Janette Phillips, Artist in Kendal, Cumbria
Janette Phillips, Artist in Kendal, Cumbria
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We have reached Day 6 of the #Indigoagogo challeng We have reached Day 6 of the #Indigoagogo challenge and today I am going to ask you to forget all about distancing and move in real close 😉 . Today is all about zooming in and finding out that the perfect piece we have been searching for is already there in front of us... and in our own work of all places! I love to use a viewfinder on my work - whether that be on my iphone or a piece of card with an aperture cut out. As we move over the sections of our composition we are reacting to pockets of potential with their magnified tonal contrasts, bolder shapes and strong structures. So your task today is to look over the work you have already produced this week and see if you can identify a future painting. You could even introduce your collaged pieces into the mix… enjoy the search 👀
Welcome to Day 5 of the #indigoagogo challenge whe Welcome to Day 5 of the #indigoagogo challenge where I invite you to enter the internal landscape of your mind (cue the spooky music) Yesterday when I was painting a piece to slice up and collage I also made another painting that conjured up a landscape full of spaciousness and promise ... So I invite you to work from your imagination today and look within as you tune into your stored visual and felt memories of place. Spend a little time ‘walking around’ this landscape in your mind before expressing your sense of shape, form and space using the indigo to add fluidity and form as you go. I look forward to visiting your conjured up lands 💙
Day 4 and we are now half way through our #indigoa Day 4 and we are now half way through our #indigoagogo challenge 💙 . Today I invite you to gather inspiration from a geological phenomena. I have always loved slicing and shifting my work on paper to create fissures and visual tension. These can then inspire further developments or simply become collage pieces in their own right. Did you know that the geological terminology for the areas around rock fault lines is Horst and Graben? In the German language ‘graben’ actually means ‘ditch’ and ‘to dig’ so today I invite you to ‘dig deep’ too and experiment with slicing , tearing, cutting and shifting - enjoy the new discoveries as you deconstruct and reconstruct with edges, joins, fissures, fractures and seams. . Use the varied qualities of the medium to create visual differences which you can then develop further in this collaged approach - get digging!
Welcome to Day 3 of our #Indigoagogo challenge . Welcome to Day 3 of our #Indigoagogo challenge . Today I want to focus on our ‘quality of line’. . A line is capable of conveying so much information; it can be soft and sensuous, hard, probing and straight to the point or meandering with seemingly no particular place to go... It can be narrow, wide or maybe both. Ragged, sharp, light and delicate or totally in your face… Sometimes l, faced with restrictions, we can find it liberating and it helps us to focus becoming aware of the quality of each and every mark we make… So the challenge today is to create a conversation between 3 lines; One to be made in ink, one simply with water and one with the Indigo pastel. It is up to you to choose which order you do these in - I think there are 9 different variants to play with here so feel free to mix and match!
Day 2 of our Indigo challenge welcomes the Autumn Day 2 of our Indigo challenge welcomes the Autumn Equinox. This is a time of pause in the Northern Hemisphere when our planet is divided into equal parts of day and night. And it presents us with the perfect opportunity to celebrate equilibrium as I invite you to create a state of perfect balance between light & dark in your own work today. Do you know that when we first look at an image we are drawn to the point of maximum tonal contrast? So celebrate the bright white of your paper before inviting the dark in… I really look forwards to seeing your Equinox celebrations 🌓
💙 It is time for our #indigoagogo 7 day challen 💙 It is time for our #indigoagogo 7 day challenge to commence ... 💙 . I have loved discovering this deep rich blue pastel from @wallace_seymour. The ability for one medium, when combined simply with water, to create such a variety of textures and marks is so tantalising to us artists. . I love it when I mix things up and layer shape and line, wet and dry media. So today’s prompt is to play with these differences in your work. See if you can create a piece that layers up a fluid shape with linear details and dry textural passages . Enjoy this invitation to play and discover and to push the qualities of your indigo pastels. I look forward to seeing your work here and in the Facebook group for those members of Indigo a Go go 💦 . If you would like to know more about the original indigo course and want to try some do check out the link in my bio or DM me 🙏
An Imagined Indigo Landscape ... though I really t An Imagined Indigo Landscape ... though I really think it’s time I got back outside, worked on location and ‘filled the well’ so to speak 🤔 . . Who fancies a #Indigoagogo 7 day challenge? Starting Monday 21st I’m going to set all you indigo lovers daily tasks to keep your fingers forever blue 💙
I have been playing with triads this week as I get I have been playing with triads this week as I get acquainted with my new @wallace_seymour Vintage Watercolours. Just 3 colours gets you all of this... 🎨💦

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