Lawrence Grodecki's Blog, page 6
June 2, 2015
Both Sides
The concert hall was almost full, some 1,500 friends and family there to celebrate a passage of sorts . . . 200 students being awarded their degrees in fine arts. It was special before it began, but even more so when the lights dimmed. Soon a spotlight shone stage right on this young lady and […]
May 23, 2015
Love In the Air
It’s almost a week since I returned from a most amazing trip. I went to Calgary for a few days to see my daughters – my oldest one just graduated from ACAD, one of Canada’s finest art schools, and so there was her beautiful convocation. The trip was full of love and emotions, shared with […]
May 4, 2015
What Is Art?
What is art? Whether you are new to collecting art or a twenty-year veteran, you’ve probably thought of this question a number of times, read and researched it, listened to several experts, and so on. It seems to be one those “lovely” words that defies a singular definition, and there’s a certain beauty in the truth […]
April 28, 2015
Something Fishy About Noses
Occasionally an admirer will mention that I don’t put faces in my art. That’s almost always true, and I used to worry about that a little. Some of those worries concerned the sensuality that fans often sense in my creations, perhaps always? When you think about it, several of us somehow get offended by that […]
April 23, 2015
The Story Tellers
Some of my fondest memories are about simply telling stories. I can’t remember reading my kids a book at bedtime – that was a long time ago – but there are several precious times where tales were told, and not just at bedtime. There were campfire stories, for sure. However, the fondest tale happened on a […]
April 21, 2015
It Began With Some Melting
While I have a few hundred original pieces of art under my belt, I can’t explain where any of them begins, or ends for that matter. The masters have often said that a painting never ends that is so true, especially with the way I do mine . . . the style and the technique […]
April 4, 2015
Treats and Treatments
I remember my first art lesson quite well. It was in the first grade, in a tiny school where one room combined the first three grades. The desks were wooden and each had a hole in it to hold little jars of ink. I figured that out for myself, by the ink blots on each […]
April 1, 2015
I Need To Cover My Ass
I have some bad news today. Apparently someone in the government noticed one of pictures on Twitter. It’s the one I call, “Not My Best Side”. I have been ordered to remove the picture from the internet unless I agree to cover the bare bum on the bottom. At first I thought this must be […]
March 30, 2015
Art – No Longer Drumming
There is a saying in one of my favorite films. It is an incomplete sentence, yet when you understand it, it is more than complete: “when the drum is no longer a drum, and drumming is no longer drumming” For most of my art days I’ve had to defend how I do what I do […]
March 10, 2015
Why Do I Paint?
Why do I paint? What an odd question to be confronted with, and even odder that this is the first time in 10 years that it has been asked. This is the query I must answer as part of the application. It’s for one of the better, yet lesser known art sites. I’ve selected it as […]
