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Just a quick note to share that I’ve started a page on facebook.
It’s called Art Thoughts. So if you’re interested in random jottings about art and everything related to it and what’s on my easel, I invite you to come visit the page and check it out. If you click on the like button that would be brilliant too. Click here to go to Art Thoughts
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At this point in time, these pastels (below) don't really work. But in the future I may look back on them and think - yes they do. Like I did yesterday. Searching for a Needle in a Haystack I was searching for a specific landscape photo, (which is like trying to find a needle in a haystack - amongst 20,000 photos - and I found it!), but along the way, saw some images of paintings from 2012. They were impressionist landscapes. (Which in 2012 I didn't realise consciously they were impressionist. Well, I wasn't trying to be impressionist. It was simply a response to the swedish landscape in summer. And if you've ever seen masses of birch and aspen trees in summer, you can see that they're already impressionist masterpieces themselves.) I was so surprised and happy to see them. The joy and the iridescent colour jumped out at me and I thought, gee they're better than I remembered. But at that time, I still hadn't shaken the overriding beliefs from my modernist education (ie. impressionism is from the 19th century so you're way, way out of fashion susie) and the painful words from people who said how passe and just plain bad my work was because it was IMPRESSIONIST shock horror. I painted them anyway but I tortured myself with doubt. So today I'm not going to, thanks very much. 2019 pastels above. And 2012 below. |