Archive for January, 2009
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Submitted by Art Blog By Bob
One of the hardest tasks for any art historian is to take something very familiar and make it seem remarkably new. It seems like Claude Monet’s Water Lilies appear in every museum, on every Impressionist calendar, and as every art-related kitsch item imaginable. Jean Dominique Rey and Denis Rouart’s Monet: [...]
Ancient Wisdom from Aunt Max
Submitted by Ancient Artist: Developing an art career after 50
A few weeks ago I introduced you to Tamara, a stained glass artist and poet. I posted one of her poems, which you can read here. We’ve shared creative dreams, aspirations and struggles over the months of our friendship, and during one of those conversations, usually [...]
Greebles
Submitted by Gurney Journey
Greebles are small details used to break up a large form, usually to give a sense of scale or to make an invented object more believable.
Greebling is a design philosophy used by visual development artists. In this greebled cube, the abstract forms suggest a profusion of buildings or pseudo-functional working parts.
Model builders [...]
Daydreamers
Submitted by BRENDA YORK’S PAINTING A DAY
5×5″ oil on canvas, $100 AVAILABLE HERE
With this little painting I have hit a milestone…300 posts! That’s a lot of painting! I am so lucky; it’s what I love to do most. My passion is making art and somedays I can’t believe that there are actually folks that want [...]
Higher Frequencies
Submitted by Art Blog By Bob
For whatever reason, the first time that I saw one of Barnett Newman’s zip paintings, I thought of the paper chromatography I did in chemistry class in college. Aside from the visual similarity, perhaps it was the similarity in how the paper chromatography broke down a compound and identified its [...]
“Lanterns of Gold” ~ 20″x16″ A Painting a Day Hudson River School Landscapes by Connie Tom
Submitted by A Painting for You!
This work pictures a view of a path through the woods on a beautiful autumn morning. When the morning dew is still wet upon the leaves, the sunlight glistens as reflecting from off the moisture on the leaves like “Lanterns of Gold”. Enjoy!
“Let the field be joyful, and all that [...]
King Of Hearts
Submitted by BRENDA YORK’S PAINTING A DAY
8×6″ oil on canvas, $135 PURCHASE HERE
When I paint hearts, anywhere in a painting, any color and any time of year it gets more “hits” than anything else I paint. Except for the occasional Adam and Eve in their birthday suits. “All you need is love, Luv.”
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Mythbusters
Submitted by Art Blog By Bob
It’s a great romantic myth that great artists come out of nowhere and develop a truly “new” style that breaks all the rules and announces a brave, new world. When Clement Greenberg hailed Jackson Pollock as the next big thing that would cast off the oppressive chains of the past [...]
“A Place of Refuge” ~ 1/28/09 A Painting a Day Hudson River School Landscapes by Connie Tom
Submitted by A Painting for You!
“A Place of Refuge” was a delight to do. I seemed to have retreated into my own private little sanctuary and found comfort and peace and delight in the beauty and freedom in nature. ~ Enjoy!
“If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this [...]
“Forest Floor” ~ 1/27/09 A Painting a Day Hudson River School Landscapes Paintings by Connie Tom
Submitted by A Painting for You!
Trees fascinate me! And forests…. how the light filters through the leaves and highlights some and leaves some in the shade. Then the light changes, and you have a whole new painting. I hope you enjoy this one! ~ Connie
“Bless the Lord, O my soul, O Lord my God, thou [...]
Pedal-Powered Airship
Submitted by Gurney Journey
Gizmodo tells of this concept for a pedal-powered airship called Aeolus that can stay aloft for two weeks.
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From Pig to Alien
Submitted by Gurney Journey
Where do ideas come from? That’s easy. Sketchbooks.
I did this sketch of a mama pig and her piglets at the county fair. What a job it must be, I thought, to nurse that many babies all at once.
Some time later I was inventing some aliens for a science fiction paperback cover. I [...]
Review of Un Voyage a Chandara
Submitted by Gurney Journey
Dinotopia: l’ile aux dinosaures
A quoi ressemble Ie parfait recit imaginaire? A Dinotopia. Imaginez une ile aux paysages epoustouflants ou humains et dinosaures vivent en harmonie, une ville d’architecture classique construite a flanc de falaise, bordee de cascadesgeantes qu’enjambent des ponts sculptes. Sous un vol de pterosaures, des enfants partent a I’ecole dans [...]
Gadabout
Submitted by BRENDA YORK’S PAINTING A DAY
11×14″ oil on canvas, $500, PURCHASE HERE
Today is the first day I’ve actually exhaled in four days. You see, my son, Zac, left last week for a semester abroad. In Italy. His mother has an overactive imagination (no surprise there, right?) and a penchant for worriment. I can work [...]
Parlor Games
Submitted by Art Blog By Bob
In the wake of the Age of Englightenment, especially in France, women artists found more opportunity for success, including Marguerite Gerard. Born January 28, 1761, Gerard once found herself hailed with other great female French artists such as Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and Adelaide Labille-Guiard. Gerard learned painting from her brother-in-law, Jean-Honoré [...]
Giant Pterosaur Behavior
Submitted by Gurney Journey
New theories have emerged about the behavior of giant pterosaurs.
A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins has concluded that most pterosaurs probably didn’t take off by running on their back legs and flapping, the way birds do. They used all four appendages pushing off the ground to propel them into flight. Link [...]
Being an Artist Mom
Submitted by Bonnie Hurst Paintings
I am an Artist Mom. However, during the holidays I am only 10% artist and 90% mom. The artist in me is trying to recover from this two month hiatus! So, now that. . .
the kids rooms have been cleaned out and all of the new toys have found a [...]
Visionary Company
Submitted by Art Blog By Bob
What could it have been like for a young artist to meet William Blake in person? Intimidating, inspiring, invigorating, all of the above, and more. Through the engraver John Linnell, who would one day become his father in law, Samuel Palmer met Blake in 1824 and was never the same. [...]
“Geese in the Mist” ~ 20″x16″ A Painting a Day Hudson River School Landscapes by Connie Tom
Submitted by A Painting for You!
“Geese in the Mist” This work pictures a scene on the lake in the beginning of August. Autumn is beginning with subtle color changes. A morning mist hovering over the water and geese coming on ground. Enjoy!
“Ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.” ~ I Thessalonians 4:9
“…but [...]
Update on the Business Plan
Submitted by Ancient Artist: Developing an art career after 50
I have converted Ancient Wisdom Emerging Artist into a PDF that you can download by following this link. This should solve some of the feed issues cropping up around the presence of Microsoft Word issues in the pages versions.
Because so many blogs have links to the [...]
Yellow Onions, 00909, onion still life
Submitted by CAROL NELSON FINE ART BLOG
These onions are actually very attractive. I bought a bag on onions and considered painting them in the bag until I thought about the complexity of such a painting with the mesh of the bag on top of the layers of peel on the onions. I could do it, [...]
The “Dance Between”
Submitted by Ancient Artist: Developing an art career after 50
This is a photograph of the lovely ice crystals that are covering the branches and future buds of the lavender bush in my front yard. It’s like living in the middle of a spun sugar world.
I stumbled across a book called Creative License, The Art [...]
Denon in Egypt
Submitted by Gurney Journey
In her new book: Mirage: Napoleon’s Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt (2007), Nina Burleigh describes the challenges faced by the artist Dominique Vivant Denon (1747-1825), assigned by Napoleon to be the first to draw the wonders of Egypt.
Denon “…tripped on fresh corpses and mummies and slipped in centuries of bat guano, [...]
Moleskine Loves Schmincke
Submitted by Gurney Journey
Did you know that a Schmincke watercolor set opens up to the same size as a Moleskine watercolor book?
That means you can set up the paint kit on the facing page, next to where you need it.
You can clamp it to your Moley with a spring clip. The water cup is taped [...]
Boston Vacuum Mount, 00809, pencil sharpener still life
Submitted by CAROL NELSON FINE ART BLOG
This pencil sharpener is ancient. I can’t even remember how it came to be in our family. I thought I would honor it’s faithful service with a portrait. It can rest now because I bought an electric one.
For purchase information on this 6×6 original oil, please see my [...]
