The Strokes category Day-to-Day brings life everyday stories of artists, sometimes funny, different or exciting. A bit of their world for us.
Golden age of these 18 years of the Floating Gallery of Arts Workshop. We had students who became friends forever, friends and neighbors who decided to “To try” paint even for leisure. The Floating Studio was a place good to be, have hilarious stories from there. I once arranged a still life full of … Read more
Strokes of everyday life by Jacques Henri Hello ! I'm Jacques Henri, Artist living in Florianópolis-SC. One day working in my atelier, Enter a Lady of some 50 years and stand in front of a picture of the Florianópolis bridge that had just turned, I got close to her when suddenly she started to … Read more
Brushstrokes Day-to-Day 2 by Waldir Bronson in 2003, a lesson in art history at the Universidade Braz Cubas with the great teacher René Frédéric Guy Petitdemange, had a very curious fact. Frédéric or simply Fred, as everyone called him was one of the great figures of that period, graduated from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) Master and Doctor … Read more
Brushstrokes Day-to-Day by Waldir Hello Bronson! I know several funny stories involving Fine Arts, but one that was even more marked at the time of the Faculty at the University Braz Cubas in Mogi das Cruzes – SP. I remember that in a work involving the search of an Artist, a lady started to present her work to … Read more
Brushstrokes of day-to-day by Miriam Rylands . "The Biennial of 1966 was part of my story ", says artist Miriam Rylands. She paints, edge and sculpts. Makes Monotype, woodcut and ceramics. She has exhibited in the U.S., lived in England and participated in a sewing scenic course in Bahia. This mini-biography alone was enough for the artist Miriam … Read more
Brushstrokes of day-to-day by Antonia Guardia This à © my “history” with paintings… I had never painted beyond the arts that require schools (primary and secondary). I have never been good to paint “my painting” was a pending issue. In January 2012, as therapy to free myself from a framework of … Read more
Brushstrokes Day-to-Day by Alice Brandão One evening I was creating the work, Jesus on Universe, and late at night happened an unprecedented fact. I had bought a paintbrush called “Cat Tongue” the Condor, and it comes with a very thin plastic to protect the bristles, and I thought I took and played … Read more
Brushstrokes Day-to-Day by Rogério Oliveira Alves saw the post on facebook and found it interesting to publish my story. Yesterday I was in the hospital, watching my mother who is hospitalized more than a month. When I walked in the bathroom of the hospital room, I came across a mirror in front of me and started looking at my face … Read more
Brushstrokes Day-to-Day 2 by Angela Scorza . These strokes even seem to stories of fishermen, but are real. – Angela S. Here very close there is a ground which today belongs to FIAT and before there was a nice villa, those that artists love, little windows barely painted wood, walls of an undefined white, well peeled, … Read more
Brushstrokes Day-to-Day by Karol Corner There 10 years, I decided to prepare a different exposure to celebrate the 30 years who had begun to learn to paint. At this time a alternative cultural space was in operation in the main hall of the city's bus station. I then had the idea of looking for the director of culture who provisionally assumed the position … Read more