THE SMALLEST DETAIL

THE GARDEN AS A SOURCE OF IDEAS: 

 ATTENTION TO DETAILS 

Throughout the BIG PICTURE are a mass of little images, details or cameos that may be isolated out as inspiration or ideas for all manner of individual concepts from pots to sculptures. 

Imagine, perhaps, the following images of Calla Lilies as free-form porcelain pots or sculpture. It doesn't take much to visualize such a transformation. The more you train your eyes to SEE, the more opportunity you have to interpret vision to reality.

ZANTEDESCIA Aethiopica - CALLA LILY 

ZANTEDESCIA Aethiopica - CALLA LILY 

ZANTEDESCIA Green Goddess

When looking at complex images and conflicting scale, like the fine Blechnum fern besides the bulky Rhododendron in the next image, your vision and brain combine to turn the combination into a complex image, or composition. 

At this point, reality turns into ART. The better the interpretation is done, the more artful the result. 

LOOKING turns into SEEING to selectively use the composition for whatever purpose the artist requires. If what you are looking at

is delicate in the extreme, realizing that delicacy is where

the artist is starting to SEE. 

This is where INTERPRETIVE ART begins.

RHODODENDRON Haemotodes with BLECHNUM Spicant Fern

When looking at any idea-generating image, the brain generally sorts out the image in priorities such as FORM, COLOR, PATTERN and DETAIL. It establishes ORDER. When you take a really close-up view of the object being scrutinized, your vision becomes like a MACRO lens on a camera, delving into more and more fine detail. This is really SEEING. 

How well the resulting interpretive artwork develops is dependent on the manipulative skills of the artist, and the tools and 

 art materials he or she decides to use. 

RHODODENDRON Marinus Koster

RHODODENDRON Blue Ensign

CLEMATIS Nellie Moser

Imagine and analyze the images that excite your brain, decide how you want to interpret and explore the medium to make it into ART. It is not as difficult as it may seem.  The more you explore, the more you will learn of the creative process.

MYTHICAL,  METCHOSIN, RED-LEGGED  PEA-CRANE -- PROTECTOR OF TREES, SHRUBS, PERENNIALS, KOI FISH, GOLD FISH, BEETLES AND BUTTERFLIES -
DISTANT RELATIVE OF THE SHORT-LEGGED,  ROUND-BELLIED ROBIN-BIRD.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

The next posting will trace the lineage from Landscape to Glaze  
Painting. If it all goes according to plan, it should be on your screen in about two weeks. 

GET WELL SOON, GOOFY!