wax crayons on paper, 14 x 20 cms
From didactic exercises I ended up with the theme of ‘the kiss’, again; human shadows leaving the room, shades of light are staying.
(for details, see back indoors, September 2007)
Archive for March, 2008
Posted in art, recent work on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
childish
Posted in art, recent work on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
wax crayons on paper, three times 14 x 20 cms
colour exercises II
Posted in art, recent work, teaching on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Again, the white paper surface and the bright primary coloured wax crayons. Go to softened tints; brown, green, ochre.
Why these exercises? Such a childish approach. – Yes, that’s exactly why.
Go deeper.
colour exercises
Posted in art, recent work, teaching on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning saw the first sun ray since autumn in our kitchen. Snow in the afternoon.
In between, from last week’s experience, some basic colour exercises; wax crayons, white paper. These wax crayons come in six primary colours; two yellow, two reds, two blue. In each pair, there is a difference [...]
a question of materiality and tradition
Posted in art, teaching on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Again, I have been invited to the Steiner seminar in Järna, since the third-grade students wanted to do oil painting.
Historically, making paint using different kinds of oils is said to be developed from tempera techniques at a time when painters were occupied with the problem of representing three-dimensional space upon the two-dimensional plane – parallell [...]
quiet days V
Posted in art, recent work on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A node. Remember the beginning; return to the vertical.
quiet days IV
Posted in art, recent work on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
# 4, subsequent stages; tempera, watercolour on paper, 27 x 19 cms
