Topic #48--"Chair" Entry

A warm welcome to Kathleen! Her entry!:

"Dinner With Chair"

"I originally did this drawing in pencil, but then at the suggestion of my friend Laura I put in color on top of a xerox copy with color pencils. It was fun to do, but takes so much longer than drawing the original!"

Topic #48--"Chair" Entry

A warm welcome to L.M.! Her entry!:

This is a very old work. One in a series I produced while doing my MA in painting at College of Fine Arts, Sydney. It was acquired by The Newcastle Region Art Gallery in 1987 and is called:
"Labyrinth:The heart is a lonely hunter"
233 x 326 cm, synthetic polymer, charcoal, chalk and oilstick on canvas.

It is an abysmal reproduction as I have scanned it from a shot I took of it while it was on show in the Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney and like most student THEN, I could not afford to have slides done.
Anyway, this has been dug out of the vault so that I can enter it in the current Artwords topic...please note the chair in the composition. Also I went to a journal I was keeping at the time and this is what was writte, word for word, which was for my eyes only....here goes.

"Labia labyrinth:the heart is a lonely hunter" ( I obviously lost the word labia when the gallery acquired it)
Bird in a gilded cage comes to mind, the woman trapped by her gender in a dominating maze of neo classical architecture (children's building blocks). Many ways to go, a sense of confusion.

Arrows: -Symbol of direction, in this case pointing every which way
-Also symbol of the prisoner
-Could also be phallic, piercing, wounding...the male wounds> penerates>invades the female.
-To pin down

The Chair: -the male/phallus
-Anchor/stability
-"Sit up straight and be good!" (this was an admonishment of my father)

The child: -Gender destiny
-Responsibility
-Purpose

The curtains: -Concealment
-Domesticity ' a woman's' touch'
-The female...the slightest breeze and they will bend without breaking
-Flexible, accommodating
-Sometimes serving no purpose at all other than to be decorative.

Hmmm.....Yoda says"political animal was I"

Topic #48--"Chair" Entry

From Patrick!:

"it reminded me of some of the office jobs ive had, one in particular where there were two types of chairs. the nice new ones in the production(my) department, and the rest of the building.

the reason we had newer chairs was that we didnt get new chairs when the rest of the building did a year before.

finally hr buckled and we gots our nice new chairs.

so comfy.

till the rest of the building found out and would try and steal them when we too our breaks.

the solution was that we would scoot around all day long to ensure that our chairs remained in our possession.

it was kinda fun."

Topic #48--"Chair" Entry

A warm welcome to Jamie! Her entry!:

"I was thinking how utilitarian chairs are and that turned into what's my favorite chair and that turned to what's the most important thing I have ever used a chair for and that lead to rocking my babies to sleep at night. Sooo...here is it is. I know they are small, but those are the words to Brahms Lullaby. Oh, and don't make fun of my chicken scratch!"

Topic #48--"Chair" Entry

From Susan T.:

Here is an atc entitled "Peter's Dream" that I created this past winter--I'd love a chair like this, wouldn't you?

Topic #48--"Chair" Entry

From Cheryl!:

"This is my entry for Chair. I have a collection of little chairs actually and I was going to take a picture of the collection. But I like how this one stands out by itself against my red wall. It is about 12" high. There have been no adjustments to the photo either except for cropping."

Topic #48--"Chair" Entry

From Tricia!:

Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,
Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?

"I had been waiting for the right opportunity to use the image of the little girl (or perhaps it is a young boy) and was so excited when I saw the topic for this week. The original plan for the piece was for the child to be holding an artist's palette in one hand and a brush in the other with words that said something about the importance of honoring imagination in our children, but as I went along I discovered a scrap of paper with the nursery rhyme Sing A Song of Sixpence and the whole idea was quickly changed.
I did the background part using watercolors and a charcoal pencil. The photo which was colored in photoshop was mounted using those pop dot foam thingies. I needed the child to be raised a bit from the back. The sign is also held in place with a foam dot. The feather is one I found on the back porch.
Red oil pastel lines the edge (though in the photo it looks a bit pink).

I added the 4 and the heart, then rounded off the edges to also turn this into an oversized playing card for a yahoo group I joined not long ago. The theme for the 4 of hearts is "birds." -there is a different theme for each card. Isn't that cool? I am a bit late jumping on the bandwagon but I thought it would be fun."

Topic #48--"Chair" Entry

A big welcome to Miriam! Her entry!:

"I've been having a lot of fun playing w/ tissue paper...I think I said this in a fairly recent previous post...I keep thinking of more things that I would like to jump off w/ it than what I am currently doing, but alas, I think of these things kind of late at night when I'm winding down and I don't want to get into "anotherhugeproject". If I was single I would think nothing of staying up late and doing it anyway...but those days are long gone. So I have to record them to memory instead and wait to give them a home. Currently I have several boxes and what nots that I'm covering in tissue and experimenting with this that and the other. I'm realizing that I got so "stuck" in painting that I forgot about all the fun things I used to do like this... To boot, I've never been much for being the artist that drew all the time like my old teacher used to advise. It is true, you get better the more you practice, but drawing always has kind of worn me down... This tissue paper thing has somewhat the immediacy of what I crave but the "practicing" element that I'm missing from drawing, too. Then I think maybe I think too much about it. ;)

Anyway, I've been intrigued by artwords but have never tried to participate in a challenge. This week I told myself I would do it no matter what....
The topic is "Chair".
Immediately it made me think of my old art teacher (yep, same one) who had us do a self portrait as a chair. Back....Lord, fifteen years ago???...I remember thinking immediately I would know what kind of chair would represent me. A big huge overstuffed chair that was a patchwork extravaganza. I still have the drawing somewhere...I'll post it if I ever run across it. By the end of it I wondered if I was really so "out there" as the chair had turned out. Was I really so colorful? It's hard to say. I am more subdued today, but I fancy I'm rather comfortable.

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Topic #48--"Chair" Entry

From Wendy!:

""OLD" - I sometimes wonder what an object would say if it could speak. This chair was being stored for many years in the old, rough basement of the farm on which I grew up. It was apparently the only surviving piece of the house in which my father and his siblings matured. The house burnt down when my father was still a child. Now this chair has a place in our living room. It is in rough shape but I like to leave "old" in its comfort. "

Topic #48--"Chair" Entry

From Laura!:

collage: vintage wallpaper/fabric, watercolor, pen, custom papers, 8x10, portrait


"This is a special piece I just completed and perfect I think for this week's theme word *chair* as not only does it have a big, comfy chair in it, it also features a wonderfully inspiring and talented online friend, the curator of Artwords herself, Susan Tuttle." (aw, shucks Laura--I'm blushing!)

Topic #48--"Chair" Entry

From Julie!:

"Somewhere in my imagination, there are some birds quietly afloat on a beautifully upholstered chaise lounge waiting to be rescued.

I covered this 3x5 canvas board with paper I hand painted with Dr. Ph Martin ink. To obscure the color a bit, I washed a little Gesso over it and then attached the chaise. The birds are stamped onto a page from a vintage French Saint directory and covered in 3d Crystal lacquer. The last step was to age the corners a tad using Ranger Distress Ink in Peeled Paint and Broken China.

Oh… the birds do get rescued. They always do."

Topic #48--"Chair" Entry

From Sherrie!:

"These two pictures are the same chair.
One is the new chair,
the next is a few days later.
I used #2 for an
entry on greed earlier this week.
But now you have seen my lifestyle.

These images were done to illustrate a children's book that I
wrote."

Topic #48--"Chair" Entry

From Ascender!:

Title: Perspective Rendering; Yellow Chair
Medium: Watercolor; Pen and India Ink on Crescent Board

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"Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!"

Molière; Jean Baptiste Poquelin, French comic playwright.

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Topic #48--Chair

By Thalia Kamarga