Another month has come round, and our group of artists has organized another virtual art walk to display our most recent work. As we all live in different corners of the world, this is our best attempt at getting together!
So what do we see this month? First up is Dorothy Berry-Lound who has not just given us some great imagery, she has explained how you can brighten your room with some art, and specifically with art with a purple hue. Along the way, she explains how best to use purple, what its history is (think Roman Emperors) and also what emotions are associated with the color. I love her image that she has used as one example:
Fellow photographer Jim Hughes has written a short, interesting piece about bricks! The sort of thing we see everywhere and rarely give any thought to! But Jim has seen patterns in the brick courses, and also given a little background to an old make from Des Moines, Iowa from a company called the Flint Brick and Coal Co. Jim has given his subject both black and white and more colorful treatments (the bricks themselves have many hues), and I think this one with a diagonal pattern is the most powerful composition.
I think this would make a very dramatic piece of wall art – especially in a large size!
Purple is obviously the in-color for this Art Walk as Sharon Popek goes by the name Purple Rosemary. She has written about the joys and benefits of taking a tour around a city rather than just wandering around. Not only do you get all the information from your, often enthusiastic guide, but you see things from a different perspective, especially if you take a boat tour. She has chosen Chicago as her location and has illustrated it with some great images of the Windy City as seen from the First Lady Cruises. I’ve been on a similar trip and I totally agree – you see some intriguing sights.
I’ve recently been reprocessing some of my old images from Chicago and came across this one taken from probably the same boat cruise:
One of the benefits of keeping all your old images is that you can rework them with today’s technology – this one has been enlarged with the latest applications from Adobe and could be printed up to 8 feet wide. Could be impressive on an office wall!
Katrina Gunn came up with a very detailed article about how she approached the painting of a red rose. The process itself is intriguing, but the end result is beautiful! If you are at all interested in drawing and painting, this article is well worth your time.
We have a new artist in this month’s Art Walk – Steve Estvanik, a fellow photographer who has written about Dragons. In fact he has written several articles about these fascinating creatures that can be found in mythology in many parts of the world, although not in Africa, he tells us. Steve has illustrated the story with many of his images of dragons taken on his extensive travels and I particularly liked this one:
February is a cold month in many places and so we are slightly fewer than normal. I’m sure we will have more artists and interesting stories in the months to come!
