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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Amir Lyles finds his own route, on artblog radio

June 13, 2011
Amir Lyles has used the brick dust that falls off the cellar walls to give his paint texture. He has also used bits of his beard. His house and his family are essential parts of the identity that he pours into his paintings, many of them with themes of African identity–but also Rastafarianism, jazz, and hiphop to soul. This self-taught artist is finding original ways of keeping his artwork real, accessible and affordable, with marketing help from his life partner Naeemah Patterson. They are a team. Lyles  is in a show opening June 18 at photographer Ken White’s gallery at Sharktown Studios. Listen to the short sample below and to the full, 12-minute, 54-second episode below that.


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June's Guest Contributor: Sretan Bor

One of my favorite things on DA is when we open the doors of our blog to a guest contributor. After a long break from featuring any outside writers, we finally get to welcome one for the month of June.

Many of you might remember him from an entry we posted back in February, titled Heavy Color, where we showed off his colorful ink strokes and credited him by the name of Mario Kolaric. Well, it turns out on the street he's known as Sretan Bor. He's from Zagreb, Croatia and promises to bring some fresh and exclusive content to the pages of Doodlers Anonymous this month.

You can get reacquainted with some of his work below and follow him on flickr, but most importantly welcome him to the site, as his first post will go up this week. Yay for June!

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Lovely Lines

Clean and nice lines from Gwendoline Desnoyers take me back to simplicity of Giotto and Brueghel. She has manage to express so much with so little and her use of empty space is such a lovely thing to see. Using the same simple lines, Gwendoline also makes beautiful collages with a gentle use of colors

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Robot Fetish

I have an unhealthy infatuation with all things robot. I use an Android phone. My favorite movie is Terminator 2. I cheered as Watson destroyed the inadequate humans at Jeopardy. And I have recurring dreams of the robot apocalypse. But it seems snyart has taken her obsession for our robot overlords to a different level. She has undertaken a journey to doodle 365 robots over the course of a year marking February 2012 as the anniversary. Not surprisingly, 2012 is also the year the Mayans predicted our downfall. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Prepare to be assimilated below.

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That's a lot of People

Alvaro and I are buddies. We work together from 9 to 5 (more like 10 to 7) and now he's sharing his finds and inspirations at DA. He's an avid doodler, like us all. I posted about his drawings here (Somewhere in the City) so get reacquainted with him! And now enjoy his first find for Doodlers Anonymous. I love show and tell!

In Alvaro's words: "If you live in New York, chances are that you will be noticed by Jason Polan. Not only will you be seen by him, but chances are high that you'll be drawn by him. That's his intention anyway. Jason is attempting to draw every person in New York and the result of this enterprise is the constantly updated blog "Every Person in New York." Honestly, I don't think that he will be able to accomplish it (it is quite a task), but let me say that it's is a wonderful thing to watch him try with such spontaneous, light and effortless trace."

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The Chest of Fun

In Paul Loubert's chest you will find all of your childhood stories and much more. All of your old video games could be there too.

It's a crazy world of palms and funny creatures and it could be really fun to see Paul's creatures animated. I already see them moving all over my walls in some funny pixel animations.

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Giveaway: Drawn In by Julia Rothman

If I were to envision Doodlers Anonymous as a published book, it would look damn close to the one I am about to give away.

Julia Rothman is an illustrator and pattern designer who runs the popular blog Book By Its Cover, which features a different art-related book every weekday. We've been fans of the site since day one and especially love the weekly sketchbook series.

Her latest book, Drawn In

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Warm and Playful

Yellow, yellow! Nice little film by Caleb Wood with a beautiful animation and a perfect atmosphere for this warm summer days. Gentle meadow in all its simplicity, and a little creature that explores it... Just beautiful! 

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Netflix Envelope Doodles

Admit it, you've done it. You've taken a Sharpie to a Netflix envelope and doodled the heck out of it. Not just once, but a multitude of times. You've then imagined the expression of the postal worker as the envelope passed through their hands, all with a wide grin on your face. Here are some fun examples of people who publicly admit to doing just that.

Don't be shy, share your doodled Netflix envelopes with us, email editor

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Can A Painter Win The Venice Biennale?

Steven Shearer at The Canadian Pavilion

One of the great opportunities Venice affords is the chance for artists to fully transform a space. Nearly every pavilion gets a complete makeover every two years, but this came to mind particularly when looking at the exceptions. Take Canada’s Steven Shearer, a well-known painter and sculptor represented by Gavin Brown’s Enterprise. He’s worked in large formats before. In 2008, he produced a bad boy metal-music flop of a show at The New Museum that included a giant room-sized cube made of black PVC pipe. This year though, only a tiny bronze maquette of this same piece was on display in the Pavilion and it looked like it was for sale.  Add to this, a vetrine full of sub-standard sketchs and a poem in which the individual words did more to express the abject than their combination, and you’ve got a pavilion people will discuss almost entirely in the negative.

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Venice Biennale Remainders: Allora and Calzadilla Aren’t So Bad | Christian Marclay’s “Timeless” Clock | Scads of Flickr Photos

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Art.sy Uses Art World Handshake as Profit Model

Art.sy developers Sebastian Cwilich, left, and Carter Cleveland right. Image via: The Art Newspaper

Art.sy, a new online art database that uses the genome technology of Pandora to make suggestions based on the shared characteristics of art works launches this week, and they’ve revealed their pricing model. It’s really strange. As reported by The Art Newspaper:

Rather than pay a subscription fee, participating galleries are asked to pay Art.sy a sales commission: 15% of the first $10,000 profit (the amount remaining once the dealer has paid the artist’s share and production costs), and 10% of anything above that. As sales are conducted off-site, Art.sy is reliant on the honesty of the participating galleries.

I have a few concerns about this as a profit model. Lower East Side dealer James Fuentes says it’s not much different than the standard practice of offering a commission to an art advisor, but I don’t buy that. In addition to offering a good eye and research, consultants often do the price negotiating for their clients, which means they have a personal relationships with both the buyer and seller. It’s a little harder for software to form those same kinds of connections, particularly if all sales occur off-line. Add to this that most dealers I know already complain that most consultants are unnecessary and cut into their profits, and the potential for unreported sales is very high.

Still, 15% of a multimillion dollar sale would likely out perform any subscription model given the current size of the market likely to use the site, so it’s not difficult to see the allure of this pricing structure. It will be interesting to see what encouragement Art.sy developers have built into the site to get people to report the sales. The site launches this week at the Basel Art Fair, so we’ll know soon enough what those incentives are – and if they even exist.

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The Stocking Stuffer That Keeps Stuffing: A 3D Print of my Head

What everyone needs: A 3D scan of their head

I know what my family’s getting in their Christmas stocking this year: A 3D print of my face! Inspired by Stephen Colbert’s newfound love for 3D printing technology, last week the staff of AFC made its way over to MakerBot Industries, the DIY 3D printing company in Brooklyn, to have our heads scanned. Cornstarch was dusted over our hair to help improve the read of the scan, and a device that looks like a barcode reader shone around our heads. The file’s now available online along for Internet users to download and remix along with those of others who stopped by that day (artist Cliff Evans, 4chan’s moot, and Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing all have their heads online).  A gold mine for anyone with scads of free time on their hands for sure.

Beyond the necessities – say, producing 3D renderings of Stephen Colbert’s head with wings –  the printer can replicate virtually any small object in Lego-like plastic. I assume there will be more than one artist out there who could do something interesting with this, though it also means having the ability to print objects as banal as combs and door stoppers. The printer has practical real world applications.

In any event, the unassembled Makerbot Thing-O-Matic costs $1300, which matches the mid-range price of a professional digital camera. Of course, artists who want to use 3D scanners may end up using rentals just like the kids at Makerbot did last week. The good ones can end up being very pricey.

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http://twitter.com/cmonstah Carolina A. Miranda

wuuuuuuut? EFFING AMAZING.

http://twitter.com/Hypothete Duncan Alexander

Totally cool, Paddy. You need to get some glasses on there, though, for the full 3D-Paddy Johnson Experience. :)
Related thought: http://www.shapeways.com/ is a site that sells 3D object printouts made by people all over the world. Very easy to get hooked browsing through their catalog.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Duann-Scott/583808784 Duann Scott

Very cool…
Here you can buy yourself here,

http://www.shapeways.com/model/276426/paddy_johnson_of_art_fag_city.html?

You would be cheaper if you were hollow, but everybody kinda knows that ;)

Becky Carlson

Another company that can make 3D models is 2bot and their machine, the ModelMaker. You can print a model of yourself in any size… it is fully scalable. http://www.2bot.com/product-info

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[Sponsor] Saatchi Online Democratizes the Art Market

by Jeffrey Isaac

Saatchi Online began with a simple mission – to democratize the art market and make art accessible and affordable to everyone around the world.

In 2006 Saatchi Online was launched to give artists a platform from which to show their work to an international audience. For the first time, aspiring and established artists were able to display their work to a global art community outside the confines of a traditional gallery setting.

Today, Saatchi Online has developed into a powerful platform where artists showcase their work to an international audience and connect directly with collectors in a vibrant social marketplace.

With over 1 million pieces of original art, Saatchi Online offers collectors beautiful prints on canvas, fine art paper, and gallery photo paper.

With prices starting as low as $17, Saatchi Online makes it possible for new collectors to start their collection by ordering directly from tomorrow’s stars.

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The 4-Year-Old Artist – NYTimes.com

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The 4-Year-Old Artist – NYTimes.com – More on this ridiculous story about Aelita Andre, the four year old "genius" showing at the vanity gallery, Agora in Manhattan.  http://www.facebook.com/people/Kamilah-Gill/27314257 Kamilah Gill

Thanks for this follow-up. Vanity gallery… I can’t tell you how much these kinds of stories irritate me. The only story of this type that annoys me more is one about some elephant, chimp or horse painting something and people actually buying it. Glad it got exposed as total garbage. Unfortunately, lots of people won’t hear that part of the story. I feel for that kid a little bit. She’s being used.

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– Oh, this is fantastic. Blade of Grass announces that they will award two grants for $35,000 each to artists who can demonstrate financial need and whose work active engages contexts outside the gallery. Also, one award will go to a non-profit visual arts organization that creates new audiences for contemporary art.  blog comments powered by Disqus Previous post: The 4-Year-Old Artist – NYTimes.com

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Woodstock Digital Media Festival Launches This Weekend: An Interview with Organizers Marcin Ramocki and Joe McKay

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This weekend tech art nerds will flood Woodstock for the first Digital Media Festival of its kind. Themed, “Out of Place” — a nod to the unlikely union of local landscape and tech– some of the country’s top art professionals converge to discuss and exhibit an array of new media projects specific to the festival. I’m talking, Christiane Paul, the Director of the Media Studies Graduate Programs and Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School, NY, and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Magdalena Sawon and Tamas Banovich, owners of the well-known Chelsea Gallery, Postmasters, and Jeremiah Johnson/Nullsleep to name just a few. Also the artist collective eTeam and VTDigger.org journalist Anne Galloway. I talked with two of the project’s organizers, Marcin Ramock and Joe McKay about the festival this week in the hopes of giving readers and travelers a better idea of what’s in store. Here’s what they said: 

 

Paddy Johnson: So I wanted to talk to you guys briefly about the Woodstock Digital Media Festival in Vermont, which happens this Saturday.  Can you tell me a little bit about it?

Joe Mckay:  Sure. Through a friend of a friend, I met the director of the festival.  He’s a guy who comes from working at Time Magazine for a while, working at PBS, and he’s actually in England as the acting CEO of some cable television networks there.  He’salways been interested in new media, but more from a commercial side…so he doesn’t know a lot about new media in the art world, but he’s always sort of been a fan and been interested.We had a couple meetings just because of our personal fan connection, and we got talking about what we might do for a festival; this is sort of a brainchild of his, and he brought me along.  The idea is to do something in his summer hometown, which is in Woodstock…the incongruity of having a new media festival in a place that’s so pastoral and idyllic makes sense, but also there is a real wave of people who are turning to new technologies in Vermont as way of preserving that pastoral, idyllic lifestyle.  So it seems sort of an incongruous way of doing a festival in that location, but on the other hand, it makes sense when you’re there and you see the community.

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Vincent Morisset and the NFB’s interactive film BLABLA is...

"Vincent Morisset and the NFB’s interactive film BLABLA is a fascinating cross-pollination of animation, video games, and language. For a more immersive experience, I suggest going full screen and turning out the lights.The exploration and play that is required to experience the film might just be what Superbrothers artist Craig Adams refers to when he coined the term I/O Cinema.You’ve probably seen Vincent’s work before by way of Arcade Fire’s interactive music video for Neon Bible." /

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"paperalligator:landpdx:Meg Hunt Cosmic Forest Coming to Land Gallery, July 15th.I hope you guys can come and see! Working super hard from now til the opening. I’m so excited!" /

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Lego Anatomy Skeleton: 3/4, Skull (by Clay Morrow)

Lego Anatomy Skeleton: 3/4, Skull (by Clay Morrow)

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If you read the New Yorker regularly, you’re familiar with Tom Bachtell’s work. We’ve posted him before but he’s one of those talents I think we should post every month. He makes this look so damn easy. 

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Here’s a short video where Tom Bachtell discusses his work and techniques. Oh and you’ll want to weep when you see the size of his work studio. I’m not kidding when I say we could probably fit our apartment in there. Must be all that cheap New York real estate. 

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Here’s a short video on the New Yorker’s site where Tom Bachtell talks about his work and techniques. 

(via News Desk: Video: Tom Bachtell Draws for The Talk of the Town : The New Yorker)

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A Family Portrait (by Joseph Pierce) This was one of my...

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This was one of my favourite shorts I saw at the Ottawa International Animation Festival this year. I’m glad it’s finally made its way online.

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Creative Solutions for Artists Who Can’t Draw Hands by Grant Snider

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Drunken Franz (timelapse, ipad, brushes app) (by Andre) I...

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I didn’t know Brushes on the iPad did time lapse. Pretty great. It’s the work of Andre Stubbe.

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"Artscape president and CEO Tim Jones spends his days finding and creating spaces around the city for..."

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Um, OK, not drawing, but bootiful just the same.

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I’ve been a fan of Vera Brosgol’s since I first saw her animated short, Snow-Bo. I finally got to meet Vera at this year’s Stumptown Comics Festival in Portland, OR. I saw her again at TCAF in Toronto, and both times she had copies of her new book, Anya’s Ghost, but I wasn’t able to nab myself a copy. Now that the book is finally out officially, I’m grabbing a copy as quickly as I can. Anya’s Ghost has gotten high praise from all corners, not least from Neil Gaiman - yeah that Neil Gaiman. I can’t wait to hold it in my mitts!

Concurrently (probably not a coincidence?), Vera has given her website a facelift, and it’s a great-looking site! We’ve been getting tastes of her awesome work through the 2009 film Coraline and more frequently with her blog collaboration with Emily Carroll, Fashion from Old People. Now with all her best work collected in one place, I’m going to lose an hour or two poring over it!

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Jenny Hart’s embroidery artwork stolen in Toronto. Spread...

"Jenny Hart’s embroidery artwork stolen in Toronto.Spread the word:“Two of my most recent works (St. John the Baptist andLou Reed as Christ) were stolen from The Drake Hotel in Toronto following the close of the exhibition Wrap Your Head Around This. Attempts to retrieve the works have been fruitless, so I am now posting about it. Please share this blog post to spread awareness that if these works surface, they were stolen. The return of these works will be welcomed with no questions asked.”(via Jenny Hart’s embroidery artwork stolen from exhibition - Boing Boing)" /

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"andykhouri:Commission a $20 sketch from Bongo’s Jason Ho to help pay legal fees of cheerleader who refused to cheer for her rapistIn case you hadn’t heard the latest news to make you doubt the fundamental humanity of the people around you, several years ago a 16-year-old cheerleader from Silsbee High School in Texas was assaulted at a party by Rakheem Bolton, a basketball player and football star whom she says held her down and raped her. Bolton later pleaded to a charge of misdemeanor assault, but here’s the part that’s going to make you want to set things on fire: Not only did the school allow him back on the basketball team, they told the girl it was her responsibility to lay low, stay away from the lunchroom and not go to Homecoming. And when the girl refused to cheer specifically for her attacker at games — while still cheering for the team at large — Silsbee High School officials did something so fundamentally awful that they might as well be twisting their mustaches: They threw her off the cheerleading squad.She challenged the school in court and recently lost, so now in addition to suffering a horrendous assault, predictably being branded a “slut” in her community, and getting thrown off the cheerleading team for refusing to shout “put it in” at her attacker (seriously), her family has been ordered has to pay $45,000 in legal fees to the school.Jason Ho, an illustrator and Assistant Editor at Bongo Comics wants to help, so he is drawing custom sketches at $20 a pop and donating the proceeds to the girl’s legal costs. They are both very attractive sketches and a small way to help someone who has been failed disgracefully over and over by the indecency and institutional cowardice of seemingly everyone around her.Read more at ComicsAlliance." /

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"brianwood:I am offering a free download of the entire 132-page Public Domain 2 artbook.  It’s about 115 megs, nicely high res, and looks great imported onto my iphone and ipad.  It represents about a decade of sketches and random art.If you like it, please pick up a copy of the signed and numbered ltd ed print book!  Khepri’s selling the remaining stock, both editions, and its the only place you can pick it up.  There will be no further editions of the book beyond this.  Also be sure to check out the mini-screenprints.Enjoy!Click to download (direct link to pdf, right-click to save)WOW! This is pretty fabulous! Thanks Brian. :)" /

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"drawnblog:brianwood:I am offering a free download of the entire 132-page Public Domain 2 artbook.  It’s about 115 megs, nicely high res, and looks great imported onto my iphone and ipad.  It represents about a decade of sketches and random art.If you like it, please pick up a copy of the signed and numbered ltd ed print book!  Khepri’s selling the remaining stock, both editions, and its the only place you can pick it up.  There will be no further editions of the book beyond this.  Also be sure to check out the mini-screenprints.Enjoy!Click to download (direct link to pdf, right-click to save)WOW! This is pretty fabulous! Thanks Brian. :)For anyone who tried downloading this the other day, we noticed the URL resulted in an error page in some browsers because some characters in the link were capitalized when they should have been lowercase. Try this instead: http://www.brianwood.com/pd2.pdf" /

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I really like this vintage illustration by James Flora, for...

"I really like this vintage illustration by James Flora, for Fortune magazine in 1966. It’s part of Illustration House’s upcoming auction. (Lot 43). Notice it is based on the Northern Renaissance print by Martin Schoengauer of St Anthony tormented by demons." /

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luclatulippe: twentypercentcooler: You’ve all seen the image...

"luclatulippe:twentypercentcooler:You’ve all seen the image above, by PVP’s Scott Kurtz.  You’ve seen it a hundred times because it’s been posted everywhere, and there’s no way it hasn’t been seen by hundreds of thousands of readers.So why aren’t DC and Marvel capitalizing on webcomics? Chris Sims asks a wonderful question over at Comics Alliance. Relative to this article I posted on my blog about the comics industry’s crash in 1993, it seems like a completely terrible move for them NOT to get into webcomics. " /

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Michael Taylor appointed director of Dartmouth’s Hood Museum

Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof's artblog Skip to content aboutour picksfirst friday art safarisinternationalart fairsradiovideospresslinkssponsorships « Hive/Cave at Pageant: SoloveevOutsider artist Amir Mark Lyles, next week on artblog radio » Michael Taylor appointed director of Dartmouth’s Hood MuseumBy libby and roberta

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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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Ethical Principles and Critical Thinking in Conservation

June 7, 2011

At the largest annual meeting of the American Institute for the Conservatiom of Historic and Artistic Works in 20 years, 1100 conservators met in Philadelphia during the first week in June to discuss . Traveling from as far as Japan, they included staff of major museums (the National Gallery of Art, British Museum), conservators in private practice, and many students in training.   They compared standards historically, across different types of artifact and from one country to another. The meeting included conservation scientists, who analyze materials of artworks and historical artifacts, and conservators specializing in paintings, archives, books, maps, video art, historical computer hardware, artifacts of contemporary performance art, ethnographic work that retains ceremonial use, architecture, fountains, historical toys and even boats.

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Playing Leni – an artist’s dilemma, at Madhouse Theater

Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof's artblog Skip to content aboutour picksfirst friday art safarisinternationalart fairsradiovideospresslinkssponsorships « Ethical Principles and Critical Thinking in ConservationJennifer Levonian at the Library Company » Playing Leni – an artist’s dilemma, at Madhouse TheaterBy deb miller

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Jennifer Levonian at the Library Company

June 9, 2011

Murray thinks about history and I think about art. I think we might have similar motives–trying to figure out the meaning of life and what is real–but just come at it in different ways. So when video artist Jennifer Levonian, a 2009 Pew Fellow in the Arts, gave a talk at the Library Company to introduce her new work on exhibit there alongside Civil War-era printed materials, we happily joined hands and caught a trolley to Center City.

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First Friday – Pentimenti’s group show, Little Berlin’s funny performances and Uarts grads at the Icebox

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Tomi Ungerer: Humor Put to Pen and Ink and Watercolor

June 11, 2011

In 1968 the children’s book illustrator and author Tomi Ungerer donated over 4,500 of his drawings and book dummies to the Free Library of Philadelphia. It’s taken over forty years for those items to be properly catalogued and made available to the outside world. He is appearing at the Free Library’s Montgomery Auditorium (1901 Vine Street) on Tuesday, June 14th at 7:30PM to celebrate this and to be interviewed by Tony Auth.

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Amir Lyles finds his own route, on artblog radio

June 13, 2011

Amir Lyles has used the brick dust that falls off the cellar walls to give his paint texture. He has also used bits of his beard. His house and his family are essential parts of the identity that he pours into his paintings, many of them with themes of African identity–but also Rastafarianism, jazz, and hiphop to soul. This self-taught artist is finding original ways of keeping his artwork real, accessible and affordable, with marketing help from his life partner Naeemah Patterson. They are a team. Lyles  is in a show opening June 18 at photographer Ken White’s gallery at Sharktown Studios. Listen to the short sample below and to the full, 12-minute, 54-second episode below that.

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