KalBarteski

Tiny Art 123

Look. Something new! I have started a collection of pieces called TINY ART. These pieces are all small. They are created in mixed media on all types of substrates. They are for sale: $100 for the original OR $30 for matte photographic reproductions.

This is Tiny Art 123. (click to enlarge). This little painting is sort of a combination of the hummingbird sketches and the cityscapes... it's hard to explain why that is - but, it is so. I used a stamp to create a background for the hummingbird at dusk. It has a subtle and creamy feel, but the scan seems to drain some of the colours... I am not sure I would do this again, but it seemed to me to be the words of the hummingbird repeated over and over like the wings. You are here. You are here. You are here. The textures of sound and the hum of my thinking...  

Details for:   Tiny Art 123  (2009)

Size: 7 x 12 inches (approximately)
Medium: pencil, acrylic paint,
Base: canvas paper
Photo: K.Barteski
Collection:  Nieka Apell

Price: SOLD

(photographic reproduction: $30)

Tiny Art 122

Look. Something new! I have started a collection of pieces called TINY ART. These pieces are all small. They are created in mixed media on all types of substrates. They are for sale: $100 for the original OR $30 for matte photographic reproductions.

This is Tiny Art 122. (click to enlarge). This piece is another test piece... just listening to some jazz - thinking about colours and techniques and why I like living in the city. Most people want a little quiet place in the country... maybe because they have trouble quieting the noise going on in their own heads. I like the city, the buzz, the background the lives - knowing that when I have had enough silence in my own mind - I can count on the familiar hum of the city.  

Details for:   Tiny Art 122  (2009)

Size: 6 x 12 inches (approximately)
Medium: pencil, acrylic paint,
Base: canvas paper
Photo: K.Barteski
Collection:  Christy McKenna

Price: SOLD

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Tiny Art 121

Look. Something new! I have started a collection of pieces called TINY ART. These pieces are all small. They are created in mixed media on all types of substrates. They are for sale: $100 for the original OR $30 for matte photographic reproductions.

This is Tiny Art 121. (click to enlarge). This piece is an experiment/study/trial for a large scale painting I hope to begin in July. The texture and visual music of a cityscape is very much like a jazz tune to me. And this small painting was very much like an improvised solo - working quickly in paint and pencil layers without waiting for the paint to dry. I used to play saxophone in a jazz band and when I was asked to do a improvised solo I always felt a nervous out-of-control feeling. I wish I knew then that I should have just rolled with it. It lands where it lands and the magic is in the faith that it will be what it will be. This painting became, to my delight, very much like a real city with new and old and fresh and dried ideas. Like a terrific and very short solo. I intend to further explore this feel after I hunt up my Oscar Peterson music and turn it up real loud.  

Details for:   Tiny Art 121  (2009)

Size: 5 x 9 inches (approximately)
Medium: pencil, acrylic paint,
Base: canvas paper
Photo: K.Barteski
Collection:  Christy McKenna

Price: SOLD

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Tiny Art 120

Look. Something new! I have started a collection of pieces called TINY ART. These pieces are all small. They are created in mixed media on all types of substrates. They are for sale: $100 for the original OR $30 for matte photographic reproductions.

This is Tiny Art 120. (click to enlarge). This piece is another hummingbird and another quick work designed to loosen up my eye and my hand so that I can work up to a larger piece. I love the speckles on this bird's stomach. I love that the wings are moving too quickly to capture and a hint of line tells us that. I love that the finish of the canvas paper was repelling some of the paint, but not all. I love that painting turn out the way they are supposed to. (Even the ones I toss in the trash.) I love working fast and moving from thing to thing like these beautifully souled creatures.

Details for:   Tiny Art 120  (2009)

Size: 6.5 x 9 inches (approximately)
Medium: pencil, acrylic paint,
Base: canvas paper
Photo: K.Barteski
Collection: 

Price: $100

(photographic reproduction: $30)

Tiny Art 119

Look. Something new! I have started a collection of pieces called TINY ART. These pieces are all small. They are created in mixed media on all types of substrates. They are for sale: $100 for the original OR $30 for matte photographic reproductions.

This is Tiny Art 119. (click to enlarge). This piece is another try at a hummingbird - which leads me to believe that my hummingbird journey is not yet done. There is something surrounding me. I can feel it. I'm like that sometimes - I find something and I try it again and again and again until the magic is complete for me. After a little research I became even more delighted with hummingbirds and their little movements and different body positions. Still, they make me feel like the people that have passed away - are with me.  

Details for:   Tiny Art 119  (2009)

Size: 6.5 x 9 inches (approximately)
Medium: pencil, acrylic paint,
Base: canvas paper
Photo: K.Barteski
Collection: 

Price: $100

(photographic reproduction: $30)