Left Brain Artists
Abstract mixed media Orange is electrifying. A piece of sun. Abstract painting is about exploring emotional and subconscious associations with shapes and color arrangements. What emotions are orange abstracts exciting in us? Joy, rage, optimism, energy, anxiety? Here is the experiment we made for this chapter. We painted an abstract painting in orange and asked […]
Murals and Street Art This Pink Floyd’s song is a rebellion of my youth – I was an exemplary student of mathematics by the day and a member of a secretive avant-garde multi-media art group by the night. We did not do graffiti but did glue artistic posters on walls and lamp posts of cobblestone […]
Alcohol ink paintings Embarking on ‘Art Garden’ collaboration, we explored and studied actual living gardens as well as potential artistic concepts suited for the project. Last year we indulged in flowing and transparent nature of alcohol inks; in ‘Art Garden’ we celebrated intensity of their coloration, boldness and energy of expression, modernity in exuberant compositions. […]
Alcohol ink paintings The idea was borne on a lazy summer day, after a refreshing swim, on Hung’s deck, while we explored her garden and ‘going back’ to alcohol inks after a long winter ‘ban’ – we use this medium outdoors only. Nothing starts without experimentations. Then, becomes a (temporary) obsession, a drive to execute […]
Large alcohol ink paintings The August studio workshop was focused on painting ‘Art Garden’. Enveloped in the tranquility of ‘Zen garden’. Waterfall murmuring in sink with our voices, hummingbirds feeding on monarda’s blooms, critters milling around in early rush for fall preparations, stone Budas sleeping peacefully in shadows of late summer flowering… Summer rain, refreshing, […]
Painting, photography, symbolism This writing was inspired by flowers as a theme in art, their association with women, whether art subjects or artists, and, in particular, by flowers painted by one of our ‘Close to Heart’ artists, Georgia O’Keeffe (visit our project collection of female artists’ stories). How often is a male artist, compared to […]
Alcohol inks and mixed media Workshop, Oct 2nd They come in tiny bottles and have vibrant colors. Need alcohol (as we all do from time to time) to make magic. Flow, blend, blow, more alcohol, touch of brush, little tap with paper towel- and the amazing abstract art emerges. For me, the most fascinating feature […]
Acrylic pouring and drawing-equestrian This is a story that combines physics, neuroscience, horse-riding and art inspirations. Well, it really is a story of our love and empathy for animals and their selfless way of giving back, passionately told to us by Marzia. “I have dedicated my professional life to a pursuit of a better understanding […]
Woman artists The session that started this project was exploring a woman as an ‘art subject’; albeit with a modern, fun and personal ‘twist’. Two contemporary women artists, encountered on travels, brought to the group their own personal takes on an ambiguous ‘nature of a woman’. Lush, round, sophisticated, moody…Fleeting gestures, feline companions, contemplative, centers […]
Acrylic pouring Acrylic pouring swept us from our feet…by surprise. It took one curiosity-driven pour on Dana’s deck last fall with pre-mixed ‘pouring kit’ and everything went spiraling after that. It was two of us at first. You are inevitably surprised with unpredictable effects of this medium. That leads to both fascination and yearning to […]
Left Brain Artists