Ode to Hiroshi

I have been following the 9x9s of Hiroshi Matsumoto for a while and just tried to do my own abstraction of this work... all are 4x4" painted with acrylic paint on wood blocks.    Pretty much fun...

Think I will try to work on just paper and see where this leads.....

San Juan Arts Council

Hi

I am now listed on the San Juan Arts Council website.


Artists and art lovers of San Juan County: The San Juan County Arts Council website is up and ready and all we need is you! www.sjcartscouncil.org. 

Check out the artist of many disciplines: music, visual arts, performance or literary arts, if you have an art gallery or performance venue, see description, photos, website link and contact information. Best of all your listing is free. There is also a Calendar of Programs and Events for you to post performances, workshops, classes, and openings.

Mining for Meaning #2

Part of my Kimono Series... more work to do, but am beginning to see form and shape appearing

In Janes class we were asked to determine what approach we normally take and to think about this as we looked at our work

Approaching from the "formal"  end of the spectrum.. loving the how texture, mark making and colors work on the paper I realized that my work represents my love of the kimono/cruciform shape found in so many places.  I love contemporary architecture, lines intersecting creating maps, paths, fences shapes. .. and then breaking away. So the joy I find in painting overlaps formal and conceptual..  producing a variety of  pieces yet the underlying cruciform shape continue to emerge.  

The first series comes from the deli paper inspiration .. making marks, playing with paints and developing shapes  as demonstrated on Jane Davies blog

 

 Then I started adding bits of color 

And then my passion for all things purple kicked in.............so much fun!

That's it for now.... but hopefully I will keep up the posting because there are more pieces to post.

Mining for Meanng - #1

Been involved in online class with Jane Davies called Mining for Meaning.  We have been trying to delve deeper into our work by working in series. 

Here a few of my attempts..  The first two developed from Janes work I truly admire,  enjoyed working with colors I usually do not use

 

This one developed from my Kimono Series which I continue to revisit

And of course.. my love of purple surfaces.

 

 

Will continue to post over the next few days ...

WOW it have been along time since I posted to this.........

Just starting a new class with Jane Davies and want to see if I can figure out how to include links in my posting.. so am here to experiment.    Will see if I got it right..  

Just tried it and it works!!!    Another step for me.  yeaaaa.

Hopefully I will begin to post more in order to keep track of my process.