tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75072322914773321742024-03-13T11:19:28.150-07:00Art and Painting by Cathy HegmanCathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-78735943314695266202011-10-25T10:39:00.001-07:002011-10-25T10:39:33.244-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"></span><br />
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Today, finally after several weeks of being lost in the chaos of life, I find my muse. She, he, it has been hiding. I would see only glimpses of the familiar come in and out of focus with every stroke of paint, only to be lost again in fog of indecision. I find myself in this state time and time again, after life events happen. I lose my way and I cannot focus on my art, it takes a back seat to problems of illness, children coming home, life shattering news, and often times fits and bouts of extreme happiness or elation, often it is not the event just my response. These are the times when I find myself questioning not only my worth as an artist, but also my direction and intent in my work. I become disjointed from all that is and has been my world, and fall headlong into what I like to call the purgatory of depression. I know I am in a bad place, but just simply cannot find my way out, but somehow I know there is redemption in the sanity of waiting it out. There is something so important in the waiting, it is a time of stepping back and taking a long hard look at life. Today I am free and out of depression purgatory and back into my familiar self again. It feels good and new again. I probably should not post this kind of thing; but somehow I am quite sure it will ring with a deafening clarity to other artists and I think we all like a bit company in our despair, it lets us know we are not alone.</div>
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That being said I am back racking up layers of paint on canvas in a distillation process of finding the figure in shape and form. Oddly enough the desperation painting, I have done over the past two weeks has rendered me with a much more thoughtful eye to what is needed, and more importantly what is not in my work. There has been much fervent overpainting in the studio and clawing and scratching of canvas, but it has given way now to a meditative, more assured application of pigment that is not only healing the wounds left on the canvas from the past few weeks but giving it a new life. These are the days that I love.</div>
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Here is the most current work on canvas…It is an amalgamation of two series I have been working on, the dark Alice series and the manipulation series. See if you can find the connections of the two….here is a hint : the title is Shadow Puppets……</div>
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As always thank you for reading and I hope you find a sliver of inspiration in my work and words.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>You will notice the obvious references to peace and talk, and the subtle barb wire that gives the idea that maybe the road to peace will not be without its dangers and pain and that maybe it will be about the rights of territories and enclosures, the lips that are silent. I really loved this piece and thought it would probably be the only one and that the series would end, and then I painted, Peace Talks II. </b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
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</b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>I know some will read this and wonder why it took so many stages. Perhaps it could have been completed in less, but I would say to you, that you have to live the journey to understand the path that was taken. There is history in this piece now that did not exist in the earlier stages and it gives credence to the painting. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Thank you for taking the time to read my blog and I hope to leave you with peace and hope. </b></span></div><br />
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</div>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-9264142937161508182011-01-03T13:30:00.000-08:002011-01-18T17:38:05.822-08:00Beginning and Ending...2010 to 2011<div style="color: black;"><b>Happy New Year!! Hello 2011....Goodbye 2010!</b></div><div style="color: black;"><b><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="color: black;"><b>The latest series I am working on is incorporating layers of acrylic mediums to create a tactile almost encaustic textured painting. I love encaustic painting and the process is wonderful but I am always trying to create new ways to complicate my work and this is just one more way to do so. The mediums with the opaque and clear gels allow me to play with obscurity in my work without losing the general idea of it. I blogged last month on the first of these but this month I am working on creating art with not only texture but a deeper interactive meaning for the viewer. I saw an indie film in which two people communicated by circling words of text in their books to talk instead of ever uttering a sound, this hit me as very intriguing and so I am using my figures to contain the text and I have circled words that tell a story.</b></div><div style="color: black;"><b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Close up of the painting below in the first stages, This was a watercolor onYupo with the encaustic look a like on top. I was not thrilled with this so I completely repainted the painting. I will blog on it next month. in detail as it really gave me insight on how I work. I got an email to donate to the Mississippi Hearts for Aids while working today and the painting will go to that organization's auction in February 2011. I believe in synchronicity and the painting just fell off of my brush when I knew it would go to a really great cause.</b></td></tr>
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</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I began to add some different hues to the paintings, I have been quite enamored with the using hues of orange and have found it cropping up in my work recently. I like to sully my orange with other pigments to give it a character all it's own, I almost never use tube colors by themselves. </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> I choose my palette for each piece of work, but often I use the same palette for years adding and subtracting only one or two hues at a time. I think many artist do this and it gives their work uniformity to some degree, it also just feels very comfortable and forces you to create new and interesting colors by mixing instead of buying every tube color that comes on the market.</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> I used gesso as my white paint at this point, but in the later stages will switch to white acrylic paint. I am trying to think of ways to relate the three figure shapes and make them work as one painting, yet still retain enough strength to stand alone as three separate paintings as well. It is at this point they are looking like figures at a dance to me and I am thinking that could be the relationship for them. They appear solitary in each panel giving them a formality,so I think I will put gloves on the hands, no wait; I will put long gloves on them as this feels unusual and even more distinctive. I am thinking this will be a commonality that will serve to link them together. I then begin to think about gloves and their significance or relativity to my life, now the story is beginning to gel and surface behind these figures.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Deep South is where tradition runs deep in the arteries and veins of many women and is taken very seriously, and it is only as I have gotten older that I look back on many of these traditions and wonder how they ever got taken so seriously. I remember back to a time when many of my friends made their debuts and had their coming out festivities and Debutante Dances. I was not in that particular segment of society that was expected to perform this act, but I knew how important it was to the girls that were in it; and how much fun it was for them to don their white gowns and white gloves and partake of the societal games in which their predecessors had before them. This piece will be a bit of a play on societal games and social mores. I feel like at this point in my life, I see with much more clarity that we often perform acts just to conform to what is deemed as proper. There must be some point at which we have to recollect and wonder, how much of this is truly important in the scheme of our short lives .</b></span><br />
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<div id="refHTML"></div>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-57996904047303293092010-09-04T13:30:00.000-07:002010-09-04T14:55:15.268-07:00Studio Work....eyes shadows....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTFeod1Ox-yRbshYmc5ZaRlNZP54fpNUmH3Nb5C20pNp1YTwP95u9sSWw7NLN6E5rHf70Q1DS_ha8JkbP6keZqmnPMd2DYZ2LtKbcGryjFaxVeyG4-A-r5_Rax6vOn57PQiToc5OMTt1U/s1600/three+graces+copy+watermarked.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTFeod1Ox-yRbshYmc5ZaRlNZP54fpNUmH3Nb5C20pNp1YTwP95u9sSWw7NLN6E5rHf70Q1DS_ha8JkbP6keZqmnPMd2DYZ2LtKbcGryjFaxVeyG4-A-r5_Rax6vOn57PQiToc5OMTt1U/s400/three+graces+copy+watermarked.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here is one of the latest in a series of Medusa or eye shadowed paintings. I believe this series is a reflection of how I see the world after the age of 50. I feel like the figures I am painting lately, with eyes shaded and incognito is an attempt to be in this world and not of it with the sole desire being to avoid being crushed by societal changes and pressures of the world. I am not sure but maybe living in the middle of nowhere makes this a much easier task these days and the fact that after a certain age I am quite sure that people become very translucent and unnoticed in the world by those of a younger age. I think one of our greatest fears is being irrelevant and useless.<br />
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The depth of this painting is in its complexity. The development of layers and subsequent excavation of parts of the painting have given this a feeling of movement even though the figures are quite stagnant, and the overall feel is one of stability,unity,and strength. There are many of the symbols that occur in most if not all of my work, they work in design and in thought for my work. The repetition of many elements gives this piece its intrigue, which I think is key in paintings. The more I paint the more that I think I dig into my psyche and dredge thoughts that are suppressed by the fear of what others might think but somehow the cloak of pigment and medium make it benign enough to share with the world. I began this piece with ampersand board and I generously coated it with gesso, 3 layers to be exact. I then designed my painting, at first thinking I would keep it very simple and plain much like the others in this series but somehow things took a u-turn and I got really into texture and pattern. I painted this with oil paint, cold wax and liquin. I also created the lettering by cutting out letters printed on regular bond paper in a generic font. I arranged them on the area that I wanted the print and then painted many layers over them, I had not planned on lifting the letters. I woke up on the fifth day after probably 5 layers and felt the letters were too strong ( I had printed them in black but had several layers of paint and medium over them)so I decided to try to lift the bond paper letters off revealing the under layers of collage and paint. I felt like if this failed ,well then,I would just try to leave the letters off and work more with just texture in that area.The oil paint with the wax was dry to the touch but not cured; so I lifted them with no problem, and it made the piece so much more cohesive and related having these previous layers revealed. All of this to say go with the flow, don't stick to a plan just to say you did, you might miss a wonderful opportunity to teach yourself something new. <br />
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Fall is a magical time it brings the year to a close and is the last chance to dance with nature before the cold winter chases us indoors for shelter. Studio business as usual this month but next month life will be filled with the camaraderie of fellow artists. First on the agenda is a workshop with Judi Coffey( www.judiart.com) , the artist that will juror the Mississippi Watercolor Society Grand National Exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi ( www.msmuseumart.org). I don't take workshops very often any more, but this is one I wanted to take because I have admired this lady's work for years. She paints the most phenomenal abstract collage pieces, and since I do not work in collage much, it will be a welcome diversion for me to be amongst those that work in layers of paper and paint. Next on the agenda, at the end of the month, is Mississippi Art Colony (www.msartcolony.org) and the guest artist will be Dennis Masback (www.dennismasback.com), and the whole gang of 40 or so artists that congregate and paint together for a week. It is always a refreshing and mentally invigorating to get together and see what everyone is creating in their minds and on canvas. This is not a workshop but a convention of artists that work in various medias, that very simply put, come and work for a week. The bonus is that at all times you can break and have coffee, tea, or whatever you choose with a fellow artist and just talk art, no distractions or diversions, just an art immersion of sorts.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">I am working still in the Medusa Series and it is really stretching the boundaries of the mind. I am incorporating symbolism in the pieces and for most it is in the form of animals and shapes. Color is symbolic as well but I am not dwelling on that at this point, I may divert to that later as well. I am working on integrating the figure shape and the animal shape as one shape to emphasize their connection in the physical sense as well as the mental. I feel we all have a power animal that we relate to or feel a kindred bond to and in this series I am touching on some of my own. This is a refraction of the earlier but continuing Guardian Series. The Medusa series is turning out to be a large body of my inner fears and dreams. I am feeling the desire to move from the reality to the deeper more abstracted workings of the mind, so the work later on will most likely reflect the corner I am turning, and I may not end up on Main Street but possibly a fun and interesting side avenue, but for now the series is still flowing in the same direction. Who knows where this will go from here since I have until November to produce it.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span> <a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5y7hMhIpApkGUJNVATECvY1oWQOly-L_XHiRRspjp05MpCSMsUOTpWVy-tYluulb2vH0pMlFYWHJ9HxbjFJc5mrFSaO3A6NiTkVwJcCr_ONjI4b2CAYmqoVD7CNCJnRmhOHkfQDxesBk/s1600/Peace+Talk+II+acrylic+on+canvas++36+x+36+inchewaternms.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5y7hMhIpApkGUJNVATECvY1oWQOly-L_XHiRRspjp05MpCSMsUOTpWVy-tYluulb2vH0pMlFYWHJ9HxbjFJc5mrFSaO3A6NiTkVwJcCr_ONjI4b2CAYmqoVD7CNCJnRmhOHkfQDxesBk/s200/Peace+Talk+II+acrylic+on+canvas++36+x+36+inchewaternms.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507083140802402546" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Peace Talks<br />acrylic on canvas<br />by<br />Cathy Hegman<br />36 x36<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > <span style="font-weight: bold;">My thoughts go back often to paintings that seemed important to me and one is called Peace Talks II(click on the photo to enlarge it and see the details of the painting), it sold a month or so ago, and with mixed emotions. I loved this painting and had a hard time putting it in the gallery but I often feel this way and I knew I just needed to put it out in the world. It was a painting of despair over all the bad in the world, the economy, war, immigration, hate crimes, and just the general unrest and how caught up in it I found myself. I often wonder if the world tilted this far out of control when I was growing up, maybe I could not feel it then or maybe it felt right as a child to be tilting and whirling out of control, I don't know but for me right now, it feels odd and strangely like a trap that has ensnared me. The most odd part is that I find snippets of peace and joy daily and when I do I for the most part feel rather childlike but often the heaviness creeps in and I feel the suffocating weight of it's presence.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">I am working on some interesting experiments in the studio. Drawing for me is pure joy, especially when no one is looking. I have searched for most of my art life to find ways to interject my drawing into my work more purely and still making it feel as if it were an integrated part of a painting and not an unfinished work with the drawing exposed. I think somehow along the way in art, drawing has become something of an under dressed lady at the art dance. It seems it never garners the rapt attention that the painted surface seems to enjoy. I have tried to amalgamate it in my process in various ways. I have found just recently that I am able to do it with powdered charcoal and india ink in most medias. You can mix powdered charcoal with almost any binder and render it effective. I am working with adding it to varying mixtures of liquin, cold wax and in acrylic with gels, liquid mediums etc. When I am working in encaustic art, I begin by working on raw wood in charcoal and then layering encaustic medium and then the colors of wax on top and finding ways to scrape back down to the original drawing and marks and it seems to give me a close proximity to what I am after but the rabbit is till running and I am still chasing it!<br /><br /><br /><br /></span> <a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbgG6bOv318ozeRLy9hRBZSUBpB_euh9Anu73iGd56qfmjHIT0R0GZoNCllGdvnRTsuNUzDUSfjnRLJWWGg1DEfubS3Mte0aihKJG6O3Kzwydb391Cqgz8Czk86Z-HmJfnWyxCc2czLW4/s1600/Medusa+bird+in+hand.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbgG6bOv318ozeRLy9hRBZSUBpB_euh9Anu73iGd56qfmjHIT0R0GZoNCllGdvnRTsuNUzDUSfjnRLJWWGg1DEfubS3Mte0aihKJG6O3Kzwydb391Cqgz8Czk86Z-HmJfnWyxCc2czLW4/s200/Medusa+bird+in+hand.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507088477254399138" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Medusa Complexities: Bird in Hand<br />oil on canvas<br />by<br />Cathy Hegman<br />30 x 30<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > <span style="font-weight: bold;">I find I like to experiment on paintings that are lurking in my studio, crying out for my attention, there are times I feel like a plastic surgeon, as I am constantly looking at imperfection and trying to bring out the beauty in the surface. This is the hook in art, the little hope of the masterpiece that keeps us all tethered to our art. We know it is here somewhere but we have to find it ourselves. Above in the painting, Medusa Complexities: Bird in Hand, the drawing was done on canvas with vine charcoal and redrawn with a mixture of powdered charcoal, india ink and a small amount of cold wax with enough liquin added to make it the consistency of a very thick ink. I allow this time to dry and then work back into the drawing with layers of oil paint, cold wax and liquin. The layering gives me the edges I love and the luminosity that I get with watercolor. Uh oh.. I think I am really falling in love with oil all over again....</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">I will post on the workshop and Art Colony next month so get ready!</span> </span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">*I always hate to sound like I am boasting; for I am not, if you knew the times of work,rejection, pain and sacrifices along the way you would know how astonished and proud I am that I finally made a couple of goals in my art career.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> I had good news this year, I was awarded signature membership status in the American Watercolor Society and the International Society of Acrylic Painters. I am honored to be included in the ranks with the other signature members of these two distinguished art societies.</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Thank you for allowing me to share with you.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Till then take care!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cathy Hegman<span style="font-size:85%;"> AWS,NWS,MSWS,MOWS, SAA,SW, ISAP</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > <span style="font-weight: bold;">www.cathyhegman.com</span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >*All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read.my blog.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >*All photography is copyright protected by Thomas Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Thomas Hegman.</span> <br /></div></div>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-14202697431962595142010-07-26T09:00:00.000-07:002010-07-24T21:02:00.163-07:00July 2010 Medusa complexities continues<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ZrCa7M1uOj3qWGVOFdXZ8lNnwQiwBGrXRJAWm6m0-4J9MSF9d2LjgdynfrVjse59-LIBarSah7Ajfl42KSHNCxY4-q4xKh8USBEyAD5-sxeKj5Y_uBsZGD5qz96tfMOCARCTw4LEeI4/s1600/DSC01582.JPG">
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<br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >The days are hot and long in the Delta during the summer months and this one is no exception.</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >The air is so thick with humidity it is hard to breathe and we have a tropical storm named Bonnie swirling in the Gulf, but luckily she is a lady and will not be much trouble other than the intrepid humidity and heat.</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >Life in the studio marches on, every day the anticipation of fall hangs heavy.</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >Fall is my favorite time of year and I endure the summer just to get to the clear crisp days of Autumn, the regent of carnivals, county fairs, and my favorite holidays.</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >The river is still and almost motionless on the surface, probably trying to keep the heat at bay by not moving very much.</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >The underworld of life aquatic is teeming as if there is no heat, but only the everyday life as usual for them. </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >My son, Thomas Hegman (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/coolhand3011">www.flickr.com/coolhand3011</a>) was home one weekend and we took him on the river for a brief ride and he as always took some amazing shots(shown above).</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >He somehow can take pictures of what I feel about a time and place and forever lock them onto photographic paper as a moment of treasured time to be shared.</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >He is a window into our world with the ability to capture and hold it for a time.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">
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<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >The studio is my refuge, I literally spend hours some days in there with no more sound than a brush grazing a canvas. I listen to music on some days but often I find the rooms in my head need the silence to seem alive. The thoughts that happen in that room are mine and mine alone until I carefully or frantically place them on the canvas.</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >I have been in the oil painting mood lately but I thought I might just shake it up a bit and paint a watercolor. I have so enjoyed the time involved in oil painting and the waiting and thinking that truly predominates the use of that medium that I thought I would use the same process for a watercolor painting. In short I would not paint it in one day, I made myself go through stages and really stop and think about my next stage etc. I think this is good to slow the pace down and really relish the moments, in the end I feel I have truly given my all for the piece.</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >The painting is one in the same series as the last post, the Medusa Complexities Series, and in this one I employed two figures with head coverings and you guessed it a cat.</span> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">
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<br /></div>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-32994487958913092442010-07-01T17:33:00.000-07:002010-08-02T11:47:30.580-07:00August 2010.....Summer Sizzles Medusa Continues<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the studio I am continuing on the Medusa Complexity Series, I find each painting moves me to the next painting with an urgency that is captivating and fulfilling all at once. The Medusa for me is a powerful metaphor of life , as there are endless adjectives to describe her plight as well as life, both are beautiful, scary, frightening, interesting, captivating, cunning, wild, trapped, alone, threatened, threatening and the list goes on and on. </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I am captivated with the idea of shaded eyes, perhaps it is a way to remove some of the fear of a medusa, if you cannot see the eyes , then perhaps you will not be turned to stone.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I am delving into the domain of head coverings and the fact that they much like Medusa's Snake encrusted hair, all simply shade the eyes. </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">It is written that the eyes are the windows into the soul and perhaps this shading is hiding more than we know.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mystique is created somewhere in the darkness of the shaded portals of the soul. The darkness gives way to mysteries of both life and emotion when we cannot fathom the depths.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I feel a strong involvement in this series that goes beyond the superficial surface of the paintings.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I want to capture something that is intriguing and beguiling enough to appeal to many viewers on many levels, I want to make these paintings something that will be strangely familiar .</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> This series will have some complete figures but mostly it is the face that I am focused on in this group. The face is more personal and intimate with the viewer in these paintings than in some of my previous paintings and this intimacy and mystery is exactly what I want to convey to the viewer. We can all relate to the figure in our own and very unique and personal ways, this enables the familiar, the odd head coverings and shaded eyes gives me the strange in this series. </span></span><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWTLuBTPuy_HC0kpHWvHnUVrBu-P80QU2LFC_Chu-_Lwbrov_kMGCmIBmYtYyw2mnVz8VeoJYBEdv-x7PoMggb4JZpfpg7zIGLrhe6pXyGCguhha2whUaldbyk7o1ehQBhrD59WzmjeIc/s1600/Medusa+Complexities+Fashionistaswatermarked+copy.jpg"> </a></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKwzlDAuxGi9e1-oXQJnxshzw5cdPe3uO58MES_nxi0t0Svbjae8IrWONbXcH_dZFMgkN438agfbWKharIGoVWYG_esMJYXN-uRwKoy-DM58q6Hho9ZRbXY0EP8kz2KP5L4eCWJlaEBBI/s1600/medusa+complexities+Fashionistas+II+watermarked.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 196px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKwzlDAuxGi9e1-oXQJnxshzw5cdPe3uO58MES_nxi0t0Svbjae8IrWONbXcH_dZFMgkN438agfbWKharIGoVWYG_esMJYXN-uRwKoy-DM58q6Hho9ZRbXY0EP8kz2KP5L4eCWJlaEBBI/s200/medusa+complexities+Fashionistas+II+watermarked.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497670393113758306" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWTLuBTPuy_HC0kpHWvHnUVrBu-P80QU2LFC_Chu-_Lwbrov_kMGCmIBmYtYyw2mnVz8VeoJYBEdv-x7PoMggb4JZpfpg7zIGLrhe6pXyGCguhha2whUaldbyk7o1ehQBhrD59WzmjeIc/s1600/Medusa+Complexities+Fashionistaswatermarked+copy.jpg"> <img style="cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 190px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWTLuBTPuy_HC0kpHWvHnUVrBu-P80QU2LFC_Chu-_Lwbrov_kMGCmIBmYtYyw2mnVz8VeoJYBEdv-x7PoMggb4JZpfpg7zIGLrhe6pXyGCguhha2whUaldbyk7o1ehQBhrD59WzmjeIc/s200/Medusa+Complexities+Fashionistaswatermarked+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497670399143375186" border="0" /> </a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih9x5JV722ShG6GI3WNuIhaVnYfpPcYKainwvxVSGG6Fzfz5C9tYXwFjS1cuYq1av_3m2BVEXhnQsIjsJf_wRGLcij9PWVnhHbpm-vMtka7k7UDigeHt4CUM_Zv02UhZmjqX4Mh7rxToM/s1600/medusa+complexities+Fashionistas+III+watermarkedcopy.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 195px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih9x5JV722ShG6GI3WNuIhaVnYfpPcYKainwvxVSGG6Fzfz5C9tYXwFjS1cuYq1av_3m2BVEXhnQsIjsJf_wRGLcij9PWVnhHbpm-vMtka7k7UDigeHt4CUM_Zv02UhZmjqX4Mh7rxToM/s200/medusa+complexities+Fashionistas+III+watermarkedcopy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497670384865513650" border="0" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Medusa Complexities : Fashionistas I, II, III</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-style: italic;">by Cathy Hegman</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-style: italic;">beeswax, oil, and damar resin on wood</span></span></span></span><br /></div><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">I am working in many mediums in this series as an attempt to prove to myself that my subject can transcend the medium and find just as much meaning in wax as in watercolor.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">I am working in many sizes for the same reason.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">This series is teaching me about myself even more than ever, I am aware in my art of the need to put the meaning ahead of the methodology and technique.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">I am finding more and more now I am working seamlessly from one medium to another, while keeping my mind on the gist of the painting and not some technique or trick I might have learned along the way to produce a satisfactory painting result.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">I am foremost telling myself on a minute by minute basis that these are related by the soul and subject and not by the pigment and surface of each painting. </span><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><span style="font-size:130%;">This series has opened the doors of experimentation in my work and has made the transitions from one medium to the next much smoother in transition than in my previous series of paintings.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">I keep my mind totally open to new possibilities within the subject and its ability to conjure up related but new themes for each painting.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">I strongly advocate painting in a series as a good way to experiment with your mind and your mediums, and find more of yourself in your work. Art is part what you know but mostly what you feel and long for...<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo3sAdkqP2f9ubE80x0d1EoliCMmf4Qew_zN5r9os6psgG-f81zttlSqIIe9iZiM78RqR25FMCXO1s3dRRZq-5qmu_KzsULQxrMFSuqePV_6z69fo7j5OEp-6KRlxv39wom-8Dvwnq90Y/s1600/Medusa+Complexities+Fashionistas.jpg"><br /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">This series will be shown in November at an Exhibition at Jackson Street Gallery in Ridgeland, Mississippi. </span></span> </span><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Thank you for reading my blog and I hope that it helps you in your art journey and that you in turn will share your work with others.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Cathy Hegman</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >AWS,NWS,MSWS,MOWS,SAA,SW</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >,</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >ISAP</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >www.cathyhegman.com</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >www.youtube.com/hegman1</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >*All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read.my blog.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-38877765377204676872010-06-26T08:31:00.000-07:002010-06-26T10:30:08.949-07:00Remembering Peace in Stages Part 2<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">There are stages in painting where the road just seems to branch off in many directions, all with possibly successful conclusions. This can also be a point where the initial motivation can be overcome and lost. This is when it is good to ask yourself, do I stay the course or do I change the painting completely? This is key to painting in a series for me, at this juncture I see the glimmer of the next painting forming in my mind. I almost always stay the course with this current painting and then the next painting will be formed from the glimpses that are born in the stages of this painting. Are you seeing the unending possibilities of painting in a series? And the lure of working this way....<br /></span><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW3HfBo1sd9pBrU79l2Ejd7v0Ld6bJLZZNLiAiuOqi4vd7HN0NCDTguuNkJUu4ZG3L2_XmmHMPhTNoqMBamf9x13B9PBO2uy2ZjRlBA23p2ruw-wB7B3o7CbFnKg0jUk2sYYjbLE5akT0/s1600/kstage+5+in+orange+girl+with+bird+sized+for+blog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW3HfBo1sd9pBrU79l2Ejd7v0Ld6bJLZZNLiAiuOqi4vd7HN0NCDTguuNkJUu4ZG3L2_XmmHMPhTNoqMBamf9x13B9PBO2uy2ZjRlBA23p2ruw-wB7B3o7CbFnKg0jUk2sYYjbLE5akT0/s320/kstage+5+in+orange+girl+with+bird+sized+for+blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487108363868399234" border="0" /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Stage 5 of Remembering Peace</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW3HfBo1sd9pBrU79l2Ejd7v0Ld6bJLZZNLiAiuOqi4vd7HN0NCDTguuNkJUu4ZG3L2_XmmHMPhTNoqMBamf9x13B9PBO2uy2ZjRlBA23p2ruw-wB7B3o7CbFnKg0jUk2sYYjbLE5akT0/s1600/kstage+5+in+orange+girl+with+bird+sized+for+blog.jpg"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">by </span></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW3HfBo1sd9pBrU79l2Ejd7v0Ld6bJLZZNLiAiuOqi4vd7HN0NCDTguuNkJUu4ZG3L2_XmmHMPhTNoqMBamf9x13B9PBO2uy2ZjRlBA23p2ruw-wB7B3o7CbFnKg0jUk2sYYjbLE5akT0/s1600/kstage+5+in+orange+girl+with+bird+sized+for+blog.jpg">Cathy Hegman</a><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;">I am looking at this stage and feeling that there are too many symbols and that they do not actually connect. I will now revisit the motivation for this painting, it is about peace in a way that refers loosely to the symbolism of Medusa and the mystery of head coverings, and most importantly how to tie all of this into a nice design that will resonate my thoughts. I am hoping for success but ready for failure at any point, as it would be naive to feel otherwise. I know the mistakes are part of the process and at this juncture there are many appearing. There are too many parts that are not connecting, but I can see my next move.<br /><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbNvGKM2aF9tmRDrvu4HrLePcas8eToO3jGn7QN3CrwIMJZYYCmAgp3cntC9sRIO019-y1TazQxOwu58ryXvvQC1GWLNy1kejaMDqpOL0KtGj3veVgoFKy1UQtZnfuZj2F5ZX5UO6FhBU/s1600/mstep+7+orange+girl+for+resized+blog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbNvGKM2aF9tmRDrvu4HrLePcas8eToO3jGn7QN3CrwIMJZYYCmAgp3cntC9sRIO019-y1TazQxOwu58ryXvvQC1GWLNy1kejaMDqpOL0KtGj3veVgoFKy1UQtZnfuZj2F5ZX5UO6FhBU/s320/mstep+7+orange+girl+for+resized+blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487108371207503986" border="0" /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Stage 6 Remembering Peace</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbNvGKM2aF9tmRDrvu4HrLePcas8eToO3jGn7QN3CrwIMJZYYCmAgp3cntC9sRIO019-y1TazQxOwu58ryXvvQC1GWLNy1kejaMDqpOL0KtGj3veVgoFKy1UQtZnfuZj2F5ZX5UO6FhBU/s1600/mstep+7+orange+girl+for+resized+blog.jpg"> </a><br /><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbNvGKM2aF9tmRDrvu4HrLePcas8eToO3jGn7QN3CrwIMJZYYCmAgp3cntC9sRIO019-y1TazQxOwu58ryXvvQC1GWLNy1kejaMDqpOL0KtGj3veVgoFKy1UQtZnfuZj2F5ZX5UO6FhBU/s1600/mstep+7+orange+girl+for+resized+blog.jpg"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">by</span></a><br /><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbNvGKM2aF9tmRDrvu4HrLePcas8eToO3jGn7QN3CrwIMJZYYCmAgp3cntC9sRIO019-y1TazQxOwu58ryXvvQC1GWLNy1kejaMDqpOL0KtGj3veVgoFKy1UQtZnfuZj2F5ZX5UO6FhBU/s1600/mstep+7+orange+girl+for+resized+blog.jpg"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></a> <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbNvGKM2aF9tmRDrvu4HrLePcas8eToO3jGn7QN3CrwIMJZYYCmAgp3cntC9sRIO019-y1TazQxOwu58ryXvvQC1GWLNy1kejaMDqpOL0KtGj3veVgoFKy1UQtZnfuZj2F5ZX5UO6FhBU/s1600/mstep+7+orange+girl+for+resized+blog.jpg">Cathy Hegman</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">My thoughts here are I need to get some dark values in this painting. I am thinking that the values will give it a punch that has been missing in the earlier stages. I added the hand again...but almost immediately I feel it is wrong, I will leave it and see if I can work with it in the future stages. The darker values almost give it a sinister feel, not the feeling I am looking for, but I do feel it needed higher contrasts in value in the painting. The figure seems a bit too large and looming to me as well, this must be corrected in the next stages as well. I have changed the background hue and leaned it too much to the red side so I will have to keep experimenting with the background in layers until I find the exact hue and texture that will speak to me.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzoqqyWvz0y1Hf2_HYFWx8UKvF3UB_lpF7R2e45jKu6faX75yPs4K0t57W0ECnAv4Zi-lQTMY14JaXgg8pZWlvZJehsm0tiiA4cqDdfVcRjyurSadkTYKFYP_yjEv7fKy1m27grylQ9S4/s1600/Rfinal+detail+of+bird+and+faceresized+vor+blog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 199px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzoqqyWvz0y1Hf2_HYFWx8UKvF3UB_lpF7R2e45jKu6faX75yPs4K0t57W0ECnAv4Zi-lQTMY14JaXgg8pZWlvZJehsm0tiiA4cqDdfVcRjyurSadkTYKFYP_yjEv7fKy1m27grylQ9S4/s320/Rfinal+detail+of+bird+and+faceresized+vor+blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487124784950423586" border="0" /></a>Detail of Remembering Peace<br />by<br />Cathy Hegman<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Stage 7 Finishing the thoughts and tweaking the design....</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This stage shows the tweaking that has happened in the design of the figure, softening of the facial features, and elongating the neck area giving me a softer and cohesive feel for the painting. I also changed the hand and the figure shape itself, I feel this looks more complacent and thoughtful than the earlier stage. This is the detail jpeg of the face and dove; there are changes in both although some are so minor it is almost undetectable. You can compare the stages if you want to do so. These small details are so important and cannot be underestimated in their importance. I hope I am describing the thoughts in this process enough to make it clear and not to appear as if I am just droning on and on.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj5gRGJ1bmZ-KdYbFBBNyIU6QMEWYmo28IkSRi1UeO_Upsng9S3swyAqEVzs06ujb3U00ifMJ_vzxt-jBPADOmVDtG6JeBG_Sxu_nhluHLz27Wl3_MUS52-4tTUzo26od1e3GES4f9Q_E/s1600/ofinal+stages+of+resized+for+bvlog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj5gRGJ1bmZ-KdYbFBBNyIU6QMEWYmo28IkSRi1UeO_Upsng9S3swyAqEVzs06ujb3U00ifMJ_vzxt-jBPADOmVDtG6JeBG_Sxu_nhluHLz27Wl3_MUS52-4tTUzo26od1e3GES4f9Q_E/s320/ofinal+stages+of+resized+for+bvlog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487108386490835970" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Final Finish Stage...</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I divided the background and covered over the barbed wire found in the earlier stages, this gave me more of the look and feel that I had been seeking. I cleaned up the edges on some of the elements and at this point it is beginning to come together. I changed the hand to a more provocative position and have attached a string that connects the bird and the figure together in yet another way. The string is the metaphor for the line of thought that can help us find and remember the peace in our lives. This is in my mind is the gist of the whole painting and in one line I feel it is finished!</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I hope you have stayed with me and are not totally bug eyed and bored with the process. I think it is nice to share the love, deep sorrow, longing ,dissatisfaction and the perseverance and working it out that helps me in my art.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBl4glj4dpoha4wPFG39482z9Tr3kQhY0VYejKqCZNMBZjL1i8cV0UiCE0K-5esOnoniaOZPHdE9xdQt57c45IIP5O9N6Oib32JPmP2UZhdIElVSYLMiFye-Ecq-sGsSYTgtniA3pdhg/s1600/S+detail+of+string.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBl4glj4dpoha4wPFG39482z9Tr3kQhY0VYejKqCZNMBZjL1i8cV0UiCE0K-5esOnoniaOZPHdE9xdQt57c45IIP5O9N6Oib32JPmP2UZhdIElVSYLMiFye-Ecq-sGsSYTgtniA3pdhg/s320/S+detail+of+string.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487108942813984930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >I made a YouTube video of the stages in this painting with background music by J.Hegman, you might enjoy seeing it as well. The link is at the top right section of my blog, or here is the URL for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPtp-1jXfho</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you for reading my blog and I hope that it helps you in your art journey and that you in turn will share your work with others.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cathy Hegman</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">AWS,NWS,MSWS,MOWS,SAA,SW</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">www.cathyhegman.com</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">www.youtube.com/hegman1</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read.my blog.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-74319135667385520462010-06-23T18:18:00.000-07:002010-06-24T21:34:48.888-07:00Remembering Peace in Stages June 2010 Part One<span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">I go to bed and wake up thinking about what I want to paint,I love the prospect of things to come in the form of new lines and marks in layers of effort and pigment. There is a constant tug and pull in my psyche that beckons me to paint the ideas that twirl like airborne whirligigs in my head. When the timing is right these ideas are snagged and painted with great ease and much triumph. Then there are the thoughts and ideas that get so deeply embedded in my mind that I find they have to be literally worked out on canvas in stages of deep thought and sometimes anguish. These are the paintings that teach me the most about myself and my abilitiy to handle the unknown and to blaze new trails on my journey. The idea of working in series appeals to me for this reason; there are ideas that demand to be put down in many ways and analyzed from many angles to find their true meaning. There is something in my makeup that makes me revisit ideas in my work, almost like a song that hangs in your mind and transports you to another time and place in your life. There are often symbols or shapes that appear and reappear in many of my pieces often representing similar thoughts or feelings about my subjects or their place in time. The mystery of art for me is the wonder of how I find endless fascination in one provocative subject and not in another subject.<br /><br /><br />I truly admire the work of representational artists. They have the information in front of them and their task is solidly there, make it appear as close to what it is as possible. I cannot stop and feel the painting is complete at this point I feel the urge to uncover the unseen the encrypted meanings in the everyday objects and often mundane moments in life. Art for me is the discovery of something that either does not exist or that forces me to think deeply about the piece and the thoughts of the artist that created the art. The slightly rough edged, gritty, slightly strange works are the paintings that seem to lure me in, with the promise of a mind adventure rather than a representation.<br /><br /><br />I work mainly in watercolor and water media, but lately I have revisited oil paints in an effort to keep my self current and comfortable in many mediums . I find slow drying oil paints allow me to stop and start the painting process and it enables me to work on several paintings at one time giving me access to work in a series simultaneously and in various stages of finish. I feel this is a form of multitasking in my art and a true gesture of the time in which we live now. Multitasking can be advantageous and it can be a hinder for me. I have found some paintings fall off of my brush while others lie deeply hidden in the ferrules and refuse to come out until many layers of paint have been brushed down and new textures formed. The ritual motion of over painting areas and the removing of layers is often a time of reflection as well as a method of building confidence in my process, allowing me the opportunity of the open door of change. The painting for this month’s blog will be an oil painting that went through many stages before it was in a stage that could be considered a frame worthy state.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Stage one: the thought process<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> This series is one I named the Medusa Complexities. I have a deep love of hats and have often wondered what the history of that love might actually be based on. I thought about it and decided one reason I like hats is that I feel a strange comfort in them, perhaps it is the anonymity of wearing a hat that gives me the feeling. This series has been in the works for many years as I have stacks of figures that have a common denominator, all of the figures wear hats or have shapes on their heads that shade their eyes, thus the symbolic relationship to Medusa seems apropos. Medusa and her story bring to mind the thoughts of strange head coverings, the female form, and the mystery of and sexuality and the entrapment. Most if not all of my figures have their eyes either covered or in shadow yet another tie to Medusa. I believe Medusa or the story of Medusa parallels many aspects of the human condition and I feel strongly about our relationships to each other, so this seems like a good series to work on this summer. Let’s move to Stage Two…hurry before I get going again on my theory of relationships and human conditions!</span><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOayenXPa9pTpbrysfWANP0bHz2K0zZvm0UXa-nzacl9NjLwfs0JMmPmbIn9e0R85WsW9jXSSU4f7dP7iO7tIWg3EzGlIJp6in96AyQml4jJ_9y7hUQ_OEOaJwUyP1Y13lmbOPgIqFtzw/s1600/stage+one+for+blog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOayenXPa9pTpbrysfWANP0bHz2K0zZvm0UXa-nzacl9NjLwfs0JMmPmbIn9e0R85WsW9jXSSU4f7dP7iO7tIWg3EzGlIJp6in96AyQml4jJ_9y7hUQ_OEOaJwUyP1Y13lmbOPgIqFtzw/s320/stage+one+for+blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486564260508102322" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Stage one the gesture drawing </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >of</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > Remembering Peace by Cathy Hegman</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Stage Two: Oil paint for the medium is chosen<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">I chose to work in oil paint on canvas as I have been working with oil washes and am drawn to the similarity to watercolor and to acrylic. I over paint the washes sometimes completely, but they give me the freedom to explore the medium and to explore the drawing process. The washes work as a really nice lead in dance to the painting process for me. I do my gesture drawing in an oil wash. I make my wash with tube oil paint, mineral spirits, and liquin. The mixture is comprised of a small dab of oil paint, a heavy amount of liquin but enough mineral spirits to thin it down to the fluid consistency of a liquid acrylic paint. This is following a rule of fat over lean paint as well as giving me the ability to see the canvas through the paint in places and thus the ability to juxtapose the opaque thick paint with thin washes in my work. I also keep a sprayer of mineral spirits on hand, and often use it to spritz the drawing to make it drip and run down and around the canvas. I call this violating the paint, and I find a strange comfort in paint that is violated or forced to perform in an adverse or new way that is not traditional. This is my first grasp at capturing the emotion I am after, it is my blueprint of sorts.</span><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiraSVF-71AF1vIoQvluZY4Encupndw8P3fSjXfHqP3QNe1ppgBI0xo0XLdacg-oMiUd4WiKwvrf6H1DQkvjQTQsQNhsYSOnUWsO1DojPbFQIOBtk-9sN_M3W5aykp3g6M5bTw9gb50uZY/s1600/stage+two+for+blog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 235px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiraSVF-71AF1vIoQvluZY4Encupndw8P3fSjXfHqP3QNe1ppgBI0xo0XLdacg-oMiUd4WiKwvrf6H1DQkvjQTQsQNhsYSOnUWsO1DojPbFQIOBtk-9sN_M3W5aykp3g6M5bTw9gb50uZY/s320/stage+two+for+blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486564417057964866" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Stage Two of Remembering Peace </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >by </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Cathy Hegman</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Stage Three: Let the Games begin<br /><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">I always fall deeply in love with the gesture drawing. The beginning stages of a painting are the best for me, they are ripe with ideas and changes to be made, the fun starts at this point. Every stroke is one that will be a building block either one to build up or tear down. I believe the knowledge that a piece is not finished or is heading down the wrong path is often as important as banging out pieces of art that are successful. Mistakes are the best forms of learning in a process. I begin by laying on the paint in layers of oil paint laced with liquin to hasten the drying time, losing the original gesture drawing marks in places and retaining it in others. I find that most of the oil pigmented paints will dry overnight to a state that can be worked over in more layers or scraped into for texture. I like red and it works in this piece as a reminder of some of the gesture that might be lost in the layers. I like to reinforce strokes with complimentary hues to give them more impact. At this point I could have painted them in any hue as they will most likely only appear in parts if at all in the finished piece. We are still having fun....</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">You might note that I extended the line from the hat to the width of the page connecting my figure to the sides and top of the page, I did this give more stability to the figure at this point.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"></span> </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn0wdd3DmMT7dKz7sggaZJUa3GpFoygH-Ps07R4HQueMzm0eTrelZzxDU-O4CQ5mVcKDNGQnWtiQNv0PFu0daWfQ5hyphenhyphenzJ3aviTZahfT5agIVHfD6r9X-bkqSs9inHEqeCXYKFcufH-Lr0/s1600/stage+three+for+blog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 235px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn0wdd3DmMT7dKz7sggaZJUa3GpFoygH-Ps07R4HQueMzm0eTrelZzxDU-O4CQ5mVcKDNGQnWtiQNv0PFu0daWfQ5hyphenhyphenzJ3aviTZahfT5agIVHfD6r9X-bkqSs9inHEqeCXYKFcufH-Lr0/s320/stage+three+for+blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486564266312147026" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic01HNL4rQV0sc1m4-i6ro8SmUS5_FfrrCyHkZ1eWoaRuGGOXdAfocSgcNb607zjEe2dklxMSdINxBtKAICBwApsZD2rr4ybg0rp1NIYQs-yuFNlgR9-UyZYjpAiTSYDwo9O_HcYIGRYI/s1600/stage+4+of+orange+girl.jpg"> </a><br /></span><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Stage Three of Remembering Peace </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >by </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Cathy Hegman</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixkvVIMd9S9xSIj5QsZ8E_CBS0YPndN0oLpaC0ClVVQwdVvKrWA1up8IbI7zMOLuyWPmGYNX8fb2jeiJlt130MJbDDhyuXr_e774-EH6btWIryTIiMz79VbxP3rBMwhLTEJF_P54vYKQY/s1600/detail+for+stage+three+for+blog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixkvVIMd9S9xSIj5QsZ8E_CBS0YPndN0oLpaC0ClVVQwdVvKrWA1up8IbI7zMOLuyWPmGYNX8fb2jeiJlt130MJbDDhyuXr_e774-EH6btWIryTIiMz79VbxP3rBMwhLTEJF_P54vYKQY/s320/detail+for+stage+three+for+blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486564240292813938" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Details of Stage Three</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZu0xvX1BOZlupPuGiZGiqvVADEpZ9rBcr7bqMnNswtMTLlVoJ8F23G-a4z7U1592V_-wma0Joys0v6xyqYMNz9mbWtU3iWzZE1CXzTEPFV5u7wGfbqZo8novn0e0NdRWKXn4maE1ND1U/s1600/dove+detail+for+blog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZu0xvX1BOZlupPuGiZGiqvVADEpZ9rBcr7bqMnNswtMTLlVoJ8F23G-a4z7U1592V_-wma0Joys0v6xyqYMNz9mbWtU3iWzZE1CXzTEPFV5u7wGfbqZo8novn0e0NdRWKXn4maE1ND1U/s320/dove+detail+for+blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486564250510976658" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Stage Three</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">I have decided the hand and nest are just too cliche for me and that the face needs to be more intimate with the viewer. I like the bird shape symbolizing peace to be hovering next to the figure, that part feels copacetic to me. I am working on connecting them in the space, the first attempt is with barbed wire, which I love to use as it conjures up so many thoughts about the barbs and the boundaries etc. I am repeating the bird wing shape in the figure's hat for repetition sake and to me this is working. Okay at this point I am still allowing sharp objects to be out in the studio there is still hope although this stage is a bit stilted and not what I am after for this painting. </span><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZDAsabg2ldWFHNji37Br_mG5e4c9ki4phQYkTpzby922zKzcZFAL1HRx6Ui-5Xa41MekwcEVx-5VW5kCpKC1hidEgnu9mxJFDeZkT90c-t95UCCkwalsWqLX-776FzZMUXwEImFi7DAM/s1600/stage+four+for+blog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZDAsabg2ldWFHNji37Br_mG5e4c9ki4phQYkTpzby922zKzcZFAL1HRx6Ui-5Xa41MekwcEVx-5VW5kCpKC1hidEgnu9mxJFDeZkT90c-t95UCCkwalsWqLX-776FzZMUXwEImFi7DAM/s320/stage+four+for+blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486564257760793394" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Stage Four Remembering Peace </span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">by </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Cathy Hegman</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"></span></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><br /><br /><br /><br />Stage Four<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"> Remember the statement about how every stroke is a building block, here is the example of many building blocks, some of which will be layered over but the layering will give me and even richer tactile surface with the oil paint. I work all over the painting making adjustments in the face, bird, and the figure shape etc. at this stage. I also added the pearls at this point, they will be in the piece somewhere and possibly here but I am now deciding I am not happy with the background hue and texture, so they might disappear and reappear later. I added the big blocks to link the figure to the bird on another plane of the painting but they don't feel quite right to me, so I will think and work on them in the following stages as well. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">I truly hate to leave this at this state but it is late. I will post this blog and continue on this painting in a follow up blog in the next day or so. If you are not bored completely at this point, check my next blog to see the rest of the story......</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Thank you for reading my blog and I hope that it helps you in your art journey and that you in turn will share your work with others. </span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >Cathy Hegman </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >AWS,NWS,MSWS,MOWS,SAA,SW</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >www.cathyhegman.com</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >www.youtube.com/hegman1</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read.my blog.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-72504693369795082542010-05-26T09:47:00.000-07:002010-05-26T11:56:13.353-07:00Oils of Summer and Kabuki Dreams May 2010<div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSsTl5we0AnMBHvGAXRceqUEp2KOTpaIkWTeuUcyMeRUN1n-EAcmlzR6Kfs4mQj14iIYCn-R9kKSCVNJDw4ObrwX6_S1PlPApfqQUTu8QdAN4lL9L-YLtUJFlyuWSB_BQO_ESBVU8jgZM/s1600/kabuki+not+finished.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 251px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSsTl5we0AnMBHvGAXRceqUEp2KOTpaIkWTeuUcyMeRUN1n-EAcmlzR6Kfs4mQj14iIYCn-R9kKSCVNJDw4ObrwX6_S1PlPApfqQUTu8QdAN4lL9L-YLtUJFlyuWSB_BQO_ESBVU8jgZM/s320/kabuki+not+finished.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475647604946164082" border="0" /></a></span></span>Kabuki Dreams<br />in progress<br />by<br />Cathy Hegman<br /></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHCKfEz4-nAsANrRAon2j6ndYqIE06P3XU24P5eCYun1BmFlbny-e32LsNvfH1Ep2vkcP0yxL7lmPC2QpiANpdCPMsGrMTf3uqSdqV0i-FFfIhVXGSXbX2Jcc_hyj-1iXa3NHpikQ4qrQ/s1600/kabuki+detail+of+head.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHCKfEz4-nAsANrRAon2j6ndYqIE06P3XU24P5eCYun1BmFlbny-e32LsNvfH1Ep2vkcP0yxL7lmPC2QpiANpdCPMsGrMTf3uqSdqV0i-FFfIhVXGSXbX2Jcc_hyj-1iXa3NHpikQ4qrQ/s320/kabuki+detail+of+head.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475647597517619618" border="0" /></a></span></span>Kabuki Dreams<br />in progress<br />( detail to show transparency of oil washes)<br /><br /></div><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>The studio is simmering in the heat of summer and the pigments laced in oil and turpentine are cooking at a slow pace on boards and stretched canvases laying about the studio in various stages of finish. I have a weird habit of painting in oils in the summer, maybe it is because years ago I did some plein air painting during the spring and summer months, but no longer do I have the urge to continue that particular painting ritual, or maybe there is just something deep inside of me that will not relinquish the oil paint addiction. I just love to paint and I believe that the medium I use matters little to me, as the process for me is my motivation. Years of painting have melded all the procedures in my mind if not in my work. I work in all of the mediums in an effort to dig new rabbit holes to fall down and research. I tend to paint in a more painterly and less specific style. I believe my style harkens back to my first lessons in oil painting , which were in the impressionistic vein, which I loved at that time. I now tend to like to add a good bit of an edge to my work, which makes is more contemporary to me and my time. I like to use values to achieve this and to give me that bit of mystery in my work. I have of late been revisiting the realm of oil washes, which I find very comfortable since it has a bent toward layering much akin to the water media layering that I so love to paint. I find if I dive in with the washes first I can then progressively,thoughtfully,and slowly, add the layers of opacity leaving me with a rich, other worldly surface that often presents a utopia like satisfaction for me. I do not know how to describe the feeling of adding these layers when you have the aha moment other than you feel a strange and comforting satisfaction that makes you keep going back to the piece and trying to find the how and when the moment actually occurred. I feel a bit like I am out on a limb here; but, I will bet the artists reading this will be able to testify to this feeling. Layering is my comfort zone, perhaps because with layers there is the continual feeling of hope for the next successive layer to pull off the masterpiece or maybe it is the unknown desire to have the ability to keep going and not finish the piece and enjoy the process. I am not sure but in any event it is the mode of operation for me whether in oil, water color, acrylic, gouache and or charcoal. I just seem to desire to have the marks from previous layers to make the piece work. I heard an artist say that every portrait he did was just a series of strokes made to correct the previous bad strokes. I really like that theory and know exactly what he means. It is much like in life we learn from our mistakes and often the scars are more beautiful than the flawless innocence of youth. Time is important in art and life.<br />The figure remains my main forte at this juncture but now I am working more in the realm of achieving personality in the gesture and face of my figures. I am finding I can paint only the parts of the figure and or face that I want to emphasize and leave the others either off of not detailed at all and the figure still serves the purpose I intended. I strive to say more with less and to give only a connotation of what the figure is about or what my statement will be for the piece. I am always thinking of life and the situations we all deal with and the inevitability of time and the reactions we have to the mundane as well as the tragic in our life spans.<br />We are not promised an easy life but the way we roll with the punches in our life and the way we nurture others will be the story we leave in our wake. I have often wondered how it would be if there were no tragedies, failures, disappointments and fears in life, my conclusion is that life would be rather dull and uneventful and would not press us to deeper thoughts of why we are here and what this life is all about.<br />I am working on Kabuki Dreams in the studio now. The history and meaning of Kabuki are rather interesting, if you are so inclined here is a link that briefly gives the meaning: http://japanese.about.com/library/blhiraculture6.htm<br />I began the painting on canvas covered board. I started the painting process with oil washes of indigo, alizarin, and mars black for the lay in stage. I drew with my brush. I use a liner brush for this step as it gives me a bit of control but not too much. My pigments are very runny and loose at this point to allow for the transparency in places. In the subsequent layers I have added the more opaque pigments such as a bit of cadmium red deep,yellow ochre, raw sienna and white. The addition of opaque pigments on top of the washes gives me the ability to scratch and lift the opaque layer to show bits and pieces of the underlying wash layer, giving the bit of complication that I strive for in my work. I think it is like seeing a glimpse of something, it intrigues the viewer to look deeper. It is amazing how much mileage you can achieve with very few pigments. The whole piece is about hope and regeneration of life, the symbols are common in many of my paintings. The egg and the pearls of wisdom. The figure itself is one out of my imagination, I leave off the details mostly to simply the figure. I have added some shapes that give the look of deep contemplation to the face and the eyes are in shadow to prevent any contact with the viewer, I like this feeling of connectivity without preconception of what the figure maybe trying to say to the viewer.</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>The face of the Kabuki dancers are covered in rice flour and paint to cover their true identity and I found that to be an interesting take for this piece. Identity is the pivotal point of this painting and of most of my paintings that strive to let the viewer enter into the piece and become personally involved.</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span> I have left the door open for someone to place themselves in the figure and to feel the empowering emotion of holding that fragile symbolic egg in their hands that could bring hope or could bring destruction and devastation. The pearls of wisdom I employ as symbolism in my work often is there to remind me that no matter how lost I feel the answers are always close by me. I will add more and more layers to the piece or maybe not, I get up each morning and reassess the progress or damage and make my move. I added some layers of pattern in the background this morning...will post later or I may paint them out!<br />Thank you for reading and I hope you will have a great month!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Cathy Hegman </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">AWS,NWS,MSWS,MOWS,SAA,SW</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">www.cathyhegman.com</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">www.youtube.com/hegman1</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read.my blog.</span><p></p>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-37389776310301586672010-04-16T12:26:00.001-07:002010-04-16T13:45:36.219-07:00April and all the Hoopla
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style="font-size:130%;">April 2010 Spring is in the air……</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal">
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The piece today shows my vulnerability and the fact that not every stroke is one of artistic bliss.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">I would like to show how often it is a freeing and very growth inducing lesson to breathe life into a painting that for one reason or another falls short of what you expected.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></p><div face="lucida grande" style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </div><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div face="lucida grande" style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </div><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">The original painting is on paper, and for the most part is a disaster in my eyes. </span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">I had originally thought of using two figures connected and having them interact with animals, in particular dogs.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">I feel this painting fails on many levels and it very much like running through church naked to post this for me, but I think we all learn by our mistakes so here goes…</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnY91KtLqC-knBq-_tIUVqUfCoahb-q_WSzKC10dR6dicKZFr551ddJYY52isU3OGdciUdMpuYNEx0JomYDF7eLrRo33YTXUVxj3NvOa7WAkv-6DihksVz-A2fZMtnN5DKEyWUClOV2Wo/s1600/Step+one.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnY91KtLqC-knBq-_tIUVqUfCoahb-q_WSzKC10dR6dicKZFr551ddJYY52isU3OGdciUdMpuYNEx0JomYDF7eLrRo33YTXUVxj3NvOa7WAkv-6DihksVz-A2fZMtnN5DKEyWUClOV2Wo/s320/Step+one.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460824317762312578" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVwRRhKTx-7xnItVgH2YCmPmuWktPe5riVyJk05Lav5Vi4XSfH19hKjnyFcZ0PD-cNEAjBx__z-iJW65lcguEi2RMnOcjqf0BNzBJC0VvsSTID-vcaiyQ_bm7RFaCeByN6pGDqFVC0a4o/s1600/step+1+black+and+white.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 164px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVwRRhKTx-7xnItVgH2YCmPmuWktPe5riVyJk05Lav5Vi4XSfH19hKjnyFcZ0PD-cNEAjBx__z-iJW65lcguEi2RMnOcjqf0BNzBJC0VvsSTID-vcaiyQ_bm7RFaCeByN6pGDqFVC0a4o/s320/step+1+black+and+white.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460825462497105874" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">
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It is mute in its ability to speak to anyone, short of the dog shape referring to Rocko, it is emotionally bereft of feelings.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">The design is lacking miserably as well, so this is not what I wanted. To show how really cruel I can be to myself, I am posting the black and white jpeg, which without color shows even more clearly the blankness of this piece. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">The paper is not expensive, probably four or five dollars, but the little monkey that periodically appears in my head keeps poking and prodding my brain forcing me to not give up.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">I could more easily start on a new piece but something is urging me to experiment with the mediums and perhaps teach myself something technically as well in the process of resurrecting this painting.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">So here we go…I just love a good adventure…</span></p><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: lucida grande;"> </div><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Large brush in hand, actually a chip brush , the cheapest you can buy,I dip into the gesso and begin to see a heartbeat thump on my paper, life is returning here.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">I am feeling better with every stroke.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">There are parts that are completely obliterated and covered with the blanket of thick snow white gesso.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">I am feeling the comforting promise of a new beginning </span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">with the first stroke.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">There is a mingling of colors being picked up </span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">in the previous layers of watercolor and gouache creating new textures and colors with the gesso. </span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">The gesso is acrylic based and as the watercolor mixes with the gesso it creates a toned gesso surface.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">My paper is now taking on a leathery new texture, I am thinking the gesso will be somewhat absorbent but also will only allow any application of watercolor to lie on the surface giving me the option of lifting any color I am not satisfied with up to another value or completely off.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">This is good, and gives me even more options. </span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">I end up with almost a blurred deep in the fog looking painting that is interesting in itself but I am sure I can make this work so I will venture to another level.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">I feel somewhat vindicated at this point, and go to bed thinking of new ways to apply paint to this new and engaging surface.</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">
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<br />All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read.my blog.</span></p> Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-74598943791676396042010-04-02T10:03:00.001-07:002010-04-02T14:16:43.485-07:00Emergence: Silencing the Stigmas<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1sUdPLTULoJ4_E1viJAdufFLq9Q-cXJUwbeeRymvO-aBLqJCwlvKVs1CdKTsfqgRfbI4xxIk6iy7_qX7GldY_sOZhi3v48W0AldEQw7o5JBqHD_xc69bFKz4_Fea6QHLuTCwNOdtTnTY/s1600/Big+Sunflower+by+my+house+and+the+farm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1sUdPLTULoJ4_E1viJAdufFLq9Q-cXJUwbeeRymvO-aBLqJCwlvKVs1CdKTsfqgRfbI4xxIk6iy7_qX7GldY_sOZhi3v48W0AldEQw7o5JBqHD_xc69bFKz4_Fea6QHLuTCwNOdtTnTY/s320/Big+Sunflower+by+my+house+and+the+farm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455644251643225522" border="0" /></a> <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The Big Sunflower River running by my house.<br /></div> <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br /></div> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The river rises and falls in twists and turns. The river decided to take three of my large trees and huge chunks of my bank when it fell this time. I now have a much more open vista but a mournful feeling for my trees which are languishing and bobbing in the murky deep water off the bank, now a new home to the water dwellers. It is the unknown power of the water and the unpredictable way it marks its course over the earth that makes me fearful. I can only watch and wonder and hope it is abated for now.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">In the studio,the paint flows. I decided long ago, much like the river, to never be stagnant in my art. I like to work in watercolor and goauche for awhile and then move to oil and acrylic, I have now added to the mix; working in encasutics (beeswax, damar resin and oil). I believe this keeps me current and on my toes, honing my abilities to work in many mediums. The use of different mediums and surfaces feeds the need I have for finding myriads of ways of creating texture in my work. I can remember years ago at one of the first workshops I ever attended, Alex Powers, it was then he told me that I should find what intrigues me in my art and follow that muse. I did not have to think long about it at all, as it has and always will be texture. In watercolor I use a visual texture made by manipulating the paint to give the appearance of texture, while in oil, acrylic and encaustic it is a physical surface texture achieved with each of these mediums. I have found that I have no preference as long as it reads as texture and it is interesting. My love of textures has always been there as I have always loved antiques and the patinas that have given them their beauty from age and I find a comfort in these things. Perhaps the comfort is from the knowledge of time and history or maybe just the mystery of texture, the what caused it the how was it made, the how did it survive this long, it is limitless if you think about it. My painting in this blog uses visual texture.</span> <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigHXQpDtOi-OCaBdNlgzxzxsZ4K-XCt-cJqhE_aqGFuMfvjXjS6aQjQ1t3TF4_EAfyd7j8R6BHxnGjZ16PtQosDKUMIjuNill1zyZHlga744_vojCzdO1aicRfNKKNYNyId6CjrDClJio/s1600/EmergenceSilence+of+the+Stigma+small.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 177px; height: 172px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigHXQpDtOi-OCaBdNlgzxzxsZ4K-XCt-cJqhE_aqGFuMfvjXjS6aQjQ1t3TF4_EAfyd7j8R6BHxnGjZ16PtQosDKUMIjuNill1zyZHlga744_vojCzdO1aicRfNKKNYNyId6CjrDClJio/s320/EmergenceSilence+of+the+Stigma+small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455641598015278482" border="0" /></a> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Emergence: Silencing the Stigma</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">by</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Cathy Hegman </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >AWS,NWS,MSWS, MoWS, SW,SAA</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">watercolor on paper</span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Step one</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Thought process:</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">In my latest painting titled Emergence: Silencing the Stigma, I am working through the coming of age and the living through and with the whole little fruit incidence in the Bible and the underlying feeling that women are still stigmatized in the world, and perhaps the reason is deeply rooted in our history. Why do women earn less than men? Why is gender given so much importance? Simply put, I believe deeply that gender should have no bearing on a person's worth. It is the soul of a human that transcends and gives meaning to every human and we are all created equally and here for a purpose.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Step Two</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">How do I put this into a painting?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">I break it down into the feelings I have about this issue, simply put I feel like society has placed boundaries in the form of barriers that we must push against until we break them down. So I began this piece with my figure struggling and pushing the walls or boundaries. I painted the stigmas of the serpent and the female forms with apples on their heads as targets under the water , to give the thought that perhaps we are emerging from this pattern one day. I purposefully made one boundary line as barbed wire loosely referencing Christ's crown of thorns,and on the other side are the pearls of wisdom from God,the hope that I believe we all strive for in life.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Step Three</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Choosing the color palette and shape of the paper.<br /><br />I chose square as the shape of my paper as it has a calming feel to it, this struggle is not fast and furious it is slow and steady sure. In this case I chose a cool palette with soft hues. The only warmth in the piece is in the main figure, to give a greater presence to the figure and to secure it as a focal point. I also placed the lightest light around my figure shape to bring attention to it. The dark bottom of the painting is to signify deep water and deep thoughts and emotions. This dark shape grounds the lighter softer tones in the painting. The bars that the snake is wrapped around serve to tie the light with the darker hues of the painting. I made the waterline as two different levels on the figure to keep some interest in shapes and their sizes.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Step Four</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Am I finished?...</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">I think I will move on from this painting but this subject will be revisited again, perhaps in a different medium.</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Until then I hope everyone has a great month and enjoys the wonders of Spring!</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Have a blessed Easter!</span> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cathy Hegman</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">www.cathyhegman.com</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">email: hegmanart@aol.com</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission f Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted , and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-60139955314111023132010-02-23T09:28:00.000-08:002010-02-23T10:21:18.150-08:00Waxing again....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWZPCGyW_KJAMxizirk7lixlIjEBbznNVIvzS7Bo9wzJygoZrGE_yHoqhqhYwLVE6G1anfIbaI1tObcqLVJImv9Y6PxG0ee9VXIJeikEXKQrT_vRXG7j-syMzWfw_y5VjtxS-SaQ0OTog/s1600-h/wax+almost+there%21%21.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWZPCGyW_KJAMxizirk7lixlIjEBbznNVIvzS7Bo9wzJygoZrGE_yHoqhqhYwLVE6G1anfIbaI1tObcqLVJImv9Y6PxG0ee9VXIJeikEXKQrT_vRXG7j-syMzWfw_y5VjtxS-SaQ0OTog/s320/wax+almost+there%21%21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441503412303918866" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" > <span style="font-weight: bold;">Thought Process:<br /><br /><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">I have loved painting the figure over the years and for me the figure has become a symbol of life to me. I have simplified it with every painting in an effort to strip it bare and find the deeper essence of life. I once painted all the details in the face and anatomy but have successively grown less attracted to the details and more infatuated with the shape as a whole. The breaking down and finding the lines of separation and dissection that work to give the figure action and life without limiting the ability to be universally intriguing. As a small child I used to love seeing my shadow, in a diverse and complicated way I see my figurative work serving the same purpose for me today. I could make my shadow take the shape I wanted it to take; but often, it would surprise me and elongate or curve over a surface and create some new form that was foreign at first, but still recognizable as me. The figure represents an open door to possibilities to me, it is a metaphor of not only who I am, but possibly what I would like to be and also what I wished I were not etc.<br /><br /><br /></span> </span><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFzbXeaKROdqJpQwbKnWuCD45HPlpDS4KLD6sIuYB1Modv098q46nhi8QOZyuhRGPpE5Fz0WeZ3okA5JDJ0Ry1kJbjNL6cstxlXgotmiqLrwX3Qt3NFOHZ8duCGVTD7onTVxIe3rUYlnM/s1600-h/Fish+Nets++encaustic+24+x+24+cathyhegman+small+file.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFzbXeaKROdqJpQwbKnWuCD45HPlpDS4KLD6sIuYB1Modv098q46nhi8QOZyuhRGPpE5Fz0WeZ3okA5JDJ0Ry1kJbjNL6cstxlXgotmiqLrwX3Qt3NFOHZ8duCGVTD7onTVxIe3rUYlnM/s320/Fish+Nets++encaustic+24+x+24+cathyhegman+small+file.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441492579147050274" border="0" /></a><br />Fish Nets<br />Encaustic on wood panel<br />24 x 24 inches<br />Cathy Hegman<br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Technical Process:<br /><br /></span> </span><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;">I started the Fish Nets with just the wood board with a charcoal gesture mark on the wood. I next coated the piece with clear wax. I knew it would be a figure, so I began planning the amount of space the figure would cover and masked it out and applied many more coats of pigmented wax, fusing between each layer. I then carved the figure out a bit more and added wax to the shape.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinfQ-8pNejFSYqQ3o3AZH-UBuxoXhGQEo3AC6E6eNTsvIo4Lv-yUPMw319uox-933sKq49u4p4Ibnav2kIbTFq2ZQ1hL5j2fHaFGYzdGpVCbbl1Y9q_Lykj5AT25rgOT6w4mSahuEQgog/s1600-h/Fish+Nets++encaustic+24+x+24+cathyhegman+detail.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 179px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinfQ-8pNejFSYqQ3o3AZH-UBuxoXhGQEo3AC6E6eNTsvIo4Lv-yUPMw319uox-933sKq49u4p4Ibnav2kIbTFq2ZQ1hL5j2fHaFGYzdGpVCbbl1Y9q_Lykj5AT25rgOT6w4mSahuEQgog/s320/Fish+Nets++encaustic+24+x+24+cathyhegman+detail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441493582913097762" border="0" /></a><br />detail of netting effect<br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;">I took net from a wine bottle and pressed it into the soft wax to create even more texture. I next applied burnt umber oil paint and wiped it off in places, in order to bring out the texture of the net. I kept adding layers of wax in places to finish off the piece, fusing with my heat gun between each and every layer.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjESFZ_sCDUQ4clNMp9hfErWfllrebWSa8tvSGQXuv2QP-6bi8AiSXxG4HE3IgRunX81DKpIiyX0OX2RX-uZW6Hue_SflAzZcrrIk2xVVKx-vhyawrSF_RBUjx_Pmw7iKJIAzmNdH1xkgQ/s1600-h/Between+Good+and+Evil+encaustic+12x+12+cathyhegman+small+file.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjESFZ_sCDUQ4clNMp9hfErWfllrebWSa8tvSGQXuv2QP-6bi8AiSXxG4HE3IgRunX81DKpIiyX0OX2RX-uZW6Hue_SflAzZcrrIk2xVVKx-vhyawrSF_RBUjx_Pmw7iKJIAzmNdH1xkgQ/s320/Between+Good+and+Evil+encaustic+12x+12+cathyhegman+small+file.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441492434233690242" border="0" /></a><br />Between Good and Evil<br />encaustic on wood panel<br />12 x 12<br />Cathy Hegman<br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the second piece I began it with a collage of found papers on the wood. I adhered the papers with matte medium and let them dry. I applied the wax over the collage and carved into the wax to highlight the shapes of the figures. It is graphic and simple but it evolved this way and I like the fact that it is so simple and the foundation of collage was so complicated. I think it is a fitting finish for the thought behind the painting, Between Good and Evil.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The textural surface of the layers of beeswax and oil paint simply add to the integrity and interest of my figurative works. I am amazed at the build up texture that can be achieved with the wax.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Take care and have a great month!<br /><br />Cathy Hegman<br />www.cathyhegman.com<br />email: hegmanart@aol.com<br /><br /><br />All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read.<br /></span></span><br /><br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-67747341205035210392010-02-18T15:12:00.000-08:002010-02-18T16:37:14.182-08:00Winter.....Snow and Hot Wax.....February 2010<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXtIJQ0EphLT6Tic2hwKHY22UeLu4piH1pi8eHhWmAtU0dEX27ElK-vez_zVqph7qYnQ4mIfIg4ls4gcJ4uoriqrozoodScEVg8kMY4e6-zMGTEuc2rZxIcJFKwkD6YvCCww6zKiYMvoQ/s1600-h/snow+on+church.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 347px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXtIJQ0EphLT6Tic2hwKHY22UeLu4piH1pi8eHhWmAtU0dEX27ElK-vez_zVqph7qYnQ4mIfIg4ls4gcJ4uoriqrozoodScEVg8kMY4e6-zMGTEuc2rZxIcJFKwkD6YvCCww6zKiYMvoQ/s320/snow+on+church.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439727025080591874" border="0" /></a> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">A<span style="font-size:78%;">bove photo is of the Methodist church in Holly Bluff. It is old and quaint, we go there every Sunday and worship. This church was built by the Sharbroughs, descendants of my husband. </span></span> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" ><br /></span><br /><br /><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Snow in the Delta....the most snow in 25 years. It is a beautiful site.<br />The most significant characteristic of snow is the quiet that occurs when it snows. The everyday din comes to a complete stop and the snowflakes pile in silent mounds covering the world with colorless cold. The world becomes a warm comforting place in the bitter cold of the snow blanket. I am so fond of finding oppositional things in life and this is truly a highlight of winter for me.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span> <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRHSRM8m4xdG2pykaTxRikQHW9e_LK4nIxh8OrBHQd3vQV_9U-AfqXlirSGahBj86lTzCZtij54mlIH9f8W8EQQY2u91u0G_Efjn6xhpjeNb8Z4L6zhWgLvq0cAWpWzrlCQNZ5JYTU50/s1600-h/snow+on+main+street+Holly+Bluff.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRHSRM8m4xdG2pykaTxRikQHW9e_LK4nIxh8OrBHQd3vQV_9U-AfqXlirSGahBj86lTzCZtij54mlIH9f8W8EQQY2u91u0G_Efjn6xhpjeNb8Z4L6zhWgLvq0cAWpWzrlCQNZ5JYTU50/s320/snow+on+main+street+Holly+Bluff.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439726803705283954" border="0" /></a> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" >This is a photo of the downtown area of the small town of Holly Bluff, where I live and paint. Normally I don't notice it much but with the shawl of new fallen snow it becomes much more impressive.</span> <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKG7A-V7s1pRzfnKiY8MXn0KRZrIa7q93WuRG24TQtJneSJ4z2LY2feOmKHbKqnexwFEpCxkIHmA2dqjyxDhn9CYbi8DgenHFC-CExUHHF75SjEDXIRXfUMqInK_re9k4HYKFSuEkN9Dk/s1600-h/snow+on+trees+in+yard.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 322px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKG7A-V7s1pRzfnKiY8MXn0KRZrIa7q93WuRG24TQtJneSJ4z2LY2feOmKHbKqnexwFEpCxkIHmA2dqjyxDhn9CYbi8DgenHFC-CExUHHF75SjEDXIRXfUMqInK_re9k4HYKFSuEkN9Dk/s320/snow+on+trees+in+yard.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439726594897956690" border="0" /></a> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" >A photo of the trees in the pasture in front of our home. I see this view from my studio windows.</span> <br /><br /><br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Enough on the snow, let's get to the wax! I attended an encaustic workshop in Dallas, Texas, at the Encaustic Center, in January 2010 and had a lot of fun. I stayed with my fellow artist friend, Cheryl Mcclure.(http://johnsoncreekstudio.blogspot.com/). We enjoyed spending the time together and waxing at the workshop. Cheryl is an accomplished artist and does spectacular non objective abstracts.</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> I have become entranced by hot wax painting and the textures and layers of the beeswax and oil pigment. There is something earthy about it, painting with a gift from nature and forming and carving into it, gives one a closeness to nature that is difficult to explain. Below are a few of my encaustic pieces of late.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0mBgTaoAYhc_oddMwPkGXlr8-K78BF2XoUlk7v-dqKDrH1WjHetQuRHAVH-7PqEP0RjECzsDOPLei8DV4YWeoynJHnngOcSm31jYOnomsqNa4PcjtU1h-HpkGb9uPhGAmU_CSqH5x-6Y/s1600-h/Lines+of+Humanity-Blues.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0mBgTaoAYhc_oddMwPkGXlr8-K78BF2XoUlk7v-dqKDrH1WjHetQuRHAVH-7PqEP0RjECzsDOPLei8DV4YWeoynJHnngOcSm31jYOnomsqNa4PcjtU1h-HpkGb9uPhGAmU_CSqH5x-6Y/s320/Lines+of+Humanity-Blues.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439733679480193314" border="0" /></a> <div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Lines of Humanity VI<br /><span style="font-size:78%;">by<br />Cathy Hegman AWS,NWS, MSWS, MoWS, SW, SAA</span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">This one is based on the series titled Lines of Humanity which explores our connectedness to each other and how we form a strong and solid line by our connections. I like this series as it gives me a feeling of belonging to the world, it reiterates that we have a purpose here and we all fit into the grand puzzle of life.</span><br /><br /> <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW9jEI3QBwKhb7M7biCgMRttq3EHTMRrJZZNKLe1M4ivUg0d7q1yvsWGYDIgvjf0s6bnMVa6oQOAdUJimsty7Gk58aBZRzmgmbsMZNjvcOlVMUrwIImXE9kJBYAmoHKc4fSe48PNBSIbs/s1600-h/Wax+Emergence.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW9jEI3QBwKhb7M7biCgMRttq3EHTMRrJZZNKLe1M4ivUg0d7q1yvsWGYDIgvjf0s6bnMVa6oQOAdUJimsty7Gk58aBZRzmgmbsMZNjvcOlVMUrwIImXE9kJBYAmoHKc4fSe48PNBSIbs/s320/Wax+Emergence.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439730883452835602" border="0" /></a> <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Solitude<br /></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:78%;">by </span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"> Cathy Hegman AWS,NWS, MSWS, MoWS, SW, SAA</span><br /></div> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">This piece is one based on my series of figurative works. I usually put the figure in as a solitary figure to show the strength that I believe exists within each of us. There is power in solitude, it forces us to look inward and find reasons and beliefs that keep us moving and growing.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /> <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtl89lnkdVAKVLI-8WNH_xlZ1u91k0v-TASevZEiOAljXLKZNjkICIyn-KxrhwVMSrB89NTXII9Fpy-Du4hXY5_DZKh0hUJCrqoETULkz8L2CEjwko7PqNZfrX4IqUOZhyphenhyphenQTSYnNgyJDE/s1600-h/Chao+figure.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 312px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtl89lnkdVAKVLI-8WNH_xlZ1u91k0v-TASevZEiOAljXLKZNjkICIyn-KxrhwVMSrB89NTXII9Fpy-Du4hXY5_DZKh0hUJCrqoETULkz8L2CEjwko7PqNZfrX4IqUOZhyphenhyphenQTSYnNgyJDE/s320/Chao+figure.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439736027466508498" border="0" /></a> <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Emotional Chaos<br /></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:78%;">by </span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"> Cathy Hegman AWS,NWS, MSWS, MoWS, SW, SAA</span><br /><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">This figurative encaustic is called Emotional Chaos. I believe it depicts the essence of how our emotions can be at work inside us and the way that we try to cloak it with layers of deception all the while thinking that we have concealed it ;but somehow, it shows through to the world. I painted this piece by making marks in charcoal on the wood before adding any wax and then layering the wax and carving out the figure shape. I like to dissect the shape of the figure in my work, it seems to give the shape more movement if I place the pieces at odd angles. The texture of the nonpigmented beeswax is often all that is needed in an encaustic painting, as the wax is translucent letting the color and some of the wood grain show through. In this piece I used the charcoal, a bit of wax with yellow ochre pigment in it and the plain nonpigmented wax. It is almost a monochromatic piece. Lately I am finding myself more drawn to this type of palette. There is something very dignified in the simplicity of the monochromatic palette.</span><br /><br /><br /> <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2iFWBvmzPsCMwoyYhZy0taPejpV9BofBvMywej7fLlVj9sXvkFouMdGrKQ__5KDehlpGh5wyOLXVJI0nueHMgMdQdmL16Lciol1OEqMx6YFiD8J5BL7fY4jb-bzHfQI-XSz8ET_WXLAQ/s1600-h/Black+skirt.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2iFWBvmzPsCMwoyYhZy0taPejpV9BofBvMywej7fLlVj9sXvkFouMdGrKQ__5KDehlpGh5wyOLXVJI0nueHMgMdQdmL16Lciol1OEqMx6YFiD8J5BL7fY4jb-bzHfQI-XSz8ET_WXLAQ/s320/Black+skirt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439740422373553074" border="0" /></a>Black Skirt<br /></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:78%;">by </span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"> Cathy Hegman AWS,NWS, MSWS, MoWS, SW, SAA</span><br /></div> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The last painting in this blog is called Black Skirt, it has many symbolic references included in it that have appeared in my work in the past. I find when I look back over the years of my work that some symbols appear to be in all of them. I have attached my own meaning to them and have found new ways to incorporate them into my work. I believe that in a way they are the defining elements of my life in art. This piece was done in much the same way as the one above it, only in this one I did not rely on the plain wax as heavily, as this one is about the way in which our clothes give us much more than just coverage and warmth, they are often our disguises and our sometimes our cry for help. I disconnected the body shapes again in this piece, you will notice the angle is not as active as in the Chaos painting, this is a much more subtle and quiet piece. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;">Take care and have a great month!<br /><br />Cathy Hegman<br />www.cathyhegman.com<br />email: hegmanart@aol.com<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;">All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><br /><br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Owner/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-64248887990079270792009-11-19T12:10:00.000-08:002009-11-21T13:19:49.266-08:00Painting the Man in the Moon, November 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY6updJyD9BMWZBT311taeq6QO8qUmMlVYs2MTKajNIcfPwVfOvUmLJseoJ4YbJmyNAj-D4bsEeiVSUcgYi45n1lwkXWX7R1x8e22ffkZ0lJFImcAaelrUr-gLYwReUGFveGZkQFbqIf8/s1600/Cathymixing+paint.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY6updJyD9BMWZBT311taeq6QO8qUmMlVYs2MTKajNIcfPwVfOvUmLJseoJ4YbJmyNAj-D4bsEeiVSUcgYi45n1lwkXWX7R1x8e22ffkZ0lJFImcAaelrUr-gLYwReUGFveGZkQFbqIf8/s320/Cathymixing+paint.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406663867251612290" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Thanksgiving is upon us and it is one of my favorite holidays. No gifts required, is nice these days. We had a sparse harvest but I am thankful none the less. Thank goodness it will no longer matter if it rains here or not, at least until next year when we begin the saga again. I have been painting and experimenting with different paints most of the last part of this year. I am now convinced that there are just phases in an artist's life, where the searching becomes the art itself and the need to search overtakes the need to reproduce. I find myself for lack of a better word, content with the search for something new; a reinvention of my art and self. I find using different mediums helps to diversify my art and to keep me active and alert to the textures and feel of the different mediums and surfaces. Abstraction with symbolism is creeping into the fibers of my art more frequently than not lately.<br />Oil paint is something I reached for in the past when I wanted to be technically accurate or more detail oriented in my paintings, but now with the addition of the cold wax and the beeswax, oil paint has a whole new meaning in my work. It is now a velvety, matte, opaque road to traverse to get to the heart of what I am expressing in my work. The doors have reopened for me in my non objective work again and it is exciting to re enter that world for a while. There is an edgy contentment or satisfaction in the non objective work, it requires no explanation by the artist. I find with even a hint of realism involved there are questions to be asked by the viewer. I like to retreat to the non objective and just enjoy the shapes and patterns of colors for their existence alone and not for their meaning or symbolism of reference to anything of this earth. The one constant in my work as of late is the lean to the monochromatic palette and sometimes almost colorless paintings. I have worked my way into the earth tones and through them, all the while I am finding the need to layer and excavate my work. I think this is where the shades of grays and neutrals are finding their way into my work. I am finding great joy in mixing and layering colors and hues that cannot be labeled as a known color, but more as a reference to a color or colors. I have worked to make my self use colors that I almost never use, such as tubed greens. I was once told my an instructor years ago, to never use tube greens but to mix my own from yellow and blues..(so I think this is why I am trying to break this rule and prove that once again you must make your own rules or become static). I have begun to enjoy the mixing of colors and layering them with other colors till I reach neutrals that brush at the original colors without ever truly giving way to a named color. Each time I am reminded of water on an oil spill, and how it gives off a wonderful iridescent mish mosh of colors that change and swirl into unending numbers of colors, that is what I am chasing with my palette as of late. I want to make the eye interested in the colors but make the mind have to search for a name for them.<br />The search for textures that will add to my paintings is the quest I was on in the painting I have included in this blog.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">I am mixing the non objective with hints of symbolism in an effort to work through my thoughts. </span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">In the beginning for my first layer of texture, I mixed some golden soft gel with gesso and textured my kilamanjaro paper. I am not thinking of anything except color at this point in my process, because I know this will be the bottom layer of color and that it will be a platform for building. I felt the need to have some boundaries on my paper so I tore pieces of old watercolors and placed them on the edges of the paper with the soft gel and applied gesso on top of them as a border around the paper leaving an opening at the top and bottom just for variety sake and to visually give a way to exit and enter the piece. </span> <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSDceocrtCXbaEFq_Ejjr4RTFLKSrUheUuozwoGGDg12FmFgB-VU2CBCCgu5V-hnT4Io-_ZfKisqLdfKxD28T4gOs0eCSfnvMm9hangJnbdbQ4ceuOXmfJ6r8IbH6_QW2jwfVp7_qrh7A/s1600/texture+whole+sheet.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSDceocrtCXbaEFq_Ejjr4RTFLKSrUheUuozwoGGDg12FmFgB-VU2CBCCgu5V-hnT4Io-_ZfKisqLdfKxD28T4gOs0eCSfnvMm9hangJnbdbQ4ceuOXmfJ6r8IbH6_QW2jwfVp7_qrh7A/s320/texture+whole+sheet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406650354885406178" border="0" /></a> <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Full Sheet of texture painting for the underpainting.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6_eE9BFFswmPROaasebChTotAM0A_JXHG7oryPeVAx7dNa2ZhlP2U1zZxNcVM0Tmz50apwXoGVdSyFT5UufbpNLkcP1ojenqm9N5AEFO6YchMPOYiSiojlzP5uyah5UPdYO7JidLDnsg/s1600/texture+close+up+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6_eE9BFFswmPROaasebChTotAM0A_JXHG7oryPeVAx7dNa2ZhlP2U1zZxNcVM0Tmz50apwXoGVdSyFT5UufbpNLkcP1ojenqm9N5AEFO6YchMPOYiSiojlzP5uyah5UPdYO7JidLDnsg/s320/texture+close+up+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406650350903026178" border="0" /></a>Detail of a part of the textural underpainting.<br /></div> <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc0Gw7L9p2lOr9D_3fqB5xvSxG0USrZQFsRP3dI5s5NXGGU2Pw7dTrpTYVE4u2fn9r2mxs7bm5NxnjzlLpswiToz4sBJarutGhA0j_nTjkOoduJ4LYCcVVEm2N774nWmK6yMZJ19ZX1nE/s1600/texture+close+up+5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc0Gw7L9p2lOr9D_3fqB5xvSxG0USrZQFsRP3dI5s5NXGGU2Pw7dTrpTYVE4u2fn9r2mxs7bm5NxnjzlLpswiToz4sBJarutGhA0j_nTjkOoduJ4LYCcVVEm2N774nWmK6yMZJ19ZX1nE/s320/texture+close+up+5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406650342685450530" border="0" /></a>Detail of the textural underpainting<br /><br /></div> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">I layered several layers of watercolor and gouache on this and got some beautiful textures and patterns, but that became the problem; they were too beautiful and looked rather sweet, so I added several layers of the dreaded and previously deemed contraband tube greens on top of these beautiful under paintings and immediately I got more neutralized color, which to some might seem dull or the ruination of a great start, but it sparked the flame in my mind. This is when it gets interesting for me, and the focus becomes from this stage" make this work!"</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> It is at this point I need to focus on the subject matter for the piece or whether it will have one at all.</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">I looked at the calendar and saw the moon phases, something I pay little attention to in my life and I wondered why these moon phases are printed on calendars. They must be important, so I tried to come up with a reason for their being there and I thought about oceans, fish, and tidal waves and how important and constant they are to this earth. I think my favorite subject to paint is the figure so as a way to bring a figure into the work I added the ubiquitous man in the moon as a catalyst for the piece. I feel he is the spark of mystery for the piece. He is the metaphor for man and his ties to the moon and the different phases of the moon and the relation of man and the earth. </span> <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcaiHPl66E1LHw5sSsjCT4Zcc9uRvXHaWESzV5XCGXD1or68kcftMA1UVW3NAdUYU5W3s43guzUgktUlCMxuHA2iSjQ_i8aesXWoDUMw7IGD_oFf9aAu1wnx564aUe4-wsg0ClpDpUsVg/s1600/New+Moon+mixed+media+on+paper+30+x+22.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcaiHPl66E1LHw5sSsjCT4Zcc9uRvXHaWESzV5XCGXD1or68kcftMA1UVW3NAdUYU5W3s43guzUgktUlCMxuHA2iSjQ_i8aesXWoDUMw7IGD_oFf9aAu1wnx564aUe4-wsg0ClpDpUsVg/s320/New+Moon+mixed+media+on+paper+30+x+22.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406651920495029058" border="0" /></a> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">I kept layering and adding textures and then I began to see the textures of the moon. I had the "aha" moment of losing the piece and then finding it again, only to find a deeper more meaningful feel for the painting. The rest is just finessing the shapes and edges and fine tuning the piece. This is the journey for my work, the lost and then found, the travel down an abandoned road of art, the step out into the darkness to find the comforting light of the finished piece. And when it is finished being comfortable enough to know it is only paint and paper or canvas and that the truth of the art is the process. Thank you for reading my blog I hope you have a blessed Thanksgiving and that even if your life and circumstances seem bleak you can stop and give thanks for life and friends. I am going to add on this short video of the textures up close in the painting as I wanted to start using some videos of my work on my blog. I think videos can sometimes show more than just a</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">jpeg of the piece. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> </span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwNmkc8FXgPhFenwYgglzJ8XyUkReZOV4IGXloDrqMlhTVBlNCcVoojEGMdLN0lsojUZoTyTr4E7ICwkPsWvA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;">Take care and have a great month!<br /><br />Cathy Hegman<br />www.cathyhegman.com<br />email: hegmanart@aol.com<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;">All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-28918576947840994612009-11-03T11:18:00.000-08:002009-11-03T12:46:17.741-08:00Finding beauty in Barbed Wire and Sunshine...<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The Mississippi Delta monsoons have stopped for a bit lately, but I keep an eye to the sky in fear of rain clouds. Everyone is in clean up mode trying to gather what remains of the crops out in the fields. The mood is pensive for sure and will remain so until the crops are in and the losses are assessed.<br />In the studio life goes on rain or shine, being a studio painter has its advantages. I want to get back to my watercolors but for some reason I am still working in oils, acrylics and encaustics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encaustic_painting). I will eventually get back to the watercolors as I have two drawings ready to expand upon in watercolor. I even have planned the palette I will use, just cannot leave the work I am on right now. I often feel there are not enough hours or days in my life.<br /><br />My muse has been the idea of boundaries and fences, in particular barbed wire fences. Why do we create boundaries with fences? I believe it is our human attempt to control our world. I think that in the process we forget that by fencing some out we fence ourselves in, it is a conundrum for sure. I also began to toy with the idea of mental barbed wire, the kind we create in our minds when we are so wrapped up on what we think is right that we alienate and hurt others, with barbs of words or actions. I find it interesting to look at the old rusted barbed wire that is around the pastures in the country. It is time worn and loaded with pieces of </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >animal,</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >human, and inhuman remains that were somehow trapped and snared by it's barbs. It leaves me to wonder were they trying to get in or get out?</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > I have found my use of barbed wire in my paintings lately has given them an edge and mystique that is quite intriguing.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvYsG_pqP6AcNTcf3lwaUTRvDs7H71Nsk3yPsg8GPj21Cjc4AdyAxF-OnNTCSpLB48F_P9Fax0_qyHigC0kD_Nq3GuQUwF3PDaSgBrFkqf-xDp5ZyZa_7l7XEQDUEAAhxCXs-U4DKoF-E/s1600-h/peace+talks+watermarked+for+blog+copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 314px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvYsG_pqP6AcNTcf3lwaUTRvDs7H71Nsk3yPsg8GPj21Cjc4AdyAxF-OnNTCSpLB48F_P9Fax0_qyHigC0kD_Nq3GuQUwF3PDaSgBrFkqf-xDp5ZyZa_7l7XEQDUEAAhxCXs-U4DKoF-E/s320/peace+talks+watermarked+for+blog+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399968284522439282" border="0" /></a><br /></span><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Peace Talks<br />acrylic on canvas<br />36 x36<br />by<br />Cathy Hegman<br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br />The barbed wire themed piece that I will post is one that I painted with acrylic on canvas. My thought was of the world today and the barriers we all face. I would like to interject my thoughts at this point but I do not mean to say this is the only way to think about this piece of art. I used barbed wire to connect the symbol of peace, the white dove, with the three lips, the symbols of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The connecting wire is a metaphor of life. I feel this is how life is for me and might possibly seem to everyone. We cannot get peace without the guidance from above and we leave bits of ourselves on the barbs of life along the way, but in the end we are connected and at peace. It is an abstracted way of looking at life but I feel the older I get the more abstract and less predictable life seems for me. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >You will notice that from the design and art standpoint in my painting, that I am using a non objective abstract background but integrating somewhat representational and symbolic elements.I often feel it gets a bit literal, but I still like the way it works on multiple levels, instead of leaving everything to the imagination, I am giving a bit more to the viewer.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Some of my art friends and I meet on the first Wednesday of every month to drink coffee and discuss what we are painting or working on, during our meeting last month Denise Dengler commented that she was once taught that you do not mix abstraction with realism. I think this may be what spurned this painting on for me, as I think that may be a valid point for some artists but I prefer to mix abstract with representational or symbolic and make them work as one. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >I have always thought of the art of painting as a wild animal that is never tamed, but one that simply and elusively convinces the artist that they have control when a painting works by giving them the euphoria of completion of a painting and then the next time the brush is picked up, it is out of the cage again and the chase is on. This is why we just cannot stop painting!<br />I would like to reiterate that on this blog, I am giving my personal point of view and not that of anyone else, nor do I want to push my view on anyone. I would also like to say that the reason I am writing this blog is because every time a see a piece of art that I love, my first thought is not how did they paint it, but rather what were they thinking when they conceived and painted it. The thought process and the road to the finished piece to me is the heart of each painting.<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >I hope everyone has a great November and enjoys family and friends and remembers to be thankful for all that they enjoy! Thank you again for taking the time to read my blog!<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Take care and have a great month!<br /><br />Cathy Hegman<br />www.cathyhegman.com<br />email: hegmanart@aol.com<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-23918977548268937042009-09-29T12:03:00.000-07:002009-09-29T13:21:55.739-07:00October 1, 2009 Non Objective Migraines and Art<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZvFjmQdRJBHZcnU81IEPexovZGdd8GRttB8bwzieIxfWBIWtjyvbQVVrMKXqYngjk9964TEagzZ_hFyeIv1xFMWSkrSexsb_EXd0jB-4HbdUE4fk3l1AvTktNiM2_bmwT5da4vdyRGqs/s1600-h/River+September.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZvFjmQdRJBHZcnU81IEPexovZGdd8GRttB8bwzieIxfWBIWtjyvbQVVrMKXqYngjk9964TEagzZ_hFyeIv1xFMWSkrSexsb_EXd0jB-4HbdUE4fk3l1AvTktNiM2_bmwT5da4vdyRGqs/s320/River+September.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386982780229053874" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The Sunflower River once again at flood stage</span> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The weather has been merciless on the farmers. I blogged about the floods, then the drought, and now that the poor parched and beaten crops are ready to harvest, mother nature sees fit to send twenty one straight days of rain. There is very little left in the fields to harvest at this point. Today is the second day that it has not rained and the farmers here are out in the fields picking up the pieces of their dreams that did not wash away. It is sad but a reminder that life is never certain and we must not take it for granted.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> The rain not only destroyed the crops but with the atmospheric pressure I had many severe migraine headaches. The pain from the relentless migraines and the depression of losing our crops to all of the rain left me almost mindless and without any direction. I just painted and layered color after color, at times frenzied brush strokes and then other times I found myself delicately brushing the paint and canvas, I was reminded of the opposition that I like so much in art and how one complements the other. I began to think more about the paint and less about the subject matter, it was as if a portal in my brain was opened and I could more clearly understand the non objective subject of art. I am sure that there are painters that do this easily and every day but for me non objective abstraction is the most complicated and the hardest art to paint. I fret over when I think it is finished or if I need more color, or if it warm enough and the list goes on and on. Usually, non objective painting is much like a foreign film to me with no caption lines to read. I love to look at it but often I do not understand it. Biologically I am not sure that there is any correlation between pain and discomfort and the opening of doors in one's mind, but I am almost certain that it happened to me. I painted some of the most satisfying work that day and since I kept having migraines for the next several weeks the work continued to flow in this non objective pattern of paintings. I have to admit I have done some non objective work before but I struggled through every painting, trying to fight finding something representational in it and capitalizing on it. The work that I painted the last few weeks was for me, the purest art I think I have ever painted. I am almost hesitant to post it, for fear of rejection, but I would be defeating the purpose of stepping outside the box if I did not show this work.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg22LZAkVxrTrJhrAicUvgP5UeN_qiAUigmJ6Fgy-61vDmjOdG07TCc_H9E5kpB3V9yWc9t4kACLorzPLOtgPjrfj_4D_x-CtyiG3ukubhgKNnNKu6RrA_i4sbJIUlf2IXHBsgXSjxWNXc/s1600-h/His+Eye+is+on+the+sparrow+series+II.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 315px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg22LZAkVxrTrJhrAicUvgP5UeN_qiAUigmJ6Fgy-61vDmjOdG07TCc_H9E5kpB3V9yWc9t4kACLorzPLOtgPjrfj_4D_x-CtyiG3ukubhgKNnNKu6RrA_i4sbJIUlf2IXHBsgXSjxWNXc/s320/His+Eye+is+on+the+sparrow+series+II.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386976796899571410" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> Impaired </span><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Cathy Hegman</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">36 x 36 Acrylic on canvas</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq62hd1Ixx0pWaxi-iDGLl9YXujSIbkXXLjsdvzOIlBVw2TNbRUZSxEzg_WgiyUhWnlVtKwPxWtnJNrbHs6E3ON1uSjwhAtEynFhTyxR1HEJDb8UoEPXyhgCO5vzwafHRaJ_NRX8jrn6g/s1600-h/His+eye+is+on+the+Sparrow+I+big.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq62hd1Ixx0pWaxi-iDGLl9YXujSIbkXXLjsdvzOIlBVw2TNbRUZSxEzg_WgiyUhWnlVtKwPxWtnJNrbHs6E3ON1uSjwhAtEynFhTyxR1HEJDb8UoEPXyhgCO5vzwafHRaJ_NRX8jrn6g/s320/His+eye+is+on+the+Sparrow+I+big.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386976792071852738" border="0" /></a></span> <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Eye on the Sparrow<br />Cathy Hegman<br />48 x 48 Acrylic on Canvas<br /><br /><br /></span></div> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The above two paintings are part of my "Visionary" Series. My thought for these was one of pure design of shape,color and form. The quality that stands out is not thought provoking but one of visual provocation. I think I began to understand with these paintings, the beauty of non objective lies in the texture,color, and shapes in the painting for what they are as they exist and not what they could symbolize or represent. I added small meaningful marks that hint at more than just the designed shapes but I think the comfort lies in the design, placement and color on the canvas. I also noted that I used much more subdued hues in these paintings, probably due to the layering and addition and subtraction of layers. This was a true revelation for me on my journey in art. I am not sure that this door will stay open or ajar forever but for now the non objective art has a strong place in my repertoire of art!</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br />Take care and have a great month!<br /><br />Cathy Hegman<br />www.cathyhegman.com<br />email: hegmanart@aol.com<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-41212811764310517682009-08-12T12:40:00.000-07:002009-08-21T15:34:57.778-07:00Texture of Summer's Feathers of August and beginning of September 2009<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ1d_DWhjRTpNh31tE0da41ViX_9ab9YHlZ9SBhoWzlYPYRnNRGD7Uxge1-_eg9IUrwOWSqqd79Z5r2Tfv25xM3MEMNOYtUNsUj7Tg_bsZ3tj6z1cl2uh7E68OGl_A-xwt-CeWVc6YxQY/s1600-h/birds+final+shot+small+copy.jpgWATERMARKED.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 254px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ1d_DWhjRTpNh31tE0da41ViX_9ab9YHlZ9SBhoWzlYPYRnNRGD7Uxge1-_eg9IUrwOWSqqd79Z5r2Tfv25xM3MEMNOYtUNsUj7Tg_bsZ3tj6z1cl2uh7E68OGl_A-xwt-CeWVc6YxQY/s320/birds+final+shot+small+copy.jpgWATERMARKED.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369196639887688226" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Summer's Feather</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">by Cathy Hegman</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">20 x 16 inches</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The beauty is in the texture for me this summer. I have become familiar and reacquainted with oil paint these last few months. I have always been intrigued with the application and manipulation of pigment and the respective binder. I find an unending mystery in this facet of my life in painting. When I view a painting, I am most drawn to the application and surface texture of the paint,and the means by which it was achieved. The texture can affect not only the tactile quality of the paint but also affects the intensity, pattern, and value of the paint. I am finding more and more that the texture can give the painting an "otherworldly and mysterious" quality that tends to make the painting more intriguing for the viewer. The edges of shapes and lines can be either soft or hard, giving different ways to achieve their dominance or non-dominance in the painting. All of these in essence add to the texture of the painting as a whole.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">This painting began with a sheet of gatorboard and some raw canvas. I adhered the canvas to the gatorboard with matte medium and let it dry thoroughly. I then applied several coats of gesso to the canvas covered board. I let this dry and then sanded it a bit. The next step was to get out a jar of String or Tar Gel, I applied it with a stick to let it drip and meander on the surface. After the gel dried, I base coated the board with Napthal Red Acrylic. I inspected my work and decided the string gel was too prominent in the piece and looked a bit contrived, so I took out some modeling paste made by Golden Paints and the largest knife I could find and covered the whole board with modeling paste. This served two purposes, it leveled out the string gel and filled in the holes made from the stringy lines of gel and also it gave it a somewhat stucco looking texture which I liked. Well now that I had a really interesting surface, I had better decide what this painting would be about. I flipped through some doodles I had done on an old statement on my desk. I often doodle while on the phone, waiting for the internet, talking to my hubby, and just killing time. I do wish there was a market for these as I seem to always be doodling on something.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimOgW4I6p-ZNQwIwlqdsGuu9ADOy3yD47d8M5fe6GkC2MiKelnHc7HBE-LUn-1HAjFMoGRgoZgT-37DWphduLemVDPwkp9UwSVb18kEQ9UB0BllL1Ovih1CS9IYHctkaCrhZoZwi_FNrw/s1600-h/Doodle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimOgW4I6p-ZNQwIwlqdsGuu9ADOy3yD47d8M5fe6GkC2MiKelnHc7HBE-LUn-1HAjFMoGRgoZgT-37DWphduLemVDPwkp9UwSVb18kEQ9UB0BllL1Ovih1CS9IYHctkaCrhZoZwi_FNrw/s320/Doodle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369194346778949058" border="0" /></a><br />My doodle( everything looks better with a doodle on it!)<br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Well, this one caught my attention as I remembered thinking while doodling these birds,that these were an amalgamation of several birds that I love to paint and draw. I like creating my own species of animals and birds in my art. These birds somehow fit nicely with this surface, that much like the doodle were created by layering and reinventing the surface. I might add that it was a cool surface to sketch my birds on as well as it was like rough concrete and hyper absorbent. I really began to have fun when I started painting as it was a bit of a struggle to get the paint to stay where you would wanted it to, the interesting thing about this surface was no matter how tight I tried to get my edges refused to get a hard line about them. When you have a surface like this that is unpredictable, it adds a good bit of joy to the actual process of painting, as every stroke is somewhat of an experiment. I painted this in acrylic and tried to give it the same feeling that my oil paintings have had all summer. I did not achieve that goal but I am pleased with the results none the less. There just may be no way for me to garner the feeling of cold waxed oils using my acrylic paint , but I still love acrylics for their own merits. In short they dry fast!</span><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEistWH410Ywe4r8l6jEcbl8Rq4x4dGDL-WIRRMwRhwC141e8sew1bahfAtizmR-iOAbpuhXNMHCFN3tVeSEz2u6ecNPCoFkH9T1-ny-4CndI9OjiTI5ruKJ21S3msjic5-plqRLfdAG9kE/s1600-h/Beginning+stages+of+birds+copy.jpgwatermarked.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEistWH410Ywe4r8l6jEcbl8Rq4x4dGDL-WIRRMwRhwC141e8sew1bahfAtizmR-iOAbpuhXNMHCFN3tVeSEz2u6ecNPCoFkH9T1-ny-4CndI9OjiTI5ruKJ21S3msjic5-plqRLfdAG9kE/s320/Beginning+stages+of+birds+copy.jpgwatermarked.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369175335166041026" border="0" /></a><br />Early stages of paint<br /></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEise5lUyIJ_18vnuFdhcwGsdnM4Iypxogz-oorFqdTX24LDpqlCVwbg_HXeaRrg7Vf9TokwizzNHNgdJW8SUSCIgKbmjJ_5IEfwvkKmAdSdDkgO8OsjvLm3NfgxY9YHcwrukrDQu9ESqEY/s1600-h/detail+of+birds+in+first+stage+texture.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEise5lUyIJ_18vnuFdhcwGsdnM4Iypxogz-oorFqdTX24LDpqlCVwbg_HXeaRrg7Vf9TokwizzNHNgdJW8SUSCIgKbmjJ_5IEfwvkKmAdSdDkgO8OsjvLm3NfgxY9YHcwrukrDQu9ESqEY/s320/detail+of+birds+in+first+stage+texture.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369190890319620226" border="0" /></a><br />Detail of early stages of paint. Note the charcoal redefining the edge of the bird and tree limb, these will intermix with the paint layers that come later.<br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">At the onset the paint seemed rather raw so I went back with vine charcoal and redefined the shapes and lines and then as I painted around them and through them the charcoal mixed with the paint, giving the piece a nice feel. I kept layering paint and charcoal and finally came to what I felt was the finished piece! you know while writing this I was thinking I wonder if the painting would have been as rich without the red underpainting which is virtually not noticeable at this point. If you look closely you will see bits of red in most of the painting although it does not show up well in the photos.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">For anyone local who might like to see this painting. It is being exhibited in the One Blu Wall Gallery in the Fondren Bldg. in Jackson, Ms. </span><br /><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ1d_DWhjRTpNh31tE0da41ViX_9ab9YHlZ9SBhoWzlYPYRnNRGD7Uxge1-_eg9IUrwOWSqqd79Z5r2Tfv25xM3MEMNOYtUNsUj7Tg_bsZ3tj6z1cl2uh7E68OGl_A-xwt-CeWVc6YxQY/s1600-h/birds+final+shot+small+copy.jpgWATERMARKED.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 254px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ1d_DWhjRTpNh31tE0da41ViX_9ab9YHlZ9SBhoWzlYPYRnNRGD7Uxge1-_eg9IUrwOWSqqd79Z5r2Tfv25xM3MEMNOYtUNsUj7Tg_bsZ3tj6z1cl2uh7E68OGl_A-xwt-CeWVc6YxQY/s320/birds+final+shot+small+copy.jpgWATERMARKED.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369196639887688226" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">I hope you will have a great month! Keep Painting!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Take care,</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cathy Hegman</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read. </span>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-29054447099901027402009-07-26T15:17:00.000-07:002009-07-27T08:09:57.044-07:00Fishing Lines, Rain, Mississippi Magnolia-A life in Poems and August 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTogQ766_M66ll2-5TpqhWhMr8cKutkyfW2c5CCuKZBRRbk9JaR2DsjS_-c3tydRAhABCvsVff3LgwYKehbXYT9i0N7r4Z0DTEb9SiLspS_VjvctB0GziDI0UcrOkFRCHymTVWX6EAF_0/s1600-h/DSC02284.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362902547875632898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 203px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTogQ766_M66ll2-5TpqhWhMr8cKutkyfW2c5CCuKZBRRbk9JaR2DsjS_-c3tydRAhABCvsVff3LgwYKehbXYT9i0N7r4Z0DTEb9SiLspS_VjvctB0GziDI0UcrOkFRCHymTVWX6EAF_0/s320/DSC02284.JPG" border="0" /></a>
<br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)font-size:130%;" >The weather is a changing and we have been blessed with some rains. The winding cracks torn in the earth are beginning to fade and melt together with the much anticipated moisture. We have had unseasonably cooler weather for the past week that somehow sashayed in with the rain. I have lived below the Mason Dixon line long enough to know it is a mirage, the heat wave is waiting in the wings. The dog days of summer are about to break out of the kennel and give us one last parching blast of summer heat. The Big Sunflower River has fallen so much due to the drought, we had to take our boat out of the river, so no more languishing afternoon river rides for us this year. I will throw in a photo of the river for the last of the summer and to open the way for the latest oil painting.
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<br />Fishing Lines (in progress)
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<br />Cathy Hegman
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<br /></span><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="font-size:130%;">This is a work in progress and right now it is in the gestation period, or the time when I back away for a week or two to decide if I believe it is finished. My goal with this painting was to replicate or represent the feeling of fish as they school together in the water. Fish fascinate me and have for along time. I had Koi ponds at my previous house and I loved painting the Koi fish because they were so peaceful and calming. I chose to paint a fish shape rather than a specific fish, as the painting is about the action of fish and the feeling it can give rather than the fish. I believe the dominant principle of design in this painting would be repetition. The repetition occurs in the fish shapes,lines,and in the repeated circles. The lines are repeated not only in paint, but also in the lines of corrugation in the cardboard. The repetition also gives the element of movement to the painting, as well as the element of pattern. To conceive the calming mood of the painting, my thought process kept going into the thought of schools of fish swimming in unison, and how cathartic that appears, so I chose to use a calming harmonious color palette of earthy, organic hues to achieve this mood. The way that I achieve harmony in my palette is to find one hue (here it was yellow ochre) and to put it in every mixture of paint that I use in the piece, this ensures that the piece will be related throughout. It is often called using a "mother" color in some books on art and design. I even add the mother color into the lights and darks to make sure that I do not lose my continuity of harmony. I added a great deal of texture to the piece both visually and physically by collaging pieces of canvas, cardboard, and string to the surface giving it a dimensional texture.
<br />I painted this piece with oil paints, oil crayons and vine charcoal. I will post any further developments on this painting if any occur. The oil paint has served to slow me down in my process and it has given me a new path to travel this summer. The slow pace is nice, but I have to admit to the fact that I painted two acrylic paintings while waiting for the oil paint to dry! Old habits are hard to break and diversity is a good thing! </span></div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span>
<br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>*I would like to add a bit of information about a book of poetry by an artist from Tupelo, Mississippi. She is Patricia Neely-Dorsey and her book is titled "Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia- A Life In Poems". I think you would enjoy reading her work and experiencing life in Mississippi through her words. Here is the link to her webpage for more information on the book and Patricia Neely-Dorsey </strong><a href="http://patricianeelydorsey.webs.com/"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Patricia Neely-Dorsey's Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia - Home</strong></span></a><strong>.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong> </p><div style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-ALIGN: left">
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<br /></span>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-38305173759381763802009-07-01T11:09:00.001-07:002009-07-01T11:12:39.416-07:00Rock's Flying Fish Delta Dry Summer, July 2009<div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Sweltering Heat in the Mississippi Delta<br /></span></div><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE73v574ASsC_LwD5_1gTKHhLTCek0jNUM8nJffGR6Tb97CAVq2ZHIwYs21phoEhNRkS2aH6HSLt5sU-9I1qPAyYygW5oPaWZoKIr-DIyJrySX7odyvQFqKTGwn6sp4cV-CZio80srhS4/s1600-h/dry+gound.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE73v574ASsC_LwD5_1gTKHhLTCek0jNUM8nJffGR6Tb97CAVq2ZHIwYs21phoEhNRkS2aH6HSLt5sU-9I1qPAyYygW5oPaWZoKIr-DIyJrySX7odyvQFqKTGwn6sp4cV-CZio80srhS4/s320/dry+gound.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351714615733664786" border="0" /></a></span><div style="text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >There is beauty in adversity,nature has given a pattern of cracks and crevices that is both interesting and inspiring due to the drought.</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></div><p style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Delta for all of its beauty has been grabbed by the hands of drought and drained of any remaining moisture, leaving intricate cracks and crevices in the surface of the soil.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The lack of rain after the floods of late spring and early summer have given the land a barren parched look and the bits of nature left must suffer the hardship of yet another lash from Mother Nature.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The heat of summer is cruel and relentless here.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">In the studio the air conditioning whirs as the oil paints are applied to canvas.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">It has been a long time since I have broken the seals of my oil paints and applied their buttery softness to canvas.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I have done this month, what I should have done months ago.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I have given myself the permission to play in and with the paint.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I have talked and preached on and on, about how you should paint what you feel; and not what you think will win a show, sell in a gallery or even worse what will match someone’s sofa. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The self preservation quadrant in my brain always seems to deny this effort and I find myself (even if I don’t want to admit it) thinking about the money end of art.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I have to support myself with my art and it has become increasingly harder with the times and the economy.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I find it much harder to be free to play and paint with reckless abandon and to enjoy the process of letting go of preconceptions.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I have convinced myself that I would do this during the summer months.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">One way I felt I could more easily attain this goal was to change my medium ,so I thought about acrylic, but it was so close to watercolor and what I had been painting in all year, that I chose to go with oils. It has been enlightening to say the least.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I started in oils 30 years ago and long since abandoned them for the speed and drying time of watercolor and acrylic.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I had forgotten the glow of oil paint and the texture of the paint itself.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The drying time for oil is much longer than with water media and the best part of the process is that I am forced to wait, thus giving me time to think more seriously about the work.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">There are many physical and technical differences in water based and oil based painting but each medium has its own merits.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I am finding that it is a good thing to go back and force yourself to relearn the emotions and the physical motions of painting in each medium.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">My love of paint is more in the manipulation of the paint on the surface, and the oil paint brings new challenges with it. I cannot burnish and blend the paints in the same manner that I use with watercolor and gouache. In water media I can paint in layers and add the successive layers at intervals that are light speed compared to the oils.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I am finding the difference for me, comes when I work in layers of oil paint they are more tactile layers, they have a surface quality that is dimensional even if it takes much longer to dry to a state that I can add more layers.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I am finding new ways to express my emotions with the oil paint as it gives me an almost dreamlike quality which seems to reside in the thick viscosity and also in opaque quality of the paint. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I begin most of my oil paintings with thinned layers and build up to a state much like a novel with chapters that build on the plot of the story.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I admit it takes much longer but I feel like I am leaving these tiny pieces of myself trapped in the layers and in the end the meaning and the emotion melt together to give a story, that is hopefully interesting.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjELJF_UrflKSsS0dzBzVr_0VwL0meS_KoemguaFqghVu26Ccd7q0KAzbKeaHEsQ2CdoxpKG1VBsn8Em8XpuQ2wrp2Kp5lACtlR0c2LBsIXETtplnDnFL8e9b77S55YbfDoBUxAX1OLAkU/s1600-h/rocko.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjELJF_UrflKSsS0dzBzVr_0VwL0meS_KoemguaFqghVu26Ccd7q0KAzbKeaHEsQ2CdoxpKG1VBsn8Em8XpuQ2wrp2Kp5lACtlR0c2LBsIXETtplnDnFL8e9b77S55YbfDoBUxAX1OLAkU/s320/rocko.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351721835386593938" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Rocko my 11 year old Min Pin and my muse!<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I have always had a love for animals and have had numerous pets.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I feel a deep connection with animals and the paintings I have been painting as of late are reflections of the love I have for my dog, Rocko.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">He is a Min Pin and small in stature.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">What he lacks in size he more than makes up for in his love.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">He is older now(11 Years) and I feel the need to express the connection I have with him.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Rocko loves to go anywhere and frequently he goes in the boat with my husband and I when we ride on the river.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">This summer a weird phenomenon occurred during the rising waters of the flood.</span></p><p style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitom0SwcGHa1AYhfCajXip6dssob05VCpMmRZiFB1tL_W8Kzess8vUsD1MiQ1NPvCMiwDgE_9mohCx1Br8-QVLIpOBYGY42A_wnhwx43MX2s5swXM01sF_auBLRlsWWzBEj3DBwZ6H3uk/s1600-h/fish+that+jumped+in+the+boat+on+my+foot.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitom0SwcGHa1AYhfCajXip6dssob05VCpMmRZiFB1tL_W8Kzess8vUsD1MiQ1NPvCMiwDgE_9mohCx1Br8-QVLIpOBYGY42A_wnhwx43MX2s5swXM01sF_auBLRlsWWzBEj3DBwZ6H3uk/s320/fish+that+jumped+in+the+boat+on+my+foot.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351717816375906482" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">My husband and the carp that jumped in the boat. The carp looks damaged but he swam away with no problem so I don't think he was mortally wounded.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Asian carp fish were in the smaller tributaries and when a boat would approach they would jump in the air.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">They were incredible to watch as they could leap sometimes 10 feet into the air and often times they would jump in the boat with us.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">It was a painful experience if they hit you when they boarded the boat, I might add.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Anyway, as I like to paint my thoughts and feelings about life, it occurred to me that I should paint how this experience with the fish, the summer,my life with Rocko, the river, etc felt and the way this one experience was indelibly printed in my memory.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I then decided to think about the symbolic aspects of the painting of a figure, a boat, a river, a dog and some fish(in this case leaping) and what this might tell me about why I felt it was important to paint this image.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Perhaps the message is in the symbolism, as well.</span></p><p style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-AGVYQFLQf319j2Yg3Vb7sTD71v7eWNG_knVTZMqg5gAAunMceYjSvtDoS7hDAbr5om6oEhGJNbclFIQgrn6OU4QOon47_Ktjqy0Lcnfrmww48c_mZ45y_aVvGLQXzNA0PmtWfjZXFoM/s1600-h/fly+fishing+stage+2watermarked+copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 402px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-AGVYQFLQf319j2Yg3Vb7sTD71v7eWNG_knVTZMqg5gAAunMceYjSvtDoS7hDAbr5om6oEhGJNbclFIQgrn6OU4QOon47_Ktjqy0Lcnfrmww48c_mZ45y_aVvGLQXzNA0PmtWfjZXFoM/s320/fly+fishing+stage+2watermarked+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351719938853102786" border="0" /></a><br />Rock's Flying Fish<br />oil on board<br />by<br />Cathy Hegman<br /></span></div><br /><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The symbols in the painting consist of :</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Figure- symbolic of life, when used alone signifies the aloneness of life I used the figure to represent myself and I put very little detail in the figure. I appear really dark as I think weoften tend to view ourself as a mystery.<br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">A Dog(in this case,Rocko)- symbolic of a noble and faithful companion in</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">many cultures. I found this interesting that in Africa, the people believe that dogs have a clear vision enabling them to see into the spirit world. I painted my symbol of Rocko as much larger than he actually appears and red as it is a color that symbolizes love.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Carp-</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">In China the carp is symbolic of strength and perseverance and if the carp jump with vigor then it signifies a transformation in life. I chose to place my carp in an arc format to symbolize the continuity of my life, it is a circle that often times I cannot see as a whole but that I feel is always in motion and transforming.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Boat- a symbol of transport,it</span><strong><span style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>could represent your life and the manner you navigate through your emotions. It could symbolize the voyage of your life.<span style=""> </span>A boat could be symbolic of the ark and the animals and their safety. The boat in this painting is symbolic of a transport perhaps to another time and place for me, a part of my journey in life and art. <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span style=""> I think these symbols represent a good bit of what I feel about the painting, yet they are interesting and could give another viewer room to relate and feel something more personal to their life.<span style=""> </span>I used many lines both implied and applied in the painting to communicate the connections that I felt were important to emphasize, the line between the figure and the dog, the fishing pole lines, the line on the boat that is resting on dry ground.<span style=""> Lines can be symbolic as they can give a feeling of connection or entrapment depending on the context of their use. </span>Lines can physically link the shapes and are immediately viewed and felt but <span style=""> </span>you can also create visual lines as in the fish<span style=""> </span>in the painting they appear connected by their repetition and direction <span style=""> </span>without the use of a physical line. The shape of the implied line in the fish, the arc, is one I employ in my work often as it has personal meaning for me in my life.<span style=""> </span>I used a very limited palette in this work and found that I could layer and mix hues without end with just a palette of yellow ochre ,cadmium yellow light, cadmium red light, pthalo blue, indigo, and alizarin crimson. The earthy tones lend the feeling I was trying to capture, indicative of my memory of the moments of summer days on the river with my dog.<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span style="">I hope you enjoy this blog and that you will be inspired to look into symbolism in your work and to perhaps leave your comfort zone and use a different medium.<span style=""> </span>I think leaving the familiar will help you to grow in your <span style=""> </span>art work, I know it has mine.<br /></span></strong></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong></strong></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><span style=";font-family:";" ><br /></span></strong></span></p>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-50183034096144576522009-06-15T22:05:00.001-07:002009-06-19T19:46:02.049-07:00June 2009 Sunflower River, Alligators, and a Catalystic Conversion<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXy5i_o6cwVvhi4nFPZzH2SrpFirgnuidEf9W38tHFuILi3JVYNcczl5MsHvXv-YjqxN-2tDp_r8zvsspBL1zLNq_BGjpuvNrTyJFuAJOU_ja7YwmKZ6TZ4efsYj2tKsDPo1iYRP5c5qo/s1600-h/DSC02005.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXy5i_o6cwVvhi4nFPZzH2SrpFirgnuidEf9W38tHFuILi3JVYNcczl5MsHvXv-YjqxN-2tDp_r8zvsspBL1zLNq_BGjpuvNrTyJFuAJOU_ja7YwmKZ6TZ4efsYj2tKsDPo1iYRP5c5qo/s320/DSC02005.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349233317748365026" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Above and below are the new residents that have moved in with the flood waters. <br />They are fascinating to watch,and it also keeps your blood flowing nicely as they can make your heart do double time when they appear a bit too close. They come in all sizes and we have 3 that live in our pond now, the largest is probably 9 feet or more the smallest is around 4 feet long. <br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYj3d1h_2lKqH-n9JuJrlqUMIxyyTdF77FfPGMtbj1vgfzwQJCCHlknPsd8k9lx5-TkItaxcWzEJ7ZZcLQ1I4wCpcWcGRJ6ve6NezRoUn8OpaYhXd_XfUYj4EvEdl7OIQrzgrt9v7JAeo/s1600-h/DSC02476.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYj3d1h_2lKqH-n9JuJrlqUMIxyyTdF77FfPGMtbj1vgfzwQJCCHlknPsd8k9lx5-TkItaxcWzEJ7ZZcLQ1I4wCpcWcGRJ6ve6NezRoUn8OpaYhXd_XfUYj4EvEdl7OIQrzgrt9v7JAeo/s320/DSC02476.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349233314807796738" border="0" /></a><br />Sunflower River Recedes<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBBn7MfYClTefiqC9VR25x15RFLQS36HQEzGYBcfXhqrvenW0D5ifoHH15jCpRLV3XoW8-4z14-cXvzobU-HfuR24rAE-HVDVGhiMTwcHXhzdJZ6H4xi5taQ2GBfLQZ_FY5Z8s3RrvxUA/s1600-h/DSC02421.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBBn7MfYClTefiqC9VR25x15RFLQS36HQEzGYBcfXhqrvenW0D5ifoHH15jCpRLV3XoW8-4z14-cXvzobU-HfuR24rAE-HVDVGhiMTwcHXhzdJZ6H4xi5taQ2GBfLQZ_FY5Z8s3RrvxUA/s320/DSC02421.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349230320495329858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">River Report:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Sunflower River is falling at a rapid pace these days. Here are some photos to give you and idea of how the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, and thanks to man and his river gates it leaves at a swift pace! Notice the drop on the sides of the river, the watermark grows wider every day. The fact is now were are in a drought and need rain for our crops. The extremes in nature seem to have no ending for us here in the Delta. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /> <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip5twVBYSK5ovf1Bge5OWFT0olCWhxxi0w2DhQt5fQmk1LOiLvDmpjb1k7QZpDxIwUfSPn1TZTIVbc4eh3dZ0Yh-qE3RM9TRXI0pUv3ySjBYda2HKbPCcJQNnPxJwybm4SU89EOZD_xWc/s1600-h/catalystic+conversion1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip5twVBYSK5ovf1Bge5OWFT0olCWhxxi0w2DhQt5fQmk1LOiLvDmpjb1k7QZpDxIwUfSPn1TZTIVbc4eh3dZ0Yh-qE3RM9TRXI0pUv3ySjBYda2HKbPCcJQNnPxJwybm4SU89EOZD_xWc/s320/catalystic+conversion1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347788330171853874" border="0" /></a>Catalystic Conversion<br />by<br />Cathy Hegman<br />acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas panels<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"> The thought behind this piece is one of motion. To me life is motion, happening all the time, creating and breaking down barriers with every move. This motion is the catalyst for the creation of the emotions in our lives. We are searching and exploring every minute of our life. Our moving and interaction refracts, reflects and impacts those around us at all times. Our mind motion never goes into shut down mode even if our physical body sleeps our mind is busy hatching new ideas and thoughts in our dream state.<br />Motion is something I have mused with most of my artistic career. I have sought new ways to paint it, in many mediums. I believe for me it represents life and the beauty that is in living. The most important aspect to paint, when dealing with motion is the actual perceived movement that the object will take, and freeze it in paint. I like to use this as my beginning design, and it is most often the form of an arc or sweeping shape, which by it's very nature connotates movement. I build my design and integrate my background to this shape of movement. I tend to use more organic shapes such as the arc and circle as they to me; represent our living state of being. I tend to gravitate to the earthy hues in paint but always in mixtures that are not identifiable as a common color hue. I prefer to layer my paints, in a scumbled manner in order to show some of the under layers and keep the harmony in my painting. The design in this one shows the figures in motion and the their motion is creating the circle which represents life.<br /><br />Catalystic Conversions is a triptych comprised of panels that are 60 x 20 inches each.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Thank you for reading my blog and I hope you have a wonderful month of June!<br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read.</span>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-52218651870877653152009-05-19T15:08:00.000-07:002009-05-19T20:23:27.523-07:00May 18, 2009 Floods and Emergence<div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> Outside my back door...Sunflower River near flood stage<br /></div><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAruKS0bj1vqRjW5u9EFxSJ4yPgXctCWQyYOOw8UhcBQDU5UMKYtFryViQXS8_X29AshEtPqb7JGTM8z_lWPj3zkRbSq1RzALSiCrQHnTX2ckQZJfLhbhwcXQcbvY2cF_rkb1IkWpchPc/s1600-h/River+up.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAruKS0bj1vqRjW5u9EFxSJ4yPgXctCWQyYOOw8UhcBQDU5UMKYtFryViQXS8_X29AshEtPqb7JGTM8z_lWPj3zkRbSq1RzALSiCrQHnTX2ckQZJfLhbhwcXQcbvY2cF_rkb1IkWpchPc/s320/River+up.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337724749055291666" border="0" /></a> <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The river is once again on the rise due to all of the rain we have had lately. The Big Sunflower river runs right outside my back door and it is a constant reminder of the control nature can wield over our lives.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-0SQfgYcUGnwOO__wa8cTXm-e4rZpk5cPuQS55knQgsww04PVPX9sqA_Ho_V4-4nu8BQiTnl4EyCe3QJCw4m5I_wsIkk1QfuCy_UgIZ8vFpZXE-On30psEXUTrxByASvUNFezrjh00I/s1600-h/river+up+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 190px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-0SQfgYcUGnwOO__wa8cTXm-e4rZpk5cPuQS55knQgsww04PVPX9sqA_Ho_V4-4nu8BQiTnl4EyCe3QJCw4m5I_wsIkk1QfuCy_UgIZ8vFpZXE-On30psEXUTrxByASvUNFezrjh00I/s320/river+up+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337724755465079986" border="0" /></a> The river torrents and rolls swollen with rain from the North and it has invaded our land and taken our crops with no mercy this year. The end is not here yet as the television weather seers are forecasting even more rise in the rivers here. The loss of control over one's livelihood is quite unsettling, but it is a reminder that we are not in complete control of our lives and surroundings, and that it is futile to think otherwise. There must be a silver lining in some of these deep and brooding thunderheads, and only time will reveal it. I do know that the few days of sunshine we have seen this month are so glorious that it quite literally burns yours eyes and lifts your spirit as it renews your faith and love of nature. There is a beauty in this opposition and that is what keeps me painting and makes the journey more interesting.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwZvLaMXL1n1P6Nz_sofxdJuvR0jr4NNaEApDUlabAowwaF74tpj8IkYlHAUS-iNg-fCTfBiMsIZl3SQxWaDYQUvAdPsSn8ZJnEnisVWFalwIm5-pIHbAAKhWA1TxCMutYdHnEHOV4Wwo/s1600-h/Emergence+II+for+web.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwZvLaMXL1n1P6Nz_sofxdJuvR0jr4NNaEApDUlabAowwaF74tpj8IkYlHAUS-iNg-fCTfBiMsIZl3SQxWaDYQUvAdPsSn8ZJnEnisVWFalwIm5-pIHbAAKhWA1TxCMutYdHnEHOV4Wwo/s320/Emergence+II+for+web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337725695184073522" border="0" /></a><br />Emergence II<br />by Cathy Hegman<br />acrylic on canvas<br /></div> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">I began working in April, on a series at the Spring Mississippi Art Colony(</span><cite>www.msartcolony.org)</cite><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">, called "Emergence". Perhaps this Emergence series was somehow almost a premonition of the flood we are now experiencing, since I began painting it a month or so ago.<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">I am in great awe of the changes in life that come with age and maturity. All of our lives we are striving to be somebody and to find our comfort zone in this life. We are largely formed by the opinions and the observations of those close to us and society as a whole. We mirror others and strive to be like them even at times when it does not feel compatible, and this can be quite detrimental to the formation of our true self. We pattern our lives by what we are told when we are growing up, and in light of the best efforts, quite often we are told things that while important to another person's life and time really don't pertain to our lives or the times we live in. I loved my youth but it lacked a certain richness that seems only to have come with age and experience. I now possess the ability to discern the things in life that are pertinent and to overlook the ones that are not. The baggage I have acquired in my time on earth has been full at times and through out the passage of time I have learned to unpack and discard some of the contents. This series is about the emergence or the rising above the things in life that threaten to drown us and keep us from being ourselves. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The painting "Emergence II" is acrylic on canvas and it 60 x 60 inches. Emergence II,is full of symbolism and metaphorical references to a female's life. I often use the figure in my work and whether abstracted , painted realistically,</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> used in groups or used singularly</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">; I find the figure is one of the most powerful shapes I can use in paintings. In Emergence II, I use the figure shape as an attribute rather than as a specific person. I chose to use the singular figure in the painting "Emergence II" to give it a more forceful presence. The numbers are a reference to the years of life and the figure is emerging from the years as a more complete person. The lines or ropes that entwine the figure form Xs as a symbol that she is overcoming the stigma of her female status and being defined by more than just a chromosome. The blindfold is lifting and the bonds or restraints, created by life are being loosened and removed. The very word emergence renders a feeling of victory to me, and it is the feeling I am seeking with this series. The victory over misguidance, mistakes, misunderstandings in life. The blindfold is significant in that our awareness of being held under and held back is often not seen by us. The bars serve to give unity and repetition to the piece and to give a slight thought of the entrapment present in our lives. I like to play with the surface space and break it into shapes that will reinforce my thoughts and the figure. I try to give as many things to the viewer as possible but I also add some things, painted almost subliminally in the piece to give it that little bit of intrigue. I also have given the figure a good bit more realism than I usually do in my work. I have painted figures for years without faces, simply because I wanted them to have anonymity and not to to be any particular person. Lately, I have been working with the figure and leaving out parts of the figure that are not significant to the painting. In this one the figure is fairly complete but I have left off the legs and feet as I did not think they were needed to complete the feeling and composition in this piece. In life as in painting often times the completeness is not in the details but in the overall feeling.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Thank you for reading my blog and I hope you have a great month!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Cathy Hegman </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >NWS, MSWS, MoWs, SW, SAA</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">website: www.cathyhegman.com</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">email: Hegmanart@aol.com</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read.</span>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7507232291477332174.post-67566785114542259072009-04-04T17:40:00.000-07:002009-04-04T20:14:40.622-07:00April 2009 Thought and Technique<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4xi8tF_93HB_l0zqtv_cPqiPVgYTMJgB8oUCCLH3pw_ywo-AqN4i9TrsgEW9IK-9Yyn-dM-SgUidQOZc_s2RAvmqB2SZLDlSCiQrUJeWlT8gfH6BT-wUPFOq6ziziQCbgzypbrGPuL6Q/s1600-h/Chocise+last+stand+for+web+black+and+white.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 145px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4xi8tF_93HB_l0zqtv_cPqiPVgYTMJgB8oUCCLH3pw_ywo-AqN4i9TrsgEW9IK-9Yyn-dM-SgUidQOZc_s2RAvmqB2SZLDlSCiQrUJeWlT8gfH6BT-wUPFOq6ziziQCbgzypbrGPuL6Q/s320/Chocise+last+stand+for+web+black+and+white.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321027306875883858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cochise Last Stand</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I take a black and white of my finished painting to check the value pattern. If you cannot do this with your camera, you can do it in photoshop after you put it on your computer.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSK6e1_9aG40DlyygPqSg6UTLtC-1NjpK8NmMZc0heYYsSof05twaP2R-GemxgQfbbj4re4m15g_PVlQFX3q_TI6YYce7i3kOvTyQu7riAS9JU505gug8-VGH5-qJJpHvJZmkRztWxNSQ/s1600-h/Chocise+last+stand+for+web1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 385px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSK6e1_9aG40DlyygPqSg6UTLtC-1NjpK8NmMZc0heYYsSof05twaP2R-GemxgQfbbj4re4m15g_PVlQFX3q_TI6YYce7i3kOvTyQu7riAS9JU505gug8-VGH5-qJJpHvJZmkRztWxNSQ/s320/Chocise+last+stand+for+web1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321027302952955554" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Cochise Last Stand</span><br />mixed water media<br />22 x 30 inches<br />by<br />Cathy Hegman</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Below is the painting turned to check for design. A good design can usually be turned and still maintain its integrity. This is a handy tool for checking your design on your paintings.<br /></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4GycQuF0VcISNgtFWAOjgFCd4QjIgsGqr8VEVDSJSUSCKXUzzfFk47DNh2RgDQrIkmRwhwwhf6GBVs8OrHhhPOd2ZQJYYfLnfP7R982xsQxBRbEO2aXqUhnYlMh7oA9gvUxkJ7i_-Nlc/s1600-h/Chocise+last+stand+for+web2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 172px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4GycQuF0VcISNgtFWAOjgFCd4QjIgsGqr8VEVDSJSUSCKXUzzfFk47DNh2RgDQrIkmRwhwwhf6GBVs8OrHhhPOd2ZQJYYfLnfP7R982xsQxBRbEO2aXqUhnYlMh7oA9gvUxkJ7i_-Nlc/s320/Chocise+last+stand+for+web2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321027302390452610" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Painting turned to the right</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfsfQtHjx_3tkGyu_v58qGVilYX2Bo-tioGD4HP397G3IQ5za3qDwZvlP2KoYD7Qbc3DfQPWRo3DMAGipbxJ2lca-Onf-SMRjV4vOSkc4BT0u5ZJ39WZRbGOD648tkCV1r8CeLUQxfBmE/s1600-h/Chocise+last+stand+for+web3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 173px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfsfQtHjx_3tkGyu_v58qGVilYX2Bo-tioGD4HP397G3IQ5za3qDwZvlP2KoYD7Qbc3DfQPWRo3DMAGipbxJ2lca-Onf-SMRjV4vOSkc4BT0u5ZJ39WZRbGOD648tkCV1r8CeLUQxfBmE/s320/Chocise+last+stand+for+web3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321027297920571746" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Painting turned upside down</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk5U-N_uzHuLlRc6apFp-DkExoq6b9H7Dw1PXI5Mhp-pIm0jEevO_ca4eRN5tUNLTmkcRyNPCjQmvporghjKroW7Ldh88K2Sc-hnQgL_1frTw1y81VGHVt0GLf1bf6jFOPCIhzkt6C8YM/s1600-h/Chocise+last+stand+for+web4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 172px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk5U-N_uzHuLlRc6apFp-DkExoq6b9H7Dw1PXI5Mhp-pIm0jEevO_ca4eRN5tUNLTmkcRyNPCjQmvporghjKroW7Ldh88K2Sc-hnQgL_1frTw1y81VGHVt0GLf1bf6jFOPCIhzkt6C8YM/s320/Chocise+last+stand+for+web4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321027293001249602" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Painting turned right again, I actually like this one as well as the first one, but I stayed with the horizontal format to give it a more peaceful feeling.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The Process from Thought to technique:</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">I read once where you should learn something new every day to keep your mind active and expand your world, I believe this to be true.The internet has made our ability to learn so much more accessible, we have no excuse to not teach ourselves. My greatest anxiety now is there is so little time.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">I was listening to a Joni Mitchell (my all time favorite song writer) song, "</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">This Place</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">", on the </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Shine</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> CD and in the lyric she mentioned Cochise. That is all it took for me to begin the process of planning my expression of his journey on this earth. To read about Cochise you can google him or here is link you can copy and paste (http://www.desertusa.com/magfeb98/feb_pap/du_apache.html). He was an Apache Indian and his life is very interesting.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The song is about how we all have a right to be here, and it seemed to hit a chord with me.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">I have always had a deep respect and tremendous love of the Indians that once inhabited this land before our intrusion.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">I decided to paint a painting that would reference the life of Cochise without being literal, this is my goal and first step in beginning this painting. This piece is created using abstract shapes and values, this is keeping my goal of veering away from being too literal. My aim was to create the mystery and feel that I always think of when I think of Indians of the old west and way they lived.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The hues I have used to paint this piece give the air of tanned hides and desert lands with hidden lapis and touquoise. I have become rather complicated in my layering of paint and the reduction of layers by working the paint at differing stages of dryness. This layering in turn gives me a more complicated texture on my paint surface and richer colors in the paint layers. I painted in many shape symbols of Indian life, in the painting with no regard other than the pure design of the surface. I chose to disregard the realism of scale or detail in this piece as well, to reinforce the idea that this painting not a description of Cochise or his life, but rather a two dimensional symbol of how I feel about Cochise and his life. I always try to put a form of power in my paintings, it is the enigma that sparks the viewer to think and delve into themselves to react to the piece. In this piece the power element is the weaving of the lines that seemingly stitch the piece together much like an Indian would stitch together hides to make a tent or clothing or create an environment. Some of the stitch lines are loose and some lines are tight visually and emotionally making the connection between painting and viewer.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Thank you for reading my blog and I hope you have a great month!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Cathy Hegman </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >NWS, MSWS, MoWs, SW, SAA</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">website: www.cathyhegman.com</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">email: Hegmanart@aol.com</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> All artwork and text included in this blog is copyright protected by Cathy Hegman and should not be reproduced in any form or fashion or used without the written permission of Cathy Hegman. All text and artwork included in this blog are solely the thoughts and original art of the artist, Cathy Hegman, unless otherwise noted, and are meant only to be guidelines and thoughts for others to read.<br /></div></div>Cathy Hegmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012383413652142612noreply@blogger.com6