Preparing for 2022, creating an artist calendar
There is a lot of falling leaves, and the weather is getting colder. Now, I feel that autumn has passed and winter is approaching. Around this time last year, I had bought calendars from Amazon for my friends and sent them away. In the same season, 2020, Everyone could not confidently make any predictions for the coming year since they were all stuck at home due to the coronavirus and living a different life than before. At that time, 2021 was such a number that we felt vaguely hopeful. But we were grateful to be able to purchase the 2021 calendar.
Friends said that the calendar gave them a different feeling than usual. Oddly enough, in the winter of 2020, no one around them had given them calendars. They told me when they received it, it made them relieve. A calendar is such a thing. It is natural for the sun to rise in the morning, and the air we breathe is taken for granted. Then there are times when such a natural thing feels unfamiliar. Then we realize the value of its existence.
As a child, I loved flipping through the calendar. Every time I turned the page, I was filled with hope that I could quickly become an adult. The 1970s were a difficult time for Korea. A calendar with the artist's drawings hung in the living room of the wealthy. The poor got their calendars mainly through the church. So I always have Jesus in the image of the calendar. In particular, I remembered that the address and phone number of the church were written next to the picture of Jesus holding the Lamb. And the company handed out calendars with only the numbers reported in large numbers on thin paper as the paper of a Bible book. In our house, we had a church calendar or that slim paper number calendar. With each passing day, I tore apart the old paper and rejoiced at the newly revealed numbers.
When I look at the calendar nowadays, I realize that our calendar has evolved in advance. Now, each individual can create and hang a calendar with their photos and drawings. It is easy to obtain a calendar with expensive famous paintings. It is a time when everything is prosperous and overflowing. This year I tried to make a calendar made up of only my drawings. First, among the pictures I've drawn so far, I've gathered images related to the season in one folder like this. There were so many drawings that it was not difficult to choose.
Then, I selected a calendar template that was distributed free of charge. The site below still provides free calendar templates that you can easily edit and include your drawings.
In the case of the blog below, they even put a printable free calendar on their blog.
I chose a simple one among these templates and made a calendar, as shown below.
This calendar is for personal use only, not for sale.
And below, I tried to make an annual calendar for sale.
First, a flower pattern that gives a bright feeling was placed on the upper part, and text was added in Photoshop to affect the picture. I fixed the image size to about 2000 because I want to compactly in a4, a3, and letter size. After that, it was published on the edge site as follows.
I've been working on this all day, but it gives me a sense of accomplishment. I am grateful for the fact that I am preparing something for 2022. I wish everyone a good end of 2021 and prepare for wonderful 2022!
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Reviews of M.C. Escher's exhibition.Maurits Cornelis Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. Despite wide popular interest, Escher was for most of his life neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands. He was 70 before a retrospective exhibition was held. (By Wikipedia)
If you look at the picture below, you can often feel familiarity. The artist who painted this painting is M.C Escher. (It's lithograph)
He was a Dutch printmaker and drawing artist active in the early 20th century. Above all, he was best known as a surrealist artist who created original works that felt more real than real, using precise lines calculated thoroughly mathematically. In this mathematical and logical framework and dimension, he created works using the style of 'impossible architecture,' tessellation, and optical illusions.
And his works, such as prints using these mathematical and geometric patterns, were rejected by early critics but received attention and love from mathematicians and physicists. Although he had no mathematical training, his mathematical understanding was broad and intuitive. His work had a strong mathematical structure. Most of his work is reminiscent of the repeating pattern of tiles, which is called tessellation. Escher's work is particularly well known to mathematicians and scientists interested in polyhedra and geometric distortions.
Escher uses the method of changing the image from 2D to 3D, the method of changing the brightness contrast so that the foreground of the picture is perceived as the background or the background as the foreground depending on the viewer, using the 'Penrose triangle' or the 'Mobius strip'. Most of all, he tried to talk about human perception, illusion, and truth.
He was not known very much until the 1950s, but in 1956 he held his first solo exhibition and was introduced to Time magazine, where he gained international fame. His paintings particularly fascinated mathematicians because they visualized the principles of mathematics in a very original way.
Maybe that's why, at my husband's suggestion, who is a mathematician and an economist, we went to the MC Escher exhibition at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics in Stony Brook University. Reservations are required, and admission is free.
Below are some of his prints that impressed me.
In particular, the game-like scenes of the Korean drama Squid Game, which was very popular through Neflix this year, were inspired by Escher's work.
In this way, masters give great energy and inspiration to future generations.
In my case, his portraits were a shocking inspiration.
By putting a medium called a mirror sphere on two-dimensional paper, he intended to make the plane three-dimensional and to look into himself through another dimension. This spirit of experimentation will help me a lot in my creation. It was a good opportunity to see his attitude and aspirations, which he always wanted to move forward, breaking the limits of himself and his artistic tools.
Making a T-shirt for the Native American Day Parade
Native American Day is a holiday observed in several states in celebration of Native American culture. In California and Nevada, the holiday is designated on the fourth Friday of September, whereas in South Dakota and Wisconsin, it falls on the second Monday of October.
Last week I got a letter from my second child's school telling me they were having a parade to celebrate Native American Day. For this parade, students will have to transform their t-shirts to create native American clothes. First of all, the school delivered pictures of Native American pictograph, as shown below, and instructed the students to practice and draw on T-shirts. I posted how to transform this image file into a vector file on the info post. I taught my kids how to convert images and change colors by converting them to a computer, and they love it. First, draw a picture with Sharpie marker (or fabric markers) like the one below on the t-shirt.
And then we fringed the bottom of the shirt and the sleeves like below.
Then, around the neck, we made a knot with three pretty threads and sewed it.
As shown below, we made a belt and attached it, and there was a pink feather, so I sewed it around the neck.
Below is the final result.
Thinking about the value of beauty, the tulip mania.
In the 17th century Holland, there was an unusual phenomenon that looked like madness from the outside, but was trend from the inside, like the current Bitcoin frenzy. Even people who were in the Netherlands at the time might be puzzled by the recent Bitcoin competition. Why are people so passionate and obsessed with computer data fragments?
But in 17th century Holland, it was just a tulip bulbs, which had more value than money. Because of this mysterious phenomenon, it is said that it was the beginning of the first bubble economy in modern times. Perhaps it is the same that modern people do not understand the people of that time. In the 1630s, tulips, a horticultural plant native to Turkey, imported from the Netherlands, were very popular. Plant lovers, who were initially fascinated by the beauty of tulips, began to stock up on tulip roots. Even when the flowers did not bloom, there was even a futures transaction in which a contract was bought and sold at a specific price at a certain point in the future. The peak of the tulip wave was February 1637. Tulips were sold for more than ten times the annual income of a skilled artisan. No matter how hard the ordinary people spent their lives plowing and working hard, they could not beat the people who traded tulip bulbs. They get rich quickly and start bragging about their luckiness. And these rumors spread like the roots of a tree. So, in the end, the bizarre thing happened, where everyone jumped into this gigantic arena.
Then, on February 3, 1637, the price of tulips suddenly plummeted. Rather than dropping the price, there were no buyers at all. Excessive price increases have discouraged plant bulb enthusiasts from buying them, and poor quality bulbs have depreciated. And experts from abroad began to analyze the phenomenon and question it. In a nutshell, like the empire's new clothes of Adersen's tale, one day, everyone suddenly found out everything.
So the term "tulip wave" is now often used as a metaphor for a huge economic bubble (when asset prices deviate from their intrinsic value): speculators are not interested in growing tulips or the beauty of the flowers, but rather the rise in prices. The bubble was created because it entered the market for a purpose.
True beauty has a unique, priceless value, and the price is determined the moment the public recognizes it. Objects with that value will increase their wealth in some form when demand or interest increases. In the case of Tulips or bitcoins, public give value to the beauty or potentiality of the world that cannot be seen with the naked eye, and the public has defined the market in the form of buying and selling them. Today, I planted 50 tulips that my neighbor gave me as a gift in my front yard. In present, we are planting tulips as flowers, not as money. After I planted all the tulips, I completed a digital file of the tulip wave on my computer.
Beautiful tulips twinkle in the sunlight. Someone compliments the beauty and the others desire and surround the tulip. The eagered energy looks like a net, similar to see a tree root. And the tulip flows somewhere like being swept through the tightly woven root gaps. It seems that their terminal point is gray in the distance. When the beauty of tulips, which gives people a lot of joy, meets obsession and desire, I tried to capture and draw an image that instantly comes to mind.
Artist is the one who steals the beauty of nature!
Today is a school day off in Columbus day. I went to the local Avalon park to keep the chance to see the pretty autumn leaves for a long time. As expected, the trees were squeezing out the beautiful colors of autumn, as if they were doing their best before winter just arrived and before the leaves fell. Mainly, I captured the natural colors of orange, brown, yellow, red, and purple with my camera. It is a color that exists only in these seasons. And it is also the perfect gift of nature and God.
Back home, I completed the beauty of autumn leaves with digital art. The autumn leaves piled up in the yellow-brown space shimmered like jewels. As you walk through the sparkling Yarrow Brown space, another dimension and time reveal.
Below is an autumn fall that I finished working on the computer. There is a pattern on the floor, like a perfect algorithm, so if you follow the design and paste it regularly, it becomes a nice piece of paper like the one below.
After completion, I uploaded it to online sites such as Etsy and Fine Art America as follows.
When I'm done with this kind of work, I sometimes feel a strong sense of accomplishment and get some guilt feeling behind the pleasure it brings. Because I know that I am not the creator of these patterns myself, but an imitator who copies the patterns of nature.
It is God who has created these beauties, the splendid beauty of nature and time, and I acknowledge that I am merely showing the beauty he has made in my way. In the past, looking at a landscape painting by Gustav Klimt, I admired how he managed to capture so well the swaying of the countless twinkling leaves when looking at the landscape under a tree. Would he have had the same concerns as me? A joy and a kind of guilt that shows the beauty that already coexists.
So I define an artist as someone who steals this natural beauty. It captures the beauty and energy that nature instantly radiates and puts it into the physical space of the canvas. They are hunters hunting such beauty somewhere.
Today, I want to share this beauty and energy that I received freely from nature in my work. I admit, too, is what an artist should do. |
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