Panchromatica

Art & Craft

It is probably clear from my posts, that I have more than a passing interest in photography, art and craft. Indeed, over the past three years that interest has developed into an attempt to if not make a living, to at least get some return on what I would be doing anyway. So here are links to where you can find my 'stuff' and with luck buy something.

Photography and digital art.

My primary site for this is Panchromatica Designs. I have a limit on the number of images I can upload to that site, so if you like what you see you should also look at my site on Flickr. In the nature of things, Flickr is less about 'finished' pieces of work and more about recording experiments, sharing images and community, but if you see anything there that you like, the please get in touch and I will give you a quote.

I also have an EBay shop. This is something of an experiment and depending on sales could end up as either the place where I sell a restricted set of images/print sizes or my main outlet.

Jewellery

Making jewellery is something of a new venture. Unlike photography, which has been in my life for something like 40 years, it is something I have only recently started doing. I am trying online sales, this time at Etsy. At the moment there is again some overlap with the prints and with EBay ( I think I have the pricing consistent!), but again this will I hope settle down.

This information will stay accessible via TyePad's Pages function. Look at the sidebar to the left and see the heading More Information. This (and other pages to come) will be listed there.

Another video

This one was too big for YouTube so I have had to make it smaller, which will affect the quality.

It is I think much slicker than the last and used better quality and higher res image files. It is based on my Tango images (you can also see these on Flickr here) with a nice tango soundtrack, so after the Sex Pistols in the last one, you may need to turn the volume back up...

Let me know what you think.

 

Making video

EDIT: I'm probably going to delete this file from YouTube - looking at it again I think it just a bit too rough. If you think I'm wrong please let me know.

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I've been experimenting with putting some of my digital images into video format. This is a very quick and dirty first cut around some images I did of cheerleaders. I'm not too happy with the quality - the original images were quite small and needed to be resized to do what I wanted, then the flash conversion at YouTube seems to have degraded it further. Even so for 30 minutes work I'm quite pleased with myself.

Bakelite and Swarowski crystal

Bakelite and Swarowski crystal, originally uploaded by ibanda.

I'm temporarily on crutches so the opportunity to get out and take photos or do anything very much is limited - even if it wasn't weather like a precursor to the Flood. As a consequence I've been uploading to flickr some pics of jewellery I've been making.

Interestingly - at least I think so - everything here was bought via the internet. The vintage bakelite beads came from Greece (via Etsy.com) , the crystals and findings from sites in the UK and the tools I used also from the UK. Beads for some of the earrings in other photos came from the USA and Hong Kong.

I haven't 'restocked' my etsy shop yet, so I guess I've missed the Christmas rush unless I get a move on! I've missed a craft fair because of the crutches already.

Earrings - silver, glass, faux pearl

Earrings - silver, glass, faux pearl, originally uploaded by ibanda.

This is from a set of photos of jewellery I have been making for sale on Etsy.com and at craft markets and fairs.

If you see anything in the set you would like before Christmas, get in touch! At the time of posting they are not on Etsy, because I am waiting for the site to settle down following an upgrade. (My shop will be here when it has stock) Plus someone is actually paying me for some work, which must take priority.