You’ll see the themes she loved emerge in all kinds of media throughout the site, much of her talent was expressed with watercolor though. See the About page for more information about Janet’s background, or scroll down to see blog posts and more.
Janet Tifft Fine Arts
Gala Detail
Gala – a close up of a recycled rose.
Cropping is a lesson in composition. All the parts still need to work together with a center of interest, directing the path of the eye to establish a flow and rhythm, keeping the viewer engaged. This is a game allowing all the aspects – format, lines, shapes, colors – to support each other.
Personal Peaks
The original composition was an exercise using only complimentary colors plus black and white (not color) and one shape repeated, varying only in size and orientation. Purple and yellow are compliments with the greatest range in value, thereby allowing an almost infinite possibility of combinations. Whereas, for example, red and green are very close in value and have nearly identical gray scales.
The second iteration is the recycling of the above abstract painting using representational elements and words.
Sneaky Self Portrait
The female peaking out behind the purple shape is myself. A wife/mother with a husband and 6 children, not much time for art! The words are an attempt at whimsy
Bits & Pieces
A gazillion pieces of cut out paper (a collage) with a desert theme – it’s supposed to represent a Palo Verde.
Basically a complimentary color scheme, bits of red and green. The black is a form calligraphy, in the sense of curvilinear shapes, suggesting tree trunks.
Loonminiscent
October Flood
In a local arroyo around the corner from my home. From a tropical storm in Baja, circa 1980s.
“All artwork starts with a concept, continues with process, results in a product,” living on through its audience and innumerable interpretations…and “the paper, the pigment, the water… The interaction has a life of its own” –
Janet Tifft, 2012Janet
Janet Ann Tifft, the Mastermind!
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Tana Jay von Isser, Multimedia Consultant & Producer
Collaboration of Talents
I had the pleasure and privilege of working with her for the past 6 years. We would typically get together once a week to work and play with her incredible ART… One of the last thematic pages we created but did not get to publishing is called the “Passage of Time” … With her permission granted I will continue working on the website and with projects we started.
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