I've had a huge couple of weeks writing... so the painting is on hold at present!
Tonight ... after yet another long day writing about my UK trip for a report... and also completing the E-newslteer about to go out anyday now.... I started viewing images on my tumblr site Seed Capsules.
I changed the template I use some months ago and now I really do have a site that has images tumbling out of the screen. You can scroll on and on and the view is of two columns with just a narrow band between images. I was sitting at my large desk top screen remembering each image I've reblogged there and marvelling at the density of visual stimulation and intellectual property in the collection of images which rolls out.
Its really quite inspiring to receive this outpouring... OK...its only a smallish screen image, not necessarily good resolution in most... and yet the magic and potency of certain images does seem apparent. Some images have a kind of totemic power to them... they actually convey qualities that touch one. I do find that curious and surprising. Mac computers have that light behind the screen and a lovely clarity...is that all it is....
i don't think so.
Go see if you see what I mean.... visit Seed Capsules here.
WHat i found scrolling through these images was a certain lushness in some... wonderful painterly qualities, others its the compositions or shapes... whatever... what it did do is make me feel really keen to again get immersed in the paint. Haven't had a chance to paint since that short trip to the coast and before that at the Millennium Seed bank. I'm glad Xmas is coming up... i want to make the most of some free time!
I don't like to post anyone else's images here simply because it might create confusion... but these two images stood out tonight and reminded me of qualities I like in a work.
This is by the same artist and was at the link above as well:
Interesting to take time to appreciate how someone uses their materials and works the surface ... colour...composition. Things to think about here.
well thats my experience tonight of 'painting in my mind'... as I slowly mused my way through all the images I found paintings being prompted from my own free flowing thoughts and associations.
so my task is to try and realise some of the promptings from my imagination....
stay tuned!
Tonight ... after yet another long day writing about my UK trip for a report... and also completing the E-newslteer about to go out anyday now.... I started viewing images on my tumblr site Seed Capsules.
I changed the template I use some months ago and now I really do have a site that has images tumbling out of the screen. You can scroll on and on and the view is of two columns with just a narrow band between images. I was sitting at my large desk top screen remembering each image I've reblogged there and marvelling at the density of visual stimulation and intellectual property in the collection of images which rolls out.
Its really quite inspiring to receive this outpouring... OK...its only a smallish screen image, not necessarily good resolution in most... and yet the magic and potency of certain images does seem apparent. Some images have a kind of totemic power to them... they actually convey qualities that touch one. I do find that curious and surprising. Mac computers have that light behind the screen and a lovely clarity...is that all it is....
i don't think so.
Go see if you see what I mean.... visit Seed Capsules here.
WHat i found scrolling through these images was a certain lushness in some... wonderful painterly qualities, others its the compositions or shapes... whatever... what it did do is make me feel really keen to again get immersed in the paint. Haven't had a chance to paint since that short trip to the coast and before that at the Millennium Seed bank. I'm glad Xmas is coming up... i want to make the most of some free time!
I don't like to post anyone else's images here simply because it might create confusion... but these two images stood out tonight and reminded me of qualities I like in a work.
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Aboriginal (unknown group, Kimberley, Western Australia), Pendant, pigment/pearl shell, c. mid-20th c.(via huamao) |
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Martin Assig
Nur M. 1996 Enkaustik auf Leinwand. 160 x 100 cm. |
This is by the same artist and was at the link above as well:
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Martin Assig
Beide Fridas
1999. Enkaustik und Tempera auf Holz. 185 x 136 cm. |
Interesting to take time to appreciate how someone uses their materials and works the surface ... colour...composition. Things to think about here.
well thats my experience tonight of 'painting in my mind'... as I slowly mused my way through all the images I found paintings being prompted from my own free flowing thoughts and associations.
so my task is to try and realise some of the promptings from my imagination....
stay tuned!
Man, did I ever get lost in there! Thank you Sophie for all the research and work you do.
ReplyDeletecarole is right, getting lost in that lushness was amazing. visually stunning. i can't wait to see where it sends you.
ReplyDeleteHello Lady, I too was marveling at our tumblr site the other day. Love the new format. I revisited some of the paintings you did at Kew and they are wonderful. Some great work happened there! xo
ReplyDeleteCarole,
ReplyDeleteits amazing how time when I'm relaxing, letting off steam...whatever ...added together on a tumblr site then becomes something else altogether.
An enjoyable moment for breathing out... and yet something is captured.
Velma...
curious how tumblr enables one to see the visual stories and tendencies quite sharply... ...so yes...where will it take me?
Mary,
thanks for your fine thoughts of encouragement. That I did so much in three weeks is a good reminder of what is possible. I was sleeping under a greenhouse...well...on the floor under the greenhouse... maybe all that energy...
or simply the fact of it being a finite time!
thanks for visiting all of you!'
xxx
thank you for sharing these, for the inspiration and color on a cold winter night. Happy Holidays to you!
ReplyDeleteroxanne
Thanks for this feast of visual goodness....i haven't visited tumblr enough to understand it but I love the images you have chosen there and in this post.
ReplyDeleteThanks too for your message on my blog about the thyroid stuff - it's always good to find other people who can relate to it. The thyroid seems to be part of a very complex system and most people seem to manage well on thyroxine but others not. I know exactly how you felt when you describe the brain slowing down and the walking upstairs thing....i experienced the exact same symptoms when i was on high doses of thyroxine...more recently i've been at the other end of the scale with my heart going bonkers and stress through the roof! This all subsides when the meds are reduced! I'm trying to find a natural solution. Seeds are good for thyroids too!
Wishing you a healthy, successful and creative 2012 x