TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Painting with Gold Leaf
I don't really have a better word for it yet, and I confess the name is truly wrong for both disciplines... but together they make a kind of sense. I began fiddling with leafing about six months ago, and have continued to revisit it again and again, sometimes in making unique pieces with the leaf, but largely relying upon its natural quality to adorn by utilizing it to embellish special edition prints for DUNE, THE…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Moore O’Keeffe
June 6, 2024 - Pictures from an exhibition: not so long ago, Colin and I visited the Albuquerque Museum of Fine Art. The exhibit juxtaposed an unlikely pair of artists: Henry Moore and Georgia O'Keeffe. One of the interesting things I learned was how similar many aspects of their lives were, from their time of birth to their career trajectory. As the show statement puts it: "artists who shared a vision and pioneering approach to Modernism through their use of natural forms. Over the course of their lives, both artists relocated from urban centers to rural locations surrounded by open landscapes and amassed vast personal collections of animal skulls, bones, gnarled driftwood, stones and coiled seashells, which inspired their most important creations" That kind of makes them both kindred spirits to many of us. [caption id="attachment_76401" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] A…
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