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 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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Monday, July 21, 2008
'Artist over 60' Robert Guthrie passes away
 I was sad to learn this morning that Robert Guthrie, one of the 21 artists over 60 featured in our March issue, passed away July 3 at the age of 72. He was an incredibly talented
colored pencil artist who overcame cataracts to continue making art. He
had this to say in our March issue:
"In art there doesn't seem to be any hard and fast rule that can't be
broken. Every time I think I've learned one, someone comes along and
breaks it, and it works!"
Above, Homage to Hopper by Robert Guthrie (colored pencil, 19x31).
By Grace Dobush | News | Notable Artists
7/21/2008 9:58:36 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Shape and Space
If you’ve ever driven a companion (or yourself) crazy by pacing back and forth and all around to get the best camera or easel angle for a landscape, you’ll appreciate this exercise I found about shape and space. Here’s the idea: Imagine traveling in a large circle and taking four photographs along the way. After developing the photos, you get them out of order. Could you put them back in sequence on the basis of the spatial relationship of the structures you had passed? Okay, now that you have the idea, check out “I Took a Trip on a Train” and see how you do. (Go to http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/math/geometry/space/train/index.html.)
By Holly Davis | Cool Web sites
7/17/2008 11:59:45 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Monday, July 14, 2008
Call for Entries!
The Artist's Magazine is happy to announce our 2008 All-Media Online Competition! You can compete and win in seven categories this year: (1) Oil and oil pastel; (2) acrylic; (3) watercolor; (4) pastel; (5) mixed media and collage; (6) graphite, charcoal and colored pencil; and (7) digital art! Click here to learn details about the prizes and how to enter.
By Chris McHugh | News
7/14/2008 2:53:31 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Friday, July 11, 2008
Another Sharon Sprung video!
Hey there! Snuck back again to post another free preview of Sharon Sprung's workshops on ArtistsNetwork.TV. This one is live for subscribers already, and will be available for individual purchase soon!
By Grace Dobush | Free Stuff | Videos
7/11/2008 9:38:49 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Name that painting
Think you know your artists and their paintings? Artists Network forum member Terry (user name tstone) came up with this link to a great interactive Web game that tests your ability to match artists with their paintings. The game takes a minute or two to load, so be patient. Once you’re in, the game moves as quickly (or slowly) as you want. What’s more, it’s addictive. One of about 150 paintings appears on your monitor, and you choose which of the 75 or so listed artists created the work. If you get the correct artist, you get to choose the correct painting title. Then on to the next painting. This beats solitaire any day. Try it and let me know what you think.
By Holly Davis | Cool Web sites | Downloads
7/10/2008 3:20:29 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Friday, July 04, 2008
Painting realistic skin tones
Hey, folks! Just snuck back on the blog to post this preview video of ArtistsNetwork.TV's new workshops, which are going live very soon! In this one, contemporary realist Sharon Sprung discusses and demonstrates how you can paint realistic skin tones:
By Grace Dobush | Free Stuff | Videos
7/4/2008 4:19:14 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Thursday, July 03, 2008
Portrait Artist with a Heart
Can artists use their skills to make the world a kinder place? Portrait artist Kaziah Hancock has found a way. With her paintings, she reaches out in sympathy and love to those who have suffered one of the greatest losses possible—the death of an adult child. Using a photo reference, she paints portraits of fallen troops and sends them to the surviving parents as a gift. You can view an inspiring video about Kaziah and her work at http://www.militarytimes.com/hancock“Kaziah figured out years ago that an artist can do little to stop a war. Her gift would be a deliverance to the people left to battle at home.” –from the video
By Holly Davis | Notable Artists | Videos
7/3/2008 12:02:32 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Antonio López at Christie's
In our July/August issue we featured Antonio López García's transcendentally beautiful work ("Reality as Revelation" by Robert K. Carsten). At the most recent Christie's auction in London, Antonio López's Madrid desde Torres Blancas sold for $2,760,803—breaking previous records for this Spanish master. Madrid desde Torres Blancas is similar in tone and scope to View of Madrid from the Torres de Bomberos de Vallecas that appears in our article (see page 40 of the July-August issue). Antonio García typically spends a decade on a painting. His work is painfully beautiful, as it records shifts in perception, as well as deliquescence, both inevitable with the passage of time. Robert Hughes has called Antonio "the greatest realist artist alive," and painters everywhere revere him. At a recent opening for Daniel Greene's pictures in pastel and oil at Miller Gallery (Daniel E. Greene was our judge in our annual competition's Still Life category), I ran into Jonathan Queen, a fabulously playful painter, who told me he and the equally talented Emil Robinson (whose portraits appeared in the April 2007 TAM) were planning to make a pilgrimage to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts to catch the rare retrospective of Antonio's work on view until July 27th. (As an analogue to that exhibition, the MFA is also showing El Greco to Velásquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III.)The July-August 2008 issue is still on sale on newsstands, but if you want it—or the April 2007 issue featuring Emil's work—delivered, go to www.fwmagazines.com/category/the-artists-magazine to place an order. 
By Maureen Bloomfield | News | Shows and Events
7/2/2008 10:43:51 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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