Jun 16, 2018 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - sculpture
I have gradually been building the stamina to restart my sculpting. It has been nearly a 7 year sabbatical away from the studio with some minor dalliances in making mini furniture for my blossoming ball-joint-doll collection. However this miniature bug has appealed to...
May 11, 2014 | Browse and chat, Creative inspiration, That Creative blog
All photos by Dina Goebel ©2014 What a lovely Mothers Day this weekend! It started Saturday with a new sewing machine from Ray to replace mine which was 30 years old and always losing its tension. Then a beautiful bunch of flowers and stuffed Maaathers Day sheep...
Mar 29, 2014 | Browse and chat, That Creative blog
What had started about a post on mosaics morphed into a second post about my own artistic journey. My innate artistic preference became visible early in high school when I developed a fascination with pointillism. Not the Seurat or impressionist style of blobs of...
Sep 7, 2013 | Creative inspiration, That Creative blog
All photos by Dina Goebel ©2013 What a lovely thing to do on a day off work, popping into the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne. I didn’t have any reason or plans, just the sun was shining and I was driving past. With camera in tow I enjoyed strolling its...
Jun 28, 2013 | Creative inspiration, That Creative blog
Peacock Blue is defined as “a brilliant shade of blue tinged with green.” The problem is that color is subjective so peacock blue can mean many different things to many different people. For artists there are so many blue-green options to mix, here is one...
Jun 7, 2013 | Ball Joint Dolls (BJD) by Dina, Creative inspiration, That Creative blog
I remember barbie dolls, large dolls and the occasional boy doll or Ken. However since I had sons, dolls haven’t been in my life for over 30 years and all of a sudden they seemed to have grown up! Barbie is no longer the doll of today, it’s all about...
Jun 1, 2013 | Browse and chat, Creative inspiration, That Creative blog
I have really learnt a lot about my current artistic taste since starting my blog 6 months ago. I am not sure what exactly has created the change, but I do know it is remarkably different today than it was even 5 years ago. When finishing the ArTTable I was still...
Apr 19, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - sculpture
In the previous three posts I covered the planning, background and gold leaf stages of creating this beautiful bedhead. This is the final post in the series and includes the most memorable section of Klimt’s most famous painting .. the sculpting of the kiss...
Apr 7, 2013 | Creative inspiration, That Creative blog, Work-in-progress
So here we were at our beach house holiday. Our plan was to do nothing except draw, beach walk and photograph for relaxation. I have not drawn for at least 6-8 years and I simply wanted to get my hands back in action. So I kept it simple, my materials this trip were:...
Mar 31, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - sculpture
In the previous two posts I discussed the planning and gold leaf stages of creating one my bedheads. The Kiss bedhead takes at least 3 weeks full time work spread over a 3 month period as the many layers of color, paint, leaf, varnish and waxes need to cure. The...
Mar 27, 2013 | Creative inspiration, That Creative blog, Work-in-progress
Thinking about my blog last night merged into thinking about our holidays next week. It’s Easter and we have a lovely isolated week at a beach house on the Great Ocean Road. I was thinking about what to write and all of sudden I remember how inspired I used to be by...
Mar 23, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - sculpture
58 hand made glass tiles After the design and planning stage in my previous post, I now get into the studio to pre-make some of the adornments required for this bedhead. During this time I had my own small glass kiln in the studio and for the Kiss bedhead I made 58...
