When we were children, my father, the painter David Gentleman, never offered much advice to me or my siblings. If we wanted to draw, he would hand out pencils and let us get on with it. He was encouraging, but never gave us instructions. If we were enjoying ourselves, more paper was available; but if we wanted to go and do something else, that was fine too.
When Mernet Larsen was in her 70s, theproject she had been working on her entire life met a moment. It was the 2010s, and painters everywhere were grappling with how the digital realm affected what we see. People seeing Larsen's paintings for the first time often assumed that they were made using a computer, reading her signature blocky figures as robotic or pixelated-something a machine would create. But they are not computational at all.
Starting in 2016, I lived with a Mt. Wilson painting of Andy's because I was drawn to the seriousness of the play in the various yellows in the palette and the way the paint was pushed around with a quiet athleticism, an intuitive confidence. It's that stroke, coupled with a deep understanding of color, that I've seen over and over in the paint slingers. It's never the same way of course, authorship right, but always laid down with a knowing hand.
There is no recipe, there is no formula, there is no direction. I never know if and when a painting is going to feel real, or if it is going to feel like it is alive...The materials themselves have to guide the painting. The materials have to present an image or an idea that did not come from me.
There's a reason a fresh paint job is so often recommended by designers as a first step in transforming a space: Painting a room can change not just the color, but also the whole vibe of the space. And if you use your paint right, it can even minimize flaws and call attention to assets. Take this clever paint trick recently posted by designer Orlando Soria on Instagram.
Clinton exploded on the scene in the 1960s, making his debut in Motown before gathering a talented crew of artists to create P-Funk, a new, fusional musical style that would deeply influence the likes of Prince, Snoop Dog, Kendrick Lamar, D'Angelo and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. "We came out of the psychedelic era and everything was permissible," Clinton told AFP. "I could free my mind, I could do whatever the music turned out to be."
My entire education, everything I had ever been told or had told myself, insisted that the production was never meant to be improvised: I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.
Atlanta-based painter Alic Brock has developed a practice that merges digital manipulation with painterly precision. Brock creates compositions that explore spaces between waking and dreaming, recognition and estrangement. Each work begins as a collage of both found and personal imagery that is intentionally altered and translated to canvas using airbrush acrylics. Fragments of Americana, cultural icons, and private memory mingle in peculiar scenarios where narrative and meaning surface only in retrospect.
"In my mind, I always try to start from scratch in order to avoid lapsing into a completely pre-established harmony by creating something based on a prior intention or plan," he has said. "Surprise is a necessity when making art. I welcome unforeseen accidents that transcend my imagination and let myself go with the flow. Mistakes are also welcome: failure breeds success."
Provided Some evenings demand that you carry a chandelier in your chest. TAKI Gold paints for those eveningsthe nights when radiance must arrive with receipts, when glamour refuses amnesia, when joy is not a costume but a conviction. His canvases stand like architecture in weather, chroma rising and then steadying, forms holding their line as memory leans in with all its unruly insistence.
Rising marks the completion Emily Coan's ongoing Spider Silk series with a continued narrative of the womens' quest through this perilous realm. What was golden and earthy - an experience of conscious participation with community, nature, and creation by the light of the sun will fade into night. An exploration of color, the paintings are jewel toned - phthalos, viridan, and turquoise.
Faye Wei Wei is currently attending the MA in Fine Arts of Yale (USA) after she graduated from the Slade (London, UK) in 2016. Faye Wei Wei conceives of the painting process as an intimate choreography between actual and pictorial space. Revolving around spiritual iconography and classical myth, love rituals and the theatricality of gender, her works address the themes of particular mythic narratives and at other moments depart into a more ambiguous, interior space of incongruity and uncertainty.
Ryan C. Brown's paintings capture the moment lamp posts turn on, creating a character study of evening walks and nightlife inspired by childhood memories and various visual sources.
"It's all about art, colors, and creativity," said McEneny, a well-known mural artist from Newport. "It brings everyone together."
Falon Stutzman develops a language of flattened perspective, bruised color, and big-eyed emotional states, congealing around a cartoonish archetype of personhood that's both absurd and uncomfortably familiar.
I am a painter who uses the loom to paint, and I consider my palette and my words as part of my materials repertoire. My weavings feel spontaneous, but they are meticulously planned from composition to fiber choices.
Unlike costly renovations with lower return on investment (ROI), a fresh coat of paint is a low-cost update that can increase sale price and shorten time on the market.
