Jennifer Bowman

I believe everyone is an artist in some way, whether it is the presentation of a fine meal or the construction of a beautiful home, the wording of a contract or the way a mother raises a child. Each of us has the ability to make art. Mine just happens to be in paint.?

After spending nearly two years aboard a sailboat and cruising the West Coast, I really came to appreciate the quality of light and how different latitudes could affect the way I would see a subject. My favorite experience evolves around capturing warm reflected light on bougainvillea-draped buildings in Mexico. That same investigation of how light plays off of an item is what galvanizes me into painting a subject. It doesn?t matter if it is a ferryboat or a bouquet of flowers.
When teaching, I try to get my students to 'SEE' the different ways that the color gray is present in our images. Everything shy of a pure color pigment is a mixture of primary colors that give us a whole world of beautiful grays. My grays have a whole lot of purple to them. The interaction of warm light and cool shadows is what excites me about painting. I am third generation artist and am a winner of the coveted Skagit Valley Tulip, Edmonds Arts and the Anacortes Arts Festival posters. I have designed Washington State's new Heritage Birth Certificate and have worked with Eddie Bauer on a Catalog cover. My work can be found in both private and corporate collections locally and internationally, including France and the Netherlands. My art is being added to The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Tulip Museum project in the Emirgan Woods, Turkey in the Fall of 2013.

I teach 12 workshops a year, some near my hometown of Anacortes, Washington, gateway to the San Juan Islands and some in Alaska and Mexico. I divide my time between that, painting for the local art festival circuit, keeping up with my fifteen-year-old son and occasionally going sailing with my husband. You can watch an instructional video of me at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuPZ51dt8qE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfxZpMxQVxM

 

 

Marcia Baldwin

My name is Marcia Baldwin and I am a full time professional artist specializing in Oil Paintings.
I love large formats and brilliant color. My true passion is color theory and design and how compositions can play an emotional role in the viewer. Art has always been a passion of mine. I knew from a very early age that art was going to be a strong influence in my life and that I wanted to know as much about art as I could possibly learn. I still strive to learn something new every day.
It takes practice and patience to be a full time artist and I am finally able to devote one hundred percent of my professional life to my studio work.  After many years working in and around art, making a living as an advertising designer, art teacher, art consultant, photographic artisan and many other niches,
I finally opened my art studio to the dedication of purely fine art. I am a trained artist, receiving a BFA and a MFA in the seventies and eighties, respectively. I loved the years I put forth to formal art training.
It is invigorating to be around people with that same passion to learning and exploring the creative and problem solving side of your personality. The people who share this passion greatly influence your though patterns about your art work. It is really great to see the different outcomes from the various people when working on a creative project. We are all looking at the same thing, painting or sculpting or drawing, but each individual will see it a little different and the creation of beautiful works, each individually unique. It is truly amazing.
 For myself, I love oil painting. I love animals and flowers and nature itself. I believe that I was given a talent by God to share His beauty about the world through the use of paint and canvas. I try to relate the love of nature and His Blessings through my art. I hope that the collectors of my work can be touched in some way to Stop and Smell the Roses for a moment and reflect on the joy and beauty that has been given to us each day.
I live in a very beautiful state, working and living on the shores of a lake surrounded by huge tall pine trees and stately southern live oaks. Nature is bountiful. Foxes play and romp across my front lawn. Squirrels and birds hop from one feeder to the next. Wildflowers and flowering trees such as redbuds and dogwood are a blanket of beauty through undergrowth among the trees. It is truly a blessing that I have been given this time to work in my art studio and be surrounded with this serenity.
http://www.marciabaldwin.artspan.com/large-multi-view/FLOWERS/17721-189-36/FLOWERS.html#.U3tskjkiNMs

Reflation:  I have find Marcia Baldwin powerful it’s because the way he create or paint the flowers it look amazing  and most of his flowers paint close and it give beautiful view. I really like how he paint light colours very well. I may try his skill in my paintings, using light colours and style of the flowers. 

Simon Phan

Simon Phan (b. 1990) studied Graphic Design at the University of the Arts London (UAL). He moved back to Vietnam after five years of studying and working as a freelancer in the UK. His main interest surrounds the practice of digital art and sketching, where his inspirations from ordinary objects, daily activities and people’s conversations can be visualized. His artworks have been featured in the Future Map Exhibition – where the most talented graduates of UAL were chosen, as well as the MTV Young At Art exhibition in London. He constantly explores different styles of art in his illustrations, but is most interested in contemporary art.

Refection: I have find Simon artwork useful as idea how to use figure in the painting. He use women face for few of  his artwork and draw lots of flowers on the top women head and it looks interest how the face look little with flowers design. 

Marney Ward 

Marney has been interested in perception, consciousness and creativity for most of her life. In the seventies, she earned a PhD from the University of British Columbia on the art and poetry of William Blake. Her Blake-inspired interest in consciousness led her to study with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Europe, and then to devote a decade to teaching Transcendental Meditation. In the early nineties, with her youngest child in school, she decided to revisit her first passion, art. From classes in Chinese Brush Painting she learned practical techniques of brushwork and how to take advantage of the peculiar challenges and magical properties of water. From her lifelong mentor Emily Carr, she was inspired to express the living spirit within everything she paints.

Marney studied with watercolour artists Caren Heine, Ann Hunter, Sheena Lott,  Brent Heighton, Kiff Holland, Allan Bruce, Elizabeth Kincaid, and many others. She learned from each but went on to develop her own unique style: large, vibrant, often back-lit close-ups that reveal not only the minute particulars of each flower but also her own emotional and spiritual connection to that flower. Marney has taught watercolour classes for over 15 years, previously through Camosun College and Artworld, and currently through her own home teaching studio.

In 2000, Marney was granted Associate Signature Status, AFCA, with the Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA). In 2011, she was granted Senior Signature Status, SFCA, the highest ranking possible with the Federation of Canadian Artists. Marney is a Past President of the Victoria Chapter of the FCA and has served as juror for several shows on Vancouver Island. She has won 18 awards in various juried exhibitions in Victoria and Vancouver, most recently in the FCA-sponsored Annual International Representational Show 2012 (AIRS) in Vancouver. Marney has twice been featured in International Artist (April/May 2009 and October/November 2011) and her paintings have graced the front cover of Focus (July 2008) and Art Avenue (May/June 2011) magazines. She is featured in three books published in 2011: Artists of British Columbia Volume III, Coastal Moments, and The Island Illustrators Society. Marney is represented by Winchester Galleries in Victoria, BC, Canada, where she has had two major solo exhibitions, in 2008 and 2010 (See video below). She also shows at The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the world-renowned Butchart Gardens, and Federation Gallery in Vancouver, BC.

Refection:  Artwork of Marney looks interest, she use lots of light colours and work from photography. I have find her painting interest because the way she used light in her flowers painting and the most important part that is she use watercolours and creating her painting beautifully. Some of Marney painting are closer and it looks great because we can see the line on the flowers.

I have find this images very interest for my study because I'm look for this kind of word to use in my painting board. This writing represent God Name in my language. what I really like about this work the it designed or written.  

Painting By: Tim Maguire
 Tim painting is about flowers and  he paint flowers from very close way. I like Tim painting because his use bright colours and also his painting depict highly magnified floral imagery. His painting based on everyday and nature.

when look at Tim painting he use bright background for his painting and I got a ideas to experiment  with my flowers painting. Using mirror I will try  experiment painting flowers on mirror to see how to work. The main ideas behind using mirror as part of my subject matter I want people to see the painting as well themselves as part of flower.  

Painting of Tim looks interste becuse he mostly paint flowers from close age and he painting look realiste and he use some colours reall flowers.

 This image i have take from interten becuse i love realistes flowers i want see how much artist painting realist images and also this flowers have a beatiuful colours and i love lights colours of flowers.Most of floweres have meaing that people use for imporant events.
 Red Flowers:
There is good reason red roses are given to sweethearts. It's because red is symbolic of passion, love, and energy. Red runs through our bodies in raging rivers of blood. Red rushes to our cheeks when we feel the heat of our feelings. Red resonates with the root chakra and reminds us of our animal instincts. Indeed, red is the spark that kindles our most fervent flames of desire. Send red flowers to someone who needs a jolt of energy - this shock of color is sure to get their engines revving.



Green Flowers
Anybody who has endured a long winter will tell you how jazzed they get at the first glimmer of green in spring. The meaning of flower color in green is about renewal, growth, hope, health and youth. Think of luscious emerald lawns, the smell rich with juicy goodness. You can't help but smile at the thought. Green is also the color of the heart chakra, and so it takes on the meaning of good health. Bright green is the color of Mother Nature at her highest peak. Feel her bounty and embrace her gifts of harvest and health. Express these sentiments by giving a verdant ivy to a friend or loved one today.

 For me ever flowers and plants have meaning, most plants  and flowers used in diffrent way. I love flowers and flowers is one of my favourites.

Artwork by: Nicole Andrijevic & Tanya Schultz
http://www.emptykingdom.com/featured/nicole-andrijevic-tanya-schultz/

Artwork of Tanya Schultz give aesthetic and I like martial that she use in artworks. Tanya artwork is accessible because she use bright colours and making different type of shapes of flowers. other thing that I love about Tanya artwork is she use the ground and walls as background and the work look flat its great for the viewers .

I have find this four images from internet the reason I have choice this paintings to write about is because this fours image give me knowledge how to paint flowers, how display paintings, and the most important part what colours should I use for my painting. I have fine that researching is important part of artwork to create because ever time you see artwork you think different way about it, the more research you do and you have better chance to create great artwork because you studying other artists artwork and learning new skills from them create your own work.

 

 

 

Artwork by: Miriam Schapiro 1980
Fabric,Glitter,Sythetic polymer paint on canvas

This artwork made by artist Miriam I really like this image because its full of flowers and colours. when I looked at this image closely it looked great, because the way artist used flowers, shapes and colours it look amazing. Other thing that I really loved about this artwork is the detail of the flowers it give the work contest to look more beautiful.
I really like the skill that Miriam use in her artwork, she work with three mina maiden, which is painting sculpture and printmaking.

Further information

With its use of collaged fabric and decorative patterning, ‘Black bolero’ exemplifies the two art movements that Miriam Schapiro helped to shape: feminist art and the pattern and decoration movement. Her use of appliqué and decorative motifs was seen as a feminisation, and a critique, of the reductive abstraction that dominated the art market at the time – a gesture that parodied the concise abstractions of male artists such as Frank Stella with an excess of decoration.
After early success in New York as a hard edge colour field painter, Schapiro began tutoring at the University of California in San Diego in 1967. Here she met the radical feminist artist Judy Chicago and later, with Chicago, started up the first Feminist Arts Program at Cal-Arts, Los Angeles. With 21 students, they created Womanhouse, a community-based project that involved taking over a house and allowing each student to create an installation/environment in one of the rooms. The teaching involved daily consciousness-raising sessions in which the women discussed not only art issues but were encouraged to talk about their personal experiences of being a woman in a male-dominated society.
Following her involvement in Womanhouse, Schapiro began lecturing across the United States using slides of ‘traditional’ women’s craftwork such as knitting, embroidery, lacemaking and quilting, explaining how a history written by men had marginalised and trivialised these crafts and in doing so had excluded women’s important contribution to American culture. In her own work, she began using fabric collaged onto the paint of her canvases and shaping her canvases to resemble giant fans and hearts. She coined the term ‘femmage’ to describe her collages using elements of traditional women’s craftwork.
In 1974 Schapiro returned to New York. With fellow artist Joyce Kozloff, she organised meetings and discussion groups with the aim of starting up a women’s art school and feminist art journal. This resulted in the foundation of both the Feminist Art Institute and the journal ‘Heresies’, which became a major voice of the feminist art movement and helped to change entrenched attitudes towards women artists in many parts of the Western world. Also in New York, she started exhibiting with other artists who were using patterning in their work, both male and female, such as Joyce Kozloff and Robert Zakanitch. They became known as the pattern and decoration movement.
© Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Collection Handbook, 2006

Book:Contemporary Art Gallery of NEW South Wales Contemporary Collection,2006

  

Artwork By
Hossein Valamanesh at the Art Gallery of South Australia. 

Some information about artist artwork:

         The writing literally is on the wall for Hossein Valamanesh at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Each time the artist installs his Untitled  work in a new location, he must re-create its shadow text.
Valamanesh features with many of the state's leading artists in the Australian Art Activations  exhibition as part of this year's SALA Festival, which starts on Friday.
Works by Fiona Hall, Tony Bishop, Sally Smart, Anthony Hamilton, Louise Haselton, Yhonnie Scarce, Sue Kneebone and Gerry Wedd will be shown alongside more traditional pieces.
Valamanesh, who was born in Iran, is the subject of this year's SALA monograph book.
His 1994 Untitled  work consists of a folded shirt intricately constructed from lotus leaves.
The shadow he painted yesterday contains Farsi text from a Sufi poem, which translates as: "I tear my shirt with every breath for the extent of ecstasy and joy of being in love; now he has become all my being, and I am only a shirt."

 

Valamanesh said he loved the contrast between the stiff shirt and the openness of the poem.
"It's nice because it sort of changes slightly every time I've done it," he says.
 
Reflation:
I had find Hussaini artwork really interest to look as sample for this project that I am doing, because his artwork somehow relate to his culture and country. What I really about this pieces of artwork is the text written in way human shadow and it look interest.

 

I found this image interest look as sample because of the colour and written text around the border. For this artwork the text is explaining about colours ,shape of flowers and beauty of flowers how  God create this beautiful natures beauty.

 

Painting By: Jalil  Jokar

I have found Jalil  painting really interested because this type of painting that I am looking for it as sample. what I really like about this painting colours, flowers and sign of birds.

Painting By: Alireza Aghmiri

  

Painting By Roya Mirbod

I had find this image from internet and I really like the colours of the text and shape. I want to use text in my own artwork because I belief God and praying God is one Islamic rule that people follow.

                            
Painting By Mahmoud Farshchian
Master of Persian Miniature:

I have visit this websitehttp://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/Master_of_Persian_Miniature.htm, and I had find  great information on Iranian painting Miniature. what I really like about this type of painting is the style, richness colours, and meaning of painting. I love artists that use lots of light colours and flowers, and different themes on their painting.

Here Is some information about history of Miniature painting:


Origin of Persian Miniatures Persian miniature is a richly detailed miniature painting which depicts religious or mythological themes from the region of the Middle East now known as Iran. The art of miniature painting in Persia flourished from the 13th through the 16th centuries, and continues to this day, with several contemporary artists producing notable Persian miniatures. These delicate, lush paintings are typically visually stunning, with a level of detail which can only be achieved with a very fine hand and an extremely small brush.
Persian miniature is a small painting, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts, which probably had an influence on the origins of the Persian tradition.

Painting by Mahmoud Farshchian

Information about Artist

After receiving his diploma from Isfahan's high school for the fine arts, Farshchian left for Europe, where he studied the works of the great Western masters of Painting. Consequently, he developed an innovative artistic style with universal appeal. Upon his return to Iran, he began to work at the National Institute of Fine Arts (which later became the Ministry of Art and Culture) and, in time, was appointed director of the Department of National Arts and professor at the university of Tehran's School of Fine Arts. All the while, word of his exemplary works spread far and wide beyond national borders. He has been exhibited in 57 individual shows and 86 group shows in Iran, Europe, America and Asian countries. His works are represented in several museums and major collections worldwide. He has been awarded more than ten prizes by various art institutes and cultural centers. He has a doctorate (grade 1 in arts) in Iranian painting and Islamic arts from the High Council of Culture and Art.
reflation on artwork
=What I really like about Farshchian the way he used colours and figures in his paintings it give beautiful to look to the painting. what also I got interested in his paintings the way he made around shape to the painting.