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This is the winter we wish for, to be in the night meadow, the trees, heavy with fresh snow in th
In the summer, after only several months of pandemic, I began. Rather than my plan, which wa
The painting starts as the crosshairs of a target as seen by the bombadere. It is David Arsenault's design for "Grounded" at The Kitchen Theatre in April of 2019. The play is very serious. the painting however was playful, litterally wacked up with paint on sticks.
The piece is characterized by shifts in perspective and scale, creating an atmosphere of sureal fantasy.
This exhibition features artwork relevant to truths and uncertainties faced in this era of global climate change. As artists we pay attention, synthesize and reimagine. In this way we can see what is possible and save the world.
65 pieces, clay individuals embody a tiny mime, an emotive narrative spark that is human and recognizable.
Clay is malleable, able to follow our impulse, record an action or show the force of gravity. We create structure, clay changing from liquid to solid and transforming over time and by fire. Studio practice is the dance, the give and take between aesthetic intent, action materials and technique.
The last time I worked in clay I was in a studio that was an industrial workshop; Bethune Studio University of Buffalo, 1980 - 1983. You can see these influences in the clay-work from that time, this theme of the contradictory nature of materials is seen throughout this gallery of my sculpture work from that time.
Chalk pastel, vibrant colors, and soft edges let me turn up the volume on the landscape. The camera lets me troll around and really look at the marks close up.
Given the materials and the methods, they imagined a community. Over the days The town became laced together by paths crossing the river, up ladders and over bridges The strong social aspect is something that surprised me.
Not everyone learns how to sew. Many adults can't do it. They would be able to sew if someone had showed them how, but nobody ever did. Andrea taught sewing in her workshop. She caught children's interest with an invitation to make their own sweet mouse and she set them in motion to sew.
It is very useful in workshops to take a week to consider a single idea.The animals and insects build by instinct, with finesse, coordination and great engineering. Do we also have instincts for building, templates for what is required? In the studio, we are imitating the animals.
Workshops start with having a picture of who will be attending and then a general idea, an inkling. It is something compelling or useful to that group of kids, a set of visual skills and experiences to take forward.
This was a good day for bugs and people in the studio. This includes both spiders and insects, which are not the same thing. Besides all of us people,big and small, there was a walking stick with 5 legs, who stuck around, a cockroach laying eggs and hissing, tarantulas pouncing on crickets, assassin bugs and a centipede.
In Sketchbook Frenzy everything usually happen in the sketchbooks however some afternoons the drawings will just not stay put. It's been sort of a kick around here, making small things seem giagantic. Tiny is mighty.
Work in pastel sits between drawing and painting. Its all about dense quick color. Some say pastel painting, others say drawing.
Terry Winters and Iam McKeevers both have a style of drawing and painting, where the image has a direct graphic relationship to the shape of the page from the begining. Repeating things is good. The first time, students take in the information. They muddle through and get the rudiments.
Visual Think Tank on Fracking, The idea is catching on. Where is the warning? There is no canary. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was gutted of its science. They were supposed to protect us with objective logic in the face of corporate interests, and then...
The studio walls are dense with art. Abovo is sparkling, a visual pleasure. The collection and the studio as it currently appears is a record of our time in the fall classes.
The issue of the environment is a collective debt, owned by all of us who live on the globe, wit
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