Lost in Art
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. ~John Updike
Tuesday 26 February 2019
In the course of our sailing trips on board our sailboat La Buena Vida, we collected shells and sand from different areas in the Caribbean. I am starting a seires of collage and mixed-media art with those objects.
The background is a chart from the waters between Key West and Havanna. We crossed that body of water for the first time in 2000-2001.
Thursday 14 February 2019
Collages and other mixed-media adventures 2019
I still enjoy my new studio arrangement. Now that I am more interested in collage and gelli printings, I need storage space more than ever. Here is the latest one.
Sunday 11 February 2018
February 2017 - Reorganizing my art studio
A great idea to transform a small space into a more efficient art room. When I started making art, I need tables and we simply placed these A-frames under old doors. Nothing wrong with that except that with time, there was no possibility to store anyhting and all my material was on the table surfaces, leaving no space for actually working on them!
After browsing on Pinterest (Yes!) I came up with the idea to replace as many of these frames as possible with shelvings! With plates of 1/2" plywood, my husband made 6 shelving units! that became support for the tables and enabled me to store boxes, mat cutters, pads, unfinished canvas, etc...
My small studio had become an airy and efficent art making space!
Also, a large drawer enabled me to store large pieces of paper and pads.
Thursday 3 October 2013
In the same vein than Shelter Bay, I am working on a tryptic; although autumn colours are at their best right now, skies and seas are my inspiration. I find the water and the skies, when they melt together at the horizon, almost intoxicating. Shelter Bay was after the real shelter bay where cargo from the whole world linger before they cross the Panama canal.
Shelter Bay is a 16" x 12" acrylic and mixed-media.
Shelter Bay is a 16" x 12" acrylic and mixed-media.
Always interesting to see the beginning of a piece...this tryptic will evolve!
Wednesday 4 September 2013
Summer has come and gone...I spent a lot of time sailing and cruising lake Ontario and brought my watercolours paints, crayons and pencils along to reacquaint myself with the techniques.
Here, at the home studio, I experimented with linking drawings and some of my first acrylics with colours that I particularly liked! The small portraits are inspired by the beauty of Caribbean women, les belles antillaises...
It was fun to collage some papers and ribbons, retouch the watercoloured portrait with acrylics and do some printing to embellish the design.
Here, at the home studio, I experimented with linking drawings and some of my first acrylics with colours that I particularly liked! The small portraits are inspired by the beauty of Caribbean women, les belles antillaises...
It was fun to collage some papers and ribbons, retouch the watercoloured portrait with acrylics and do some printing to embellish the design.
Sunday 14 April 2013
Wednesday 3 April 2013
New Pages are being added
Yes, new pages will be added to this blog...with art related photographs that I shot during our travels, Reflexions about art and psychotherapy, and others..It just takes time!
Thursday 28 March 2013
12th Annual Juried Art Salon
Today I finally submitted 3 pieces of art work to the Art Salon.
The Kingston Arts Council’s annual Juried Art Salon enables member artists from the region to enter up to three pieces in any medium and have their work judged by three professional artists. The winners and finalists are exhibited at the Wilson Room of the Kingston Public Library during the month of May.
I decided to submit the following art work:
These pieces (Mixed-media 8 x 8 on canvas.), Curious and below, Timid are the first 2 of a series that I would like to continue working on in the future. As you can see in the January posting, I was already working on these 2 canvases and I changed their colour hues dramatically.
I like them better now because the dark and light tones are more balanced.
The Kingston Arts Council’s annual Juried Art Salon enables member artists from the region to enter up to three pieces in any medium and have their work judged by three professional artists. The winners and finalists are exhibited at the Wilson Room of the Kingston Public Library during the month of May.
I decided to submit the following art work:
These pieces (Mixed-media 8 x 8 on canvas.), Curious and below, Timid are the first 2 of a series that I would like to continue working on in the future. As you can see in the January posting, I was already working on these 2 canvases and I changed their colour hues dramatically.
I like them better now because the dark and light tones are more balanced.
The last art work submitted was difficult to capture in a good photograph. A 48" x 12", this piece is also mixed-media with several photo transfers and collage of rope, japanese papers, silk papers and several layers of acrylic medium.
Tuesday 8 January 2013
Tuesday 23 October 2012
Friday 15 June 2012
Sailing and painting can be compatible!
We left for a week on our sailboat and I enjoyed painting on our cabin table while it rained alllllll day!
The rainbow and the evening skies were inspiring enough...
The rainbow and the evening skies were inspiring enough...
Saturday 2 June 2012
Setting up my new computer
Finally, I made the move and bought a new computer which is 100% dedicated to art stuff: tutorials, paintings that inspire me, other artists's works, techniques, and of course it will have my music library. Very exciting...I am just setting it up and tomorrow, I will set in up in the studio!
J'ai finalement fait l'acquisition d'un nouvel ordinateur qui sera dédié à 100% à l'art visuel: vidéos sur les techniques, oeuvres d'art d'autres artistes que j'admire, textes qui m'inspirent..et une librairie de pièces musicales bien que j'aime souvent travailler dans le silence...
J'ai finalement fait l'acquisition d'un nouvel ordinateur qui sera dédié à 100% à l'art visuel: vidéos sur les techniques, oeuvres d'art d'autres artistes que j'admire, textes qui m'inspirent..et une librairie de pièces musicales bien que j'aime souvent travailler dans le silence...
Tuesday 15 May 2012
I met Donna Brown at the workshop of Karen Rosasco last summer. Donna has been painting for several years now and has her studio in Kingston. She will be showing her work at the Wellington Street Art Gallery in Toronto from May 16 to June 2. Bravo Donna!
(This is one of her art work entitled Protection; to see all the art work exhibited, go to the website of the Gallery as listed below.)
http://www.wellingtonstreetartgallery.ca/exhibitions.html
(This is one of her art work entitled Protection; to see all the art work exhibited, go to the website of the Gallery as listed below.)
http://www.wellingtonstreetartgallery.ca/exhibitions.html
Wednesday 9 May 2012
Toronto IS grunge...Here are 2 "real" examples of grunge, encountered on the streets of Toronto...on posts and doors. I cannot say that I find that "pleasing" but it is an amazing experience to be able to recreate this type of "mood" with texture and colours.
When I came back in the studio, I was full of those images and started working on the rehabilitation of one of my failed designs. "Grunge city" emerged...
Thursday 26 April 2012
Tuesday 24 April 2012
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Alchemy of photo transfer!!!
I am still working on collages and photo transfer. The acrylic washes worked out great, using Payne's grey, transparent red oxyde, Van Dyke brown and Titan buff. These photo transfers are trickier to do because the instructor is asking us NOT to let the tranfer dry before removing the paper. In the past, I managed to use Inkjet printed material and glossy liquid gel with fair success. For this type of transfer, however, it is not working as well...but one has to keep experimenting!
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