#artinisolation

[nicksayers]

Habib in Mali, who I drew via Zoom a couple of weeks ago for my #NickDrawsNationals pandemic portraits project. It’s not often I get to draw a bonafide celebrity during this project, but Habib Koité is legit famous as a Malian guitarist who has toured the world, worked with famous US blues artists, and released many hit albums. It was a pleasure and honour to meet him. I like my drawing, although he said his face looks too “rond”. I did most of the drawing after our session, from video stills – there were a lot of interruptions and technical glitches during our call. I think this is the first time I’ve drawn someone with dreads – I sometimes feel like a barber, chatting away while working on my subject’s hairdo! An important detail to point out: the amulet Habib wears around his neck to ward off evil spirits. The stripes on his top are the common African flag colours red, green and gold. 🇲🇱 I’m tempted to colour them in! #nickdrawsneighbours #drawing #portrait #portraitdrawing #portraiture #birodrawing #ballpointpen #ballpointpenart #ballpoint #neighbours #sketching #artinlockdown #artinisolation #isolationart #NickDrawsNationals (at Portslade, West Sussex, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqabulHoioT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lookwhatcolmanfound]

Feline outline #cat #felix #outline #digitalart #abstractart #contemporaryart #21stcenturyart #canadianart #techspressionism #dailyart #digitalartwork #emergingartist #canadianartist #torontoartist #museé #digitalfest #arselectronica #cdnart #cdnartdesign #artinisolation #quarantineart #colours https://www.instagram.com/p/CZQwhQjgzyV/?utm_medium=tumblr

[pathulu]

Did I ever post the start of this series here before? Well, I'm picking it back up.

[teeganhorat]

A work inspired by mudlarking dreams I’ve had. 

[ashleyfrostart]

Playing with abstraction, from a painting exercise I ran last night during my online class with Gallery Lane Cove and Creative Studio. Oil on board, 23x24cm. #artinisolation (at Thirroul, New South Wales) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-sekr9Dbf1/?igshid=u1rh2x4387xk

[duplicatorscccu]

Introducing Dawn Cole. 2 Colour Risograph. A3. Dawn Cole is an artist working from her studio in Birchington on the North Kent Coast. A conceptual artist, Cole’s work takes its starting point from archives. Dawn’s work is developed as a result of extensive research and can be seen as a mixture of history and story-telling, fact and fiction. Check out her extensive works here at dawncole.co.uk . Dawn joined as an invited artist to our workshops and look forward to seeing more when we can resume. Thank you Dawn! Stay Safe xx

[rubybrunton]

For my isolation residency with Project Duna in June, I made this work Piercing the Distance based on the Zoom conference I had offered called Mutual Support for Artists in Uncertain Times. Starting from the question “What do you need?”, I took a transcript from the artists’ responses which I then turned into a visual poem. Some of the transcript also comes from Somya Dhiman’s talk on Women & Identity. The other part to the piece is a movement improvisation also based on the transcript, as during the call Ana Paula Miranda had told me she wanted us to find a way to collaborate at a distance. She will respond to the video with a painting and so the work will continue to grow.

Images:

Alvin Ailey Dance Company at Unknown Performance

Bauhaus Ballet costumes by Oskar Schlemmer

Thank you to Sara Martínez for the video

[carolinemustard]

House on Vallejo. Oil on canvas 20x24. #russianhill #artinisolation #oilpainting #covidartmuseum #covidart https://www.instagram.com/p/B_gw0g5FtlI/?igshid=10jpz2j3pn5sx

[gabrielle-distin-artist]

From lockdown morning bedroom sketches to memories of backpacking days long ago - Mary River, Australia. Just finished this oil painting on paper 24x16” #oilpainting #oilonpaper #landscapeinoils #landscape #landscapepainting #australia #maryriver #backpacking #memories #lockdown #artinisolation #lockdownart https://www.instagram.com/p/CDHjeXal-KJ/?igshid=7vlhyx00yaaf

[twirble]

“Road Through Life” Now on show on our fence. #laart #expressionism #neoexpressionism #newcontemporary #newcontemporaryart #artinisolation #quarantinelife #quarantineartclub #covidartmuseum #coronaart https://www.instagram.com/p/B_pq3zJH9v0/?igshid=1he1p7xtqejt6

[nicksayers]

On 13 March, I drew famous guitar musician Habib Koité (“kwa-teh”) in Mali, via Zoom, for my #NickDrawsNationals pandemic art project. Our tenuous connection goes years back. I heard his song ‘Manssa Cise’ in a UK television documentary around 2000, immediately looked it up, and found an MP3 copy that has been in my music library ever since (Habib later told me this is an old tune of the Malinke and Fula people, often played on traditional instruments). Last year, by chance, I found out a friend was roadying for Habib’s band on a brief UK tour. I met him backstage at a local gig, where he agreed to sit for a portrait when he got back to Mali. We tried to meet a couple of times, but he was either busy with his toddler son, or lying in bed to escape the heat outside (it’s currently 40ºC in the day, and rising). When we finally connected on Zoom, there were audio problems and a few misunderstandings. We held the conversation in Habib’s English and my broken French. Born in Senegal, Habib moved to Mali as a small child. His parents were both musicians: his dad a guitarist and his mum a singer. He’s had great success as a professional musician himself – touring America (LA is his favourite city), collaborating with famous US blues artists, and playing gigs across Europe (Belgium is his spiritual home there). I asked if he likes any particular musical genre, but he said there is a continuity between his traditional African music and modern blues. In 2019 he launched a new album and was going on tour with it, but then the pandemic changed everything. Suddenly none of the US or European concert halls were taking gigs, and there were no flights. Luckily his record producer gave him some money to live on. Post-Covid, he’s enjoying being back on the road, and was looking forward to an upcoming Tuareg music gathering in Mali, and a blues festival in Paris later in the spring. I was just settling into the session, when Habib’s friends drove by, and he had to go. #nickdrawsneighbours #drawing #portrait #portraitdrawing #portraiture #birodrawing #ballpointpen #ballpointpenart #ballpoint #neighbours #sketching #artinlockdown #artinisolation #isolationart #NickDrawsNationals (at Portslade, West Sussex, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqaZ6QAIxVt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lookwhatcolmanfound]

Spectrum opening #artoninstagram #digitalart #abstractart #contemporaryart #21stcenturyart #canadianart #artistsoninstagram #photoart #dailyart #digitalartwork #emergingartist #canadianartist #torontoartist #museé #digitalfest #arselectronica #cdnart #cdnartdesign #artinisolation #quarantineart #colours #colors #couleurs #colour #color https://www.instagram.com/p/CFa6ElIAxId/?igshid=rhu8ik3ffjvn

[jpmorrisonlans]

“Fulcrum” My first encaustic. Tricky medium. And yah it’s actually still a very figurative work. 18x18” #encaustic #movement #emotion #figurativeart #artinquarantine #artinisolation #romance #fulcrum (at Tulsa, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCB4xIKDnKO/?igshid=1k2iqpwbas1yk

[captainsalmon100]

ART IN ISOLATION and an Emergency while painting KING Richard the third ...

[clipsocallipso]

Sketch for Rainbow marathon from @dina_kalinkina_art , Black & White days. Turns out that almost all my works are colourful, black and white are only sketches, for most of them I have not even photos. So I'll show collection of old works tomorrow. on Facebook. https://www.instagram.com/p/CABeQZwHqY6/?igshid=1kbj478kz95ss

[mulgatheartist]

My lil bro @edenface and myself painted dolphins and hotdogs on dad's moto helmet 🐬🌭. ⁣ ⁣ Dolphins and hotdogs, what a beautiful combo and it's appropriate because a dolphins favourite food is a hotdog 🌭🐬. It is a well known fact in the dolphin and hotdog community 🐬🌭.⁣ ⁣ Painted with @posca_aus and finished with @whitenightpaints Crystal Clear Acrylic - Gloss.⁣ ⁣ #mulgatheartist #edenface #mulgatheartistxedenface #motorbikehelmetart #helmetart #dolphin #hotdog #artinisolation (at Shelly Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-LCzU4g5-b/?igshid=1qf6qm14nfs0y