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Summer bouquet, oil on canvas, 2019, painting detail
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Sketchbook drawing, pencil and watercolor study, March 2020
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On the Table, Flowers, Colored Pencils on Paper, from the New Normal Series 2020
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Colored pencils drawings on paper is the technique I’ve used for my recent painting series New Normal. I just love the simplicity of a colored line on the paper at one side and the sublime color possibilities of the old fashioned coloured pencils on the other side.
It’s a sort of vis a vis of the simple idea of the elemental drawing on the paper towards the complexity of the depicited scenery and hidden emotions. And just this seems to be the real, true physical synapse where interfere my feelings and the investigating of the painting possibilities given by the certain moment of time, namely the time of isolation due to Covid epidemic.
I like certain fragility of the drawings achieved with coloured pencils. Or, if you wish, I like having the courage to use simple colored pencils to express some serious message about my personal feelings of unease, perhaps even fear due to the uncertainity of the given situation. And yet it all seems so normal……
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New Normal, new painting series made in isolation, at times of global pandemic, spring/summer 2020.
My new painting series talks about the new times. New times when everything seems perfectly normal, yet there is a certain feeling in the air. Something telling these new times are different. Not bad, not worse, but different….And there is no detail confirming what is different now, and as much we want, we cannot determine where lies the code for that new sensation……
New Normal, new painting series,colored pencils and pencil on paper, 32 x 40 cm, 20
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I paint flowers so they will not die. Frida Kahlo
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
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June bouquet and a lemon, oil on linen painting, 55 x 55 cm (21.6 x 21.6 inches)
Ah, all that abundance of the colors of the flowers of June! Take the roses, to start with: cadmium red, pale pink, magenta, then all the yellows of the common bird’s- foot trefoil, whites of queen Anne’s lace, purple comfrey, green grasses! Vertigo of a bold palette, trembling in the early summer sunlight. Colors that promise a long summer to come……
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. Pablo Picasso
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. Vincent van Gogh
I always notice flowers. Andy Warhol
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Variation in blue is a still life I’ve painted back in 2018. This small format oil on linen is still dear to my heart.
Painting a still life by me usually starts with a small walk around my garden. It is a sort of meditation, preparation for the painting process. Which flowers would I pick depends on the mood of the moment. And, obviously, it depends on the time of the year in the garden. Spring is always joyous, bringing first colors to the nature, then comes the summer with all the richness of the blossoming plants, fall again has it’s own colors, just as beautiful.
But at that time, when I wanted to pick at least something from the garden to paint, there was November. And not much around the garden to pick For at that late autumn time garden is usually still, frozen on time, waiting for first snow to come on it’s cold mornings.
So instead, I took some chrysanthemums from the bouquet in our living room. Just some white and blue blossoms for the small vase. And painted them immediately, capturing those blue and white hues, trying to catch light of that November morning before the snow fell to our garden…….
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Bloggers make the best friends, writes my dear blogging friend Michelle, author of the blog From The Pink Shed. I can only agree and invite you to try it out for yourself, too. But before you start, and for some encouragement, see what my dear blogging friend has to say. Please note, I’ve started my first blog ”My Botanical Garden”, mentioned in the text, quiet some years ago. In the meantime I’ve realised I would love to write a blog dedicated solely to contemporary art, mainly to painting and my art. So I’ve started Tamara Jare Blog on this page.
But now, please, read some lines about bloggers from Michelle’s new post and make sure to visit her blog for the complete post 😉
Michelle writes: ”I made the decision to start my blog after reading Joy Cho’s book, Blog Inc., on vacation over three years ago. One of the many things the author promised I’d discover as a blogger was a thriving, creative, supportive community. The thought of that warmed my heart.
I have been blessed to find many friends in the blogosphere.My first friend, Tamara Jare of My Botanical Garden, visited my site when it was only two days old and became one of my first subscribers and a loyal reader.
But, beyond that, we became pen pals. I’ve never met Tamara, but I’m sure I’d recognize her if she came walking into my living room right now. We’d hug and I’d ask her to sit down in my incredibly comfy velvet club chair while I poured her a glass of champagne. And, then you’d know what would happen? We’d talk for hours.”………….read more here 🙂
Thank you Michelle, I am sure one day we’ll have that glass of champagne!