Left Brain Artists
Mixed media art One of our fellow studio artists, speaking of her art process, said once: ‘..I start by splashing some inks onto the paper to see what happens…’ ..and then, a background, a serendipity, inspires the rest… How many incredible artworks have emerged from a splashed-on backgrounds? A foundation, beginning, an insinuation, a subtle […]
Irresistible attraction Curiously, most of us are cat lovers. Animal lovers, rather. Living with cats, it is impossible not to rejoice in their elegance, posture, curiosity, playfulness, hunting instincts. Cats, often depicted in art pieces, as a sole subject, as a companion of people, women (revisit here some of woman/cat companion paintings), participants in domestic […]
Botanical prints Planting in Canada is ‘scheduled’ for Victoria Day – second half of May. Anything planted before that ‘turn of the season’ is in danger! Just a week before the ‘right planting date’, I rushed to cover my bougainvillea, recently moved from the winter indoors to the patio, to protect it from a sudden […]
Gel plate image prints Image transfers using gel plate lead to their utter transformation. And the fascination of one world changing into another, unpredictably. Hunt for images in glossy magazines is mostly driven by their contemporary appeal, stereotypes enforced by advertising, fashion, design. Gel plate turns them into essentially monochromatic prints, faded, specled, grainy, aged, […]
Rice paper monotype prints Line in art comprises one of the seven most known elements (the other six being form, shape, value, color, texture, and space). These are formal art tools that are applied to create a visual art composition and span across all fine arts, photography, architecture… In a very simple classification, lines (in […]
Mixed media acrylic paintings Remember Les Automatistes, a Quebec avant-garde artistic group of 1950s practicing ‘automatic painting’, blind-folded, un-intentional, expression of subconscious? And our ‘Close to Heart’ Marcelle Ferron among them? Is it truly possible to create a stunning painting by random unconscious movements, without any contemplation at all? Just look at her paintings, and […]
Collage Paper Games are becoming paper concepts, focusing on the BrainArt 2023 exhibition installation. The theme of the exhibit is ‘The Multifaceted Brain’, with three subthemes addressing diversity and adaptation: Adaptation and diversity across cultures, Diversity of human sexuality, and Neurodiversity. These are complex themes that call for unusual ways. We will start by depicting […]
Mixed media figurative art New energy found in orange touches many facets of our lives and art – we expressed it in paintings of nature, in objects we created or enjoyed, in emotion- flooded abstract art. The last chapter of the Project Orange are faces and figures, expressed, as always, in a variety of mediums. […]
Gel print image transfer We have supreme photographers among us – sensitive, emotional, original lenses. Once, Natasha revealed her art in one simple statement – searching for weak signals. I am not a photographer – my photos are good, sometimes witty, but ordinary. Unexpectedly, I stumbled upon the way of projecting ‘weak signals’. It goes […]
Gell print painting and drawing Printmaking, etching, graphic design – all are involved techniques allowing a limited number of repeat prints. Specialized branches of visual arts. Well, modernity and innovation (of materials, media, textures, resources), with omnipresent internet and YT, brought in a democratization. Techniques simplified, materials easy to use and affordable, acceptance of styles […]
Left Brain Artists