Harry Potter- A Collection of Oddments

Here are a few curious but unrelated oddments from the Harry Potter Exhibition:

1. Housepoints

2. The display of drinking glasses and ice sculpture from the Triwizard Ball/ Yule Ball

3. The chocolate feast

4. A display of famous wands

5. The Mirror of Erised and the portrait of the Fat Lady (hard to get a photo of the mirror without getting a photo of yourself taking a photo of the mirror- not my heart's desire!)

6. Armour to fit all shapes and sizes

7. A Quidditch set

Next time... the Potions Room!

Dumbledore's Office

The set for Dumbledore's office is beautiful and very detailed. There are so many shiny things in cupboards.

It's beautifully lit...

You just want to go in and look in the cupboards.

If you look closely...

You'll see the sorting hat up on the shelf behind Dumbledore.

Here's a halfway pic so you cab see where it is.

 Next time... a collection of oddments.

Harry Potter: Giant Chess Set

There are pieces from the Giant Chess set used in the Harry Potter film at various places around the exhibition and, as they are durable pieces, they are kept outside where you cab go right up to them.

More Potter next time...

Harry Potter Costumes

In the Great Hall of the Harry Potter Exhibition, models of the main adult characters are all stood at the staff table wearing the costumes from the films. Here they are individually...

       Hagrid

         Filtch

 

        Snape

Dumbledore

And a panorama of the entire set, including Mcgonagall and Mad eye Moody.

A little later in the tour were the costumes worn by the Beauxbaton students when they came to visit for the Tri-Wizard tournament

Many other costumes were on display throughout the exhibition so you may catch glimpses in the sets as we pass on other blog-days.

Harry Potter Exhibition

I had a lovely time at the Harry Potter Exhibition (just off the M25, England) so I took a mass of photos. I'll share them with you over the next few posts...

To start with, the Great Hall

It's very grand, but you only get a short time in the hall before they move you on ready for the next group to pass through. If you're determined to hang on at the back, you can get some lovely empty photos when most people have moved through.

Next time I'll show you some of the costumes.

Back to Websters

A while ago,  I was drawing in a book called A Pictorial Websters - a book which takes a single image from the original Websters book per page and encourages you to write or draw to fill in the rest of the page. 

I'd put the book down somewhere in the house and buried it but, having found it, have had another go at some of the remaining pages...

Here's the starter

And here's the finish...

Stupid I know but I enjoyed it.

For previous Websters blogs, see 
http://socklet-world.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/pictorial-websters.html?m=0
or http://socklet-world.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/more-pictorial-websters.html
and http://socklet-world.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/favourite-pictorial-websters-so-far.html
also http://socklet-world.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/return-to-websters.html?m=0

Mary Watts

Sorry its been so long.
Here, as promised, is a sample of some of the work of Mary Watts and the people she worked with.

One of the most fascinating and admirable things about Mary Watts (in my opinion), is the fact that she didn't just support her husband's talent and career or pursue her own art (even though he was immensely proud and encouraging of her), but set about many collaborative projects that involved most of the local community in making and creating things, the most famous of which is the chapel in Compton.

They were given training and the chance to leave their mark, whatever their station in life - the couple were very keen on social change and on treating all peoples with dignity and respect.

Entry to the chapel is free, although there is a charge to go into all the other places on the site.

Mary was very influenced by ancient Egyptian art and Celtic patterns and this is reflected throughout her work and into the graveyard.

Much more information on her on the internet if this has whetted your appetite. I'm about to start reading her diary.