Back in 2002 I was taking an advanced printmaking class at CSULB. There was a different method/technique to learn every one or two weeks. Students were expected to define their own approach and theme for each of them. For the silk-screen printmaking assignment, I chose to do a rather simple mask-and-template cutouts approach first. TheContinue reading “On Experimental Silk Screen Printmaking”
Author Archives: Thom Wright Art
On Representational Figurative Painting
By Thom Wright 2020 A Western art tradition for over 500 years, representational figure painting continues to be taught and practiced today. In my art education I spent about ten years taking classes to draw and paint the figure. After doing undergrad required art courses part time for four years at Cal State U LongContinue reading “On Representational Figurative Painting”
On Mixed Media Collage Painting
By Thom Wright 2020 One of the many paths towards abstract painting begins with watercolor and paper collage. In my first twenty years as a landscape watercolor painter, I had read about many other painters working this way, and I experimented with it as well. The salient requirement here is to make the added piecesContinue reading “On Mixed Media Collage Painting”
On Figurative Painting
For years I studied the figure, in many life drawing classes especially. While I did learn proportion, I could not transfer that experience to painting the figure. Painting is different from drawing, where it’s brushes, not charcoal or pencil, and color versus greys. My better drawings tend to be expressionistic, and that’s the direction thatContinue reading “On Figurative Painting”
Laughing Matters
About 20 years ago when I was president of our local art group, “Southern California Artists, Inc.”, I could not find another member willing to take over my previous year’s position as editor of our monthly “SCA News Letter”. So I gave it a try for another year, but sometimes came up short on content.Continue reading “Laughing Matters”
On Experimental Drawing
By Thom Wright June 25, 2020 So much has been written about drawing – as an art form in itself, as an art practice to improve painting, and as a way to stimulate artistic creativity. In experimental drawing even these aspects are limiting, where it can become a mixture and hybrid incorporating multiple media inContinue reading “On Experimental Drawing”
Drawing in the Age of the Corona-Virus
A big part of every painter’s studies involves drawing on paper, lots of it. Ideas begin as a drawing evolves and generates additions, modifications and erasures, seeing the whole and the parts. And during this stay-in time of the corona-virus, we have had plenty of time on our hands to draw. A few days ago,Continue reading “Drawing in the Age of the Corona-Virus”
Early Forest Warning Paintings
I began my “Forest Warning” series in 2018, and started as usual with some small studies. At that time, a rather new painting approach was becoming “popular” on the web, called “paint pouring”. The major characteristic of this approach has to do with its completely unpredictable outcome, because of the rather free of hand pouringContinue reading “Early Forest Warning Paintings”
An Student Artist’s Global Warming Research Project
By Thom Wright (2005 – 2020) Summary Thom Wright, as a graduate art student at Cal State University Long Beach in 2005, investigated a potential solution to Global Warming (now Climate Change), which is caused by increasing levels of green-house gases in the atmosphere due to human activity. While taking an art course in IntermediaContinue reading “An Student Artist’s Global Warming Research Project”
Deciding to Frame a Painting or Not
An important aspect in the decision of buying a painting concerns whether to frame a painting or not. For Abstract paintings, especially large paintings, the trend towards unframed work grows, even in art galleries and museums. At your home it is a personal choice, and to address this for my art, this posting addresses. ShownContinue reading “Deciding to Frame a Painting or Not”
