click the image below to watch the video/ 3-4 minutes in length plein air painting in canada / ice cloud / 48″ x 48″ / 2010 janet bright
Author: jjill
field 103w / 48″ x 48″
field 103w / 48″ x 48″ / acrylic on canvas / created en plein air (see video)
the sketchbook project
The Sketchbook Project is an international, collaborative art project where each participating artist fills every page of a Moleskine sketchbook in any medium, based on a chosen theme. I’ve begun my sketchbook with the selected theme, ‘Faces in the Crowd’; a theme with great figurative & commentary potential. Figurative sketching and painting have long been an […]
ice cloud / 48″ x 48″
ice cloud / 48″ x 48″ / acrylic on canvas / created en plein air (see video)
st. norbert arts centre
Two days into a weeklong stay at St. Norbert Arts Centre, my computer crashed and pushed me into the pre-digital world of manual creation & record-keeping, slow observation and solitude. Not a bad thing because I accomplished (most of) what I had set out to do and learned a lot in the process. For now, […]
abstract. what now?
I’ve run up against a wall today because my current painting theories are being challenged by a painting that’s still under the brush. My Twitter post this morning said, “after so much talk about the need for ‘recognition of reality’ in art, this painting = abstract …” Until now I’ve been safely cocooned in the […]
Highspeed Painting Video / Nuit Plein / acrylic on canvas
Painting a painting from start to finish. nuit plein / 48″ x 48″ / 2010 -janet bright
glacer / 30″ x 30″
glacer / 30″ x 30″ / acrylic on canvas
support or stifling? / creativity at school
Is there support for creativity in today’s schools or is it stifled and labeled as self indulgent activity lacking in focus? Undoubtedly, both supporting and stifling of creativity are in action in today’s schools. The elementary environments I’ve encountered recently appear to have the task of applying rules and rating systems (in an attempt to […]
memorealism
Taking a page from the history of artist’s past, I’ve come to name my current style of painting. The name MemoRealism takes into account two important aspects of human experience that I believe are paramount in the creation of art that ellicits emotion, reaction and a sense of satisfaction for an artist and inevitably the […]