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Textural Bodypaint

Friday, January 15, 2010

Looking through my personal library this week, I came across an old book called “Design by Accident” by James F. O’Brien.  It’s full of ways to incorporate chance and natural phenomena into visual arts and crafts.  Just the Table of Contents makes me feel inspired, so I’ll share it here:
Tree Forms:  trunks and branches formed [...]

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Me As Seen By

Monday, October 5, 2009

I regularly post my drawings of others here.  This post is about other artist’s images of me.  The rendering above is by Jean Marcellino, a master of the light and shadow technique using chalk, charcoal, graphite and sanguine.  I think she really captured my expression.
Jean often comes to draw at the Monday morning session at [...]

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Personal Painting

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Back in July I posted some of the body painting with woad, or indigo, that I did that month at the Sirius Rising festival at Brushwood Folklore Center in Sherman, New York.  This post will feature selections of my work with regular cosmetic body paints from this year’s festival.
At Sirius Rising, and sometimes at other [...]

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Shadows

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Shadows from Fred Hatt on Vimeo.
In 2007, I created this performance at CRS with butoh performer Corinna Brown.  Corinna was previously seen here in the post Emergence.  The music is a live improvisation by Dan Fabricatore on upright bass.
This is a shadowplay and a painting performance.  The use of shadows on a translucent screen allows [...]

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Sunburst

Thursday, June 18, 2009

This Sunday is the Summer Solstice, in the Northern hemisphere the longest day (and shortest night) of the year.  It’s one of the primary holy days in all the pagan traditions of the North, celebrated by bonfires and revelry.  Shakespeare’s magical comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream captures something of the spirit this season carried in [...]

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