Composition Ideas to Make Your Art Stronger By Melinda Tidwell See her work in Vol. IV #2 Part 2 of 2 on Collage and Visual Weight In the last post [part 1] I mentioned that when we explore unity vs. variety, it kind of leads us to looking at something called visual hierarchy. As I…
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Composition: Unity vs. Variety
Composition Ideas To Make Your Art Stronger By Melinda Tidwell See her work in Vol. IV #2 Part 1 of 2 on Collage and Composition. Collage is a great medium for artists who want to explore the wonderful world of abstract composition. Since you can try a lot of visual ideas without committing, it can really…
WTP Artist: Susan Malmstrom
The Deserted Toy Shop Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Susan Malmstrom attended California State University, Long Beach, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a specialization in Printmaking. She was awarded a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of California at Irvine. Since 2011, she has been installing…
PaletteArt
From Accident to Environmental Art Movement by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor According to Lisa Levasseur, the founder of PaletteArt, the movement began as a fruitful accident: “When I painted my first acrylic painting, I was mixing too much paint and it would dry before I could use it all. So, I chipped it off my…
Art Spotlight: Alice Harrison
Les Aimants 3 by Alice Harrison, see her work in Vol. IV #8 Oil/mixed media collage on paper mounted on board 44” x 31” The creative process for me is intuitive – starting with materials and/or marks that I make. I like putting things together – sometimes pieces that seem not to go together. Combining…
WTP Artist: Theresa Knopf
“I Gave Myself the Challenge of Painting Without Paint.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Theresa Knopf is a recent graduate of the California State University at Northridge where she studied painting. Using a mixed medium including paint, textiles, thread, and cyanotype prints, Knopf creates pieces which reflect on women’s histories through restraint, concealing, and revealing. Jaeger:…
WTP Artist: Stina Persson
“Always striving for beauty but letting the process, and struggles, show.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Stina Persson studied fine art in Perugia and fashion drawing in Florence, and also has a degree in illustration from Pratt Institute in New York. Using ink, watercolor or collages with ceremonial Mexican cut papers, she creates a style…
WTP Vol. IV #5
click on cover to go to issue “The Woven Tale Press is arguably the finest literary and art magazine to have come on the scene in several decades.” –Elisabeth Shackelford, author of Don’t Sit Here
Printing on Feathers
Always seagulls calling overhead By Rebecca Jewell See her work in WTP Vol. IV #3 [dropcap]I[/dropcap] work almost every day, printing in my studio at the Chocolate Factory in London. Although it is in the heart of Wood Green, there are always seagulls calling overhead. Dipping and diving, they remind me of Cornwall where I…
WTP Artist: Melinda Tidwell
Never a lack of the experimental Melinda Tidwell was born in a small town in the Rocky Mountains of northern Utah. She attended university in Salt Lake City and graduated with honors in Mathematics. Her lifelong interest in abstraction, books, and vintage materials now finds expression in her work as a fine artist. She lives…
7/5/15
By Seth Apter, Press Arts Editor Join me every Sunday when I share some of my favorite links I discovered in the previous week. Objects from nature intensely crocheted by Susanna Bauer to create fragile, stunning artworks. Money is the medium in the cut collage works from Mark Wagner. Love this gorgeous scrapbook page from Beck Beattie. Collagraph rocks from London-based printmaker Tessa Horrocks. Snapshots of…
6/14/15
By Seth Apter, Press Arts Editor Join me every Sunday when I share some of my favorite art links I discovered in the previous week. Berndnaut Smilde photographs rainclouds. Indoors… Kelly Kilmer shares tips on collage. Dina Wakley shares tips on loosening up when painting. Finding your purpose from Danny Gregory. Digging the look of these 2 mixed media cards (and video) from…