Showing posts with label color. Show all posts
Showing posts with label color. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Exploring Aboriginal Art

Since I posted about this art challenge I have been playing with this art form and am thoroughly enjoying it! For me, it includes many of my favorite things, dots. circles, symbolism and my focus for this year - mandala.

I have not decided if I am participating in the challenge yet (based on some travelling coming up and time issues) but am still creating some pieces for my own enjoyment (and possibly selling if you are interested!)


So I shared this sneak peek the other day on facebook....
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Here's the entire piece and an explanation of the symbolism for me.... 2013-04-08 11.15.02

If you are a regular reader ( and I hope you are or will become one!) you know that I have chosen "complete" as my word for this year. This is a representation of that word. The very center image indicates a camp or home with symbols for people surrounding it. I chose one male and 4 females since that is what our family consists of. From there, the blues represent water with the final outside row being tracks that people would make on a journey. After traversing the world for 30 years, we are about to come full circle in our journey to create a home for our family in the islands later this year. I think this says that rather nicely and I can't wait to hang it in our future home!

Today I have been working on something less "personal" but still within the art style of Aboriginal Dot art. But I will only give you the sneak peek from facebook for now...and say I am thinking of lantana.
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Monday, February 4, 2013

Blog Tweaking and Color Crazy


color crazy, originally uploaded by Trish Nonaka.


Morning all!
A quick note to let you know that I am hard at work revamping my blog in order to make it grow along with my art life. Initially this blog was simply a place to "begin to share my art with the world". I have grown to a place of being quite comfortable with this and am no longer afraid to say, "I am an artist!" And although this coming year is going to be filled with big changes in our life, I am ready to take my art to the next level. What is that? Glad you asked! I am ready to use this blog as a place to begin to connect and network with other artists and continue to step out of my comfort zone. There is much more to this that I won't share right now but I hope you will continue to support me as my creative journey changes and grows! Now back to tweaking!