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New Material
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I've added a handful of new images to my gallery. These newer paintings were done over the past year or so. I'm still working on my acrylic technique and just getting into color and the feeling of handling palettes. I continue to draw on personal experience to draft my themes.
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Learning Acrylics
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It's been a while since my last entry, so I thought I'd put one together quickly.
I'm trying to learn to paint with acrylics at the moment. What I mean is, I'm trying to learn to paint the way I want to, so I can represent what I really experience. In my experience of what we call the world, nothing is made of hard edges, and this is quite distinct from my experience earlier in life. Now everything passes into every other thing by way of fuzzy, indistinct zones. It's a sort of fabric. So I'm trying to develop a style of acrylic painting that will communicate this, & I've been practicing using bonfires as a subject.
I've posted a couple in my gallery. The style is developing, there are many things I'd like to improve on, but I like where it's heading. B
I'm trying to learn to paint with acrylics at the moment. What I mean is, I'm trying to learn to paint the way I want to, so I can represent what I really experience. In my experience of what we call the world, nothing is made of hard edges, and this is quite distinct from my experience earlier in life. Now everything passes into every other thing by way of fuzzy, indistinct zones. It's a sort of fabric. So I'm trying to develop a style of acrylic painting that will communicate this, & I've been practicing using bonfires as a subject.
I've posted a couple in my gallery. The style is developing, there are many things I'd like to improve on, but I like where it's heading. B
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flora + fauna
August 20, 2011
New collaborative works from Abbotsford-based artists April Solomon and Brandon Schultz exploring the idolization and personification of nature. The offerings include new mixed media pieces, paintings, colored pencil pieces, linocut prints and creative writing.
Educated at Laguna College of Art and Design, April Solomon relocated to Abbotsford, BC from Laguna Beach, California in 2006 and has established herself as a sought-after muralist and portrait artist. She skillfully uses colored pencil, gouache, acrylic and collage to portray fantasy and nature imagery; her influences include art nouveau, realism and trompe l'oeil.
A self-taught artist, Brandon Schultz draws from an extensive background of commercial graphic design to create mixed-media work focused on mysteries of consciousness and personality. He is passionate about experimental creative writing and has recently branched out into printmaking.
Come be a part of this one-night-only event!
Saturday, August 20, 2011
5-10 pm
Free admission
Hosted by At The Ballroom Studio
(beneath Bernard's Hair Studio)
32090 South Fraser Way
Abbotsford, BC
604.615.1178 (Ask for Brandon or April)
brandonsch1@gmail.com
Door prizes include an original painting (24" x 24") and signed prints
August 20, 2011
New collaborative works from Abbotsford-based artists April Solomon and Brandon Schultz exploring the idolization and personification of nature. The offerings include new mixed media pieces, paintings, colored pencil pieces, linocut prints and creative writing.
Educated at Laguna College of Art and Design, April Solomon relocated to Abbotsford, BC from Laguna Beach, California in 2006 and has established herself as a sought-after muralist and portrait artist. She skillfully uses colored pencil, gouache, acrylic and collage to portray fantasy and nature imagery; her influences include art nouveau, realism and trompe l'oeil.
A self-taught artist, Brandon Schultz draws from an extensive background of commercial graphic design to create mixed-media work focused on mysteries of consciousness and personality. He is passionate about experimental creative writing and has recently branched out into printmaking.
Come be a part of this one-night-only event!
Saturday, August 20, 2011
5-10 pm
Free admission
Hosted by At The Ballroom Studio
(beneath Bernard's Hair Studio)
32090 South Fraser Way
Abbotsford, BC
604.615.1178 (Ask for Brandon or April)
brandonsch1@gmail.com
Door prizes include an original painting (24" x 24") and signed prints
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April & I made it out to the Surrealist exhibit in the city yesterday.
It was fascinating & inspiring; it reawakened my interest in a few projects I had set aside for a long time.
What impressed me about the material was, in some cases, a lack of or negligence toward technical skills (although some surrealist painters are highly, highly technically skilled). The quality of delivery seemed for many artists to be quite secondary to the subject matter.
I usually hate still-life and landscape paintings, unless they're used as a vehicle to show off some wild or exciting technique. But many well-known realist painters are popular because their ability to paint convincing landscapes is so well-developed. The Surrealist painters seemed to turn this upside-down, using painting only as a method to convey all-important, usually incomprehensible messages.
The message? That the brain makes complex and unconscious associations to objects and words which it then uses as symbols to process the abstract.
Lobster Telephone, for example, from Dali. It's about a fear or unease around certain types of communication, speech for example. Nobody wants to put a fucking lobster against the side of their face; some people recoil at the idea of giving or receiving a phone call.
Maybe that's not what its about at all, but it's just the same, really; that's what it means to me, and so it's case closed. I think this is the point - there is no great universal truth shining through the sublime forms of realist artists or any other artists. The brain foils the conception of truth. It clutters everything with simplified, dull, blunt symbols that are incapable of representing anything accurately.
There's a wonderful quote from a writer named Robert Anton Wilson: "The map is not the territory."
Surrealist paintings - ALL paintings, all art - are maps.
That's my take on it, anyway. It was inspirational and interesting.
It was fascinating & inspiring; it reawakened my interest in a few projects I had set aside for a long time.
What impressed me about the material was, in some cases, a lack of or negligence toward technical skills (although some surrealist painters are highly, highly technically skilled). The quality of delivery seemed for many artists to be quite secondary to the subject matter.
I usually hate still-life and landscape paintings, unless they're used as a vehicle to show off some wild or exciting technique. But many well-known realist painters are popular because their ability to paint convincing landscapes is so well-developed. The Surrealist painters seemed to turn this upside-down, using painting only as a method to convey all-important, usually incomprehensible messages.
The message? That the brain makes complex and unconscious associations to objects and words which it then uses as symbols to process the abstract.
Lobster Telephone, for example, from Dali. It's about a fear or unease around certain types of communication, speech for example. Nobody wants to put a fucking lobster against the side of their face; some people recoil at the idea of giving or receiving a phone call.
Maybe that's not what its about at all, but it's just the same, really; that's what it means to me, and so it's case closed. I think this is the point - there is no great universal truth shining through the sublime forms of realist artists or any other artists. The brain foils the conception of truth. It clutters everything with simplified, dull, blunt symbols that are incapable of representing anything accurately.
There's a wonderful quote from a writer named Robert Anton Wilson: "The map is not the territory."
Surrealist paintings - ALL paintings, all art - are maps.
That's my take on it, anyway. It was inspirational and interesting.
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Isis and Osiris Print
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I finally finished my Isis and Osiris piece. It took a hell of a long time to draft and cut, and printing was difficult because the shading cuts and really fine and clog up with ink between every print. So, it has to be carefully washed and dried before each print.
I've been working on some time-limit collage pieces with April (atomsanddust.deviantart.com) and we will post those photos in the near future.
I've been working on some time-limit collage pieces with April (atomsanddust.deviantart.com) and we will post those photos in the near future.
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