Latest Entries by Amy Bernays
Late Night Kitchen Table Studio
I am back to making wine paintings. I like the medium and the subject, people having fun and interacting, making mistakes. The Date 12×9″ Also, my studio is rented out. I can’t paint in oil on canvas or I will make a big mess with two little children and two big dogs. So for now, [...]
The Internet Issue
If I make an artwork with images of my children and post it on the internet, do I face the same dangers as posting photos of them? Does that change when it is a drawing? “Hope for the Future” 7×7” 2012 A painting? Copyright Jenny Saville, Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Mike Bruce ‘The Mothers,’ [...]
Punked?
I chose to orange the top because otherwise it was boring. Like wanting to die my hair, or wear a fashion item that I know will go out of style in a year, I wanted this painting to have a little more back bone than the typical waterscape. To get the accuracy in the pier [...]
First Lines
I wanted something about the viewer and viewed: knowledge and innocence, old and young, knowing and not knowing. This is all complex lines and fine control of the pencil and mark making, knowing the undulations and pen control And pencil is the most rudimentary of drawing mediums. And this is a page torn out of [...]
Self-Plagiarism?
The Bridges of Glendale 36x48x2 2010 I painted this. Then I sold it, which is great. But I missed it. I liked it as an object to hang in my house. The colors seemed to help tie together all the rooms I hung it in. I like the message, that even freeways and municipal water [...]
The Magic of Mistakes
I used my projector as a light box and traced the photo. Is this cheating?
To Crop or Not?
I sometimes cheat by just tacking canvas to a large board. This way I can stretch and prime the ground of paintings but I don’t have to nail my self down to a particular size. It then doesn’t matter if the image strays off into its own tangent. The two small Power House paintings happened [...]
The Power House
In this painting the cross of the power cable to mimics the Christian Cross. The new power over people is in electricity and our digital footprint rather than the control religion used to have over our lives. I think I will make it bigger as this one is only 8x10inches. I like the dusky handling, [...]
Our Ambassadors to the Future
It is easy to look back into the past though the eyes of painters and see their everyday world as beautiful. Their moments of normal life, like Vermeer’s The Milkmaid, are transported through the act of painting it from mundane to sublime. It is the role of artists to show us beauty in our own [...]
Summer Holidays
I keep looking at patterns, the stripes, the leaves on the lawn, the blue of the fig tree, the hash of the fence. Does it still count as my art if I painted the fence and not the image?
