A black and white break from a busy day

donnadavisart (66) in art • 7 years ago (edited)

Looking at some of my Black and White art on this warm Summer day.

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Sitting this afternoon at my usual spot on the terrace enjoying my coffee.

A bit exhausted from writing.

My recent exciting news of being accepted into the latest intake of @sndbox for cohort 2 has been a blessing. However, as part of being allowed to participate in their wonderful collective, we are asked to create montly assingments for their cryptomagazine. The writing this month was about us and how we came to crypto. Such contemplative self reflection can take a bit out of you.

After spending the past few days writing and revising and considering, I felt today (as I just finished under the wire) I needed to sit and contemplate. And when I need to clear my head and my palette with my art I always turn to black and white. So, here I am, turning to black and white in the form of looking over some of my pieces already done.

Of course animals always come to mind. Here are a few of my animal pieces done at coffee shops with, of course, coffee included.

And when at the coffee shops sketching I also played with various witch and cat characters, sometimes including coffee and tea, sometimes not.

I also found these two images I made this past year for Virginia Woolf's birthday; always a favourite of mine

And of course, more recently, my Singularity creatures have been finding their way into my black and white days.

And though I am enjoying the clear headed actions of two toned drawings, I am also taking time to walk down to our beach to sit and relax.

Happily content in the sounds of the sea and the quiet. A brief break before back to work, my studio calling me.

I hope you all find a moment to clear your heads and take a break today before continuing on with the work that fills your days.

If you like my work by all means upvote, resteem, and comment. I always appreciate comments.

And check out my other posts.

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7 years ago by donnadavisart (66)

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infidel1258 (67) · 7 years ago

Im taking a moment to gather myself right now by enjoying your artwork. Thank you.

And wow that beach front view, lovely.

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donnadavisart (66) · 7 years ago

I never take it for granted and always take a bit of it with me each day :)

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adelepazani (73) · 7 years ago

beautiful work it reminds me of Yin and Yang that you applied to the human body

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donnadavisart (66) · 7 years ago

Good eye, @adelepazani :)

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tanjir1990 (50) · 7 years ago

I like your style. I enjoy this how you beautifully play with top light and top shadow.

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donnadavisart (66) · 7 years ago

Thank you and good eye!

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trumpman (72) · 7 years ago

You may want to use the #artzone tag for your art posts. I have noticed from @gric ( I am a huge fan) that there's a small curation group that searches that tag and upvotes art stuff :)

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donnadavisart (66) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the headsup!

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thermoplastic (65) · 7 years ago

yeah, they are good - I like that tag too.

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lifesacircus (64) · 7 years ago

I love the idea you bring up about cleansing the palette. I'm going to bring that into my artist life. It can be hard switching between mediums as an artist and creative! Also I really love the cats and witch ones with coffee :) Great post thank youuuu!

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ddschteinn (65) · 7 years ago

My head is full of dust, from weeding the neighbor's blueburry patch. But otherwise, is clear of all else. (I THINK that's good ( :
I could sit and listen to your waves all day long. Nice place to hang about and think, or not think at all. The video looks almost like a hand-painted image. I used to do that when paper and film were "in". So fun doing the oil paints on BW photos.
I've always loved your black and white arts. Especiallly the 1930's versions. The two go so well together, the starkness and line of BW and the clothes and absolutel classic lines of the decoratives of the time. As we both know, we could both be back there in a heartbeat, if other parts of the 'times' weren't so hard. Maybe we could be rich, when we step off the time machine. That might make it better. Well, hope your Saturday is a peachy one.

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reinhard-schmid (65) · 7 years ago

Every one of your posts is like an illustrated novel. I love both your visual and your written language, and how it takes us away into your beautiful world of imagination.

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donnadavisart (66) · 7 years ago

Thank you so much @reinhard-schmid.

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scrawly (66) · 7 years ago

I like this one a lot, Donna. Very elegant, trippy, and surrealistic. Nice one :).

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donnadavisart (66) · 7 years ago

Thanks.

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c-squared (60) · 7 years ago

This post was shared in the Curation Collective Discord community for curators, and upvoted and resteemed by the @c-squared community account after manual review.

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veryspider (68) · 7 years ago

Oh I love this one, Donna ! The black and white contrast nicely and your style is very elegant <3 I love their bird masks and their body language... looks like they are really enjoying their talk !! :D

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thermoplastic (65) · 7 years ago

wonderful place you live - would love a beach like that out my front door! Mind you I got the Danube about 15 min walk away....
Drawings are cool, in the style of Beardsley. I love that kind of work.

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donnadavisart (66) · 7 years ago

I got another comment on my latest drawing about Beardsley, who is one of my favs, I guess he probably is a major influence. That entire time is really a favourite of mine.

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princessmewmew (66) · 7 years ago

Lovely work, Donna. I especially like the artworks you created for Virgina Woolf's birthday - they feel very Art Nouveau to me.

It's so important to take a break and clear your mind a little. I szythis, but I don't often do this. I spend my chill days on Steemit. Very bad of me, I need to stop doing this!

I'd love to read your article written for the magazine, is there a loink we can follow?

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donnadavisart (66) · 7 years ago

I believe @sndbox is going to publish them somewhere, and when they do I'll share the link ;)

I love art nouveau and that time period. It's like home to me.

No, you are so good on steemit, you and @soyrosa are so up to the minute, but you know how 'old school' I am. Maybe one day I'll get the iphone and the ap and be up with everyone's mention of me ;)

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natureofbeing (69) · 7 years ago

HI Donna! Firstly, what a glorious view you have every day, wow!!! Secondly, love these black and whites, they remind me of Arthur Rackham's Sleeping Beauty illustrations I loved so much as a child. I still have that book actually. Also I completely agree that in depth posts that involve writing DO take a few sessions of writing and contemplation, but for me they are the most rewarding both as a reader and a poster.

Glad to be back here and just love the great work I'm seeing :-))

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donnadavisart (66) · 7 years ago

I'm not sure how or when @sndbox will be sharing our into posts (or even if) but I think mine could have been done better and probably didn't quite touch on everything asked, but we'll see.

It's funny you mention Rackham as I did a series of prints with silhouettes which was greatly influence by his work. Of course when I mainly did screenprinting in my printmaking, silhouettes were important to make negatives when burning the screens.

I'm going to call you today, I've finally got an empty house this afternoon for a bit.