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Oldham Studio: Texture Draws the Eye
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Monday, May 18, 2015. Texture Draws the Eye. Texture is a particularly interesting art element because it can manifest in so many ways. For example, art can bring us texture as pure Illusion. Many painting and drawing mediums allow artists to render textures with astonishing clarity and realism. For centuries still life paintings were designed expressly to demonstrate an artists skill in representing various textures. Pieter Claesz (1597-1660) 'Still Life with Musical Instrument's. If we were allowed to ...
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Oldham Studio: January 2016
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Thursday, January 21, 2016. The great thing about having a studio is that I don't have to clean up in the middle of a project. Paint and paper and what-not can float around, and layer up, and remain undisturbed,. While I come and go. This works right up to that moment when the air suddenly seems too thick with old ideas, and it's time sweep away the clutter and let in some new thoughts! The first thing I did was complete this piece, started before the holidays,. And then left sitting for a few weeks.
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Oldham Studio: February 2016
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016. How an Artist Steps Off. Inspiration is a big, loose term, especially when talking about piece of art. It's sort of fat and amorphous, and I think that's why when artists are talking to each other they tend to shy away from it. It sounds mushy. For the person creating the piece, 'inspiration' might be the least important part of the puzzle they are trying to solve. As an example, here is how I am stepping off onto a blank two dimensional surface in my current series. Looking...
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Oldham Studio: May 2015
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Monday, May 18, 2015. Texture Draws the Eye. Texture is a particularly interesting art element because it can manifest in so many ways. For example, art can bring us texture as pure Illusion. Many painting and drawing mediums allow artists to render textures with astonishing clarity and realism. For centuries still life paintings were designed expressly to demonstrate an artists skill in representing various textures. Pieter Claesz (1597-1660) 'Still Life with Musical Instrument's. If we were allowed to ...
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Oldham Studio: Reorganizing and Rearranging
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Thursday, January 21, 2016. The great thing about having a studio is that I don't have to clean up in the middle of a project. Paint and paper and what-not can float around, and layer up, and remain undisturbed,. While I come and go. This works right up to that moment when the air suddenly seems too thick with old ideas, and it's time sweep away the clutter and let in some new thoughts! The first thing I did was complete this piece, started before the holidays,. And then left sitting for a few weeks.
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Oldham Studio: Progression of a Free Form Collage
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Progression of a Free Form Collage. One of my ongoing goals in the studio is to document my work as it develops. However, I usually become so absorbed in the process that I forget to look up, time is suspended, I am in the zone. But it is intersting to to be able to look back. This is my latest piece, 'Turbulence', a collage of recycled papers mounted on 140 lb. watercolor paper. I had the title in mind before I started, and a vision of intense blue as the base. Sometimes what ...
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Oldham Studio: Mysteries of Painting: Can a Painting have Rhythm?
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Monday, May 4, 2015. Mysteries of Painting: Can a Painting have Rhythm? Sometimes what draws me to an interesting work of art isn't the color, or the subject, but the way it's been organized. It's beat. The way it moves. This painting by Duchamp flows across the canvas. How did he capture this sensation? Marcel Duchamp - "Nude Descending a Staircase (No2)", 1912. Duchamp created a repetition of shapes and lines, and our eyes read this as movement. Like pattern, rhythm is the result of repetition. The rep...
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Oldham Studio: April 2015
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Progression of a Free Form Collage. One of my ongoing goals in the studio is to document my work as it develops. However, I usually become so absorbed in the process that I forget to look up, time is suspended, I am in the zone. But it is intersting to to be able to look back. This is my latest piece, 'Turbulence', a collage of recycled papers mounted on 140 lb. watercolor paper. I had the title in mind before I started, and a vision of intense blue as the base. Progression of ...
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Oldham Studio: Inspiration? How an Artist Steps Off
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016. How an Artist Steps Off. Inspiration is a big, loose term, especially when talking about piece of art. It's sort of fat and amorphous, and I think that's why when artists are talking to each other they tend to shy away from it. It sounds mushy. For the person creating the piece, 'inspiration' might be the least important part of the puzzle they are trying to solve. As an example, here is how I am stepping off onto a blank two dimensional surface in my current series. Looking...