Here’s the upgrade made to our work “Channeling Susan Abbott” – we love the outcome. We took some of Susan’s larger watercolor works, cut them into one inch squares and reassembled them for this new interpretation. Her work is amazingly detailed and the beauty shines through no matter what the presentation.
Here’s a recent collage/mixed-media work we did on the mythological painting series of Rob Vander Zee. We took three of the major works, cut them in numbered strips, and reassembled them for this finished piece.
The Las Vegas Arts Council is holding their 19th annual call for entries for a national juried art exhibition in “Faces of Woman”. Entries celebrate some aspect of the feminine in symbolic or representational form in two or three dimensions. The exhibit will be displayed in the gallery space of the Las Vegas Arts Council’s new quarters on Bridge Street in Las Vegas’ Old Town Arts & Cultural District. This area attracts visitors from all over New Mexico as well as many out-of-state tourists and houses attractive galleries and restaurants.
The competition is jurored by Chuck Zimmer, who has worked for New Mexico Arts, Art in Public Places Program. He is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasener grant and his background incldes a MFA from Southern Illinois University. He is a teacher of fine arts and involved in community theater as designer and director.
Shauna Lee Lange of Shauna Lee Lange Arts Advisory, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia and serving the greater metropolitan area of Washington DC, will be submitting a work entitled “Scarred Smile” from her 2009 series in mixed media, watercolor, crayon, acrylic, and marker. Scarred Smile represents the first of the series to be entered into submission and is a new enterprise for the firm’s founder, also a self-taught and late emergent artist.
Scarred Smile is a self-portrait reflecting the artist’s formerly beautiful smile (thanks to mid 1970′s orthodontia), ruined in 2005 by an accidental fall in the shower. After the fall, the artist faced dental bills amounting to over $5,000 in replacement work. The shower fall also left the artist with a self-conscious scar on her lower lip, formed when the surgeon could not properly seal the fissure. The self-portrait reveals the dark lipstick hues the artist still uses to try and conceal the flaw along with the damage to her vanity – resulting in now always closed lip smiles.
Here’s an art work finished on the 4th after a day of on the job, in the home, and relationship DISAPPOINTMENT and FRUSTRATION. Don’t we all have them?
| Save the dates! Please join us for the following events this spring:
20 March 2009: Kevin Fitzgerald, ‘New Works’ 8 May 2009: Geoffrey Johnson, ‘New Paintings’ *GALLERY FAVORITES* NEW ARTIST: Principle Gallery is proud to represent Missouri-based landscape artist, Jeff Aeling. The artist’s universal landscapes possess a stunning intimacy that conveys unexpected power and emotion. His brush strokes are gestural, often painted at arm’s length, as he applies pigment to panel using the fewest number of brush strokes. His work has been shown in exhibitions and placed in private collections all over the United States.
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RUSSIAN REALISM: CONTEMPORARY & SOVIET ERA
A collection of works by artists including Nepostoev, Podobedov, Timofeyev, Belyayev, Kiyanchenko, Motov, Mateev, and Khmelintisky.
 Calling all DC photographers! Ever daydream what it would be like to be a museum photographer? (Sure you have.) Well, here’s your chance to help American Art illustrate Wikipedia articles with images from our collection (and you might win prizes in the process). Over the next month we are participating inWikipedia Loves Art, a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest among 15 museums and cultural institutions worldwide. The project, in conjunction with Flickr, is aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles. The event is planned to run for the whole month of February 2009. We’re inviting you to come into the museum and shoot photos of our artworks based on various themes. You can shoot on your own or form a small team (10 people, tops). The photogs or teams with the most points will win prizes. Here are all the details on how to sign up. Hope to see you walking our American Art halls with camera in hand soon! |
I’m a sporadic journaler, or have been. Much like I’m a sporadic band sampler-maker (more on that in another post!) I have kept and abandoned journals and diaries of all kinds since I was 10.
My first was a little locking diary that my grandmother gave me. I remember it was red, and I got angry with it very quickly because it only had five lines per day, and they weren’t far enough apart to write in anyway. That attempt lasted about five days. (I was determined.)
When I was twelve, that grandmother – my special friend – died and I was very lonely. I don’ tknow what made me realize that I could journal in a spiral bound notebook — or that I could address entries to my Nini — but I did both. The letter-writing campaign helped me through my grief and the tribulations of Jr. High School.
I’ve been sporadic about it since — lots of writing — my journals were always words. I had sporadic sketchbooks of bad drawings as well, and steno pads full of novel notes — oh, and later a day planner which I still use for organization and calender-keeping.
Then in 2007 I took Sharon Boggon’s Studio Journal course online, and suddenly all of this had a point — sketchbook and sporadic journal have been consolidated — the “novels” none ever finished — will probably remain in steno pads and three-ring binders so that they stay together. Not to mention that writing fiction no longer appeals quite so much.
Then over the past year I discovered “art journaling” in a real way, rather than in the “oh look at those gorgeous pages in that artist’s journal, but why would I want to make that kind of art it’s not my cup of tea” kind of way. I still don’t think the making a beautiful page method will ever apply to my stuff — my art is more about playing with neat techniques and trying things out than getting deep into my soul — but i reserve the right to go wherever I feel like it in my journals — from bad art to bad poetry and up to great on both of those. 
And I’m shamelessly stealing techniques from the mixed media and art journalers. And by using the art journaling techniques such as Kelly Kilmer teaches in her Prompt a Day class (yes, I’m taking the February course…) and combining it with the splash and go method Ricë Freeman-Zachery propounds in her “journal spanks” prompts that just say that it’s YOUR book, just USE it! And combining it with Sharon’s “composting” method, I have to admit that my creativity has increased recently.
So if I’m missing from the blog for a post or two, don’t panic, I’m probably just stitching or painting! (Or shimmying, but that probably goes without saying! TWO count ‘em TWO shows this month!!!)
The Pilot P-500 Gel Ink Rollerball Pen, Extra Point, 0.5 mm, Black is just an amazing joy to write and draw with. Here’s a couple of other fine endorsements from amazon.com.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
 Head and feet above the rest., February 14, 2006
Well, this pen is unbelievable. I highly recommend this pen to everyone. |
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
My favorite pen. Period., December 14, 2006
I can’t believe I’m writing a review of a pen, but this has been my favorite for years. It’s virtually impossible to find the P-500 in office supply stores (the thicker 0.7mm P-500 is the one sold by Office Max, Target, etc), but the P-500 has typically been a “special order”. I like that it makes a very smooth, consistent line (lots of gel rollers “hiccup” and leave blank spaces on the page) and writes first time, every time. I also prefer the finer point of the P-500 because I often write quite small and it makes a very precise line. Like other reviewers, I’ve bought more expensive technical pens, but none has matched up to this “pedestrian” drug store pen. I doubt I’ll ever write another review of a pen, but this one is worth it. |
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Best pen in the world, October 17, 2006
I know some crazy people who like ballpoints and just don’t like this pen, but I love it. I’m sure you could go buy some fancy boutique brand for hundreds of dollars or an artist-specific brand and really expensive ink, but for something off the shelf, there’s nothing better. The ink is smooth and consistent. The fine tip is super precise. It feels great in your hand. For writing or drawing this is just plain the best pen in the world. Unfortunately they are getting harder to find in stores so buy a bunch now and stockpile them! |
The National Gallery of Art is featuring some great podcasts and lectures during February on Vermeer.
Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance is an allegorical scene that urges us to conduct our lives with temperance and moderation. The painting within the painting offers an important clue: theLast Judgment is placed directly behind the woman, who holds a balance and stands before a table strewn with earthly treasures. Her contemplative gaze, as she waits for the balance to reach equilibrium, seems to acknowledge that temporal decisions will have eternal consequences. On view in the West Building, Main Floor, Gallery 50C. Learn more in our new video podcast,Vermeer: Master of Light—The Music Lesson, Part 1, and Girl with the Red Hat, Part 2.
http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=1236 (Woman Holding a Balance)
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/tbio?tperson=1951 (Vermeer biography)
http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm#video (Vermeer: Master of Light, The Music Lesson, Part 1—video podcast)
http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm#video (Vermeer: Master of Light, Girl with the Red Hat, Part 2—video podcast)
http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm#audio (The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren—audio podcast)
http://shop.nga.gov/nga/category.cgi?item=410000279342 (purchase The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren)
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg51/gg51-main1.html (Johannes Vermeer and Dutch Scenes of Daily Life in the 1600s online tour)
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