bascetti design http://bascetti.posterous.com web design for small businesses posterous.com Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:12:00 -0700 My latest paintings http://bascetti.posterous.com/my-latest-paintings http://bascetti.posterous.com/my-latest-paintings

Details from my latest paintings - the sea one was inspired by my visit to the Sargent and the Sea exhibition yesterday.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:58:00 -0700 Sargent and the Sea http://bascetti.posterous.com/sargent-and-the-sea http://bascetti.posterous.com/sargent-and-the-sea

Yesterday I went to the Sargent and the Sea exhibition in one of my favourite galleries - The Sackler Wing at the Royal Academy. http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/sargent-and-the-sea/

It's a wonderful exhibition, with some of his most dramatic seascapes in oils. There were also lots of sketches, scrapbooks and studies for some of the paintings. One whole room focused almost entirely on The Oyster Gatherers of Cancale, painted in 1878, with sketches and oil-painting studies of the people in the painting. There were also some fantastic watercolours of boats and the canals in Venice.

I came away feeling very inspired.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:19:36 -0700 More recent paintings http://bascetti.posterous.com/more-recent-paintings http://bascetti.posterous.com/more-recent-paintings Here are some more of my paintings. I'm feeling inspired to write again now, so may put my brushes aside for a bit.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:29:30 -0700 My recent paintings http://bascetti.posterous.com/my-recent-paintings http://bascetti.posterous.com/my-recent-paintings I've been painting a lot lately. Haven't felt like writing, but I'm feeling very inspired about colour at the moment. These are some of my recent paintings.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Sun, 30 May 2010 10:27:21 -0700 Marzia Colonna - Dorset Art Week http://bascetti.posterous.com/marzia-colonna-dorset-art-week http://bascetti.posterous.com/marzia-colonna-dorset-art-week Today is the start of Dorset Art Week. My mother and I went to see the work of local scultptress Marzia Colonna. There were pieces on display in her purpose-built studio, a beautifully serene space with several rooms; and throughout her garden. You can see a little of her work here http://www.marziacolonna.com/. Her recent collages are mostly of Dorset landscapes. The most striking ones show the dramatic cliffs and seascapes along the Jurassic Coast. Her style suits the landscape here perfectly and I fell in love with her collages of the cliffs at Burton Bradstock.

I also love the sculpture in my photographs, which stands in her garden.

I love sculpture and I love collages; Colonna's work is fantastic. One day I hope I'll own one of her pieces.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Fri, 07 May 2010 03:29:00 -0700 Bordersett http://bascetti.posterous.com/bordersett http://bascetti.posterous.com/bordersett

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Work-in-progress at the moment is on a new website for Landscapers Bordersett http://bordersett.co.uk/ The website isn't finished yet. It needs new text and lots of new pictures.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:42:00 -0700 Sequoia Bespoke http://bascetti.posterous.com/sequoia-bespoke-0 http://bascetti.posterous.com/sequoia-bespoke-0

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I've been doing some more work on Sequoia Bespoke. You can find the website here http://www.sequoiabespoke.co.uk/

 
I'm working on their SEO at the moment. All terribly boring to most people, but somehow it appeals to me. I like the challenge of trying to get a company onto page 1 of Google. This should help - Blogs and other social media such as Facebook and Twitter are one of the best ways of increasing a company's visibility. And in case you're wondering why my own company doesn't show up on page 1 of Google and Yahoo... well, I'm not actively promoting it at the moment. And I reckon it will be a much bigger challenge getting a website design website on page 1 as you would expect website design companies to be very hot on doing just that - therefore the competition is potentially much tougher. We'll see when I'm ready for that challenge.
 
The first step in optimising a company's visibility is to decide exactly what keywords you think a potential client/customer will type into their search engine.
 
Sequoia Bespoke make high quality custom made furniture for the home, including bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, media units and bookcases, so all of those are potential keywords; add in the location - in this case St Albans, Harpenden and North London, and a few other key terms that people might use, such as 'cabinet maker' or 'hand made furniture' and you've got quite a list to be going on with.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:50:00 -0700 sequoia bespoke http://bascetti.posterous.com/sequoia-bespoke http://bascetti.posterous.com/sequoia-bespoke I've just completed a redesign for established bespoke furniture makers and interior designers, Sequoia Bespoke. They're having a bit of a relaunch and wanted something to showcase their work. Hope you like it! http://www.sequoiabespoke.co.uk/

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:14:50 -0800 Vivid colour http://bascetti.posterous.com/vivid-colour http://bascetti.posterous.com/vivid-colour
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I love painting with Chinese inks. This is a painting that I did for my son

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:16:45 -0800 Smelling the tulips http://bascetti.posterous.com/smelling-the-tulips http://bascetti.posterous.com/smelling-the-tulips
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I love the fact that tulips are seasonal. A friend gave me these the other day and I noticed after she had gone that the girl in my painting seems to be enjoying them.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:11:00 -0800 Flowers http://bascetti.posterous.com/flowers-398 http://bascetti.posterous.com/flowers-398

I love drawing flowers. These are pen drawings. You can see the first of these drawings incorporated into a couple of my animations at http://bascetti.co.uk/bascetti_animations.html

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:51:00 -0800 More art I love http://bascetti.posterous.com/more-art-i-love http://bascetti.posterous.com/more-art-i-love

Another painting I love is this watercolour by the English artist, Francis Towne (1739–1816). I saw it a couple of years ago as part of the Paul Mellon exhibition at the Royal Academy (2007/08) – held in the Sackler Wing, one of my favourite galleries.

He painted it in 1786, but it has an amazingly modern feel to it. I love the way he has segmented the colour on the Lakeland hillside. It’s a small painting – and like many looks even better in reality than in reproduction.

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Ambleside 1786

 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:53:00 -0800 sky 1 & 2 http://bascetti.posterous.com/sky-1-and-2 http://bascetti.posterous.com/sky-1-and-2

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I created these two pictures from photographs that my daughter took of the sky through an aeroplane window.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:44:28 -0800 abstract 1 & 2 http://bascetti.posterous.com/abstract-1-and-2 http://bascetti.posterous.com/abstract-1-and-2

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:21:00 -0800 Still playing around with pen & ink drawings http://bascetti.posterous.com/still-playing-around-with-penandink-drawings http://bascetti.posterous.com/still-playing-around-with-penandink-drawings

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:16:00 -0800 While on the subject of art I love... http://bascetti.posterous.com/while-on-the-subject-of-art-i-love http://bascetti.posterous.com/while-on-the-subject-of-art-i-love

... back in 1992, the RA held an exhibition of Alexander Calder's work - mainly mobiles - in the Sackler Wing.

Most art galleries I've visited have an atmosphere of quiet, studious contemplation. The Calder exhibition was completely different - there's something about his mobiles that lifts the spirits; the gallery was full of children too, all really enjoying sculpture in a way I hadn't experienced elsewhere.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:41:00 -0800 My favourite paintings http://bascetti.posterous.com/my-favourite-paintings http://bascetti.posterous.com/my-favourite-paintings

I love the work of these artists and have definitely been influenced by them:
Wassily Kandinsky
Vincent Van Gogh
The Pre-Raphaelites
Albrecht Durer
Leonardo da Vinci
Sandro Botticelli

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I read Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art about 20 years ago. I've still got it kicking around somewhere. From what I remember, he believed that visual art and music were closely connected. He also tried to evoke an emotional response within the viewer by the shapes and colours he created in his paintings. The question of what defines art, whether art has to provoke an emotional response in the viewer, whether it has to have any kind of meaning at all will never cease to be debated. In that context, it's fascinating to read the philosophy behind such a famous and influential artist's work.

I first saw paintings by Van Gogh when I was very young. My parents had a series of A3-size books about different artists. One was on Van Gogh; another on Botticelli. I loved them both. I love Van Gogh for the amazing use of colour in his paintings. They have a dreamlike quality and at the same time a sense of heightened reality.

I discovered the Pre-Raphaelites in my teens and fell in love with the richness and Mediaeval mystery of many of their paintings. The richness of their portrayal of fabrics and flowers appealed to me then and still does now.

I love woodcuts, linocuts, block printing - I keep meaning to dig out some of the 1970s linocuts that I love. But the first woodcut I ever remember seeing was Durer's Rhinoceros. I also remember going to an exhibition of Reynolds Stone's woodcuts back in the late '70s in Dorchester museum. I'm always on the lookout for exciting woodcuts and recently went to an exhibition in Abbotsbury in Dorset, where there were some beautiful modern woodcuts by Myrtle Pizzey and Ann Fagan http://www.artemisiaonline.co.uk/gallerypage.html

Most of Leonardo's work leaves me fairly cold. I just can't see the appeal of the Mona Lisa I'm afraid, but I love this study of hands. It's one of the most beautiful drawings in the world.

Finally, Sandro Botticelli - as mentioned above I've loved Botticelli since I was a small child. Both his delicate portrayal of faces and his beautiful depiction of flowers. Faces and flowers are probably the things I most enjoy drawing.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:03:22 -0800 Messing around in Photoshop http://bascetti.posterous.com/messing-around-in-photoshop http://bascetti.posterous.com/messing-around-in-photoshop I should have been doing lots of useful jobs this afternoon, but have been forced to sit on the sofa with my feet up (due to badly scalding my foot the other day - very ouch! - I won't bore you with the details). So instead of shifting furniture, sorting through papers and getting on with useful things, I've been playing around with the background image for an animation I'm working on. Here are a few of the results.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/106404/scan0001y.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGi1vWFgKqd Elizabeth Bennett lizpoulain Elizabeth Bennett Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:36:00 -0800 Horses http://bascetti.posterous.com/horses-45 http://bascetti.posterous.com/horses-45

Horses

I've loved Franz Marc's paintings since I was a teenager, and I painted this in homage to his 'Red and Blue Horses 1912' ( http://www.shafe.co.uk/crystal/images/lshafe/Marc_Red_and_Blue_Horses_1912.jpg ).  I did it a while ago but have only just had it framed. Oil pastels on paper.

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