Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs

Suddenly February is nearly gone and for most of us our New Year resolutions are a thing of the past. So maybe its time to take a few minutes and revisit them. I did. With shows, writing and working in the studio I was fully charged with ideas and energy.  And then I came across a post that stopped me. It’s the publication of Diebenkorn’s sketch books. It made me want to look at mine. So I started pulling them out and exploring ideas and images I had jotted down over the years. Amazing how this can build that spark of imagination and inspiration we sometimes need. It also made me realize that I had not been carrying a sketch book with me anymore. This was an important resolution I had made. The blog about how Diebenkorn would put down a book and return to it months or years later was inspiring. So I grabbed one sitting on a shelf, found a few empty pages and did a few sketches. Click here to see the post and sketchbooks


Bob Davies post in Art Tudor explores framing art.

So many styles and sizes of frame. So many colours to choose. Is it a watercolour or pastel ? Should it have a mount or mat colour? Should it be a single mount or a double one? Matching, plain or contrasting colours? Non-reflective or plain picture glass or acrylic sheet? etc. etc. –


There was a great article on Contemporary art on the Art Critical blog by Noah Dillon

The Zombies: Contemporary Abstraction and Its Critics– Definitely worth reading with a discussion from such artists as Joanne Greenbaum, Philip Taaffe, and Stanley Whitney along with Bob Nickas as Moderator.

Click here for the link

That’s it for now so remember;

Imagination is Never Still. The Marks we make are Verbs

Book Art – Saving the Pages

Some people are appalled when I tell them I create art from books. I would be too if I wasn’t sure that without this transformation they would have stayed in the garbage. The inside pages were marred with goo and water. The covers were for the most part faded and crumbling. So before you jump up and down and say but its a book, send me your address and I’ll send you the messed up ones I haven’t saved yet.
In the meantime here are a couple of works I’ve completed with the saved books. They are reasonably priced so feel free to let me know which one you want…or get all three!
Priced right now at $200.00 each

You can reach me at don@donaldkolberg.com

‘The Nude’ 8 3/4 x 7 inches

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‘The Nude’ 8 3/4 x 7 inches

‘Golden Landscape’ 8 3/4 by 6 3/4 inches

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‘Golden Landscape’ 8 3/4 by 6 3/4 inches

‘Golden Landscape small’ 4 5/8 by 7 inches

Goldlandscape
‘Golden Landscape small’ 4 5/8 by 7 inches

Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs

Thought you might like to see some of my expresso pot collection. They don’t just sit on a shelf. I do use them. Well anyway its on to this session’s list of blogs. enjoy.


 

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/colour-wheels-charts-and-tables-through-history/

This is a great view of color wheels and how they have changed along with background concepts.


 

http://dealfuel.com/deals-freebies/

This site offers some great freebies. ( I get nothing if you go there)


 

https://youtu.be/3PgFwYuWDJM

I know you probably already go to youtube but and are sick of art history but this site is pretty good.

Understanding Contemporary Art MOOC
by John David Evert from Open Online Academy OOAc.org


 

That’s it for now. I’ll be back after the New Year with lots more so remember

Imagination is never still. The marks we make are Verbs!

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