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Ian Boyden – Artist

More on the calligraphy theme…

Boyden

Ian Boyden’s fascination with materials, industrial processes, text and the calligraphic line led him to China where he studied history and the practice of Chinese calligraphy, painting and bookmaking with masters of those arts. He worked for Walla Walla Foundry where he learned to cast, weld and chase bronze, and in Portland with Kathy Kuehn at Salient Seedling Press to learn letterpress printing and a variety of bindings. He founded Crab Quill Press to produce limited-edition, fine press artist books and in 1998, moved the Press to Walla Walla where he also works as the director of the Sheehan Art Gallery at Whitman College.

Davidson Gallery Exhibit

Foundry Gallery Exhibit

Crab Quill Press

Augen – Ian Boyden
Good selection (Most are in the other linked sites too.)

Intaglio Printmaking – Wikipedia

Beautiful books! Images follow. You can only see them if you see the post rather than a whole list of posts. I only show my own in that way.

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Mark Tobey, 1890-1976

Monday, May 10, 1976, Robert Hughes wrote an obituary in TIME of Mark Tobey Incarnations of Tobey TIME

By the ’50s, a stereotype of Tobey had emerged, and it was to affect his reputation in American art: the sage of the Pacific Northwest, perched on a misty crag, making exquisitely obscure calligraphic doodles. Tobey had worked for a year in China. At that time it was hardly possible for a painter to have done this without being regarded, in some circles, as a perambulating bodhisattva.

I am posting to pursue a thread. The relationship between calligraphy and modern art. It is there everywhere once you look. The action painters, like Franz Klein, Max Gimblett, Pollock. I will keep at it.

More here, and here is a good site: MARK TOBEY, American artist 1890-1976, Page by Arthur Lyon Dahl It has paintings as well as this photo of him:

Mark Tobey

Bridgeman Art Library – Image Search
Good sample – small images.


Art & Belief Amazon

That is one of about three Toby books I just bought online! Through Amazon but dirt cheap from secondhand shops. They will take months to get here, I may be over Toby by then, but I doubt it.

More text & images by Mark Tobey follow.

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Brilliant Bloggers! Some fine images.

Thank you Jan for putting me on your Brilliante Weblog list. Much appreciated. What I like about it is firstly that it gets me to look at the others you nominated! Some brilliant people indeed, honoured to be on the same list. Secondly it motivates me to evaluate some blogs I like, have another look, revise my Blogroll.

 

The rules of accepting are as follows:
1) Put the logo on your blog
2) Add a link to the person who awarded you.
3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4) Add links to those blogs on yours.
5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs.

So here are mine…

Two from Jared Shear who is a prolific and talented painter. His one-a-day paintings of Cougar Peak for a whole year, blogged on Cougar peak-a-Boo are an incredible testament to the environment.

His more general Blog Terra Peer is worth a good look.

Next is Janey’s Journey because she can do super simple sketches with fantastic flair. I am always inspired.

PrashArt is a master of line & wash. Open this full size image for example.
Simplicity and serenity.

I have been watching Helen Nehill‘s creative stuff on flickr – sort of a blogger, and a creator of Zines.

Elizabeth Love, New Zealand Colour, texture and composition. And a friend of the Agantighe.

Seventh: Lisa Rivas, Flying Colours. I am mentioning Lisa even though she already has the BW award. She is a great blogger, and does digital work – there is the connection.

I am following on with images from the blogs all of the blogs mentioned. Click on the images to go to their blogs. I hope that is ok by the bloggers, let me know if not & I will remove.

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Painting

I worked today on a painting I began in January this year, and vitalised it a bit. Wondering where to go with it now.

A photo plus two options follow.

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Earth Cross II b


Earth Cross II b

This one has never had a proper post. It is in the Gallery and I have posted it with a border but I wanted to locate it and had trouble (the one with the border has a different name). So here it is, “Earth Cross II b” sketched on 17 December ’07

This is the one I used as a reference for an Acrylic, though it looks quite different. (posted below).

Leaves
Earth Cross II – Acrylic on canvas – 600 x 600 mm

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Circles

Lisa Rivas has written a great post about my work. Thank you Lisa.

She found some info I wrote about doing circles as a child. Thousands of small yellow circles they were. I was about 6. Day after day I did circles and coloured them yellow. I don’t colour them all the same, but I still do circles! As both images in Lisa’s post show!

Some collaboration with Lisa is brewing… watch this space. Also Note that I have updated my Artists links in the sidebar.

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Thinking about circles and the Zen of circles I got going on a few more. Did lots, saved two.

 

Circle
Larger Image.

Another follows:

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