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Beltane — Ravenhawk’s Magickal Products

Magickal Gardens Beltane reminds us that warmer weather is just ahead, It is getting time for those of us in the North-Eastern section of the US to start thinking about gardening. even if you have no room to plant a garden, container gardens are possible. Some of the herbs that will grow readily indoors or…
Beltane — Ravenhawk’s Magickal Products

April 29, 2022 by Nisha Desai Categories: BlogTags: ART, beltane, hospitality design, hotel design, interiors, magickal gardens, Nisha Designs, ravenhawks' magazine Magick for Mind Body and Soul, wheel of the year Leave a comment

Prosearium: “Digital garden of experiences” aims to increase presence of African women in game development — Life & Soul Magazine

Prosearium is an initiative to increase the participation of African women in game development by documenting 1,000 women of all backgrounds and their experiences creating and contributing to games. The Prosearium website aims to be a “digital garden of experiences” documenting African women’s experience in game development. Founded by South Africa-based game developer and community […]
Prosearium: “Digital garden of experiences” aims to increase presence of African women in game development — Life & Soul Magazine

April 23, 2022April 21, 2022 by Nisha Desai Categories: ARTTags: african women, ART, Digital garden, hotel design, interiordesign, life and soul magazine, Nisha Designs, Prosearium, residential design Leave a comment

Earth Day 2022: Earth Soul Dragon- Nisha Designs

The Celtic symbol of the dragon is magical, one of transformation and eternal wisdom. The druids respected dragons as forces of nature, the guardians of mother earth and all things sacred, the protectors of nature and all living things. The dragon holds the powerful Celtic symbol of protection and power. These magical beings represented all that the universe has to offer.

Dragon soul energy was worshiped and used for the greater good. At special celebrations of the turning seasons of the year, to harvest the right crops, as a true guardian for all they held sacred.

The earth soul dragon has a symbolism of nature and all things connected to our Mother Earth. The earth soul dragon asks us to connect with nature in all of its beauty. The true wealth is not money but the beauty of our land and its magick, it’s sources and resources.

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April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 by Nisha Desai Categories: ART, BlogTags: ART, Artists, celtic dragon, colors, dragons, earth dragon, happy earth day, hospitality design, hotel design, interiordesigners, interiors, Nisha Designs, residential design Leave a comment

7Sketches: Hawaiian artist Derick Fabian “just goes for it” after years attempting to combine art with “something sensible” — Life & Soul Magazine

Artist Derick Fabian creates character designs inspired by graffiti art, anime, and Sanrio such as Hello Kitty. Everything from “simple and cute to the more detailed and cool style”, the Hawai’i-based artist is not afraid to follow through on what he is intuitively guided. The 7Sketches founder says: “I illustrate characters. From simple and cute […]
7Sketches: Hawaiian artist Derick Fabian “just goes for it” after years attempting to combine art with “something sensible” — Life & Soul Magazine

April 21, 2022 by Nisha Desai Categories: BlogTags: 7Sketches, ART, Derick Fabian, hawaii, hawaii art, Hawaiian artist, hospitality design, hotel design, interiordesigners, interiors, life and soul magazine, Nisha Designs, residential design Leave a comment

Japandi: A Blend of Minimalism & Hygge- Wyndesong’s Place

What is Japandi? Japandi (Japanese minimalism + Scandinavian hygge) is everywhere you look these days. Get the look yourself with perfectly imperfect décor and accents, functional pieces, and layers of natural materials. […] Japandi: A Blend of Minimalism & Hygge — Wyndesong’s Place
Japandi: A Blend of Minimalism & Hygge — Wyndesong’s Place — Ravenhawks’ Magazine Magick for Mind Body and Soul

March 27, 2022March 26, 2022 by Nisha Desai Categories: ART, BlogTags: ART, Artists, colors, hotel design, hygge, interiordesign, interiordesigners, interiors, japan, japandi, minimalism, Nisha Designs, ravenhawks' magazine Magick for Mind Body and Soul, residential design, wyndesong's place Leave a comment

Fiber Artists- Sheila Hicks- Nisha Designs

Hicks, who has made fiber the foundation of her practice for 60 years, is one of the world’s most celebrated artists.

Sheila Hicks, Seven Magic Rain Dances (detail), 2019.

Sheila Hicks, Sentinel of Saffron, 2018.

Sheila Hicks, Chaine et trame interchangeable, 1983-2016.

Installation view, Sheila Hicks at the Nasher Sculpture Center.

Sheila Hicks (all), *Sober Streak Green*, 2019; Sober Streak Violet, 2019; Sober Streak Blue, 2019.

Sheila Hicks, Multi-colored Minime, ca 1962.

Sheila Hicks, Zapallar, 1958 (left);, Cluny II, 2008.

Sheila Hicks, North South East West, 2017-18.

Sheila Hicks, Sunset Pavilion Inhabited, 2015.

Sheila Hicks, May I have This Dance, 2011 (as installed at the ICA Philadelphia).

Source: https://www.sheilahicks.com/

March 26, 2022March 25, 2022 by Nisha Desai Categories: ART, BlogTags: ART, Artists, colors, ffibers, fiber artist, hospitality design, hotel design, interiordesign, interiordesigners, interiors, Modern art notes, Nisha Designs, residential design, Sheila hicks, textile art, textile designer, textiles Leave a comment

From Ancient Egypt to Teotihuacán, Centuries-Old Palettes Illuminate the Role of the Painter- Hyperallergic- Nisha Designs

*“Paint Box” (1302–1070 BCE), Egyptian, ceramic and pigment cakes, 2 5/16 x 8 11/16 x 2 3/16 inches, RISD Museum (courtesy RISD Museum)*

Despite all of the ancient painted objects in our museums, it’s rare to see an actual paint set.

For all the paint fragments found throughout the ancient world, on murals, pottery, sculpture, and scrolls, surprisingly few ancient paint palettes have been uncovered. Ancient palettes in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Museum in London, and the Louvre in Paris — among other institutions — number in the single digits. This is even more surprising now that scholars know ancient Greek and Roman statues were vibrantly painted.

The palettes we do have, many of which still contain traces of original pigment, show us how people painted, but they also tell us about the role of the painter in ancient civilizations.

“Scribe’s Palette” (ca. 2030-1550 BCE), Egyptian, wood and pigment, 13 5/8 x 1 11/16 x 11/16 inches, Metropolitan Museum of Art (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Most of the existing paint boxes and palettes are Ancient Egyptian: They belonged to scribes, tomb painters, and recreational painters of the upper classes. Some include the original brushes — for scribes, pen-like lengths of rush grass, and for professional and recreational illustrators, thicker bundles of grass to compose larger images.

“Paint Box of Vizier Amenemope” (ca. 1427-1401 BCE), boxwood with inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue, 7/8 x 8 1/4 x 1 7/16 inches, The Cleveland Museum of Art (courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art)

Scribes’ palettes mostly held only red and black pigments and many bear inscriptions of the king’s name, suggesting the importance of the scribe in the eyes of the ruler. Inscriptions with the king’s name — as in a palette at the British Museum featuring hieroglyphs in high relief that read “the perfect god, lord of the Two Lands, Nebpehtire, s[on of Ra, Ahmose]” — may have noted that the owner was the king’s official scribe and suggest that perhaps the king himself gave the palette to the scribe.

An Ancient Egyptian painting palette owned by a professional painter and housed at the Met also bears the king’s name, but one at the Cleveland Museum of Art includes the name of the owner himself, signifying it was likely used for leisurely painting. Unlike scribes’ bicolor palettes, recreational and tomb painters used a wider range of colors, all naturally occurring besides so-called “Egyptian blue.”

Replacing the expensive lapis lazuli, Egyptian blue was a synthetic compound made by heating malachite, sand, and other materials to a temperature of 1,500-2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The method was adopted by the Ancient Romans, but by the Middle Ages, the process was lost, and painters relied once again on the prohibitively expensive lapis lazuli.

“Painter’s Palette Inscribed with the Name of Amenhotep III” (ca. 1390–1352 BCE), ivory and pigment, 6 7/8 x 1 3/4 inches x 3/8 inches, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

In Ancient Egypt, blue was used to paint the gods (red, yellow, black, and green all came from the ground, making them unfit to depict deities). This concept is seen again in Christian art centuries later, with Mary and Jesus repeatedly depicted in blue.

Across the world and made centuries after the Egyptian palettes, another ancient paint setlinks the painter to the divine.

Source: https://hyperallergic.com/719033/centuries-old-palettes-illuminate-the-role-of-the-painter/

March 25, 2022 by Nisha Desai Categories: ART, BlogTags: ancient egypt, ART, art palettes, Artists, centuries old paletttes, FABRICS AND TEXTILES, hotel design, hyperallergic, interiordesigners, interiors, Nisha Designs, paint boxes, palettes, teotihuacan, textile desinger Leave a comment

Waterlight- Provides Electrical power using only salt water-Nisha Designs

HOW IT WORKS?

Born from something natural and evolves into something astonishing.

This project was born in April 2016 and consists of a specially designed electronic circuit that manages to extend the transfer of ions from a saline medium to convert them into useful and immediate energy. The electrodes of the salt bridge make it possible to drain energy from the salt water, (a known process), but with the electronic circuit with which it is possible to extract around 500 watts for each liter of water. The prototypes that we have developed are portable equipment weighing around 2 kilos. These teams can be scaled up to industrial production quickly. The Waterlight project can be scaled up vertically and horizontally in many ways.

As goals for the immediate future, to connect several units to a central base and in this way produce and extract greater amounts of energy.
A second goal is to be able to make plants on the shore of beaches to produce energy in significant quantities, continuously and for immediate use or to store in accumulators. The effluents from this process provide additional value by becoming fertilizers or drinking water, the energy of which for the desalination process comes from the same equipment.

Salt water is abundant and covers 73% of the earth’s surface. We can immediately extract 2 kilowatts from a cubic meter of salt water. We can extend this extraction for 10 continuous days, but ideally it should be a 24-hour process to change the saline medium and then reload it. In the development of small units, the Waterlight project provides an immediate solution that can directly benefit communities that lack lighting and a small electrical source; It can supply light and it can also be the electrical source where they can charge a cell phone or listen to a radio. The Waterlight for individual use also has applications in the field of recreation (camping), navigation (at all levels) and education (turning on a computer or a television). The project has a PCT Patent pending.

ANCESTRAL CONNECTION

The design is inspired by the Colombian Wayúu community and their ancestral connection with the sea.

RECYCLABLE

Assembled with 100% recyclable materials.

TRADITION

Strap knitted with kanas figures, millenary Wayúu handicrafts

WATERPROOF

Outdoor water resistant.

Source: https://www.waterlight.com.co/#inspire

March 20, 2022March 19, 2022 by Nisha Desai Categories: BlogTags: ancestral connection, ART, Artists, columbia, electricity, hospitality design, hotel design, interiors, Nisha Designs, salt water, solar energy, sustainable, waterlight, wayuu Leave a comment

Spring Equinox/Ostara Celebrations Now — Ravenhawks’ Magazine Magick for Mind Body and Soul

Spring Equinox/Ostara How to Celebrate Now The Spring Equinox is a time of new beginnings, of action, of planting seeds for future grains, and of tending gardens. Spring is a time of the Earth’s renewal, a rousing of nature after the cold sleep of winter. Eggs and Egg Baskets, coloring eggs, bird watching, egg hunts, […]
Spring Equinox/Ostara Celebrations Now — Ravenhawks’ Magazine Magick for Mind Body and Soul

March 19, 2022 by Nisha Desai Categories: ARTTags: ART, hotel design, interiordesign, interiordesigners, Nisha Designs, ravenhawks, ravenhawks' magazine Magick for Mind Body and Soul Leave a comment

World’s Oldest Trees- Beth Moon- Photography- Nisha Designs

Ancient Trees: Woman Spends 14 Years Photographing World’s Oldest Trees

Beth Moon, a photographer based in San Francisco, has been searching for the world’s oldest trees for the past 14 years. She has traveled all around the globe to capture the most magnificent trees that grow in remote locations and look as old as the world itself.

“Standing as the earth’s largest and oldest living monuments, I believe these symbolic trees will take on a greater significance, especially at a time when our focus is directed at finding better ways to live with the environment” writes Moon in her artist statement.

Sixty of Beth Moon’s duotone photos were published in a book titled “Ancient Trees: Portraits Of Time”. Here you can have a sneak preview of the book, full of strangest and most magnificent trees ever.

Source: https://www.beautyofplanet.com/a-woman-spent-14-years-photographing-our-planets-oldest-trees-and-here-are-the-results-3/

March 15, 2022 by Nisha Desai Categories: BlogTags: ART, Artists, beth moon, colors, hospitality design, hotel design, interiordesign, interiordesigners, interiors, nature, Nisha Designs, photo, photography, residential design, trees, world oldest trees Leave a comment

To-Dos: Your March Home Checklist — Wyndesong’s Place — ravenhawks’ magazine Magick for Mind Body and Soul

Get ready for sunnier days, whether you have an hour or a weekend to spare The first official day of spring is March 20. So whether there’s still snow on the ground or flowers in bloom, you can rest assured that nicer weather is on its way. […] To-Dos: Your March Home Checklist — Wyndesong’s […]
To-Dos: Your March Home Checklist — Wyndesong’s Place — ravenhawks’ magazine Magick for Mind Body and Soul