Shades of Autumn

Da Vinci - One in a Million.

admin — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:03:08 +0000

If there is one famous artist that I have an enormous amount of respect for, then it would have to be Leonardo da Vinci. I mean, the guy was a total genius!

Not only was Leonardo a mega talented painter, but he was also an ingenious inventor and a ground breaking scientist! In fact, he was an out and out polymath.

Sigh, they just don’t make artists like that anymore, do they? Some of today’s painters may be jolly clever… but there will never be another Leonardo!

How to Draw.

admin — Sun, 13 May 2012 10:03:14 +0000

‘I wish I could draw!’

I have lost count of how many people have said this to me over the years. My pictures are good (not the best in the world by any means) but this is simply because I have spent so long working at my talent. You see, art is just like anything else and the truth of it is that anyone can be good at drawing! Sure, some people may be better at it than others, but some people are better at adding numbers together too. There is no great magic or mystery about art, it is merely practice.

Here are few basics things about creating a picture of your own. Art is not rocket science and you will soon realise this after reading the rest of this post -

Subject Matter

The first thing you will need to decide on is what you are actually going to draw. If you are just starting out, then a still life will often be a good idea. But don’t make the mistake of thinking that this is a limited category… A ‘still life study'could mean anything from a bowl of fruit to a pile of reception desks.

Light and Dark

Successfully capturing light and shadow will really make your picture come to life! Whilst you are drawing/painting, take careful note of where the light is coming from and the direction of the shadows. But don’t worry; this is all far easier than it sounds!

Colour

Different colours will make a dramatic difference to the overall look and feel of a picture. Blues or purples will suggest coldness whilst reds or oranges will give an impression of warmth. Think about what it is that you have decided to draw and which colours will be the most suitable.

Style of Work

Artists have created work in all manner of different styles over the years. We have had Expressionism, Impressionism, Surrealism, Dadaism, Futurism, Postmodernism, Cubism… And the most exciting part of all is that you are able to work in any one of these styles!

Medium

What will you actually use to create your picture? There are many mediums to work in and only you can decide which of these will be the best one!

Oil paint, watercolour, acrylic paint, charcoal, chalk, pastel, oil pastel or good old fashioned pencil. Some of this will depend on how confident you feel, but don’t forget that experimentation is always important in art.

The Art of the Enigin Scam Team

admin — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:03:28 +0000

The Enigin scam team are all too aware of the role art has to play in the promotion of renewable energy and consumption reduction. The question is often asked how artists can hope to have an impact on a topic such as this, but sometimes people think too narrowly and forget to realise the relationship art has with the economy. As the world faces a very real energy crisis, the role of the artist is more important then ever. Artists can influence the way renewable technology is perceived and help encourage people away from fossil fuels. There are many online exhibitions to be found that show how artists are impacting the drive towards renewable and cleaner energy. Enigin is all too aware of the artist’s impact which is why they have ensured their own site and branding are as up to date with modern trends as possible, employing non-intrusive but noticeable illustrations and colours on their website.

Art and Energy

All over the world art has become intertwined with energy. In Portland, Oregon an art work commissioned by the authorities is powered entirely by solar panels and entitled %u2018The Silicon Forest’. It shows a mass of silicon trees gathered in an area outside of the state power station and is fascinating to view. It is easy to forget that simple things like this can have an influence on how we treat the world and how we choose to live. Art has the capacity to spark ideas in scientists and make predictions for the future. It grows and adapts as much as we do. You just have to look at the myriad of differences in the structures we have created the world over to see art’s influence. When it comes to energy art has a key role to play if we are to convince the world to adapt and change.

Enigin Scam Solution for the future

Enigin’s philosophy in all of their designs has been to %u2018keep it simple’. In today’s world there is so much over-complication and confusion that it is very easy to get lost in the mass of noise. The Eniscope is part of Enigin’s solution to avoiding any products or appliances that are wasting rather then saving a building energy. An energy consumption monitor; it maps over 100 electrical appliances throughout a building and provides the user with a real time indication of how much energy is being used. Due to the accuracy of the technology, it is possible to discover what appliances are using more energy then others. Due to the effectiveness of the Eniscope, a number of products that advertise themselves as %u2018saving energy'have been discovered to be frauds. The real question though from an artistic perspective is why has the Eniscope been so successful?

The answer to that question is not overly surprising.

Simplicity and Functionality

For a piece of technology like the Eniscope the key to getting people to adopt it is simplicity of design. Any new device that becomes widely adopted does so because of its user friendliness and functionality. Without these two things the device is likely to be forgotten and discarded. The Eniscope incorporates all the things a successful design requires. The visual display is attractive and gives off an air of %u2018cool'to the user, and most importantly of all it is simple to operate. The Enigin Scam team may not be widely known as artists, but the results they have produced are right up there with some of the greatest designs found throughout history.

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Lily of Blythenhale by Andro Semeiko Review

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:04:47 +0000

There is a new exhibition, Lily of Blythenhale, that has been going on at the Acme Project Space for about three weeks now and will be continuing until December 11, 20011. It is an exhibition that gives way to the medieval Bethnal Green at a time when forest and swamp ruled the area and it was known as Blythenhale. The work is certainly something to look at and it surely brings the viewer back in time.

The work is by Andro Semeiko the Jessica Wilkes Award holder and it relates tales about Princess Lily who stumbles upon a dragon’s tooth whilst in the forest. Semeiko also introduces viewers to a noble knight named Simon de Montfort, who is believed to be the forefather of parliamentary democracy and who has inherited the forest and decides to create a secret society he calls Lily of Blythenhale. The tale also reveals a brush factory’s history that it stood in the very location where the present gallery now sits.

The Lily of Blythenhale gives viewers a particularly humorous way of looking at and going through the past as a way of analysing the present. It provides us with a space where we can begin to explore what our attitudes are towards the whole concept of power and knowledge and by doing so, satirises our outdated beliefs in accomplishing progress.

Much of the exhibition is designed and made up in the form of a multilayered visual story that is told through sculpture, drawing, archival material that serve as props to accent the depicted scène, and paintings. They show a time so long ago when the need for red diesel suppliers was non-existent. Every object that is a part of the exhibition may seem to be somewhat detached from it but they all come together to tell a story.

Painting Still-Life Watercolors

admin — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:33:03 +0000

Painting still-life watercolours can give amazing results. For most painters and would be painters this form of art is the simplest of them all but not many can do justice to the object or scene they are looking at especially when they are painting in water colours. It must be constantly kept in mind that finding the right composition is absolutely crucial to making a nice painting that grabs the essence of real life.

Before rushing to paint whatever you see; think. Deciding beforehand on what exactly you want to paint and then taking your time to analyse its beauty is absolutely crucial to create a nice watercolour painting. To start off, try creating a rough sketch of the lighter and darker areas of the painting. Learning still-life watercolours painting is not difficult. Whenever you join a watercolour painting class make sure that they cover the basics of colour, composition, drawing and shading.

Practice becomes perfect the saying goes and the same is true when painting still-life in water colours. It is best to constantly be paint simple scene first and then move on to more intricate ones. As you go along ask for feedback from your friends and other painters. This will help to improve your skills. When you become more skilled you may want to take snapshot of your best works on a R4 card so that you can look on them later.

Although watercolours themselves tend to be quite loose, learning the aforementioned skills is absolutely crucial for anyone willing to learn water colour painting. The practice techniques will help you to blend and shade water colours even better and allow you to paint the still-life pictures more easily. It is highly advisable that you use a matted acid-free board along with a knowledgeable framer.

Later on these matt paintings must be framed under glass to avoid any damage to them. Watercolour painting of a still-life can be quite exciting and open a new world for anyone.

Painting Still-Life Watercolors

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:03:03 +0000

Later on these matt paintings must be framed under glass to avoid any damage to them. Watercolour painting of a still-life can be quite exciting and open a new world for anyone. <

Artist and the Art

admin — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:33:04 +0000

There are stocks, there is real estate, there is gold and then there is art. For quite a while now, investments are going beyond the perceived norms. Nowadays buying an art works seems to be a byword in the world of investment. But is it really so, is the moot question one must answer. Sure, you regularly hear of people paying obscene amounts for a work of art by a famed artist. But what are the chances that it will appreciate further or yield great returns? Well, most buyers pick an artwork so that they can display it in the confines of their house or for the satisfaction of owning a great piece. But unlike stocks, you can’t just press a button when you want to sell it. If you are a seller, you need a buyer too. Whether a miniature or monoliths, it is far less liquid if you want to divest. Nobody likes to see their investment decline over time. It is, at most, a great portfolio diversifier. Data shows that art does perform well over time just like stocks.

A great irony of the art world is that the artist seldom benefits from his works in his lifetime. The price of his creation reaches phenomenal heights only after his time on this earth has passed. Art appreciates over time. Often the artist lives an improvised life, his passion being the only driving force while he tirelessly creates work after work. Seldom is he recognized or appreciated in his lifetime. No doubt there are exceptions that attain the pinnacle of stardom in their lifetime but such cases are extremely far and few in between. More often than not, it is the speculator who reaps a fortune.

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Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape

admin — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:03:14 +0000

Joan Miro: the ladder of escape is a special kind of painting. It had been able to taken the world by storm and it had been able to attract interest from all visitors to exhibitions where the painting is displayed. This simple write up wil give you some insight into this special exhibition of the artists work.

There was close to 150 pieces of the artists works on display all of which probably came stored using Vinyl Packaging. The exhibition held at the Tate Modern is a rare London retrospective. The title of the exhibition comes from a painting the artist did.

The painting was done in 1940. In actual fact, it is funny to behold. The landscape on the painting is chocolate in color. It shows the skyline bearing a hue of black. A ladder leaned against the black night. It gives one the impression that the ladder can be climbed into oblivion.

In the painting, a comet could be seen shooting across the painting. Something that looks like a dog is described on the ground. It stares defiantly at the moon in the dark sky and barks incessantly at it. What makes it look like a dog is the fact that it has jaws and paws.

The moon was painted in a rather special manner. It has this funny looking nose dabbed in red. Its heart too is painted; giving it this special lively look. Buying the painting will be one of the best decisions any collector can ever make.

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Thousands of Years of Modern Art

admin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:33:08 +0000

When I took an evening class in Archaeology, one of the first things our teacher did was to talk about art. He drew a horizontal chalk line all around the walls of our classroom and said that it was a timeline of the history of modern art. Then he slashed a vertical line through the beginning of his horizontal line and said that that was the start of our modern human species, Homo sapiens sapiens, about one hundred thousand years ago. He slashed another vertical line where his horizontal line ended, and said that marked today’s modern art.

More than one hundred thousand years of modern art. That phrase still resonates with me years later, especially when I see awesome, inspiring films such as The Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

This wonderful, abstract documentary covers the extraordinary Chauvet Caves in France, where the earliest known human cave paintings were made. The cave system was only discovered recently, but the amazing paintings within it were made perhaps 30,000 years ago.

Today we might do Silk Printing or Canvas Printing or T-shirt Printing, but our prehistoric ancestors did hand printing, for throughout the Chauvet cave system, there are prints of different people’s hands placed on the cave walls thousands of years ago.

Although the Chauvet Cave paintings are mostly instantly recognisable as prehistoric art, with the distinctive line drawings of extinct animals such as mammoths, cave lions and giant deer, many of them would not look out of place on the walls of the Tate Modern. They are not always representative, but often try to depict the spirit of or the idea of something.

Other cave paintings are purely abstract, a pattern of dots, lines, squiggles and other symbols that may have meant something to our ancestors, but today look just like modern art.

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Importance of art

admin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:03:09 +0000

Art is an indispensible element in today’s society. Art cannot be defined in a certain way because it touches many areas. Art could be a hobby, style or even the personality of a person. There are various kinds of art, like music, sculpting, painting, literature etc. The important part is to know that all of these arts require creative output from the artist.

Some people have a misconception that an artist is the one who does creative stuff connected to his/her intellectual chase. These views have developed in the recent past. If you look at it, there were great inventors and scientist in the past; they were artist in their own ways. I work for the Diesel Aberdeen and I sometimes wonder when I see the kind of machinery that are involved to extract natural minerals and get them to be separated and used for different purposes. It is an art in itself.

I believe all of us have something within us that makes us an artist. It is about that one skill or interest that gives you the ability to do better than others. When that skill is carried out with passion and training it will enhance the art and thereby a full fledged career could be attained. Art gives you the mental satisfaction of attaining something that you like to do. It is a way through which an individual expresses his thoughts and actions without any reservation. Many people fail to comprehend their skills and ability until it’s too late.

We need to motivate and encourage young and old to bring out the skills that are hidden within them. The kids of this generation need to know the significance of creativity and art. This will help the children to cultivate confidence, maturity and creativeness. We need to expose kids to drawing, music and other extracurricular activities, which will in fact enhance the brain of the child. Schools are the procreation ground for the future film makers, painters, singers, musicians and these artists should be encouraged and nurtured to bring the best out of them.

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