Kintsugi (金継ぎ, 'golden joinery') is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum; As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
The Aquarellistas honour this philosophy but it may take a while before
the first results come out - because it requires a lot of thinking to express this. Except for Martine, who used a beautiful repaired bowl. It is not finished
but already Absolutely Fabulous!
From far away Brtagne, our Michèle works with us, and she gets better every week! Here's her take on the Kintsugi - three different bowls that have had their breakage scars turned into golden lines that make them more interesting.
Jutta created this amazing Mosaic-like fish painting, inspired by last weeks' ceramic fish subject. She painted this on white watercolour carton, which gives the painting a new brightness and texture. Interesting to know that you can't really use masking tape on it; the paper sticks to the tape when you take it off...
Michele, in Bretagne, also pained a ceramic fish and it is very impressive in the fact that it has a direction and really stands on the surface. I love it and find it so very well done!!
Sylvie has finished her beautiful Eastern girl with scarf, adding a very good colour blue on the shoulders. She has also put a text on the left. Wonder what it says! You too?
Judith informally calls this ‘Against all rules!’. She has a lot on her plate and it shows in this painting, which reminds me of the work of Emil Nolde. Impressive.
A couple of Aquarellistas get together on Thursdays in Opio and usually we do the same in terms of subjects, but this week there was a request: Velvet Pumpkins - a nice one with Halloween around the corner!. And it was a success as you can see below:
The request actually came from Sonya - and we understand why! How gorgeous is that velvet, how beautiful are the shapes of the pumpkins. Impressive!
Same for Marie, it is clearly visible from her painting that she likes and has fun with the subject!
Sue started with a pumpkin too - and as you can maybe see, she starts with a drawing, just guidelines actually, for the direction and composition of the painting.It helps the spontaneity, and the pencil lines disappear mostly
Just to learn, Anna participated in the Pumpkin-fun. And look how great the colour has come out! really good! At the same time she started with the washing exercise, where she coloured all parts of a 'doodle' and after it dries, washed it under the tap (cold water!) and the gave all the parts Volume. It is not yet quite finished, but looks so cool!! Very good.
This is a superb painting by Sonya, inspired by the 'cells' of acrylic painting. It is so amazing!
Many of us were seeing deep sea inspiration,I just relish in the abstractness of it. Maybe with an alien aspect!
Sue finished her Gladiolus. She drew it last week - and painted it on Thursday, in her loose style, especially visible in the two flower buds on top, where she started with the orange and then loosely dropped in some green. And it works!!
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