Category: art

BACK TO THE FUTURE IN MY ARTISTIC ENDEAVOURS AS A “POINTILLIST”

May 9, 2020

POINTILLISM ARTWORK FROM MY PAST — Cat Portraiture

In MENTAL NOTE #32,

☆ LINK IS : https://nawfalartphotography.wordpress.com/2020/05/08/mental-note-32-my-list-of-the-5-most-influential-painters-for-me-and-why/),

I mentioned that I began my artistic endeavours as a Pointillist in the late 1980s. That, my friends, is a whole other kind of art-craft, I can assure you of that. I loved it! It drove me bonkers much of the time, but I really embraced “The DOTS!”

I had my Checklist:

My Coffee √

My Technical Pens √

My Ink √

My Paper √

My Subject √

THE DOORS ….Very Loud! √

And….Time….Lots and Lots of Time √

All present and accounted for!

Here is what I found to be the main secret to doing Pointillism well:

“The dots are important. The dot size is important. HOWEVER —The the main skill in Pointillism to produce a worthy art piece, is WHERE NOT TO PUT THE DOTS. The white-space is the key ingredient to creating a nice Pointillism artwork. It is just like composing music: A masterpiece in music is created by musicians and composers who know where to put the breaks between the notes, and for how long the breaks should be there. Beethoven knew that ‘Dah Dah Dah Dahhhhhhhhhhh! BREAK! Dah Dah Dah Dahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! BREAK! Would sound way cooler than, “DahDahDahDahDahDahDahDahDahDahDah! You see!”

“So, the secret in Pointillism, in my honest and humble opinion, is the placement of ‘White-Space’.”

☆ I said in MENTAL NOTE #32, that I would show one of my commissioned works, as those are the only ones that exist now. An unfortunate disaster destroyed most of my Pointillism works, regrettably.

This artwork is titled, “AVATAR” (1988), a Cat Portrait: That is actually what I specialized in, Cat Portraiture—Domestic and Wild Cats. This is a portrait of the client’s pet cat, Avatar.

Private Collection Piece.

The DOT sizes in this piece range from .15 mm to probably .80 mm. I always preferred a DOT-size around .30 mm. However, the .15 to .80 mm was the normal DOT-size range.

AVATAR — A detailed view.

I would guess, there may be 50,000 to 70,000 DOTs in this artwork, but I am just guessing—There could be more.

“AVATAR” (1988) — Pointillism Cat Portraiture by Nawfal Johnson

MENTAL NOTE #31,0-ARGH! The “4AM PLAN”!

April 19, 2020

MENTAL NOTE #31.0-ARGH! “THE 4A.M. PLAN”!

Yeah, so, kind of typical, awake suddenly….at the UnHoly Hour of 4A.M….what to do?

Steps in the “4 A.M. Plan”:

1) Get out of Bed. [√]

2) Make some Tea and/or Coffee. [√]

3) Go outside and stand in the cool rain! [√]

4) Unblurry your eyes, goto some device or computer and attempt to get some work done. [√]

OR,

5) Read a Book (I may do this instead)!

So…that is the 4A.M. Plan….Please feel free to do the same. Or, just stay in bed and get decent sleep like any normal person would.

Causam Ignorantes Urbis Incendium Tunc from the ABSTRACT Fire Portraits Photography Series

December 30, 2019

Title: “Causam Ignorantes Urbis Incendium Tunc.”

Then they do not know the cause of the burning of the city.

(However, we know….)
Creation Date: 29 December 2019.
Copyright 2019 Nawfal Johnson
All Rights Reserved.
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Series: Fire Portraits (2016 – Present).

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Artist’s Note:

I felt that the text from Historian, Giraldi Cambrensis, was very appropriate for this Fire Portrait, of a fiery demon (of some sort): “Causam Ignorantes Urbis Incendium Tunc.”
[Then they do not know the cause of the burning of the city]. However, such destruction can only come from some Evil source: and thus, the source of this disaster is known — And its name is ‘Evil’.
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Source: De instructione principis opus est scriptoris Giraldi Cambrensis.

“Having thus demonstrated his usefulness, Gerald was selected to accompany the Archbishop of Canterbury, Baldwin of Forde, on a tour of Wales in 1188, the object being a recruitment campaign for the Third Crusade. His account of that journey, the Itinerarium Cambriae (1191) was followed by the Descriptio Cambriae in 1194.” (Wikipedia)

“Giraldus Cambrensis, also called Gerald Of Wales, or Gerald De Barri, (born c. 1146, Manorbier Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales—died c. 1223), archdeacon of Brecknock, Brecknockshire (1175–1204), and historian, whose accounts of life in the late 12th century stand as a valuable historical source.” (Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giraldus-Cambrensis ).

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☆ You can buy Fine Art Prints and Canvas of this Art Photograph from the following link:

https://www.imagekind.com/Causam-Ignorantes-Urbis%C2%A0Incendium%C2%A0Tunc_art?imid=237a381d-ac86-47ff-8ddc-24278098d4a3

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CATARACT #1 from my New Series, CATARACT, My Photographic Interpretation of Vision with Serious CATARACTS

December 2, 2019

Title: CATARACT #1.

Creation Date: 2 December 2019.

Series: CATARACTS.

Year: 2019.

This is my 92nd Photographic Series. Fine Art Photograph number 2,649!
Copyright 2019 Nawfal Johnson
All Rights Reserved.
Penang, Malaysia
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☆ You can buy Fine Art Prints and Gallery Quality Canvas of this Photograph, from the following link:

https://www.imagekind.com/CATARACT-1_art?imid=75bc5f43-00fa-45a9-989f-36fec5353fe3

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Artist’s Note :

CATARACTS is personal: I, so far have about 25 to 30% Cataracts in my eyes. It sucks, especially being a Photographist! I can attest to the fact that it makes my vision problematic, even at 25 or 30% cataract: I see the world in a slightly cloudy, haze (foggy vision), much of the time. It is not extremely noticeable, YET! However, as they get worse, vision, and Photography will become more difficult. Then….time to consider surgery to correct the problem(s) — Two eyes, so, two problems!

This series is a group of images that may represent vision with serious, blurry cataracts: It is my interpretation of Cataract Vision represented in images.
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