California Poppy Plein Air Landscape Oil Painting – Tejon Ranch

Tejon Ranch Poppy Hillside
9 x 12
oil on plein air panel

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A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of painting at the Tejon Ranch with other artist and signature artist members of the California Art Club. It was a unique opportunity to enjoy the spring beauty of the land, which is not open to the general public. The wind gusts were intense at times, but the color made up for the distraction. This is one of the paintings I worked on over the two day period – this one was on the Antelope Valley side, not too far from the Lancaster Poppy Reserve. I’ll be posting more soon.

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Arts & Letters Daily (16 May 2011)

Bello Maasaba believes in marriage. He has 86 wives and 133 children. So how does he…? “If I didn’t satisfy them, they would leave”… more

While her diplomat father courted Hitler, Martha Dodd courted Thomas Wolfe, who likened her to “a butterfly hovering around my penis”… more

What would Odysseus do? Faced with temptation, resistance is futile; willpower is no match for our rapacious appetites. We must tie ourselves to the mast of our best intentions… more

Arts & Letters Daily (15 May 2011)

In Bloomsbury, wedged between a cafe and a beauty salon, is the School of Life, Alain de Botton’s latest venture in telling us how we ought to live… more

Sibling rivalry. Thomas Mann never quite got over the fact that it was his brother Heinrich’s novels that the Nazis burned… more

The satirical economist. John Kenneth Galbraith delighted in mockery. No sacred tenet was safe from his ridicule. But a sneer isn’t an idea… more

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Ivan Generalic (1914 – 1992)

“Deer in the forest” 1956

“Cows in a landscape” 1957

“Village” 1954

“Landscape with grass” 1959

“River Landscape” 1964

“Landscape” 1954

- Many other works

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New podcast-Claes Gabriel on creating a tribe of totems

Locks Gallery sponsors this episode.

Claes Gabriel (Claes is pronounced “Clays”) makes bright-colored totemic shapes from stretched canvas over wood armatures.  The works show the artist’s attention to detail in crafting and painting.  The artist, who was born in Port au Prince, Haiti in 1977  is not making “black art” but rather painting his feelings, he says.  He’s the son of a famous Haitian artist, Jacques Gabriel, and yes, he was named after Claes Oldenburg.  Claes came to the US in 1989 and studied at Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA 1999) and while right now he’s in Philadelphia, his long-range plans involve living in Europe.

Claes Gabriel in his studio talking with us

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This episode is edited by Peter Crimmins. The music is by Eric Biondo. Thanks to the Knight Foundation for helping us get the ball rolling on this project. Thanks to J-Lab and William Penn Foundation for additional support and to our partner WHYY NewsWorks for their ongoing support and for sharing artblog radio episodes on the arts & culture page of their community news site NewsWorks.org. You can subscribe to artblog radio on iTunes.

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Yakushi-ike drawings

I drew same place on the same day on different papers with different approach.

I have drawn the same place two years ago.
Nov 28, 2009
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Draw a Horse Step by Step

How to draw a horse step by step – learn how to draw this horse in simple steps – ideal for beginners

Learn How to Draw

You can learn how to draw. It’s easier than you think. Start here with these free learn how to draw lessons. Work through the lessons step by step and you’ll learn how to draw in no time!

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Beautiful Losers – New Video on Babelgum – Art & Skateboarding

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Beautiful Losers – New Video on Babelgum – Art & Skateboarding

Interesting video looking at art and skating in the early 90s.

Beautiful Losers looks at the initially under-appreciated yet wildly influential outcasts such as Shepard Fairey, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, Stephen Powers, Geoff McFetridge, Thomas Campbell and Ed Templeton.

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I’m Proud to be Finnish

I was approached by a Finnish artist named Mari Keski-Korsu almost a year ago. She told me she was working on a documentary about Finnish immigration and the stories about how Finnish Americans came to be here and why they left Finland. She wanted to tell the stories of their children how they adapted to [...]

Stranahan High School Unveils 3D Pop Art Mural

I was in Fort Lauderdale last week. On Friday, March 25th, I attended the unveiling ceremony for the mural i consulted on with the incredibly talented students at Stranahan High School. What a fantastic group of kids. I was impressed with their enthusiasm and talent. They were proud of what they accomplished and they SHOULD HAVE [...]

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How to Paint the Look and Feel of Spring

The color in this work, Wall Street–Arches, Utah, by Carl Dalio calls
to mind the scorching heat of a summer day, as opposed to the more
delicate hints of color that accompany spring.

I’m a color junkie. In fashion, in design, and especially in painting, vibrant color is what gets me creative. But before the image of Mimi from The Drew Carey Show becomes forever attached to my name in your mind, I’ll point out that I can control myself…sometimes. It’s tough, though, especially now that spring is officially here and I’m starting to see hints of color everywhere.

But that’s exactly what I remind myself when I start to grab and mix 20 (okay, more like 30!) colors on a palette—right now I’m seeing hints of color. We’ve got quite a few more weeks to go before we are in the full-blown color feast of spring, so my mantra right now is: ‘color is subtle.’ Say it with me.

That means when painting, I’m not accentuating color everywhere. Instead I add in pops of color—grass green, poppy red, and lemon yellow—against a warm neutral like burnt sienna. It’s not that I’m trying to avoid high-octane colors—because really, who could resist?—but I’m using them to create more transparent layers or delicate washes, which means a lot more depth and nuance.

Marcia Burtt takes intense colors, as in Low Tide,
Pink Sky, and mixes them to natural effects.

To that end, our Best of Watercolor has been a revelation for me. It’s packed with ways to make complex and subtle color mixes, step-by-step demonstrations about how to layer color, and reveals how renowned painters like Jamie Wyeth use color more abstractly. For instance, painting a hillside doesn’t just have to be all about the green. It can become an exercise in creating rich and inviting earth tones, too, in layers of green, yellow, red, and blue, with hints of them all peeking out.

That same idea is played out in Marcia Burtt’s DVD, Mastering Plein Air Acrylic Painting, in which she creates an acrylic painting of the beautiful California coast with a varied and extensive color palette.

It’s the way that you use color—not just the color itself—that can give you the most satisfaction in your latest artwork. Spring will always be about fresh and vibrant color, but you can celebrate the season by thinking creatively and complexly about how to incorporate it. For more resource on using color to powerful effect check out all the great instructional guides in the Artist Daily online store while our Store Sale is still going on! Enjoy!

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New Street Sign

Drivers in the UK will have to watch out for this new street sign designed to warn them of drunken pedestrians. Such is the boozy behaviour of Brits in town- and city-centres that the Ministry of Transport decided to base its new sign on a Romanian image. Don’t be fooled by the trousers into thinking only men get drunk. It was decided that a woman on her knees with her skirt in the air would be too suggestive. So it’s a trouser suit for the girls. Okay?

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Michael Kareken – new drawing and TV interview

  Michael Kareken emailed me recently to show me some exciting new drawings of wrecked cars at a salvage yard he’s been working on, exploring a possible new body of work that grows from his incredible exploration of his recycle series subject matter. These drawings are all works in progress but I find that all [...]

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Unknown Flemish School Painter

“Ecce Homo” (late 16thc.)

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Janet Fish

Janet Fish is an American painter whose still life paintings seem to radiate color. Using a high chroma palette, in combinations that in lesser hands might fall into the garish, Fish produces harmonious compositions that vibrate with energy and light.

She often chooses as her subjects objects that are translucent, transparent or reflective, in particular colored glass. She surrounds these with flowers, bright cloth patterns and other objects in brilliant hues, balanced with strategically placed rich darks, and somehow manages to tame those wild arrays of color into images that seem at once preternaturally intense and perfectly naturalistic.

Fish is widely recognized and her work is in the collections of major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

There are a few catalogs and collections of her work; Janet Fish: Paintings by Vincent Katz is in print and readily available.

Her website includes a gallery of oil paintings as well as a section of screenprints. Fish is represented by the DC Moore Gallery in NY, which also showcases a nice selection of her work online. I’ve listed other galleries and additional resources below.

I’ve had the pleasure of seeing some of her works in person. They are often fairly large in scale and striking.

In rooms in which there are works by several artists, hers inevitably stand out and command your attention. Unlike many contemporary works about which that can be said, Fish’s paintings also reward extended viewing; small areas can be looked at in detail as wonderfully arranged shapes of color and tone. Her command of the arrangement of elements of color can be seen even more clearly in her graphic work.

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Indoor Garden Benefits in Homes and Offices

There are several benefits to installing indoor gardens in a home or building. Plants supply oxygen and enhance indoor air quality. They can be visually stimulating or they can be calming or relaxing focal areas. Indoor gardens can also serve as spill-over or lounge areas. Below is a list of common elements and found in an indoor garden.

Seating – Seating can be in the form of benches, couches, tables and chairs, seat walls, sculptural stone chairs, or amphitheater seating. Seating in an indoor garden is essential particularly if it is adjacent to concessionaires or an open restaurant. Seating is also needed in order when the garden is used as a spill-over, lounge or waiting area.

Indoor Planting –Planting is also essential for an indoor garden, particularly to enhance air quality and modify the climate. When choosing plants for an indoor garden, specifications must always be considered. There are various specifications for various types of indoor plants. The garden must also have filtered natural lighting in the daytime as all plants still obtain food from sunlight. Consider planting for ornamenting, buffering, screening or scale modification.

Decorative Paving – Decorative paving is always present in any garden, whether indoors or outdoors. Decorative paving provides a flat and dry surface for people to use. These paved surfaces can be used as walkways, seating, waiting, and dining areas.

Focal point – Focal points in an indoor garden help provide a focus for either a large or small scaled space. Focal points organize a space by dividing up areas and pathways for direction. The types of focal points are only limited by the imagination. Common focal points include statues, water features, mobiles, relief or free standing sculptures and even a specimen plant or tree.

Promoting the benefits of indoor gardens for a home or a building can be an effective campaign for landscape garden suppliers and installers. When marketing budget is limited, garden installers can make use of printed promotional materials. Examples of these are flyers, booklets or brochures. Printing these today can be convenient, reliable and affordable using online printers. There are online printing companies such as UPrinting for example, who can be found on popular web directories such as LinkedIn and Wikipedia.

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Guilt, Repentance, and Innocent Bystanders

"New research finds when we make amends to assuage our guilt, a third party often pays the price."…

Humans Chasing the 'Three Origins' (Of the Universe, of Life, of the Mind)

"We seem to have a deeply ingrained need to understand where we come from, and know that our origins are enmeshed with the origin of the cosmos itself: since we are thinking chunks of stardust, to understand where we came from we need to understand where stars came from, how dust got assembled into living matter, and how living matter became thinking matter."…

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“Is Google Art Project second-rate?” (yes)

I’m not losing much sleep  over Google’s Art Project virtual tours and neither is Sebastian Smee at the :  Is Google Art Project second-rate?

Compare Synthescape’s virtual tour of the Couldtard Gallery to any on Google’s overblown shows. Some people actually get things right.

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Greg Girard – Hanoi Calling – In the Near Distance – Monte Clark Gallery – Vancouver

Greg Girard – Hanoi Calling – In the Near Distance – Monte Clark Gallery – Vancouver – 17 February – 19 March 2011
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Weekly Update – Perpetual adolescence at Marginal Utility in Jayson Musson’s rants

A Jayson Musson exhibit is a shock to the system for the sensitive art enthusiast who expects only well-behaved and friendly art in a gallery.   Musson’s word art, on posters and, for his new show at Marginal Utility, some newly-printed vacation-style t-shirts, is like a smack upside the head, delivering rants about the art world, politics and unrequited love.

Neotony poster with ALF, from the 1980s tv show about a smartass alien living amongst us

“Neotony The Hard Sell” is the name of his solo show this month.  ”Neotony,” just fyi, refers to a condition of lifelong psychological adolescence, which pretty much describes the narrators of Jayson’s grumpy, know-it-all art who whip out the “n-word”, the “f-word” and every other hyphenated attack vehicle to excoriate a viewer who has the temerity to stand there and read the text.  Often, Musson’s narrative voice is self-mocking.  He’s a world-weary guy whose bad luck with girls has soured him on the female sex and whose encounters with the power structure of the art world have made him cynical about his chances of making it. Ever. Musson in person is, of course, a big Teddy Bear, one of the nicest, smartest, funniest guys you’ll want to meet.  But when he puts on his art hat — like he did recently in his YouTube advice columns by Hennessy Youngman, his barbed tongue knows no bounds. Musson is getting his MFA this Spring from the University of Pennsylvania.  Catch his act now before he takes his “sturm und drang” on the road.

“Neotony The Hard Sell: Jayson Musson” Feb 4 to Mar. 27.  Opening reception, Friday, Feb. 4, 6-11 pm. Marginal Utility, 319 N. 11th St., 2nd floor.  917 355 4487

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Pub Street

In Siem Reap at night everyone heads for Pub Street. It’s where all the action is. Cozy little bars and eateries. One night Yun took me to a restaurant because she said Mick Jaggar ate there when he was in Cambodia. All our meals were excellent and cheap. I noticed something about the Cambodians. In most third world poor countries everyone smokes. The cigarette companies practically give them away for free to get the locals hooked. I never really saw anyone with a cigarette. It was somewhat impressive. One day Yun and I went on a boat tour of a floating village. It was on Tonle Lake. Truly an amazing sight but also very sad to see how poor the people are and how hard they struggle. All the homes and stores are on stilts. There is even a church and a school. Then you see some tourist restaurants and souvenir stores. It’s a bit nutty. Yun and I had our own boat with a guide and driver. At one point a villager raced up along side us in his little boat. His daughter leaped on to our speeding boat while we were moving. Just like something right out of a Jason Bourne movie. She moved along the outside of the boat until she got to me. There was a plastic bucket in her hand with cold Angkor beers. Even though it was nine thirty in the morning I had to buy one from her. One dollar, of course. Dads drive around in boats with their little kids begging for money. Each kid would have a huge jungle snake around their neck so tourists could take pictures of them. There were little boys floating around in tin wash tubs. It was all very surreal and eye opening. It’s too bad they closed off adoption from that country. Yun and I may have taken home a little girl from there to go with the girl we are going to adopt from Ethiopia.

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Park West Gallery’s Philanthropic Initiatives Reach Local Community in Missouri

Park West Gallery CARES program donates twenty works of fine art to the City of Clayton
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Pietre Dure

Today I came across a magnificent example of pietre dure (Italian for “hard stone”). The term refers to the artistic cutting of semiprecious stones, such as agate and lapis lazuli, to create ornate luxury objects. The image above is a detail from Console Tabletop with Allegory of Air designed by Giuseppe Zocchi for the Galleria dei Lavori in Florence (1766). The entire picture is made from pietre dure in an alabaster ground. The frame is gilded bronze. Click the title link to see the full picture. Its artistry is brilliant, but also it appears to be accurate in its depiction of moths, butterflies and plants. In this corner I can see a red-and-black cinnabar moth, its orange-and-black striped caterpillar and the plant the caterpillar feeds on: ragwort. Both the plant and the caterpillar are poisonous. So this tabletop is more than a beautiful object; it’s an educational tool and an historic record of European moths and butterflies in 1766. What a treasure! It belongs to the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

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smARTpower applications!

The Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) is pleased to announce that its visual arts initiative, smARTpower is now accepting applications.

smARTpower sends U.S. artists abroad to collaborate with youth and local artists in the creation of community-based projects in China, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kosovo, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Venezuela. Focusing on community engagement that encourages dialogue, experimentation and creativity, this program is designed to stimulate discourse around social issues, including the environment, education, health, girls or women’s issues and freedom of expression.  In addition to leaving a tangible legacy of their project in the community, artists will conduct workshops, teach master classes, and perform other outreach activities while abroad.

Interested artists can apply online. The deadline is February 28, 2011.

smARTpower is a pilot program—designed and funded by ECA and administered by the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Selected artists will be announced in Spring/Summer 2011 and the first round of projects will begin Summer/Fall 2011. For more information, please visit http://exchanges.state.gov/cultural/smartpower.html.

Please help us spread this news by sharing this exciting opportunity with others!

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) promotes international mutual understanding through a wide range of academic, cultural, private-sector, professional, and sports exchange programs. ECA exchanges engage youth, students, educators, artists, athletes, and emerging leaders in many fields in the United States and in more than 160 countries. Alumni of ECA exchanges comprise over one million people around the world, including more than 50 Nobel Laureates than 300 current or former heads of state and government.

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bapiste

Fantasy illustrator Jean Baptiste-Monge has been a huge hit in his native France, where he’s been talked up as being the new Brian Froud. He’s done a series of interviews here that are sure to inspire!

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Woman Holding a Balance headed to Germany

Vermeer in Munich: King Max I Joseph of Bavaria as a Collector of Old Masters

17 March–19 June 2011

Alte Pinakothek
Barer Strasse 27
D-80799 Munich
Germany

curator: Dr. Marcus Dekiert

from the museum website:

At the beginning of the 19th century, the first king of Bavaria, Max I Joseph (1756–1825), amassed a private art collection of the highest quality. He focused almost exclusively on 17th-century Dutch masters, mostly landscapes and genre paintings. To these he added the works of contemporary painters in Munich who were inspired by such Old Masters. In December 1826, the private royal collection was sold at auction. Some exceptional works were acquired for the state collections; others found their way to the Alte Pinakothek via roundabout routes – as part of Ludwig I’s collection, for example; many are now scattered far afield. From today’s point of view, the greatest loss is a masterpiece by Johannes Vermeer: Woman Holding a Balance of 1664. This exquisite work is returning to Munich from the National Gallery of Art in Washington for a threemonth period. Surrounded by other exceptional paintings from the “Golden Age” – including works by Jacob van Ruisdael, Willem van de Velde the Younger and Philips Wouwerman – it gives visitors the opportunity to discover Max I Joseph of Bavaria as a collector of Old Masters.

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Beautiful Losers – New Video on Babelgum – Art & Skateboarding

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Beautiful Losers – New Video on Babelgum – Art & Skateboarding

Interesting video looking at art and skating in the early 90s.

Beautiful Losers looks at the initially under-appreciated yet wildly influential outcasts such as Shepard Fairey, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, Stephen Powers, Geoff McFetridge, Thomas Campbell and Ed Templeton.

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“King’s Lead Hat” Star Wars Print by Rob Jones (Onsale Info)

Getting very near the end of the series, the newest Star Wars print from The Alamo Drafthouse is “King’s Lead Hat” by Rob Jones.  It’s a 24″ x 36″ screenprint, has an edition of 255, and will cost $50.  It goes up today (Tuesday, December 28th) at a random time.  Visit Mondotees.com.

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The Year in Review: Top 10 Art Stories of 2010

“Champagne” by Steve Bloom | Park West Gallery Collection The New Year is just days away, but before we say goodbye to 2010 and raise our glasses to ring in 2011, the Park West Gallery bloggers decided to take a look back … Continue reading →

Merry Christmas, from Park West Gallery

From the Park West Gallery Family to Yours, Merry Christmas! Park West Gallery Christmas 2010 Fine Art Slideshow (Full list of images and titles shown above) 1) “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” by Denielle Spohn Moes 2) “Holiday Eve” by Itzchak Tarkay 3) … Continue reading →

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