tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561642481755412634.post6053434083292087420..comments2024-02-22T10:09:37.484-03:30Comments on Painting On: ProgressionMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726740154167156916noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561642481755412634.post-42649195073007734262009-01-24T14:17:00.000-03:302009-01-24T14:17:00.000-03:30Nancy,All good comments, some of which I have alre...Nancy,<BR/>All good comments, some of which I have already tried. I have a very good sense of what I like/what attracts me and why I want to create work. I have created other work apart from flowers which I should post, to give a more representative view of my work. I <BR/><BR/> I am an obsessive reader of art magazines/books and an online viewer, so I see lots of art. Interestingly enough, I am just as happy working abstractly, but I don't seem to go there very often. Right now I am struggling with how to express the themes from my garden experiences less literally. I think that is why I am reviewing my work and not making a move to paint in the last while. Too much reading of blogs these days , but I am enjoying it and connecting with the work of other artists.Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12726740154167156916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561642481755412634.post-1423220413665983992009-01-24T00:05:00.000-03:302009-01-24T00:05:00.000-03:30Margaret, I like your progression painting most of...Margaret, I like your progression painting most of all because it seems to be about the essence of the flower. I think you should make more work with the things you like such as rusted metal and stop working on flowers for now. Or think about what it is you really like about the flower - the rich color in the midst of all the green, the form, the fragility? Can you express that without painting the flower itself?<BR/><BR/>Or, instead of looking at your own work, look through some art magazines and tear out work you like (best to own the magazines first). Maybe seeing what you respond to will help you see what you are looking for in your own work.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for commenting on my blog. I hope that you will continue to find it interesting.Nancy Natalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03325421420384484035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561642481755412634.post-59652339493858493722009-01-22T15:10:00.000-03:302009-01-22T15:10:00.000-03:30Thanks for the positive comments Paula. I know fl...Thanks for the positive comments Paula. I know flowers aren't your favourite content in art. I am definitely attracted to pattern, the effects of the passage of time and "oldness" and I like to try to put all those things together in my work. I find beauty in odd places. While this work is about flowers and their beauty goes without saying, I also find a rusted piece of metal, an eroding statue or a torn curtain just as beautiful and evocative.<BR/><BR/> Cycle, which you liked, was created at a time when my interest was stripping away background distraction and looking at everything close up. I guess the pared down backgrounds have given way to the opposite. Cycle is also the first piece I did that had a time sequence thing happening in it that required (in my mind) separate canvases attached. <BR/><BR/> Whatever the approach (focusing on the object and ignoring the background or layering lots of information around the image), they are all ways to draw the viewer in and to "control the viewing situation".Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12726740154167156916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561642481755412634.post-79323114774654080822009-01-22T11:47:00.000-03:302009-01-22T11:47:00.000-03:30well, this is quite the bouquet or art today...I h...well, this is quite the bouquet or art today...I have no words of wisdom, only impressions of what i see.<BR/>The first piece strikes me as antique and Victorian. You have a way with some pieces that take me to a place and time that I can only imagine. I feel like I'm looking through a frosted window of an old abandoned home, inside everything is torn, disused, dead but then I see color and life and beauty. <BR/><BR/>I like <I>cycle</I> the most and i think it has to do with the crispness the blondish background and how it is obviously art but looks like it could be part of a an old science type book.<BR/><BR/>i have often heard artists say that about selling work and the ensuing regret even years later. I have never felt that...it is always such a feeling of freedom to let another piece go and unclutter my world and give me more space to create more.phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10669096127325145722noreply@blogger.com