In recent V. Notes, I have shared some of Carlos San Millan’s favorite painters. So far I’ve posted Kim Frohsin, Mitchell Johnson, Yann Kebbi, Марина Цветаева (Marina Tsvetyeva), and Sangram Majumdar. Today I’m posting Bato Dugarzhapov. Bato is a Russian painter born in 1966. I had his work saved for a V. Note someday. Looks like today is the day!
What I most admire about him is the direct his application of paint, the paint viscosity edible, applied with bold confident strokes, a long bristle brush, and a process so messy it’s amazing anything goes in the right place (see video at end of this post). His color mixing is deft and delicate. Most of his paintings are landscapes. Sometimes he plays with flattening the image, but in all of his paintings the subject matter is the paint itself.
This is an artist I’m going to save for my Brushstrokes class….
Watch him lay the paint on lightening fast. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone paint this fast before. (The video is only 5 minutes long.)
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. TITTYNOPE n. – a small quantity of …
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Previously, I posted funerary art from the 3rd through the 6th centuries. This post veers far out of that time range, but the unfinished Atlas Slave came up in discussion during today’s figure sculpture class. I got excited to share, so here they are. In 1505, Michelangelo was …
Today’s post is from special guest star Anne Walker. Anne majored in Fine Arts with a focus in painting at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT in 1989. She started taking classes at the League a couple of years ago. I met her in Fran’s Giant Figures workshop in February 2020 (shortly before our classes went online). …
Bato Dugarzhapov
In recent V. Notes, I have shared some of Carlos San Millan’s favorite painters. So far I’ve posted Kim Frohsin, Mitchell Johnson, Yann Kebbi, Марина Цветаева (Marina Tsvetyeva), and Sangram Majumdar. Today I’m posting Bato Dugarzhapov. Bato is a Russian painter born in 1966. I had his work saved for a V. Note someday. Looks like today is the day!
What I most admire about him is the direct his application of paint, the paint viscosity edible, applied with bold confident strokes, a long bristle brush, and a process so messy it’s amazing anything goes in the right place (see video at end of this post). His color mixing is deft and delicate. Most of his paintings are landscapes. Sometimes he plays with flattening the image, but in all of his paintings the subject matter is the paint itself.
This is an artist I’m going to save for my Brushstrokes class….
Watch him lay the paint on lightening fast. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone paint this fast before. (The video is only 5 minutes long.)
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