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Scott Marr: Painting/Pyrography

April 12, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Bull-Ship-ScotMarr-2012The latest work from Australian artist Scott Marr.  Marr’s new collection continues his unique technique of drawing using pyrography and painting with natural pigments, predominantly from the bush.

By the time Scott Marr sits down at the easel, his works of art are already well underway. A large part of Scott’s artistic practice is comprised of the identification, collection and preparation of an astounding range of natural pigments. His bush pigments are unpredictable by nature, ensuring that each work of art is imbued with a genuine uniqueness. The variable palette reflects the dynamic and seasonal character of the natural world, where no two days or places are the same. Scott says, “Over the past few years, I’ve been experimenting with the extraction and application of natural pigments. I now feel my experimentation has become my applied practice. This confidence together with the discovery of new colours has opened up new dimensions for my art”.

To see more of Marr’s work, visit ScottMarr.blogspot.com or Katoomba Fine Art.



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Filed Under: ART, Eco-Art, Painting Tagged With: Australian Art, Pyrography, Scott Marr

Body Painting 101: A Short Primer

April 11, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Most people have experienced body painting at one time or another.  Maybe it was at Halloween or at the town fair as a child when you had your face painted, or a football match where you drew coloured letters across your chest.  Maybe (like for many western adult females), you do it every day when you apply your lipstick, eye shadow, or nail polish.  But when and where did body painting begin, and at what point does the act of covering the body with colour, become art?

Body painting is considered by some to be the most ancient form of art. The discovery of coloured pigments about 75 thousand years ago (many believe even further back) indicates that long before people covered their bodies with clothing, they decorated themselves with body paint.

Unlike tattooing, body painting is temporary, lasting a few hours to a few weeks. Body painting with ochre (derived from clay), natural pigments found in minerals such as pyrolusite, chalk, and lime, and plants such as kohl, blue woad, and uruku, existed in most tribal cultures with no known single place of origin.  Body paint was often worn during ceremonies such as weddings, burials, and initiations. As well, body painting may have been used as identification with a certain people, distinction from others, or for purely aesthetic reasons. Cosmetics, were first used in Egypt to decorate the faces of males and females, the living and the dead.

The tradition of body painting declined with the advent of clothing but many indigenous people in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and others, still maintain the practice. Also, the semi-permanent form of body painting called Mehndi, which uses dyes made of henna is still practiced in India and the Middle East, particularly on brides.  Mehndi has also been popular in Western cultures since the 1990’s.

In the 1950’s and 60’s body painting became a minor art movement with the help of artists like Yves Klein, who covered his models in paint and rolled them on a canvas, using them as human paint brushes.

In the 1960’s, body painting started making a comeback with the hippie movement and more liberal ideas surrounding the human body. Since that time, body painting began appearing in popular culture and was  used for commercial purposes in magazine and television ads, as well as in the film industry.

Well known artists in the body painting genre include German model and actress Veruschka von Lehndorff (1960’s), New Zealand born Joanne Gair, who painted the infamous Demi Moore Vanity Fair cover (1992), South Korean artist Kim Joon, and hand painter Guido Daniele.

Today, body painting as an art form is popular around the globe. Body painting festivals happen every year in many cities bringing professional and amateur painters together. The World Body Painting Festival in Seeboden, Austria is the biggest body painting art event with thousands of people coming out to admire the participants artwork.

For more information about body painting, visit the source links below.  To view more of the stunning images by Hans Silvester from the Omo Tribes of Ethiopia, visit XarJ.net.




Sources: Skin by Nina G. Jablonski, xraj.net, Wikipedia

Filed Under: ART, Body Art, Painting Tagged With: Body Painting, Guido Daniele, Hans Silvester, Joanne Gair, Kim Joon, Omo Tribes of Ethiopia, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Yves Klein

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 103

April 9, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your Monday Mixx – Enjoy




Filed Under: ART, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Andy Hixon, Damon Ginandes, David Galchutt, Dmitry Ligay, Gina Litherland, Jarek Kubicki, Kent Williams, Shane Devries, Tustel Ico

Joe Sorren: When The Rain Comes @ La Luz de Jesus Gallery

April 4, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

My-Aim-is-True-Joe-SorrenNew work from American painter Joe Sorren in his new exhibition “When the Rain Comes” at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles.

“Joe Sorren injects a surreal mood through soft, eerie imagery, thick brushstrokes, and animalistic figures caught in motion.  Created with oil on panel, Sorren’s newest body of work, When the Rain Comes is a story about darkness and light.

“Sometimes, when things are darker in life, you can find yourself in front of doors you didn’t know where there before. This is a show about walking though those doorways and the light that can be found in the sincere letting-go-ness of things” states Sorren.

Sorren’s artwork has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Time and Rolling Stone. Warner Bros. and Atlantic Records have also used his art. A mural of his adorns an outdoor wall at Heritage Square in Flagstaff, Arizona. The 40 feet by 30 feet painting took 11 months to complete. Sorren lives in Flagstaff, Arizona and loves to run and jump.” (from La Luz de Jesus Gallery)

“When the Rain Comes” runs through April 29, 2012. To see more of Sorren’s work, visit JoeSorren.com.



Filed Under: ART, Exhibitions, Painting Tagged With: Joe Sorren, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, When The Rain Comes

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 102

April 3, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx – Enjoy!




Filed Under: ART, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Geoffry Gorman, Ivano Stocco, Megan Kimber, Michael Fields, Michael Madzo, Nom Kinnear King, Philip McKay, Sean E Avery, Sharon Johnstone

Kyle Stewart: Painting

March 29, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Kyle Stewart is an artist who lives and works in the city of Toronto. DAF recently discovered his work at the Artist Project Toronto 2012.

Check out more of Kyle’s work at KyleStewart.ca.



Filed Under: ART, Painting Tagged With: Canadian Art, Kyle Stewart

John Park: Painting 2012

March 28, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

John Park 2012New works from LA based artist John Park (featured) currently exhibiting in a group show with Craww and Chris Cuseo at CAVE Gallery in Los Angeles.

All of Park’s works start off from a live painting so there is no pre-planning or sketching. He starts each painting with a layer of abstract sharpie drawings, then paints white shapes over the whole thing, and then adds in a full background of cities and scenes. “So for the first two and a half hours, I almost treat the painting like an abstract, where I’m just looking for balance and color.”  (from interview with Daniel Rolink)

Check out more from this exhibition at CAVE Gallery and read the interview with Daniel Rolink here.



Filed Under: ART, Painting Tagged With: American Art, CAVE Gallery, John Park

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 101

March 26, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your Monday Mixx – Enjoy!




Filed Under: ART, Collage, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Alex Khudokon, Alicia Martin, Aya Kato, Jesse Reno, Jill Ricci, Kevin Sloan, Leslie Ditto, Poras-Chaudhary, Susan Madacsi

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 100

March 19, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your 100th Monday Mixx!!! Enjoy!




Filed Under: ART, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Ali Cavanaugh, Bregje Horsten, Diggy Smerdon, George Boorujy, Joe Pogan, Kiyoshi Ookawa, Larry Forte, Matthew Grabelsky, Zeitguised

Eline Peek: Painting

March 16, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Eline-Peek

Born in 1970 in Utrecht, Netherlands, Eline Peek studied advertising and presentation techniques at Nimeto, Utrecht and autonomous design at the School of the Arts, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht.

“People seeing the paintings of the Utrecht artist Eline Peek (1970) for the first time tend to shuffle by in shock or embarrassment or to look away. Her big, all-revealing ‘portraits’ make you feel quite uneasy. The confrontational nudes are, in the first instance, not pleasing to the eye: decrepit, sagging bodies, hollow-eyed faces, droopy breasts, pendulous folds of skin, angular limbs, an unhealthy skin and genitalia prominently on show. Without any inhibitions they pose nude or in their underwear. All larger than life-sized and shamelessly facing the viewer, what’s more their eyes stare searchingly at you; they are actually looking for contact.” (Chris Will, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam)

To see more, visit ElinePeek.nl.




Filed Under: ART, Painting Tagged With: Dutch Art, Eline Peek, Netherlands Art, Potraiture

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