Rohmans

Got a little done at the weekend but not too much on account that we are training for the marathon and ran 21 miles on Saturday, very little left in the tanks on Sunday but had a go, plat spot the difference.

Source: http://sketchoftheday.blogspot.com/2011/10/rohmans.html

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Life Drawing Gymnastics

I combined not just artist and model (self-portraiture), but artist-model-athlete in my Life Drawing Gymnastics series. In my Life Drawing Gymnastics series, I attempted to do more than simply draw from life , but rather allowed life to be a large part...(read more)

Source: http://www.artistdaily.com/blogs/drawing/archive/2011/07/28/life-drawing-gymnastics.aspx

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One of a series

I've been working on the annual report and accounts for the charity Abbeyfield. The charity is the result of the vision of the inspirational Richard Carr-Gomm. And this year, the incidental images throughout the annual report reflected the theme of companionship and love across the generations. This one was my favourite, because it shows my father enjoying a moment of pulling faces at my son Xavier.

Source: http://julieoakley.blogspot.com/2011/08/one-of-series.html

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Figure Drawings by Ed Hall

This guy can really draw. You don't need 500 pages of figure drawings to learn something from an artist - check out these figure sketches on Ed Hall's blog. In ...

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Source: http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2011/12/02/figure-drawings-by-ed-hall.htm

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Barack Obama Caricature

Showed caricature to a guy who knows about design/photography. His comment: “Too finished”.

Wat? Too “finished”?
Have consequently adopted a new thoughtful philosophy regarding feedback
IGNORE EVERYONE!

Source: http://www.quarehawk.com/blog/2011/07/26/barack-obama-caricature/

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Thanks

Source: http://blogdelanine.blogspot.com/2011/11/thanks.html

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Move Over Hallmark! Holiday Card Contest Winner Announced!!!

I want to thank all of you for all the wonderful entries for this year's Move Over Hallmark! Holiday Card Contest.

Who needs to go buy a holiday card from a drug store when you're as creative as, well, all of you! You all have helped us celebrate the holiday season at Artist Daily and American Artist magazine by creating your own holiday "card" (or cards!) and one of them has become our holiday eCard, which we will send out to all of our professional contacts and friends in the arts community and at Interweave, our parent company, this holiday season.

And without further ado, let me congratulate Alan Bateman, whose acrylic painting, Boxing Day, is our 2011 holiday e-card. This painting was inspired by a sleigh ride over the snow-covered rolling hills of Nova Scotia. Congratulations, Alan, and thank you! Your art has made our holiday season complete!

Source: http://www.artistdaily.com/blogs/artistdaily/archive/2011/12/13/holiday-card-contest-winner.aspx

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Art Can Live on Line Alone

When I think about how to draw the sights around me, my mind immediately starts envisioning line. For me, it is foundational for any good drawing. And I'm not alone. When I first saw artist Steven Ketchum's work I was amazed by all the ways he used line--and line alone--to make so many interesting and surprisingly emotive works. Here are a few of my favorites.

Ketchum isn't drawn to figures that are physically beautiful or idealized. In Yesterday's Party, a somewhat frowsy female figure is depicted with slightly wild hair and dark gaps in her mouth indicating missing or rotten teeth. But the look on her face is kind, and her smile is genuine and sweet. For Ketchum, the essence of beauty is not glamour but honesty coupled with compassion for the people he chooses to render.

Yesterday's Party by Steven Ketchum, 2010, ink on paper, 11 x 8.5.

Some of Ketchum's more poignant, if forlorn, works, such as Sign, feature figures with multiple hands or extra fingers. They may at first glance seem grotesque or disfigured, but Ketchum offers a different view. "I imagine someone who is desperate to have affection, to be loved, and how that, in a metaphorical sense, can mutate," he says. "How that genuine need can turn ugly and seem almost aggressive or scary--an act of desperation."

Ketchum is also not stumped by how to draw people with line, despite the volume and curves inherent in the human form.  In fact, he uses his drawings to play with the body in different states of action or movement. In Fall Down, Get Up, the figure is violently active, moving so fast he sports extra legs. He could be hurling through space, jerking from the impact of a bullet, having a seizure, or forcefully dancing.

Sign by Steven Ketchum, 2010, ink on paper, 30 x 22.			Get Up, Fall Down by Steven Ketchum, 2010, ink on paper, 24 x 18.

For Ketchum, drawing and sketching mastery is inextricably linked to mark making and line. In every issue of Drawing magazine, there is instruction and artist profiles that allow me to more fully understand how varied and exceptional line can be--along with shadows, hatching, gradation, curves, and all the rest of the tools a draftsman needs. I've learned so much from the artists in Drawing and I think your art deserves that same opportunity. Enjoy your subscription!

 

Source: http://www.artistdaily.com/blogs/artistdaily/archive/2011/12/05/art-can-live-on-line-alone.aspx

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Gift Caricature (Wedding)

Source: http://www.quarehawk.com/blog/2011/08/20/gift-caricature-wedding-4/

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Erin Riley, Laura Ledbetter, Anita Allyn in Wind Challenge 2

Societal breakdown is in the air at this season’s Wind Challenge 2 at Fleisher Art Memorial.� The three artists–Erin Riley, Anita Allyn and Laura Ledbetter–take very different approaches in the newest iteration of this revered series of juried art shows, dating back to 1978. Erin Riley’s 10 hand-woven, hand-dyed tapestries are the most personal, even [...]

Source: http://theartblog.org/2011/12/erin-riley-laura-ledbetter-anita-allyn-in-wind-challenge-2/

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Shower

A baby shower invite for a sweet friend :-)
Initial drawing was made with a micron pen & final illustration
with watercolors on paper.

Source: http://blogdelanine.blogspot.com/2011/11/shower.html

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TIJI Colour, Akama Studio

Colour (Vimeo link) is a beautifully realized short animation (2:30) in which a moving brush brings color to a black and white jungle landscape and its inhabitants — save one. Done for TIJI, which I believe is a French children’s channel, by Akama Studio. [Via DesignSwan by way of MetaFilter]

Source: http://www.linesandcolors.com/2011/12/16/tiji-colour-akama-studio/

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Ross

This is the last of this series for the time being. I've got some ideas about taking it forward but I have some other stuff to do right now.

Source: http://sketchoftheday.blogspot.com/2011/12/ross_10.html

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Ross

Here is another look, I'm trying to work out the best way to use the shot I was sent.

Source: http://sketchoftheday.blogspot.com/2011/12/ross_05.html

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Comic Crits, John Bonner

Comic Crits are book reviews done by artist John Bonner in the form of one page comic strips. The reviews are often (though certainly not always) of books in the science fiction or fantasy genres, such as Neal Stephenson’s Reamde (above top), and The year’s Best Science Fiction 28, edited by Gardner Dozois (above, bottom). [...]

Source: http://www.linesandcolors.com/2011/12/10/comic-crits-john-bonner/

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Ross

Another look.

Source: http://sketchoftheday.blogspot.com/2011/12/ross_08.html

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Fair Play: A Long, Tall Drink of Aqua

The posts so far:

Art Basel Miami Beach

Amuse Oeil

The World Wide Web

Occupy Miami?

Prologue: Head to Toe

Peekin' In.

I love the intimacy of the Aqua Art venue: two floors surrounding an inner courtyard, with small-scale works, for the most part, and plenty of natural light. I typically visit there after the sensory overload of ABMB, a welcome, er, palette cleanser.  Image from Aqua Art website

While most of the fairs are operated by promoters, Aqua is owned and run by artists, Seattle-based Jaq Chartier and Dirk Park, who started it seven years ago as way to give Northwest galleries more visibility. Aqua Art, so named because of its location in the Aqua Hotel, was so well received that after just one year it became established in the Miami lineup. From my point of view Aqua was a harbinger of alternative options for Miami. The dealer-owned and -run Seven, which we'll visit next, is one such option.

(I'm not so keen on the promoter-run fairs that show unrepresented artists, such as Fountain and Pool. The vetting process is not stringent, from what I can see, and indeed one of those venues, Pool, was closed down by the city because of permit issues. The artists, many of whom had planned to stay overnight in their exhibition rooms, were tossed on the street with nowhere to show and nowhere to go. Read about that here.)

But it was all good at Aqua. Here's some of what I saw:
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Arriving early, I watched Miles Conrad, director of the Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, adjust my paintings after installation. (There are more pics from the gallery later in the post)

At McKenzie Fine Art, New York: A salon-hung wall of Don Voisine paintings

A closer view of the large center painting  below
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At the Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York: Per Adolfson

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At Pentimenti, Philadelphia: Jackie Tileston painting, Cecilia Biagini wood-shim sculpture

At Littlejohn Contemporary, New York: Annette Davideck

At McKenzie Fine Art, New York: Gary Petersen geometries

At Boltax Gallery, New York: Pilar Olaverri abstraction, about 10 x 12 inches

At William Baczek Gallery, Northampton, Mass.: Jaq Chartier

At Alida Anderson Art Projects, Washington, D.C.: Sandra Ramos

At Toomey Tourell, San Francisco: Gregg Renfrow abstractions

Below: a peek into Toomey Tourell from the balcony

At Triple Base, San Francisco: Bryson Gill

At Season Gallery, Seattle: Sharon Butler

At Beth Urdang, Boston: Resa Blatman

At Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson: From left, Jessica Drenk, Eun Kyung-Suh, Robert Moya, Ruth Hiller; foreground, Cameron Luft

Below: closer view of Hiller's biomorphic painting

Two more views from Conrad Wilde: From left, my two Silk Road paintings, Cameron Luft sculpture (on wall and in foreground), Emily Silver watercolors, Jessica Drenk , Carrie Seid

Below: A peek into the closet, which is set up for viewing: John Dempcy paintings, David A. Clark installation of prints on (non-meant-to-be-worn) t-shirt forms. My favorite message: Buy Art

At gallery unidentified: James Sterling Pitt

Installation of three below

At Galleri Urbane, Marfa and Dalla: Jason Willaford

At Steve Turner Contemporary, San Francisco: Gabrielle Ferrer handcolored pages from the book,  The Navajo Blanket. (This is the second time in as many months that I've seen an artist use  this 35-year-old volume in service to their artmaking)

Single page detail below

At Littlejohn Contemporary, New York: Valerie Hammond prints

At the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design, the MFA program of Georgia State University, Atlanta: Bethany Collins chalk-on-slate drawings

Closeup view below

At Soil Gallery, Seattle: Ellen Zeigler drawing

At Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon: Ritsuko Ozeki etching

At Prole Drift, Seattle:  Jenny Heishman vessels printed with various basket weaves. Love these!

At Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco: Christian Machack sculpture with chair caning matrix

At Alida Anderson Art Projects., D.C.: Tim Tate sculpture, Dreams of Flying, with blown and cast glass and video

At Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Vallery, California: Jody Alexander

There are always great installations in the closets of hotel fairs. I spotted these small scuptures, with exposed book spines, on the top shelf

At Cain Schulte Contemporary Art, San Francisco: Shawn Smith sculpture

Detail below

At What Is Is Projects, Oak Park, Illinois: Tom Burtonwood wall

Next Up: Seven, a collective of seven commercial galleries showing in a Wynwood warehouse

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Source: http://joannemattera.blogspot.com/2011/12/fair-play-long-tall-drink-of-aqua.html

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