Sketchbook Tour 2012 starts in Brooklyn

http://www.arthousecoop.com/submissions/58512-kawanhee-boathouse-chair
My sketchbook is catalogue number 156.19-1

at the Brooklyn Art Library

and will continue on across N. America,
so check the schedule and mark your calendars

May 3-5 in Chicago, IL at
Hyde Park Art Center

May 11-13 in Portland, OR at
The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel

May 15-16 in Vancouver, Canada at
W2 Media Cafe

May 24-26 in Los Angeles, CA at
iam8bit

June 2-23 in San Francisco, CA at
Pop-Up Shop

July 6-8 near Boston, MA at
LynnArts

July 11-14 in Portland, Maine at
SPACE Gallery

July 18-22 in Toronto, Canada at
The Gladstone Hotel

Aug 23-25 in Philadelphia, PA at
The Painted Bride

Aug 29 - Sept 1 in Atlanta at
MASS Collective

Sept 8-16 in Austin, TX at
Co-Lab Project Space

Sienna Art Institute

September 24, 2011
"Drawn Together"
Inaugural Exhibition of the Siena Art Institute


http://www.sienaart.org/

General Drawing blog

I just started this new blog for the sake of art students enrolled in my General Drawing class at Fairleigh Dickinson University. It acts as a supplement to the class work. Feel free to comment on it. I am particularly interested in the comments from current students as well as fellow artists.



This 60 second drawing is an example of how you want to address the entire page at the start.
You can use a light touch to feel your way around the page and dictate how you want to crop what you see in front of you, turning into a picture on a page.
Quickly define where the shadows will be. You can fine tune later with an eraser and a pencil/charcoal to make the light areas lighter (eraser) and the dark areas darker (pencil/charcoal).

experiment with different backgrounds for the water paintings
Leaving a field of raw canvas is good. It denotes an unfinished and unknown quality to that which is beyond the main figure.

Might be worth using gold or copper for a ground to tie the concept of the unknown, the spiritual, the holy, into the same sense of fear and awe found in old Byznatine art.

Blue would be the western version as evidenced by the mystical quality (and expense of) given to the sky in Renaissance art,

and by the meditative blue color field painting of Yves Klein.

Probably the most interesting thing (to me) about the International Klein Blue is that it is beyond the color gamut of computer screens, thus cannot be represented accurately. The same can be said of many hues of real gold. Which brings me back to the original idea: using color (or nothingness) as a stand in for that which cannot be fully known in conciousness; either because it is not yet experienced, or is simply beyond our ability to understand.

Give it a rating and help me out

click this link
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?showpic=84812



I have an entire theme that will turn into a body of work for these competitions on-line. Saatchi Gallery is, well, I really don't know if I like it or not. It's kind of the annoying blockbuster movie that is really populist and full of spectacle. But, I must admit that, even at it's big-consumer heart, the gallery is trying to make the art world more connected and smaller.

Of course the root intention is to garner attention and therefore gain larger market share, but if it drags some unique work out from the shadows in the process then some good will be done. Also, there is a possibility that people who create art as a recreation, in their spare time, apart from their "real job" could be exposed as passionate artists with some skill, then bravo. After all, how many "artists" are working in the "art field" anyway?

So, as I've asked before, please vote for my work. Give it the best rating you think it deserves. Keep checking back for more updates and more artwork.

Thank you.

whitewater gestures two

Wave Block Prints

are all framed up and ready for sale on the internet.



HERE

2imagine.net surf boards and art

2imagine

This guy figured out how to get printed art onto his hand made surfboards. I know he's worked with artists in the past, and probably still will for those super custom designs, but the process he is using allows for a larger variety of expression on deck for your surfing session. Pretty cool.

( I ripped this one from his blog because it is my favorite of the batch. It's called "Phoenix")

Not much "Art" lately, but plenty of art

A friend of mine made a funny comment to me today. He was suprised that I didn't know all about fontface.com and some other pretty basic graphic artist things. He said, "you're an artist and you don't know about fonts?" Sure, I know about fonts, but I think that he had a misunderstanding of my artistic training. When I got my undergrad degree, the user interfaces for graphic arts on computers were still fairly tech-heavy and awkward. Add that on top of my interests being messy, thick paint,and it's pretty easy to understand why my personal art world is quite different from how the graphic art world has grown over the past decade.




http://www.cafepress.com/artandwater.110921958


I took a Photoshop course in 1993. It was really frustrating back then, but I managed. I am forever grateful that I took the course because I have found myself using the program more and more every year.


Lately I have been making an effort to play a little bit of "catch-up" and really diving into the computer world. Of course, my twisted desire for a genuine, (and often complex) understanding of things will lead me into some frustrating corners. But, I'm sure I'll come out of it with a good understanding.

(At the very least I'll have some cool images for tshirts. Nothing wrong with that!)Women's Tshirt

something old, something new

http://www.cafepress.com/artandwater/92109
some postes of older work

http://www.cafepress.com/artandwater/92393
tshirt I designed about the "water" part of things.

Waterwoman

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=18481433&albumID=0&imageID=1429004018
I actually found an artist on Myspace!

Prof. Chris Witcombe talks about art and water

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/water/art.html

Art and Water

time to update the artandwater main site with new art and a new look
that is the project for the rest of this winter
I should have the first update mid-February here and at
www.ARTandWATER.com

artandwater related

blue wave cycle

a complement to the Red Wave Cycle with the wave centered around a different part of the plate, creating more of a pinwheel feel, which to me, makes the cycle spin faster, like blades on a prop, be that air or ocean.

A set of four waves comes in and surfers argue over which is the best of the four. They can look identical from a distance, but closer examination reveals subtle differences. It might just come down to personal preference.
Each wave builds up, tumbles over, and cycles through the back side of itself in a summersault. Over and over again, lapping against the beach.

Red Wave Cycle

t shirts are fun to make

so I thought I'd crank out a screen with my friend's kayak company logo on it and make myself a new shirt
I'll make some more of these for my friends with whatever colors they want.
There are also some ready-made ready to go shirts at the online store

perfect circle

apparently there is a contest each you to see who can draw the most perfect circle
wow

ocean wave block prints

images are 5" x 5"

a friend's Mexican surf trip

might not seem like art world to some, but it is an expression of living, which I, as an artist am also doing.
Check it out.

http://www.2imagine.net/blogger2007/mexico1.html

black and white kayak surfing block print

yellow kayak surfing