art-wisdom

  • A DRAWING MEDITATION

    by Gabriella Kaplan
    ~ It’s nearing the end of a very challenging year. What am I saying? It’s been ‘three score years’, in fact! Almost four since my mother died. ...
    Posted in drawing, drawing meditation, drawing mindfully, meditation, mindful drawing, mindfulness

  • The Surrender of White

    by Gabriella Kaplan
      Pablo Picasso, “Dove”, 1949 Nele Azevedo, “1000 Ice People”, Berlin installation 2009 Dear All,Last but not least, in this series of blogs about ...
    Posted in art, art white, artists white, color white, colour white, colour white art, colour white artist, white

  • In pursuit of PURPLE

    by Gabriella Kaplan
    Dear All, The colour Purple is a mixture of the primary colours Red and Blue. Symbolically, purple brings together opposites. For instance, pur...
    Posted in art classes, Purple, purple color, purple colour

  • Feeling BLUE?

    by Gabriella Kaplan
    1.Blue pigment2.Vault of Scrovegni Chapel (detail) ,Fresco , 1305, Padua, by Giotto di Bondone3.The Vesica Pisces or Mandorla shape is created by ...

  • The Heart-throb of GREEN

    by Gabriella Kaplan
    As part of my series exploring the language of colours, I have just written a new post "The Heart-throb of Green". During these challenging times, Green opens the gateway of the Heart and invites us to reconnect and mend our relationship with Nature and ourselves.

  • The Higher Self of Yellow (and the pitfalls of its Lower Self)

    by Gabriella Kaplan
    Dear All,Following on from my previous posts about BLACK, BROWN, RED and ORANGE, today I will be focusing on the Radiant Ego of YELLOW as a voice ...
    Posted in About, about gabriella, art classes, Artery, classes, colour, darkness, Ethos, monet, yellow

  • ORANGE

    by Gabriella Kaplan
        Dear All,  Following on from my previous colour posts, it seems a natural transition, if you follow the rainbow or the chakras, to move to Oran...
    Posted in colour, orange

  • In Survival Mode: Red

    by Gabriella Kaplan
    “Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings.  The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key ...
    Posted in artery, classes, colour, red

  • RETURN TO EDEN

    by Gabriella Kaplan
    A couple of days ago, I met a kindred-spirit-kind-of-friend at Kirstenbosch botanical gardens, as the gates opened at 8 a.m. I hadn’t been for mon...

  • In search of comfort: Brown

    by Gabriella Kaplan
    Simpicity                                                                             Frugality Comfort                                          ...
    Posted in brown, colour

  • In our darkest hour: Black

    by Gabriella Kaplan
    Rembrandt “Old Man in Military Costume” (detail) 1630-31   Dear All, In our darkest hour, in the middle of a pandemic, I thought we could examine ...
    Posted in black, colour, darkness, monet