The Rebellious Curator
It's been fun trying different colour palettes for this miniature mountain landscape. One more is coming up depicting the Northern Lights using purple/blue and green.
Irish Poet Kathleen O'Meara wrote the following poem in 1897
And the people stayed home.
And read books,
and listened,
and rested,
and exercised,
and made art,
and played games,
and learned new ways of being,
and were still.
And listened more deeply.
Some meditated, some prayed, some danced.
Some met their shadows.
And the people began to think differently.
And the people healed.
November is always labelled a dark and dreary month, but in many ways, I like it because of that. Long dark mornings, and early evenings make for cozy inside time. I especially like the warm light that comes from a window. It's warm and inviting, like the visible heart of a home.
I experimented with this painting on a small wood panel and liked the way the oil paint soaked into the grain to create interesting effects on the evening sky and grass.
Why do my painted 2D structures always look like dollhouses?:p
Made a few of these mountain triptychs in oil. These have been fun as they quick and easy and I can try out different colours to see how they might translate on to larger substrates.
Misty(above)in the garden of her Rosedale home in Toronto. Misty is well-known in Canada as a painter and a performance artist. One of her recent paintings, Interring the Terrier, appears to show a small headless dog being stuffed inside a red armchair by two frogs and a sardine. The piece sold at auction for $21,000 Ca.
A Little Lavish Leaping(above), acrylic on card and wall, preserved in situ, Toronto, Canada
Image left, working with very quick strokes, Misty lays down the pink tension areas first.
Image middle, the dense black verticals are over layed to suggest a series of interconnected forms describing the path of the leap itself.
Image right - Misty insisted that the stool be placed in position so that she could complete the upper curved form to her satisfaction. Many of Misty's works go "off canvas", and some go completely off the wall and onto the floor.
In part from: Why Cats Paint - A Theory of Feline Aesthetics