Featured Gadget Feature

I have a new hobby, learning to make iGoogle gadgets. Gadgets are not just for your personalized iGoogle page (you have one if you have a Google Account), they can also be added to websites, Blogger, Myspace and Ning to name a few.

To introduce readers to recent efforts, I have added a link to the top of blog posts. What I really like is that they are quite small coding projects, so satisfying to make. I also thought this might be an "off the wall" way to promote my website/art. For example, I have a link to my website site shown in my iGoogle directory listing (screenshot shown below). I wouldn't have gotten into all this if it weren't for Seoish - so a big thank you there.

Brown Hare Easter Spring Art

Here's a square format acrylic painting on canvas of a brown hare I had on show in the Wayland Spring Art Exhibition

The painting is titled "Brown Hare on Verdé ", verdé being that beautiful greeny colour bronze may turn with age. It's a strange painting really, and I don't know if it works.

The verdé background was the result of experimenting to see if I could re-create verdé on canvas - that in itself worked quite well (so well I am tempted to produce some simple verdé decorative "abstract" canvases). The square format of the canvas encouraged me toward a "graphic design" approach to the work. I am interested in brown hares, not only because it is spring, but also because they have been linked to pagan fertility rites and the rebirth of spring. Old bronze and old rites, strange symbols - the swirly imprints I've applied, all sound like they could be good together. Perhaps the hare is too realistic looking, or the composition is poor, would like to hear what others think.