"Flow Between 1" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble

"Flow Between 1" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble:

"Flow Between 1" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2012

What:  Mixed media work: compressed charcoal, acrylic, paper collage on 200gsm cartridge paper.

The original work is on size paper 420 x 297 mm (A3).

Note ~ The space around the image here has been cropped down slightly for reproduction printing purposes.

Method: The compositional work employs a combination of gestural, contour drawing/painting techniques and has been worked directly from a life model.

About:  In the same life drawing session I completed several similar quick session life drawings that were all composed/grouped together on the one large sheet of cartridge paper. I later cut out and collaged what I thought the most successful images onto each their own larger A3 paper sheet  The delicate compositional balance of spacing around each of these images requires it's own problem solving.

My subject approach focuses on depicting dynamic energies through application of quick gestural, contour mark making and accentuation on spatial relationships ie. between figure-ground, negative-positive, ambiguity, unification, spaces between.

"Flow Between 1" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble - Framed Print

Other Artistic Points

The principle of figure/ground is one of the most basic laws of perception.

'Gestalt' is a psychology term which means "unified whole".

Ref. The Gestalt Principles

SIMILARITY / CONTINUATION / CLOSURE / PROXIMITY / FIGURE - GROUND.

http://graphicdesign.spokanefalls.edu/tutorials/process/gestaltprinciples/gestaltprinc.htm

"Flow Between 1" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble - Card

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Juxtapositions

One of my earlier oil paintings on canvas that I hold in my own artist collection.  Original Size - H 805 mm x W 1005 mm x D 40 mm.  Female figures were first drawn/painted directly from different life models onto canvas. Then the combination of images were further developed creating the colourful abstract composition.

The work image has been professionally documented and made available for giclee prints on demand at my two online printing sites.

Artropica Innisfail Studio Gallery Fine Art
Note - One can click on a section of the work, see the enlarged section view (of the actual file size loaded up), check out the quality and artistic detail.  (Just love this unique site feature.)

My RedBubble Gallery

Fairweather Man

Woohoo.

Last night I was immediately attracted to a facebook friend's post which simply went like this -
"I paint, dammit!" Ian Fairweather

After I read the follow up discussions with reference being made to Ian Fairweather's life and 'hypocritical' friends in some documentary, I just had to ask was there anywhere one could get this, if available.

And sure enough, as I suspected, the answer I got references back to the link on my blog post made July 27, 2009. ABC has now apparently produced a DVD of the TV documentary. Yeah!

So after ordering the product online last night, along with the amazing Shannon Lush's new book 'Stainless', I now (patiently) await 1-2 weeks for delivery of the goods.

Artwork:  Interconnected.  Mixed media on A0 size paper.
Work sold. In Private Collection - Brisbane.

Australian Artist Ian Fairweather

I have adored and drooled over Ian Fairweather's lifetime of art work since ... well I cannot really recall, but a long time ago now - more than any other artist in the history of this planet with Matisse coming in second at this point.

When the very few opportune times have arose to travel to Brisbane from the Far North, I have stood in front of his work displayed at the Queensland Art Gallery, for such long periods ... soaking in the multiple layers of paint and their contextual meaning, then only to walk away and turn right back again not wanting to take my eyes off them.

It was one of Ian's abstract artwork images that adorned the front cover of the very first magazine publication, Art and Australia, back in the 1963. He was definitely 'not popular' in the general social community consciousness at the time.   

 

Artwork: Blue-Rhapsody (Ian Fairweather Inspired) 
 Nude drawing/painting study

Medium: gouache, charcoal on paper. Work has sold.

I have one only  precious art book on Ian Fairweather and his work purchased well over a decade ago now. In recent years there has been no books available to purchase.
I was very excited when someone had posted this ABC1 Television Guide link on facebook today (27.07.09). Yet another generation is being inspired by this man's artistic and very creative genius.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200907/programs/ZY9058A001D16072009T213000.htm

Note - Edited/updated 30.11.2011

Group Challenges on Red Bubble

Layered with Texture - Challenge: Extreme Mixed Media

The work Spiritual Journey was entered into a Red Bubble Group Challenge. The RB group set the challenge of Extreme Mixed Media.  (Click on this link and you can view a total of 14 entries along with the challenge criteria and the final voting results.)

Spiritual Journey by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2006

Materials: Mixed media - acrylic, pastel, fabric, linen thread, leaf, butterfly wing, banana fibre, paper.

Canvas support. Size: 8 x 6 inches.

Techniques: painting, drawing, collage, coiling and stitching, basketry assemblage.

The original work sold through one of the end of year fundraising Cairns Regional Gallery Postcard Exhibitions. Usually up to 100 selected regional artists are invited to exhibit in the show each year.

For those not familiar with the RB group set up, there is both an entry and voting time schedule put on each of the challenges by a volunteer group host. Those with the most votes usually get a feature on the group's front page and runners up, in the top 10, are listed and displayed on the challenge page.
*Note, an artist cannot vote for their own work and there are other codes of fair conduct to be respected by all those on the RB site.


It is a wonderful way to get artists involved, actively thinking about and displaying their 'best' work in various groups and for other community members too, to get involved, meeting and connecting with others.


Another artwork Sanguine Nude was entered into the Challenge - 2 Colours with Works on Paper group. This one had a much larger total number of 58 works entered.

Sanguine Nude

Medium:  Gesso, sanguine pastel on Arches 300gsm rag paper

Size: 76×56 cm (30×22”)

Description: Worked directly from a life model in my studio gallery, this work combines both drawing and painting skills. I have a love/passion for embellishing, building up a surface with both actual and implied textural qualities.

Also Sanguine Nude earned a Monthly June feature at the home page of the group Life Session Expressions. This was achieved by being voted in the 'top ten' of a challenge for 'No. Favouritings' - see here.


It is indeed a pleasure, after many years of solitary art practice in an isolated regional rural community in Far North Queensland, to have the tools and to be able to be involved in marketing oneself directly via the internet, to show work that would otherwise probably never be seen except by a select few.

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