Chigiri-e

I highly recommend the http://www.wetcanvas.com/ free artists' web site. There's over a hundred thousand members representing every art discipline that I am aware of and some of which I'm aware of only because I discovered them there.

I recently remembered a television series , shown many years ago, on Japanese artists who were considered national treasures. I loved the series and one artist expecially. He used torn bits of washi paper (colored Japanese paper) and applied them to plain wooden dolls achieving amazing transluent qualities. Paintings are also made using this technique. I wanted to know more but didn't have the faintest idea as to where to start a search. I posted the question on the wetcanvas web site and within a hour I had the answer with links to examples of the art and links to instructions. What a site!!

The art form is called Chigiri-e: literally meaning torn art. I'm attaching a link to a web site showing examples of the art: http://keisol.com/tomomiwashi/default.htm . I haven't received permission to show any artist's work and I don't know of any in the public domain so I'm just offering the web site. Hopefully someday I can produce some work worthy of showing.

Some may consider this to be collage but it's really not.

Incident in Exeter

I hung The Exeter Library Show a few days ago. Fifteen paintings were hung around the facitlity. The ranged from landscapes, aviation art, marine art and a still life. The only problem was my having to get up on a ladder to hang some of the paintings. I'm 70 and some of my meds disturb my balance a little bit. After hanging two with the ladder and almost falling off I decided to just hand the fifteen rather than twenty.

B58, Hustler

I'm a retired Air Force Pilot, and an online friend who is a pen, ink and colored pencil artist, who also admired the B 58 Hustler (Trenton Hill) created this version of the B 58. He has created a good number art works featuring vintage aircraft and machinery. He will be sending me print of his creation. In exchange, I sending him a print of one of my works. I am getting the better of the deal. Trenton's web site is http://www.wingartproductions.com/ Take a look you'll enjoy his site.

I've had to delay hanging my show at the Exeter Library due to the heavy snow today. We received a good ten inches and there is more coming this afternoon. I hope to get it hung tomorrow.