— and this is a beautiful interview with the artist Nancy Gruskin
Tag: Still life
“If I don’t have red, I use blue.”
Big painting in progress. It might look like travesty or parody, like a joke on behalf of the grand tradition of still life, but I can assure you: it’s not! This is simply where my art wants to go when it’s free to choose its own way …
A year of documenting mornings –
Turning the year’s half-way point, I decided (against better judgement) to start a new project. My tutor tells me it’s unrealizable, too rigid, impossible to carry through. For better or worse I take his words as a challenge … this is what I do: Every morning I start my day of making with a simple…
John Bokor
I know next to nothing about contemporary still life, about who’s working within the genre, what kind of paintings they make, and why – . But I have noticed there being a lot going on in Australia at the moment. So that’s where we’ll start. Today I will show you the work of John Bokor:…
A short note on working on paper
I have prepared 11 birch boards in different sizes; they are covered in layers of color and wild marks. They are hanging on my studio wall, but I’m not ready to go into dialogue with them yet. Maybe soon, or it might take some time. It doesn’t really matter; I trust the process and expect…
Playing around in negative space
I have found making acrylic sketches in my sketchbook to be so freeing – having no focus on outcome makes experimenting a lot easier This week I have been working on a challenge given by Debbie Mackinnon Debbie: “There can be no positives without the negative and so this week is all about finding, exploring…
Drawing within the lines is for babies; making sure things add up is for accountants.
Monday morning in the studio; just me and some pottery – playing with a very long handled brush & a wooden stick. Burnt umber on white paper.
Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending
There is something about setting a goal, giving yourself a challenge – and then telling everyone around about it. It obligates – sometimes in a good way. My declared & announced goal for the past two weeks, has been to produce a series of ten small still life paintings. For artists and writers who are…
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