“The coming of a person
is, in fact, a tremendous feat.
Because they
come with their past and present
and
with their future.”
I have a thread of blindness running through the years of my life.
This morning I determined that my preoccupation with seeing (which results in painting, among other activities) but not understanding (a wee bit of what we now call autism, maybe?) results in a kind of sightlessness that has lived within my shadow side as long as I can remember.
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… I saw that worrying had come to nothing.
And I gave it up. And took my old body
and went out into the morning,
and sang. -Mary Oliver
What’s a giclee? A giclee (pronounced ‘zhee-clay, it’s French) is an archival quality reproduction or print.
Giclees use ink printing machines instead of toner. It’s a more expensive process, but often yields richer, more nuanced color that may match the original art better.
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Spring whispers in the wind
Stirs among the boughs
Wakes the tender buds with its call.
As humans we aren’t always in the mood for beauty, and that’s totally a valid state of mind. It doesn’t mean beauty is no more. I think Beauty meets us in our deepest moments… it folds us entirely, including our pain and want, in its gentle arms and rocks us back and forth as a loving mother might.
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Soft the drowsy hours are creeping,
Hill and vale in slumber sleeping,
I my loving vigil keeping,
All through the night.
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Using a black mirror demo video IS HERE!
Below are simple instructions on how to make a cheap one. You’ll need one before you can use one:).
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I started on this project because I’m a Heyer fan myself. It was my mom’s idea to do some paintings of Heyer, because she wanted to hang one as inspiration above the table where she (my mom) writes and figured other fans might as well. We both wanted a painting that felt vintage and was pleasing as art, yet recognizable as a portrait of Heyer.
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Commissioned painting of Christ of the Sacred Heart and English author, georgette Heyer.
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I enjoy reading about the lives of artists and finding interesting intersections in their lives and social circles. Take the Pre-Raphaelites or Impressionists (any school of art) and we discover painters, sculptors, poets, writers and musicians who mingled and influenced one another.
By owning a Thimgan Hayden original, you are participating in an art lineage, a provenance story, that will outlive us both.
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In this case, Leeanne Seaver (Wonder Woman of word and camera) is a dear friend and wrote this beautiful blog post, the sky inside, linked about the making and new life of her Scottish gloaming painting, ‘Wolfy’s Sunset’.
if you’re as fascinated as I am with the powerful relationships that can happen because of art and how creativity can knit us together, then please jump to Leeanne’s blog post. You’ll enjoy it. But do me a favor and pretend I’m not wearing Crocs.
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Original art will outlive both the collector and the maker. Since the dawn of time, people have had the compulsion to create art and organize their life experiences into “story” through pictures, poetry, music, and a variety of narrative forms. I’ve stood in front of pieces and wept unexpectedly….
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A video of some recent paintings is here!
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Anyone who's done any research quickly learns that there are some structural problems that can happen when oil paintings are varnished before the three to six month drying time.
Of course, as artists that sell work, this is somewhat problematic. We don't necessarily like storing pieces for that long. Fortunately, times change. New studies and experiments happen. While I'm not a chemist or materials expert, I am a researcher-type and I'll share some art "street talk" about it here.
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This is a brief post, just stopping in to make a public bookmark for myself, really.
If you are going all in the canvas print market or just dabbling, one of the first challenges you'll run into is that the original dimensions of your paintings don't necessarily scale up or down to a popular sizes, i.e. easy to frame for most people.
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