My email inbox has been slow lately. Everyone must be getting ready for the holiday.
There is a pile of Christmas presents that need to get wrapped. They’re blocking the door of my apartment, and spilling into the recycling bin. It’s a delightful mess, all the little contained and uncontainable bits. I said goodbye to good taste this year and purchased the single most tacky wrapping paper I could find. It has bright frosted cookies floating on a pink background. I am adding red and green ribbons, just to set it off.
Here’s a bit of clutter for your email inbox this morning: paintings of wrapping paper. The first two (above and below) are by painters I like very much. Zoey Frank and Susan Jane Walp. Two very not-dead lady painters.
Susan Jane Walp
Hope Zaccogni
Benjamin J Shamback
Christo Wrapped Paintings, 1968 Tarpaulin, rope and wood
[image_with_animation image_url=”9566″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Alice Neel, James Hunter Black Draftee There are a lot of reasons artists don’t finish paintings. Death, for one, such as in Vincent van Gogh’s “Street in Auvers-sur-Oise” unfinished from the June in 1980 that he shot himself. Lovely painting, horrible death. Correction: According to the research of Pulitzer Prize-winning biographers …
(2015 photo above by SomanMateo Photography) Katherine Wright and Lendy Hensley are participating in the Kirkland Artists Studio Tour. Katherine is teaching Intro to Watercolor at the League this summer, and Lendy teaches Intro to Oil. Both will have their lovely paintings on display for you to see. Great to see our artistic community is active and …
After posting the Japanese funerary artworks of Haniwa from the 3rd through the 6th centuries, I was curious what other cultures around the world were making for funerary art at that time. First I posted Haniwa, then I posted Roman Catacomb frescoes, and today I have ceramic figurines from ancient China. These ceramic attendants were …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10543″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] There is something so danged exciting about making a big piece of art. I mean, a really really big piece of art. The work to make a visual design, which is most of the art process, does not usually change much. The labor can involve some different tools, some …
Wrapping Paper Paintings
My email inbox has been slow lately. Everyone must be getting ready for the holiday.
There is a pile of Christmas presents that need to get wrapped. They’re blocking the door of my apartment, and spilling into the recycling bin. It’s a delightful mess, all the little contained and uncontainable bits. I said goodbye to good taste this year and purchased the single most tacky wrapping paper I could find. It has bright frosted cookies floating on a pink background. I am adding red and green ribbons, just to set it off.
Here’s a bit of clutter for your email inbox this morning: paintings of wrapping paper. The first two (above and below) are by painters I like very much. Zoey Frank and Susan Jane Walp. Two very not-dead lady painters.
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