Suddenly February is nearly gone and for most of us our New Year
resolutions are a thing of the past. So maybe its time to take a few
minutes and revisit them. I did. With shows, writing and working in the
studio I was fully charged with ideas and energy. And then I came
across a post that stopped me. It's the publication of Diebenkorn's
sketch books. It made me want to look at mine. So I started pulling them
out and exploring ideas and images I had jotted down over the years.
Amazing how this can build that spark of imagination and inspiration we
sometimes need. It also made me realize that I had not been carrying a
sketch book with me anymore. This was an important resolution I had
made. The blog about how Diebenkorn would put down a book and return to
it months or years later was inspiring. So I grabbed one sitting on a
shelf, found a few empty pages and did a few sketches.
Click here to see the post and sketchbooks
Bob Davies post in Art Tudor explores framing art.
So
many styles and sizes of frame. So many colours to choose. Is it a
watercolour or pastel ? Should it have a mount or mat colour? Should it
be a single mount or a double one? Matching, plain or contrasting
colours? Non-reflective or plain picture glass or acrylic sheet? etc.
etc. -
The Zombies: Contemporary Abstraction and Its Critics-- Definitely worth reading with a discussion from such artists as Joanne Greenbaum, Philip Taaffe, and Stanley Whitney along with bob Nickas as Moderator.
Click here for the link
That's it for now so remember;
Imagination is Never Still. The Marks we make are Verbs
