As many of you know in New York City you can go just about anywhere to find any type of art that is to your appeal. Last Saturday I so happened to have the chance to visit some of the many galleries located in the lower east side. This particular gallery had stood out to me the Charles bank gallery…
Periodically I share with you some of my "favorite" things...or things I find fascinating...and I recently have been introduced to some wonderful artists that you need to know about...
Ingrid Siliakus is a paper architect/artist from the Netherlands...I invite you to check out the following sites to see some of this amazing work:
http://www.ingrid-siliakus.exto.org/
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/monumental-paper-architecture
Gugger Petter weaves newspaper into portraits...check out these sites:
Since this will primarily be an "art-blog" (although hopefully nowhere near the level of pretension I've grown to associate with that term), I figured it would be best to formally bust onto the blogging scene with a few examples of what I've been up to lately.*
* "lately", in this case, is a selective term encompassing various points throughout the past three years.
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As promised, today I continued working with that grayscale photo :)
(You can click on this image to look at bigger version.
This scene has lots of details, and it was a bit difficult to work with it. But it was a great practice, for sure!
Hope you like it :)
I must apologize to my facebook followers who have been anticipating this moment, I'm not sure it is as epic as warranted by 3 weeks of secrecy.
A while ago Lucretia Renee Rathmann - proprietress of Dark Fusion Boutique - asked me to create some illustrations for DFB. She wanted me to use photographs from the website for reference, which was sweet, since she is a great photographer.
France Watercolor, a photo by Fergiemoto on Flickr. (Click on image to enlarge).
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Inquisitive eyes
Engage in deep dialogue
Tales weathered from age
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When I see old structures or trees, I wonder, “what stories do they have to tell?” “What have they seen?”
Several years ago when I was in France, we made a road trip from…
I'm an art appreciator with a lot of favorite artists and influences, so it took me a while to choose an artist and piece to serve as inspiration for my poem #6.
...and many more!
But finally, I decided on Audrey Kawasaki.
