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 Thursday, September 11, 2008
Sharon Sprung: Solo Show
 Judging from the enthusiastic response we've had to our April cover artist, Sharon Sprung, those of you who live in the New York City area will want to be sure to catch her solo show at Gallery Henoch, starting today, Thursday, September 11.  Can't make the show? Then visit her website. Better yet, get some personal instruction from her video workshops, Understanding Values in Skin Tones with Sharon Sprung and Painting Facial Features with Sharon Sprung, produced for ArtistsNetwork.TV at top: Harlequin (oil on panel, 36x50) at right: Bowls (oil on panel, 34x36) Photos courtesy of Sharon Sprung
By Holly Davis | Notable Artists | Shows and Events
9/11/2008 5:25:14 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00) 
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Don't Fall Prey to Internet Frauds!
 We've all heard those terrible stories about artists being scammed out of
hundreds, even thousands, of dollars—and sometimes losing their artwork as well. The website www.artscams.com gives you tips for protecting yourself
and descriptions of the latest Internet frauds. Be smart; be informed—don't be a victim.
Advice | By Chris McHugh | Cool Web sites | Tips
9/10/2008 3:40:52 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Thursday, September 04, 2008
23 Tons and Whadya Get?
 … a place to rest the body and the eyes. Sculptor S. Gallina Simpson has just begun carving The Stones at Atlas Park, three sculpted limestone benches at The Shops of Atlas Park in Glendale, New York. She plans to hammer, chisel, saw, sand and grind seven days a week until the project is complete in late September. (My arms ache just thinking about it.) Although now in their permanent home, the 23 tons of limestone that will make up the benches/sculptures are remarkably well traveled, having been quarried a year ago in Bloomington, Indiana, and then shipped to a sculpture fabricator in New Jersey. After having the blocks hewed to the necessary basic shapes, Simpson further shaped the stones with handheld tools. Simpson will allow final design details to evolve during her carving, as nearby architecture, landscape, history and the play of light and shadow weigh in their influences.  If you live in the Glendale area, you can stop by periodically this month to see the sculpted benches taking shape. Otherwise, I’d suggest visiting Simpson’s website to see a slide show of her Atlas Park sculpture plus pictures of her previous work—both benches and figurative pieces. Photos used by permission; at top: aerial view of blocks at right: sculptor S. Gallina Simpson carving with a cutsaw
By Holly Davis | News | Notable Artists
9/4/2008 4:55:07 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Salt Evaporation Ponds?
Isn't this amazing? These vivid colors and interesting patterns are the result of harvesting salt in evaporation ponds. The different colors occur because micro-organisms' hues change with the degree of salinity of the water. Read the entire article here on www.colourlovers.com. It may take a minute for the article to download, but it will be worth the read and the gorgeous photos. All the images are collected from Google Earth by landsmiths. 
By Chris McHugh | Cool Web sites | News
9/2/2008 2:43:37 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Friday, August 29, 2008
The Race Goes On
 The China Olympics are over, but sports themselves seem to be as old as civilization—or the human race, if you’ll pardon the pun. I’m fascinated by the series of works by Australian aboriginal artist, Wingla Dada (also known as Brian Fisher), depicting the legend-based origins of various sports. In The Origin of Swimming (above), the Rainbow Serpent is seen carving out the canals that became rivers and streams. In the center is an early aboriginal swimmer, attempting to imitate the superior swimming technique of fish. I recommend taking a look at Wingla Dada’s entire series, An Aboriginal Version of the Olympic Games and reading about the legends behind the works. And if you like that series, you’ll also want to check out the artist's Dreamtime series.
By Holly Davis | Notable Artists
8/29/2008 11:41:12 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Friday, August 22, 2008
Just the Facts—on Artists
Ever wonder how many working artists there are in the United States? Answer: Almost two million (as of 2005). That number includes all types of artists—painters, designers, writers, dancers, etc. If you’re only talking about people like fine artists, art directors and animators, the number slips to about 217,000—still a hefty representation. Ever wonder how much money the average artist earns in a year? Or what percentage of artists are male or female or members of a minority? Or what the average level of education is for artists? Ever wonder what city boasts the highest number of artists? (Hint: If you’re talking about fine artists, art directors and animators, the answer isn’t New York— nor Los Angeles.) You can find answers to all these questions and more in the newly released report, Artists in the Workforce: 1990-2005, created by the National Endowment for the Arts. Download a free PDF of this surprisingly readable and easy-to-navigate 148-page report (or the eight-page summary) and get the facts—on artists.
By Holly Davis | Downloads | Free Stuff
8/22/2008 10:57:21 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
The World's Children Create Art in Beijing
Robert Wyland, the official artist for the U.S. Olympics team, determined, thirty years ago, to paint 100 "whaling walls" that would depict the world's oceans and celebrate the diversity of life contained therein. He saved his 100th one for Beijing, whose unveiling coincided with the 2008 Olympic Games. Placed in the Beijing International Sculpture Park, the Great Green Wall of China spans almost two miles. What is particularly wonderful is the fact that it's the work not only of the artist himself but of a multitude of children from around the world. Appearing as principal speaker at the Tunza International Children's Conference on the Environment, he invited the children of the world to join him at this, the first Green Olympics, to paint the world's waters—an initiative he called "Hands Across the Ocean." "Water connects people all across the world—and every drop of water counts," says Wyland. Each panel of the mural is devoted to one of the 205 countries sending athletes to Beijing. Of his collaborators, Wyland says, "Only Picasso could paint like these kids; they are better artists than I am." See a beautiful film of the children at work alongside Wyland here:
By Maureen Bloomfield | Shows and Events | Videos
8/21/2008 1:38:29 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Take our online survey
To better serve visitors of ArtistsNetwork.com, our online team has created a survey to get your feedback. We'd like to know what you think so we can make ArtistsNetwork.com an even better resource for artists! Click here to take the survey.
By Grace Dobush | News
8/19/2008 12:22:31 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
See the Light
 “Leave a light in the window” has taken on a whole new scope of meaning at the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, Ohio, since last Friday. That’s the day artist James Turrell’s permanent installation of a light show first lit up Palm House, the conservatory’s Victorian-style greenhouse. Seven thousand inconspicuously strung, low-voltage, light-emitting (LED) bulbs now emit a glowing display of changing jewel-like hues from dusk-to-dawn. Click here for the Columbus Dispatch article about the Palm House installation. Turrell, the artistic mastermind of the Palm House installation, is no neophyte when it comes to light shows, having put on 140 solo exhibitions worldwide since 1967—utilizing many types of artificial light, including neon, fiber optics, fluorescents and lasers. He’s best known for his 35-year project at the Roden Crater, a natural cinder volcano in Arizona’s Painted Desert. Click here for a PBS biography of Turrell plus multimedia links about his work.   Photography © Brad Feinknopf 2008
By Holly Davis | Exhibits | Notable Artists
8/14/2008 6:19:24 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Comic legends rally for Holocaust artist
From The New York Times: Three of the elder statesmen of comic books — Neal Adams, Joe Kubert and Stan Lee ... are lending their talents to tell the tale of Dina Gottliebova Babbitt,
who survived two years at the Auschwitz concentration camp by painting
watercolor portraits for the infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele. Some of
the artwork also survived, but it is in the possession of the
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland. Now 85 and living in
California, Mrs. Babbitt wants the artwork back, but the museum has
steadfastly refused to return it.
Read the whole article here.
By Grace Dobush | News
8/13/2008 9:58:08 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Monday, August 11, 2008
Ron Monsma at Miller Gallery
Saturday the Miller Gallery hosted the fabulous painter Ron Monsma as part of its Up Close and Personal: summer artist demonstration series. Monsma, who works in oil as well as pastel, is well- known to readers of The Artist's Magazine and Pastel Journal; he set up his easel in front of the model's stand near a window at 11:00 am. When my older daughter Katherine and I dropped in around twelve, the portrait was already in splendid progress. Pastels of all types in clear boxes arrayed around him, Monsma gave a breathtaking demonstration of glazing, as he rendered the color of the model’s skin and hair more complex with the addition of acidic greens. Among the attentive onlookers were many local artists; snapping photos was the talented abstract artist and photographer, Shannon Godby.
Monsma is the head of the Drawing and Painting Department at Indiana University in South Bend. Among his most recent honors is winning the Jack Richeson Best of Show award in the 9th annual Pastel 100. To read Anne Hevener's insightful article and to see a slide show of Monsma's world-class work, click here. And you can still order a copy of the February issue here. 
Ron Monsma arranges his pastels at Miller Gallery. Photo by Shannon Godby.
By Maureen Bloomfield | Notable Artists | Shows and Events
8/11/2008 9:17:01 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Friday, August 08, 2008
Watercolorist Paul Jackson competes in China
 Watercolorist Paul Jackson is "Team America" in The International Watercolor Masters Invitational Exhibition at Lu Mountain in China, billed as featuring the "top 20 watercolorists from around the world." Not only is he one of a mere three Americans invited (and the only one to make the trip) but also, tonight he addresses 2000 Chinese and 20 international artists at the opening dinner. To the left is The Cardinal (National Cathedral in Washington D.C.)—one of the three architectural paintings Jackson will have on view during the exhibition. And Jackson will be creating more art as he competes in a sort of plein air paint-off with acclaimed Chinese watercolorists. Some of the resulting artwork will be donated to help those affected by earthquakes in southwest China. Wish you were there? Check out Jackson's travel blog at www.pauljackson.com/blog/. Want to see more of Jackson's work? Go to his website (www.pauljackson.com) and check out his feature article in the April 2008 issue of Watercolor Artist.
By Holly Davis | Exhibits | Notable Artists
8/8/2008 12:50:59 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Chinese Garden Sculpture
I love this contemporary Chinese sculpture, Mother and Son, by Lu Shengzhong, which is featured this
summer in the exhibition “Chinese Gardens for Living: Illusion into
Reality” by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in association with the National
Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing. As she celebrates the birth of her child, the mother seems to assume the goddess pose in yoga. It's no surprise this
artwork holds special meaning for me—our first grandchild, a
little girl, will be making her debut very, very soon! The image is
courtesy of Art Knowledge News.
By Chris McHugh | Exhibits
8/5/2008 4:46:22 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Friday, August 01, 2008 Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Color Inspiration from the Masters
Here’s a great blog article from COLOURLovers.com, a fantastic site for professionals who work with color—and those of us who crave color like chocolate. In this article, one contributor has taken famous paintings and illustrates for us the color palettes that inspired the masters who painted them. You'll see The Water Lily Pond by Monet, Marilyn Monroe by Warhol, Persistence of Memory by Dali, just to mention a few. See the article here.
By Chris McHugh | Cool Web sites | Notable Artists
7/30/2008 9:28:00 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Calling Artists Over 60!
Last year around this time, we put out a call to artists over 60 (not knowing at all what we were getting ourselves into). We received more than 600 nominations, and the resulting article, " Splendid Over 60" in the March 2008 issue, featured the work of 21 stellar artists.
We're bringing it back for an encore! If you (or someone you know) are a fabulous artist 60 or older, we want to know!
Feel free to nominate yourself—we won't think you're conceited! (But please don't have all your friends, relatives and neighbors e-mail us. This isn't a popularity contest—we only need your name once for you to be in the running.)
And because our intention is to showcase artists unfamiliar to us, we ask those artists who were among the 2008 crop of "Splendid over 60" and/or have had their work featured in The Artist's Magazine within the last three years to give others a chance.
How to enter: Send five to 10 images (on a CD, as slides, or visible on a website) and the artist's name, birth date and contact information (e-mail, phone and/or mailing address). We regret that we can only return materials if they are accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Do not, under any circumstances, send the only existing copies of your slides or prints!
The deadline for nominations is October 1, 2008.
E-mail your submission to over60@fwpubs.com, or mail it to:
Artists over 60
The Artist's Magazine
4700 E. Galbraith Road
Cincinnati OH 45236
We ask, too, that you please refrain from calling or e-mailing us to check if we received your submission; we cannot respond to every submission. We will get in touch with the selected artists by the end of October.
Make sure to read the March 2009 issue of The Artist's Magazine to see who makes the cut!
By Grace Dobush | News
7/29/2008 3:22:19 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Save Your Junk Mail!
Those flyers, print ads, greeting cards and postcards are valuable art materials! At least they are in the hands of S.A. Schimmel Gold, who cuts them into bits and pieces for her mosaic portraits. Why use paper? As she puts it, “ink colors are far more diverse than glass or tile.”   Metallic Venus (18x24) and detail, by S.A. Schimmel Gold Turning Leaf by S.A. Schimmel GoldTo be wowed by more of Schimmel Gold’s work, visit her website at http://schimmelart.com/index.htm. Most of Schimmel Gold’s portraits have a decidedly contemporary glam about them, yet the basic method of assembling tiny pieces of color to create a picture dates back 4000 years. To see mosaics of every age and style (plus learn just about everything there is to know about the art) take a cyberspace stroll through www.thejoyofshards.co.uk. Thinking about mosaics sent me on a nostalgic journey recalling other mosaics I’ve encountered (including the candy dish my sister made in early school years). Suddenly I remembered the mosaic on the outside front wall of the church I attended through much of my childhood. The church is on Cedar Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Have any of you ever seen the mosaic? Let me know—or tell me about another mosaic that’s special to you.
By Holly Davis | Cool Web sites | Notable Artists
7/29/2008 3:17:52 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Friday, July 25, 2008
Eye-Opener
I’ve been intrigued by optical illusions since I was a kid. Here’s a striking painting by Victor Vasarely titled Vega-Nor, 1969 (oil on canvas). The exhibition “Op Art Revisited: Selections from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery” will be showcased at the Albright-Knox in Buffalo, New York, July 18 through January 25, 2009.  By the way, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery has a truly fantastic collection of modern and contemporary art. Click here to read a history of Op art by Associate Curator Holly E. Hughes. To enjoy a fun visual feast, check out Michael Bach’s website featuring 78 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena.
By Chris McHugh | Cool Web sites
7/25/2008 10:28:59 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Hey, Elvis! Statue?
Another Elvis sighting, folks. This time in a 1800-year-old marble carving owned by Australian antiquities collector, Graham Geddes. The resemblance of this piece to the 1950's King of Rock is startling, and this October you have a chance to make it your own (for a pretty price) at a Bonhams auction. Or you could settle for taking a look here.
By Holly Davis | News | Shows and Events
7/22/2008 9:38:09 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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