tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42177836767195875332024-03-18T17:15:25.203+02:00The Painted BlackbirdHello lovelies! I am an illustrator based in Durban, South Africa. The Painted Blackbird is my bowerbird's nest of original archival prints, vintage collectables, shiny trinkets and all that makes me happy on any given day.Kim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.comBlogger515125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-41786100297515913122014-08-20T08:04:00.001+02:002014-08-20T08:04:52.483+02:00PAINTING INSTEAD OF BLOGGING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It has been many moons since I blogged and I know some of you have wondered if I fell off the edge of the world. Some days it feels like I did, but for happy reasons not sad. I have been painting and making things out of clay. I have made a quick Facebook page to document what I have been up to and would love for you to visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thepaintedblackbird?ref=bookmarks">Kim Longhurst - The Painted Blackbird</a>. Otherwise follow me on Instagram at <a href="http://instagram.com/blackbirdkim">blackbirdkim</a>.</div>
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Bye Now<br />
xxxKim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-88440167651843140522014-01-15T07:43:00.000+02:002014-01-15T07:43:00.144+02:00HELLO LOVELIES 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello Lovelies! Hope you all had a rest, a spring clean, some sun, some cake and a whole lot of love these holidays. Back to school for the Little, who is getting big, today - so officially back to work for me although I have already been glued to my machine over the last week, putting together a very exciting project. I love my blog and having been doing it for a while now and it needs a facelift, like desperado. So I will be posting sporadically while putting together a blog makeover behind the scenes. Who knows how long it will take? I am determined to spend more time making real stuff this year, less digital, more hands and heart so may take a while. If you miss me you can keep me in your thoughts on Instagram @blackbirdkim<br />
Stay Gold and catch you later<br />
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misskimKim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-25811213250210735172013-12-20T06:41:00.000+02:002013-12-20T06:41:03.581+02:00MERRY HAPPY LOVE 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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To all my Lovelies<br />
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Thank you so much for keeping me company through this year and for following our MESSY STUDIO journey so avidly. It has been a tough year not just for us but for many people but <i>(and someone famous once said that anything after a BUT cancels out what came before)</i> we have learnt amazing things! I have made some plans and let some plans rest. <br />
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I will be back in the second week of January. Toodaloo!<br />
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<a href="http://www.behance.net/MelaMel">SASHA VINOGRADOVA</a> is a digital artist, I wish these beautiful skulls she rendered were real! Russian patterns are my fave.<br />
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<br />Kim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-79192901022920611352013-12-18T06:08:00.000+02:002013-12-18T06:08:13.004+02:00MORBID ANATOMY LOVE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been chained to my desk with burning brain doing tax admin for days and finally finished yesterday. Took some Google medicine and found this amazing site, <a href="http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/">MORBID ANATOMY</a>. It is as if someone scooped out my heart and laid it on a plate, yours too Juzee!<br />
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<br />Kim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-70923677069775959672013-12-12T06:13:00.000+02:002013-12-12T06:13:48.594+02:00MESSY STUDIO GRASS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In between the wonderful bitter sweet lightning visit by my parents (who leave this evening - sad face), being audited by SARS and relentless rain we managed to lay the new grass in the back yard. No more building site! Waiting for the victorian bath to come back from the enamelers, finishing the planter with topiary frames and lavender, then the outside will be done and dusted.<br />
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We got the best surprise early Christmas present, my Mom and Dad here from Perth for a very short week to attend a friends big birthday festivities. I had 5 days to convert the MESSY STUDIO into a habitable room for them, the big spanner in the works being the flood last Tuesday. One inflatable mattress and some rearranging of the cubbies and work table and Hey Presto! the MESSY STUDIO B&B. It is one heck of a tight squeeze but has done the trick. How awesome is the brass clothes rail/picture drying rail that I had made by <a href="http://projectroom.co.za/">PROJECT ROOM</a>.<br />
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<br />Kim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-4914414556141803762013-12-06T07:32:00.001+02:002013-12-06T07:32:46.631+02:00RIP MADIBA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-1259630806861401542013-12-04T08:00:00.000+02:002013-12-04T08:00:53.077+02:00WILD WATER LOVE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nature is crazy and powerful, even when you live in the burbs in a city. At 1:45 pm yesterday the heavens opened with not a whimper but a bang, dumping a huge wave of water in a very short space of time. The MESSY STUDIO flooded, a year of building to make sure this did not happen and it did! Luckily Scott was at home and rescued the bags of new stuff on the floor waiting for me to style up for the big reveal. Luckily I had not moved the cowskin out yet, was planning on doing that this morning! Needless to say it is a lovely sunny day today, Scott mopped all the water up and the MESSY STUDIO is dry again.<br />
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<br />Kim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-19504564341021858022013-12-03T08:35:00.001+02:002013-12-03T08:35:51.711+02:00MESSY STUDIO EVEN MESSIER GARDEN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So we arrived back from the lovely FORDOUN pampered and rested, I then did what felt like 400 loads of muddy washing and decided to embark on the fixing up of the backyard - as one is wont to do when our muscles are nice and loose and we have a French manicure. Our poor backyard has borne the brunt of a year of building, of cement slurry, cigarette butts and a weird array of construction detritus.<br />
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So I carefully lined the base of the planter with thick plastic and then began the wonderful mystery of recreating the layers that you see in the pictures of the centre of the earth. All the wet bark that had been a Frenchie ablution went in, so did a few roof tiles and the old metal grid from the drain, two small planks and a piece of wire, two bags of hay and the rich compost that we created our very own selves in a green plastic bin. We then thanked the chili, tansy and rose geranium that contributed their green selves to a layer and freed up the cast iron bath to be Swan's summer pool. A flurry of little green praying mantises were re-homed on the Jasmine. Scott leveled the land and now we have a lovely mud bath, ready for grass, gravel and some snooty cement borders.<br />
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The bath is being collected this morning to be re-enameled on the inside, I love the rusty base so we are keeping that as it is. The lime tree will be moving to join our mini orchard down the sunny side of the house and then we will have a glorious handkerchief of grass just big enough for a picnic blanket.<br />
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<br />Kim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-1366955349667147312013-12-02T08:50:00.000+02:002013-12-02T08:50:03.177+02:00WAVESCAPE BOARD STEAM PUNK 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How cool are the official catalogue shots of our board for the ART AUCTION on Wednesday, 4th December, at Superette, Woodstock Exchange. Have a sneak peek at the rest of the submissions <a href="http://www.wavescape.co.za/photos/featured-slideshows/steam-punk-board-blast.html">HERE</a>.Kim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-43278206036572424782013-11-26T07:52:00.002+02:002013-11-26T07:52:48.676+02:00FORDOUN 2013 LOVE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our Small is going on a school outing so we are going on a big people outing. No posts 'til Monday, see you later gators!<br />
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Scott had a wonderful concept for his side of the board this year, I love the colour palette that he used and the bold graphic pattern. It is a happy resolution of a tough year BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS.Kim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-29323381640141315122013-11-22T06:29:00.000+02:002013-11-22T06:29:18.433+02:00OIL PAINTING HIPSTER LOVE <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been wanting to paint a hipster man with beard and tattoos for a while now, so jumped on the fashion wagon yesterday. This is my biggest canvas so far and I had a blast with my large paint brushes. Still have to fill in detail around his eyes and add the tattoos.<br />
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<br />Kim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-9518425230492296482013-11-21T08:47:00.000+02:002013-11-21T08:47:05.012+02:00VISUAL CONTRAST LOVE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Have ordered this cool book I saw in British HOMES & GARDENS, online.<br />
VISUAL CONTRAST: THE ART OF DISPLAY AND ARRANGEMENT<br />
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It is that crazy time of the year and I must dash here and there! I am working on a fantastic moodboard for a project at the moment and a trillion other things. So if I am scarce for a little while, forgive me do xxx <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">oil painting by Gil Elvgreen</span></i>Kim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-47672892214162864172013-11-19T07:40:00.000+02:002013-11-19T07:40:39.796+02:00CUPCAKE PAPERS LOVE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How awesome are these cupcake papers! The Small has a Cake & Candy sale at school today so went to <a href="http://partytheme.co.za/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=1&Itemid=2">PARTY THEMES CLASSIC</a> to stock up. They have a wall of cupcake papers in gorgeous colours, shapes and patterns. There was only one pack of these, otherwise I would have bought heaps as stocking fillers.Kim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-35430680332624598212013-11-18T08:25:00.001+02:002013-11-18T08:34:23.112+02:00WAVESCAPE 2013 BOARD LOVE FINALE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And here she is, my sixth board, how the years fly by! The first work completed in the revamped MESSY STUDIO.<br />
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<br />Kim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-84624236144523503012013-11-15T07:50:00.001+02:002013-11-15T07:50:29.136+02:00WAVESCAPES 2013 BOARD LOVE III<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I strip off all the paper masks and am left with the rough shapes, I have to tell myself repeatedly that this is the background. I am weirdly obsessed with neatness, even though that is just not my natural painting/drawing style. I had a ferocious bout of sanding to get the texture just right which has left me with itchy arms and a sneeze. Best of all has been my discovery of an acrylic ink which dries waterproof. This is something I have only dreamt of! It meant that I could paint my linework with one fluid stroke, completely flat, not laborious going over of lines to get the right coverage. The freedom!<br />
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Here are some shots of the beginning phases of my board, the hilarious reality of the MESSY STUDIO is that it is now too pretty for spray painting. So besides doing my masking on the floor in the lounge (table top in MESSY STUDIO needs to be attached still) I had to make a teeny tiny temporary spray booth in the garage. Lucky this is such a dainty board this year, would never have managed this skullduggery with the BEAST from last year.<br />
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Way back when I first started blogging, I did a series on <a href="http://www.thepaintedblackbird.com/2011/10/lowbrow-love-ii.html">LOWBROW</a> ladies, <a href="http://www.taramcpherson.com/info/">TARA McPHERSON </a>being one of the artists that I admire. Whilst doing some ebaying last night I cam across her amazing LILITU vinyl toy, a limited edition of 200. The packaging is diabolical!<br />
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I have three Tolix metal diner stools for the MESSY STUDIO table and the lovely chair that I had reupholstered for a 'sewing chair' but need two more to make a well rounded six. I am thinking a wooden chair in the lovely olivey mustard as above and maybe a wire one painted white. Hmmmm ....<br />
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<br />Kim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-41112932342213031442013-11-11T07:52:00.000+02:002013-11-11T07:52:03.605+02:00BELINDA EATON LOVE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The wonderful clash of colours and patterns plus the body art caught my eye in <a href="http://www.belindaeaton.com/">BELINDA EATON</a>'s work. Her paintings capture an oil slick intensity and scream fashion in the bold stares of the models.<br />
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Here is a sneak peek at my design for this years <a href="http://www.wavescape.co.za/">WAVESCAPE</a> Art Auction, THE BLACKBIRD. The beautiful board was shaped by <a href="http://www.dutchie.co.za/">DUTCHIE</a> and is called the SHRED STICK. Will have some more info on the board itself and a list of the other artists who are taking part later.<br />
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<br />Kim Longhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328203412864627231noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217783676719587533.post-639777440129791732013-11-07T07:59:00.000+02:002013-11-07T07:59:08.981+02:00ELSA MORA LOVE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am a huge fan of paper cutting as an illustrative technique, I like the pattern and a slightly macabre edge no matter the subject. <a href="http://www.allaboutpapercutting.com/about-me/">ELSA MORA</a> is a wonderful artist with an interesting life story. She has an amazing blog which you must visit because she links to many other fantastic makers.<br />
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