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<![CDATA[Peter Stucki - Art - Blog]]>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:31:46 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Turn Towards that 1000-and-1th time]]>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:47:19 GMThttp://www.peterstuckiart.com/blog/turn-towards-that-1000-and-1th-timeThere is a saying "A good life is that even when you are turned away 1000 times, turn toward that 1000-and-1st!"

It has been 4 years since I last posted. Life challenges turned me away from art, and this blog, for then. They weren't inactive: my wife and I used art to make middle school children have a better experience in their faith formation, painting and drawing using imagery, symbols, and styles from Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Also, there were a few paintings. I'll add all of these soon.
]]><![CDATA[Easter Painting. Work in progress 06-JUN-13]]>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:06:11 GMThttp://www.peterstuckiart.com/blog/easter-painting-work-in-progress-06-jun-13

I've been working on a part of a larger painting for the Easter season. (This is an extract of the larger canvas) It is interesting to find out that the number of women exiting the tomb varies from one to three. I chose three women as a kind of echo of the three crucified, but now it is jumping with joy.
Next I'll start painting the larger canvas show

]]><![CDATA[Peter Stucki - Art: Reloaded]]>Thu, 02 May 2013 20:03:32 GMThttp://www.peterstuckiart.com/blog/peter-stucki-art-reloadedIt has been more than two years since I last posted. Last time, I had just found a new job after quitting one that had devolved into an abusive work place. There were other stressors, such as wrestling with my son's autism, that took up a lot of energy. To create art, at least for me, requires a sense of abundance: of energy, of time, of freedom from worry.
Fortunately, with my wife starting her Spirit Paintbox ministry, whose major component is using art to explore one's spiritual side, that sense of abundance has returned.
I'm excited to be helping others re-discover their lost sense of abundance through art.
]]><![CDATA[Lenten painting is done!]]>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:12:19 GMThttp://www.peterstuckiart.com/blog/lenten-painting-is-done

Finally the painting for Lent is done! The wash of purple was still wet today as I hung it up in the Falcon Heights UCC lobby.

Yesterday, I showed it to my 7 year-old son, Matthew. I was playing some jazz on the radio (Randy Newman's "Marie") and turned it off, when Matthew said, "It looks better with the music on."

(The 3x4ft painting is acrylic with silver metallic highlights on the wire, and golden metallic highlights on the wheat kernels. The clouds use white and iridescent media. I put a wash of 1 purple to 4 parts glazing medium on all areas but the cloud surrounding the wheat.)

]]><![CDATA[Lenten painting: Almost done...]]>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:24:41 GMThttp://www.peterstuckiart.com/blog/post-title-click-and-type-to-edit1

Work in progress: Painted int the foreground barbed wire fence and have begun highlighting the wire with silver iridescent paint. Next I'll put in the stalk of wheat and then put down a wash of purple glaze. I'm about 4 hours of work away from the finish.

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I'm working on the Lenten painting by first putting in an opposite color underpainting to make the purple of the overpainting more vibrant. This is on a 3ft x 4ft canvas with acrylic.

]]><![CDATA[Created a rough draft of Lenten using Photoshop]]>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:04:03 GMThttp://www.peterstuckiart.com/blog/created-a-rough-draft-of-lenten-using-photoshop

I've created a rough draft of the Lenten painting using Photoshop so I can move the elements around more easily. The crown of thorns are represented by barbed wire. The wheat is represented by a lone wheat stalk. The color purple is in the color of the sky. Preparation, the most difficult to represent pictorially, is represented by a winter field and a sunrise.
Now I'll start painting soon and, inevitably, the act of painting will reveal surprises, and possibly take the painting down unforeseen avenues.

]]><![CDATA[Paintings for Liturgical Seasons: Lent]]>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:08:53 GMThttp://www.peterstuckiart.com/blog/paintings-for-liturgical-seasons-lentI'm thinking about painting works for the liturgical seasons. In particular, I'm thinking about how to represent the concepts of Lent in visual form?

It is a season of preparation
A friend remarked "Simplicity IS Abundance"
Purple is the liturgical color for Lent
Marked by making a sacrifice
The cross
The wheat grain
Sack cloth
Thorns
Fractals?

A friend of mine said it is a challenge!

]]><![CDATA[Acrylics]]>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:46:34 GMThttp://www.peterstuckiart.com/blog/acrylicsPerhaps it has to do with having a Dick Blick's Art Supplies store nearby, but for the past five years I have gotten into acrylics.
In a way, after 13 years working in chalk pastels, a fellow artist said, "your pastel style is 'painterly'!" So I took up acrylics.
Though they dry vexingly quickly, especially in our dry Minnesota winters, I liked being able to have to plan less and express more.
Then, thanks to my wife's efforts at Falcon Heights United Church of Christ, where the pastors were open to allowing their space be used to exhibit art, I got the chance to create liturgical art.
My wife and I worked together to organize a way for the congregation, mostly non-artists, to help create four panels for Lenten based on the themes of "Temptation/Threat", "Thirst", "Stars", and "Love" and the Psalms that accompany them. My wife, who has extensive experience in working with non-artist on collective art projects, said there was a need to provide structure so non-artists would be less intimidated.
Acrylic molding paste allowed me to create a hard, white, textured background in the theme that the participants could paint over -- freeing them from the intimidation of the purely "blank canvas" while still allowing them the freedom to create.
It was not only the participants who ended up being freed: as you can see in the slide show, I have been using exotic acrylic media, such as "fiber textured molding paste", to develop a kind of child-like "folk" style, that has revitalized my sense of art-as-play!

]]><![CDATA[First posting]]>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:10:47 GMThttp://www.peterstuckiart.com/blog/first-postingIt seems that my life comes in 7-year epochs, with periods where I find myself having to figure out where next to go. In a sense I am reminded of when at the beginning of the previous epoch my wife, Heather, and I had to decide what to put on the moving truck and what to leave behind on the sidewalk. Once, again, I'm having to figure out what to put on the "moving truck" and what to leave behind on the "sidewalk of life". Though I don't know, at this point where the next destination is, I know that my art is coming along on the journey.
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