The painting presents five standing human figures rendered with a deliberately simplified, almost icon-like naturalism: bodies are built through broad fields of colour, their outlines emphasized by dark, defining contours. Rather than modeling faces or gesturing hands with anatomical specificity, the work privileges schematic presence—suggesting not individualized portraits so much as roles, identities, or social … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – La Foule Québécoise: Six
Abstract Ship
Again using scraps of slabs and joining them together into whatever shape they decide. This was done while I was seeing the smokestacks of ships in my imagination. I decided to experiment with a red engobe of my own mixture. It would have been more vibrantly red, had I fired it at Cone 04, insteadAbstract … Continue reading Abstract Ship
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #190 – Paper-Thin 09-005
Paper-Thin 09-005: 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 #190 – Paper-Thin 09-005
#NoCapYoureActuallyLegendary. (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 17 for Gen Z)
Who’s gonna believe my posts way down the line,If I tell them how insanely rare you are?If I drop all the receipts showing your shine,They’ll say, “Nah, that’s fake. You raised the bar too far.” If I could stream your eyes and capture that glow,And count every vibe that makes you so unreal,People would say, … Continue reading #NoCapYoureActuallyLegendary. (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 17 for Gen Z)
#PicsOrItDidntHappen (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 17 for Gen X)
Who's gonna buy this story years from now,If I laid out just how damn incredible you are?Though hell knows, this page's just a faded snapshot, somehow,Trying to cram the whole damn sky into a mason jar. If I could write your eyes without sounding insane,And tally every little thing that makes you you,Folks would roll … Continue reading #PicsOrItDidntHappen (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 17 for Gen X)
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #189 – Paper-Thin 09-006
Paper-Thin 09-006: 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 before … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #189 – Paper-Thin 09-006
“Beyond the Filter: Why Shakespeare’s Sonnet 17 Still Challenges Us to Believe in Greatness”
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 17 concludes the opening sequence of the "Procreation Sonnets" (Sonnets 1–17), in which the speaker repeatedly urges a beautiful young man to preserve his beauty through future generations. Yet this final sonnet shifts from persuasion to anxiety. Rather than arguing solely about aging or mortality, Shakespeare confronts a surprisingly modern problem: What … Continue reading “Beyond the Filter: Why Shakespeare’s Sonnet 17 Still Challenges Us to Believe in Greatness”
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #188 – Paper-Thin 09-007
Paper-Thin 09-007: The History: Share what you see and continue the story. Someone put the idea of contrast is better in my mind and I have been reaching for it for years. I could blame it on a book by De Chirico and the whole Chiaroscuro movement, but that would be exaggerating the point. I500 … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #188 – Paper-Thin 09-007
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Dali
Dry pastel portraits rarely aim for optical fidelity; instead, they privilege surface, temperament, and the frictions between pigment and ground. “Dali” organizes these priorities around a head-and-shoulders likeness that feels at once recognizably “Dali” and deliberately unfinal—an image suspended between remembered portraiture and expressive invention. The work is inspired by many photographic portraits of artist, Salvador Dali, … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Dali
That’s An Orange of a Different Colour
Another visit to the Farmer’s Market and a huge bin full of these orange beauties. Almost pumpkins, but not quite. Textured like zucchini, but not quite. The size of the average butternut squash, but not quite. It’s orange, but the variations of hues and intensities on each squash make it… well, not quite orange either.That’s … Continue reading That’s An Orange of a Different Colour