An Art Recipe By Finnabair I’m a woman of many interests: a mixed media artist, scrapbooker and art journaler who loves new challenges, experiments and developing new techniques and skills. My projects are mostly media-based: I make paper and canvas layouts, collages and altered art, tags, journal pages. I started scrapbooking, and today I’ve got a scrapbook page named…
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Donald Martiny
One World Trade Center Installation See more of Martiny’s work in The Woven Tale Press Vol. IV #6 In 2015 Martiny was commissioned for installation works at One World Trade Center. As the works were to be too large to fit through the doors, he actually painted them on site, moving his “studio” for two months into the lobby…
Art Spotlight: Cybèle Young
Cybèle Young Creates Unique Sculptural Art Works See more of her works in WTP Vol. IV #5 Young’s works are inspired by the fleeting day-to-day minutiae that comprise everyday life. Young’s miniature worlds are created by intricate handling of Japanese paper and the artist’s copperplate etchings. In the application of her subconscious to mundane and often overlooked…
The Art of Layering
Releasing Layers of Ink by Martin Eugen Raabenstein See his work in The Woven Tale Press Vol. IV #6 martin eugen raabenstein. painter from me raabenstein on Vimeo. “The layers in my work have become more multifaceted over the years. I no longer have as much respect for that which already exists on the…
Art Spotlight: Josie Bell
Connections with the Earth See her work in The Woven Tale Press Vol. IV #5 Rooted in my early childhood in Brazil is a deep and intimate connection with the earth. I didn’t know these imprints would reawaken someday and bring me to subjects that relate to the exquisite life force of nature,…
WTP Artist: Marketa Sivek
Painting: Houses and the Abstract Interview with Marketa Sivek by Linda Wilson See more of Sivek’s work in The Woven Tale Press Vol. IV #5 Your series of house paintings produces powerful emotions in the viewer. I experienced strong feelings of danger and isolation, a sense of imminent catastrophe. Peaceful houses rest on foundations which could collapse at any…
Art Work in Progress at One World Trade Center
Two Monumental Works Donald Martiny: Artwork in Progress for the One World Trade Center from Maxamillian Studio on Vimeo. An intimate look at Donald Martiny’s creation of two monumental works which are permanently installed in the Lobby of One World Trade Center. See Martiny’s paintings in The Woven Tale Press Vol. IV #6 Video…
Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs
Doodlers Anonymous So here we are at the end of the month and coincidentally the end of my 4-word title. Nice how that worked out. But lets move on to Blogs. A general topic that I will use to introduce a few quirky sites that I believe you will enjoy. And by the by, that’s…
David Morrison: Colored Pencils and the Hyper Realistic
Colored-Pencil Art: “I want to record this moment of existence.” Press Interview with David Morrison See his colored pencils drawings in The Woven Tale Press Vol. IV #3 You describe your drawings as “hyper realistic.” Is this attention to detail informed by your experience as a printmaker? If so, how exactly? Paying close attention to detail…
What is Encaustic Monotype?
Encaustic Method and the Art of Painterly Prints By Pamela Caughey See her work in WTP Vol. IV #5 and WTP Vol. VI #3 Not too long ago, while pondering what to do with all the excess encaustic wax that was scraped away from my paintings on panel, I came across a wonderful DVD by Paula…
PaletteArt™ | Lisa J Levasseur
Wheels of Change Recycled Acrylic I created PaletteArt™ because I couldn’t bear to throw away dried up old paint. It then became more of a scientific project. Basically I had to figure out how to get paint to do everything it isn’t designed to do. I can use any form of wasted paint, but it…
Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs
By Donald Kolberg This month I thought I would use the title of my blog as an index for some very interesting sites. First off there’s Art so let’s take a look at some Stolen Bacons Spanish police have made seven arrests in relation to the theft of five Francis Bacon paintings from a private home…