Quarter One - so we have come through the first quarter. Looked at landscape, thought about what makes it so. Now we turn to talking, talking without words. Is it possible to to get a message across without being too concrete and literal. How do we communicate with our images, what mystery do we invite the viewer to investigate. Do we need to show or tell it all? Does it have to make sense or can it just suggest a mood, feeling, or idea? What do you have to say?  

"Unknowable" in progress

Detail of "Unknowable"

What do our mentors tell us? The artists we look to show us how they solve similar problems. They inspire us to find inventive solutions or to borrow a way of thinking or seeing. Sometimes we borrow their techniques, their brush work, or their palette. Our work expands and explores the ideas and processes that they have used to see what we can do with them.

Matisse

  The colors and uses of them in the fauvist palette has always intrigued and inspired me. When I finally realized that the palette I chose naturally was like the one used by Fauvists. So I embraced what their work had to teach me.

Matisse - Fauvism

 

Andre Derain