Anisette Studio

A Shibui Found Image Art by Pejj Nunes. (sold)

It’s a quiet morning so far at Muddy Brook Studio. The fan is going, humming out its particular rhythm. Coffee is at the ready. There is cool air coming from the woods on my right through the sliding glass door. And more on the left through my front door. Perhaps today will not be as hot. That would be nice! Last night’s dishes are in the sink. I ogled my latest two pieces of work and then put them in the portfolio. I thought there are sixteen more papers to go. If they all turn out like these it will be a hell of a portfolio of still life. By the time I am done I will have earned my good do-bee button. A good do-bee button is a phrase used by my mother in-law when she had accomplished something, and it felt well done!

I have a new composition I am pondering. I like it but “setting with it” a while is not a bad idea. Liking it is one thing, seeing it as a challenge also something, but is it a set up I would enjoy once it is done. Would others enjoy the composition. There are five objects this time, not three. I like how the objects are set in place as a viewer, myself included as the first viewer; I will stay in the still life, following the darks and light values. This movement will be circular. There are no objects that point my attention out of the resulting image. One way to know when an image is successful is when the viewer travels within the image like this. I always ask myself how deep can I go into the background, how much can I travel in, and around the objects? It may be you do not want to go deep in the perspective. Three dimensional objects take up space, there will be depth of field, a vanishing point, and a field event theory can be applied. Objects begin as shapes that take form. There is a commonality or relationship to be found, even in non-Shibui objects this is true. Shibui Found Image Art however plays by its own rules of operation. The difference between the organization of a still life and Shibui is that it is not set up, it happens out of action painting or action art. Randomness. However, the term composition is about the relationships of these “events” or better-known as shapes and forms, also called masses. Lines, and color also included all on a flat two-dimensional surface waiting to become three-dimensional.

A Shibui Found Image Art by Pejj Nunes.

A second Shibui. This was a delightful surprise! Not all Shibui become full images. All edges were there! Enough, little in this case was intentional to round the image out. Shibui are enhanced, designed. There is commonality. It comes from imagination. The mind predicting shapes that become forms.

Best wishes! Pejj

Note: I do not give permission for my work to be used, unless requested. It is well established. It is advisable to add such things.