I had great fun, making mine from discarded watercolour paintings, and I incorporated dried flowers
The 4th in the Series of How To Chinese Brush Painting
When the great wind in the sixth moon o’erwhelmed / The skies at Chengdu lifting houses whole, / Shaking the land with fearful din, black c…
Poem by Lu Yu 12th Century Chinese Poet This poem ties in with the last chapter on Chinese painting, where I wrote of the visible and invisible aspects of nature….it was written many centuries ago and yet it could have been written last week… Lao Tzu, the originator of Taosim, says that “Tao is great, Heaven is great, Earth is great, and Man is also great”....in Lu Yu’s poem all four Greats are personified…the second and the last lines are particularly telling….
This medley of long and short, fat and thin, dry brush, fast and slow strokes, are necessary to the success of your painting…
Chinese Brush Painting How-To #8 Mountains and Rocks
Several years ago I got very ambitious and did a very large pictorial journal of ideas,..so for those who have asked me “how did you do t…
Ideas and notes from my Artist’s Journal…
I stocked the studio like an art supply store, with every type of paint, paper brush, pencil, marker etc, as well as equipment for more …
Tales from an Artist’s Journal…one woman’s adventure in painting…
In “The Art of Colour” Johannes Itten wrote, that “however painting may evolve, colour will remain it’s prime material”...
Tales from an Artist’s Journal Part 3….Fill your Paintings with Dynamic Colour
Are you still into painting? I thought you gave that up and got a real job…
WILDFLOWERS…JZ 487 Views
I was doing approximately 100 paintings each winter, of every kind of subject matter, from Still life to Landscape, summer to winter..
Tales from an Artist’s Journal part 4
White paper can be intimidating if you’re a beginning watercolourist… *This article has been re written and republished with more in…
There are also many hidden benefits to giving compliments. It’s amazing that such a small, simple skill like giving away compliments can …
It’s at times like these that we have to look deep inside ourselves for the courage to wait patiently, for that fresh inspiration, that n…
/ Lapis Lazuli Bravura Finish What question are you grappling with in your art?
The coroner called it death by misadventure …. the time of death was set between 7.30 and 8.a.m
“If you think you’re outclassed, you are, / You’ve got to think high to rise. / You’ve got to be sure of yourself, / Before you can win the …
/ Nice to be Here Watercolour on Arches Paper
Life’s not about getting free of pain, but rather finding happiness through service to some process with links to a higher ideal.
/ Tangled Light Watercolour on Paper…
The extravagant and beautiful colours of Autumn in one Collection
/ / “Colors burst in wild explosions / Fiery, flaming shades of fall / All in accord with my pounding heart.. / / “Delicious autumn!..My very soul is wedded to it, / and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth / seeking the successive autumns.”...George Eliot / / / “I know the year is dying, / Soon the summer will be dead. / I can trace it in the flying / Of the black crows overhead; / I can hear it in the rustle / Of the dead leaves as I pass, / And the south wind’s plaintive sighing / Through the dry and withered grass. Ah, ‘tis then I love to wander, / Wander idly and alone, / Listening to the solemn music / Of sweet nature’s undertone; / Wrapt in thoughts I cannot utter, / Dreams my tongue cannot express, / Dreams that match the autumn’s sadness / In their longing tenderness.”....Mortimer Crane Brown /
A woman must have money and a room of her own, if she is to create…
/ Still Life with Citrus Mixed Media on Paper
They’re jealous of the success and talent of others. It happens everywhere….
Your composition should consist of 5 to 7 large to medium sized interlocking shapes that form the building blocks of your painting.
I judge art shows and travel to locations to paint. I earn $75,000.00 to $100,000.00 annually…
/ By Tom Lockhart
Photos lie, they change colors and values.. / Sold for an astonishing 6.1 million pounds
/ Peter Doig…”Cabin” Saatchi Gallery catalogue / Peter Doig..”Ravine” Saatchi Gallery
that seemed to paint themselves, without your consciousness having anything to do with it.. you know those works will stand the test of …
you’re “stuck in the middle*” with a bunch of people who “kinda like” your artwork…
/ Wild is the Wind
I said no to giving my painting to the magazine and I had to call the police to get my paintings back from the restaurant.
/ / / / / / / All Images from my Portfolio collection
For a painting to be considered complete, or in his words”full” it requires the following…
/ The Grove
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