You may remember my visit to the Kaffe Fasset '50 years of colour' exhibition a couple of weeks ago, click HERE to take a look at my visit to the exhibition.
Well as you can see I have been playing with colour. Inspiration Avenue came up with the exciting challenge of creating a piece of work in the style of a favourite artist.
Its easy to assemble a quick still life.... a china cup, a pomegranate ( don't you just love those jewel like seeds!) and a little treasured oriental jar which belonged to my mother. I assembled my little collection on some bright butterfly paper.
I used this wonderful paper to work on, it is made from bamboo and is excellent for mixed media projects.
I used a combination of gouache and neocolour crayon. Once dry I dabbed white gesso over the surface to mute the lines. I noticed in Kaffe's colour drawings that he did not have hard edges on his objects, and I really liked the way his patterns almost blurred into one another.
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| Kaffe Fasset |
Of course I didn't want to copy the magical Kaffe, I wanted to capture the feeling of joy his colour studies bring and also keep my own style....
So it seemed right to add some gold flakes, metallics feature in most of my work, I just love these shiny pieces of magic. I am sure I must have been a magpie in a past life as I am drawn to anything glittery!
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| Oriental jar |
linking up this week to Inspiration Avenue
Lovely piece! I love many of the same things, like pomegranates and your bamboo paper. Sounds like a fun challenge, too!
ReplyDeleteThis is superb, taking an idea from Kaffe but making it your own and I love the addition of gold. It's also very clever the way you have used and painted the patterned butterfly paper.
ReplyDeleteGreat result.
Thanks for the tip about the bamboo paper. I know someone, an artist friend, who will love this as a Christmas present.
Isn't gesso a wonderful thing? And gold flakes. I have a lovely pot of them and should use them more often. I think you have achieved everything you set out too with this piece.
ReplyDeleteMorag, I love it! Your oriental jar is stunningly beautiful. I'm always so afraid of adding too much to the background, but when you do it, it's all lovely. Oh, I'll have to let go of that fear. Thanks for being such an inspiration.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful !
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely rendition of your oriental jar. The gold flakes and the vivid colors are striking! Thank you for sharing your work for our Favorite Artist challenge this week!
ReplyDeleteI have never heard about Fasset. I am going to google him. Love your painting.It is vibrant!
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful, you certainly captured the KF style but made it your own - I love the gold feature. Betty
ReplyDeletefabulous art and captures its delicateness
ReplyDeleteWhat a special piece, it looks so delicate and beautiful, it is done in your style and the colours are beautiful and so bright! I don't usually like still life so much but this is so lovely, I love it!
ReplyDeleteOh wow, this is so very pretty! I love the blends of beautiful colours, the use of the pomegranate seeds as jewel like in the arrangement and the gilded detai you've added.
ReplyDeleteKat :-) (visiting from IA)
Oh and thanks for introducing me to the concept of Bamboo paper - I shall be looking at getting some myself to try..:-)
ReplyDeleteI love your painting! The colors are amazing and it's beautiful how you did the pattern and the background and the whole composition! Phantastic artwork!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful colours and beautiful work, Morag.
ReplyDeleteOh I love how you showed the comparison...wow beautiful and I can see where your inspiration comes from... Love the end piece and I love glittery things too!! Really wonderful work!
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