by Cheryle | May 29, 2015 | About Cheryle Bannon, Art, Art reflections, Learning
Why Choose art? The question of why someone would choose to be an artist with all the challenges and hurdles this career involves is common. I believe that art chooses you. My viewpoint is that art is what made my life make sense and has been my life raft. I am an...
by Cheryle | May 17, 2015 | About Cheryle Bannon, Art, Art reflections, Mixed media, Play
Art Journal play You know those times when you just can’t settle…the times when cleaning the studio is the thing you do and you fuss around the outskirts of the stacks of work that sits waiting for completion. This is me at the moment but something...
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by Cheryle | May 10, 2015 | About Cheryle Bannon, Art, Art reflections, Mixed media, Mother and child, Process, Recipes
Remember Well I guess it is time to bring this piece to completion. I have previously blogged earlier stages of this paintings progress and observed her and waited for the right time to move her forward. Most of my work needs to sit for awhile as my heart and head get...
by Cheryle | May 9, 2015 | About Cheryle Bannon, Art, Art reflections |
Queen of Hearts Sometimes the desire to shift and clear is what it takes to see differently and we risk destroying what is there in order to create something new. I painted this about feelings and images that I hold in my heart. This is about my Grandma who was a like...
by Cheryle | Apr 22, 2015 | Art, Art reflections, Learning, oven bake clay, Sculpture
The journey into the next phase… The travellers protector. I decided to create a bust on a stand. Due to the fact that oven baked clay was new to me, this was. A learning curve. I wanted to use a copper post to suspend the bust on. I ordered 1/4 inch copper pipe...
by Cheryle | Mar 15, 2015 | Art, Art reflections, Mixed media, Process |
I have always loved drawing faces but how do you extend the idea of the face into something more than the immediate image of a face. Our faces are our life map so what a lovely way to combine the face with that sense of the journey. I have used basic grid lines to map...