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'Community Engagement Officer', oil on canvas, 120 x 90cms, 2023-24 Occasionally I will stop and think how much painting is extremely difficult to do well. It requires an extraordinary amount of mental stamina and focus, skill and experience which can only be developed with many years of practice in the studio (I’ve now been painting seriously for nearly 35 years), many hours looking at other paintings, and an incredible will and determination. And still it frequently ends up being a complete mess or falling desperately short of what you hoped. So, you carry on…that’s the reason you carry on. It’s either that or give up. I haven’t given up, and in the last couple of months I’ve made some new paintings I’m pleased with that I would like to share…. I’m continuing to develop a renewed interest in painting the figure in the landscape, but I’m also interested in developing some more specific portraits of individuals, such as this one of Nick (at top of post), Community Engagement Officer for the Birmingham Canal and River Trust, who has been working with my students. I worked on it in the last week before Christmas, before then deciding to repaint the whole thing in about 3 hours in January. It was part of a process of experimenting and trying to decide what I don’t like as much as what I do. This is to develop a language for the portraits that’s a break from the ones I’ve done in the past and thinking about and applying some of the lessons I’ve learned from 12 years of landscape painting since. Consequently, I’m not sure what I think of this painting just yet, but I know from experience the answer as to how to develop things further is not by doing any more work on this one, but keep doing others and keep exploring… as yet untitled, oil on canvas, 120 x 150cms, 2023 I’m much happier with this large painting of a canal scene set at a spot I frequently pass on my dog walks and have made two other largeish paintings from, one set in the winter (one of my favourite paintings) and one in the summer. I wanted to do something more autumnal at the same scene and kept returning through late October with my camera, and the dog, to capture the changing autumn colours. I was inspired by the glorious autumnal fiery colour of the autumn I had witnessed on a recent trip to Scotland, but the colour in the Midlands was rather different… Still, the dun greens, ochres and darker colours were still autumnal. I could have made things fierier with vivid oranges and yellows, but there is something about an authenticity that always nags and sits whispering on my shoulder… One morning as I took some photos this barge came into view from beneath the bridge and slowly glided past me, it’s owner eyeing me somewhat suspiciously as he passed whilst I took some photos. I was excited and slightly unsettled by the experience, but I’m not sure why. When it came to creating the painting, I decided to include the barge, with the fear that it may look a little twee, but by keeping it quite small enveloped by the surrounding landscape I think I managed to avoid any tweeness. Instead, I think it has captured that unsettling, almost funeral, feeling I felt on the towpath that morning. I think it’s one of the strongest paintings I've made in a long time….
Guillaume Chiron is a French artist who creates incredible collages inspired by the domestic 50's world. When humor and surrealism mix.
These were sculpted as part of the 8th grade history curriculum, which centers on revolutions.
"i don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't" -beth gutcheon
In this “classic” Calvert project, sixth graders first learned about the history of tessellations (and artist M.C. Escher, who is famous for his unique tessellations like the one pictured here) before creating one of their own. Tessellations, which have been around for thousands of years, are a special kind of pattern/design made from repeating shapes called polygons (closed shapes with three or more sides). In tessellation designs, congruent polygons fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces that repeat again and again- they could go on forever! Students painted their unique tessellation designs using acrylic paint in a warm or cool color scheme of their choice. To create the portrait, on a separate piece of paper, students traced the light and dark areas of their faces using a projected digital photograph. Using the opposite color scheme from their background, they painted their portrait, making sure that the light and dark areas were highly contrasting. Here are the colorful finished pieces!
Here is the sheet to use for self evaluation of your work!!! Great job on the prints!
Laura Oldfield Ford (born 1973) is a British artist, writer and psychogeographer. Her work, in ballpoint pen, acrylic paint and spray paint, is politically motivated and focuses on British urban areas. Oldfield Ford publishes a blog entitled Savage Messiah, which was also the name of the zine she pu
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L'enfer (1919), Max Beckmann. Lithographies exposées dans l'exposition De l'Allemagne, au musée du Louvre. Max Beckmann - Hell-1-The-Way-Home Max Beckmann - Hell-2-The-Street Max Beckmann - Hell-3-Martyrdom Max Beckmann - Hell-4-Hunger Max Beckmann - Hell-5-Ideologues Max Beckmann - Hell-6-Night Max Beckmann - Hell-7-Malepartus Max Beckmann - Hell-8-Patriotic-Song Max Beckmann - Hell-9-The-Last-Ones Max Beckmann - Hell-10-The-Family
Turn crumpled pieces of paper into colorful artwork in this fun art project for kids. This easy art activity is inspired by the children’s book, Ish, by Peter H. Reynolds! The colorful paper has such a cool texture when finished and can be used for making collages or writing notes! (This post contains affiliate links.) …
By studying social, political, and economic aspects of the medieval era, students will better understand why their lives are the way they are now.
