Joseph’s early education was very versatile and included both the performing and visual arts. Despite his obvious talent, his parents decided that there was no future in painting as a profession, and in 1967 enrolled him into a university to study languages and literature in order to pursue a teaching career.
This was interrupted in 1970, when, due to political unrest, they decided to immigrate from Yugoslavia to Australia. There he continued his formal education at Deakin University in Melbourne. He graduated in 1974, gaining a Diploma of Art in Industrial Design. During this course he discovered watercolor as a medium and began to paint again, achieving instant success at art competitions, winning his first major art award in 1975.
He had his first solo exhibition in 1977 at Eastgate Gallery, Brighton, Melbourne.
In 1978 he began painting full time and quickly established himself as a leading watercolorist. He has achieved enormous success with his sensitively rendered watercolors covering an incredible variety of subjects.
After a 20-year absence, he visited Zagreb in 1990. He received a warm welcome and was made artist in residence at the Mimara Museum of Fine Art.
Joseph has continued to explore new subjects and fresh ways to express his vision by frequent overseas travel. He has reached a new level of technical ability, maturity and strength as he enters the fourth decade of his career.
To see more, please visit: http://jzbukvic.com/
Artist: Pete Gaston
Class: Tuesday AM Creative Landscape
To be successful you need the illusion of depth:
DENSITY- concentration of materials (mediums, paint, wax, etc)
&
BALANCE- concentration of space (distance)
There are 3 types of Landscapes…
-Portrait- Try using a BLOB with this technique. Choose a close-up view with the subject in the foreground
-TableTop- Linear composition with a solid background (the further from the wall the subject is, the more difficult the piece)
-Vista- Neverending view into the distance (For example, looking from a mountain top)
Larissa Strunova-Lübke aligns her work with the thinking of Aristotle’s philosophy. Without taboos and prejudice she delves into the secrect of mankind, of body and soul, of Eros and Nous. She makes her very paintings into a secret, withholding herself from the violent regard of a consumer or a voyeur, who thinks everything can be taken in at one glance. Contemplation is present before, during and after each act of love. Man needs time to become Man, freedom to express his passions, a conscience for his own secrets and those of his partner, and the ability to reflect on the universe of his feeling and thinking – and artists like Larissa Strunova-Lübke, who have the gift to find an expression for all this, which itself becomes an act of love.
To see more, please visit http://www.larissa-sl.org/englisch/oel1.html
Try any of these brushstrokes on your paintings:
Dry Brush-
Be conscious of your paint application-
Hide the process-
Have an intent-
-SCRUB
-RANDOM
-PUSH
-PULL
-BLENDING
-SWEEP
-DRAG
-COVER
-PUSH-PULL
-FLIP FLOP
-TOUCH
-DEVELOP YOUR OWN!
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.
His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.
Known for his contempt for the government in labeling graffiti as vandalism, Banksy displays his art on public surfaces such as walls and even going as far as to build physical prop pieces. Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti directly himself; however, art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder. Banksy’s first film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, billed as “the world’s first street art disaster movie,” made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The film was released in the UK on 5 March 2010. In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary for the film.
“It’s the inital excitement between two people that sets the tone for the entire relationship.”
BEGIN A PIECE WITH AN ABSTRACT UNDERPAINTING:
-LINE: Include a variety of lines
-FORM: Consider the paintings structure, composition, shapes, etc.
-COLOR: Begin your abstract with a colorful under painting
-VALUE: Contrasting darks and lights make your painting more successful. Begin work with a midtone then push your darks and lights.
Happy Painting, Yall!
The first day of February means that your New Year’s resolution worked or it didn’t…
Either way, here’s a goal that won’t hurt you, make you hungry, or put a strain on your body the next day:
DEVELOP YOUR OWN STYLE!
FIND A CONSISTENT WAY TO HIGHLIGHT YOUR SUBJECT MATTER!
BE CONFIDENT IN YOUR MARK-MAKING!
AVOID COPYING, TRY TO BE INFLUENCED WITHOUT BECOMING WHAT YOU ADMIRE!
Nigerian-born painter, Ibe (pronounced ebay) has achieved international recognition for his dramatic approach to painting. Described as the most exciting young painter to emerge from Sub-Saharan Africa since the 1990s, he was awarded “The Best SOLO Artist of the Year 2006” at Artexpo New York. Ibe looks for inspiration in “natural and humanistic traditions of contemporary realism and abstraction.” His paintings convey a spectrum of human emotions. Ibe has traveled extensively through the United States, Mexico, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. His work has been featured in art publications as well as major museums, private collections, and galleries around the world.
