This is probably a constant topic of my entries but again I find myself asking what is the difference between a photograph and art? Ig…
This is probably a constant topic of my entries but again I find myself asking what is the difference between a photograph and art? Ignoring the very abstract and studio shots, how is one photograph artistic and not just another postcard shot? Any opinions?
I’ve just added a couple more abstract photography images to my portfolio. I was going to add a few more, but then questions formed in m…
I’ve just added a couple more abstract photography images to my portfolio. I was going to add a few more, but then questions formed in my mind. I create abstract photography and yet draw and paint with a very high degree of realism – photorealism in many cases. What on earth does that say about me as an artist? Or as a person for that matter? Am I just striving for balance in expressing my creativity (being a Libran thats quite possible), or am I just plain weird (quite possible as well)? To be successful as an artist (painter or photographer), those in the know claim that you must specialise, find a niche and develop it. I read a quote today that has resonated with me all day – “Art is not in the eye of the beholder, Art is in the heart of the artist”. Can’t remember who said it though. So. I guess I shall continue to follow my heart, because to do otherwise would be like denying part of me. LOL – maybe I will be a trailblazer in the artworld and create my own Abstract Photography-Realistic Painting niche.
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dont forget ,this tues 19th feb, gallery 26 is having a new show, chocka block full of red bubblers everywhere. / 26 alfred st milsons poi…
dont forget ,this tues 19th feb, gallery 26 is having a new show, chocka block full of red bubblers everywhere. / 26 alfred st milsons point, nxt to the harbour bridge, come 1 come all / support art!
A day ago, another great artist, SusanC decided she wants my Universe...
A day ago, another great artist, SusanC decided she wants my Universe as a card, so she went ahead with that impulse and placed the order. Thank you so very much Susan for your commited appreciation of my work. I hope the Universe will bring to your door even more inspiration and creativity. Happiness is a given. Please visit Susan’s art shoppe, she’s got a great palette of wonderful compositions.
Hi / Please welcome Shannon Crees to The Populous Cast as our featured artist. Thanks / Adriana
Hi / Please welcome Shannon Crees to The Populous Cast as our featured artist. Thanks / Adriana
Hey everyone. Wanted to share the good vibrations I’m enjoying today from finding out that I was added as a featured artist in the Fine A…
Hey everyone. Wanted to share the good vibrations I’m enjoying today from finding out that I was added as a featured artist in the Fine Arts group. :-) Also, hope to post some new stuff soon. Ray
I would like to thank all my dear friends and those wonderful addicted browsers that have seen my work “Starry Night in Prague©” that has…
I would like to thank all my dear friends and those wonderful addicted browsers that have seen my work “Starry Night in Prague©” that has recently surfaced on the featured art section of the Abstract Realism Group page. I appreciate all my dear RB fellow artists that look and comment on my work all the time. Good or bad work, bless you my dear friends for your wonderful support. To my friends around the world have a GREAT WEEK. / All My Best! / Seth Weaver
One of my favourite artists, both on and off the bubble, is Barry King. His incredible drive…
One of my favourite artists, both on and off the bubble, is Barry King. His incredible drive and determination to overcome obstacles others would balk at makes him a person of note in my eyes – a wonderful artist, yes, but there’s a lot more to him than just that. When I first noticed his work, it was mosly drawings, done on a tablet, but resembling very smooth pencil work. I was amazed by these drawings. But one of my all time favourites of his is oil, Zebras (oh to be able to purchase this full size instead of a card…maybe someday). Somewhere along the line he took a sidetrip into digital creation that resulted in a style of work that has immediate appeal – it’s use of colour and form is dramatic; often dark, always mysterious, and eminently viewable. More recently, Barry picked up a camera for the first time, and from the looks of his portfolio, he’s hooked :) From his firs tentative photos, his progression to sellable work has been swift and astonishing. Please, spend a few minutes here with Bear (Barry King) What drew you here to the Redbubble community? Hi Gracey, Well I was searching for a website for artists to display their art first and foremost, it was completely by accident that I discovered RB, I really just stumbled upon it and thank God I did / It had everything I was looking for, fantastic artists/photographers/ and writers…plus a very high quality of print reproduction ( in my opinion ) not to mention the inspiration I constanly receive from everyone here…and one last thing exposure. / Since then I have been inspired beyond words, and the friendships alone that I’ve made along the way I can’t even begin to describe how fortunate I am…truly blessed. How does my creativity affect other aspects of your life? Creativity has always played a most significant part in affecting other aspects of my life. / It bleeds into all other areas of my life is what I mean. / It’s much more than a passion, having been doing this (creating ) almost my entire life. It’s an obsession as well….Often I call it my drug. Because when I’m creating, I’m taken away to a different place, a place where there is no physical pain. I get so absorbed in my work, to the point where I lose track of time itself. Photography on the other hand isn’t quite the same and I find subject matters hard to come by, but this temporary I think…I hope :) But I can get inspired just by taking a walk, hearing a song, reading a story….there’s really no limit, or no shortages or sources for ideas and inspiration. / The only thing against me is time and how to find the time I need to complete everything I want to. and believe me…theres so much more I want to accomplish How many mediums do you work in? Which is your favourite, and why? I’m very well versed in most traditional methods, with a few exception, pastels, print making to name a couple. / Oils,watercolours, pen and ink, acrylics, and pencil, and now the wacom tablet and pen. At this stage in my life, mostly due to necessity, my physical limitations, the wacom tablet is my medium of choice. / I’d be lost without it. I view the wacom as a natural progression. It’s a sketch pad, a canvas, and so much more. There’s no limit with this amazing tool. I like to think that if the masters were alive today they themselves might be using this as well. Tell us about one person or moment that has made your time on redbubble particularly special or meaningful. When I first read this I thought;’ no way I can recall a person or moment, but that’s not true now. Last month when Michael and his wife can over to visit we got into some pretty deep discussions…all sorts of topics really. / The interesting thing I discovered was just how much we’re all the same rather than different. / It’s amazing when you think about it. Two people, different countries, backgrounds, cultures, and yet still, so much the same in a lot of ways. One thing we talked about was what we leave behind…our own legacies. And aside from the obvious- our children, and our children’s children what have we that we can leave behind? Long after we’re gone, our images, our words will still be around. ( hopefully ) And not having the slightest idea of how many people we touch now with our art, but in the future when we’re no longer here…how many people we will have touched or inspired, and to me that’s fascinating to think about. / Which is why I love being a member at RB. / There can be ‘no way’ that a person can’t be inspired. My God, look what we’re surrounded by. / And if I may take this one step further, this has prompted me to expand and explore new things, to try and experiment with new ideas. / Instead of being stagnant and relying on what I know and have done I like to see what else is out there for me to try…always looking over that next hill, to see what else I can create, something that may have never been done before, to always keep an open mind. Show & tell: What three works or people on redbubble have moved or inspired you? There are many more than three works and/or people that have inspired me. This was the hardest question to answer, and it changes day to day week to week Three people that have inspired me as of this writing are: Coolart blamo Sean Farragher Thanks Gracey I really enjoyed this, Bear
NY TImes Reports Michael Goldberg, an abstract painter of the New York School whose vibrant works are in major museums and private col…
NY TImes Reports Michael Goldberg, an abstract painter of the New York School whose vibrant works are in major museums and private collections, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 83. / / The apparent cause was a heart attack he suffered while working in his studio on the Bowery, said his wife, the artist Lynn Umlauf. It was the same studio he took over in the 1950s. Mr. Goldberg was a painter of strong convictions who in his youth was influenced by / the gestural Abstract Expressionist mode of older painters like Kline, Still and de Kooning, and never abandoned it. The improvisational nature of jazz, which he admired, was also important to his work. Stuck like some of his peers with the label “second-generation Abstract Expressionist,” Mr. Goldberg shrugged it off. “Labels come and go,” he told Saul Ostrow, the conceptual artist who was a close friend, in a 2001 interview for the magazine Bomb. “It makes no difference to what you’re trying to do.” He saw abstract painting, he told Mr. Ostrow, as “still the primary visual challenge of our time. It might get harder and harder to make an abstract image that’s believable, but I think that just makes the challenge greater.” Mr. Goldberg and his wife both taught at the School of Visual Arts. Since 1980 he had spent five months of each year in Tuscany, Italy, on an estate outside Siena. Most of the works produced there last summer appeared in his show at Knoedler & Company in September. Done with oil sticks pressed directly against the canvas, a method Mr. Goldberg chose some years ago over brushing with paint, they are energetic productions based on what he called a “quasi grid,” with patchy squares of color intersected at random by strong diagonals. Born in the Bronx on Dec. 24, 1924, Michael Goldberg began classes at the Art Students League at 14. From 1940 to 1942 he attended the school run by the Abstract Expressionist painter and teacher Hans Hofmann. His studies were interrupted at 18 when he volunteered for Army service in World War II. He became a master sergeant in the China-Burma-India Theater. Mr. Goldberg received a Purple Heart and the Bronze Star that was awarded to every member of the unit. After further study at the League and the Hofmann school, he set up shop as a painter, eventually occupying Rothko’s Bowery loft. Hanging out at the Cedar Street Tavern and with the Eighth Street Club, a discussion group founded by downtown artists in 1949, he came under the influence of Abstract Expressionism. In 1951 his work made its first public appearance in the Ninth Street Show, a groundbreaking exhibition of the new New York avant-garde organized by the club and the dealer Leo Castelli. In 1953 the Tibor de Nagy Gallery gave him his first solo show. Besides Ms. Umlauf, whom he met in 1969 and married 10 years later, Mr. Goldberg is survived by a younger brother, Gerald Jay Goldberg, of Manhattan, and two stepchildren from an earlier marriage to the writer Patsy Southgate: Luke Matthiessen of Brooklyn and Sara Carey Matthiessen of Northport, L.I. In his youth, he reminisced, he and his colleagues never expected to make money at painting and created art just for themselves. When buyers began to appear in the mid 1950s, he recalled, the collector Walter P. Chrysler Jr. came to his studio one day and bought $10,000 worth of his work, to be paid in $2,500 installments. Unemployed at the time, with no bank account, Mr. Goldberg received the first payment on a freezing midwinter day. His first act was to buy an electric blanket. He spent the weekend in bed under the blanket, the money tucked beneath his arm. Links to his work / artnet / Michael Goldberg / Univ. of Kentucky
I am so honored to have Ushna Sardar send me a bubble mail and say..Lina.. I am here! / and I have…
I am so honored to have Ushna Sardar send me a bubble mail and say..Lina.. I am here! / and I have this piece Patches Of Dense Fog I wrote for On the Fence / Well… when Ushna Sardar speaks to me I listen! I am so honored and giddy she looks to my work as a form of meeting me in the middle of this Endless Universe of Creativity!! Thank you Ushna.. I Love YOU!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go and view Gallo’s work here ... I have persuaded him to join the Rusty…
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go and view Gallo’s work here ... I have persuaded him to join the Rusty Crusty Group just so I can enjoy having the pleasure of featuring some of these rusty abstracts. They are really a work of art!!!
Considering many different tastes and likes I have created three different calendars all featuring some of my most highlighted works or a…
Considering many different tastes and likes I have created three different calendars all featuring some of my most highlighted works or art in 2008. They showcase a popular variety of my paintings, drawings and mixed media works of art. 1. Sentiment & Irony 2. Carrie Glenn Studios Top 12 3. An Abstract Year Thanks everyone and I hope 2009 is an even better year than 2008! Enjoy!
Hey! Thanks to Suzanne German for featuring the video montageof my earlier work in the ATPAP-...
Hey! Thanks to Suzanne German for featuring the video montageof my earlier work in the ATPAP group! That made my Saturday! :0) If you like Ben’s song, find more here Ray
hey to all of my sydney bubblers please join the new sydney exhibition group u’ll find it in my groups or just read the title of this jo…
hey to all of my sydney bubblers please join the new sydney exhibition group u’ll find it in my groups or just read the title of this journal, it is also for the people in the blue mountains ,newcastle,wollongong and the central coast, it will inform you about what is going on art wise in all types of artistic media get you word out about what’s happening with you or someone you know. / wouldn’t it be great to have a tonne of bubblers just rock up at your show- it happens and it is a fantastic feeling. / as one person doing a show it is hard when you can’t get your word out to other artists but as a group the word can just spread with unlimited possibilities. / steve
I HAVE FOLLOWED THIS FELLOW FOR QUITE SOME TIME.. HE WAS OFF THE BUBBLE FOR A MOMENT.. HE HAS BEEN BACK FOR AWHILE AND I JUST VISITED HIS…
I HAVE FOLLOWED THIS FELLOW FOR QUITE SOME TIME.. HE WAS OFF THE BUBBLE FOR A MOMENT.. HE HAS BEEN BACK FOR AWHILE AND I JUST VISITED HIS WORK.. / You can’t beat it.. his words and his ideas are pure unadulterated bliss.. true poets heart.. seems like he is always in LOVE PAIN.. AND LOVES THAT TOO cause the writing is superb…. and of course he truly is a classic writer.. I could take lessons from his command of poetic structure.. his characterization always thrills me his use of figurative language.. mind boggle.. I just want you to experience some of this mans work.. it is lush! / MY favs are.. Twenty Two Feet and most recent.. Sightseeing
I’m very excited to find out that my photograph Immortal Memories-...
I’m very excited to find out that my photograph Immortal Memories with its similar photo has recently won the “Abstract” challenge in the group / Sets of Two Thanks to everyone who voted for me and also to Eva and Klaus for hosting such a wonderful and creative group! :)
INTIMATE GLIMPSES / ..
INTIMATE GLIMPSES / Intimate Glimpses, Journey of Life was featured in Creative Spirits of Queensland / (28 June 09) / ... SPIRITUAL JOURNEY / In The TOP TEN (3rd) / Layered with Texture – CHALLENGE – EXTREME MIXED MEDIA / (17 June 2009) ... TRANS X’S, No.1 / Trans X’s, No.1 was featured in Creative Spirits of Queensland / (5 June 09) ... SANGUINE NUDE / Sanguine Nude was featured in Life Session Expressions / (1 June 09) As a Monthly FEATURE for June 2009 * / ... / Also / / SANGUINE NUDE – TOP TEN / Was voted In The TOP TEN* LIFE SESSION EXPRESSIONS CHALLENGE: NO. FAVOURITINGS ... ARTISTS AT WORK BY THE JOHNSTONE RIVER, INNISFAIL, FNQ / Artists at Work by the Johnstone River, Innisfail FNQ was featured in PostCard Style / (end May 09) ... LADY IN THE WATERS No.1 Series / Lady In the Waters No.1 Series was featured in Creative Spirits of Queensland / (end May 09) ... GESTURAL ABSTRACT NUDE Award Winner 2003 / Gestural Abstract Nude was featured in Works On Paper / (End May 09) ... ARTISTS BY THE SEA, FLYING FISH POINT / Artists by the Sea was featured in Creative Spirits of Queensland / (End May 09) ... ARTISTS AT WORK BY THE JOHNSTONE RIVER, INNISFAIL, FNQ / Artists at Work by the Johnstone River, Innisfail FNQ was featured in Far North Queensland / (May 09) ... INTIMATE GLIMPSES / / Intimate Glimpses, Journey of Life was featured in Painters In Modern Times / (May 09) & also / in April / was voted in THE TOP TEN! – PAINTERS IN MODERN TIMES CHALLENGE: TRULY ABSTRACT – TOTALLY NON-REPRESENTATIONAL .... TRANS X’S, No.1 / / Trans X’s, No.1 was featured in Abstract Art / (May 09) ... / & / also TRANS X’S, No.1 / / Trans X’s No.1 was featured in Freedom to Shine / (May 09) ... Became a FEATURED MEMBER / Featured Member in Finks of Inks / (May 2009) ... WET TROPICS / Wet Tropics was featured in Finks of Inks / (May 09) ... TRANSCENDANCE, ABSTRACT 92 / Transcendance, Abstract 92 was featured in Works On Paper / (May 09) ... WRITING – ELEVATING THE SPIRIT / _Elevating the Spirit_Solo Exhibition / was featured in Remodernist Painters’ Group / (May 09) / / ... VISIBLE TRACES / Visible Traces was featured in Abstract Art / (April 09) ... WHERE SPIRIT RESIDES / Where Spirit Resides was featured in All About Hearts / (April 09) ... SPIRIT MATTER COSMOS / Spirit Matter Cosmos was featured in Abstract Art / (April 09) ... SIX OF HEARTS, PASSION PLAY / Six of Hearts was featured in Works On Paper / (April 09) ... ALL EMBRACING, WHERE SPIRIT RESIDES / All Embracing, Where Spirit Resides was featured in Works On Paper / (April 09)
Would like to thank the hosts of the groups that featured my images!! Your time is appreciated and I am delighted! The ABSTRACTS FROM …
Would like to thank the hosts of the groups that featured my images!! Your time is appreciated and I am delighted! The ABSTRACTS FROM NATURE group featured Fiesty Little Spider Orchid South Australian Artists featured In a moment dear .,,,. Gnana is Reading />http://www.redbubble.com/people/chijude/art/2251114-6-in-a-moment-dear-gnana-is-reading and the new group SHOPFRONTS featured Neuremburg Reflections Once again a big thank you to the hosts!
Thank you Fine Art Group for featuring both Gathering Series, Untitled #4 and Water Garden, Triptych! Much appreciated!
Thank you Fine Art Group for featuring both Gathering Series, Untitled #4 and Water Garden, Triptych! Much appreciated!
Hi everyone, Lovely to come back for a quick check on things to see I have been featured so would like to say: Thank you to the lov…
Hi everyone, Lovely to come back for a quick check on things to see I have been featured so would like to say: Thank you to the lovely host owlspook of Creative Cards Group for featuring: The Nosey Parkers AND Thank you to the lovely hosts Ushna Sardar and theyellowfury of Core group for featuring: Screaming Lost Souls In The Energy VERY MUCH APPRECIATED :))) CJ
Thankyou to the dear Group hosts as always, and to group members who throw a vote my way in a Challenge. +*ARTWORK FEATURED IN A GRO…
Thankyou to the dear Group hosts as always, and to group members who throw a vote my way in a Challenge. ARTWORK FEATURED IN A GROUP / Pathway of Journeys FEATURED in ACRYLIC PAINTING (5.11.09) / / Pathway of Journeys / ............ Rhythm and Rhyme / FEATURED in: Creative Spirits of Queensland (14.10.09) / Acrylic Painting (26.10.09) / / and / Dimensions (24.10.09) / ... .... Six of Hearts – Passion Play / FEATURED in Printmakers and Printmaking (27.10.09) / and also was Runner-Up in Printmakers and Printmaking Challenge Hot and Hold / ...
INSPIRATION FROM ART Features from RB groups I host or co-host, and 12 Personal Favorites from this week. *What’s inspired you th…
INSPIRATION FROM ART Features from RB groups I host or co-host, and 12 Personal Favorites from this week. What’s inspired you this week? / Feel free to link your comments to your own or someone else’s art, writing, or journal. Scott Naismith in Solo Exhibition / Features 2009-November-09, Monday Arran From Portencross / by Scott Naismith Morar Sunset / by Scott Naismith Soft Sky Study / by Scott Naismith Sgurr of Eigg study / by Scott Naismith Bay At Trotternish / by Scott Naismith Ardmhor, Barra / by Scott Naismith Earsary, Barra / by Scott Naismith Crinan Croft / by Scott Naismith Bellanoch Boats / by Scott Naismith North End Beach, Iona / by Scott Naismith Sanna Bay 2 / by Scott Naismith Barra Breeze 1 / by Scott Naismith Southern United States Artists (SUSA) / 2009-November 10, Tuesday Stuck on you / by Isa Rodriguez / Fort Myers, Florida Cow Dreams / by Tibby Steedly / Near Penrose, North Carolina Family Portrait / by Melinda Page / Leitchfield, Kentucky White Gator / by Bob Johnson / Gainesville, Florida Perspective / by Kathy S. Gillentine / Stump Pass Beach, FL / Canon 5D MarkII 17-40mm 20mm / ISO 100, 1/60 f/7.10.9 ND filter Between Worlds / by Tibby Steedly / Pisgah National Forest, / North Carolina / w/Photoshop Orton effect Twilight hour / by Kathy S. Gillentine / Estero Bay, Florida / Canon 5D Mark II 17-40mm 17mm / ISO 100, f/4 30 sec., blue filter POV / by Tim Sanders / James River Foot Bridge, / Snowden, Virginia / Canon Digital Rebel XSI 28-105mm Hydrangea Faerie / by MoonSpiral / 9×12 in. Soft Pastel on / Sennelier la carte paper Kansas Webster / by Deborah Glasgow / 20×30 in. Acrylic on canvas HUNGRY LOVE / by Kevin Mawson / Mixed Media Big Brother is Plugged In / by Esther Johnson / Apophysis, Poser, Vue, Photoshop ENCRUSTATION I / by Frances Perea / Painted in Painter and Photoshop Nora’s Arrangement / by by suzannem73 / Kodak Easyshare photo, / Dynamic-Auto Painter, Picasa On a Pedastal / by Deirdre Reynolds / Apophysis 3D DARKNESS / by Kevin Mawson / Digitall painted in Photoshop Art Nouveau and the Arts & Crafts Movement / Features 2009-November-11, Wednesday Cinderella with The Green Mask / of Envy… / by Reynaldo / Acrylic on canvas 30×40 in Some Small Kindness / by Jaymilina / Oil on canvas 16×20 in. Lady in Blue / by Caroline Lembke / Silk painting Colorful memories / by Wieslaw Borkowski / Acrylics on 420×600 mm. / drawing paper Petals Pirouette / by Mel Davies / Coloured pencil on / Linen-textured 280gsm Butterfly Girl / by Anita Inverarity / Pen and Ink Snake / by Kseniya Beliaeva / Acrylic, pen paper 200g/m Stileto / by Mel Davies / Acrylic and sculptural medium RED LIPS / by Brigitte Hintner / 30×40 cm. Watercoulor pencil Camp Fire Island / by linmarie / 11×14 in. Watercolor/India ink Untitled / by Sienna Morris / 19×24 in. Drawn w/numbers 1-12 Ho’okipa Wai’ola… / by Sharon Mau / Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / And here are a select 12 from my PERSONAL FAVORITES recently! Gemma Re- enacting / by Ted Blackall / Oil on canvas, 24×30 in. Abandoned… / by Elisabeta Hermann / Palette knife Acrylic / on canvas, 16×20 in. Charros / by Reynaldo / Mixed media and oil / on canvas, 36×36 in. Dragonfly…Towards The Light 2 / by Janis Zroback / Mixed media on hand-woven / linen, ink/acrylic overpaint The Transformers / by Airmoe69 / Airbrushed on canvas 34×28 in. 11:11 Gatekeeper / by MoonSpiral / Acrylic on canvas panel, / 16×20 in. Blades Of Grass / by Ruth Palmer / Acrylic on canvas subtle fusion…. / by banrai / Digital Fine Art / Abstract Landscape Series — Cloud Walker / by RavenSoul / Digital Fine Art Taurus – The triumphant journey / by Anna Shaw / Photoshop CS4 from orig. stock Circles II / by Susan Grissom ...silient i… / by suncent— / Fine Art Photography
Hey everyone! I have just entered some of my art in a photography competition. I would love for you all to vote for me ;) You can vote mo…
Hey everyone! I have just entered some of my art in a photography competition. I would love for you all to vote for me ;) You can vote more than once, but only once every 24 hours. You can vote for me here Love, / Sarah
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