Category Artist’s Thoughts
First, the story… I have a pair of vases that I had once bought for the Reception area of my office. The vases are pretty but they aren’t special or unique…in fact, there are many other vases that look just… Continue Reading →
If it shackles you, binds you, enthralls you, reaches deep within your chest to squeeze your heart – remember that none of it was designed to do what it did, because artists paint to express and not to impress. We… Continue Reading →
Mathematically speaking, an Inequation is a statement that brings out the inequality between two values. So a value may be greater than, less than, or not equal to another value. I believe that art may be greater than, less than,… Continue Reading →
Difficult questions must be asked. They may not always fetch an answer. Yet, it’s our responsibility to ask those questions. Why art? This is a question that all artists must ask themselves. Why must we draw, sketch and paint? Is… Continue Reading →
I love to do Pen and Ink drawings. It is my favorite medium, second only to oil painting, and there’s a reason for it. Actually, there’s more than one reason. It allows me to explore and enjoy what I call,… Continue Reading →
When we think of Leonardo Da Vinci and Claude Monet together, we see them as opposites. Here’s how the two artists were different. High Renaissance vs. Impressionism Carefree vs. Methodical Invisible brushstrokes vs. Highly visible brushstrokes Unmarried vs. Twice-married No… Continue Reading →
Is there a connection between Empathy and Art? We speak about artists being emotional beings, but being emotional doesn’t exactly equal being emotionally intelligent, and empathy is the third skill in emotional intelligence. I think I was left speechless after… Continue Reading →
I am yet to read about a great artist who wasn’t good at portraiture. Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Eduard Manet, Frida Kahlo, MF Hussein…you name the top artists of the world or… Continue Reading →
I am a “seule dans l’atelier” artist (that is, if I got the English to French translation right.) But I started as a Plein Air artist. As a child of five, I would sit under a tree, with my notebook… Continue Reading →
The artist paints in a window of time and the character of those hours and days spills into his works. Claude Monet painted his Ice-drift series after losing his wife and muse companion Camille to childbirth. I feel his loss… Continue Reading →
