HAPPY NEW YEAR

Celebrate
Pastel

MAKING ART

"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art."  ~Andy Warhol~

Joey's Boat
Pastel on Canson pastel paper

THE PERFECT HOLIDAY

Just can't get enough of my grand kids.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Big Bear Holiday
Pastel

SOUL

In The Park
Multi-Block woodcut

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
                                 ~Stella Adler~

HELPERS

Grandchildren helping with decorations. Tis' the season!

PERFECTION

"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it."
                      ~Salvador Dali~

Snow Cat
Acrylic on Arches paper

SNOW??

We were supposed to get a foot of snow over the last couple of days. Not even close!!

ART SPEAK

"If I could say it with words there would be no reason to paint"
~Edward Hopper~



Coolin'
Acrylic on Arches watercolor paper

GRANDSONS

A day with Thomas The Train and my grandsons. Priceless!!

NOT TERRIBLE

Most of my watercolor attempts turn out pretty ghastly, but now and again they end up looking like what I had envisioned.

WOLF PASTEL DEMO

Below is a link to a pastel demo I put on Youtube. Also a little drumming with a friend of mine for background noise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6hg7BvDRGY

MAKING NOISE

Once and and a while I get together with a few of my teacher friends to fool around playing some blues. This is a link to us playing as a fill during a show at the high school (me on drums).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX8h-5qN_Hs

JOEY BRISSON

"Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!"
~Henry James~

My nephew's fantastic photography

KID TIME

I have been off the mountain spending time with my grandsons, so I haven't been in the studio for a while. Time to get back to it!

Liam
Pastel Painting

Levi
Pastel Painting

ART COMES IN MANY FORMS...

LAST A LIFETIME

"There are enough ideas, images, symbols and experiences in your head already to work with for a lifetime. It's a little like having a car with an unpredictable battery though. Sometime you get in and it starts right up. Other times, especially if it has been sitting idle for awhile, you turn the key and nothing happens."
   ~Bert Dodson,  Keys to Drawing~

Blooming Chair
Pastel Painting
John Brisson

SOLARPLATE

I have been working on a Solarplate etching the last few days. Solarplates are so much easier and safer than traditional acid etching. For this printing I drew on a clear plastic sheet. The copper plate is first exposed to the sun using an aquatint screen, then exposed again using the drawing. The plate is rinsed with water and then ready to be printed.

KEIZABURO MATSUZAKI

Keizaburo Matsuzaki is a Master Print maker who has been making woodblock prints for over 36 years. Below is a link to a Youtube video showing how gracefully he handles the tools of woodblock printing. Also a link to a well written story about him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8uF3PZ3KGQ

http://woodblock.com/encyclopedia?entries/008_02/008_02html  (Visit to craftsman)

OLD PRESS

My brother found this old press at a yard sale. I just love it. I'm having a base and plate made for it.

GROW YOUR SOUL

"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Now I mean, I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend--a lousy poem."   ~Kurt Vonnegut~

Piano Dreams
Reduction Linocut

ART

"Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without a thorn."
                                      ~Martin Amis~

Why Not Peace
Copper plate print

FAST WATERCOLOR

A quick watercolor using Sterling Edward's ideas.

DANCE

"Those who danced were thought quite insane by those who could not hear the music."

SET IT FREE

"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Good Sax
Reduction Linocut

LIAN QUAN ZHEN AGAIN

Artist Network has a great preview of one of Lain Quan Zhen's DVDs.



http://artistsnetwork.tv/p-518-watercolor-with-lian-quan-zhen-frogs-in-the-pond.aspx?et_mid=634001&rid=236392083

VISION

"I shut my eyes to see."   ~Paul Gauguin~

Diva
Linocut on Torinoko paper

ANNE'S WATERCOLOR

Once upon a time (long, long ago) I had a girlfriend who had a talent that I was very unaware of. After a thirty year separation, we reconnected and I now get to enjoy her wonderful art.

Anne Whirledge Karp
Watercolor

OUT OF THE WAY

"When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, the artist listens."   ~Madeleine L'Engle~

Big Cat
Acrylic on Arches paper

ALCOHOL HELPS

...but not the way you might think. I finished a test pastel I've been working on using a technique I saw Australian artist Leesa Padget do on Youtube. Alcohol is used on the pastels in the under painting. I sort of chickened out and didn't go as far as Leesa does, but a good learning experience.

Wind Swept

VINITA PAPPAS

Here is a link to a nice watercolor demo by artist Vinita Pappas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULe2oWfvigI

One of mine

LINO

"Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's going to dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it."
                                              ~Whoopi Goldberg~

Central Park

PRINTMAKING DEMOS

Four good printmaking demo clips.
http://galeriemyrtis.net/videos/print-making-demo/