ARTISTONIA: October 2014

Friday, October 31, 2014

BRENT RIDGE - NAC CLASSES 11-03-14

We've been working on our painting process (using Mondrian as inspiration) and to share I brought in one of my paintings last week. I've blogged the stages of its development to share. You can find the link here:
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I would like us to work on bigger surfaces if possible this week – and have more than one surface to work on while the other is drying so you can move and move and move and let your intuition take over. You want to be able to take risks and let things happen, here is a painter that builds image over image and then synthesizes her work, Joanne Greenbaum.
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Joanne Greenbaum

VINCENT VAN GOGH - Happy Halloween ;)

Vincent Van Gogh, Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette, 1886

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BRENT RIDGE - A PAINTED JOURNEY

Brent Ridge, Stage 1

Brent Ridge, Stage 2

Brent Ridge, Stage 3

Brent Ridge, Final Stage

Brent Ridge

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

RICHARD WOLFGANG - My first Painting Teacher - RIP and God Bless

Richard Wolfgang, Sunrise and Waterfowl, Watercolor on Paper

Richard Wolfgang, Assorted Flowers, Watercolor on Paper

Richard Wolfgang, Teal Swamp, Watercolor on Paper

Richard Wolfgang, 1935 – 2014, RIP
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RACHEL PERRY WELTY

Rachel Perry Welty, Lost in my Life (price tags), 2010

Rachel Perry Welty, Lost In My Life (fruit sticker drawing), 2013

Rachel Perry Welty, Peach Party, 2012

Rachel Perry Welty, Sprout Granny Smith, 2012

Rachel Perry Welty, Super Star Seedless, 2012

Rachel Perry Welty, Vogue (Kirkwood), 2011

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JEFF PERROTT

Jeff Perrott

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ANTONE KONST

Antone Konst

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Monday, October 27, 2014

PETER FOX - FR-15 @ Front Room Gallery

Peter Fox, Vision Machine, 2014

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MARLON FORRESTER - The Ecstasy of Flight @ Hynes Convention Center

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Thursday, October 23, 2014

BRENT RIDGE NAC CLASSES 10-27-14

This Week: we will continue on our projects started – for inspiration we can continue using Mondrian inspired abstraction. Use a starting point of a tree like Mondrian or use a still life object or even create from a sketch to echo the forms of inspiration and let the process take over. You want to pull it apart and then put it back together; making something new. Feel free to use this suggestion liberally in your own way.

I've included in this post a contemporary artist who makes abstract paintings exclusively from trees as an example of using Mondrian as inspiration for his own paintings – he is a great example of updating this process of making abstraction from nature. His name is Benjamin Butler. Follow the link for more works.