Women In Spring, 2008, 24.5"x18", 62.2cmx45.7cm, oil on archival 150 lb Waterford paper Sweeping paint, Zen-like. Let image emerge. Only now I sought to include detail, painted lines, concentrated effort. I wanted the women, who are one woman, drawings from one life drawing session placed on the same page, to be colourful like tulips in the garden. The figures appear in varying stages between painterly and a reliance on drawing, and I don't seem able to move away from that. I outlined boldly in paint tonight, resisting the urge to use coloured pencil, then wasn't sure, then knew that from across the room there would be more definition. The final criteria - can I live with them?The grouping; the way they create the space around them; their relation to each other; the view they allow the viewer; some emerging out of the washes of colour, or disappearing into... The fecund forces of Spring, who can define it? -Toronto, May, 2008 http://www.brendaclews.com/different-yet-same
A pencil sketch of sketches from a lifedrawing session in, oh, Nov 06, at the Vita Brevis Studio. All the women are one woman...(25.5" x 19"; 64.7cm x 48.2cm on 150lb textured ivory Strathmore Artist Paper) See all four paintings, one for each season, at my website: http://www.brendaclews.com/different-yet-same
Brenda Clews - detail, Women In Spring, 2008, 24.5"x18", 62.2cmx45.7cm, oil on archival 150lb Strathmore art paper See all four paintings, one for each season, at my website: http://www.brendaclews.com/different-yet-same
Brenda Clews - detail - Dreaming Truth - Women In Spring, 2008, 24.5"x18", 62.2cmx45.7cm, oil on archival 150lb Strathmore art paper dreams are infallible, accurate, true for that situation, that relationship, things change, dreams reflect the changes; nothing expresses the truth of life like the dream; the dream is a clear representation of our reality;the dream is a clear representation of our reality.dreams never lie, the dream doesn't lie: it foresees and predicts, even forewarnsencapsulates; explains; never our enemy - nightmares are our fears, turn and face themthe dream conveys its messages in metaphorical language, images that shock, or bewilder, or uplift, that astound, are vivid, directdreams guide, our helpers: offering insight, mystical information, a panoramic perspectiveancient wisdom calls to us through our dreams, where our intuition is powerfulprescient http://www.brendaclews.com/different-yet-same
How little space for painting! This is the corner. You can see the original sketches from which I composed the composite image I posted last week. What's nice is that if I don't like the way the painting turns out, I can create another one. The painting on the board is influenced by the one on the wall, isn't it. I did that one in Vancouver and it's quite large: Celestial Dancers, 2004, oil on canvas, 4' x 5' based on figures in the late Medieval relief figures of Temple Art of Cambodia when it was in the midst of a shift from Hinduism to Buddhism. The smaller one on the wall to the left is a Celestial Dancer (Celestial Dancer II, 31"x35", acrylic on canvas, 2003) who is based on an image of the Hindu God, Krishna! See all four paintings, one for each season, at my website: http://www.brendaclews.com/different-yet-same
Brenda Clews - detail (earlier in the process of the painting than the next image), Women In Spring, 2008, 24.5"x18", 62.2cmx45.7cm, oil on archival 150lb Strathmore art paper In 2010, this became the background image for my Art & Writings website. See writing, and other three paintings in this series here: http://www.brendaclews.com/different-yet-same
Brenda Clews - detail, Women In Spring, 2008, 24.5"x18", 62.2cmx45.7cm, oil on archival 150lb Strathmore art paper. She was a model in a lifedrawing session, herself a painter and a yoga practitioner. She's become my icon this year, 2010. See writing, and other three paintings in this series here: http://www.brendaclews.com/different-yet-same
Brenda Clews - detail, from finished painting, Women In Spring, 2008, 24.5"x18", 62.2cmx45.7cm, oil on archival 150lb Strathmore art paper See writing, and other three paintings in this series here: http://www.brendaclews.com/different-yet-same
