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,…
Tag: mixed-media
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…
Art Spotlight: Allison B. Cooke
Allison B. Cooke discusses her paintings [dropcap]M[/dropcap]y paintings celebrate the interplay of past and present, imagined and tangible, that which is lost and what remains. I have always been drawn to the physicality of aged surfaces that reveal the endless and shifting remnants of time. The patinas that build up where mankind and the atmosphere…
Improving Style
Seven Steps for Developing Your Signature Artistic Style By Seth Apter [dropcap]W[/dropcap]e all know artists that have a signature style. When we see their work, we can immediately identify it as theirs and theirs alone. This is true for the great Masters, many well-known contemporary artists, and a host of people in our mixed media…
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…
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…
my lies have titles
Video Poetry — Donna Kuhn For our third National Poetry Month 2016 feature, we offer the video poetry of Donna Kuhn. video poetry by Donna Kuhn >> my lies have titles << She told The Woven Tale how she came to create what we are calling her “video poetry”: [dropcap color=”#034582″]I [/dropcap]was making very strange…
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…
Art Spotlight: Beau Wild
Observation, Art, Emotion: Beau Wild in The Woven Tale Press IV:1 Beau Wild on her art: “While I assume the objective position of the observer, these glimpses open a small window through which I can also look inside my own emotional life.” See more of Beau Wild’s art, including other media, in The Woven Tale…
8/16/15
Join me weekly when I share some of my favorite links I discovered in the previous week. By Seth Apter, Press Arts Editor The feature film about the life of Dan Eldon is now filming. Follow the progress here and see a brief behind the scenes video of the filming here. A primer on interference colors acrylic paints. Hand-cut, photorealistic paper…
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…