Writing Poem 'Fly...' & Drawing 'Night'

 

Drawing ‘Night’, acrylic painting, black ink, I.G.

 

Fly…

 

Fly, Fly, fly

Dear

Night.

When you

Wake up

I will be

Close by.

Your Life.

 

 

2015

My Sketcbook Page 'Painting Satellites'

My sketchbook ‘Painting Satellites’, I.G.

 

‘Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

 

Gordon B. Hinckley

(1910 – 2008)

 

Craft Option. Broach 'At Night' & Francis William Bourdillon

 Broach ‘At night’; Textile techniques, I.G.

  

 ‘The night has a thousand eyes

And the day but one

Yet the light of the bright word dies

With the dying sun.’

 

 

Francis William Bourdillon

(1852 – 1921)

Angel A.R.

 

 

Acrylic Painting ‘Angel’, I.G.

 

Angel A.R.

 

Clouds painted like watercolours

Fluffy, light leading by the wind

Flying birds’ wings enfold

Summer smile lights up.

 

On the edge of the green forest

The beloved waits for you.

Another brother-sadness

Knocked to the heart.

 

Water washes my face:

I cry for you,

Some day I will say ‘Good bay’...

Every drop it is your day.

 

Sleep peacefully, sleep

Gentle dreams secure

Eternity surrounds.

 

You are happy, white,

Dancing in a breeze in the meadow

With the long, yellow braid

You are laughing from the other side.

R.I.P.

 

23.07.2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sketcbook Page & Writing Poem 'Moon'

Sketchbook page with watercolours and ink, I.G.

Moon

 

Thus mercilessly watched,

Thus frightened

Intimidating everyone

For everything...

For what?!

Sadly, I did not think

Why did he shine?

And was sitting mad

On my moon

By whispering

Shimmered stars...

 

 

2015

Necklace 'Stairs' & Elvis Presley

Necklace ‘Stairs’; Swarovski crystals, textile techniques, I.G.

 

‘The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that away.’

Elvis Presley

(1935 – 1977)

Writing Poem 'Time' & Painting 'Metaphysic'

Acrylic, gouache painting ‘Metaphysic’, I.G.

 

 

Time

 

I have looked at the sky:

It was bright blue

With white patches of clouds.

One block of houses

Seaqulls screamed something

Language misunderstood, I did not study notes.

 

Across the street slinks the cat. Black.

As an ordinary night, which outside windows

Counts stars and loses them

That the sky would be clear again tomorrow.

 

I have looked at the face

Of the standing time:

I have not seen neither depth, any feelings.

There was not yesterday, tomorrow, even today

There was nothing to confirm that I still am.

 

Through the window I see seagulls, the black cat

Houses, people, who are not.

A fox patrols in the city streets sometimes

And the lonely, azure sky for everybody.

 

2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Painting 'Rachel's Mummy' & Masaoka Shiki

 

Acrylic painting, black ink ‘Rachel’s mummy’,  I.G.

 

Consider me

As one who loved poetry

And persimmons.

 

Masaoka Shiki

 (1867 - 1902)

Craft Option. Bracelet 'Day. Night' & Kurt Vonnegut

 

Bracelet ‘Day. Night’; Textile medias, beading; I.G.

 ‘The arts are not a way to make a living. They are very human

 way  of making life more bearable. 

Practicing an art, no matter how well or

 badly, is a way to make your soul grow,

for heaven’s sake.’

 

Kurt Vonnegut

(1922 – 2007)

Writing Poem 'Rainbows' & Drawing 'Oh, Dear Me! '

 

 Drawing ‘Oh, dear me!’ monotype, felt pens, acrylic; I.G.

 

Rainbows

 

Moon reads trees’ book.

In summer alleys is dark.

Vivid luminance stars shine.

Today is again very quiet.

 

You go to the garden alone,

See how bents bow lowly,

Through the sky fly days, –

Birds with rainbows’ wings.

 

Any grieve, any dropping tears

Thoughts do not hurt the heart – your energy is gone!

Bit lean, having not courage to ask

 (You might get the answer!)

That not one and not two thieves

have stolen your life…

 

2016

 

 

Analysis. The Artist Faith Ringgold Artworks

        In this analysis, I put forward the claim the artist’s Faith Ringgold ‘motto’: ‘If One Can Anyone  Can, All You Gotta Do Is Try’ that reflects my view of point and an artistic attitude toward my personal development. Employing a human’s energy, efforts, a power of will, hardworking and persistence it is the way to prove our irrelevance trying to make noteworthy art. 

     The artist Faith Ringgold is an African-American origin painter known, whose artworks encompass paintings and sewing patchwork techniques. Being the feminist artist, her career has been focusing not only about radical conflicts, slaves’ stories but also on wild parties that suggest signs of human nature and freedom.

      Unlike other feminist artists, she avoids to exhibit a sexual power, drastic gender equality and highlights the energetic, self-confident, mental and physical strong women trough the stories’ telling and I appreciate it, because an artistic form is harmoniously in line to the content.  

     Judging from the overview of artworks, Ringgold emphasized the importance of a woman who performs family and social roles equally like the manly status does in the contemporary society. Her visual works radiates positivity, feeling of freedom, playfulness and her charm comes from the seeing things through the eyes of a woman who knows her significance.
 

 

‘Hide Little Children’ (1964); oil on canvas 36 x 32’’

 

      For instance, a scene of the artwork ‘Hide Little Children’ (1964) depicts hidden figures in a forest suggesting that the forest indirect represents women, who hides her children.  It would be representing human’s safety that has got roots of the women’s exclusive power to give birth and take care of people.

      Therefore the luminous blue colors arrangement prejudices light, optimistic mood nor visual attributes as dark green, black colors and sharp lines might be opposites. The life is not scary and dangerous under the women-mother wing. Although the artwork is dark, but the viewer is absorbing warm, smile, happy faces of children and it works like focus points formulating the claim that the composition, rounded shapes, strong lines and colors serve a unity and convince the viewer.

‘The Picnic at Giverny’ (1991); acrylic on canvas with pieced fabric border 73.5 x 90.5"        The next one painting, that came in my notice is ‘The Picnic at Giverny, (1991) and it shows a big contrast compering with the mentioned above.  We are looking at the sequence of women spending time in the nature, smiling, chilling and exhibiting a power of unity of social communication, community and femininity. The figural composition is bright, analogues colours indispose amusingly, and bodies’ postures are relaxed and strong joying the freedom. In the foreground, on the left side is depicted a nude figure of a men. All what he wears is a hat. It might be expected the symbol of the loss of the men status and the power. He is alone, nude and… powerless and it makes the artwork bit sad. Whereas women are happy, the sense of feminine strengths set against the significance of the vanishing man in the light of the monumental time of coming centuries. Shine bright green-blue colours, energy of red, warmth of yellow and the black-skinned women convey an idea of racial equality and confirms Ringgold’s civil and political views.

 

‘Listen to the Trees’ (1997); acrylic on canvas; painted and

pieced border 76 x 80’’

        In the following example ‘Listen to the Trees’ (1997)  is made by sake of a radiant, bright green-blue analogous colours pallet interposing flashes of the connector of red (meaning of energy, strength), yellow (happiness, joy, warmth) and white (light, purity) flashes. The woman is looking at the forest under her evaluation without scare. That is to say that her posture is strong, self-confident, she might be aware what she sees and the artwork indicates equal power of the men (the forest) and the women.

      Moreover, the left free space in the left side of the composition highlights the woman figure and gets an impression of the movement like showing a symbol of awareness, freedom and female responsibility. Equally it seems like she knows how right to take care of herself. 

 

      In conclusion, the artist Faith Ringgold portrayed strong and accurate the feminine presence enjoying own strength and an existence in the world, knowing its significance, and confirming their status in the world without the shoulder of the men.

      I like Ringgold’s world where the women is not only fascinating, but stating her inner self being, living without fear, joying the freedom with the balance of freedom of actions and responsibility for it. Looking at her artworks I would use more bright colors, accommodate more compelling meaning and techniques for achieving better validity. As well as Faith Ringgold’s paintings teaches me better perceive the composition, usage of line, importance of light, tints and shades. Įveskite tekstą ar svetainės adresą ar verskite dokumentą.

 

 

Rodomas vertimas ji rodo moters jega, pilnai neatsoka

Išversti vietoje ji rodo moters jega, pilnai neatsk

 

 

 

 

 

Craft Option. Broach 'Baltic Tribe' & Stephen King

Broach ‘Baltic Tribe’, Textile medias, I.G.

  

‘Life is like a wheel. Sonner or later, it always comes around

to where you started again.’

 

Stephen King

(1947)

Painting & Writing Poem 'My City'

Acrylic painting, monotype ‘My City’, I.G.

 

 

My City

 

My city is the  iron castle

Of my  spirit, friends, strangers

I see it in the possibilities of the future

That becomes to the nuclear atoms tie.

 

There is happiness in the imagination of advertising

Love, smiles, wealth comes in a moment

Poverty-stricken houses do not turn off lights at nights

The light is not inviting

Because they hide  treacherous eyes.

 

 

There are welcoming summers

Sunny days play, wanton

While the arctic nights are freezing.

The winter.

There are fashionable graves, bought in advance

Unseen cancer knocks at the back door.

 

My city –

The castle of the future

What happens to it?

Where does it  take us?

At nights, when the chaos sleeps

Dogs bark

Sorrowful, oppressive

Like in the yard of a dire, old village.

 

 

Review. Katy May Green. Opening Bloom

The illustrator Katy May Green had an artist’s talk and it was big pleasure to attend it.  

Green, K. M. (2014) Seen and not Heard. London, Walker Books.

 

The artist had presented for an audience her picture book ‘’Seen and not Heard’’ and shared thoughts about her career, and an illustration process.

The fairy tale had been published as the artist début in 2014 opening a big promise for a good Katy’s start on the way of pursuing the art of the illustration.

The illustrator Katy May green launched the talk reciting ‘’Seen and not Heard’ fairy tale about children who live in picture on the wall and are seen but nobody hears them.

The visual story about twins sisters has some reflexes to Lewis Carroll ‘’Alice in Wonderland’’ accordingly to similarities to its tale genre, covering a paradox and nonsense poetics.

There have been drawn perfect girls who hold not only positive sides, but something ‘nasty’, hidden from bare eyes. It would be said that the inspiration of the artist’s Katy May came from observing portraits in museums, galleries, old houses for the visual story.  Looking at the perfection of girls in paintings at the Oxford Art museum, the illustrator caught an idea to make her ‘’Seen but not Heard’ story allowing for herself to think how much in common children today have with children from the past. Thus comes the answer that the young generation representing youth never changes own self spirit itself: children are furious, restless, full of pouring creativity and very natural in all ages and centuries.

Katy May Green had shown her drawings sketches and detailed storyboard. To get the right image, the illustrator drew many versions, changing again and again the appearance of the particular image since a pleased results. An example of unremitting research for an appropriate visual version might call us to work hard to gain not only experience, but also bring a direct talk with selective publishers for their willingness to accommodate a visual story of the unknown artist in the competitive illustration market.

The artist graduated as the art historian and gained the Master of Arts of Children Book Illustration in Cambridge School of Art. She highlighted that knowing the art history and the admin work where she had worked, gave a good ‘kick’ to change the field of activities and follow dreams to become truth in picture book genre. Observing given statements, there might be realized the importance of reading books about the history of art to expand cognition for gaining skills in illustration.

Katy May has got strong, beautiful classical values and might be the good example of the ‘right women’ saying about her absolute charm. Romantic, with links to Victorian age, really feminine, with a lot gentle optimism, old-fashioned in the positive way, she has a beautiful personality and great potential for the picture book illustrator career. Let’s wish her blossom opening bloom and make a lot capturing picture books!