artist #2- Olga Oreshyna

I discovered an artist named Olga Oreshyna that uses recycled wood for his art. He pieces together pieces of wood to create his piece. This is like my art because I take recycled wood and piece it together and use other materials on top instead of leaving it alone like Olga does.

Oreshyna says  "In my belief, wood retains the spirit of the living tree and I just try to honour it." She uses her spiritual mindset within her work, which is like me in certain ways. I often use my art as therapy for me. I use my spiritual mindset within my artwork.

artist #1- Helen Frankenthaler

I discovered an artist named Helen Frakenthaler who's artwork interests me. She works with pouring art which is a type of marbling technique.

Frankenthaler uses a "soak-paint" technique which includes pouring paint onto enormous canvases placed on the floor. Frankenthaler was a major contributor to the history of post war American painting. She was an abstract painter. She died in 2011 at the age of 83. I would like to do larger scale paintings with ink. I think the pouring technique is a very interesting way to paint that I would like to try.

Her work method is as follows:

"Frankenthaler poured oil paints that she had thinned with turpentine that then soaked into the fabric of the canvas. Frankenthaler's soak-stain process created luminescent, misty compositions dominated by large areas of color that seemed to have emerged onto the canvas naturally and organically."


http://www.theartstory.org/artist-frankenthaler-helen.htm

Flirt, 1995
Screenprint on Rives BFK paper
26 3/4 × 39 1/2 in
67.9 × 100.3 cm
Edition of 126

Art Curiosity- What are ways that artists use tar gel traditionally that I can manipulate and use nontraditionally?


Through this blog, I am trying to explore more ways to incorporate tar gel and ink into my projects. I am trying to research different ways that artists use tar gel and ink so that I may experiment with these processes.

In my work I have incorporated tar gel and ink in ways that include:

1) photo transfer covered in ink and tar gel marbled together dripped on top

2) dripping tar gel so that it creates a marbled effect

3) photo transfer onto recycled wood

4)  dripping tar gel on top of wood

5) inserting tar gel into wood