When I am on an airplane or do not have brush in hand, I create art on my iPad. The two pictures here were made using the Brushes app. Since January 2014, I have been doing artwork related to the problems caused by the burning, transportation and mining of coal.
Last year, while in ...
Global warming’s tumultuous effects in the future concern me. Every day I do art work related to this worry in the hopes that the paintings will help raise awareness to find solutions. If you want to read more about what I am doing, please check out this link to a recent article from ...
Here is a photo of my new work in progress: an acrylic painting being done on two sheets of paper. This art work in my “Coal” series that I started in January, 2014, depicts coke burning in an old blasting furnace. According to Wikipedia, historical sources dating ...
Although this painting is not quite finished, I wanted to post it in order to continue showing works I am currently doing that focus on coal. I am also finding that during my painting breaks I have been using the time to read about the history of coal; study about the problems currently associated with the burning and transporting of coal; and learn about the ways people are starting to slowly shift the world’s dependence on coal and other fossil fuels as energy sources by developing a variety of alternatives.
Here is a tidbit of coal history from www.ecology.com. I am sure you all know this, but I found it interesting.
“Although the fossil fuel coal had been used as a fuel since 1,000 B.C., it wasn’t until the arrival of the Industrial Revolution from the mid-1700s through the 1800s that coal began to replace biomass (essentially wood) as the primary source of energy. The Industrial Revolution also marks the beginning of an era when the world human population started to explode. Indelibly tied together, both energy consumption and population growth have experienced exponential growth with few exceptions since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. As the population increased, energy demands increased with greater intensity”.
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Intense concern would be an understatement in trying to describe the feelings generated as I continue doing this series of coal paintings. I am motivated because the more I learn about the negative environmental impact of coal burning, mining, and transportation, the more ...
Can you see the touches of blue among the pieces of burning coal in this painting? Most of the reference photos I am studying for my coal series are replete with the colors of gray, black and orange. However, I found one picture that had blue traces and found out in Wikipedia ...
“Women’s Rights” by Mary Lou Dauray, Watercolor, 22″ x 15″
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Menlo College in Atherton, California, put out a call for artists to enter an exhibition honoring the college and coinciding with its founding 85 years ago. Artists had to be juried in and once chosen the artist was given a randomly assigned year between 1927, the year of Menlo’s founding, and 2013 to respond in an artistic way to the cultural, historical or personal events of the specified year. I was selected as one of the artists and given the year 1975. After much research, I concluded that I would do a painting honoring WOMEN because in 1975 the first International Women’s Conference took place and, in addition, WOMEN were depicted on the cover of TIME magazine’s 1975 Person of the Year!
The painting referenced a video still taken at that time.
Greetings and Happy New Year from the forest of Hobbit Land in New Zealand! I definitely felt the magic and enchantment there in early December, 2013, while sitting in the chair from Beorn’s house!
More magic ensued when, immediately following the New Zealand trip, I traveled to West Palm Beach, Florida and taught a Master Class on environmental art to ninth graders at the A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts. While in the class, I experienced the “magic” of the student’s focused interest, their originality, creativity and enthusiasm. Please visit the link to read some of their own comments about the class. http://dreyfoosartreview.
Lastly, we, as artists, integrate magic into our art. Below ...