So, I’m an artist, and I use Linux as my OS.
Is there any interest out thee for an art management program like the following ones for Linux? Or is there something out there that I haven’t found?
| Program | Price | OSs Supported |
| Studio, Gallery-Pro, etc. | $800-$2500 | W, M? |
| eArtist | $125 | W,M |
| ArtWorks | $39 (“promotional”) $69 (“regular”) | W |
| My Art Collection | $50 | W,M |
How ’bout it, any interest, or is it just something that I need to develop for myself?
No, not the movie with Andy Garcia. That was all right, but not as good as, say, the short animation about Giacometti–The Eternal Gaze. No the real guy.
They are having a show of his small oeuvre at The Royal Academy in London. The Guardian has a nice article on it here.
I just finished a book about his nudes and portraits, aptly titled Amedeo Modigliani: Nudes and Portraits by Anette Kruszynski.
What (sometimes) amazes me is how different the different manufacturer’s paints are.
F’rinstance–today I went looking for some Pthalo blue acrylic paint, which I haven’t bough in several years, but decided that I needed for some paintings that I’m working on/thinking about. At my local craft/art store they carry three brands of artist’s acrylics–Liquitex, Winsor-Newton, and Golden–all very fine paints, and I use all of them, but… Here’s something to note, Golden is more expensive than W&N (about $2 for the Pthalo–and W&N calls their pthalo blue “Winsor blue”), and W&N is about $2 more expensive than Liquitex. W&N only has one shade of the pthalo blue, where Liquitex and Golden have 2 a “red”, and a “green”, which just means which way they slide on the color scale, and which way they go if you mix them with white.
All OK so far. Open the tubes up, and compare them. W&N and Liquitex look about the same for richness, and plastic-y look that acrylics have. So not too much difference there. Not so with the Golden. It has a richer blueness about it, and doesn’t have that plastic look to it. It’s beautiful. There’s definitely more pigment in it, and the acrylic polymer formula is obviously different then the other two brands.
Yes, it costs more, but with all that pigment in there, it’s obviously worth it.
So there you have it, sometimes more costly does mean better, and always comparison shop.
Well I’m back from my 2 month excursion.
It was interesting to say the least. I met some new friends, and got reaquainted with some old ones.
Old ones–if you’re ever in Barcelona, you must go to the Museu Picasso, you won’t regret it. An amazing collection.
New ones–In Cork, Ireland, The Crawford Museum, and Louis Le Brocquy, Mainie Jellet, and Harry Clarke, among others.
I even did some artwork, which I’ll upload to the gallery at some point–when I get pictures taken of it.
Well The Gimp is having it’s tenth anniversary. Just in time for the release of Gimp 2.2.10. And they’re having a SplashScreen Contest. I entered twice, you can see the entries below:
The Gimp is an Open Source project that doesn’t sucktm. It has many good qualities, and some that aren’t good (I really hate the UI–as do many people, more about that some other time.)
As a replacement for Photoshop it is lacking in some areas (the, afore-mentioned, UI, gif animation, image map slicing, and CMYK color management), and excels in others (scriptability, extensibility, portability–you can use it on Unix, Mac, and Windows, and price–free as in freedom, and beer.)
Rock on Wilber!
I saw Lee Bontecou’s work, for the first time, last year, at MOMA and, immediately fell in love with her work. I was doing something else today, and came across an other article about her here, with some work I hadn’t seen in the retrospective.
She was in Leo Castelli’s “stable”, with Rauschenberg and Johns, in the 60’s, and then, just walked away from it, but has continued to make art over the last 30+ years. And what art it is.
If you get a chance to see it in real life, do so, picture don’t do it real justice, as some of her welded pieces stick out from the wall 3 or 4 feet.
…I was an Oscar Mayer™ weiner….
Sometimes things don’t always go as well as planned–know what I mean?
My wife wanted an “abstract” for our living room, and I started one, that as I went along, found that I hated. So I flipped the panel over and painted what’s shown below.
It’s a darn good painting, but, of course, Jenny couldn’t deal with having it in the living room. Oh, well–at least I got a good painting out of it. I started on another for the livingroom last night, we’ll see how that goes over. 😀
My favorite quote from an interview with Norman Bluhm (1921-1999):
Today a lot of painters, and a lot of abstract painters, don’t draw at all. They don’t even know how to draw. I’ve always thought that one of the great elements of great art is drawing. From the Renaissance to Matisse and Picasso, and even the Impressionists — every one of the greater painters could draw.
I think as you get older, your knowledge naturally increases. Your desires become, and I don’t mean this in a religious context, more spiritual. The work has become more spiritual. The desire is to create another kind of space, another form of color.
