With reference to artwork the term “abstract” was in the early 1900’s beautifully defined as “a smaller quantity containing the virtue and power of the greater.” ( (Johnson) I have never liked what I think we all think of as abstract art. You know those child like paintings of a one eyed, three breasted nude […]
I recently posted a meme that read “my teacher thought I was smarter than I was, so I was.” I am not very competitive, by nature. Growing up, I was the tallest kid in the entire grade school, and really never had to prove myself on the playground. In sports, I was always pretty good […]
PASTELS I love pastels as a medium. Pastels produce rich, saturated, and often painterly results – so buttery that you risk getting color on the tip of your nose as you peer in close and wonder, “What medium is this?” Pastels can also produce dry, sketchy, monochrome drawings, such as sepia tone DaVinci style, most […]
I had been searching for an easy, clean and inexpensive way to do wire sculpture. I first tried brazing. This is the state of the art technique requiring a torch and acetylene and oxygen tanks. I bought a small outfit and played around with it for a while and realized that besides150 burns on my […]
Above: Detail from “Caire” by Tim O’Keefe” “Contour” is taken from a French word meaning “outline” or “to go around”. In art “contour” usually has two meanings. The use I am least familiar with is to just block in the main shapes avoiding details. To me a better word for this is “gesture”. Gesturing is […]