Balyn's Birthday

Taken last year on Balyn's birthday. He loves his books.

Mivarsh Faz

Meeting Mivarsh, Graphite, C.nick, 2012

A drawing of Mivarsh of Impland from the book "The Worm Ouroboros".

Great Hag

This is the first time I’ve ever done anything like this and so I really just playing around. My inspiration is from a folktale of how the Great Hag blocked a spring at the top of Ben Cruachan with a giant stone. Well, one night she fell asleep and the spring flooded the valley below, she was so distraught at seeing lives lost and ruined that she herself turned into a stone. I want to revisit this one day and perhaps make the whole story.

Sidewalk of Knots by C.nick

Sidewalk of Knots

So this is my Celtic knotwork done with sidewalk chalk, charcoal and soft pastels. I got a book about Celtic knots at the library and decided that a sidewalk would be the perfect place to practice this art form. I found that it was very open regarding space and let me think about manging space in ways that were different than how I manage it on paper. It took about three evenings to create and there was a minor mishap with water but for all that it turned out really well.

Wind and Rain

I am FINALLY done! It took much longer than it really needed to. This was inspired by the song "Wind and Rain", a folk song filled with sibling jealousy, murder and haunted musical instruments. I did this with inks and watercolour on calligraphy parchment.


This my favourite version of the song, sung by Julie Fowlis

                                                        

Midsummer

Detail from "Midsummer" a sidewalk-chalk drawing by C.nick, 2012

C.nick's art opinion published on Empty Easel

Can we Create Art that Combines Both Intellect and Emotion?

Empty Easel is an excellent art site. Almost all that I know about paint mixing and palettes comes from there.  They’ve done me an honour by publishing one of my ‘opinions’ about art. So please check Empty Easel out! 

C.nick  

All the Colours of the Rainbow

Coloured Pencil, 18 X 24, C.nick Tuigsinn

All the Colours of the Rainbow so pretty in the Sky,
Are also on the Faces of the People going by,…

What a Wonderful World

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Art Term of the Week

Tertiary Colours:

Tertiary colours are colours made up of a primary and the secondary that’s closest to it on the colour wheel. In Art the Tertiary Colours are: Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Blue-Purple, Red-Purple, Red-Orange, & Yellow-Orange.

Artists: Monet, Mary Cassatt, Delphin Enjolras, Lord Frederic Leighton, Van Gogh

 

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Oisin and St Patrick

This is an image of Oisín and his travels to Tìr nan Òg. It starts with St. Patrick asking Oisín-a very ancient man- about his life. Oisín then explains how he was the son of Fionn Mac Cumhaill and travelled to faeryland with a Sí woman who would become his wife. After many adventures he decides he wants to see his country once again, she implores him to stay but he insists. She gives him a horse and tells him never to dismount, for if he does he can’t come back. He promises to be back and rides off, but when he comes to Ireland it is much changed and all of the Fianna are gone. Saddened, he rides around and chances upon men trying to move a stone, they’re having much trouble and ask for his help, for he is very strong, he knows that he can’t dismount though he tries to help, but when he leans in the saddle he comes crashing to the ground. Three hundred years comes upon suddenly and he is gasping for breath, not knowing what to do the men bring the wisest man they know to help, the man is St. Patrick. And thus were at the beginning of the tale. 

St. Patrick most likely wore a non-Celtic tonsure, which one though is very unclear. It all comes down to the Corona and how old that is, plus when the tonsure was introduced in all of Christianised Europe, if the Corona is not old enough and tonsures were introduced then Patrick most likely wore the full tonsure, but if tonsures weren’t introduce then it’s quite possible that Patrick wore no tonsure at all. Druids wore tonsures and this is what the Celtic tonsure is supposed to be based on, though we do here of people in Gaul-albeit after Patrick’s time- wearing a tonsure described like that of the Celtic Church. After much debate I chose the proposed Celtic tonsure, there is another version of the Celtic tonsure but I chose this one because of artistic reasons. 

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!

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Einstein

Albert Einstein was born on March 14 in 1879. This a graphite mini (3.5 X 5in, 8.9 X 12.7cm) portrait of him in honour of his birthday.

Fun Fact: Einstein had a love for music and he could play the violin. He once said,  “Love is a better teacher than a sense of duty- at least for me.”


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Art Term of the Week

Secondary Colours:

Secondary colours are colours produced by mixing primaries. In art and design the three primaries are blue, red, and yellow, so secondary colours are purple, orange, and green.

Artists: Monet, C.nick

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Michelangelo

On this day (March 6th) Michelangelo was born. 

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Da Vinci's Parachute

A homage to Leonardo Da Vinci’s sketch of a parachute.

Art Term of the Week

Primary Colours:
Primaries in all colour theories are a small set of colours used to make a wide more varying range of colours.  In art and design the three primaries are blue, red, and yellow.
 Artists: Van Gogh, Da Vinci, Franz Marc




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Footballer

“Footballer”, Graphite, 2012

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Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel or Dr. Seuss was born on March 2nd in 1904. This a graphite mini (3.5 X 5in, 8.9 X 12.7cm) portrait of him in honour of his birthday.

What’s your favourite of his books?

St. David's Day

 Today (March 1st) is St. David’s Day. So for all the Welsh out there, Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Or Happy St. David’s Day!

C.nick

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", Graphite. 2012

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on this day (February 27) in 1807. This a graphite mini (3.5 X 5in, 8.9 X 12.7cm) portrait of him in honour of his birthday.

“He has left the village and mounted the steep,
And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,
Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;
And under the alders that skirt its edge,
Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,
Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.” Paul Revere’s Ride

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Art Term of the Week

Rococo: 

An artistic style after Baroque in the 1700s. Characteristically very ornate, light, airy, delicate and with a lot of movement.  Rococo comes from rocaille meaning ‘rock work’. 

 

Artists: Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Fragonard, François Boucher, and Jean-Antoine Watteau

 

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Mad Tea Party

"Mad Tea Time", Ink, C.nick, 2012

An Ink drawing of the Mad Tea Party from Alice’s Advetures in Wonderland.

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Renoir

The Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born today (25th of February) in 1841. This is a graphite mini (3.5 X 5in, 8.9 X 12.7cm) portrait of Renoir in honour of his birthday.

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President's Day

 

This is a rather belated President’s Day post, for that I’m sorry (tha mi duilich). So, for all of you Americans out there and for those that just love history here’s a graphite mini (3.5 X 5in, 8.9 X 12.7cm) portrait of Abraham Lincoln (born Feb 12, 1809) and George Washington (born Feb 22, 1731).
Happy belated President’s Day!

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