#Welcome to Solo Exhibition’s first ever ALT ART EXPO!

Here you will see “Alternative Artworks” by members of the Solo Exhibition group of RedBubble. Alternative Art, for purposes of this art exhibition, includes: painted or hand made artistic furniture, wall and building murals, tromp l’oeil paintings, pottery, basket weaving, hand-printed fabrics, non-traditional sculpture, hand-painted wearable art, woodworking, art cars, videos that are art, themselves (and not of art), and more!

Enjoy!!

Banner code to post to your profile is here (click it)

OPEN INVITATION TO ALL SOLO MEMBERS: This is YOUR personal invitation to post here, in this very forum, an image of your Alternative Art. It will eventually be reformatted to Solo’s “exhibition style”.

Here’s what you might post, but anything other than traditional works on paper and canvas might be considered “Alt art”

PAINTED OR HAND MADE ARTISTIC FURNITURE AND HOME ACCESSORIES
PAINTED CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES
PAINTED LEATHER PRODUCTS
ART CARS INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR
MURALS – WALLS, BUILDINGS
TROMP L’OEIL DOORS
PAINTED TILES
PAINTED VASES
PAINTED or Block-printed FABRIC
BASKET WEAVING
FILM or VIDEO (linked poster image, as YouTube videos don’t show up in forum comments) (NOT something made at One-media. And Not a video of your art. But a Video or Film that IS art, itself.)
UNUSUAL SCULPTURES, made from non-standard materials
etc. (help me add to the list)

HOW TO POST HERE
1) If your image is on RedBubble, do use the EASY BUTTON to post. Check off the “Feature – Large” option. Don’t be scared. IT’s the easiest thing you’ve ever done.

Any extra images, for example of the work in progress, that are on photobucket OR Flickr, add the direct link here, surrounded by exclamation marks. That will make the jpg show up as an image.

2) Below your image, tell us all about the piece, how you did it, why you did it, a little history. Yep, we want to know blow by blow details of how you created it. If you need to post in another language, other than English, do so!! We’ll get it translated the best we can and add a little English subtext below it, for you.

3) Artists – only post your own work; Photographers may post artistic captures of anyone’s ALT ART, but please still give us all the wonderful details!!: Who, what, where, when, how, and why! Don’t keep us guessing. :))

your host,
Frannie

Use the Easy Button to post your RedBubble images!

Go to the comment page of your image. The comment page is where everyone comments, and where you reply. It’s also called the “public view page”. Once you are on that image’s comments page, copy its web address from your browser window. Then, click the Easy Button, here, and you’re off and running. The rest is easy and mostly automated.

If you can copy and paste, you can do this. The tool does all the hard stuff for you.

CHECK OFF the “Feature – Large” option in the tool.

Sun Day, Moon, Night
by Suellen Cook

Hand made Diary cover, by the artist, using layers of hand-painted silk,
and free-hand machine embroidery, and some beading.*

The cover consists of a front (day) and back (night) cover to represent the facets
of my life that might find their way into my diary or not depending… lol.

Hope you enjoy… Suellen

Our new tiled garden wall..I love this!
by catherine walker

My ever skillful and talented husband bob made all the tiles.. then I carved them and I hand painted them with underglaze he fired them and then he did something else to them (which is our one secret..hha !) All hand made and I am so very proud of it.

“THE WALL OF SAINTS”
here is our newest garden wall..it has a real religious flavour..some even say it looks almost byzantine..but It’s completely original and not one bit was copied from anyone elses work I haven’t even looked in any books to do this wall…it’s all from my own imagination..so I was so very happy with the result of this one..the colours/glazes are just wonderful in this one so rich and it has a certain depth about it… and a certain feeling which is quite overwhelming ..it has a peaceful and even a holy feeling .
I think it has what I call a “universal appeal” in that it could come from anywhere ..any time and any country ..people can look at this wall and instantly relate to it . I’d like to call it “the wall of Saints” when it’s completed ..it needs another saint in there to finish this panel..then we just extend it as we make the wall bigger. I have always loved the story of simple st francis of assisi and st claire.. so I think that’s who these saints will be. I hope it eventually sells for a fortune though in reality I would like to keep it for myself..heee!!!

Tiled Garden wall ( THE FRONT WALL)
by catherine walker

This is the front wall as there was a back wall and a front one..we were very happy with the final result of this garden art.

now for ..The whole Family..Strange ceramic dolls
by catherine walker

ceramic dolls – slip cast pottery -hand painted/glazed .. fired twice

my Strange ceramic dolls..well bob threw up some shapes from plaster for these and then made moulds for me ,he is very skillful ..these turned out quite well I think..they are meant to be a tad strange.. they are!

Goody Two Toe Shoes. Magritte
by Woodie

Granddad’s slippers and granddaughter’s booties. decorated with acrylic paints as Rene Magritte 1935 The Red Model shoes. College project 1999. A&D foundation Course, Fashion week (Actually 3 weeks) see next image as well for inspiration.

Magritte’s The Red Model itself became a model through its use as a cover for the second edition of Andre Breton’s Le Surrealisme et la Peinture. In 1945 Duchamp and Donati collaborated on a window display promoting the book at Brentano’s, the New York bookstore. They reproduced the shoes in emulation of Magritte. Next Page/Image

Cintamani
by sibel

A double-sided, quilted vest which was completely designed, hand painted and made by me.

The motif on it is called “Cintamani” which consists of three dots and stripes. During the Ottoman period, this motif was very popular as the representation of power and royalty on textiles, costumes and carpets and in all other Ottoman arts. Today, the Cintamani motif lost its meaning of power and it is frequently used as one of the traditional Turkish motifs mostly on tiles.

Double Dutch
by Linda Ridpath

Two pairs of clogs, one with leather uppers, I painted flowers and foliage with acrylic paints;
the other – wooden clogs made in front of my eyes in Holland. I painted these up in an ‘abstract’ fashion.

The one with leather uppers are mostly worn by myself in the garden, so that when the flowers look my way, they see nice friendly feet!!!

The wooden clogs I wear when i paint. Some of the splashes i make will be unseen and/or add to the effect.

Canon EOS 300D
2010

Double Dutch
by Linda Ridpath!

wooden act
by Linda Ridpath!

On a piece of board, i painted a rough outline of a face and then hot glued
some canvas stretchers to make a raised face shape, then had great fun
painting with acrylics.
Size 16 × 12 inches

It looks quite spooky in real life.

For sale

All My Birdhouses
by syd baker

Homemade Birdhouses

I have a mini bird sanctuary in my backyard I call the Wild Kingdom, with homemade birdhouses. Here are a few from over the years:

^poster

Naum GABO construction
by Woodie

1970 Clear/coloured plastic sheets and thread construction based on a magazine photo of Naum Gabo’s design

I constructed this from clear and coloured “Perspex” sheet way back in 1970 from a tiny little photo in a art magazine. (Nail and thread pictures were all the rage then). It was only 30 years later when doing a Art and Design Foundation course that I found out who the original artist was.

Naum Gabo KBE, born Naum Neemia Pevsner (5 August 1890 – 23 August 1977) was a prominent Russian sculptor in the Constructivism movement and a pioneer of Kinetic Art. He was a Russian sculptor, architect, theorist, and teacher, brother of Antoine Pevsner. Gabo lived in Munich and Norway until the end of the revolution, when he returned to Russia. With Pevsner he wrote the Realist Manifesto (1920), which proposed that new concepts of time and space be incorporated into works of art and that dynamic form replace static mass. His sculptural experiments with constructivism , a movement he helped found, were often transparent, geometrical abstractions composed of plastics and other materials. Gabo’s art conflicted with Soviet art directives. In 1922 he left Moscow for Berlin where he taught at the Bauhaus, later moving to England and then to the United States. In 1957 he executed a huge public monument in Rotterdam.

PS. I still have this on a shelf in the garage! Out of garage now and this is one of my new photos silhouetted against the sky.

Fish On (After)
by Kim McClain

Mosaic of surf clam seashells and oyster shells from Cape May, New Jersey, U.S.A.
40 × 32 inches

On my family room wall, My Yellow Fin Tuna hangs proudly

This one is here on RB. The mosaic was created on thin cement board with painted pieces of surf clam seashells except for the light part of the body, the shells are natural. The fin is coming out about 4 inches and is made from 2 oyster shells. The background and frame was painted with acrylics using various shape sponge brushes.

Here is the project in progress (I tied up the dining room table for a while LOL)

Autumn Fire 2008
by izzybeth

Mixed Media – Stain glass and glass beads on glass – Mosaic

One of the reasons I like this mosaic, the glass was glued to glass and so the original looks pretty up at the window.

I was experimenting when I did this one. After I finished the mosaic, I silicon glued the glass to the pretty black frame.