a QUOTE a day: Only things that revolve around love

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Marc Chaghall

a PAINTING a day: Not your regulare Bible page

By Sarah Santarsiero


I like this painting for three reasons:

First, it's a trickster. Your first impression would be "oh I did this when I was at the kindergarten." But you wish. Just stare at it for a few minutes, and you will be mesmerized by the harmony of colors, space, and shapes.
Second, because of the title of it: "The progression of civil war." The power of making a piece of art political just by giving it a political name. Yet it doesn't say which civil war. So gives a lot to your imagination. That's brilliant.
Third, she is using a page from the Bible. This can explain its title considering that she sees religions as an identity issue that caused many conflicts within and between nations.

I hope she reads this and gets back to me on my comments.

a PAINTING a day: Neon Colors

I first came to see the application of such vibrant and playful colors on canvas about a year ago while gallery hopping around Toronto. I must admit I found them irresistible and I even tried to use it in my paintings but no satisfaction due to the quality of my materials and my lack of color knowledge. It seems that this kind of coloring is becoming a new trend- maybe some kind of a movement.
Here are two new paintings from artist Francoise Nielly that I almost immediately loved. Under artist's bio you read:

Francoise Nielly lives in a world of images. She has explored the different facets of "image" all her life , through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual, computer generated animated graphics. It is clear now that painting is her direction and her passion. She gets her sense of space and construction from her father, who was an architect.