Sidewalk Scribble

Animator/Filmmaker Peter Lowey from Australia does an incredible job on this short film. Give it a play, I've already watched it three times this morning. 

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Showcase #9: June Calendar Draw

It's almost June and that means we're that much closer to summer - the blistering heat, the humid beach breeze, the happy energy that the season brings... It's definitely something to draw about. Many of you have participated in the previous Calendar Draw Challenges. Here's another chance!

Submit a drawing for your chance to be our featured artist for the month of June. Make it good. Most of all, make it hot! (Oh, we love a good pun.)

Submissions are now open. Good luck!



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Freedom of Mind

I've been following Craig Atkinson's work for as long as I can remember, and yet for some reason I never posted about him on DA. I only realized it this morning when I was catching up with his work on flickr.

Craig draws from the U.K. and he draws a lot. When he's not drawing, he's printing and shipping short-run art publications from the small publishing house he started back in 2005, called Caf

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Textiling

Sometimes a little drawing or doodle here and there is all you need to make your house/apartment/dwelling feel like a home. I just moved into a new place. Everything is set and good to go except for some missing finishing touches. My solution: Envelop. I discovered it the other day while looking for some decorative pillows for my couch. Take a look and shop around. Doodles on everything to make your home a happy home.

Top Left: Place Mat by Cosimo Piediscalzi
Top Right: Apron by Kerozen
Bottom Left: Pillow cover by vejacecilia
Bottom Middle: Pillow cover by Julia Pott
Bottom Right: Pillow cover by CharmaineOlivia 

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The Trip by Michelle Lasalvia(Process + Install)

We just got lost in a wonderful hour of cutting, rubbing, rolling, and pulling. How we love the tactile and tangible goodness of a hands-on project: the materials, the planning, the process. What fun to focus on something beautiful and immediate. Instant gratification.

The Trip by Michelle Lasalvia is stunning. The web honestly does it no justice. It has been an instant conversation piece at DA

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Building Blocks

n and was happy to uncover a small collection of drawn buildings, people and alphabet letters.

There was something about the color and lines in his work that really caught my attention and I wanted to see more. With some help from Camila, I was lucky enough to get an email full of photos of his sketchbooks and some other never before seen goodies that I get to share with all of you. Take a look, it's love at first sight.

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Outsider artist Amir Mark Lyles, next week on artblog radio

June 6, 2011

Amir Mark Lyles worries about the influence of gangsta culture on his kids, and many of this Rastafarian’s paintings and multi-media works stem from a desire to paint a different cultural heritage infused with the values and the music that he loves. The outsider artist grew up in Harlem and lives and works in Germantown. He is in a show opening June 18 at Ken White’s gallery at Sharktown Studios. Below is a short sample from our talk with him and his partner Naeemah Patterson and some info about the upcoming exhibit. The full podcast interview will run next Monday.

Amir Lyles 43-second sample

Photographers R. Alexander Trejo and Nicole Fusco; and mixed media by Amir Lyles
City Arts Salon at Sharktown (on Facebook)
155 Cecil B. Moore Ave. Studio 3D
opening reception June 18, 3-7 pm
hours Tues. 4:30-7:30 pm, Thurs.-Fri., 4:30-7 pm, and Sun., 3-6 pm

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