Monday, April 28, 2008

Artropolis 2008 Chicago, Ill.



Every year I make it to Artropolis...I am an art addict. I love creating art and I love looking and buying art. I love to see the new ideas and how artists choose to translate those ideas. I get sucked into dissecting the piece after I've enjoyed the thrill of the encounter.

This year was no exception. An interesting method which I'd seen before but not to these heights were the paintings on metal and then using a drummel to scratch out and sometimes painting back into it. Something a little different was the same method but they did this on canvas. I am posting a picture from Michel Laberjerie from Spain. She takes images from Dali and Picasso and recreates them with her interpretation. These were oil on canvas, and scratched out. I love the light hand with the lines. To me the dove looks as though it is talking and it's sound coming out of it's mouth.

This next image is Xenia Hausner titled "You and I''. It's a lithograph, hand worked from the Forum Gallery in New York. Anyone that knows me knows I LOVE the color in this and the loose painting approach.

I did enjoy the show...but there were those moments when my friends and I thought" How did they get into a gallery" "What is that about?" You know; the blank canvas with one line through it. I do understand that sometimes these are much harder to do than it looks, but if everyone or most everyone that looks at it and says " So what"...then I think the gallery needs to think twice.

I would recommend this show to everyone! Now I want to start a new piece!!!!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Another one done.....I think.....


I've been struggling with this one as well. If you read the earlier post below this one you will know how I struggle. I am trying to get a little more contemporary in style with this one so I wasn't too hung up on making it look "real". It's more about color and shapes.

Make sure to check out my first try at abstracts in the post below.

New Paintings/Old ones Reworked!




Being a member of 18 Artists, we have a show in June/July at Three Oaks, Michigan. The title of the show is "Out of the Box"which means we have to do something we don't normally do.

While visiting my most very dear friend in Richmond, Virgina we did the art gallery tour. While in the Glave Kocen gallery on West Main street I fell in love with these abstracts by Laura Loe. Needless to say I was inspired to try my hand at the abstract taking my love of her method. Hence these are what came from the inspiration.

Feed back is always wanted!

The other picture of the roses I've worked on forever because I felt there was something wrong with it...but couldn't figure it out. I worked some more and now must move on regardless...So now it's out and done with!
Just so you know how I've struggled trying to make the roses work (bad composition), I have painted a border at the bottom in and out several times. There is texture on the wall that doesn't show in the photo.