Tag: painting
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“Karne” (Report Card
Half-finished Prismacolor sketch of the sea, just north of Foça Well, all the world’s school children are onto their summer holidays after getting their report cards for the year. In Turkey, the last day of school is the much-anticipated moment when your kids carry home their “karne” and parents celebrate the accomplishments of their offspring.…
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Art Activity and Embodied Consciousness from Enrique Martinez Celaya
“I eliminated from my painting anything that anybody has ever said that I was good at. So if I was good at drawing, I took it out. If I was told I had facility with color, I took it out. And then I said, “Well, if I give up all these things, what is painting,…
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An Oil Painting Lesson
I’ve taken a break from collages and books and other things to do – of all things – an oil painting – on canvas. How in the world did this happen?? In fact, a couple of years ago I ordered a bunch of oil sticks, since they fall right in the middle of painting with…
Deborah Semel Demirtaş 