October 5, 2014
After two very busy weeks and weekends, I finally had a chance to start something new. We’ll see how this turns out…
“Art is a form of consciousness.” – Susan Sontag
Works in Progress
“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.” – Gustave Flaubert
August 17, 2014
In the end it all comes down to this…
August 10, 2014
“In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot – and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice.”
– Art & Fear, David Bayles & Ted Orland
Here’s the beginning of a larger painting that may take some time to complete…
“If you can’t say anything nice…”
April 6, 2014
ok, I kind of like the chocolate right in front. But not the wrapper and not much else. Perhaps I shouldn’t have refilled my wine glass that last time…
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx
March 23, 2014
Vancouver Public Library completed. I don’t love it, but I don’t really want to continue to mess with it either. It is what it is and I will move on to the next thing.
I’m still working on adding my older artwork to the appropriate pages. And I’ve decided to add a new page showing pieces as they progress and are completed. I am always interested in seeing how different artists develop their work and thought perhaps I could learn something from observing my own processes.
“Libraries are the thin red line between civilisation and barbarism.”
– Neil Gaiman
Vancouver Public Library – Work in Progress
March 16, 2014
Another product of my current painting class and an attempt at architecture. If I am going to paint a building, I’m going to paint a building that I personally like to look at. The Vancouver Public Library, designed by Moshe Safdie, completed in 1995. The painting is still in progress. I hope to finish it this week and post a completed image next week. Let’s see if I can find time to do that.
susanne semchuk 