ArtyFactory has a page on the evolution of a lithograph of a bull done by Picasso in1945.
From a full fledged “realistic” drawing to the twelve line essence of the animal in the final print.
There’s more interesting stuff on the site also, if you can get past the wretched design.
I found this artist through Lines and Colors website.
So cool I downloaded a pic to use as my desktop for a bit.
Also has a website here.
A friend sent me this last week, and I’ve started on it.
Check it out on Amazon
The Comics Reporter
Steve Gerber died on Sunday. His Howard the Duck (the comic not the atrocious film) was probably one of the highlights of my youth, and one of the things that made me the person I am today.
More about him here, and Howard.
Diederick Kraaijeveld (Oudhout/Oldwood, The Netherlands, 1963) builds classic and modern icons in vintage reclaimed wood; an Airstream trailer, a Porsche 911 or a pair of Chuck Taylors (All Star sneakers)…With sometimes century-old painted planks, salvaged during intensive trips along dumpsters, old Amsterdam canal mansions, run down farms and faraway coasts, Kraaijeveld “paints” photo-realistic images… His palette is not filled with paint in all its different colors: a huge warehouse full of old wooden planks forms the base of each work of art.
This is the ultimate in recycling/collage. Check out his gallery.
Here’s his Red All Stars:
Over a meter wide. He, also has done a blue version and is planning a black version.
Via Juxtapoz
immaculate heart college art department rules (tecznotes)
From Sister Corita Kent
1. Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.
2. General duties of a student: pull everything out of your teacher, pull everything out of your fellow students.
3. General duties of a teacher: pull everything out of your students.
4. Consider everything an experiment.
5. Be self-disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.
6. Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.
7. The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
8. Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes.
9. Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.
10. “We’re breaking all of the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.” – John Cage.Helpful hints: Always be around. Come or go to everything always. Go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully often. Save everything, it might come in handy later.
There should be new rules next week.
Yeah I copied and pasted the whole thing, because (1) it’s short, and (2) I want to save it where I know I can find it.
Found via BoingBoing
Geraldine Newfry makes books/journals using various materials, including polymer clay. Check out her gallery
All sorts of funky coolness, like this computer case:
He, also, shows his process in some of the items in the gallery. Even cooler.
Mechanical Chic – the Jewelry of Connie Verrusio
Fascinated by the way things work, Connie Verrusio creates radical new jewelry forms from leftover functions.
Connie Verrucio who uses mechanical “junk” to make fine jewelry. Gears, lugpins, screws, nails, old film–they don’t sound like the subjects of fine jewelry, but that’s just what Connie Verrusio turns them into.
“I am fascinated by all things mechanical,” she says, “and the choices I make reflect a deep reverence for the quality of workmanship, all too often a thing of the past.”
It’s steampunk without the attitude.
