Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Seattle Skyline, off to Seattle.....

Hello All,

Art'zire, in collaboration with Rock, Paper & Scissors, proudly presents our biggest creation so far...........

Seattle City's skyline..........


And here is the "trivia" about the painting.......

Total number of hours of work: 368
Area: 5.5 feet by 3 feet
Total number of quilling strips used: ~ 27000 (if joined end to end, they are about 8 km in length)
Creators: Richa Kapre (Founder at Rock, Paper & Scissors) and Pritesh (Founder & Artist at Art'zire)
Time taken: ~ 25 days

Some more snapshots




Since we have been working incessantly on this giant painting, we beg for a little break before the nitbits and a whole lot more elaborate post comes up on Quilling Me Softly............

Thanks Suchitra & Satish, for giving us this opportunity..............

Happy Quilling

Richa & Pritesh

Sunday, May 11, 2014

A jumbo tutorial video by Art'zire........

Hello All,

Here comes a jumbo video tutorial by the Art'zire team (Pritesh & Divleen), jointly with Hobby Mela, explaining a few things........hope it is a useful one :)

VIDEO

Due to some technical problem, we are unable to add the video directly from Youtube, hence the link.

Enjoy Quilling :)

Pritesh (Founder & Artist, Art'zire)

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Bead Soutache - Art'zire take.........

Hello All,

Bead soutache is a jewellery form that has fascinated Art'zire for a while, so we decided to develop our own version of it, thanks to the unavailability of soutache cords in India........



For the curious ones, the soutache type jewellery we made looks like this:




And don't let that complexity scare you! These are rather simple to make..........don't believe us? Here is the video tutorial for it :)