El acuarelista donostiarra Juan Carlos Aresti, dará una clase magistral gratuita a las 19:00, el viernes 29 de abril en el Palacio Barrena de Ordizia, durante la inauguración de la exposición CCX de la Agrupación de Acuarelistas Vascos.
La fábrica de papel Khadi se encuentra en la India, utilizando mano de obra local desde 1980. Colabora también con molinos papeleros de Bhutan y Nepal.
El papel Khadi esta hecho de fibras de algodón obtenidas del reciclaje de textiles de algodón o de fibras naturales. La pasta de papel se prepara en grandes tinas, dándosele forma como es habitual con una marco de madera protegido con una red metálica. Las hojas de grano grueso se apilan entre fieltros, eliminando el agua mediante una presa. Las hojas de grano fino se apilan entre planchas de zinc. Tras el proceso de secado se tratan para sellar el poro de papel.
Al ser un papel realizado de forma artesanal debe humedecerse ligeramente al principio, con brocha, pintando en cada capa con una mayor cantidad de pigmento.
KHADI rag papers are made from 100% cotton rag. Cotton rags have longer fibres than linters which are the shorter fluffy fibres of the cotton seed generally used in papermaking.
Himalayan papers are made from the bark fibre of lokta (daphne bholua) or mitsumata (edgewothia papyrefera). These are native plants which grow at high altitude in the Himalayan forests. In Bhutan lokta is called de-nar. This fibre is a renewable resource. Plants are cropped above ground level and regrow from the radial root. They can be reharvested after 3-4 years.
es un artista británico que trabaja en grandes formatos. su pasión por el dibujo y el mar le ha llevado a construir este prototipo de "cuaderno" o máquina para dibujar, en el que el papel está colocado en un rodillo. Después de realizar el dibujo, queda enrollado y protegido.
Having destroyed various sketchbooks and cameras while out at sea, Alexander Creswell designed and built a carbon-fibre Drawing Machine which holds a roll of watercolour paper. This film offers a glimpse of it being used at sea.
Como presidenta de la Agrupación de Acuarelistas Vascos
Excursión de primavera a Gazteiz de la Agrupación de Acuarelistas Vascos. Reencuentro con los compañeros de Álava que nos enseñaron la ciudad y con los que compartimos un maravilloso día.
Licenciado en Bellas Artes en la National Taiwan Normal University, ha participado en importantes exposiciones alrededor del mundo, dedicándose tambien a la docencia en este campo. Inspirado en el tratamiento occidental de la acuarela, crea su propio estilo en el que se percibe un dominio de la pincelada, la composición y el claroscuro.
Chien Chung-Wei was born in 1968 and aimed to be a painter at age 10. He earned the master degree in Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University and was selected as one of the 30 painters in One Hundred Years of Watercolor in Taiwan in 2009. In 2010, he set up the world’s first live demonstration teaching system in Chung-Wei Chien’s Art Studio for teaching watercolor. And in 2014, he was selected in the 147th AWS Annual International Exhibition and the 94th NWS Annual International Exhibition; which made him the first Taiwanese painter get selected in the AWS and NWS annual exhibition. In addition, he was also accepted as the signature member in NWS in the same year. The watercolor works of Chien Chung-Wei appear to embrace the spirits and temperament of the Western watercolor masters over the last two centuries. By age 32, his works tended to be delicate and classic and were reminiscent of the works of William Henry Hunt and Myles Birket Foster. After that, he gradually focused on the expression of the essence of watercolors. You can see the spirits of some great watercolor masters, such as Thomas Girtin, John Sell Cotman, J.M.W. Turner, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sergent, and Edward Seago, in his works. In the meantime, he also broke the boundary between watercolors and oil paints. He created a series of works using watercolors and gouache and looked like the Romantic oil paintings in the 19th century. Those works totally changed the conventional impression of watercolors. His works are temperant and classic in colors with masterful brushstrokes, which endow every character with a rich fullness. He creates the beauty and intrigue of form even with ordinary subjects, and that’s the enchantment of his watercolors.(extract: Chien Chung Wei website)
Como presidenta de la Agrupación de Acuarelistas Vascos
La Agrupación de Acuarelistas Vascos participará en la Fería de Arte Contemporáneo organizada en Deba por "2016 Bidea", dentro de las actividades organizadas en torno a la Capitalidad Cultural de Donostia 2016.