Tag: landscape art

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Rachael Pease

~ humoringthegoddess ~ 12 Comments

Rachael Pease’s lush drawings, crafted in India ink on frosted Mylar, create mystical settings from trees and plant life observed in reality.

Pease grew up in rural Indiana surrounded by vast lands and forests, which influenced her works.Her pieces often start with a trees she’s come across – in the woods, at national parks, and sometime in the city.She takes pictures from different angles, prints them, and stitches them together to make collages, transforming what she’s observed in her daily life into surreal and timeless landscapes that contemplate the impermanence of the natural world.

She also consciously frames the drawings in a circle or oval, which seems to emulate the perspective of binoculars or a telescope.

In some works, the branches of the trees dominate the composition, in others, it is the strong labyrinth of roots.Her work is inspirational and lively, intricate and magical.More of Rachael Pease’s intricate drawings can be found at .https://www.rachaelpease.com.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Rice Patty Art

~ humoringthegoddess ~ 10 Comments

Rice Paddy Art, called as “Tanbo Art” in Japanese,  is a work of art in which gigantic pictures are drawn on the rice field as canvas by mixing different colors of rice plants instead of paint.

Its detailed description and high artistic quality bring a large number of tourists every year.Rice paddy art began in 1993 when purple and yellow rice plants were used to make a picture of Mt. Iwaki along with letters on rice paddies.This curious art style, started in a village called Inakadate in Aomori Prefecture drew in so many people, the topic spread all across Japan, Korea and Taiwan.The main purpose behind the creation was to take advantage of the tradition of manual work in rice cultivation to give people an opportunity to learn more about rice farming and agriculture.The massive pictures are elaborately designed using perspective drawing methods to make them look their best when seen from the observation platform.

These days there are over 100 locations doing rice paddy art. 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Wolf Kahn

~ humoringthegoddess ~ 4 Comments

The unique blend of Realism and the formal discipline of Color Field painting sets the work of Wolf Kahn (1927-) apart.

 

WK_Surprising_Greensmall_222430

His convergence of light and color has been described as combining pictorial landscapes and painterly abstraction.

2c52010e4250930264e6498f4bd6e127

It is precisely Kahn’s fusion of color, spontaneity and representation that has produced such a rich and expressive body of work.

WK_Translucent_Large_Versionsmall_225692

Splitting his time between his studios in New York and Vermont, Kahn renders his pastoral surroundings with a mixture of abstraction and representation and with a keen attentiveness to light and color.

WK_Small_Tree_in_the_Cornersmall_221392

These lush, vibrant, oil-on-canvas paintings read as studies of form and color as much as meditations on the landscapes he has come to understand so well—and has helped others to know, too.

WK_Nearly_Opaquesmall_226482

Kahn offers some advice that, perhaps, might be of value to a younger generation of painters. “In order to make a living as an artist, you’ve got to be one of two things: A very nice guy, or a bad egg.”

63c27bad38b6e8d209337f9854fdefd5

From the deft touch of his paintings, Wolf Kahn is definitely the first.

7c5ebfc839ed375812593075473f0d89

WK_Trees_Against_Magentasmall_221450

Wolf Kahn’s amazing art can be found at http://www.wolfkahn.com/