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Today we attended the local BBQG quilt show. Not being a quilter myself, I can’t identify these patterns for you, but I’m sure a lot of you know what they are. I was just so enthralled with the riot of pattern and color choices made by the various quilt artists...
“Wrappings” – Collage, 5 x 7″ “Camo” – Collage, 5 x 7″ I found my collages! Thank you to everyone who offered your suggestions and empathy. I fully believe that writing about it and receiving all your positive suggestions was the catalyst that caused them to magically appear. I went through every suggestion...
These pictures represent an array of incomplete collages. They all have a basic composition, but need added elements to “finish” them. I will need to sit down with these in the studio for a day or two in order to see what they need for resolution. It’s a fun project...
Black and white were on my mind today as I thought about inspirations for my friend Margaret, who is working on a piece for a black and white show. So I started looking around my art files for things either in just black and white or with a limited palette. I...
Footprints, Acrylic on Canvas, 36 x 36″
“Footprints” – Acrylic on canvas 36 x 36 x 1.5″ Click here for more information This painting is in my studio inventory, having been returned to me just last year from a gallery. I have quite a few of these large paintings that aren’t being displayed in any galleries right now. But...
The Art of Gardening and Some New Collages
Almost all day was devoted to doing garden things and not much art — unless you can call gardening art, which I do! At one point today I was almost pulled over to the collage area, but kept going with my garden projects. One thing I did today was build...
Art Biz Blog
What’s to love about the guerrilla knitters
Someone is going out of his or her way to make sure tree trunks and sign stakes are kept warm and stylish this winter. Some graffiti artist is plastering trees and public spaces in West Cape May, New Jersey with . . . . knitting! Here are three lessons to...
I have learned a number of travel tips throughout my years on the road, but I want to hear yours. More importantly, I want you to share yours with my readers. How do you prepare for your travel? I'm interested in any travel tips, but especially your art- and business-related travel...
Art Marketing Action + Podcast: Get the Word Out Early and Often
You can’t send one announcement for your art event and expect it to be effective. People typically have to see the same information multiple times—in multiple ways—before they will act on it. Mix up your delivery methods as described in this post, and you’ll be much more effective with your...
Been listening in on Art Heroes Radio? Wonder what to do with disruptive personalities as you're teaching? Ever run into a situation in which your prices have been undercut by another artist? I point you to help with all of these in this week's Tweekly....
Answering the same question over and over again (gracefully) in a face-to-face conversation
Different factors must be considered when you are confronted with questions in a face-to-face conversation rather than receiving them in an email. It’s a lot harder to duck out of a dialogue in your artist booth or at an opening! And you probably don’t want to....
Following up with potential art buyers
How do you deal with people who inquire about a purchase, but don’t follow-up? Do you let them go or pursue the opportunity? If you pursue, how do you do it? What’s your follow-up system? Today’s Deep Thought Thursday was submitted by Miranda on Twitter. You can submit ideas for this blog, too,...
CR Blog
Driven by data: McLaren's new site
Maybe it's the ungainly shadow cast by Jeremy Clarkson but the world of motorsport wouldn't be the first place we would look for stylish graphic design. A new site for F1 team McLaren Mercedes proves us wrong...
Directing team Legs channels the fashionable shamanic vibe in this video for Florence and The Machine's Dog Days Are Over......
Being a hipster doesn't always make you happy
It was never too soon for little Serge to learn the dulcet tones of his namesake Unhappy Hipsters is a tumblr blog that's kept us highly amused for the last few days. Featuring imagery culled from various interiors magazines, it suggests that concrete floors, Eames chairs and moustaches don't always equate...
We've seen tilt-shift photography projects aplenty over the last few years, but The Sandpit – a time lapse, tilt-shift film of New York life by Sam O'Hare – caught our eye this week......
By purloining ideas from YouTube, ad creatives are conspiring in their own extinction, says 'Gordon Comstock'...
This delightful music video comes from new director Tom Kingsley, and was directed for Barcelona-based band Mujeres as part of the Diesel U Music project, which supports new talent in music and filmmaking......
Dennis Hollingsworth
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(Thomas Hirschhorn, "Banners") Check out the proposals submitted for the Guggenheim Museum's Contemplating the Void: Interventions. It's interesting to see how various artists, architects and designers (more than 200) approached the opportunity. Here's Roberta Smith's review. Tyler Green is......
Passing through the big plaza at Gin Ling Way in Los Angeles' ChinaTown, I heard music and saw an old man practicing with his fiddle (I have been able to identify it as a Er Hu). The plaza is......
I've scribbled out a few notes about my recent travels. It's going to be a hive of mistakes, but then blogging is an archive of first drafts by its nature, isn't it?......
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Each Dazzling Moment
In Due Time.... Here's a little collage I did for the Create and Pass Journal Project that Gary Reef's Ning Group is doing. This one is for the latest addition-to-be to our family....my little grandson "Collin" who is due in......
Just completed a couple of new works. I would love some feedback! :) These original pieces are available for purchase here. Bountiful (Mixed Media on Canvas Board 16 x 16 inches) Relic (Mixed Media on Canvas Board 10 x 15......
Just finished a couple of new pieces.... These bird and goddess images are still resonating strongly with me. I'm having fun experimenting with different backgrounds and layers. Soaring (Mixed Media on paper. 8 x 8") Goddess (Mixed Media on paper......
...of the 30-day Art Challenge. I finished 30 pieces in a little over 30 days.... ;) Here are a few of my pieces from the last week: Mother Turtle (Mixed Media / Collage on paper. 8 x 8".) In the......
Art From the Heart - The 30-Day Challenge Gets Ahead of Me!
Well, I'm officially way behind on my one-piece-of-art a day challenge. I'm determined to catch up, though, and have been making art as fast as I can. That said, I don't want to post anything I'm not happy with. (Well,......
"...float in the beauty of your own heart."
"...float in the beauty of your own heart." is from a beautiful chant by Krishna Das. If you don't have his CD "Breath of the Heart", you should really check it out. It's medicine for the soul....
Sprayblog
Spraygraphic Interview with Photographer David Fokos
Spraygraphic Interview with Photographer David Fokos SG: Please tell us about yourself. Where do you currently live and work? DF: I am a professional artist making my living through gallery sales of my black & white landscape photographs. My work is represented by a dozen galleries around the world. My photographs come...
Kelsey Brookes Feature from TheCreativeLives on Vimeo. Kelsey Brookes is a San Diego based painter whose influences range from American quilt patterns to Giuseppe Arcimboldo. His unique style and clever reinterpretation of classical compositions makes him one of contemporary art’s finest new talents. He is represented by New Image Art and...
Push Gallery Video...
Spraygraphic Featured Member: Rishab Tibon
Spraygraphic Featured Member: Rishab Tibon Rishab Tibon is a talented artist from Baguio, Philippines. His Creative Project Section has some great paintings, as well as some interesting activist projects . Check out Rishab Tibon’s profile....
The Art of Michiel van der Born
Michiel van der Born is a painter and lettering artist working and living in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Michiel graduated “cum laude” from the Royal Collage of Art with a degree in Graphic and Typographic design. Here he learned to draw type, building fonts, writing with a brush/pointed pen, etc. Directly...
Spraygraphic Interview with Photographer Xavier Nuez
Spraygraphic Interview with Photographer Xavier Nuez SG: Please tell us about yourself. Where do you currently live and work? XN: Live and work in Chicago, IL SG: What mediums do you work with? XN: I’m a photographer. I still shoot film – medium and large format – it blows away the best digital...
Using The Fifteen Minute Challenge™ When You Feel Overwhelmed by a Challenging Project
Please note: Since this is a very popular post, I’m moving it up to January 2010 so that new Creative Sage Arts readers can check it out. It was originally published on November 15, 2008. Sometimes we all feel daunted by an overwhelming challenge, whether it’s getting stuck in the middle...
Please note: Since this is a very popular post, I’m moving it up to January 2010 so that new Creative Sage Arts readers can check it out. It was originally published on November 10, 2008. Several years ago, I read an interview with artist/songwriter/performer Joni Mitchell, where she talked about “rotating...
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents a program of chamber and solo compositions by Bay Area composer Sarah Stiles, performed by Indre Viskontas, soprano, Travis Andrews, guitar, Naomi Hoffmeyer, harp, and Gloria Justen, violin. Also featured will be a performance art piece called Tangerines and Oranges Too!, a sound-opera composed...
International Society for Improvised Music Invites the Cornelius Cardew Choir to Perform
The vocal group I frequently perform with, the Cornelius Cardew Choir, has been asked to perform at the Fourth Annual Conference presented by the International Society for Improvised Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from December 3-6. If you are coming to ISIM, we hope you will...
Performance on September 24th Features Works by Two Composers from the Cornelius Cardew Choir
One of my favorite groups that I perform with is the Cornelius Cardew Choir (further information below), which encourages members of the group to workshop their own experimental compositions. Rehearsals are often a salon-like atmosphere where someone will bring in a new piece, often composed as a premiere for the...
{ My MiNuTia }
Here's the "other" sampler I've been working on a little bit here and there the past month. This one isn't The Free Style Embroidery E-Course Sampler, this is a different one I've been doing. Speaking of the Free Style Sampler......
The snow is melting here, which gives us hope. Spring is a little over a week away! When out and about I look for green. After months of "white" outdoors, I am craving green. This morning I notice a few......
This one is for Grandma. Ever since this one was a wee baby, she called him "her guy". Just an unusual, not your everyday viewpoint kinda photo. Actually, all I get from him lately are goofy faces, so I have......
Well, daughter's photo shoot was a flop. The film in her camera wasn't loaded correctly. Shoot. So she came back to town and we redid the whole thing yesterday. I'm crossing my fingers this time she got it right! Here's......
a weekend that filled the well
It's really cool when your daughter becomes a friend. Always a Mom, oh yes...but friend has a nice connotation to it, too. Ours was home from college for a while this weekend. Gaaaaaaa!! What's so big about that? Well, she......
At least once a day I get an email from folks asking about details about Silver Bella. I try to answer them as best I can. The most asked question is, "When is Silver Bella?" Well, I'm happy to report......
Art Print Issues by Barney Davey
Buy TOMS Shoes - Design TOMS Shoes - Do Some Good
Whether you take the challenge and submit a design, or just buy a pair, you are in for some fun, maybe some glory, and unquestionably taking a step forward to do some good....
Are You Reading the Great Advice for Artists on ArtBusiness.com?
Alan Bamberger is a gem of a resource to art professionals, artists and collectors. He is proof positive of Stephen Covey's maxim, "There is no limit to the amount of good one turned on person can do." The art business is far better off from his efforts....
Time to Build Your Art Career on Defensive Opportunistic Optimism
I am not saying you should not trust galleries, online art marketers or art dealers. I am saying you cannot afford to rely 100% on their ability to look out for your best interest, especially if it conflicts with their own best interest....
What is the "Hot Color" Trend for 2010
Mardi Grape: Former Fashion Star Is Year's Hottest Color According to Color Marketing Group (CMG), the leading international organization of color design professionals, GRAPE is the hottest color for 2010. CMG, which has been successfully predicting color trends for 47......
What Is the Secondary Art Market?
You will find since the broad secondary art market includes very expensive work by contemporary masters to relatively inexpensive four-color offset lithographs, terminology is used differently depending on circumstances....
Barney Davey's Top Ten Art Marketing Tweets for January 2010
Here is a list of my Top Ten Tweets for the month of January. They are ranked by click order with the most popular listed first....
JazJaz
An unbelievably detailed, 26 gigapixel panorama of the city of Paris. Stitched together using 2,346 individual photographs taken by two Canon 5D Mark II cameras.Follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter.See Also:Take Gigapixel Images With The Gigapan Imager Rare Color Photographs Taken During the Nazi Occupation of Paris During World War...
Metallica – The Call of Armani
Sell outs? No, just irrelevant now.Follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter.See Also:Wii Fit Parody Video Poka – Superb X-Rayted Music Video Origins of Band Names Dove Onslaught Ad The Incredible Micro Sculptures of Williard WiganFollow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter....
Instructions For Making Your LEGO Tron Light Cycle
Flickr user - 2×4 - has posted some detailed photo instructions for assembling your own LEGO Light Cycle. Have fun.Follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter.See Also:The Brickfactory – LEGO Instruction Sets Archive Steampunk Brass Switch Plates Original Sketch of the Twitter UI The Pinhole Gallery Woz And Jobs Lego PlaysetFollow JazJaz on Facebook |...
Movie Title – Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer
I can’t put a finger on it, but I’ve definitely seen this movie, sometime.Link to the video on YouTube.Follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter.See Also:Original Sketch of the Twitter UI Dove Onslaught Ad Twitter Avatars By Apelad Facebook Comic by Dave Walker Fake Superhero Facebook FeedsFollow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter....
Kaleidoscopes Made From Typography
Behance user Katerina Orlikova makes her gorgeous kaleidoscopes using various typefaces.Visit her gallery to see more pictures.Follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter.See Also:Masters of the Universe as Hipsters Twitter Avatars By Apelad Neon Graveyard Beautiful Sunset and Sunrise Scenes – Flickr Gallery The Pinhole GalleryFollow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter....
The afeeld blog examines the monster that is Farmville, and comes away with the conclusion that the game and its makers are really, really evil insidiously taking over our lives. Snip from the article: (1) Farmville is defined by obligation, routine, and responsibility; (2) Farmville encroaches...
Artistic Mission
Last night I finished preparing my triptych "I Owe You Something" for display. Adding hangers, painting the sides of the canvas, writing my info on the back, etc.Today was the designated dropoff day, kind of unusual in that it was during the day on a weekday. Since the...
Alice in Wonderland - An Artist's Perspective
Yesterday I went to see the latest incarnation of Alice in Wonderland. Usually I try to steer clear of pop culture, movie reviews, etc on these pages. However, since so many artists have been influenced by Alice in it's various versions, I'm making an exception.If you are one of...
Last night I had big plans. I was invited to attend an RFT sponsored happy-hour @ Blueberry Hill since I'm a "local" blogger. I was going to follow that up by checking out "the Pangaea Project", the new show at Hoffman Lachance Contemporary featuring the art of Jeremy...
I'm really lazy about cleaning up my painting messes. My studio was left unpainted on 2 walls and I have cheap remnant carpet under my easels so that I can paint with abandon, without the fear of messing up something expensive. I've been searching for a while for...
I heard back today from the people at AmericaSCORES and they have allowed me to be in their show/auction. As part of the deal I get free entry +3. Anyone interested in going to the event and want in for free? Shoot me an email and let me know. First...
I started and finished this triptych today:"I Owe You Something"16" x 16"It is a piece that is going into a charity auction for AmericaSCORES St. Louis which does something with kids and sports and poetry. Their website has all the info on the event and the charity.The object of...
NEWSgrist - where spin is art
Federal Panel Finds Bias in Ouster of Principal
Debbie Almontaser at Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn in April 2007. Photo: Liz O. Baylen for The New York Times. via NYTimes: Federal Panel Finds Bias in Ouster of Principal By ANDREA ELLIOTT Published: March 12, 2010 A federal......
After Prospect.2 Postponed, Dan Cameron Out
Mark Bradford's "Mithra" at Prospect.1 in New Orleans. Photo by John d'Addario. via ARTINFO I want the rest of this story: via NYTimes: Arts, Briefly:Problems for New Orleans Art Show By RANDY KENNEDY; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF Published: March 12,......
Found Art (Greenwich Village): Unmonumental 232
Found Art (Greenwich Village): Unmonumental 232, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive)....
Found Art (Tribeca): Unmonumental 231
Found Art (Tribeca): Unmonumental 231, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive)....
Celebrate NEWSgrist's 10 Year Anniversary!
Closings (University Place) 238, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive). Dear friends, On March 9, 2000 I registered the domain http://newsgrist.com and started sending out email newsletters to subscribers -- these were plain text messages that aggregated links and excerpts......
Found Art (Soho): Unmonumental 230
Found Art (Soho): Unmonumental 230, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive)....
artPark
The importance of art eduction
Although I live in Charlottesville, Virginia, I have absolutely no affinity for the University of Virginia athletic teams. Seeing the swim teams, lacrosse teams, baseball team and rowing team succeed is nice, but I couldn't give a rat's rear about the Cavalier football or basketball teams. So, in general, I......
Will advances in technology help find the stolen art?
I'm a junky for news about the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist (a theft of 13 pieces of art which included three Rembrandts and a Vermeer and remains the world's largest art theft in dollar value). So, as we approach the 20 anniversary of that fateful night, I'm thrilled......
Today is Frederic Chopin's 200th birthday. I wonder which contemporary composer's 200 birthday will be celebrated 130-170 years from now? Philip Glass? Someone like John Williams? Or will it be a Bono, a Madonna or a Sting?...
With the current snow storm dumping on the northeast following record amounts of the fluffy stuff here in the mid-Atlantic this winter (and spring still weeks away), I thought this picture was appropriate for artPark fans. Regardless of the weather, I hope you are able to get outside and enjoy......
American Craft Council – Baltimore 2010
This winter has been a tough one for those of us living in the mid-Atlantic. The record snowfall and continued frigid temps have reinforced my wish that the month of February be carved off the calendar forever. But then, just as I am hitting the lowest of winter lows, the......
Can you say "publicity stunt"? Dan Zak of the Washington Post reports on the marriage of DC artists Dana Ellyn and Matt Sesow. Read the article here. I started to read it with only mild interest, but that interest quickly turned to an overwhelming feeling of "ugh." I know times......
The Earthly Paradise
For the past few months, I've been a little more obsessed than usual about cooking. It started when my husband and I went to go see Julie and Julia a little while before the baby was born. We both loved the movie, and it inspired me to be a little...
I ran across the Ring House, designed by Takei-Nabeshima-Architects (TNA) the other day, and was enchanted. This blog tends to focus on the history of the Arts and Crafts movement, but I'm always on the lookout for modern design that reflects the principles of beauty, simplicity and utility that the...
In an effort to familiarise myself with basic interior design periods, I picked up Henrietta Spencer-Churchill's book, Classic Design Styles. It's a beautifully illustrated volume, filled with lush photographs (I freely confess that I'm all about glossy picture books). At the beginning of the book, each section examines an historical...
First Trip to the Art Gallery of Alberta with Baby!
Well, it took my husband and I months to decide, but we finally have a stroller! We chose a Bugaboo Bee in hot pink. I just love it. It's small and light, which was essential for me, since I live in the city and love being able to take the...
Edmonton Opera Presents Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance
Last night my husband and I had the chance to see Edmonton Opera's presentation of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. We had such a fabulous time! It was the first opera of the season that we've been able to attend. We always get season tickets, but we had to...
The Rejection of Cain's Sacrifice
I've been very busy with my little girl over the past few weeks. She's an absolute delight! Even though she's only three months old, I've been having a lot of fun reading with her. Before she was born, my husband and I bought a copy of Tomie dePaola's Book of...