by cectimm | Apr 6, 2018 | drawing, my work
#adrawingaday #artelements Georgia Totto O’Keeffe is the mother of American Modernism. She is known for her stunning, almost sexual paintings of flowers, uber-modern New York cityscapes and bare minimalist New Mexico Landscapes. Experimenting with abstracts,...
by cectimm | Apr 5, 2018 | drawing, my work
#adrawingaday #artelements Margaret Preston is one of my all-time favourite Australian artists, she was a masterful painter and printmaker. She was the first non-Indigenous Australian artists to use Aboriginal motifs in her artwork, she did this in the quest to find a...
by cectimm | Apr 3, 2018 | drawing, my work
#adrawingaday #artelements When a photo of Picaso’s painting The Ladies of Avignon (originally called The Brothel of Avignon) was originally shown, it was deemed immoral. The paitning is large, over 2m square and is painted in oil paint… at that size it...
by cectimm | Apr 3, 2018 | drawing, my work
#adrawingaday #artelements Surrealism is not my favourite style of painting but some images are so iconic they transcend genre. Salvador Dali’s melting clocks are such a strong image and the painting I am referencing, The Persistence of Memory, is his most...
by cectimm | Apr 2, 2018 | drawing, my work
#adrawingaday #artelements Grace Cossington Smith is one of my all time favourite Australian painters and her masterpiece The Lacquer Room, 1936 with its iconic red chairs is a stunning reminder of the beauty available to us in everyday life. She painted the David...
by cectimm | Apr 1, 2018 | drawing, my work
#adrawingaday #artelements I adore Henri Matisse, perhaps because my mother loves his work and she infected me with a love of all things Matisse. I love his exploration of form and his foray into Fauvism (colour over representation). This element is taken from the...
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