You know probably at least one movie where a shrink tells a patient: “Think about your most beautiful memory, imagine the place where you felt most safe as a child.” Well, think about your most beautiful memory and imagine the place where you felt most safe as a child. But if you are having trouble [...]
Linda Lucas Hardy is an American artist specializing in colored pencil painting. I browsed her website and several other links offered on this page and learned about the medium and some of its unique techniques; I became enthralled with its congenial creative problems and the surprising, sometimes astonishing solutions that it thereupon suggests. But in [...]
These paintings are all about harmony — so much so that the method with which it is achieved becomes almost irrelevant. I’m thinking that looking at these pieces could hypothetically amount to taking a few valerian drops (if that is your poison), or perhaps sipping a cup of tea while sitting on the depicted chair [...]
The idea of time and moment’s fluidity takes on a somewhat playful twist in the chocolate series, where direct and planned human activity (in making the chocolates as well as in every step of consuming them) substitutes the unpredictability of nature’s process. Still, a surprising parallel may be drawn between the man made bonbons and [...]
Jeanne Illenye is an experienced, “predominantly self-taught artist” from Michigan, USA. She creates both small and large canvases presented at her website and blog, and covers a variety of themes within the still life genre. Arguably, the most fascinating subject she explores is the series on books and watches: they are particularly appealing to me [...]
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