As I move my inky brush on the paper, watching it react to the paper is endlessly fascinating. Whether it's Xuan, Mulberry or Bamboo paper, each will play with the ink differently. There are challenges and surprises each time I work.
Sumi-e originated from Japan many centuries ago, and continues to inspire contemporary ar
As I move my inky brush on the paper, watching it react to the paper is endlessly fascinating. Whether it's Xuan, Mulberry or Bamboo paper, each will play with the ink differently. There are challenges and surprises each time I work.
Sumi-e originated from Japan many centuries ago, and continues to inspire contemporary artists today. It's a medium of finding the poetry in your subject, expressing vitality and feeling is key.
Having painted in pastel and oil for 30 years. It wasn't until I picked up a Sumi brush that I learned the best thing about making a painting. That getting it right is more about letting go.
You can find more of Karen's work on her website.
CREATING IN all ways is my passion. My love of design has been a constant in my life, but abstract painting is real “magic”. It seems I am having a conversation with an unknown world that suddenly appears. Every day, I am amazed to see how an artful life matches real life. I look for energy and playfulness with my materi
CREATING IN all ways is my passion. My love of design has been a constant in my life, but abstract painting is real “magic”. It seems I am having a conversation with an unknown world that suddenly appears. Every day, I am amazed to see how an artful life matches real life. I look for energy and playfulness with my materials that delight and surprise. I am fascinated with old cities walls, old street papers, and new construction. I love torn down buildings, the shipyards, and revel in taking risks in life and art.
Kathleen is a mixed media abstract painter in both acrylics and Cold Wax & Oil. Walking the streets for the perfect photograph inspires her abstract art which is abundant. She is based in the Northwest near Seattle, having moved from San Jose, CA where she earned her B.S degree in Industrial Design, Graphics Design and Photography. All these disciplines rightfully inform and influence her work. See Kathleen's available work at Fogue.
Artist Statement
M. K. Chandler was born and raised in New England. She relocated to the northwest in the late 1960s. Always creative, she has made art of one sort or another since childhood. Her fascination with people, especially women, has led her down many paths in many mediums. Primarily watercolor, drawing and stitchery.
M.K's main
Artist Statement
M. K. Chandler was born and raised in New England. She relocated to the northwest in the late 1960s. Always creative, she has made art of one sort or another since childhood. Her fascination with people, especially women, has led her down many paths in many mediums. Primarily watercolor, drawing and stitchery.
M.K's main body of work is titled "Honorable Ancestors and Alter Egos".
The most recent creations are “Little People with Big Personalities”. Ornate costuming, striking color contrasts, imaginative scenarios and humor are happily present.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I love the neighborhood environs in West Seattle, and value the relationships I’ve built with neighbors, merchants and other local artists.
I’ve always been fascinated by cars and buildings, both as objects of design and as vessels for our collective history and memories. My paintings attempt to capture their souls and te
ARTIST STATEMENT
I love the neighborhood environs in West Seattle, and value the relationships I’ve built with neighbors, merchants and other local artists.
I’ve always been fascinated by cars and buildings, both as objects of design and as vessels for our collective history and memories. My paintings attempt to capture their souls and tell stories of the places they’ve held in our lives.
I approach them with a playful sense of humor, and always strive to offset the subjects with compelling patterns and backgrounds. I think my years of architectural drafting find an echo in the detailed linework and graphic lettering in the paintings.
Recently I’ve been experimenting in a more three-dimensional direction by doing shadowboxes combining paintings with vintage toys and other recycled objects.
ARTIST BIO
I grew up on the east coast.
And I was around art from an early age, with a mom who did painting, printmaking, sculpture and fabric arts. I moved to Washington for college and have been in Seattle for over 30 years, and a West Seattle resident for twelve years.
I did visual arts in high school and college, but my career has been in architecture and interior design. In my fifties I decided to devote more time to artmaking, and when my mom passed away in 2017, I vowed to honor her memory by taking the drawing and painting abilities she sowed in me and developing them as far as I can. Follow Tom Costantini Art (@tomcostantiniart) • Instagram photos and videos
Tom's available work at Fogue Studios
Artist Bio
I was born in 1952 in a naval hospital on the Marine Corp Air Station at Cherry Point, North Carolina. As a Marine Corp dependent, my childhood was divided up into three-year segments. In addition to the few weeks I lived in Cherry Point before my father was transferred, I have lived in Memphis TN, Albuquerque, NM, Yuma, AZ, a
Artist Bio
I was born in 1952 in a naval hospital on the Marine Corp Air Station at Cherry Point, North Carolina. As a Marine Corp dependent, my childhood was divided up into three-year segments. In addition to the few weeks I lived in Cherry Point before my father was transferred, I have lived in Memphis TN, Albuquerque, NM, Yuma, AZ, and various places in California. I went to high school and a few years of college in southern California and graduated from Humboldt State University in northern California in 1976. My bachelor's degree is in fine arts where I focused on painting in oil and illustration with pen and ink. I moved to Seattle six months after graduation and have lived in this area ever since.
I made my living in technical publications. Over the course of my career I have done technical illustration, photography, technical writing, and desktop publishing. All the while I continued to paint in oils, created dry pigment pastel drawings, and designed and fabricated stained glass windows. In the late 1990s I created an online comic titled Comics Outta Left Field. This was a reflex reaction due to my favorite cartoonist Gary Larson retiring from drawing "The Far Side". I never had aspirations of equaling the humor Larson created with his strip, but it was fun trying for awhile. I retired from gainful employment in 2018 and have since focused entirely on my primary love of oil painting.
Artist's Statement
I graduated from Humboldt State University in northern California in 1976. My bachelor's degree is in fine arts where I focused on painting in oil and illustration with pen and ink. As a college student, my paintings leaned toward the abstract but today I like to paint what I see. I love the beautiful scenery experienced from traveling. The subject matter of my paintings are representational of places I've been and things I've seen. Landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes are my primary focus with people occasionally interspersed throughout. I paint in an impressionistic style as I like the expressiveness of a loose brush stroke and how it brings out the richness of the oil paint. It also allows for spontaneity when I'm applying paint to canvas.
Check out Mitch's current work on display at Fogue Studios
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