my god we just did two jokes within 1 line of text that has to be a record for www.fineartblog.co.uk lol

    This is our first comment on the wonderful new collection by the nation’s favourite mooster, Caroline Shotton and it is called: Moovin’

    ‘Dairy Milk’ is the centrepiece of the new Moovin’ collection & it has one of Caroline’ s cows bursting out of a Cadbury’s dairy milk bar!

    Weird to think this is Caroline Shotton’s first attempt at associating her limited edition, cow box canvas’s with chocolate but think about it, you can’t have chocolate without milk, you can’t have milk without cows!


    (‘Kids’ by Caroline Shotton)

    We will have more for you on the Moovin’ collection very soon but for the moment ill leave you with the fact that there are:
    8 Box Canvas’s , 1 sculpture & 6 ‘branded’ goods featuring Shotton’s cows, from handbags to keyring in this fun and colourful collection.

    thank you

    Emily

    Links:
    A dynamic adventure into the dairy industry
    Ig Nobel prize for study showing cows with names produce more milk

  • Artist Sarah Jane Szikora – is she a ‘Smarty Pants’? lol

    We have a special sneaky peak at 1 of the 2 new Sarah Jane Szikora’s about to be released in September 2009


    (‘Smarty Pants’ by Sarah Jane Szikora)

    ‘Smarty Pant’s is the image shown and there is also going to be a picture called ‘Land Of Hope And Glory’ which will feature jelly babies we have been told

    How brilliant does Smarty Pants look!

    We have been told there will be 2 versions of each, an on paper (Mounted) version and a canvas version (Box Canvas)

    Can’t wait!

    Thank you

    James

    Links:

    Smarties
    Gingerbread Man Recipe
    Wild Gingerbread Man Recipe

  • Artist Caroline Shotton’s pictures lie, cows do not!

    We wanted to make the point that sometimes the images that are press released (in advance of the item arriving in the gallery) don’t do the pictures justice and the finished artwork is often much much nicer in person!


    (Press release image ‘Two & A Calf’)

    This was particularly the case when Caroline Shotton released the 4 limited edition box canvas’s
    ‘Moo Too,’
    ‘Two And A Calf,’
    ‘2 Pint 4’
    ‘Meet The Famooly’
    in Autumn last year.

    Above is the press release image for ‘Two & Calf’ by Caroline Shotton. The image looks really quite flat, mostly variation of red and with no embellishments.

    Now let’s looks at some camera images we took of the actual painting:


    (picture we took of ‘Two & A Calf’)

    Take a closer look at the actual ‘jewels’ on the box canvas, on this picture they are yellow and on the other titles in the series they where various colours, I remember one was this amazing shade of purple!


    (notice the stuck on yellow jewels, and stuck on fabric hearts)


    (notice the finish on the white, starting from above the cow’s noses)

    Even the faces of the cows are actually embellished and are raised with actual paint work, this is not a flat off the printer finish but a much more special, lively image that looks like it’s actually come directly out of Caroline’s studio

    thank you

    James

    Useful links
    Cows in art
    Links to more cow art
    Fun Cow clip art

  • Sarah Jane Szikora – Spring 2009 New Releases – Comment 2

    Finally, we managed to get round to the final part of the Press Release that came with Sarah’s spring releases, hopefully we will be a bit quicker come the next releases due in September 2009 and I have had word they will be amazing!


    (‘The Merry Widdow’)

    “In a piece in joyous celebration of the end of an era, ‘Merry Widow’ has an old style musical feel with a chorus line of jelly babies and shows the absolute freedom Sarah-Jane now has after 13 years of being published by other people, to paint and publish her own limited editions prints.


    (‘Sweet Music’)

    This fresh start inspired Sarah-Jane Szikora to paint 3 wonderfully happy paintings. In ‘Sweet Music’ we view the artist conducting her own choir of gingerbread men, singing her song 🙂 and even though they maybe playing out of tune a little, it’s clearly music to Sarah’s ears!


    (‘UFO – Unidentified Fizzing Object’)

    What do jelly babies do behind closed doors? Well ‘Unidentified fizzing Objects’ playfully shows the secret double life of some of the nations favourite sweets and manages to capture our hearts at the same time.


    (‘The Makeover’)

    And last but not least there is ‘The Makeover.’ (which has proved to be the most popular piece – Emily) Sarah-Jane’s mischievous sense of humour, at a gloomy economic time, brings a welcome smile back to your face. In an art business that takes itself very seriously, gingerbread men in their underpants is just what the doctor ordered!”

    thanks

    Emily