So the first one is the one that I have the most trouble with - the red one. But I've got an idea now that might just work. I've worked on it over the weekend on my iPad, so let's see during the week how far I get... The next one - the green and blue, is a bit 'in your face' so I need to find a way to calm it down a bit - like I did today with the light colour. I'll just have to work a bit more on that.... And the last one - the one on a frame, is probably the easiest one and the one that's closest to being finished, even though it's still missing quite a lot of details - but it's starting to come together - slowly.
Finally I got a bit done on all 3 of these :) Still a long way to go - so they definitely don't look very good, but they'll get there eventually :) So the first one is the one that I have the most trouble with - the red one. But I've got an idea now that might just work. I've worked on it over the weekend on my iPad, so let's see during the week how far I get... The next one - the green and blue, is a bit 'in your face' so I need to find a way to calm it down a bit - like I did today with the light colour. I'll just have to work a bit more on that.... And the last one - the one on a frame, is probably the easiest one and the one that's closest to being finished, even though it's still missing quite a lot of details - but it's starting to come together - slowly. I still have all these other ideas popping into my head - which is the biggest problem about being an artist - there's so much you want to try, but as I've said before, I just don't have time for it all. But all these ideas make it difficult to focus on the on-going paintings and I keep finding other things to do.. But I guess that's also the fun part about being an artist - it's all about researching and then experimenting with new products and ideas - fun, fun, fun - how lucky I am !!!
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Had a great day in the studio today. Full of energy and feeling the pressure to get stuff finished :) Loooove the pressure - best motivation ever! (at least for me... :) So I need to get these 3 paintings finished before long, as I have a lot of unfinished paintings stored in the office and I want to move them all to the studio, so that I can start working on them - that's how much motivation I've got at the moment :D On the photo with the framed painting you can see I'm working on a couple of small ones as well - left-over-paint paintings always turn out good :) And.... pink got into the green and blue painting - not sure how that happened.... The red/orange one I'm having problems with - can't get it right, but at least I've added a bit of apple-green today, so maybe next time something will happen.... there's hope! I've also started working on some polystyrene balls - covered in paint skins. Not as easy as I thought - and not as much fun as I thought either. I might just go back to my cubes as I enjoy making these :) But as I said to myself today in the studio - focus on getting some paintings done and then I can work on balls or cubes later... Never have time enough in the day for all the things I want to do...
Would be impossible to show all my favourite fibre installations (or designs), so these are just some of them.... But.... I started collecting these images years ago - before I realised how important it is to also save the name of the artist for each art work...... not only for the sake of the artist but also for further research. So my goal is to slowly identify each art work and credit the artist! If you can help me identify any of these art works I would appreciate it :D Still working on my three/four paintings. I'm a bit slow at the moment - and I keep changing my mind... probably because I just want to add pink... So I ended up adding pink to the framed one - and I covered some of the green up with red - looks better now I think. Think I need to work on all of them digitally for a couple of days, so that I can find out what I want to do - as I'm wasting so much paint by keep changing my mind and painting over stuff... To be honest my thoughts are not really with these paintings at the moment - still thinking about other things I want to do.. so maybe I should give them a bit of a rest and go on to something else for a while. Haven't been to Spotlight yet, but hopefully over the weekend - so that I can try to have a play with some different shapes, covered in... not sure yet - but part of it will be paint, that much I know :)
Always exciting when you're a bit stuck, as I feel that often leads to new things happening - unless you're really, really stuck and can't get on with anything... but I'm sure that's not the case :D For some reason I really, really like the work by Frances Dorsey - even though I'm not sure whey. Not sure whether it's the colour or the texture that I like - or that whole over-lapping effect.... hmmmm - I have to look into this a bit more I think... Could also be because it's 'fabric' or looks like fabric and I like that drapey, bubbly kind of look... ???? Looking back to when I went to Uni and did research, I already looked at similar things/artists... I'm actually sitting here right now looking through my dissertation and it's quite funny how I've never thought about that more with the drapey, bubbly kind of look. But I guess it's all down to tactility - which was the whole point of my dissertation. I researched Blinky Palermo, Fabian Marcaccio, and Miranda Parkes - and their works are all drapey, bubbly, 'in your face' :D Have this feeling that I need to do other things beside painting. Maybe I should work on some of my cubes... Or maybe I should find a way to incorporate wool in my work? I've always wanted to do big installations with wool and fibres, but... not sure when I would have the time - or energy to do this..
It's probably after our MFA seminar on Saturday. Hearing about what everybody else was doing kind of made me wanting to do MORE, MORE, MORE. So basically I need more than 24 hours in a day...... But I'm knitting and crocheting - maybe I could find a way to do smaller arty things, instead of knitting and crocheting. On the other hand what I'm knitting is definitely art... I never use a pattern, and whatever I knit - never fit.... so it must be art :D Maybe I could make cubes with paint and knitted material - that could be kind of fun. Think I have to try that - I can already imagine what it could look like.... YEAH !!! Practically I can also imagine how the corners of the cubes will stick out through the knitted material, so maybe I should find a way of working with round forms instead.... hmmmmmmm - I see a trip to Spotlight coming up :D How about this for knitted art: Ivano Vitali Met up with MFA class mates - graduates 2010 - today. We've started meeting up twice a year for seminars where we learn from each other - and support each other. The power of a group compared to an individual artist :D Richard was telling us about his PhD process - which was very, very interesting. Really makes you want to do more research and not having to think about selling your work - just have fun, like when doing BFA and MFA :D I really miss researching and being able to completely concentrate on a subject - losing track of time and just 'dig deep'.... From left: Denise Batchelor, Julie Woodward, Monica Seo (with Rowan Belcher via Skype :D, Gitte Steen Andersen, Wendy Faith, Dagmar Andres-Dahmen, and Richard Kereopa (Tawhanga Nopera).
I don't get it. I keep telling myself to paint blue and green - and I still end up with pink..... Where is all this pink coming from? I'm working on four paintings at the moment - one of them is this one below... I'd promised myself it was going to be green, blue and white - and then some yellow. So yesterday I painted over the yellow with grey and these little pink dots started to appear... and I even considered painting the grey areas pink... Somehow I don't think I can fight it - I just have to go with the flow until the pink has been exhausted :) "The color pink is the color of universal love of oneself and of others.Pink represents friendship, affection, harmony, inner peace, and approachability. Pink represents sugar and spice and everything nice. Pink is the sweet side of the color red."
Lots of energy today, so worked on 5 paintings in studio - so great when you're in the 'flow' :)
And I just bought new paint and as you might have guessed - one of the new colours are turquoise..... but I'm still going with the pink as well - not sure how long that 'lollipop' phase will last :) Other than that I'm procrastinating.... I need to move some stuff from our office to the studio - and from studio to office. 10 new canvas' that I had delivered to the office needs to go to the studio. And 4 finished paintings needs to go from the studio to the office... But I need to hire 'a man with a van' to do this as the paintings and canvas are too big to go into my car... and for some reason I just can't get this done... not sure why, as I need the canvas in the studio - and I need more finished paintings in the office.... there are a couple of bare walls after 5 paintings went to Mobile Art Gallery :D Things are happening.... both paintings are very wet, so the colours don't really come through. The pink painting has now got light blue in the top - even though it looks white.. But then again - all that will change. These are just the underneath layers which will make the next couple of layers deeper in colour.
Still have the red painting hanging on the wall - haven't touched that today, but that'll come. I was in a green mood today :D |
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