The Auction block that is.
I’ve been invited to participate in the 2007 KIDS’N CAMP ART AUCTION put on by the Portland, ME chapter of the Salvation Army, on Thursday, March 8th from 5:30pm to 9:00pm.
Blockhead–Acrylic paint, and objects on masonite 18×12 approx.
It’s a good cause, I hope they make some money. You can go to Portland for the auction (directions on the site), or bid online for some items (check the details here).
I haven’t read Gravity’s Rainbow, but after seeing this, I think I need to.
One illustration for each page of the book.
In dead tree form: Amazon
More on Zak Smith, who happens to be a very cool dude.
Jenny and I spent our fifth anniversary having our pictures taken at Sears, and visiting the Farnsworth Art Museum, in Rockland. We got to see a bunch of Wyeth stuff, and yeehaw!!! Louise Nevelson is back in the house after a 4 year absence.
We took our picture in front of Robert Indiana’s Love sculpture:
Everybody else is doing top 10 lists, why not me. 😀
There’s really so much more like Cobh, Ireland, other bands, and download sites, my kids, my cats, my dad, ART books, not having internet for 2 months, Richard Dawkins, Keith Olberman, and many, many other things that I can’t think of, but, these are my top 10 cool things.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/art/
Your results
Your favourite type of art is Japanese ukiyo-e.
In the personality profile you had a high intellectualism score, which suggests you like to think about abstract ideas and have a creative imagination.
People who are the same age and sex as you are most likely to prefer Impressionism
People who also score highly in your dominant personality trait are most likely to prefer Impressionism
I never seem to fit the curve. 🙂
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. In an evolving universe, who stands still moves backwards.
These words seem appropriate for our times, don’t they? Brought to us by a man of wit and intelligence, and brought back to me by a visit to his website, after reading news of his present difficulties.
I learned a lot from Mr. Wilson, and his writings (The Illuminatus Trilogy, etal., Cosmic Trigger, Prometheus Rising, etc.), and was saddened to hear that not only is he ill, but couldn’t even pay his rent for the few months he has left (he can now, thanks to the generosity of his fans), and thought I’d post this to get it out a little more. (It even hit /. I see, but that’s the usual troll/moron fest that /. seems to have become lately). If you’d like to contribute checkout the BoingBoing posts above, they tell you how.
Peace out.
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.
