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Autumn Is Come
“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.” – Elizabeth Lawrence
Posted in Art, Artist Sketchbooks, Drawing, Painting, Quotes
Tagged Autumn Colours, Coloured Drawing, Drawing, Sumac
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Even More Home-Made Paintbrushes
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them as an artist.” Pablo Picasso
Posted in Art, Art Notes, Creativity, Drawing, Printmaking
Tagged Found Object Stamp-Making, Home-made Paintbrush, Mark-Making, Mark-Making Tools, Stamp-making
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Tubes and Triangles
“A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.” ― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space I haven’t had much time for art this week. I was determined yesterday to grab some, were … Continue reading
Handmade Paint or Dye-Paste Brushes
I’ve been dying (and dyeing) to hand-make some brushes for a long time. The drawing – below – is part of an ongoing exploration of the pond in my garden. This was initially for textile work, but since my return … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artist Sketchbooks, Drawing
Tagged Acrylic Pen, Drawing, Energy Art, Graphite Pencil, Handmade Brushes, Mark-Making
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A Return to Painting II
This is the second in my series of 12″x12″ (c30xc30cms) acrylic painting series ‘L’Isle-Adam’. (Despite the fact it’s labelled ‘L’Isle-Adam IV’!) It isn’t as grainy as this but it has been enormously difficult to photograph and this is the best … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Drawing, Painting
Tagged Abstraction, Acrylic Painting, Cy Twombly, Energy Painting, Mark-Making, Painting on Wood Panels
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Mark Making, The Zen of Seeing, the Byzantine Monocondyle and the Seven Bridges of Königsberg
Warning: really long blog coming up. (I had to do a really long poetic walk this time). The quote opening my blog of 29 August was from The Zen of Seeing: Frederick Franck. Intrigued, I sent for the book. In parallel … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Blogging, Christian writing, Creativity, Drawing, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Printmaking, Science, spirituality, Walking, Walking Art, Writing
Tagged Automatic Writing, Bhagavad Gita, Byzance, Calligraphy, Drawing, Frederick Franck, Graph Theory, Krsna, Leonhard Euler, Mark Making, meditation, Mobius Strip, Monocondyle, Paul Klee, Poetic Mapping, Rust Printing, Rust Printing on Silk, Seven Bridges of Konigsberg, Stéphanie Devaux Textus, Tommy Wasserman, Tomography, Topology, Upanishads, Zen
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Working Like Snow
“Like Snow
Suppose we did our work
like the snow, quietly, quietly,
leaving nothing out.”
~Wendell Berry Continue reading
Posted in Art, Creativity, Drawing, Inspiration, Quotes, spirituality
Tagged Wendell Berry
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M(ann) Meets M(ann) in Stamford
I had to be in Lincolnshire a couple of weeks back and dropped in on Lincoln. The first and last time I visited Lincoln’s cathedral was a staggering 46 years ago. All I could recall of that visit was the … Continue reading
Poetic Mapping: Walking Into Art 