Ynotartblog's Blog

Two lines to two hard edges! It’s a hard-edge painting! A hard-edge painting with a conceptual base. I used a protractor, blue painter’s tape, and a brush! I painted on a clayboard. The feel of the acrylic paint on the board is so smooth! The color so vibrant! I am happy with it (minor problems…

I think I know what I want to express…now, after a lengthy period of investigation. I say “I think” because I haven’t done it yet, and, well, things can easily slip back to an investigation mode. Investigation being the creation of a pot full of possibilities. Possibilities being stimulating and addictive. This problem began with…

Fresh green. Shiny black. Pulsating magenta. Side by side they have been slinking in and out of my visual memory. I’ve met this trio before in Matisse’s paper cut-outs and his Moroccan paintings. A Chagall collage of a dancing figure on a magenta stage and his painting of a poet lying on a grassy expanse…

I am a musician: a pianist. Fingering the keys in various scales until the melody releases itself. In my work I experience a musicality not only in the play of the final shapes and colors but also in the movement of precut and colored pieces as I see how they work together. In the above…

End of the weekend. In between and after talking on the phone, researching writing rubrics, walking around the nature reserve, shopping for food, and washing some laundry…Yes! I finished my latest work with splayed cutouts. The challenge of working with splayed cutouts continues to interest me. How to assemble the pieces in an unordered way…

Coloring, cutting, and pasting paper seem like simple actions until you go a step further and want the color, the cut, and the pasting to be something else. That something else may be the merest sparkle of an undefined vision. All that coloring, cutting, and pasting to capture a sparkle involves more actions leading to…

Back to working with splayed cutouts. Snapshots along the way…

What a pleasure to see Matisse’s The Snail again at the Tate Gallery in London. I adore this gouache découpée! Yes, adore is exactly my feeling. It brings a smile to my face. Me…happy. I can’t take these pasted blocks of complementary colors in all at once. My visual path becomes the snail’s path and…