[image_with_animation image_url=”11238″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This last year, Seattle Refined highlighted both Nikki Barber and myself, Ruthie V. Now they’ve discovered Angie Dixon. KOMO said they look at the Seattle Artist League website to find artists for their ongoing “Seattle Refined; Artist of the Week.” (Thanks KOMO!) This week Angie Dixon receives highlights for her expertise in ink. Below are excerpts from her interview. You can read the full article here.
“Sumi painting is an art form that captures the essence of an image or idea. It makes a painting of an apple, for example, more than an apple in a particular place at a particular time of day. It makes it timeless. This timeless quality inspires me in itself.”
“Nature is my inexhaustible source of inspiration. It is the original creator from dinosaurs to hummingbirds. Who could think up an animal like a pangolin? Nature is amazing.” [nectar_image_comparison image_url=”11222″ image_2_url=”11224 (Hi, I’m a pangolin)
“Two experiences stand out to me in my life that had a profound effect on my art and on my world view.”
Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou
“This art form originated in China and spread to Japan and Korea and I wanted to study where it began.”
“The second major influence was commercial fishing for salmon in SE Alaska just after college.”
“This experience gave me a deep respect for all animals and plants, all species in fact, for themselves as they are in the world and as subject matter.”
“Being in SE Alaska, working directly with the wild also confirmed me as an environmental conservationist because I could see what was still intact in SE Alaska that had been decimated in other more populated areas of the world.”
“This realization went to the core of my being of what we had done and what was left.”
“This interwove with the artwork I was already doing to express the dignity and wonder of life on this planet and the need to see it as it is and respect it for itself.” – Angie Dixon, Seattle Refined August 30, 2018
Angie Dixon is a wealth of knowledge, able to teach traditional and contemporary approaches in ink. If you like the brush strokes above and would like to learn more, sign up for a sumi class with Angie Dixon’s 4 week series on Color & Ink. She’s a kind and patient teacher who lives to share her knowledge with people who want to learn.
[image_with_animation image_url=”6577″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Auguste Rodin November 12, 1840 – November 17, 1917 I’m hoping you haven’t seen these before We’ve all seen The Thinker so many times we can’t see it at all. And various versions of The Kiss may have lost their charge as well. Perhaps some others come to mind …
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Tuesdays are memory/imagination day in our 30 day creative challenge. Drawing from memory can be a great way to keep your brain active and build up observational skills. Strictly speaking, if you’re drawing from observation, as soon as you look away from the subject and down at your paper, you’re drawing from memory. This exercise …
These are some paintings in which my favorite part is the wall. Enjoy. Do not paint a white thing white. A white thing is everything other than white. The video below illuminates some of the colors actually present in an image of a white horse, and a white flower. Because colors change according to what they’re next to, they still …
Angie Dixon in Seattle Refined
[image_with_animation image_url=”11238″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This last year, Seattle Refined highlighted both Nikki Barber and myself, Ruthie V. Now they’ve discovered Angie Dixon. KOMO said they look at the Seattle Artist League website to find artists for their ongoing “Seattle Refined; Artist of the Week.” (Thanks KOMO!) This week Angie Dixon receives highlights for her expertise in ink. Below are excerpts from her interview. You can read the full article here.
“Nature is my inexhaustible source of inspiration. It is the original creator from dinosaurs to hummingbirds. Who could think up an animal like a pangolin? Nature is amazing.” [nectar_image_comparison image_url=”11222″ image_2_url=”11224 (Hi, I’m a pangolin)
“Two experiences stand out to me in my life that had a profound effect on my art and on my world view.”
Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou
“This art form originated in China and spread to Japan and Korea and I wanted to study where it began.”
“The second major influence was commercial fishing for salmon in SE Alaska just after college.”
“This realization went to the core of my being of what we had done and what was left.”
“This interwove with the artwork I was already doing to express the dignity and wonder of life on this planet and the need to see it as it is and respect it for itself.” – Angie Dixon, Seattle Refined August 30, 2018
See Dixon’s full interview on Seattle Refined here.
Learn Chinese Ink Techniques
Angie Dixon is a wealth of knowledge, able to teach traditional and contemporary approaches in ink. If you like the brush strokes above and would like to learn more, sign up for a sumi class with Angie Dixon’s 4 week series on Color & Ink. She’s a kind and patient teacher who lives to share her knowledge with people who want to learn.
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