BCD#12

Blind Contour Drawing #12 “Self Portrait with Loose Hair” 1947 – Frida Kahlo Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon has been celebrated worldwide as a symbol of Mexican national and Indigenous traditions but her work was largely over looked until the Feminist art movement of the 1970’s. Kahlo spent most of her childhood and adult……

Homage series to Canadian women artists

Blind contour homage series

  I’ve been passionate about art history for many years and always find myself paying particular notice to the women sprinkled within the texts. It is refreshing to find that recent works are more inclusive. In the past year, I’ve created blind contour drawings of art by women as a means of studying their work……

BCD#11

Blind Contour Drawing #11 – “Young Women Plucking the Fruits of Knowledge or Science”  Women’s Building of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago – portion of a panel, since been destroyed – Mary Cassatt Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania in a wealthy family……

BCD#10

Blind Contour Drawing #10 – “Nude with poppies” 1916 Vanessa Bell Vanessa Bell was a pivotal player in British art as one of the earliest artists to work in abstraction in the UK. Bell was a painter, interior designer, a founding member of the controversial Bloomsbury Group and the elder sister of Virginia Woolf. She was educated at home as……