Emma Coulter
or Latvian based Artur Akopjans
with his light hearted girls and
masses of color.
Arturs Akopjans in an interview said:
All can inspire me, a rag on the floor, a beautiful girl,
old
lamppost, anything. It is important to catch the mood,
to tune to this
frequency as a radio.
When a radio catches a wave, the sound is clear,
without noise. So catching the right wave is an inspiration.
When you are painting, creating, where does it take you?
Where does your mind (spirit) travel?
"While searching for the right wavelength,
consciousness and spirit
are separate.
When you finally tune to the desired frequency your
spirit
and consciousness merge and the sound is beautiful."
Honest work by greasychickenface .
I love the reference to 1950's illustration with the prominent nose
and the shape of the eye. Maybe it's this years' pensive-tilted-head-girl.
I wanna paint like Christina Romero.
Her stuff never fails to blow the skirt sky high.
But mostly,
I'll probably paint like me
Since there really isn't any other choice
Cold Coronas help.
lol.... love the cold corona's... after all that gorgeous art... nice to relax and htink about it all..
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well, this is a nice change from the black canvas ;)
ReplyDeleteGreat crushes, Grrl - but of course, to thine own paint be true (because you're right, there's really no other)! -sus
ReplyDeleteFor me colour comes before the subject matter, get that right and the rest just flows. Love the artists you've shown, must check them out.
ReplyDeleteWhat an eye for color you have , as I've said before.
ReplyDeleteCreating is what life's all about what bliss to be making things all day!
How's Bruce doing?
In total agreement here! Bright colours especially during our grey dark winters give me a will to live. Wide spread eyes on round faces with small mouths are universally appealing, I read some where one time...that is why cats have such a loyal following- much like human babies.
ReplyDeleteYou have inspired me to drag out my paints today! Thank you!
Trying on/learning about various ways other's paint is great Grrl!
ReplyDeleteBy going wide for inspiration we don't end up emulating one artist but learn from many...and somewhere in there we understand what forms and manner of working is most true for us. People have made art for millennia... so there's much to try out... from cave painting, through, say, ancient Egypt, touching down with indigenous cultures everywhere and having a good look around the 20th century before you get to the 21st century!
I went to art school for 4 years when I was 18...how thoroughly frustrating that was!
but when I was 30 for 2 intense yrs I reschooled myself by hauling home truckloads of books from every library i could. iI took note of how both prominent and also wildly successful artists started out... I observed their learnings and slow path to find their voice and was encouraged to find few are like Picasso and great from childhood. If I hadn't trawled home those big art books for a couple of years I'd have not fully realised this...not appreciated how these painters had struggled to find their way as you might be doing at this moment and I certainly have!
The good thing about those big visual art books filled with imagery is the reading you are doing is observation and noticing rather than consuming text. The best books show the beginnings and all stages towards the 'celebrated' later journey!
I never seek to learn about one period of an artist's work... for me the whole panorama, with the struggles, is the full monty!
xo
Will have to get the paint out this weekend. Such joyful colors. I'm inspired (again.) Glad you are painting. I want to see more of what you are doing!
ReplyDeleteArtist envy, I feel it to - much too often but never WHILE I create, just when looking for "inspiration" :-) Have fun painting grrl!
ReplyDeleteYou sure love color... I need sunglasses :-)
ReplyDeleteVery nice post -
ReplyDeleteEnd result - we need to remember what it was like being a kid, before the start of trying to make us conform to what society accepts as "normal" whatever that is -
= Cheers!
i like the idea of tuning to desired frequency.
ReplyDeletewhy does it still surprise me you drink Corona on a hot day (with lime?)
are there any good Australian brews?
Overheard in a pub, Irish in fact:
A Corona a day
keeps the tequila worm at bay.
.
Cheers!
ps thank you for not making me fill out that wretched new google muddle of words to prove i am human. xoxxoxo
ReplyDeleteYeah, baby! Corona Therapy!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have time to really paint this weekend, myself. Isn't is really yummy?
Cheers
Loving what you have shared here... beautiful colours, textures and style.
ReplyDeletePainting like anything we fancy mastering takes oodles of time and lots of being kind to yourself.
I hope you've reached the stage where you're having fun with it.
x
Love your blog! Colour!!!!! Hugs Karen
ReplyDeleteHi Grrl, just stopping by to say how delightful your blog is. Thanks so much for sharing. I have recently found your blog and am now following you, and will visit often. Please stop by my blog and perhaps you would like to follow me also. Have a wonderful day. Hugs, Chris
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Boy! do you love color! I mean COLOR! I had to get sunglasses to look at your post :-). just joking.. but my aesthetic is so opposite as I love subdued, quiet, minimal.. isn't it wonderful artists are all so different and unique?
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