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How do these artists take their coffee? Mark Rothko, Vincent Van Gogh, Damien Hirst, Jackson Pollock, Edvard Munch, Salvador Dali, Gustav Klimt, Georges Seurat, Piet Mondrian and Julian Schnabel and many more.
Here is something a little light hearted and quite funny for you all. It has been put together superbly, each little saying is of course unique to the individual artists and with some very clever ones and a few cheesy ones thrown in.
Enjoy
Amanda Cass is a creative carefree spirit living among the vineyards in Marlborough New Zealand. Her assignment in this world is to help spread love all over the world with the help from her series of quirky carefree girls inspired by Love, Life and Freedom, her style is a combination of art mixed with digital.
She is a self taught Artist and Amateur photographer that has slowly gravitated to the world of digital art and hasn’t looked back as this is a world of possibilities imagination takes over and overflows with idea.
Each one of her collections is themed and here are just a few of them.
“Happy Being Me” and “You light up my world”
She brings messages of love that anyone can relate to and after all love conquers all. Everything she does and everywhere she goes she brings love and happiness to it. A girl after my very own heart.
You can see more of her work at: http://amandacass.vc.net.nz/artist/amancass/Artworks.
Music is provided by Melody Gardot and is entitled ” If the stars were Mine.” If you listen to the words she says ” I would color all the mountains make the sky forever blue, so the world would be a painting and I’d live inside with you.” A beautiful song and a very heArt felt lyric.
Don Mclean and Vincent Van Gogh. A Look at how these two artists found each other and became entwined together forever.
Sometimes in life we don’t need to know a person inside out to understand what they are all about. It’s a knowing or a feeling that we have inside that we go with that leads us to creating a piece of work that marries together people. If Vincent Van Gogh was around now, I am sure that he would be filled with appreciation and admiration for Don Mclean who in this beautiful song captures what Vincent really felt.
Don McLean wrote Vincent in his apartment full of antiques. The inspiration came to him one morning while he was sitting on the veranda looking at a book about Vincent Van Gogh. As he studied a print of Van Goghs painting Starry Night, he realized that a song could be written about the artist through the painting. The more I thought about it, the more interesting and challenging the idea became. I put down the book and picked up my guitar, which was never far away, and started fiddling around, trying to get a handle on this idea, while the print of Starry Night stared up at me. Looking at the picture, I realized that the essence of the artists life is his art. And so, I let the painting write the song for me. Everyone is familiar with that painting.
Van Gogh painted Starry Night during one of the most difficult periods of his life, while he was locked up in an asylum at Saint Remy. He had to paint the scene from memory, not outdoors as he preferred. Van Gogh mentioned Starry Night only twice in his letters to his brother, Theo. It is therefore one of the more mysterious and intriguing Van Gogh compositions.
Van Gogh has always struck me as a person, that if you could go back in time and meet anyone he would be the one. After seeing his paintings and listening and reading what he writes, you would just want to give him a massive hug and kiss on the cheek and tell him “Vincent you are a wonderful man and don’t you ever forget that” “Your passion for life stands out and you care deeply about people” “We all now see the true you and are grateful that you finally showed us that fire that burns within”
Vincent wrote many things and here are a few quotes by him.
Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well…. Love is the best and noblest thing in the human heart, especially when it is tested by life as gold is tested by fire. Happy is he who has loved much, and although he may have wavered and doubted, he has kept that divine spark alive and returned to what was in the beginning and ever shall be.
So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in ones soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.
I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.
It is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!
The Angel of the north in Gateshead, Newcastle is Britain’s largest sculpture which was designed by Antony Gormley . It has become one of the most talked about pieces of art ever produced. The site that it was built on was selected because it would be clearly seen by drivers at a rate of one person every second. So why an angel? The only response the artist can give is that no one has ever seen one. It is a reminder to everyone that the site it was built on was a former coal mine and the workers worked in the dark for two hundred years. Although they may have worked in the dark, an angel was always looking over them, protecting them, and shining light on them, even though they could not see it.
The angel also brings hope to each and everyone of us, that although many industries have now ceased, new areas are evolving and it is to give us faith and hope for a better future. Angels have been a part of art and religion for many centuries. As we enter our own churches or famous places of worship around the world, we can clearly see that angels have been sculpted or painted within them. We as children have often be told that we should not worry or be scared because we have a guardian angel who looks after us. So if Anthony Gormley built this sculpture of an angel, then what are angels and how can they help us? Angels are messengers who come to our aid when we ask for help or to protect us from danger. There are many of them, who all have names and who also have different functions. Archangel Michael is the protector, he is a very strong and powerful angel. We can ask this angel to protect us from harm and to also help us in our everyday lives, whether that means we are traveling, starting a new job, he is always with us. When we feel ill, or have emotional problems, Archangel Raphael is the angel to call upon.
He helps to heal old wounds and also make us stronger. In many of the paintings of this angel you will see that the colours green and blue have been used. Green and blue are very soothing colours and within hospitals and healthcare provisions you will see these colours also. One of the most striking things about these creatures are their wings and vast amount of feathers that they have. So, now I know what an angel is, how they can help me? how will I know if my prayers have been heard and answered and I am being looked after? There are many publications and stories from artists that have stated that their prayers have been heard and that they are being looked after because either at the time of asking or a few days later, white feathers were either found within the home or just outside and that not always straight away, but some time after a resolution or an idea is given that answers the prayer. I hope that after reading this article, you will have a clearer understanding and a new insight into these heavenly creatures and why so many people find them so fascinating to either paint or write about.
In this Indian ink drawing tutorial you will learn through a time lapse video accompanied by real time voice over narrative how to draw trees, grass and clouds using a variety of tips and techniques.
The first step is to get a large sheet of cold press watercolor paper which you can find online or in any decent arts and crafts store. This paper should be fully wetted with clean water using a large brush before then being gum taped all the way around the edges. This enables the paper to dry flat, smooth and free from warping and creases and provides an excellent surface for you to commence with your Indian ink painting.
This artist explains how in this art tutorial he will be using the ink as a watercolor and offers you great advice on tools to use and techniques to apply to maximise your painting’s full potential. He uses Higgins black Indian ink throughout the demonstration and begins by using a large round sable brush to paint a light wash which is gray in appearance due to its dilution with water. This wash is applied liberally and sporadically and forms the basis of the high and low background clouds and allow the focal point, in this case being the tree, to come forward and stand more prominently within the painting.
As a general rule within watercolor painting the higher the clouds are then the darker they should be and vice versa for the lower and more faint clouds. The tree outline is loosely painted with a smaller round sable brush in a light gray again and is reworked with a fountain pen to allow greater detailing and definition to its edges and outlines. A stipple technique is used next when painting the leaves to create a sense of volume rather than meticulously trying to pick out individual leaves which is a sure fire way to over complicate and potential ruin a painting.
Once the cluster of leaves have been established you can then use the likes of a small round sable brush to softly blend creating further volume and a sense of depth bring the tree further to the foreground. At this point in the tutorial the artist regresses back to the clouds adding further adding more natural detailing with the ink to the clouds and surrounding areas to further emphasise the impression of realism. The grass mound where the tree is situated is painted using a sable fan brush but as with the leaves he uses a stippling technique to highlight and give the impression of certain areas rather than trying to tackle each individual blade of grass. It is because of the shape and style of this fan brush which makes this an invaluable tool for the type of ink painting.
Sable brushes are more valuable to use with inks than their counterpart synthetic versions due to their ability to hold in a lot more ink meaning less trips to ink pot and more concentration on the painting itself. This video is very thorough and ideal for the beginner inks and watercolor painter and harbours some great tips and techniques for you to further your paintings and learn how to use Indian ink.
The hostility which arose against cubism would be enough to prove that it was indeed a revolution: the vocabulary, the syntax, the meaning and even the space of painting were questioned. ‘Everything is recognisable, and yet misguiding…’ says Beckett. Continuous research led to an entirely new conception and vision of the act of painting and of its purpose. Cezanne’s famous laconic piece of advice to Emile Bernard in 1904, can be considered as the starting point. ‘Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone, everything in proper perspective…’. Even if the Aix master appears as the initial reference, ‘Cezannism ‘ will soon be questioned, overtaken and renewed, both in content and in spirit, by two young painters: Braque and Picasso.
The word “cubism” will at first be used in derision to describe a series of pictures painted by Braque at L’Estaque in 1908; then, by extension, it will refer to a number of artists who, by diverting the new course, will adopt only the geometrization of the surface, grouped together under the sign of the ‘Section d’Or’. Braque and Picasso’s cubism – and only theirs – determined the first great plastic revolution of the 20th century. It was to be exploited by the cubists.
In 1906, the Louvre exhibits Iberian sculptures from the Osuna and Cerro de los Santos excavations which reveal to Picasso the primitive art of his own country, and at the same time the Gauguin retrospective in the Salon d’Automne underlines the “barbarian” primitivist influences in the work of the Atuana exile. In Gosol, a small Catalan village, during the summer, Picasso creates violently schematic figures in which he replaces the face by a mask – that is how he concludes the portrait of Gertrude Stein. In the spring of the same year, he had met Matisse, also fascinated by African art, known then as “Negro art”.
Cezanne dies on the 23rd October, 1906, Braque studies his teachings on constructive and simplifactory harmony at L’Estaque where he worked a great deal; he remains there until February. He says later on that ‘he applied himself to submitting’ his own paintings ‘to the influence of light, atmosphere, the effect of rain which revived colour…’ of the Aix master. His watercolours, exhibited at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, in June 1907, and in the Salon d’Automne retrospective, will have a great impact on young artists.
During these extraordinarily eventful and productive first years of the century, two main trends emerge in the research and preoccupations of the young painters: on the one hand Cezanne’s construction and apprehension of space, colour and light, and on the other, the expressive violence of the Negro, Oceanic or Egyptian primitives. Iberian for Picasso, who begins in March 1907 his first studies for the composition that will become, after several variations, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. In the Salon des Independants where Braque shows some of his Cezannian paintings from L’Estaque, Picasso sees Matisse’s Blue Nude, a primitivist, hedonistic vision which causes a scandal because of its distortions and crude colours – pink and blue – and Derain’s Bathers in which the volumes are sharply and strikingly cut out with hard schematic lines.
Thus without any form of premeditation, the various elements which lead up to Les Demoiselles d’Avignon are laid out. Using a Cezannian construction of figures in space, and stimulated by the revelation Derain’s Bathers, Picasso attempts to surpass them, to go further, by an even more geometrization of volumes which, making use of Gauguin’s primitivism, will lead to a radicalisation of set influences; his figures, thanks to the painter’s exceptional visual memory, tend to merge with Iberian heads, African masks, with the Oceanian and Polynesian tribal art shown in the Ethnographic Museum of the Trocadero; the impact of this exhibition will cause Picasso to reshape the second half of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, without altering the first half. “I wondered whether I should start all over again. But then I said no to myself: ‘No they’ll understand what I intended to do…’”, declares Picasso, more sure of himself than his future public.
The Angel of the north in Gateshead, Newcastle is Britain’s largest sculpture which was designed by Antony Gormley . It has become one of the most talked about pieces of art ever produced. The site that it was built on was selected because it would be clearly seen by drivers at a rate of one person every second. So why an angel? The only response the artist can give is that no one has ever seen one. It is a reminder to everyone that the site it was built on was a former coal mine and the workers worked in the dark for two hundred years. Although they may have worked in the dark, an angel was always looking over them, protecting them, and shining light on them, even though they could not see it.
Angel of the north, Gateshead, UK
The angel also brings hope to each and everyone of us, that although many industries have now ceased, new areas are evolving and it is to give us faith and hope for a better future. Angels have been a part of art and religion for many centuries. As we enter our own churches or famous places of worship around the world, we can clearly see that angels have been sculpted or painted within them. We as children have often be told that we should not worry or be scared because we have a guardian angel who looks after us. So if Anthony Gormley built this sculpture of an angel, then what are angels and how can they help us? Angels are messengers who come to our aid when we ask for help or to protect us from danger. There are many of them, who all have names and who also have different functions. Archangel Michael is the protector, he is a very strong and powerful angel. We can ask this angel to protect us from harm and to also help us in our everyday lives, whether that means we are travelling, starting a new job, he is always with us. When we feel ill, or have emotional problems, Archangel Raphael is the angel to call upon.
Archangel Michael
He helps to heal old wounds and also make us stronger. In many of the paintings of this angel you will see that the colours green and blue have been used. Green and blue are very soothing colours and within hospitals and healthcare provisions you will see these colours also. One of the most striking things about these creatures are their wings and vast amount of feathers that they have. So, now I know what an angel is, how they can help me? how will I know if my prayers have been heard and answered and I am being looked after? There are many publications and stories from artists that have stated that their prayers have been heard and that they are being looked after because either at the time of asking or a few days later, white feathers were either found within the home or just outside and that not always straight away, but some time after a resolution or an idea is given that answers the prayer. I hope that after reading this article, you will have a clearer understanding and a new insight into these heavenly creatures and why so many people find them so fascinating to either paint or write about.
By Ann Mee
ArtisanHQ member/contributor
This video tutorial has Scottish oils artist Naismith showing an oil painting from around 7 years ago being reworked having been unhappy with the results back then. The painting develops using various opaque and translucent techniques. Some inspirational material is shown including videos taken in the Isle of Harris and a photo from Loch Fyne, Scotland. The final painting is titled ‘Loch Fyne Light’. All standards of oils painter can benefit from this video.
Another classic art tutorial from Crilley showing you how to draw two different styles of hand in pencil. Through expert narrative and an easy step by step approach you will come out of the other side with I’m sure a hand you will be proud of. An excellent humble art teacher. He uses artistic pencils to compose his drawing onto his sketch pad first of all in a light style to get the initial guidelines and then once he is happy with his sketch he then works the pencil to produce a coarser more dominant pencil line.
In this video tutorial Chris Saper talks of the amount of natural and artificial light which has impacted on her portrait. She tells of how it’s important to notice the warm tones and ambient colors to help justify your renderings within the painting. Her use of the exact same pigment from the background is used to mix in with her model to almost oppose contrast and enhance the balance between the subject and the environment. For such a short video it really does harness so useful tips.
