APRIL 2025. A Try at Mixed Media: It's been fun following a pod-cast by Lorna Horn (Australia) who has lead a simple and effective mixed media exercise. Using pages from old books to paint over (she used acrylic) and then with a variety of tools and marks, but retaining only a few colours, we set about making four - six small pieces. It was very satisfying. I used my water-colour paints, so the print on the pages wasn't so well concealed, but it was still well worth it. MARCH 2025:
ART THEORY:
Now and again its an excellent idea to return to the theories which offer principles to follow in order to get a certain outcome in art. One of the basic theories is to understand how each colour or hue is the same or different to another - as well as how to accentuate hues (colours) according to their placement beside other hues. I have copied a colour wheel which shows the warmth or coolness of similar colours compated to other colours. As well, this circle shows how to ‘neutralise’ colours by adding the opposite from across the wheel. For example, when Sap Green (at about ‘two-o’clock’ on the colour wheel) is added to Winsor Red (just under ‘nine-o’clock’ on the wheel) different shades of brown are created. And so it is with ech colour when blended with the colour opposite on the wheel. Cool aye! This is not the only way to change a colour, but it does create nice variations.
Work in progress!
October 2024: I’ve been working for some time on a little project - that is finally in its draft form - and complete enough to share. I’m making some little children’s picture books (about 18 pages, A4 size) - reproduced the ‘old-fashioned’ way by photocopying, and therefore affordable both to produce and to buy. The first story is about ‘wishes’…. and the process of producing it has provided me with a prototype for further books. The colour pictures have been photocopied black and white for editing - mostly rearranging paintings and texts on the page. “Letitia’s Wishes” will be compiled at the end of the month, and available at Markets - more news later.
my recent project
“ painted words”
12 cards with a quotation
on one side
and an illustration on the other.
The cards are presented in a box (8.5 cm x 11 cm).
Each set of 12 cards costs $15.00 and is available now
- a unique present to give away as a box-set, or as individual cards.