Outside Inspiration: A Tall Order

As promised, a little weekend dose of art is here for you. This piece is a mixed media painting by Amy Longcope and definitely something that would bring joy and energy to a room. I’m going to let an excerpt from her biography speak for her process:

“Amy Longcope’s approach when creating a new piece is not to paint something specific, but rather to unleash her intense desire to create with beautiful colors and varied shapes that encourage and evoke meaningful thoughts in both her and the viewer.  Amy uses various mediums and gels to build layers and textures of color.” 

Tall canvases are wonderful to create on (ones just about this size, 4′ x 1′, are what I often worked on in art school) as they allow you to explore strong vertical elements and imagery that even portrait orientation could not.  They also fit in those odd spaces  between furniture, next to a door or even on a door.

Amy’s intuitive color choices are stunning and fearlessly saturated. Take a look at her website or spend some time going through this great gallery of her work.

I am going to switch up blog days this week so I won’t have one for you two days in a row. I know how much we all have to read these days! So we’ll see you Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Inspirational Challenge of the Day: Work on a piece that emphasizes the vertical. Tall and thin can certainly do this but how imagery or elements are laid out will emphasize vertical composition as well. Follow any path on this idea that playing around with it leads you.

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