Outside the Box 2012

Once again I created a work of art to donate to the Placer Arts fund raising event "Outside the Box". This year they gave us a deconstructed box. I used 2 of the 4 pieces provived. Here is an overview of the project.

King Squid



I used a spray primer and chrome base
for the background.

 


Gloss medium was used to build textures
and layer colors.







I added bits of string and glitter to
create more texture and movement

The black printed sea creatures and
ear are photo transfers using
gel medium.



White and neon  green ink dots for

interest and contrast

 Layers of paint behind and over the
fish images helped blend
them with ocean.

http://doodles.typepad.com/thedoodler/2011/04/doodle-.html

Great blog site for doodles and artists involved with texture, pattern and design

Miss Connections

http://vimeo.com/36116772

MAMA Art Gallery

Art Gallery



Lesean Bowe

USA

Single Mother: The Hand that Rocks the World



Spotlight Artists: Augustus John

"LONDON.- A new display at the National Portrait Gallery will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Augustus John, one of the most celebrated British artists of the early 20th century. Regarded as an outstanding painter and draughtsman, he was a leading portraitist of his day and his lifestyle epitomized that of the bohemian artist. The display of portraits of the artist drawn from the Gallery’s Collection includes photographs by Alvin Coburn, Howard Coster, Bill Brandt, Yousuf Karsh, Norman Parkinson, Ida Kar and Cecil Beaton. Charting his early career, relationships, his fascination with Romany culture, and his success and reputation as an artist the display will also include pivotal figures from his life including Dorelia McNeill, Lady Ottoline Morrell and Talitha Pol. Associated with the New English Art Club and the Camden Town Group he remained largely independent from artistic trends and movements and his sitters included many of his most distinguished contemporaries such as George Bernard Shaw and T.E. Lawrence. "

 Art Knowledge News Feb 2012

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/11_08_2011_23_37_46_augustus_john_a_life_in_portraits.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29

Aggie Zed artist

Aggie Zed: Keepers Keep from John Reynolds & Lee Donaldson on Vimeo.

Artist: Bill Smith

sweetgum leaf and stag beetle (high voltage arc propulsion) from widicus on Vimeo.


Artist: Bill Smith

Artist Bill Smith

magnetic orbs from widicus on Vimeo.



Artist: Bill Smith

Van Gogh inspired

This is the base for a Van Gogh inspired class collage project that we will begin working on tomorrow.

Vixen Vintage: Willard Asylum Suitcases



photo by John Crispin

 Vixen Vintage: Willard Asylum Suitcases

Very interesting post opening a door to the past,
provides two links to the Willard Asylum Suitcase
project.

Portrait by Arcimboldo

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/arcimboldoinfo.shtm

Work in progress

First paint blob drawing. What will it become?

How To Clay and Bead projects

http://http//desiredcreations.com/howTo_Desk.htm

great site for clay and bead how to projects.

Step by step directions and photos

Book sculptures artist Alexander Korzer-Robinson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR_AG7XuX-U&feature=related

Book sculptures artist Su Blackwell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp5Zv-wDgtQ&feature=related

The Nightmares of Beksinski

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyboDY6orGI&feature=related

artist Zdzislaw Beksinski

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4l1077U0Gw&feature=related

Beautiful and bleak images-
The drawings of the Polish painter Zdzislaw Beksinski (1929-2005).

Stained Glass artist Judith Schaechter

Extra Virgin the stained glass work of artist Judith Schaechter...

She borrows freely from art historical sources such as nineteeth century fairy-tale illustrations, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and Surrealism, as well as popular culture sources such as comics, circus posters, and folklore.

Regarding working in stained glass-

Speech Balloon by Judith Schaechter

"I guess the most appealing thing for me is the tedium factor. I don't have too many worthy and profound ideas, so each piece needs to take a certain amount of time. This keeps my hands busy and in sync with my head. "  JS






View youtube video for a more complete overview of her work

also on line article of interest

http://missioncreep.com/schaechter/index.html

and her blog

http://judithschaechterglass.blogspot.com/

Artist Adela Leibowitz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72LXKWBHUis&NR=1

Artist Julie Heffernan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK90EKw9iRo&feature=related

Her paintings have been described as "downright haunting," "enchanting but eerie" and having an "offbeat punch." And while Julie Heffernan of Art and Design agrees, she says she never strives for those results.


"Haunting and enchanting and eerie are wonderful words for getting a sense of how my paintings affect other people," she said, "but I don't drive or steer the work to any particular outcome. For me, it's about tracking these pictures in my head that I derive out of a process called image streaming."
View youtube for complete interview

Yinka Shonibare mixed media artist

http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/shonibare-mbe-museum-contemporary-art/1890


Yinka Shonibare MBE is a non-pareil master of the sleight of hand. He has a way of extracting “what everybody knows” – our disregard of the disenfranchised, our vacuous obsessions, our acquiescence, our heedless longings for both temporary fixes and oblivion – and succeeds in personifying its quintessence, foiling us with his sumptuous, visual splendors.

Roland Reiss Personal Politics

http://pmcaonline.org/exhibits/63/index.html



RR Personal Politics art from 1970-1980

Roland Reiss has been a major presence in the Los Angeles art world both as an artist and teacher for several decades. During the 1970s and 1980s, the artist created miniature sculptures of scenes from everyday life, which are among his most famous and groundbreaking works, despite the fact that he works primarily as a painter

Janne Parvianen painter with light

Janne Parviainen has created a personal painting technique that reflects the urban and technology centered life of today. His most common subjects are city environments and nature landscapes.

http://www.wix.com/jannepaint/jannepaint#!page-5

I'm still not sure how she does this, it's not a photoshop or computer effect.

Artist of interest Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz (1947-2000)

Robert Schwartz provides a portal into a world of emerging gay culture and social upheaval of the 1960s, seeking to expose truths about the human condition by depicting people involved in curious behaviors set in a world of his own invention.
 He painted detailed cross sections of a world where characters move about in the ironic overlaps of incongruous realities. With an intricacy often compared to that of medieval miniatures, each of Schwartz’s paradoxical narratives is expertly composed in a space rarely exceeding 10 inches wide—inviting close examination of his intriguing, yet revealing social scenarios. 
http://www.babcockgalleries.com/node/robert-schwartz/3913