Tag: painting

One a day – part 2

I’m still going, and I’ve only missed one day so far.

27/2/13 Happy cat, watercolour
27_02_happy cat

28/2/13 I did three of the ugliest self portraits ever, so I won’t be posting them…

01/03/13 New painting, acrylic on canvas, stage 1
01_03_orchid fluoro

02/03/13 West gate, water colour and pastel
02_03_west gate

03/03/13 I missed a day…

04/03/13 New painting, acrylic on canvas, stage 2
04_03_orchid fluoro

05/03/13 Williamstown 1, pencil
05_03_wtown 1

05/03/13 Williamstown 2, pencil
05_03_wtown 2

06/03/13 Cinq, after Louise Bourgeois, ink
06_03_cinq

07/03/13 New painting, acrylic on canvas, stage 3
07_03 orchid fluoro

I’ve always found drawing people difficult, and have avoided it. But have decided to try more portraiture, as a challenge.
07/03/13 David, ink
07_03_david

Action / Abstraction – Wangaratta Art Gallery

I recently visited Action/Abstraction. It was inspiring. If you like abstract painting I highly recommend seeing this exhibition. Five painters are represented: Jo Davenport, Sally Gabori, Todd Hunter, Ildiko Kovacs, and Aida Tomescu. Let’s start with Aida Tomescu, a painter I’m growing to love more and more. Tomescu layers paint, scrapes back, drips and splatters, draws into the work, and adds more layers. Her paintings have a strong physical presence and are bold, complex, and beautiful.

aida tomescu_crossgrain_12
Tomescu was a finalist in the Wynne Prize 2012 with Crossgrain.
What I wanted to get to was a unified presence, full and ordered with a light and clarity of its own.
Intensively worked, scraped back repeatedly, and reconsidered, Crossgrain is not a painting about texture. Nor is the image trying to create a special illusion of a representative world – though if you want to think in terms of earth, air, the soft steps of the sky, it is all of those things.
I think of Crossgrain more as a space where mood, movement, vibration, the linkages of marks across the surface and their special behaviour form a particular experience.
(from her artist statement)

The exhibition runs until 24 March.

Aida Tomescu, Aspen, 2010Aida Tomescu, Aspen, 2010

Aida Tomescu, Tethys II, 2010Aida Tomescu, Tethys II, 2010

One a day

I was getting frustrated with myself for not doing enough work… I think not having a studio at the moment isn’t helping. But maybe that’s just an excuse. Anyway I decided to set myself the challenge of doing at least one drawing, sketch or small painting every day for a month. Here are the first few… I haven’t got anything for yesterday but I was printmaking at Uni all day and I made a few nice prints, but didn’t photograph them.

22/02/13 Kusama window, water colour22_02_yayoi window

23/02/13 Kate, water colour23_02_kate

24/02/13 Succulents, water colour24_02_succulents

25/02/13 collage25_02_collage