2006-08-29
15:58
Grass Roots with Blue
UPDATE – Added Blue’s latest mark making experiments. Simply beautiful.
Our groovy spiritual friend Blue is playing with paints again and indulging in the best form of creativity – getting out there and enjoying nature’s own art materials. See the interesting results of painting with coarse grass, leylandii, pine needles and a simple dry stick. Blue says:
Anything can become a brush. A hand, a stick, a rock, twigs, leaves, grass…I have had no more direct painting experience than this…to pick a fist full of grass, to dip it thoroughly into a dish of my favourite green gold watercolour, and to make a simple one stroke painting. Here are a pair of one-strokes. Painted out in the open, in a free and wild painting session, exploring my basic instinct to paint, to make marks on paper. I found myself loving this new process, liberated from brushes.
So great to see you painting again, Blue!
Greetings your most gracious Blueness! ^_^ Yes, I’m really enjoying seeing you paint again, and grabbing random objects from nature to see what kind of mark they make is right up my alley!
Keep ‘em coming.
Sam Randall
Oh goody. More lemons.
Just spotted this on my stats, and popped over to see what you’ve been up to…plugging me again Sam. Guess when I make it big, I’m going to have to share my riches with you guys…
Thanks for yet another vote of support… Blue.
I must be honest, I did think that was going to be a bunch of arse before I clicked through and looked at the paintings. Very beautiful, especially the grass one.