sketch alterations
By roscius
Am slightly more content with the sketch now; a little more shade above the left eye; plus the inclusion of a missing eyelid ( why didn't I notice that before?!) and some alteration to the line of the mouth. It's still not perfect; but I suppose the whole point of sketches is that they are not meant to be just right. I think that they are rather like first drafts of an essay- just the rough outline of an idea to be polished and improved later.
new sketch
By roscius
Am back on form; I think. :) Worked on the Teatro Olimpico (Palladio) painting for most of the day - then sketched out a new portrait in the evening. There's something...wrong with it somehow, something in the proportion of the face and line of the mouth; the result being that while it may be OK as a sketch it is not an accurate likeness. But at least it is an improvement on my previous attempt; which has now been painted over so that I can re-use the canvas.
plein air painting in N.J.
By Margesketch out
By roscius
Banks, Servers and Holidays
By easel teamI just wish it was next week though and be able to enjoy it. Our hosting company has had a server problem most of the weekend which is causing problems across their network and with todays holiday, it might take unitl Tuesday to get resolved, although i am told they are working on it !!
Enjoy your holiday
Adrian
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Try your hand at Plein air painting -SIMPLY SUBMIT a Plein air painting/sketch to the competition and the winner gets free subscription to all 3 of our charged galleries (worth 20$)
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Just join the group and post your work before the end of September. The lucky 5 runners-up will win a free subscription to a gallery of their choice (worth 10$). which could be travelscapers.com, easelfaces.com or our new still life gallery. So come on get your paintbrushes wet !
The Unbearable sadness of the loss of an Undiscovered Genius
By Kev MooreI learned today, quite by accident, that one of my favourite songwriters of all time, Will Owsley – has died. Almost all of you will be unaware of this man. He has consistently written some of the greatest melodic pop since The Beatles, and yet remained largely undiscovered. The final, terrible irony is that, following his suicide, his existence is so ‘below the radar’ that I have only just discovered his death, some three months after it happened. Here’s a video of him performing one of his greatest songs “Oh No, the Radio” -in my opinion a perfect pop song.
Will Owsley, quite simply, in the 2 solo albums he left us, plus his work with The Semantics, was worthy of rubbing shoulders with Lennon, McCartney, Ray Davies and Neil Finn. He was that good.
Perhaps, like many Artists, he will achieve the recognition in death he never really had in life.
I am deeply shocked and saddened by his death. My thoughts are with his family and friends. He took his life in Franklin, Tennessee. I was over in that state earlier this year, and I wish I’d had the courage to seek him out and say hi. He was truly an undiscovered genius, and his music will live on. Those who stumble across it by accident will find something that now, has become more rare and precious than ever. R.I.P. Will.
Kev Moore
New painting
By rosciusHad to trim Hermias' claws yesterday because she kept getting them caught in my jumper. She sat there with her ears flattened back growling at me like a miniature steam engine. However, if she used her scratching post as she is supposed to then I wouldn't have to do it. :)
Follow us around the Easel
By easel teamIs it so different from any other day?
Since I have been living as an artist, Sundays have ceased to mean anything different to me, apart from the fact that our food supply shop is closed.
And since I joined the Easelspace Team, about 2 months ago, well, the food supply problem has taken care of itself, as I hardly have any time left to eat!
But honestly: I love my life as an artist, and I love to work for Easelspace. Always trying to better the place, to find new ideas to keep it attractive for the artists and the visitors (and for us too of course!), to solve the occuring problems, to help our members to reach their goals, this all keeps our brains wonderfully active for about 48 hours out of 24!
Now we enjoy following you, through your paintings and other activities here. We thought you might be interested in following us too. This is why we have decided to regularly let you know, by virtue of this blog, how things stand, what we do, what we feel, what we want, what we don't want, what we hope, simple human stuff like that.
It would be great to hear your feedback sometimes, we are all human and we all need to know how we stand in this world! :-)
That's all for now, have a lovely (Sun)day!
Easel-ly yours
Miki
An apt analogy?
By Kev MooreI truly believe that observing the creation of paintings firsthand many times over through Miki has informed the way I approach my own work, giving me a greater appreciation of how to create 'the whole'. It helps me to step back, and perhaps view the piece differently. This is something musicians (and perhaps artists, too) find very difficult, particularly when you are recording a solo album, and every part recorded, every decision made, is down to you. It becomes increasingly more difficult to take a detached view, so close to your creation do you become. Yet it is a necessary evil.
Perhaps even the act of standing back from a painting, seeing how the light falls on it, how it looks from afar, is a great trigger for the mind when it comes to music, for that is how I picture myself when I mentally take a step back from my composition. An apt analogy? -perhaps, but for me certainly a useful one.
Chaucer
By roscius'The grete soun...that rumbleth up and doun/ in Fame's Hous, full of tydinges/Bothe of fair speche and chydinges/And of fals and soth compouned.'
It is interesting to observe that people were considering the deceptive, ephemeral and unreliable nature of Fame long before Andy Warhol appeared on the scene.
















