Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Collage, Color, Composition, Technique and Demo, Texture, tagged black, lines, Terry Fohrman on March 5, 2017| 1 Comment »
So elegant, witty, lively! The white lines are scratched into the black, revealing the white under-painting.
Additional texture comes from glued-on fabric, including burlap. The painting manages to have gravitas and levity at the same time.
Terry Fohrman, acrylic on canvas, 24” x 48”
All contents copyright (C) 2010 Katherine Hilden. All rights reserved.
Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Color, Composition, Negative space, Technique and Demo, tagged Blue, drip, luminous, Veronica Sax, yelloe-orange on March 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »
This is a small painting, buy our class standards, ~20” x 20”. Not only that, but the composition is rectilinear, which conveys stability. But it packs a punch, doesn’t it!
Notice that it was painted in more than one orientation. You can see that those horizontal lines at upper left are drips that happened when the canvas was standing on what is now the right side. And notice that the white does not look like unpainted canvas. It’s the white that makes the blue & yellow-orange so luminous.
Veronica Sax, acrylic on canvas, 20” x 20”
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Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Composition, tagged diagonals, Jack Sherborn, order, X's on March 5, 2017| 1 Comment »
Or is order disappearing? See the diagonal lines forming X’s??
Jack Sherborne, 40” x 30”
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Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Technique and Demo, Texture, tagged Jack Sherborne, lava paint on March 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Art supply stores carry many special-effects paints. The one used here is Lava Paint. When applied thick, as here, where it was actually squeezed directly out of the tube onto the canvas, it dries black. When dragged with a brush, the lava dust will appear as individual black dots because the suspension dries clear.
Jack Sherborne, 30” x 40”
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Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Color, Composition, Technique and Demo, tagged diptych, Jan Fleckman on March 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The previous painting may have found a partner in diptych-land here.
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Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Collage, Color, Composition, Technique and Demo, Texture, tagged fabric, gauze, Jan Fleckman, large brush, watercolor paper on March 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »
This acrylic painting is on 300 lb water color paper, which is heavier than chipboard and has uneven edges, because it’s handmade. Using acrylic paint the artist attached gauze and later a white coarse weave that got semi-cancelled by an insistent black brush stroke. The composition consists of rectilinear shapes boldly applied with a large brush. The gauze, which becomes visible only close up, adds not only a surprising texture but also an unexpected contrapuntal delicacy to this otherwise sturdy composition.
Jan Fleckman, acrylic on paper, ~30” x 24”
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Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Color, Composition, Technique and Demo, tagged blue line, Bruce Boyer, explosion, implosion, white disc on March 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Your first impression may be that something’s exploding here. But notice that in an explosion there would be a center and you can’t find one of those here. Once you’re used to the chaos, you follow the blue lines and, oops, where do they lead you? Back in! There you may not find an epicenter, but you do find chaos, a popping chaos. Now you’re out again only to be led in again by the blue lines. At some point during this back and forth, you notice the white disc. So discreet, against a light background, off center and not at all commanding. But once you see it, you realize that there was a subtle mind at play here.
I only wish it were huge, 8 feet high, big enough to fill a wall.
Bruce Boyer, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”
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Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Color, Composition, Therapy, tagged boredom, Bruce Boyer, try harder on March 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Just try! Look at this and try being bored. Try harder.
Bruce Boyer, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”
All contents copyright (C) 2010 Katherine Hilden. All rights reserved.
Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Color, Composition, Technique and Demo, tagged Blue, edge, red, salute, stripes, Susan Bennet, tension on March 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Blue is theoretically a color that recedes. Red, of course, comes forward and announces itself as the boss.
In this painting, how does that little sliver of blue on the left manage to hold its own against that huge red in this painting? One, it’s striped and stripes are aggressive. (Look at sports and military uniform: stripes rule.) Two, it’s at the edge of the painting and edges convey tension. (Tension demands attention because, well, because tension is uncomfortable.)
Painting in acrylic by Susan Bennett, 36” x 36”.
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Portrait of the artist with art, Evanston Art Center benefit, 2010
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