New Section added to my Etsy Shop

Red Poll


Scarlet Pitta


Blue and White Flycatcher


Scarlet Tanager


Green Heron



Plover Chick

These six prints are available in my etsy shop Sixsisters.
They are all printed on archival paper . The would be a great gift
anytime of the year. Each print measures 3.5 X 5 inches.
This is an affordable way to own art .

Two New Items at SIxsisters Shop

Dove of Peace - Original Acrylic Painting



Neighborhood Girl - ACEO - Original Watercolor


You can see these items and many more affordable works of art at my Etsy shop Sixsisters.

Thursday Artist Quotes ~ Helen Frankenthaler - 1928 American Artist

Madam Matisse



Photo of artist preparing to start work



Mountains and Sea

"It was all there. I wanted to live in this land. I had to live there, and master the language."
Said by Frankenthaler after first seeing a Jackson Pollock exhibit.

Her career was launched in 1952 with the exhibition of Mountains and Sea. This painting is large - measuring seven feet by ten feet - and has the effect of a watercolor, though it is painted in oils. In it, she introduced the technique of painting directly onto an unprepared canvas so that the material absorbs the colors. She heavily diluted the oil paint with turpentine so that the color would soak into the canvas. This technique, known as "soak stain" was used by Jackson Pollock and others; and was adopted by other artists (notably Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland) and launched the second generation of the Color Field school of painting. This method would sometimes leave the canvas with a halo effect around each area to which the paint was applied.

Moon Over the Junk Yard - Original Acrylic Painting

You can see this painting at Sixsisters.

Thursday Artist Quotes ~ William Blake 1757 ~ 1827

The Lovers Whirl from Dante 's Inferno


Ancient of Days


Beatrice addressing Dante


Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing.


Sconfitta



William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English
language". His visual artistry has led one modern critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".

In 1788, at the age of 31, Blake began to experiment with relief etching, a method he would use to produce most of his books, paintings, pamphlets and, of course, his poems, including his longer 'prophecies' and his masterpiece the "Bible." The process is also referred to as illuminated printing, and final products as illuminated books or prints. Illuminated printing involved writing the text of the poems on copper plates with pens and brushes, using an acid-resistant medium. Illustrations could appear alongside words in the manner of earlier illuminated manuscripts. He then etched the plates in acid in order to dissolve away the untreated copper and leave the design standing in relief (hence the name).
This is a reversal of the normal method of etching, where the lines of the design are exposed to the acid, and the plate printed by the intaglio method. Relief etching, which Blake invented, later became an important commercial printing method. The pages printed from these plates then had to be hand-coloured in water colours and stitched together to make up a volume. Blake used illuminated printing for most of his well-known works, including Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Book of Thel, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Jerusalem.

'The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.' Blake

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Thursday Artist Quotes ~ Leonora Carrington ~ 1917 ~

Bird Bath


Tuesday


Leonora Carrington


I Wanted To Be A Bird




Leonora Carrington (1917- present) is one of the major figures in the twentieth century Surrealist movement. Carrington, like other Surrealists, sought pictorial avenues to gain access to the unconscious, the irrational, and the instinctual. Carrington wove pieces of feminine self-awareness into fantastic narratives of magical beasts, impossible rooms, and incredible gardens. Her vocabulary included animal and plant imagery with many fantastic or metamorphosing hybrids. The rooms or landscapes were often perplexing and bizarre, in which the unusual creatures acted out strange rituals. Carrington was born in Lancashire, England in 1917 and was a spirited child growing up. After expulsion from several English schools she went to Florence to study art. Back in London, Carrington was impressed by seeing the First International Surrealist Exhibition in London and became friends with Max Ernst who was lecturing in London. Together they went to France and lived and worked together for the next three years. In 1940 Carrington fled to Spain to escape the Nazis. In 1942 she moved to Mexico where she has lived ever since.


"I didn't have time to be anyone's muse...I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist." --Leonora Carrington, 1983

Edward Hopper - 1882-1967 Thursday Artist Quotes

Morning Sun


Nighthawks



Solitude


Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. In both his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.

this quote is taken from a statement made after visiting France. "Whom did I meet ? Nobody. I'd heard of Gertrude Stein but I didn't
remember having heard of Picasso at all. I used to go to the cafe's at night and sit and watch. Paris had no great impact on me."