Friday, December 4, 2009
Venetian mask
tried this mask of Arlecchino but I am not very sure i like it. It is in watersoluble crayons on watercolor paper.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
caran d'ache watersoluble crayons
This is an experiment using Caran D'ache neocolor II watersoluble crayons on canvas pad 6x9in.It works fine on this support only that you need a fine brush and little water but carefully cover all areas. My mistake was to use a plastic brush too big for the job and loaded with water.The crayons have very strong pigment and only a little dot can make a mark by adding water.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
autumn sycamore leaves in a vase
watercolor pencils on Bristol board white pad 9x12in.
I am not satisfied with these last pieces as they loose their fuzziness and become too obvious for the realistic shapes.Also the colors are too intense instead of being diffuse.I might wish to redo the geranium pot and sycamore leaves at a more stylized level.
potted geranium
Friday, November 20, 2009
from real life
Thursday, November 19, 2009
after Picasso's Child with Dove
2 pears in fuzzy realist style
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
fuzzy realism - towards a new esthetics
Fuzzy realism can be described as a reaction to photorealism, but it is more than the fuzziness of contours and shapes, it's an esthetics of open forms in the realm of visual arts. The idea of open form is not new and maybe the best example of defining open form has been presented in Umberto Eco's work Opera Aperta published in 1962. With reference to literary text and linguistics, Eco defines the open form internally dynamic and the fields of meaning open.
In fine arts fuzzy realism creates open form by strings of color, strokes of pencil, crayon, pastel in fascicles instead of unequivocal lines. Lines string along generating fuzzy patches of color out of which you are invited to imagine, recreate an image, the subject of a painting, drawing.
Form as meaning is open, left to the guessing and from this derives the esthetic pleasure of the viewer.Contours are diffuse, shapes and volumes suggested rather than imposed on the viewer, yet there is a place for order into chaos and fuzzy realism is not confusion since there is light and shadow.
Take a look at this watercolor called "still life with plums, pears and sycamore leaves".
You can see on my chart the highlights, shadows and contours of the fruit and leaf.
This painting is a good expression of the new style as long as stylization of form is all about in fuzzy realism.
Another illustrative piece is "bird in hand" with both dry and wet version to testify for the new style.
There are a few seeds in the open hand holding the bird and you can even guess the eye of the bird especially in the dry version.
On a philosophical level, fuzzy realist art is a response to an elusive reality, that escapes clear definition, has open answers and leaves room to imagination, dreaming, recreating meaning according to one's own abilities and needs for esthetic harmony. The title of a work as well as scatterd realistic elements in an artpiece can provide clues to the respective work but the viewer can see more or less according to external or internal factors(mood, education, artistic disposition, time, place).
As in this piece, the geranium pot is in the eyes on the beholder.
In fine arts fuzzy realism creates open form by strings of color, strokes of pencil, crayon, pastel in fascicles instead of unequivocal lines. Lines string along generating fuzzy patches of color out of which you are invited to imagine, recreate an image, the subject of a painting, drawing.
Form as meaning is open, left to the guessing and from this derives the esthetic pleasure of the viewer.Contours are diffuse, shapes and volumes suggested rather than imposed on the viewer, yet there is a place for order into chaos and fuzzy realism is not confusion since there is light and shadow.
Take a look at this watercolor called "still life with plums, pears and sycamore leaves".
You can see on my chart the highlights, shadows and contours of the fruit and leaf.
This painting is a good expression of the new style as long as stylization of form is all about in fuzzy realism.
Another illustrative piece is "bird in hand" with both dry and wet version to testify for the new style.
There are a few seeds in the open hand holding the bird and you can even guess the eye of the bird especially in the dry version.
On a philosophical level, fuzzy realist art is a response to an elusive reality, that escapes clear definition, has open answers and leaves room to imagination, dreaming, recreating meaning according to one's own abilities and needs for esthetic harmony. The title of a work as well as scatterd realistic elements in an artpiece can provide clues to the respective work but the viewer can see more or less according to external or internal factors(mood, education, artistic disposition, time, place).
As in this piece, the geranium pot is in the eyes on the beholder.
fuzzy realism in oil pastels
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
still life with plums, pears and sycamore leaves
watercolor pencils on watercolor paper 6x9in.
I placed an order with Blick art Materials for caran d'ache watersoluble crayons, portfolio oil pastels also watersoluble, a set of 50 pieces pentel oil pastels, canvas pads and watercolor paper.They are supposed to arrive on December 2, 2009.
These new media especially for being watersouble will give a watercolor dimension to my fuzzy realism and I can hardly wait to experiment with them.
bird in hand
crayon and watercolor pencils fuzzy art
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