Carole Sikes Artist / Writer in Austin, Texas

Q. What has occupied my "art hours" this past fall and winter? A. Color studies based on exercises in two books, INTERACTION OF COLOR by Josef Albers and JOSEPF ALBERS: TO OPEN EYES written by two of his former students. Albers came to the U. S. from Nazi Germany when the Bauhaus was closed in 1933. A very important and influential teacher, he taught first in North Carolina and later at Yale where he headed the art department. Feeling the need "to stretch myself", I've spend time creating a work book with notes from these two books and making small color studies at my drawing board.

As a child of the fifties, I have always resonated to the work of artists and designers of the International style. However my art education was with regional painters at the University of Texas and my painting is reflective of this. We will see whether these studies will affect my future paintings.