Have you ever seen the gorgeous nonetheless life work by artist Marie Tippets? When you noticed my write up about certainly one of her work, you could have been launched to her work then. Whether or not you already know Marie’s work or not, you’re in for a deal with!!
Don’t know Marie’s work? Right here’s a teaser:
Bio for Marie Tippets
A local of upstate New York, Marie Tippets obtained a Bachelor of Superb Arts Diploma from Nazareth College. Her present residence in Southern California has afforded her quite a few alternatives to not solely work within the artwork discipline as an award-winning graphic designer, however to exhibit her work professionally for over 15 years. She is the recipient of quite a few awards and has additionally been honoured with a number of distinctions: Eminent Pastelist, the best commendation of the Worldwide Affiliation of Pastel Societies; Signature -Distinguished Pastelist by the Pastel Society of the West Coast; and Signature Distinction by the Pastel Society of America. See extra of her work here.
And now right here’s Marie!
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My nonetheless life work has no hidden meanings. It incorporates no use of “Vanitas,” using symbolic objects designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and of the worthlessness of worldly items and pleasures. As a substitute, it’s straight ahead.
Every bit to me is a singular experiment. Every bit explores what may occur when shapes, patterns, and color harmonies mix with direct daylight to create new patterns, highlighted focal factors, darkened intrigue, and a magic that I prefer to name serendipitous. It’s that “one thing” that I hadn’t fairly deliberate on when establishing a given nonetheless life: magical shadow patterns and the chiaroscuro impact created by the long-slanted gentle of the afternoon setting solar. Generally, as in The Tangerine Department, it’s these shadow patterns that actually excite me and draw me to the easel. Generally, nothing occurs, and it’s again to a different day of tried setups.
Every nonetheless life portray begins with a favorite object (or two), one thing that caught my eye in a buddy’s dwelling or on a purchasing expedition. That piece could also be robust sufficient to face alone, or, it might work properly in a grouping of different equally colored objects. It could want the addition of cloth, foliage, or fruit.
In an try to not repeat the identical answer to any given nonetheless life, I could peel a chunk of fruit and maintain the peel within the set. I could wrinkle material to include the folds as a dynamic secondary curiosity. I could add parts or take them away. I’m acutely aware of color concord and of the stability of the objects used, and I view composition as the important thing ingredient of any nonetheless life that’s arrange.
Since gentle and shadow patterns are key to my work, I take a number of pictures all through the course of the afternoon because the solar begins to decrease within the sky (using an ideal southwest going through set of French doorways in my eating room). After I get the right photograph with simply the precise shadow patterns that I used to be looking for, I exploit that photograph because the reference for my portray.
I then make a notan to find out whether or not this setup may have a great composition.
- Is there a powerful focus?
- Is there a great stream across the composition to direct the viewer to that focus?
- Is there sufficient intrigue within the setup to maintain the viewer engaged in what may flip right into a portray?
These are all questions that I ask myself whereas learning the photographs from a day’s session of establishing and photographing. If it isn’t good however 90% there, and it’s one thing that I really feel I can “modify” in the course of the execution levels, then I proceed to the easel. If not, then that arrange comes down and one other arrange begins the next day.
I work at it till I both abandon an concept or transfer ahead efficiently with it. That being stated, some work nonetheless fail and others win. Nothing is a given. However any try is part of our progress curve as artists, and one which I pursue passionately and with love.
In The Tangerine Department, it was no secret that I completely LOVED the shadow patterns contained in the white bowl. A easy department laden with tangerines…a easy white bowl. The daylight did all of the magic and I used to be so excited to begin work on this specific piece.
That is usually the case with my work, and I try every time to deliver that pleasure into the portray itself. If profitable, it interprets right into a significant reference to the viewer and a portray finds a eternally dwelling, as did The Tangerine Department.
As I discussed earlier, I don’t have any hidden meanings in my work. Throughout the COVID pandemic nevertheless, I used to be drawn to eggs as symbols of recent beginnings and rebirth. I utilized white vessels to point sustenance and white birds as a logo of hope. I labored in black and white as a result of the world appeared to have grow to be so strongly polarised. These parts nonetheless usually seem in my work.
As an apart, I keep in mind studying as soon as (darned if I can keep in mind the place) that Michelangelo was made to attract eggs in his apprentice years to assist prepare his eyes to SEE. Since no two eggs are alike, his project was to see their variations and seize that distinction in his drawings. Coaching our eyes to see issues that others don’t instantly see, and incorporating these parts into our work, give our work life and that means. It takes it above merely copying.
Autumn Splendour was one other portray impressed by one thing so simple as my day by day stroll. I grew up in upstate New York the place Fall was completely magical – colors of all imaginings: burnt umbers, golden yellows, burgundy reds, oranges, vibrant yellows, and extra. The foliage blazed with color and the bottom was coated with fallen leaves. I can nonetheless keep in mind the crunch beneath my ft. Now, dwelling in Southern California the place there appears to be just one season, I’ve to seek for a small trace of seasonal change. A couple of timber change color, and the leaves on this portray have been from certainly one of them.
One fall morning, out for my day by day stroll, I gathered a big bunch in each of my pockets and as soon as dwelling, set them up in a nambe bowl. The bowl I knew would choose up the color on the within as I’d utilized that bowl earlier than for that particular desired impact. The leaves sticking above the rim would seize the sunshine because it got here by way of them. A birds-eye perspective was good for this concept, and I used to be fairly happy with the entire results that have been captured.
I usually use a birds-eye view reasonably than a standard straight-on setup as a result of I don’t need to be predictable. I additionally don’t need the viewer to dismiss my work as simply one other boring nonetheless life. A few of my favorite items have been created on this format.
With reference to composition, a centred object can usually be tough to get good. Utilizing the rule of thirds (dividing our board into 3 components horizontally and three components vertically), at every of 4 attainable intersection factors, there’s a possibility for a focus. In Autumn Splendour, it’s the brightest and most vibrantly colored leaves within the decrease left. Be aware how the stems level (subtlety) in direction of that grouping, and the way the rim of the nambe bowl directs our eye round and in direction of that time. But, alongside the way in which, there’s no boredom to be discovered – the brilliant spotlight of the leaves because the solar glows by way of them is captured alongside the internal rim of the bowl. Magic to me, and I hope for the viewer as properly.
The Inexperienced Jug began out with hopes of being a horizontal piece that utilized two jugs reasonably than only one, and much more leafing of the tangerine department. Having not been profitable with that setup, I bought lovely eucalyptus leaves full with blossoms. I peeled a few tangerines and once more set to work on the arrange the next day.
The solar was good and the favorite {photograph} captured was this one.
Notes:
- The chiaroscuro impact to the left of the pot and the way in which these two tangerines are hidden however partially seen to the viewer
- The reflection again into the pot of the tangerine that’s positioned within the foreground
- The gorgeous lengthy reflection forged by the peel of that very same tangerine
- The reflection onto the floor of the desk of the 2 slices of fruit.
The composition couldn’t be extra good.
As a younger artist, I skilled my eye to see these items. They’re the hidden gems of my work that deliver to life a easy grouping of mere “issues.” That is what creates a magic for each me, the artist, as I deliver pleasure to the easel, and to you, the viewer, as you grow to be intrigued with the work.
I just lately started a brand new sequence titled “WHITE.”
The color white may be so lovely to me. It may be ethereal and dreamlike. It may possibly symbolize stark actuality. It may possibly symbolize new beginnings, recent begins, and hope.
What’s White? In color idea, it’s the mix of all colors that creates the notion of white.
Some ideas about “white” from different artists:
“Renoir stated as soon as that nothing was so tough, and on the similar time so thrilling, to color, as white on white.” ~ Ambroise Vollard, French Up to date Artist 1866-1939
“Working in white makes folks look into it. White is ethereal. There’s a purity to it, it makes issues look elevated in a approach. There’s an entire palette of white…” ~ Jonathan Milne, creator of rigorously crafted sculptures in white
“White…will not be a mere absence of color; it’s a shining and affirmative factor, as fierce as crimson, as particular as black…God paints in many colors; however He by no means paints so gorgeously, I had virtually stated so gaudily, as when He paints in white.” ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton, British creator 1874-1936
“White is essentially the most fantastic color as a result of inside it you may see all the colors of the rainbow. For me, in reality, it’s the color which in pure gentle, displays and intensifies the notion of all of the shades of the rainbow, the colors that are continually altering in nature, for the whiteness of white is rarely simply white; it’s virtually all the time reworked by gentle and that which is altering: the sky, the clouds, the solar and the moon.” ~ Richard Meier, born 1934, American Architect whose designs make outstanding use of white.
Baker’s Dozen is one other instance of an “virtually birds-eye” perspective. It’s tumbled in direction of the viewer, making a dynamic impact of motion. The stripes of the material assist to intensify that impact.
I notably preferred the distortion of the stripes as they appeared by way of the glass bowl, and the odd reflection of these stripes alongside the rim of the bowl. It is probably not one thing that’s readily obvious to the viewer, however that’s okay. These are the small issues that deliver a portray to life and provides it its uniqueness. None of us needs our work to be glossed over or dismissed so we search for methods to maintain the viewer engaged with each particular person piece.
As I’ve talked about, in the course of the pandemic, I used to be fairly drawn to eggs and dealing in black and white. In Baker’s Dozen, I’m once more utilizing eggs – all the time enjoyable to color. And that material with these stripes – oh my – how I like to work with stripes and folds. That is certainly one of my new favorite items!
Relating to my alternative of paper and pastels, I exploit a textured paper as a result of I like the actual approach it holds the pastel layers and nonetheless permits some texture to be seen as properly. Though I’m a realist, I choose to see the buildup of texture alongside the way in which reasonably than a blended photographic look (the explanation for the textured floor). Additionally, I exploit the more durable of the “delicate” pastels – Holbein, Caran d’ache and Carb Othello. I exploit Terry Ludwig pastels and others for backgrounds or giant areas of color.
In closing, I all the time prefer to remind younger artists that there are not any failed makes an attempt on the easel. Every represents a progress curve alongside this journey known as artist. Have enjoyable. Deliver the love of portray into each bit that you just create, and don’t dwell on the present rejections, or the failed items. Paint what you like and be joyful.
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Inspiring proper??! Doing nonetheless life work is such an effective way to study worth, form, color, composition, edges and so forth. And I’m hoping the work by Marie Tippets encourages you to go paint a nonetheless life. They don’t should be advanced. As Marie says, be observant, and be open to the magic that may occur!
Let’s hear your ideas! You probably have something to share with Marie or have questions for her, please do depart us a remark!
Till subsequent time,
~ Gail
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