Most day’s I have a pretty good idea about what I want to draw or paint. However, more days than not, I struggle to come up with something. Today was one of those days. Today’s experiment: One of my strategies is to page through some of my art books for inspiration. I usually turn to Paul […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I was looking at The Thinking Eye by Paul Klee the other day. This is the first of two volumes containing notes and lessons that he developed at the Bauhaus in the 1930s. It is a goldmine of information, but very difficult to follow. In the midst of reading through, I found myself itching […]
Below is the nineteenth group of watercolors that I painted for earlier posts in this blog. I painted them in early 2015, trying to use Paul Klee’s technique of ‘taking the pencil point for a walk’ in a continuous sweep. From January 11, 2015 (Thought): From January 10, 2015 (Day Dreaming): From January 9, 2015 […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I looked at a lot of Jawlensky‘s portraits today and did a lot of drawings trying to distill the photograph seen in the Mike Crying post. I took the advice of Paul Klee and ‘took my pencil point for a walk’ to define Mike’s* features in as simple a way as possible. One of the paintings I wanted […]
I really enjoy the art of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. Both artists taught at the famous Bauhaus and both have written about their philosophies. There is a compilation of Klee’s Bauhaus lectures and essays about art in two notebooks (The Thinking Eye and The Nature of Nature); Kandinsky also wrote down his ideas about […]
Quite a while ago in this blog, I wrote about the artist Joan Miro (Peinture-Poésie). I was fascinated by his paintings and how he used icons. For a while, I tried developing my own expressive shorthand (Narrative or Portrayal of Feelings; ‘Stop’ Icon Development; Icons in Practice; Progress in Iconology). I was, on the whole, […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Two factors influenced my artwork today. First, one of my favorite artists, Paul Klee, described a way to ‘make visible’ one’s inner state was to take a pencil point ‘for a walk’. Although I’m not clear about how to translate my inner state to the paper, I believe the practice of ‘taking a point for […]
It must have been something I ate last night. I had a hard time swallowing and breathing last night and most of the day. I had planned another go at a Kandinsky-esque rule-based composition in my ‘time’ series, but I just didn’t have it in me. Today was more of a Paul Klee day. Klee’s attitude toward composition […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I’m trying to stay within the bounds of the chosen topic of my latest series related to the portrayal of time. Summarizing my progress thus far: I developed a special graphic to represent my version of a time line; I assigned colors on the yellow end of the spectrum to represent the […]
Today’s experiment: I felt I needed some direction lately so I dipped my toe once again into some of Paul Klee’s writings. One principle that I was happy to recall was his idea that process is more important than form. Perhaps I’m wrong about this, but it helped me with today’s composition. My process today: […]
