Anisette Studio

From Muddy Brook Cottage 1/8/2024

This is a Shibui Found Image Art. It begins with action art also known as action painting. It is watercolor splashed, spattered, dripped, dropped, blown, the watercolor is bled into Rives BFK or Strathmore watercolor paper. This paper is best as it holds wet medium very well. Cheap papers do not cut it as they wrinkle. As a professional artist I can’t afford that risk, not interested as I have been a artist a long time. But there is another important reason to use good papers. Shibui is a one-shot deal! The same thing cannot happen twice!

To back track: Shibui after the action art part of creating a Shibui Foundation what you have is random chaos! The next step is to find what is there! The finding process is unique to everyone! It is a problem-solving process. It took me five years to realize the process so it could be discussed. It has meant developing Shibui into an explainable art form.

When it comes to the creative process, and anyone wishing to understand a process we need to understand the lay of the land ___we need to learn what it is about. It takes time too to develop a creative process, this is why it is indeed a process to create art.

We process it as we create it, and our viewers process it by getting caught up in it in the attempt to unlock what it is all about. An artist or writer knows about the likelihood’s a viewer may have. We understand what can trigger a response in the viewer of our works, and in a reader of books. We try too to create surprise, and puzzles within what we facilitate. Artist are facilitators.

Our brains are huge files for experiences. We file away possibilities which the mind will predict, much like stack up pros and cons. As we respond so will our viewers. Their brains will draw from their own experiences as they interpret what they sense.

Best wishes! Pejj