Color: Natural Dyes and Pigments
Recently, I began to look at David Lee’s book Nature’s Palette. It has piked my curiosity about natural dyes and pigments. Among …
Category Archives: Artists and Art-making
Perception and Seeing Creatively
The whole life lies in the verb seeing. (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin) I plan to delve into the subject I …
Abstraction and Paradox
While reading about Matisse and his writings, I discovered a tad more about his own personal “philosophy” or refusal to …
The Contemplative Artist
Matisse’s writings revealed a mystical sensibility and contemplative quality to his creative work process. I immediately identified with his meditations. As I have shared …
Reflections on Color and Form I
As a continuation to the ongoing study of the elements of composition, (and following my prior post on Bachelard’s unique reflection on …
Meditations on Negative and Positive Space
Black ink (paint in my case) serves as the connecting element between my own Wheel within a Wheel 105 “hiccup” experience (described …
Thoughts on the Elements of Composition
While painting Wheel within a Wheel 104 & 105 several artists – Elizabeth Brandt, Kathleen Waterloo and Sheila Wolk – …
Framework for Panel Project #2
I just discovered some interesting commonalities between my own work process and M.C. Escher’s. Amongst the echoes and resonances that …
