(Painter) Charline von Heyl

Painters are dependant upon visual (more often of not), and upon colour and even surface. Charlene von Heyl is one of these painters who in particular stands as out as one who breaks rules, or at least rules within painting, and even goes as far as changing the way she paints, what she paints and what her paintings are examining.
She is an abstract painter, whose approach to painting is interesting and lively. She is a German artist whose approach to abstract painting is not conventional (Butler, 2013). Instead of seeking to represent objects by shapes and motifs, she seeks for her paintings to create their own shapes - completely separate from the real world shapes that we might be able to recognise (Institute of Contemporary Art, 2012).

The painting below has pointedly sourced pattern in the form of the black and white stripes, which then alternate as black and purple stripes. So they are valid as they push through ideas of pattern being consistent. Repeating idea of shapes not being exact in their properties of colour.
The use of the purple and dusty yellow/golden colour is an interesting comparison of colours. The white and black continues on one side and the river of paint that seems to bleed down the painting simply re-iterates the importance of painting processes and marks, which become so pattern like in shape and in their repetition.   

(Institute of Contemporary Art, 2012)

http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/von-heyl.php

 

Heyl's method of tearing into magazines then putting them together with papers stained by ink, photocopied upon etc. She works intuitively, working on paper or painting until shapes that look like things begin to look like nothing - becoming something completely different (W Magazine, 2013). Personally I still see things in some of her collages - patterns and shapes that is, not physical real life objects (no toasters or kettles so far).    

Also Heyl states in an interview with BOMB magazine (an interview magazine) (20 that she can't remember things such as faces for long and so ends up kind of restarting. I try to remember things/pattern and surfaces as they inform me. I collect stuff. Hence

the blog. Its interesting to see how painters think.

 

References:

Butler, S. (2010) 'Who is Charline von Heyl', Two Coats of Paint, 19th April 2010. Available at:
http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2010/04/who-is-charline-von-heyl.html (Accessed: 30th September 2013). 
Butler, S. (2013) 'Charline von Heyl takes on Ellsworth Kelly at the Worcester Art Museum', Two Coats of Paint, 13th November 2010. Available at: http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2010/11/charlene-von-heyl-takes-on-ellsworth.html?m=1 (Accessed: 30th September 2013).

Institute of Contemporary Art (2013) Charline von Heyl. Available at: http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/von-heyl.php (Accessed: 30th September 2013).

W Magazine (2013) Charline von Heyl: In the Abstract, 19th August 2013. Available at: http://www.wmagazine.com/culture/art-and-design/2013/08/charline-von-heyl-abstract-artist/ (Accessed: 30th September 2013).

 

Kaneda, S. (2010) Interview with Charline von Heyl by Shirley Kaneda, BOMB magazine, Autumn 2010. Available at: http://bombsite.com/issues/113/articles/3655 (Accessed: 30th September 2013)

 

Brush Pattern Feature: Wings for all

Well not really. 

They are simple wing brushes to be used in
Adobe Photoshop or in the Gimp,
or indeed any other image software that has an ability to convert images into a brush file.
Really maybe it should be called a stamp file instead. 

Anyway these brushes were created by sammigurl61190 @ DeviantArt.
Sadly she seems inactive at the moment, but her profile is still there,
as are other brush packs she has made. 

Click the link to view it or 

here to see the original upload of her brush set.

The brushes can make interesting motifs
when repeatedly piled on top of each other.

The brushes are well capable in forming flowers too,
very pretty flowers might I add
and as the brushes are in grey-scale
you simply select the colour you want and paint.
(For users of Gimp the brush-set in .gbr)

Ever present influences

Pages from Marie Clare October 2011 issue.

Ever present being the polka dot, or the dot, or the circle,
which ever word you use to describe or name or classify it.
It is every where, liek thel ine then if you think about it.

What most interests me with this spread is the interesting colour combinations,

always coming in twos and sticking to at least one fairly bold colour.

There is clearly a sense of constant with the dot.

Moving onto the Aztec inspirations of the moment,

I haven't seen much of it myself on the street - except on jumpers I think.

But I'm looking forward to seeing more of the Aztec's infleucneing through pattern,

their own ideas of pattern are individual and unique.

Incredibly defined by straight lines, angles and points and geometric shapes.

The use of the diamond, or square pushed to one side a little,

features heavily in the clothes on these pages.

Colours are solid, bright and bold,

with black left to make its defining place.

New Diary from Paperchase

It would be a dream to sell work to Paperchase for them to
give money in return and then in turn,
turn that work into something adorning something as handy as a diary.

Admittedly I have a few months empty, from July to most of September,

but I can use that for extra notes space.

Not a bad price, and made in the UK,
felt pretty good about that last point.

Since my A levels I have grown a good attachment to spiral bound books.
Sketchbooks that are spiral bound are especially handy. 

The plastic cover is translucent, great fun with colour and shapes.

The beautiful swirls are reminiscent of Art Decor and the Arts and Crafts movement

Great times.

Red cardi put behind the back cover.

A slight tremor of my arm,

purposefull tremor of course.

Putting the small Paperchase bag under the cover is
quite an interesting blend of line and shape, more vertical darker shapes.

The Old

I always come across books in the library with amazing spines, makes me pick them out despite some being really big volumes of chunkyness filed with lots of text and some images. I flick through, then put them back....in the right place might I add (to all those smirfs who decide to just shove them anywhere).

Any way these I photographed a while ago. I will try to continue to photograph interesting patterned/ornamental spines.
As usual CLICK for a BIGGER image.

Vines and leaves, in lovely glossy gold

Intertwining motifs that link and curl