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Arts
Asemic Art, Old and New
I’ve painted Asemic writing in my art for several years now. Some times I go through periods where I don’t create any Asemic writing artworks, but then they crop up again in my work.
For those of you who don’t know, and according to Wikipedia, “Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means “having no specific semantic content”.[1] With the nonspecificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret.”
Here is one complete in the past few days–and one from years past–
Gopuram, Mixed Media Painting on Lennox Paper
Yesterday, I completed this painting on Lennox paper.
This piece made me think of Tramp art, ziggurat and ancient pyramids, and the temples of Tamil Nadu, South India.
My Feature Article in ARTiculAction
You can view the April issue of ARTiculAction ART Review via
this link -> http://issuu.com/articulaction/docs/articulaction_art_review_-_april_2013/1
Here is the direct link to my feature article -> http://issuu.com/articulaction/docs/articulaction_art_review_-_april_2013/5
New Red
I’m only posting one image this time. I have 2 more new paintings on paper to photograph and post. But today, I photographed some older paintings, needing to get those documented.
new spot painting: pachinko
If you visit Tokyo, you’ll probably encounter a pachinko parlor or two — these brightly lit game palaces are usually noisy and crammed with players on games machines that look something like vertical pin-ball, with lots of steel balls falling and bells ringing. And so I was reminded of a pachinko parlor I passed frequently when I lived in Tokyo, once I completed this painting on paper using watercolor, Flashe and other synthetic polymer and pigments paints.
I’m Trying Art Licensing
I am signing an art licensing contract with a company that will produce small, medium and large format reproductions of 3 of my paintings as home decor for buyers who cannot normally afford large artwork, creating options for them to buy my art at very affordable price ($35-$50 per small-scale print; $100-$150 per medium; $190 – $220 per large-scale reproduction). The contract pays a percentage (royalties) on each sale. Here is one of 3 they selected:
Resistance
The title, Resistance, refers to the painting techniques used–which are the Process Painting techniques of layers, stain and poured paint. The silver acrylic paint layer (over yellow and texture on canvas) acts as a resist to the watery splashed on dark paint stain, so that it does not soak into the canvas as in traditional Stain Painting. The stain layer of watery paint bleeds out to break from the confines of the hardedge forms based on military camouflage patterns. The artist mixes much of her own paint using painting mediums and dry pigments. In this case, the artist mixed silver aluminum powder into an artist grade acrylic medium as the pigment binder, to create the silver paint used in this painting.
Resistence
mixed media on stretched canvas (acrylic, Flashe on canvas)
48″ x 48″
Artist: Marie Kazalia
$5,000.USD
Marie Kazalia 