Composer & Photographer— A melody inspired by her photos… Tana Onceuponatimetana’s 150205—a collaboration between American photographer Tatiana Rivero Sanz and Japanese composer Satoshi Aki. [dropcap]M[/dropcap]y photos grow from an elaborate process, which involves a whole installation. In my own studio I first paint the walls, then I create one or two sculptures that represent a dilemma,…
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Tin Jewelry | Video
By Annariitta Saarelainen Watch her make jewelry from tin… [dropcap]H[/dropcap]ere is my latest video, about making tin jewelry. It is a way to make smaller things as opposed to working in iron or bronze. I was trying these as an experiment so that I could do some casting at home, where I could easily achieve…
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…
Art Spotlight: Joyce Kubat
Couple: Pastel on Paper Technique allows her to “…change anything at any time, forever” [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he heavy-bodied acrylic-based ink [I use] is red-earth colored, like blood, and the hard pastels melted in water are like paint. My technique allows me to change anything at any time, forever. Even an ink line can be made narrower with…
WTP Artist: Denitza
A Constant Experiment with Space, Lines, and Shapes By Denitza [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he featured pictures are the making and the final result of the painting “Lazurite,” 26 × 26 inch acrylic/enamel on canvas. The work was painted with all blue-tone acrylics on canvas, and was meant as a central piece for the fall edition of the Affordable…
Artists in The Big Apple
Innovative Artists at Artexpo NY By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief April 16th, I attended the annual Arts Expo in New York City, over on Pier 94. For 38 years, the Art Expo has presented itself as a focal point for artists each spring in the big apple. Over the course of four days, literally thousands flock to…
WTP Artist: Judy Stone
“Beyond control” — the art of enameling Evidently, you are one of a small group of people worldwide who call themselves enamelists. What is it about enameling that perhaps makes it so difficult to master? There are really several answers to this question but the initial fallacy is that the medium is hard to master. It…
Video Poetry: Aaron Fagan
My Entrepreneurial Spirit Aaron Fagan on Video Poetry [dropcap]V[/dropcap]ideo offers an opportunity to add texture and dimension to a poem, and perhaps a different, hopefully more inviting, way to experience poetry. I’m not looking for any literal relationship, I just like how language, music, and image can correspond with each other like a dialogue. Aaron Fagan…
Art Spotlight: Judy Stone
Burnt Offering: Caldera Working by hand: the importance of tactility [dropcap]…t[/dropcap]actility is paramount; I work only by hand so that I can feel what is happening beneath my fingers. I know that there will always be areas of depression in the enameled surface that are not polished, but this is all right with me, because…
An Artist In Memoriam
My Mother the Artist, in Memoriam — Influences the Mission of The Woven Tale Press By Editor-in-Chief Sandra Tyler [dropcap]M[/dropcap]y mother, Elizabeth Sloan Tyler, was an artist, and for all of my growing up, she painted in our cellar. It was never even referred to as a basement, too low-ceilinged and with scant natural light,…
Beau Wild: In Her Own Words
Drawing gestural information By Beau Wild Recently I completed a 60″ x 40″ graphite and charcoal image of a native American and realized how much I enjoy drawing. Because of this drawing, I have begun to add more drawing into both my abstract and figurative paintings. I have also added paper, inks, pastel, etc., to make them mixed media. Currently…
Poet Charles Bane, Jr. | Video
In Paris—Charles Bane, Jr., Reading [dropcap]C[/dropcap]harles Bane, Jr., publishes occasional fiction, but his writing life is devoted to poetry and its advocacy. His first book of poetry came to the notice of Past U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall, who corresponded with him for a year. These letters were donated to The Paris Review and University…