New Artwork Post. Op Art, Pop Art and Abstract Art.

 

 

 

 Hello viewers from all over the world. This blog post is quite late. Blame it on the Pandemic.

Anyway, here we are. As usual, I will only comment on a peice of art if I feel it needs it.

The first piece is one of my all time favourites.

Olya

The next is one that my friend Roger likes a lot.

 Ice Storm on Neptune

Roughly between 1968 and 1972, the use of pink and black in magazine hippy-style art and posters was quite common. I've always liked that style and decided I'd make a wall hanging peice of my own, in the Op Art genre.

1968 style wall hanging

A bit of abstract art:

Networking

The following six images could be straight out of late 60's - early70's, undergound comics. They nicley fit the Op Art style as well.

 

 A note about Vibrating colours: For over 50 years, I've been in love with the effects possible by using vibrating colours. Put simply, I like images that play tricks with your vision and perception. These are colours which when placed next to each other and have the same spatial hue, seem to move or vibrate. People with colour blidness, may have problems in seeing the next few images as they are intened to look. I aplogise for that.

Boom

 

The Word, "Oz" in the title below, is a reference to the Oz magazine from the early 1970s. There was a great deal of artwork in the Oz magazine and underground comics, in this style back then. The word. "comix" was created to diferentiate between the standard comics and the ungerground ones.

 

Oz Spiral

Hippy Quarter

 

Pop Twists

 

Red & Blue Flower

 

 

Flower

Moving on to less visually agressive images, the next peice is another of my favourites. Artists often struggle with the difficult question, "When is a peice of work finished?" With the following peice, I didn't have that issue. As soon as I'd got the circle against the grey background, I knew it was finished. It was perfect in it's simplicity of form and colour. It's the first time I've felt like that with one of my works.

 

Saw Blade

 

Corona Discharge

 

Fetish

 

Winter Beach

 

I like Hundertwasser's paintings and architexture. For one thing, he hated straight lines. He said that you didn't get straight lines in nature.

 

Hundertwasser

 

Errosion

Crystal Room

A couple of years ago, I saw a small exhibition of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's drawings and paintings, in Sheffield. I was particularly impressed with her drawings of rock and stone. I live in a hilly area, there is a great deal of bedrock here. I was born in the Pennine Mountain chain, rocks are part of my life. I love the cracks, shades, shadows, colours and the flora and fauna which live on them. They produce wonderful opportunities for photography. I wanted to try and emulate her ability to give life to them. Below is the result, it's my tribute to Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.

 

Rock Hollow Quarry

Now for some nore abstract art.

Splash

Detonation

 

Six Instars

Esther

 

The following, is a tribute to the painter Robert Delauney. I like the speckled, "dotted" look of some of his paintings. I wanted to try and get that nice, soft, result. The piece below is about texture, it does not particularly reflect the forms he used in his work.

Wooltown

It seemed a good idea to finish with a strong colours.

Sensual Curves

I hope these images were worth the wait. I said last time, that I would post about every 2 months. I didn't manage it. I will try to do so next time. I already know that the next post will be some of my photography, possibly with a few pieces of artwork thrown in for good measure.

Keep safe in these difficult times. 

Gordon.

Oilbar Monoprints.

Hello World.

As usual, my latest post to this blog is a lot later than I hoped. Life sometimes throws things at you, stopping you having fun. Ah well, here is my first set of experiments in Oilbar monoprints. I shall be doing a lot more of them, now all the building work in our house has finished.

Over 50 years ago,  when I was at art school, they started me with oil paints. After a few weeks, I became dissatisfied with the long drying times involved with oils. It was suggested that I tried using acrylic paints. They dry a lot faster, almost immediately in fact. I loved them and used them for a long time, until other things such as playing music and holding down a, "proper job" got in the way. I gave up painting many years ago.

Last year, on YouTube, I discovered a growing number of art tutorials by the wonderful UK artist and sculptor, Dan Tirels. His videos inspired me to start painting again, using oil paint in a stick form. Actually, although it is painting, the technique is called Monoprinting. I started to work with Oilbars at the beginning of this year. There are eighteen monoprints of mine below.

On Dan's web page, he invites people who have been inspired by his tutorials to send examples of their work to him and he will put them in his web page gallery. I was very flattered that he took six of my pieces for display there.

Please take a look at Dan's videos on YouTube and visit his web page. Have a good look round and tell your friends about him. Click the URL link below to be taken to his page. There is also a link on the right-hand side of this blog.

www.dantirels.co.uk

I'm thinking of making 40 prints to bind in a book. They'll be varnished with matt varnish to protect them. Once I've designed the cover for it, I can begin assembling the project. Each image will have a sheet of tracing paper between it and the next one.

I'm not going to make any comments on the works below, they should be able to speak for themselves.

Curtains, lights, on with the show!

Anarchy #2

Aztec

 Balloons

 Bonfire Night

 Fire Dance

Fuge #1

 Lyrical

 Man With Scarfe

 Orchestra Conductor

Jungle Dawn

Ouroboros

 Remix

 Rock Study #1

 Tree Spirit

Spring

Sphinx

Sea Storm

Tunnels

Until next time, look after each other.

Abstract Art, Abstract Expressionism, Modern Art, Photomontage, Photography.

Hello and welcome to everyone around the world. At last, the new post. Between continuing health issues and major work being done inside our house, I have  been kept away from blogging for a while. This post is a mixture of my latest work. As always, if  I think a piece needs any comments, I will add them immediately above that piece of art. So, in no special order, on with the show.

I'm starting with one I was particularly pleased with. As some of the regular readers will know, I have done a fair bit of Fine Art printing. I'm hoping to start again, once the work on the house is finished. The artwork below is in a fine art print style and came out far better than my expectations.

Still Life #7

Next, two more which I like a lot, both in a fine art print style.

Growth

Caves

Recently, we had some heavy snowfalls here in the village, followed by freezing conditions. The image below is a photograph of ice which had somehow created a bubble like surface. The ice was about 1 inch thick, (25.4cm).

 Ice Bubbles

The next image continues with the idea of something being frozen, then painted.

In Ice

I think it's time for something suggesting warm weather. I think the title says all I want to say about it.

Summer of  '67 #2

The next five pieces are part of  a series. They were created using a technique I was inventing, (making up) as I worked on the images. It was very experimental, I had no clear idea what the results would be like. It was quite exciting for me and gave me a pleasant surprise. 

Daleside

The following work, (The Last Mill Chimney) is a lament for the loss of England's great textile industry.

The Last Mill Chimney

Vases

Standing Figures

Three Harbour Views

The one below is a photomontage. It's part of a series entitled, "Lost Mills". It is another lament for our textile industry. Textiles are a huge part of Yorkshire's heritage, and were the main factor in it's wealth for a long time. For those visitors to this blog from overseas, I will explain that the area of Yorkshire I live is very hilly, being in the Pennine Mountain chain. It is a wonderful water catchment area, with plenty of streams and rivers, and is suitable for sheep. The water is "soft" i.e. it runs through Millstone Grit, (sandstone) and not Limestone. The calcium and magnesium carbonates in Limestone, result in "hard" water. Soft water is perfect for washing the oils and lanolin from the wool of sheep. (Soap lathers far better in soft water). Naturally, a textile industry formed here.  That was a very potted history of our textile industry, missing a lot out, such as the Industrial Revolution and the Luddites. Sorry Yorkshire! I'm (slowly) adding images to the "Lost Mill" series. 

Lost Mill #4

Quite a few of the next images fall loosely under the heading of  Abstract Expressionism, but by no means all of them. Two or three are abstract photomontage works. The rest are, well, take a look and decide for yourselves.

Devolving

Rays of Glory

Druid's Temple

Countryside Study

Island Splash

Seabed

Sunken Atlantis

Lambda

1950s Cocktail Bar

Lime

Green Rain

Robot 7XB

Robot 7XB was the last image in this post. I hope you liked what you have seen, or at least liked some of it. I've not decided what the subject of the next post will be yet. I do know that it is unlikely I shall be able to do another post within the next six weeks or so. I have to wait until the work being carried out at home is finished and I have access to my studio again. Plus we shall be taking a holiday on The Isle of Arran, in Scotland soon. We were there two years ago and I fell in love with it. I came home with a lot of photos, many of which are in this blog. Look at the post on Seaweeds for a start. I hope to be getting a lot more photos of parts of Arran that we didn't see last time.  I love malt whisky, so we shall be visiting the Arran Whisky distillery for certain. I'm getting excited already.

Please don't forget to leave a comment, thank you.

In the meantime, be nice to each other.

Gordon.