Japanese Stab Binding

I discovered that Japanese stab binding is a little difficult to learn, yet when you get the hang of it it becomes easy to do.

This is my quote for the ink splatters we did. I also used them in one of our Japanese stab binded books.

This is the finished binding of one of the books I put together

This is the first book of the ink markings that I did. It is in a cover and has been binded together using the Japanese stab binding method

This is the finished product of the quotation ink markings. The paintings are 11"x 17" size. It has been binded together with a front and back cover using Japanese stab binding.

Modular Madness

Modular Madness the project of using multiple amounts of a specific item to create a non-representational piece.

First I started with red paintballs

Then I tried to make the paintballs look like they had burst letting hot glue dry in a dripping look and then painting it red

Then I started on a different project this time using pine cones and pine needles.

 I glued the ends of the pine needles all together at a point making the needles fan out in a circle then I cut the needles to equal lengths and glued the needles onto the bottom of a pine cone

I glued pine needles into the pine cone giving it a kind of Christmas tree fluffiness to it. I cut them to lengths to make the needles stick out as though they were trapped inside of a cone.

Since all the pieces were similar I decided they should all be one piece, but they should not be connected or clustered together. I made the decision to keep them seperate because they are each its own piece, but together they all create one large piece. Being pine cones and pine needles when they were all clustered together it looked like a forest or something that you would find on the ground outside.

Looking For Repetition

Repetition
The painting "Yellow Ripples" by Kazuya Akimoto uses repetition very well and the different sizes and color arrangements of the shapes gives the illusion they are closer or farther away.

Aline Cautis uses repetition of curved lines creating a painting that provides the experience of as you are looking through a kaleidoscope in her painting "You Cross the Sea of Night"

Minimalism
Jen Kempenaers's "Beyond the Picturesque" has few color shifts and has only one true object making it the center of focus. Since there are no other subjects in the picture the picture makes your mind create questions about why the artist did this and what did she mean
Beyond the Picturesque

Henry Pierre Schultz has created this from taking a indoor pool with the only lighting being the lights in the pool and the light from the moon shining down through the skylights. The dark lighting plays with the viewers eyes and creates wonder and pulls you in. Since private indoor pools don't really need any furniture the room has no furniture in it you are forced to focus on the patterns and colors that the light is creating.
Night Swimming

Post Minimalism
Robert Irwin has created a piece that is extremely simple to me what makes it art is the shadows that are created.
Post Minimalism(Robert Irwin)

Richard Dean Tuttle has used this piece which is so simple it has puzzled me and I cannot decide anything about it except its color.
Post Minimalism (Richard Dean Tuttle)

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