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How to train an apprentice artist?

ByMoyo Okediji

How to train an apprentice artist?

Get her to work with you on your own art.

Get her to go through the process that you go through.

Get her to understand that it is a lot of work.

But there is no amount of talking that can convey that fact to her.

Get her to actually do the work t enable her to understand the use of the materials, the training of the fingers, and the love for long hours of staying in the studio.

Here, I work with my apprentice artist, Morenikeji Badmus, showing her how to do it the proper way.

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SILICON PAINTINGS

ByMoyo Okediji

Eight of my paintings will be shown at an art exhibition opening tomorrow Saturday, November 9, in Nairobi, Kenya.

These paintings I am showing in the exhibition are open—meaning that the paintings have no figures that can be identified as a person, place, object, tree, water or anything else that one could recognize and name. The paintings do not attempt to tell any story, nor do they illustrate any scene. The paintings are open to absorb whatever story the viewers may bring them, and they also assist in opening up the viewers’ minds to excavate memories and ideas that are in the subconscious of the viewers.

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Selfie

ByMoyo Okediji

Reminds me of a painting by Parmigianino, titled SELF PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR, painted circa 1524 during the Renaissance. In the painting, the convex mirror from which Parmigianino is painting places the artist’s hand at the forefront of the composition, in a manner that exaggerates the hands, thus proclaiming the powerful quality of the craftsmanship within the hand of an artist.

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BEWARE THE IDES OF JUNE, KAKANFO ABIOLA, AND YORUBA LIBERATION

ByMoyo Okediji

Unlike the simple way we number our calendar daily, the Romans numbered theirs in groups or blocks of days that are a little more complicated for our simple modern system.

There are three blocks of days in the month in the Roman calendar.

The first block is the Nones, which ends on the 12th or 13th day of most months.

The second block is the Ides, which ends on the 22nd day of most months.

The third block is the Kalends, which ends on the Ist day of most months.

My edited book on the work of Dotun Popoola is now out.

My edited book on the work of Dotun Popoola is now out.

ByMoyo Okediji

My edited book on the work of Dotun Popoola is now out.

It looks so magnificent, like a grande Egungun performance.

The publisher says it goes for 50,000 naira per copy.

This hyper-colorful hardcover book that is larger than a royal Agbada arrived at my doorsteps for the New Year.

It is the most beautiful book I have ever seen.

Congrats to the wonderful art historians, Kunle Filani, Tolulope Sobowale, Olusegun Fajuyigbe, and Kehinde Adepegba, who contributed powerful essays to the book.

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