Anisette Studio

From Muddy Brook Studios   1/15/2024

You never know what a Shibui will be. It becomes something exciting!

Good morning to you! Yes, it is still morning at 11:24. Today a little window into my day. The birds are fed. Not watching them today. Today one goal is writing my blog. Black coffee is on the right. I slept in waking up to my audiobook playing. This will mean back tracking the chapters. However, I did get in 10 1/2 hours of writing on a draft, 30 1/2 hours for 4 days’ time. There were some “Bingo!” moment with research tops in the mix.

I am painting the birds that come to my feeder on 4 X 6 antiqued watercolor paper as well as made up flowers, mostly Irises. It feels good to be painting. It feels good to be back to ignoring some chores, and instead be writing or doing some art.

It is quiet, I love the morning quiet and what you hear is the rhythm of the house itself. What I hear is the snapping of the heating, the refrigerator’s low rumble. Outside you hear the cars go by. The driveway is a long one, so there is distance, yet I find myself checking for someone driving in. There are a lot of Amazon packages between my house, and my daughter’s house. The Blue Jays are the only verbal fellows who come to the feeder. First one comes, calls and suddenly there are four. Yesterday a new arrival came, a crow. The biggest bird to visit. I was a bit concerned about how much the crow would eat, but no more that the Blue Jay’s or Mourning Doves.

AH! Yes, the coffee is good. My writing is about Shibui Found Image art, the differences of its creative processes than traditional art, the creative zone, and what is pareidolia. Pareidolia is Shibui. Creative people find it easy to find something in what they are looking at. It isn’t a new concept Leonardo DaVinci’s mind worked this way. I discovered a connection of pareidolia regarding the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Arcimboldo’s painted portraits of human heads made up of tree roots, plants, vegetables, fruits and even sea life. From a viewing distance his portraits look like normal human portraits. His paintings work due to what is an overlap method which makes the portraits appear as “human anatomical shapes”. This requires a careful blending or perhaps merging is the word; the process is one of imagination. Some of my drawings and paintings have been created this way. I love to create this way it is like creating a puzzle or creating a joke for others to view. Find things in a Shibui’s Foundation is like problem solving a puzzle.

I marvel at Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s use of characterizations. This is the process; you use parts or the whole of something to create the illusion of something else. Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s works showed not only nature but the commonality of human beings and nature. We are after all a part of the same consciousness. Now to explore what other artists used pareidolia.

There is a lot to the process of creating Shibui Found Image Art. It has taken some time to understand the process, so it is explainable. It has been necessary to introduce it to other people such as Julia Baker Waite, so to learn what others can do with it. I teach the foundation work and theory, now I am writing the instruction manual. Check Julia out!

Best wishes! Pejj