Hints and tips:
...Model, Igor V at Tomorrow Is Another Day. Casting, Tiago Martins at Ben Grimes. Hair, Rimi Ura at Calliste Agency. Make-up, Mayumi Oda at Bryant Artists. Photographer’s assistant, Christian Varas....
...My beauty guru is my fantastic friend Sam Bryant, a make-up artist who I go to for honest beauty advice; she normally tells me not to bother....
...Every corner of the city holds something – whether it’s the naka (curbside) workers who now gild for him, or a certain clay spotted on a street corner and used for a project....
...clay and addiction recovery” — as an example....
...This ancient lost-wax casting technique, developed in the Ashanti region of southern Ghana, involves carving a model in beeswax that is then encased in a clay and charcoal mould....
...Heaps of soil, hardened mud floors, ground that has been polished into screens for projections, earth built up into walls and surfaces, clay made into bricks and blocks, the terracotta tones of tiles, piles...
...Often a detail added to the enchantment, such as learning about the clay figurines found in El Greco’s inventory and how he used them to compose his paintings and choreograph the light....
...She uses clay and salts and the process of multiple dippings is a long, arduous one which takes several months....
...“Losing the shirt gives you a really clean V-section. It’s quite subversive but sophisticated. Showing a bit of skin in summer is about as racy as a man can get.”...
...Every time the machine swallows a disc, a raw-clay platter emerges on the opposite side....
...The challenges presented by clay as a material and artists’ persistent attempts to master it is a topic of continual fascination to de Waal, one he explored in his 2015 book on porcelain, The White Road:...
...Instead, keep it broken when carrying it, and only shoot when the bird — clay or otherwise — is above the heather. As soon as the bead on the barrel touches your target, shoot....
...Hair, Laurent Philippon at Bryant. Make-up, Marie Duhart at Bryant. Set design, Eleonara Succi at Walter Schupfer. Photographer’s assistant, Bastien Santanoceto. Digital operator, Manon Clavelier....
...It’s a novel-length tale that serves as both billet-doux and poison pen letter to a medium — comics — in which Alan Moore, as the writer of such seminal works of graphic fiction as Watchmen, V for Vendetta...
...The archive lent to the V&A was “his personal classroom”, says the V&A’s Luffman, full of forms he repeated or changed gradually over time — a mug handle here, the shape of a dish there....
...And then there is Theaster Gates’s Clay Sermon....
...He sees the pavilion as part of The Question of Clay, a multi-institution project with past exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube, and a research project at the V&A....
...Peter Barber’s clay and concrete model for a proposed housing development in the Thames Estuary makes it look like a kind of colourful kasbah....
...For example, Doherty’s small Conical Vessel V is priced at £350. These independent artisans are, on the whole, seeing the benefit of social media platforms such as Instagram....
...This follows Louis Vuitton’s unveiling of Le Café V in its flagship store, where the menu of desserts and classic savoury options has been devised by Yosuke Suga of Tokyo’s celebrated restaurant Sugalabo...
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...GOD IS LOVE, it declares in huge bubble letters rolled from clay. REPENT, it instructs. REPENT NOW. A crucifix sprouts from its summit like a beanstalk....
...Like vegetables, they will grow in containers, even in wooden wine crates, buckets or shallow clay dishes....
...We think it’s largely right that the gaming sector will enjoy a V-shaped recovery as sporting events resume....
...The V&A carried off the prize in 2016....
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