Making the runes

Here are the runes, about the size of 10 cent coins. I just grabbed little balls of clay, and pressed them down with my thumb into a disc. I tried inscribing the rune shapes into the clay with a stylus but it looked blurred, so I impressed them into the clay with the point of [...]

Rune Box – Messing with Clay

I’ve taken up messing with clay and my first projects are a rune box and a diwali lamp. Here is a picture of the rune box in its very rough first stage – I want it to look rough, as if it was dug up. I will also be making the clay runes to go [...]

Brisbane Chinatown and Surfers Paradise

Brisbane Chinatown has had a revamp, with some of the shops giving way to more parking – can’t say I am happy about it, as the old fountain and the line of cherry trees has also gone. But it was a lovely day and the Chinatown Mall still manages to look good.
You can see the [...]