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all rights reservedKatherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.comBlogger568125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-80848633161969799792019-11-29T11:03:00.001-08:002019-11-29T11:06:37.268-08:00Bolton Hall Museum Gift Shop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: large;">The Bolton Hall Museum Gift Shop</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: medium;">is a great place to do your holiday shopping! Carrying a wide range of unique items, all are created locally or pertain to local history. Art, jewelry, ceramics, books, honey, soap, candles, t-shirts... and more! We also have gift certificates. And most importantly, your purchases directly support Bolton Hall Museum as well as the local artists and small business owners of Sunland-Tujunga. Bolton Hall Museum is located at 10110 Commerce Avenue, corner of Valmont, in Tujunga, California. Shop small, shop local!</span><br />
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<br />Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-57074380580600050642019-03-24T10:22:00.000-07:002019-03-24T10:22:57.389-07:00Sanctuary Magazine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Edgar Allen Poe related artwork, curated by Chuka Susan Chesney and Christie Shinn.<br />
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The show runs from October 6 - 27th and is part of the Downtown Artwalk on Thursday, October 11th from 6-10PM.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #5c6365; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">I'm pleased to have 6 paintings included.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="padding-top: 0px;">P<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beachculture-artists-panel-discussion-for-four-million-angels-tickets-42054021711?aff=ehomecard" target="_blank">lease join us for a panel discussion featuring artists of </a><em style="padding-top: 0px;"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beachculture-artists-panel-discussion-for-four-million-angels-tickets-42054021711?aff=ehomecard" target="_blank">Four Million Angels</a>. </em></span>This exhibition examines the people who fill the streets of Santa Monica on a sunny day. Whether they are visiting the Santa Monica Pier, the 3rd Street Promenade, Angels’ Attic, Bergamot Arts Center, a concert at McCabe’s Guitar Shop or Santa Monica State Beach, a diverse cross section of Angelenos will be in the crowd. Given the dramatic presence of the ocean, the four million people that live in the City of Los Angeles find Santa Monica to be one of our greatest magnets. The artists in this exhibit make work that reflects a passionate interest in the people of Los Angeles and speaks of our universal experiences. <i>Four Million Angels</i> investigates the City’s history, environment, lifestyle, psychological range, architecture, and geography. We hope to trigger a dialogue about the essence of our unique population and elicit a better understanding of who is beside us in line at Pacific Park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Register here: </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.9); color: #282c35; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/Beach=Culture:%20Artists'%20Panel%20Discussion%20for%20'Four%20Million%20Angels'" target="_blank">Beach=Culture: Artists' Panel Discussion for 'Four Million Angels'</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">I am pleased to be part of <b>Four Million Angels </b>at Santa Monica's Annenberg Community Beach House, featuring </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">artworks by Mark Steven Greenfield, J. Michael Walker, Kathi Flood, Michael Massenburg, and me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Annenberg Community Beach House</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">415 Pacific Coast Hwy, Santa Monica, CA 90402</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Tickets are free but space is limited and reservations are required. T</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">ickets are available at </span><a alt="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beachculture-four-million-angels-opening-reception-tickets-40892855632" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beachculture-four-million-angels-opening-reception-tickets-40892855632" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank" track="on">Eventbrite</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br />This exhibition examines the people who fill the streets of Santa Monica on a sunny day. Whether they are visiting the Santa Monica Pier, the 3rd Street Promenade, Angels' Attic, Bergamot Station, a concert at McCabe's Guitar Shop or Santa Monica State Beach, a diverse cross section of Angelenos will be in the crowd. Given the dramatic presence of the ocean, the four million people that live in the City of Los Angeles find Santa Monica to be one of our greatest magnets. The artists in this exhibit make work that reflects a passionate interest in the people of Los Angeles and speaks of our universal experiences. Four Million Angels investigates the City's history, environment, lifestyle, psychological range, architecture, and geography. We hope to trigger a dialogue about the essence of our unique population and elicit a better understanding of who is beside us in line at Pacific Park.<br /><br />The exhibition will be on view from January 18 through April 30, 2018.</span>Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-43548506178331465392017-06-13T10:37:00.000-07:002017-06-13T10:37:21.320-07:00 International Association for the Study of Dreams - Dream Art Exhibition<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Two of my dream paintings will be part of an upcoming exhibition at the International Association for the Study of Dreams Annual Dream Conference. The conference will be in Anaheim this year, on June 16 - 20, 2017 at the Wyndham Anaheim Garden Grove in Anaheim, California.</span><br />
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Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-46376950492775426472017-02-14T08:14:00.000-08:002017-02-14T08:14:00.840-08:00Multiplicity: the Eye of the Artists at Izen Miller Gallery<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm excited to be in this group exhibition at Izen Miller Gallery's new location on El Paseo in Palm Desert.</span><br />
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<br />Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-34829763823356077622017-01-06T08:47:00.000-08:002017-01-06T08:47:00.291-08:00ECO ART an exhibition January 10 - February 15, 2017 <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-40959129212388749302016-10-29T12:43:00.004-07:002016-10-29T12:43:45.303-07:00Izen Miller Gallery at The River - Exhibition continues through November 13<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm exhibiting nine atmospheric paintings at <a href="http://izenmillergallery.com/" target="_blank">Izen Miller Gallery</a>'s inaugural exhibition at a new space. It is located at The River, </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Suite B113 - <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; text-align: left;">directly across from the Theater at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; text-align: left;">71-800 CA-111 in </span>Rancho Mirage, CA 92270. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a really nice time of year to visit the desert. The gallery hours are Friday and Saturday 1;00 pm until 8:00 pm and Sundays from 11;00am until 6:00 pm. Private viewings are available by appointment. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There will be a closing reception on Saturday, November 12 from 5;00 pm until 8:00 pm. It would be lovely to see you there.</span></span></div>
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<br />Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-70453025732927204802016-06-20T07:53:00.000-07:002016-06-20T07:53:00.139-07:00Sketch Work from Dreams and Surreal Experiences<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Night Swimming</i> <br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "source sans pro" , "georgia"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.3px;">©2016 </span> Katherine Kean<br />graphite 10 x 8 inches</span></td></tr>
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I never forgot having an encounter with an owl while swimming at night. My guess at the time, as it swooped very low just over my head, is that with just my head above water I must have appeared to be prey. I'm thankful the owl had second thoughts. I've heard of other <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/26/us/owl-attacks-officer/" target="_blank">owl situations that didn't end as well.</a><br />
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I've been finalizing drawings and preparing linen for painting. I've been gradually changing from stretched supports to linens glued down to panels. It requires a longer preparation time, but less, make that no, sagging, buckling, re-stretching, tightening, denting headaches down the road.<br />
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I've been using Lineco glue for the archival and reversible qualities, but find it a pain on larger sizes. It sets so fast that the glue on one end of the panel is dry before I can finish applying it to the rest. I'm going to try BEVA film next time. It is heat activated, so I may be able to simply iron it down. Either way, I'm finding it handy to have many large format art books handy. They do make incredible weights.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chair Books Fire Water Dream wip<br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.3px;">©2016 </span>Katherine Kean<br />oil on linen on panel</span></td></tr>
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The same art books appear in this dream based painting shown in the initial blocking in stage. Some of <a href="http://katherinekean.blogspot.com/2015/01/dream-sketch-books-chair-fire-water.html" target="_blank">the drawings made to develop this image</a> can be found here: <a href="http://katherinekean.blogspot.com/2015/01/dream-sketch-books-chair-fire-water.html" target="_blank">Dream Sketch :Books, Chair, Fire, Water.</a>Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-44707984046771559662016-05-02T08:22:00.000-07:002016-06-14T17:04:38.328-07:00Planning, Intuition, Imagination <div class="MsoNormal">
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of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must
vigorously act. There is no other route to success."</i> - Picasso</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Do your paintings talk back to you as you paint them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">During <a href="http://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_1109.html" target="_blank">Anselm Kiefer’s talk at the Getty</a> last week, he
mentioned that he starts a piece with an idea in mind, but during the process the
artwork will often transform into something else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Usually I begin a painting with what I think is a clear
intention of what the painting is about; the content, the subject, the mood and
also the scale, the palette, and to what extent it will be painterly and
textured. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Cloudburst Over Marsh</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> sketch </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px; text-align: start;">©2016 </span>Katherine Kean</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I almost always go to Nature as the source of inspiration. I
also make use of the many intellectual rules of composition. You know them: the <a href="http://www.goldennumber.net/art-composition-design/" target="_blank">Golden Ratio</a>, the <a href="http://www.markmitchellpaintings.com/blog/the-fibonacci-sequence-in-artistic-composition/" target="_blank">Fibonacci Spiral</a>, the <a href="http://emptyeasel.com/2009/02/03/the-rule-of-thirds-why-it-works-and-how-to-use-it-in-your-art/" target="_blank">Rule of Thirds</a>, etc. With these ideas in
the back of my mind I rearrange the elements of the landscape to align to the
framework of the canvas. Clouds up and to the left, tree down and to the right,
the curve of a road from here to there, and so on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Most of the time everything proceeds as imagined, and I’ll
think I know when and how the painting will arrive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px; text-align: start;">©2016 </span>Katherine Kean</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you
elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> - Picasso</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Cloudburst Over Marsh</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> work in progress </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px; text-align: start;">©2016 </span>Katherine Kean</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lately I find that as I approach this anticipated completion,
I’ll begin to see something else and if I slow down and let it happen the
painting seems to suggest a direction it would like to go – which may or may
not be what I’d originally intended. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Cloudburst Over Marsh</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> detail </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px; text-align: start;">©2016 </span>Katherine Kean</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Often the shift is subtle, a part I wasn’t
too concerned about starts to become more of a focus point. A section of sky
asks to be darkened, a carefully painted cloud all but disappears. A faintly
suggested tree demands attention and detail. Other times it might as well be a
completely different painting. If I take the hint and follow up, the results often
make sense and I wonder why it wasn’t part of my “original plan” – or was it?
It’s hard for me to tell where imagination ends and intuition begins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And yet, I’m starting to like this way of working.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>“Picasso was writing about this subject when he said: “I
consider a work of art as the product of calculations, but calculations which
are frequently unknown to the author himself. It is exactly like the carrier
pigeon calculating his return to the loft. But the calculation that turns out
to be correct is unknown to him; it is a calculation that precedes
intelligence.”</i> - Keeper of the Flame, An essay on Max Shertz and his Art of the
Unconscious. By Daniel Kaufman, Artist and Writer</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-23483785735676830872016-03-21T07:56:00.000-07:002016-06-14T17:05:09.579-07:00Liquid Sun Splash<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;">If you don't like the weather</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;"> in New England now, just </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;">wait</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;"> a few </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;">minutes</span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 9.1px;"><i>.”</i> - Mark Twain</span><br />
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The weather in Hawaii provides a similar effect, or rather than waiting as it changes, a person can experience radiant sunshine and pouring rain simultaneously.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Liquid Sun Splash</i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> wip Katherine Kean</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">This provides a new challenge for me when it comes to windshield weather paintings. Instead of a soft, misty background as a backdrop for well defined rain drops, the background is bright in places, and parts of the road are sharp along with some of the water edges. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Connect the Drops</i> Katherine Kean<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Between the Drops</i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Katherine Kean</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">oil on linen 12 x 16 inches</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Counting Raindrops</i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Katherine Kean</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">oil on linen 12 x 16 inches</span></td></tr>
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It's less about a foreground veil for gazing out from a separate interior world and more about the sudden encounter and the dynamic patterns made.<br />
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I've let the brushstrokes remain painterly, brushy, a little bit textured and slightly raised, particularly for the drops. It's almost there, I think, just a few more touches.Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-46634620954325407812016-03-08T08:39:00.000-08:002016-03-08T08:39:04.340-08:00Did you hear that?It’s not very loud. Just a faint scratch on paper, or a soft blerp or splat or splosh or slosh of paint, and perhaps an occasional sigh. The sounds of the art studio and work being made with pencil and paint.*<br />
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First the thumbnail sketches...</div>
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Then the studies.<br />
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Eventually underpainting begins.<br />
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And at last the first color layer.<br />
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That's not the end of it. There is more to come, so stay tuned.<br />
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<i>"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks".</i> Plutarch
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*onomatopeia<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 7px;"> - </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing.</span></span></div>
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Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-54389402665992193082016-01-26T09:18:00.000-08:002016-06-14T17:07:20.030-07:00Three to Get Ready<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Deukmajian Wilderness Trail </i>Sketch </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.3px; text-align: start;">©2016 </span>Katherine Kean</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">graphite on paper 8 x 10 inches</span></td></tr>
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I read somewhere that just thinking about the future—not
even the rewards, per se—can strengthen willpower.<br />
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During the last few days of 2015 an artist friend had a
great idea to sit down on an evening with calendars ready and pencils in hand
and create a plan for the coming year. We mapped out how many paintings we
would paint, what sizes they will be. We decided which new skills and levels of
accomplishment we will reach and what kind of study, classes, or workshops
might be required to reach these improvements. We also counted in time for
travel, family, friends, and fun, time to experiment and time to take risks. When
we were finished we marveled and laughed at our ambitions and wondered if the
year would be big enough to hold all that we planned to put into it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>“Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a
horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not
possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.” – </i>Kafka<br />
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I’ve always been curious about how other artists structure
their days. I know what works for me, the hours that are the most productive, how
to get started, and how to avoid distractions - that is, as long as I'm choosing to be productive. Mason Currey has put together a
book that gives a glimpse into the routines and work habits of well known artists,
composers, and writers in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307273601/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0307273601&linkCode=as2&tag=katherikeanfi-20&linkId=63IHQ37KGD7TD4ND" rel="nofollow">Daily Rituals: How Artists Work</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=katherikeanfi-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307273601" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />.<br />
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<i>“I calculate that I must have spent nearly 20,000 hours in
writing Ulysses.”</i> – James Joyce<br />
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<i>“Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike.
They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.”</i> – V.S.
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So, with calendar, list of goals, and a calculator I added
up my plan of paintings and divided by available studio hours to see if there is
a possibility to make these studio dreams come true. Mathmatically at least, yes,
seems that there is. Let's see how it goes...<o:p></o:p></div>
Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-65178309439866385432016-01-18T09:20:00.000-08:002016-06-14T17:08:10.525-07:00Winter Wet Paint<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The winter months, such as they are in Southern California, should be a perfect time for accomplishing some studio painting. Once the holidays are over, there are fewer distractions and the garden is less demanding. The number of daylight hours is growing again, but it's still cool enough to work through the day. The catch is this - drying time slows down - a lot. A small study or painted edge that might dry overnight at other times of year might take a week - or more. I've taken to placing smaller work in front of the fireplace to try to speed the drying up.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px; text-align: start;">©2016 </span>Katherine Kean<br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">When I can, I paint working wet into wet. I find it more challenging than working in layers, allowing each to dry completely. Yet, working directly has certain advantages. The rules of fat over lean are less consequential in direct painting. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Except for the underpainting layer, the painting above has been proceeding entirely with wet into wet technique, although I haven't decided yet whether to paint the tree into the wet paint, or allow it to dry first.</span><br />
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In the meantime I've been keeping a drop of clove oil on the palette to keep the paint fresh overnight. The cool weather and the clove oil fumes are all it takes to keep the paint from drying, and it makes the studio smell amazing.</div>
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<br />Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-32189633694974832942015-12-28T07:06:00.000-08:002016-06-14T17:09:15.051-07:00A busy year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Volcano Night</i> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px; text-align: start;">©2016 </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Katherine Kean</span></div>
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Some years seem to go by with nary a milestone. That doesn't mean that nothing is happening, just that much of it might be confined to the studio, or even residing quietly in the imagination waiting to be born. For me, 2015 was not one of those years. How or why, I can't say. It has been a year of exhibitions and journeys.</div>
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<a href="http://katherinekean.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-piece-of-trac-2015.html" target="_blank">TRAC 2015</a> (Thank you, Shanna)</div>
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A visit to <a href="http://katherinekean.blogspot.com/2015/08/romantic-and-sublime-critique-of-reason.html" target="_blank">Cape Cod - </a><a href="http://katherinekean.blogspot.com/2015/08/romantic-and-sublime-critique-of-reason.html" target="_blank">and a quick trip to the Yale Gallery of Art</a></div>
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Hawaii - <a href="http://katherinekean.blogspot.com/2015/03/magic-island.html" target="_blank">Magic Island</a> </div>
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Here's to 2015 and looking forward to a wonderful 2016. Wishing you all the best. </div>
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Happy New Year!<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">All images <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Georgia; line-height: 20.3px; text-align: start;">©2015 Katherine Kean</span></span><br />
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Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-45491536926184231472015-12-23T09:15:00.000-08:002016-06-14T17:09:33.513-07:00Happy Holidays and a Cumulus Christmas<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Billowing</i> Katherine Kean <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px; text-align: start;">©</span>2015<br />
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Warm wishes to all for a beautiful holiday season!</div>
Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-67104758653938572502015-12-07T08:08:00.000-08:002016-06-14T17:10:13.440-07:00A Collection of Clouds for Holiday Cards and Gifts<br />
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I've added <i>Billowing Clouds</i> to a <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/kkean/products?dp=0&sr=250970354162062270&cg=196640047408129440" target="_blank">Zazzle line of Holiday Greeting Cards.</a> The inside message is "Happy Holidays". This card is fully customizable, allowing you to make the message your own and comes in three sizes, including a jumbo size. This link will take you straight to the card: <i><a href="http://www.zazzle.com/billowing_clouds_go_by_and_by_greeting_card-137368680574083439" target="_blank">Billowing Clouds Go By and By Greeting Card.</a></i></div>
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<i>Cloud Chasing</i> is now available from <a href="http://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/723048" target="_blank">Saatchi Art</a> as a 12 x 16 inch gallery wrapped reproduction, printed on a UV protected, museum grade, poly/cotton blend. You can choose either black or white for the 1 1/4 inch gallery wrapped sides. Here is the link to take you there: <i><a href="http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Cloud-Chasing/723048/2499841/view" target="_blank">Cloud Chasing reproduction.</a></i><br />
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<i>Gathering Point</i> is available in an 8 x 10 or 11 x 14 inch reproduction on fine art paper. Framing is also available in either black or white. Here's the link: <i><a href="http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Gathering-Point/723048/2486936/view" target="_blank">Gathering Point reproduction.</a></i><br />
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<i>Billowing Clouds Go By and By</i> as also now available as an 8 x 10 or 11 x 14 inch reproduction on fine art paper. Available at Saatchi Art: <i><a href="http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Billowing-Clouds-Go-By-and-By/723048/2733779/view" target="_blank">Billowing Clouds Go By and By reproduction</a></i>.</div>
Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-46257828259656246802015-11-30T08:06:00.000-08:002016-06-14T17:11:01.661-07:00PSA 90th Annual at Whites Gallery<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I am honored and pleased to have two paintings accepted into Pasadena Society of Artists' 90th Annual Exhibition, juried by Scott Ward, Executive Director of the Armory Center for the Arts. The exhibition opens to the public this weekend at Whites Gallery in Montrose.<br />
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Whites Art, Framing & Restoration </div>
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<b>Juror: Scott Ward, Executive Director
Armory Center for the Arts </b><br />
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Scott Ward has been the executive director of the Armory Center for the Arts since 2001. Prior to coming to the Armory, he was the executive director of the Palos Verdes Art Center from 1997 to 2001, and executive director of the Downey Museum of Art from 1987-1996. He has spearheaded a dramatic expansion of the Armory’s exhibition and education programs in the underserved neighborhoods of Northwest Pasadena. Ward also has extensive experience as an administrator, educator, curator, lecturer, panelist, executive coach, and artist. He has served as a speaker and panelist for National Guild of Community Schools of Art, The Wallace Foundation, and the City of Denver. As a grants panelist, he has served multiple times for the National Endowment for the Arts, The California Arts Council, and Los Angeles Metro. He taught Fine Art Photography at Loyola Marymount and was the University Art Gallery Director at CSUSB. He received his B.A. from the University of California in aesthetic studies, and earned his M.F.A. in photography from California Institute of the Arts.<br />
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<a href="http://www.whitesfineart.com/" target="_blank">www.whitesfineart.com</a>Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-86259077367214294652015-11-23T08:20:00.000-08:002015-12-28T16:39:08.899-08:00Training and Use of Visual Memory, Deborah Paris TRAC 2015<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<a href="http://katherinekean.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-piece-of-trac-2015.html" target="_blank">As mentioned</a>, I learned much from <a href="http://www.deborahparis.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=34644&Akey=LCEK6WCL">Deborah Paris</a>'s presentation at TRAC earlier this month:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://trac2015.org/deborah-paris/"><i>The Training and Use of Visual Memory for Representational Landscape Painters</i></a></span></div>
In her presentation, Paris reminded us of how memory works and how memory training was once considered a significant part of training for artists. Her presentation reinforced the importance of memory in loosening the contemporary reliance on photography as a reference tool and showed how memory provides a bridge to working from imagination.<br />
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The memory training method described by Paris is a logical extension of training made known by Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran along<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;">with new, contemporary techniques developed by Paris</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In a nutshell (and as I remember it), the basic steps in this training, when working from a master drawing for example, are as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> The big stare - at least 10 minutes of focused observation</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Describe what is observed to another person (or yourself) and/or write about the observation</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Make an air drawing - trace the contours of the subject in the air with your pencil, brush, or finger. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Make a drawing based on the memory and compare it to the original. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Repeat the process to strengthen and develop observation and memory skills.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It may seem odd that writing about an observation or verbally describing it to someone would help, until you remember that memory works by association. The stronger the associations the more quickly and fully a memory can be retrieved. Associations can be formed from a variety of sensory and cerebral input. In training for a massage therapy license, a group of us had heard that scent aids recall. We agreed together to use peppermint, and so studied and memorized with peppermint oil and we all wore peppermint oil to our final exam.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Other training methods include removing oneself further and further from the subject, in both time and space. </span></span>A friend who long ago attended the School of Visual Arts recalls drawing classes where the model would be on one floor and the easels on another. One either sharpened memory skills or got more of a workout than bargained for.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can see how useful this training can be when you want to work from imagination, or consider the many subjects that do not easily lend themselves to a photographic reference, such as the magical hours of dawn and dusk or the constantly changing clouds and ocean, or the night sky, or stars, comets, lightning, and volcanoes.</span><br />
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I've just touched the surface of Deborah Paris's presentation, and the subject of memory training in general. Fortunately, I understand that her paper will be published at some point.<br />
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UPDATE: Deborah Paris's paper is now online. Here's the link: <a href="http://www.deborahparis.com/Asset.asp?AssetID=42291&AKey=LCEK6WCL">http://www.deborahparis.com/Asset.asp?AssetID=42291&AKey=LCEK6WCL</a><br />
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Keep your eye on <a href="http://thelandscapeatelier.com/field-notes/" target="_blank">Field Notes</a> - Paris's teaching blog.<br />
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A few more resources:<br />
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Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran's book is available online here:<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/stream/TheTrainingOfTheMemoryInArtAndTheEducationOfTheArtist/TheTrainingOfTheMemoryInArt#page/n3/mode/2up">The Training of the Memory in Art and the Education of the Artist</a><br />
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<a href="http://stapletonkearns.blogspot.com/2009/10/memory-drawing-2.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Memory Drawing 2</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Stapleton Kearns</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.malcolmarmstrong.com/content/wp-content/gallery/2009/05/the-tradition-of-drawing-from-memory-_-education-_-training-_2.pdf" style="font-family: inherit;">The Tradition of Drawing From Memory</a><span style="color: #3f4950; font-family: inherit;"> Malcolm Armstrong</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.malcolmarmstrong.com/content/wp-content/gallery/2009/05/memorydrawingonlineartist.pdf">Memory Drawing Techniques</a> Carol Allison<br />
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Deborah Paris's offering of online classes and field and studio workshops can be found here:<br />
<a href="http://deborahparisonlineclasses.blogspot.com/">Deborah Paris, The Landscape Atelier classes and workshops</a>.<br />
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Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-38326848766322972772015-11-16T08:46:00.000-08:002015-11-16T08:46:00.107-08:00Implied Narrative, Joshua Risner From TRAC 2015<a href="http://katherinekean.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-piece-of-trac-2015.html">As I mentioned earlier</a> I got much from <a href="http://www.joshuaadamart.com/">Joshua Risner's</a> presentation, <i>Understanding Representational Narrative Painting as Implied Narrative.</i> He succinctly laid out historical definitions of what narrative is and why it is important, how ideas have shifted, and then explained how much painting is not narrative, but is actually implied narrative.<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tEfSskLHz0w/VkDmWUlW8dI/AAAAAAAAEBs/M-wMpB9vbqQ/s1600/conan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tEfSskLHz0w/VkDmWUlW8dI/AAAAAAAAEBs/M-wMpB9vbqQ/s200/conan.jpg" width="171" /></a>I've an interest in story telling strengthened by years of working in the visual effects for film business. One of the challenges of visual effects design and animation comes when handed a concept painting often depicting a culminating moment of a story, while asked to figure out/choreograph how the visual effects would support or move through a scene. This adds quite a new dimension to a highly technical job. A specific example that comes to mind is John Milius asking for animation around Conan in a rather long scene: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-umABjuNHo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-umABjuNHo</a> . His visual reference was Frank Frazetta.<br />
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In live action this is the domain of a team of actors, extras, directors, and choreographers. Storyboards help film makers pre-visualize their narrative. Storyboards, comic books, graphic novels and movies are usually narratives. On how this differs from an implied narrative, read on.<br />
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Some key points on what makes a narrative:<br />
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A narrative demonstrates cause and effect<br />
A narrative shows how cause and effect are connected<br />
A narrative moves through time<br />
A narrative has a definite conclusion<br />
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Difference between implied narrative and narrative:<br />
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Implied narrative does not suggest a conclusion<br />
Implied narrative allows viewers a more open ended perception<br />
Implied narrative reinforces paintings inability to depict more than a single moment, instead lies somewhere between the spark and the outcome<br />
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"Unlike a book or a movie, a painting can only represent a static moment because it does not unfold over time."<br />
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Paul Barolsky makes case in his article that <a href="http://www.bu.edu/arion/volume-18-barolsky-narrative-art/">There is No Such thing as Narrative Art</a>.<br />
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This difference is actually a strength in painting, not a weakness,<br />
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emphasize potentiality which promotes free thinking, imagination and creativity."<br />
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So, if anyone is keeping score, it seems a picture is still worth a thousand words. Perhaps many more.*<br />
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To learn more about Joshua Risner and his painting visit his website:<br />
<a href="http://www.joshuaadamart.com/">http://www.joshuaadamart.com/</a><br />
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Joshua Risner's paper <a href="http://fir.ferris.edu:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2323/4721/Joshua_Risner_Ethics_Sp2014.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y">Ethics of Implies Narrative Art </a> can be found on his page and covers the subject in much greater depth.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">*To the writers whose evocative words conjure incredible visions and feelings - you know I don't mean you.</span></i><br />
<br />Katherine Keanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466330357052340620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11297940.post-71598731521653642562015-11-09T08:29:00.000-08:002015-11-10T07:11:04.428-08:0015 of the Best Quotes About Art<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 9.1px;">"I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it." Vincent van Gogh, to Anthon Rappard, August 1885</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d1d19; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The things that go into making a painting—the scale of the canvas, the shape of the rectangle, the texture of the surface, the length and force of the brushstroke, the selection of colors—all those things are connected to the painter at the deepest level, the way he or she orders the world. " - Eric Fischl and Michael Stone, Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;">Some painters transform</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;"> the </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;">sun into a yellow spot</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;">, others </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;">transform</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;"> a </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;">yellow spot into</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;"> the </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;">sun</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 9.1px;">." - </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 9.1px;">Pablo Picasso</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">"Light is good for the body, darkness is good for thought. Dusk is where they meet." - Odd Nerdrum</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">“Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.” -</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.88px;"> Robert Henri</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.88px;">"What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind." - Carl Jung</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">"The artist's feeling is his law" - Caspar David Friedrich</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1d1d19; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="text-align: start;">"The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they are real and true they come to the painting with everything they know and feel and love, and all the things they don’t know, and some of the things they hope, and they are honest about them all and put them on the canvas. What can be more serious? What more really can be at stake except life itself, which is why maybe artists are always equating the two and driving everybody crazy by insisting that art is life. Well. Cut us some slack. It’s harder work than one might imagine, and riskier, and takes a very special and dear kind of mad person. " - Peter Heller, The Painter: A novel</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1d1d19; text-align: -webkit-center;">"Making your unknowns know is the important thing." - Georgia O'Keeffe</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1d1d19; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="line-height: 9.1px; text-align: start;">"</span><span style="line-height: 9.1px; text-align: start;">I dream a lot. I do more painting</span><span style="line-height: 9.1px; text-align: start;"> when I'm </span><span style="line-height: 9.1px; text-align: start;">not painting</span><span style="line-height: 9.1px; text-align: start;">. It's in the subconscious." - Andrew Wyeth</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Goldfinch</i> Carel Fabritius</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">“An individual heart-shock. Your dream, Welty’s dream, Vermeer’s dream. You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card at the museum gift shop sees something else entire, and that’s not even to mention the people separated from us by time—four hundred years before us, four hundred years after we’re gone—it’ll never strike anybody the same way and the great majority of people it’ll never strike in any deep way at all but—a really great painting is fluid enough to work its way into the mind and heart through all kinds of different angles, in ways that are unique and very particular. Yours, yours. I was painted for you." - Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">"Any great work of art revives and re-adapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world." - Leonard Bernstein </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Self Portrait as a Young Man</i> Rembrandt</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1d1d19; text-align: -webkit-center;">"Without atmosphere a painting is nothing." - </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 9.1px;">Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 12.88px;">"That is what perfect painting is: neither entirely dull water and stone, nor weightless representation. Not merely a wooden panel coated with cracked and abraded paint, nor entirely a madonna and child. Or as in Rembrandt, not just a slather of oil, nor simply a face. Perfect painting is imperfectly transcendent. Less interesting painters do not know what to do with the choice between substance and illusion. Poor painting does not push the equivocation as far as it can go, u</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 12.88px;">ntil the paint teeters on the edge of transcendence. An unsuccessful picture might have a passage where the paint doesn't matter at all, and the forms might just as well have been photographed instead of rendered in oil. Then in another place the paint might suddenly become obtrusive, and distract the viewer from the contemplation of some distant landscape, bringing the eye sharply back to the surface of the canvas. It may be that the human mind can only think of one aspect at a time: either a painting is what it represents, or it is a fabrication done on a flat surface. Or perhaps it is possible to think of both the surface and what seems to be behind it at once, in a "twofoldness" of attention that takes in both equally." - James Elkins, What Painting Is</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">"Art is a lie that tells the truth." - Pablo Picasso</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">These are some of my current favorites, the ones that are motivating, making me think, and look. A few of these quotes come from novels; fiction about art or that includes an art theme in the storyline. I think novels, like painting, can be "a lie that tells the truth". What would you add to this list?</span><br />
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