My intention was to see how the inks would bleed over the paper and interact when they only touch minimally. I started by soaking the surface with clean water, then I dropped in some drops of the primary colours and watched them defuse for a few minutes. It frankly wasn’t moving fast enough for me,A … Continue reading A Creative Block Project – Day 10
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #180 – Paper-Thin 09-015
Paper-Thin 09-015: The History: Share what you see and continue the story. This series was a challenge I gave myself to see how thin I could make the clay before it cracked… It was a great learning experience with various materials. How to slow-dry the clay, when to add engobes, how to handle it … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #180 – Paper-Thin 09-015
(Home) – Studio Painting – 1st Still Life Project – Good for now…
So, this is where I’m stopping on this one, pending the class critique (constructive feedback) this week. I may simply abandon it and move on to the next project… mainly because I am taking mental notes on the process and really dislike continuing past my gut instinct of end points. I’m not hearing a loud(Home) … Continue reading (Home) – Studio Painting – 1st Still Life Project – Good for now…
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #179 – Paper-Thin 09-016
Paper-Thin 09-016: The History: Share what you see and continue the story. This series was a challenge I gave myself to see how thin I could make the clay before it cracked… It was a great learning experience with various materials. How to slow-dry the clay, when to add engobes, how to handle it before500 … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #179 – Paper-Thin 09-016
A Creative Block Project – Day 8
I feel I went out a little further on a limb for this one. I I have seen how salt mottles watercolour paints and wondered if it would do the same to ink… Well, not quite. The ink must have some alcohol or another form of solvent that isn’t waterbed, so the salt didn’t gatherA … Continue reading A Creative Block Project – Day 8
A Creative Block Project – Day 7
Following the interesting results of Day 5 where I used a very wet varnish bruh to drag the pigments across the page, I decided to try it again, only a little differently. This time I painted in the large spaces with pigment… less than usual and it started to dry fast. I had a feelingA … Continue reading A Creative Block Project – Day 7
The Self-UnPortrait
What I learned in school this week… We were given only one prompt for this activity: “Shoot a self-portrait where you aren’t directly in the shot.” Of course hands flew up and questions were rapidly fired at the teacher, but he simply replied “you decide” and the questions stopped. Through the class discussion that followedThe … Continue reading The Self-UnPortrait
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #177 – Paper-Thin 09-018
Paper-Thin 09-018: The History: Share what you see and continue the story. This series was a challenge I gave myself to see how thin I could make the clay before it cracked… It was a great learning experience with various materials. How to slow-dry the clay, when to add engobes, how to handle it before500 … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #177 – Paper-Thin 09-018
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – La Foule Québécoise: Trois
The painting centers on a solitary, front-facing figure—helmeted in darkness, simplified into near-iconic contours—set against a field of highly charged, slanting color. The overall effect suggests a stylistic convergence: the handling of the background recalls the velocity and fractured rhythm of modernist abstraction, while the figure’s reductive silhouette and masklike facial treatment evoke the hieratic … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – La Foule Québécoise: Trois
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – La Foule Québécoise: Deux
The painting presents a paradoxical figure-ground relationship: a luminous human form emerges at the right, yet the surrounding space refuses stable depth, collapsing into a field of gestural colour. This visual strategy—recognizable as a hybrid of expressionistic figuration and painterly abstraction—positions the work between likeness and atmosphere. The result is not a portrait in the … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – La Foule Québécoise: Deux