F.A. Moore
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INSIDE SOLO, vol 10
Friday September 18, 2009
MAGAZINE DOWNLOAD
Inside Solo, Vol 10 – pdf (3.4 MB)
The Shell Beach by Amanda Rae
CREDITS
Editor: F.A. Moore 
Feature Writer: Richard Sunderland 
Contributing Writer: Linda Gregory 
Cover: The Shell Beach by Amanda Rae 
SUMMARY Today’s issue highlights the upcoming Solo Exhibition of Amanda Rae, mentions special features of Solo members by Red Bubble, reminds you of two (2) gallery shows, and features nine (9) more artists of Solo Exhibition, including 3 mini-features. Amanda Rae’s Solo Exhibition starts on Monday, with an open-forum reception all day Monday! Some important announcements are found in Solo News, in addition to the exhibition schedule through November 1st!
Please drop a notice for group challenges, personal exhibitions, book covers, wins, etc. to Inside Solo – submissions, so that I may include them as news in the next issue.
Enjoy this tenth weekly issue of Inside Solo!
ART NEWS
Jedika’s Bulli Exhibition Opening a Success
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*Jedika opened his latest exhibition inside the Coffee & Art Cafe in Bulli, New South Wales, Australia on Friday, September 11. It was a night of art and opera, led by Judith Stubbs and a great success! Jedika reports that most of the works are sold. If you’re in the Bulli area, you can catch the show through October. |
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Scott Naismith, Glasgow, Scotland, has an upcoming Solo Exhibition at Ian Kenny Gallery, 172 Quarry St, Hamilton, during the month of October. If you’re in or near Glasgow on October 2nd, you are invited to the Preview of “Scottish Contemporary Landscape” from 7:30 – 10 P.M. Please contact the gallery for reservations.
Scott Naismith is scheduled for a virtual Solo Exhibition in the group, November 9th through 15th, 2009.
Deep Blue
by Scott Naismith
30×60 cm, Oil on canvas |
Kudos
Home Page
Congratulations, Jessica!
Susan Kimball and Karin Taylor both made the homepage,
the same day, September 13th, when it switched!
Congratulations, Susan and Karin!
Red Bubble Community Feature on Architectural Inspiration:
Red Bubble Featured Writing: 2 Solo Members
Red Bubble Happy Challenge:
New Groups worth a look
SOLO NEWS
Monday and all next week!
Amanda Rae
Amanda Rae’s contemporary approach to Environmental Sculpture puts the “wow” in art. Her life-size resin figures, apparent classical forms, take on an eerie, urban feel on closer inspection. That’s because Rae has filled them with found material—often trash collected from the beach: from cans to coins to fabric, before pouring the see-through resin into the form. Her sculptures consciously use light, often with the sea and coastal wind as influential elements and backdrop.
Amanda Rae has a lot to say from her tiny island off Scotland, the Isle of South Uist, about man’s intervention and place within the environment. Rae was tapped to be an Artist in Residence for 2010 at Ceòlas Western Isles. She has exhibited extensively throughout the Scottish Isles, as well as some in the United States.
Solo Exhibition is proud to feature images of twelve (12) of Amanda Rae’s environmental sculptures, Monday through Sunday of September 21st – 27th, 2009, on Red Bubble.
http://www.redbubble.com/groups/solo-exhibition.
An open house reception for the artist will be held on Monday, the 21st; where more of Amanda Rae’s works can be viewed. It’s open for viewing to the public and open for comments to members of Solo Exhibition.
Solo Exhibition Upcoming Artist Shows:
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Amanda Rae
Lochboisdale South Uist, U.K. |
contemporary, environmental sculpture |
| Sep 28-Oct 4 |
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Ruth Palmer
Calgary, Canada |
contemporary acrylic paintings |
| Oct 5-11 |
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DarkVampire |
Digital Art |
| Oct 12-18 |
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NavyBrat |
Digital Art |
| Oct 19-25 |
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DivineDayDreams
Alkmaar, Netherlands |
Digital Art |
| Oct 26-Nov 1 |
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RavenSoul
Oklahoma, U.S.A. |
Digital Art |
Solo Announcements
- Committees. Please read this announcement and request for help. Thank you! This is important to me.
- Solo Exhibitions are scheduled through Bubblemail. Please read your bubblemail from me. 2010 shows will be scheduled starting next month.
- Host, get your name in for January’s, GROUP HOSTS celebration month. I will solo as many group hosts as possible. You’ll get plenty of publicity, early. Sign up now for this special event!
Note, only opened to hosts who joined solo in July and August. If it was obvious through your activity here that you joined on or before Sep 11th, I may make an exception. No other exceptions.
FEATURES
Artists and Works of Note
Bruno Wubik (brunowubik), Saint Heand, Rhône-Alpes, France, uses mixed media collage to comment on urban culture.
His work, sans titre, shown right and translated Untitled, exemplifies his use of comic-book, fantasy characters to accentuate the absurd. Other works like la promenade, below, incorporate vector art.
la promenade
by Bruno Wubik
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sans titre
by Bruno Wubik
Mixed media collage |
MINI-FEATURE
Andy Mercer is a self-confessed Randomist or neo-Dadaist, an award-winning and published artist from Lancaster, the North West of England. His principle interest is in reinventing the world around him. Mercer’s eye is attracted by all the multi-sensory devices of nature and mankind; he enjoys building complex realities rich in the patterns and rhythms of suburbia. They evolve as naturally as a Klee, constantly changing and giving us an organic picture that weaves the fabric of society into his work.
Andy Mercer’s City Sunrise – the heart of the machine, shown right, portrays the madness of modern life or the clear vision of a humanitarian.
Metropolois III
by Andy Mercer |
City Sunrise – the heart of the machine
by Andy Mercer
Mercer’s layers of line, shape, colour and sgraffito, and personal mark-making are crafted into an atmospheric patchwork of city life. He clearly loves to experiment and investigate media and relishes every nuance of the canvas.
When I first found Andy’s work and in particular this series of cityscapes, including Metropolois III, shown left, and Babel, below; I thought of Paul Klee’s Pedagogical Sketchbook. There seems to be some natural evolutionary law at work, each line and symbol, each motif defining the essence of the metropolois.
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I would welcome Andy Mercer’s cityscapes as giant tapestries, wall hangings. Maybe somewhere in the North West England gene pool is the secret textiler, weaving the very fabric of society; and, like all artists, there is the social commentator with a powerful message and a radical thought.
Mercer is exhibiting at the gallery of the local BBC radio station, in Lancashire, England, in late October.
by Richard Sunderland, Feature Writer
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Babel
by Andy Mercer |
Anyman (a vision)
by Danilo Lejardi
Cinema 4D
Lejardi’s Anyman, above, was initially created in 3D. Danilo is often inspired by music or poetry. Anyman attempts to express the feelings in a poem shared in the description. |
Danilo Lejardi, Cuba and South America, has a background in television and theatre, which evolved into his mastery of Computer Graphics (“CG”) tools like Cinema 4D, a commercial, high-end 3-D graphics application. His works are infused with drama and symbolism.
Cockroach II
by Danilo Lejardi
Cinema 4D and Photoshop
 Danilo is taking a brief hyatus from RB. We look forward to his return! |
H_K201
by hsien-ku |
hsien-ku, Judith Crispin, is an Australian photographer and composer living in Berlin, Germany.
She has only been a photographer for nine months; but her use of light and contrast in her black and white portraits and self-portraits captured my attention. The simplicity of her photographs proves that less is more.
I am especially drawn to H-K201, shown left, a Polaroid portrait of a young girl. The composition and softness of the backlighting enhances the beauty and youthfulness of the girl.
Judith’s poetic and lyrical descriptions are not-to-miss. They complement and enhance the experience of viewing her photographs.
Please welcome hsien-ku to Solo Exhibition.
by Linda Gregory, Contributing Writer
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tulay cakir, Erzurum, Turkey, is a 2005 graduate of Atatürk University Fine Art Faculty and a 2008 post-graduate with honors from the University’s Institute of Social Sciences, in sculpture.
Her Iron-weld sculpture woman, right, and wood, leather, and metal sculpture, ice dance, below, are standouts in her otherwise, mostly digital portfolio.
ice dance
by tulay cakir
Wood, leather, and metal sculpture
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woman
by tulay cakir
Iron weld |
Edward Kinnally During Ed’s Solo Exhibition, here, August 10-13th, I described him as being “on a digital art path of no return and endless discovery”. Involved in technology for his entire career, Ed followed the natural path to math-generated imagery. His solo show highlighted fractals that are clearly sculpture-like.
Flower Power, shown right, is Kinnally’s newest tour de force. The flower petals are formed from repetitive blocks of different sizes. Each block appears like brushed metal and is trimmed to contribute to the shape of the whole. The flower, with a hole at its center, reaches out into the galaxy. Perhaps it is a space station or fanciful satellite collecting data or beaming star energy back to an earth no longer reliant on oil. What do you see?
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Flower Power
Ed Kinnally
Fractal; Digital Fine Art |
MINI-FEATURE
Ocean view
by Kieran O’Connor
Wollongong, North South Wales, Australia
Nikon D80, f/9 |
Kieran O’Connor, Farmborough Heights, New South Wales, Australia, photographs landscapes with a Nikon D80 and a 18-135 mm lens. His photographs are a testiment to both the Nikon and his skill.
Ocean view, shown left, was captured in Wollongong, a coastal city, steeped in coal mining and fishing history. The name may be Aboriginal for sound of the sea. Wollongong lies on a narrow tidewater area between the Pacific Ocean (or Tasman Sea) on the East and the Illawarra Escarpment on the West. The Illawarra is a steep sandstone precipice, between 150 and 750 meters above sea level (490 – 2,460 ft). Several fast flowing creeks and streams traverse the coastal land. |
Peace
by Kieran O’Connor
Lake Illawarra NSW, North South Wales, Australia
Nikon D80, f/9 30 sec exposure, polarizing filter |
Craggy
by Kieran O’Connor
Under Wollongong lighthouse, looking south
Wollongong, North South Wales, Australia
Nikon D80, 3 exposures at f/9, Photomatrix post-processing |
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MINI-FEATURE
Jason
by Natasha Zraikat
Acrylic on Canvas, 80×80 cm. |
“For years I waited for the images to come. And then I gave up waiting, and there they all were.”—Natasha Zraikat
Natasha Zraikat, creator of Nzkat Portrait Art, is an Australian artist currently based on the Gold Coast, her home town of almost twenty years.
Natasha recently returned from Italy after spending some time there developing and displaying her work in Florence. Jason, shown left, won a top award, Best of Show in Florence at the City Wide Art VIII show, this year. |
Whitchapel, shown right, captures Natasha’s deft touch and clarity of vision. Whitechapel nervously clings to the side of the composition not sure of facing her audience. The brush work is outstanding, built layer on layer, developing a true sense of being. Those final dynamic accent strokes give us the clear picture of a beautiful woman, pausing and displaying a moment of her time, held in suspense on a thought. The silence of the contrasting space probes her thoughts and questions what is on her mind.
Prato
by Natasha Zraikat
Acrylic on Canvas 60.5×60.5 cm.
by Richard Sunderland, Feature Writer
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Whitchapel
by Natasha Zraikat
Mixed Media on Canvas
Australia has definitely gained an artist par excellence. Her painting, Prato, shown left, is really about the men of Prato, in Tuscany, Italy. The composition poses this question by placing the figure not quite on the edge of the canvas. Prato leans towards us and begs recognition, looking down, not yet confident in his self. The Italian flare for style is clear blue; the use of flat colour, phenomenal. Clear line and shape are so right against the suntanned face of Prato man. Natasha, Grazie mille.
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TIPS, RESOURCES, AND TUTORIALS
Resources
Software: You talk, it types
Sculpture Magazine, September issue
Tutorials Celebrating Sculpting
Plaster Sculpting
How to Sculpture in Clay
Clay Modeling Tips
How to Make an Isou Sculpture
How to Make Wire Sculpture
Other
How-To Open and Save Animated GIFs with Photoshop CS3 and PSE 3+, by F.A. Moore
Inside Solo is a weekly magazine for members of Solo Exhibition group of Red Bubble. It features news, artworks, and information of interests to members, and is copyright 2009, F.A. Moore-Corpier. The creators of the artworks shown are the sole copyright holders of the respective artworks, which are used here by permission.
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F.A. Moore
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Ooo, you all are early birds! Thanks for coming by. I’ll send out a b-mail about this issue later in the day. It’s 5:15 AM my time, and as you know I just published. Thanks so much for stopping by!
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tulay cakir
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Very thank you for place in this page my sculptures. i am honored.iam happy..all other artists big congrats..fabulouse F.A. Moore..fabulouse Richard Sunderland…fabulouse Contributing Writer: Linda Gregory..and fabulouse SOLO EXHİBİTİON!!!
Tulay CAKİR
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Andy Mercer
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I must say I am delighted to have been featured in “Inside Solo” by what must be the most professional organised group on Red Bubble. A very well written synopsis of my influences and motivations as an artist. Thanks again.
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hsien-ku
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i am so very honoured to have been featured in this edition of Inside Solo! it came as a wonderful surprise and has really lifted my confidence as an artist. thankyou very much for this encouragement and support – it really means a lot to me.
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robpixaday
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HOLYMOLY this is wonderful…..did a quick look, will be back later on to read thoroughly…....MANY THANKS for including me!!!!!!!!!
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Joanne Bradley
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Same here, I will be back to look over closer, just skimmed through but very impressive! It’s such a great edition! :-)
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maxy
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Mind blowing, beautiful works!!! Each one takes my breath away – Congratulations everyone for your features, so well deserved! “Flower Power” and “Anyman (a vision)” really knocked my socks off – as they all did! Fantastic work!!! So inspiring!
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Starz
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Fantastic news bulletin, so masterfully done !!
Congratulations to all the artists featured and for their successes. Beautiful collection of amazing and inspirational works.
my very best wishes to all of you
karon
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robpixaday
897 posts
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Splendid, every bit of this! So much wonderful information and FABULOUS art!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats to all the artists and contributors…and BRAVA Frannie!!!!!!!
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F.A. Moore
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Thanks to you all who have not only come by to read, but have also taken a moment to leave a comment and word of thanks. Many thanks to the contributing writers for this issue, Richard Sunderland and Linda Gregory, who have provided an extra dimension; and to Linda Gregory who scouted the very talented hsien-ku for the group.
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Linda Gregory
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I don’t know how you do it, Frannie. Every issue is better than the last and they’re all fantastic. All the artists you’ve included are very talented. It’s been fun scouting new talent for the group.
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F.A. Moore
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Well, Linda, this time, I can say, I had a little help from my friends. Thank you for your contributions to the group and this issue. Yes, the magazine is evolving, as it will continue to do.
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amanda Rae
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Wow Frannie this is awesome..and to be part of it..im so very very chuufed, one of the nicest things that has happened to me for yrs, just connecting to all these folks is awesome, seeing the work of others is better than a great wine..im drunk with it everytime i look thru rb…and the work you have put in this..well great respect to you !! fantastic
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CateTownsend
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What a wonderful job you do in bringing to our attention all these wonderful artists. This magazine just keeps getting better.
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F.A. Moore
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Susan, Amanda, Cate, thank you. I agree, Cate, it seems to get better and better. The artists are as good throughout; but the presentation of the art and content as a whole, I agree, improves nearly with every issue. Thanks for saying so.
Susan, did you see your own work featured in the last edition? It came out late, Sunday night, so introduced it Monday. Another great edition, and you were part of it!
Amanda, so glad your date has finally arrived. It will be well worth the wait, I’m sure. So excited to be a part of your art life.
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Shoaib .
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wow fran…. this is awesome.. i commend you for your hard work, dedication, and your amazing formatting skills :)
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cobbybrook
36 posts
nishagandhi
147 posts
Lynda Robinson
208 posts
Christer Fribrock
163 posts
Kieran O'Connor
10 posts
Kinnally
79 posts
TaniaLosada
249 posts
Susan Kimball
127 posts
