Cross-stitch hip-hop: Emma McKee
Yes, way. Cross-stitch and hip-hop do meet. Here.
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start small – Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter works across a wide variety of textures and formats: painting over photographs, painting from photographs but blurring, mirrors, versions of a major Titian painting…… where do you even begin? On what basis do you choose your format? I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven’t done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper. … Continue reading start small – Gerhard Richter
Featured Artist: Lori Reed
Lori Reed‘s vibrant striated photo collages caught my eye recently, especially this one:
Lori described it thus: This 12″ x 12″ piece features a happy bee sipping his supper. I made one filtered version of the photo in Photoshop and 3 in Prisma. I cut them into irregular shapes and combined to reform the image, and added in some handmade papers, too.”
Having buzzed around the photos on her website, I knew that I wanted to show her work to a wider audience (that’s you) – and asked permission, delightfully, she granted it. So here are a few more stunning photos, together with insights from the artist herself.
Two Painters, one collage
Collaborating on the same collage 2 artists: Rick and Brenda Beerhorst. Musings on failure and big city. Continue reading Two Painters, one collage
What freedom is… Nina Simone
Originally posted on Comma And:
Last night I more or less idly began watching a documentary on Netflix about Nina Simone – and was right from the start transfixed by her words: “I’ll tell you what freedom is to me – no fear!” From those opening comments in “What happened to you Miss Simone?” I was glued to the screen. One of the words most… Continue reading What freedom is… Nina Simone
Paul Nash – war artist
Appropriately, at this time of remembering the world wars – Armistice Day – the BBC has rereleased an excellent documentary of the war artist Paul Nash, viewable here. This reminds me of my personal view of a retrospective of his life and work, earlier in the year. The BBC one hour programme, presented by the great TV art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon, provides depth as well … Continue reading Paul Nash – war artist
Stained Glass and Making films – Richard Leclerc and Make Works
Having had so many posts last week about collage – here are 2 similar in a much more expensive media – stained glass and video.
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Stained Glass
A brief, one and a half minute film about Richard Leclerc, who lives and works on Arran Island, with a stained glass making practice.
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