Art

Studio 365: Day 261

Day 261 ii     Day 261 iii
 
Day 261 iv     Day 261 v

For today’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Grid, Michelle asks us to “…take the humble grid out of the shadows, and make it the star.” After seeing Leanne Cole’s wonderful photo homage to New York yesterday and Vladimir Brezina’s photos of New York today, it was out to the studio and the creation of an imagined grid of the wonder that is New York. As you can see it is very much a work in progress but good things may come of it I think.

Day 261 i

City of the Imagination I 18.9.15

Studio 365: Day 258

Day 258 iv

Monoprint I 15.9.15

Day 258 ii

Monoprint II 15.9.15

Day 258 vi

Today’s acrylic palette: Yellow Ochre, Naples Yellow, Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber, Hooker’s Green, Phthalo Blue, Payne’s Grey. Today’s paper: YUPO – a new paper which I have been experimenting with, as you may have noticed.  I like it a lot.

Studio 365: Day 254

Day 254 ii

Freedom Tower IV

To commemorate a day that is forever etched into our collective memories, today’s monochromatic Freedom Tower IV follows Versions I, II and III from February of this year after our moving visit to The National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York.

Day 254 iii

The letters for this quote from Virgil in the Memorial Hall of the Museum were forged from remnant World Trade Center steel by blacksmith Tom Joyce. Surrounding the quote is an art installation entitled Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on that September Morning by the artist Spencer Finch who created the work “to pay tribute to the victims and to explore both the personal and the collective nature of memory.”

Studio 365: Day 248

Day 248

On The Vine 5.9.15

Studio 365 is on the road for a few days.  Today we drove to British Columbia’s wine country, and enjoyed a memorable harvest dinner tonight at the superb Blue Mountain Vineyard in Okanagan Falls.  Thanks Christie and all at Blue Mountain for a wonderful evening.

Blue Mountain iii     Blue Mountain ii