Inspiration of the day: Papunya Tula "dot art"

I have been looking at a lot of contemporary Australian Aboriginal art--very inspiring. In particular the Papunya painting movement started in the 1970s. The artists use various patterns using dots to convey dreams (I think) as part of certain ceremonies. The artwork is captivating because it is both whimsical and mysterious.

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri is an artist who has great work in this style (http://www.aaia.com.au/possum.htm).

Vanity with Butterflies

Let me know what you think.

Inspiration - Un-jin Cho

I came across this artist, Un-jin Cho while surfing through links on different blogs... I'm very inspired by the simplicity of the design and the dramatic effect of color and texture.

Inspiration - Ginny Krueger

have you ever heard of encoustic? a type of painting with wax... check out the work of Ginny Krueger at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago.

Falcon and Vanity

Let me know what you think

The first one is either done or I am going to go back in and do a ton of overlapping circles. The second one is just the base of a new painting...I am thinking of painting a flower over it or a butterfly or something you suggest....

Kirsty Hall: The Diary Project

Kirsty Hall: The Diary Project

colin, check out this project by artist Kristy Hall - it reminds me a little bit about the project we started years ago mailing things to each other. I think we should start our project again or at a variation of it that can be incorporated into Sibling Revelry. we should send a beginning of a drawing/painting to each other and then the other one can finish it - the collaboration idea we had started so long ago - what do you think?

MFA Boston

I spent a good amount of yesterday at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and it was a lot of fun and very inspiring. It was kind of funny because the museum is having a contemporary art exhibit of work done by Japanese artists--which was great and highlighted the "cuteness" athetic--and when I came home I saw your post that referenced a gallery in New York that promotes contemporary Japanese art. Any way, I am going to try to do a piece inspired by that exhibit. In fact, one of the artist did a lot of work with dots that was facinating, so I might do something incorporating his dots and also inspired by Tyree Guyton.

This piece is something that was inspired by the MFA's egyption collection, which was the best egyption collection that I have seen. Now that I think about it, I think I will try the dots on this piece...let me know what you think.

Il Lee: Ballpoint Drawings - Art - Review - New York Times

Il Lee: Ballpoint Drawings - Art - Review - New York Times

I saw this article on New York Times - click here to see an image of his work at API website

...and here

Bird's Nest

Here is the beginning of a pen & ink of a bird's nest. I am planning on painting the bird over the pen & ink drawing, or I might do a design in the eggs. Let me know what you think.

Sibling Revelry Statement

Kelly, here is another rough draft of our statement--let me know what you think

Beauty is a difficult concept: Ask a dozen people to define beauty and you would get a dozen answers. Despite its elusiveness to borders, beauty has an ability to be universal and to spark deep emotions and understandings in individuals. When an artist is able to capture a glimpse of simple, profound beauty, that artist is speaking to her audience in a manner equal to splashing cold water on their face--waking them up from a sleep to see the beauty of the everyday.

My sister and I have had a affection for painting and drawing to convey our conceptions of beauty. We have always sought to inspire each other and to push each other to create what we believe are true reflections of that glimpse of true beauty. We also find inspiration from other artists in various mediums: paintings, the written word, music, etc. The Internet allows us the ability to be exposed to countless artists trying to share their ideas.

This, our latest collaboration, is our effort to share our dialogue on beauty with as large of an audience that we can come across. We are writing and documenting our journey in completing a body of work that can be viewed as a cohesive effort to capture one idea of beauty. And as with so many destinations, the journey is the reward.

The main link within this newest body of work is simply its format: finished artwork measuring 6" X 6". (The 6" X 6" dimensions is actually a result of an undocumented collaboration that we did for my wedding; in which, we created 300 unique pieces of art depicting various flowers and gave them away as gifts to the wedding guests.)

The endgame of this collaboration is the completion of 100 unique pieces of art that we can share with others at one or more venues.