Tag: water
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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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The Atlantic…
If you remember, “more water drawings” was on my list of “10 ideas”, and I have stuck to my resolution of not having any more ideas until I use up the ones on my list. These two oil pastels are the first I’ve done since getting back from Portugal last month. It was refreshing to be…
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Big, Big Lake (Georgia Road Trip, Part 4)
With ‘democracy’ in Turkey resumed and in full swing, we continued on our way to Georgia, ‘slowly-slowly’, as they say in Turkey. We meandered from the Menderes River waterfall to Lake Eğirdir, passing a wind farm in the middle of nowhere (reminding me that there is a moral component to aesthetics and explaining why objections to wind turbines on…
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What’s going on?
This is the latest of my ‘water oil pastels’ – water scenes, done in oil pastels. The scenes are imaginary, a combination of photographs I’ve taken to use as ‘sketches’ and imagin-A-tion. In the case of these drawings/paintings, this means that you are not the only one who doesn’t know exactly what’s going on. Neither do I. And,…
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Indolence…
It’s the lazy season around our house these days. Next door there’s banging – lots of loud, house-building banging – which is unfortunate, because it’s just the time of year when my ‘outside studio’ is at its most pleasant. The banging (and the occasional excruciating whine of metal slicing through metal) has been a good excuse for not…
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“Shoot the Artist at the Right Moment”
There’s some saying I heard once somewhere about how to create a masterpiece: “Shoot the artist at the right moment.” Basically, what that’s saying is that artists tend to overwork, never know when to quit, and in the process of going after perfection, end up fucking things up. I was in the studio yesterday for the…
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A Photographic Interlude
It was when Mel was in Istanbul being a poet that we were able to take over the house in Foça. In addition to some watercolors of the coastline, I managed to take some photos of some beautiful waterfalls inland, up towards Manisa. Getting there was an adventure in itself (let’s just say that anytime…
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Heads Above Water
I think that’s going to be the title for my most recent oil pastel drawing in my series of water drawings. When I was finishing this drawing, part of me wanted to paint out the white ‘waves’ so that the drawing would be just 2 disembodied heads in a field of blue. But I kind of like…
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Take me to the river, drop me in the water
Well, not the river but the sea, and I am feeling immersed in it, even though I am presently sitting well above the high-water mark inside a cafe overlooking the sea and Kos. The waves appear to be coming from the west – a reverse-migration? You might not believe me, but the lit-up waves are looking to…
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Valentine’s Day Open Studio
So, a friend of mine mentioned an artist she read about who was trying to survive on donations she was soliciting as a means of support for her art-making. I’m guessing that if she’s doing this through a crowdfunding web site, she’s “giving away” pieces of artwork as “gifts” to the folks making these donations. I suppose that…
Deborah Semel Demirtaş 