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• GOOD BOOKS
  by Karin Taylor

  I would like to recommend a couple of GOOD BOOKs 1. Transformation Soup by Sark...

  I would like to recommend a couple of GOOD BOOKs 1. Transformation Soup by Sark / (Healing for the Splendidly Imperfect) 2. the Van Gogh Blues / the Creative Person’s Path Through Depression / Successfully Manage the Anxieties of th Creative Process / Eric Maisel, PhD / Author of ‘Coaching the Artist Within’ both available through Amazon Books (see below for links) 1. Van Gogh Blues / 2. Transformation Soup by Sark

• A "personal style"?
  by Nikki Trexel

  Hey all, I have been thinking about the concept of a personal artistic style. Mostly I was thinking about the fact that, apart from the…

  Hey all, I have been thinking about the concept of a personal artistic style. Mostly I was thinking about the fact that, apart from the fact that I am usually drawn to flowers and nature, I don’t have a style. Is it important in the long run to develop a signature element to one’s work, such as a particular treatment, color, subject, etc.? Many of the very talented people here have very defined styles…when I see it, I know immediately who took it. Do you do this intentionally, or is it a kind of refinement that just naturally comes with time and experience? Right now I feel so overwhelmed by the vast horizon of the world that I feel I could never even begin to consciously pick one kind of thing to portray. I guess it must just develop as an individual develops creative abilities and passions in a certain direction. If that’s the case (I’m guessing it is) then would you say a developed artist WILL have a personal style? And the corollary: must an artist have a personal style to be considered an experienced artist? I’d love to hear your opinions. Thanks for reading, folks!

• FOR MY FRIEND AND FELLOW ARTIST AND WRITER: AN INTERVIEW - INTRODUCING HILTON M. BRISCOE
  by JaneAParis

  For my friend and fellow artist and writer: An Interview - Introducing Hilton M Briscoe / ...

  For my friend and fellow artist and writer: An Interview - Introducing Hilton M Briscoe They said you could have ten questions, they did not say where you could start counting from - 0)What do you do when you are not doing art, writing or photography? / / What do I do when not writing? Listen to music mostly, I am always listening to music. I am usually on myspace trying to get people to talk to me, no one ever does, lol. 1) Who do you think you are? This is a very serious question. Who are you? / Who am I? To be honest I have no idea, I am only 18 and I haven’t lived enough to know myself. One thing I do know about myself is I am not the kind of person that is happy sitting in the crowd living my life like everyone else, this is true in all areas of my life. I am easily depressed as some people might have noticed but I have never seriously considered suicide, living a normal life with a 9 to 5 job and a constant routine that is only changed by government sanctioned holidays is something that makes me feel like I would seriously consider suicide. That probably makes me sound lazy and I would disagree, I’m just don’t fit into normal society. I have to make my own way in this world, I probably need peoples help cause this world confuses me sometimes. 2) Who are the most important people in your life and why? or Who do you love? This includes pets. / My parents are the most important people in my life, my father is getting on in age(he is 64 now) and is really ill so he doesn’t have much time left, when he dies I think both me and my mother will be devastated, but I will try to help her through the rough time. / King is another important creature in my life, he is my dog and he is 3 years old this November the first. I was with his mother while she was giving birth to him, he was tiny and I thought he was dead but he wasn’t. He was named after Kind Diamond(thrash metal legend) because when he was born he had a diamond pattern in white fur on the back of his neck(he has predominately black fur), it’s kind of funny because all through Sally’s(the mother) pregnancy I was telling myself I wouldn’t name my puppy something stupid like King or Boxer or one of those names men trying to overcompensate give their bulldogs. / I would say anyone who can make me happy when I am depressed is important in my life, so that’s all my friends and a few people on Redbubble. Out of the lot I will give Lexxy a special mention, she is my best friend and I love her to bits, she is going through a rough patch in her life down in London with her boyfriend, I wish I could help her but there is little I can do. 3) What are your dreams like, the ones you aspire to about the future. You can also share some of your sicker dreams too if you want:-) / To be honest I never remember my dreams, I have had quite a few nightmares and I absolutely love them. My favourite one was when I was visiting a travelling circus, I can’t remember the details because it is a childhood nightmare but it turned out it was a circus full of cannibalistic clowns and a dragon that they sacrificed children too. I loved that nightmare, I was about 6 when I had it. Ooh another nightmare I had actually terrified me and I woke up sweating when I dreamt it(I was about 4). In the nightmare there was a woman who was kidnapping children and she came to Coventry, all the kids in my neighbourhood decided to run away so we could hide from her and we all moved into the countryside, we lived in a small shanty town made from sheet metal we found on a farmers tip and lived in it happily for a few days. But the woman found us and she crept into our little village while we all slept at night and started putting us all in one at a time into her magic bag(in dungeons and dragons terms it would be called a “True Bag of Holding”) but one of the kids woke up before she could put him in her bag and he screamed which woke us all up, we all started running in every direction in the pitch black countryside night and I can remember crawling through a hedge and running as fast as I could through a field but she caught me, I woke up as she was putting me in her bag. Fantastic nightmare, I didn’t tell it very well, you had to be there, lol. 4) What is your favorite painting? -favorite photo? -favorite song? -favorite poem? -favorite short story? -favorite child’s nursery rhyme? -favorite child’s lullaby -favorite child’s story? and -favorite (any kind of art, your choice)? / My favourite painting would be “House of the Hanged Man” by Cezanne, I have never really thought of my favourite photo, I would say a photo of my family and a another family we were friends with on holiday in Rhyl(North Wales) with the sea in the background. My favourite song? I could name hundreds, but right now I will say “The Hunger” by The Distillers. I do have a favourite poem but I can’t remember it right now, lol but I remember it is about a person with a hyper sense of self importance, extreme arrogance and even psychopathic tendencies. My favourite short story would be my life, lol. I like 3 blind mice, I don’t know any lullabies, lol. My favourite child story would be “The Farm”, yes it’s not technically a child’s story but it has talking animals in and I loved that even if I didn’t get what the story was really about. My favourite kind of art would be either psychedelic or horror art, maybe a mix of both. 5) What do you like and what do you dislike about your homeland? If you could live somewhere else, where do you think you would choose and why? / What do I like about England? The fact that rock and metal was born here, lol. I dislike most other things about England and can’t wait to get away from it. I would love to live in Norway or Finland, I’m a Viking at heart, lol. 6) Who do you like on red bubble? / I like you, one of my favourite writers. Marlo and Ash Sivils are definitely my favourite artists. There are a load of very inspirational people on redbubble, Kathleen and Robert Knapman are just 2 out of the loads I could name. Oh then there is Gordon, he’s great at just about everything and I don’t think he is completely human, burningark is like the goth lord and I look up to him artistically and musically. 7) Why do you like art, writing, and photography? / I have a bad relationship with art to be honest, often I am left feeling empty by it which is why I get so enthusiastic about the artists I do get, which includes Ash, burningark, Gordon, Kathleen and Robert. / I love writing, it is so easy for me and I am good at it, I am not good at very much, lol. / Photography to me is about capturing exact moments in time, some cultures believe that a camera steals part of your soul when you have your picture taken, I don’t believe this but I am certainly uneasy about getting my picture taken. That has more to do with self esteem to be honest. 8) What do you think your two best poems are so far and what do you think your two best pieces of art are so far have been? Please share them with us below? / My 2 best poems? I have no doubt my favourite is I Dreamt of Heaven, and I suppose my other is Masks, Pens and Truths I Kept Hidden My best pictures are easily Nightmare – God Got His Revenge When I Took This Picture, and My Dog Is So Gay He Plays Dramatic Dead, the second one is of king. 9) Who are your influences – who or what inspires you in your creative work? / Dani Filth’s(of Cradle of Filth) inspires me, his lyrics are so dark and melodramatic I hope one day I could write like he does. 10) For the last question, I get to ask you the same thing since we interviewed each other – Now for my last question I shall ask the age old question(with my little story to explain how you had the foresight to bring the 3 things). You are marooned on a desert island, you had a premonition in your dreams the night before that it was going to happen and you quite fancy a nice break on a desert island so you decide to not try and stop it, what 3 things did you bring along with you and why? / 1)I would bring a manual on how to construct a small water powered power station / 2)I would bring a CD player and Cradle of Filth’s album “Nymphetamine” which would already be in the CD player so still counts as one item(in my logic, lol) / 3)I shall steal your 3rd item, a hot man who loves me. lol Thanks a lot my friend, smiles from Jane:-)

• Does anyone do website design?
  by claire jones

  hello, just wondering if theres anyone out there who could design a professional website for me? i already have one @ www.zhibit.org/clai…

  hello, just wondering if theres anyone out there who could design a professional website for me? i already have one @ www.zhibit.org/clairecurtisjones but i made it myself and its not very professional. i want something a bit more creepy and dark and edgy abit like my work i guess. if you do web design or anyone you know does id love to hear from you. thanks for reading! claire

• Personal Plea to Help an Artist Friend In Need
  by Jayne Logan

  Hello Everyone, *U P D A T E: I now have Mychael’s mailing address. If you wish to by-pass the REDBubble route and want to send a …

  Hello Everyone, *U P D A T E: I now have Mychael’s mailing address. If you wish to by-pass the REDBubble route and want to send a note or $ to Mychael directly just pop me a BubbleMail and I will give you the address. Alternatively you can ask Lenny La Rue directly for the address by going to http://www.redbubble.com/people/lenny7 – This way Mychael maintains his privacy. MYCHAEL HAS RECEIVED SOME MONEY AND IS MOST GRATEFUL TO THOSE WHO COULD HELP OUT A BIT – JUST A SMALL CHEQUE WOULD HELP EVEN MORE .. * In chatting with Mychael[alchemy], a fellow Red Bubble artist, I learned of his current plight. He is facing life on the street in the early new year. He lost his job of 18 yrs, 1 year ago, due to illness, depression and fatigue and all that comes with it. He suffers from crippling bulging disks in his back, walks with a cane when he can, etc., medicines cost money. I approached my dear friend Laura Hartley by email and we decided to both put out a journal note to everyone. This man, Mychael, is 59 years old and living in the United States of America. Sadly, folks living on the street are commonplace (and it is the same here in Canada) but I just hate to see this gentleman face the streets in such a horrible condition. Please … find it in your hearts to purchase a card or print or whatever you can to help him. I discussed this with him this morning and he was so happy that perhaps this would at least help him pay his bills and buy food. The rent is another worry altogether. I think you get the gist. I won’t pester or guilt anyone, of course, as I respect your right to do as you can or wish. I only ask that you stop and think for a minute – what if it were ME. Please, as a wonderful community of artists and redBubblers, let’s help an artist in genuine need. Thank you for your time. Please don’t respond to this journal with comments as I know you all have kind comments and big hearts – I don’t need to know who pitched in. If you can help, it will be at your discretion. OK? Thank you so very much. Jayne [his work can be found at http://redbubble.com/people/mychaelalchemy ] / I

• Photographer Shirts
  by Stephen Mitchell

  Are you a photographer who wants everyone to know about YOUR hobby, small-business, skillset, and/or passion? Do you attend events,...

  Are you a photographer who wants everyone to know about YOUR hobby, small-business, skillset, and/or passion? Do you attend events, only to find people asking questions like “Are you a photographer?”, even when you holding a dSLR that could take down a elephant from two miles away? Do you want people to able to easily find & view your artwork on Redbubble – even when you are out on assignment, on a field-trip, or walking in public? If you answered “YES” to any of these questions, you are in the right place! I invite you to choose and purchase any of the Photographers-Shirts displayed below. , , Available in every Colour, Size and Style, for Men and Women. , , Don’t Delay, They’re Available Every Day! , SPECIALISED SHIRTS / Get your PERSONAL or BUSINESS NAME on your shirt at no extra cost! / Philip Johnson did … and liked them so much he bought TWO! REMEMBER to take a photograph of yourself in your new Photographers-Shirt and display within the Buyers Booth, and then tell us how good the print is … I’d like to know if they need improvement. PREVIOUS ARTICLES about these Shirts: / ... Redbubble Shirts for Artists, Writers and Photographers / ... Four T-shirts for Professonal Photographs

• Without Reward
  by Stephen Mitchell

  Check out my latest idea posted on the Adelaide/SA Forum...

  Check out my latest idea posted on the Adelaide/SA Forum . As we all know, many popular photographic locations are heavily-trafficked with snap-happy tourists who want to take the postcard shot. Therefore this idea offered invites those with a cryptic, artistic and inquisitive nature to shoot an image of those same locations, but in such a way that would not make it obvious as to where you were. Although aimed at Members of the ASA , anyone can use this concept in their own neck-of-the-woods. Without Reward? Yes, because it is a challenge. Quite a challenge. Happy hunting.

• Brand Spanking New...It's first revealing!
  by Vestque

  Say hello to my Blog Now I’ve never really done this before but I think it might help to get my name a…

  Say hello to my Blog Now I’ve never really done this before but I think it might help to get my name and work out there. I’m happy I’m finally doing this. Maybe now you guy can get to know me as a person as well as an artist! And as always, if any of you have any suggestions don’t hesitate to spit it out :P Thanks guys! Vestque

• New Person to the Bubble
  by jewelskings

  Please check out her work I think she’s going to go far. http://www.redbubble.com/people/lilianbernoldi !http://images-2.redbubble.com…

  Please check out her work I think she’s going to go far. http://www.redbubble.com/people/lilianbernoldi

• Personal Plea to Help an Artist Friend In Need (Reprinted from Jayne Logan)
  by Lenny La Rue, IPA

  The following is a very important message from the Red Bubble Community’s member Jayne Logan. It’s regarding Mychaelalchemy and his dire…

  The following is a very important message from the Red Bubble Community’s member Jayne Logan. It’s regarding Mychaelalchemy and his dire need for help. Please read the message and contact Jayne to help a depressed and injured artist. / ____________ / Jayne Logan Hello Everyone, In chatting with Mychael[alchemy], a fellow Red Bubble artist, I learned of his current plight. He is facing life on the street in the early new year. He lost his job of 18 yrs, 1 year ago, due to illness, depression and fatigue and all that comes with it. He suffers from crippling bulging disks in his back, walks with a cane when he can, etc., medicines cost money. I approached my dear friend Laura Hartley by email and we decided to both put out a journal note to everyone. This man, Mychael, is 59 years old and living in the United States of America. Sadly, folks living on the street are commonplace (and it is the same here in Canada) but I just hate to see this gentleman face the streets in such a horrible condition. Please … find it in your hearts to purchase a card or print or whatever you can to help him. I discussed this with him this morning and he was so happy that perhaps this would at least help him pay his bills and buy food. The rent is another worry altogether. I think you get the gist. I won’t pester or guilt anyone, of course, as I respect your right to do as you can or wish. I only ask that you stop and think for a minute – what if it were ME. Please, as a wonderful community of artists and redBubblers, let’s help an artist in genuine need. Thank you for your time. Please don’t respond to this journal with comments as I know you all have kind comments and big hearts – I don’t need to know who pitched in. If you can help, it will be at your discretion. OK? Thank you so very much. Jayne [his work can be found at http://redbubble.com/people/mychaelalchemy ]

• The art of being a naturally visual person
  by blueclover

  I sometimes find that being a visually focused person can actually have its advantages: / – You can make something of nothing, for examp…

  I sometimes find that being a visually focused person can actually have its advantages: / – You can make something of nothing, for example, a lesser/non-visual person will look at a grey building and think “a grey building”, whereas a visual person will look at that same building and think “that grey building has so much raw emotion, the drabness of the grey accentuates its ability to blend in with surrounding buildings. It could almost serve as a blank canvas. Its not just grey, its a colour in its own right. Somehow i can capture the spirit of this image in an art form such as photography or a painting”. This makes sense,doesnt it? Although sometimes this amazing visual technique can be a problem when it comes to picturing things in too much detail, more than you may want to know! In conclusion, being a naturally visual person can help you be a great artist, if you know how to use it to your advantage.

• Artistic Personality Complex
  by Janet Boyd Art

  So I did not fit into the mainstream. I did not understand the how and why of cultural and social customs. Others told me directly t…

  So I did not fit into the mainstream. I did not understand the how and why of cultural and social customs. Others told me directly that they did not understand what was wrong with me. I was called “unconscious” by my mother and others. Airhead. People seemed pleased to observe, “Janet may be intellegent, but she does not have a drop of common sense.” They were right. I did not get it. Dreamy, day dreams, I would drop out of a conversation, zone out. I thought that the dominent operating procedures were wrong. I dreamed of a kinder world. In my head I created a community that shared instead of being so competitive. Slowly I came to understand that I am different. An artist. I think in a different way. The Aliens R Us concept was a breakthrough for me. I realized that my approach to relationships was not working. I saw that my way of doing things was not working well. I was getting by, but things were a struggle. I made a conscious decision to live in the world the way it is. I was an artistic, idealistic dreamer. I decided to become an objective observer of the world. To look with scientific detachment. I thought, “How would an alien sociologist view out culture?” I needed detachment. The concept of alien sociologist helped me to get out of my dreamy eccentric views. I became more grounded. Realistic. This has helped. I now have binocular vision. I can see things from a level headed, left brain perspective. I still dream. I paint elaborate pictures in my day dreams and in my sleep. Is this making any sense? Or am I still slightly crazy? Can any of you relate?

• Getting more personal
  by Kayleen West

  I must admit I like it when I can identify with the person behind the work so I changed my avatar portrait today so it reflects my work a…

  I must admit I like it when I can identify with the person behind the work so I changed my avatar portrait today so it reflects my work and introduces the person to you too. It has been lovely to meet and chat people in Redbubble and share our passion for creativity. My web work has taken much of my time lately but I am really feeling that itch to get back into my painting. Yep real itchy actually!

• PROFESSIONAL ART HISTORY
  by ArtProphet

  A lot of my work has been sold across Victoria in various craft markets and galleries. It all began at the Queen Victoria Market around 1…

  A lot of my work has been sold across Victoria in various craft markets and galleries. It all began at the Queen Victoria Market around 1999. I personally crafted the picture frames, and purchased materials made locally, or supported local business. I moved on to better quality frames, moisture free backings, and longevity printing (over 100 years lifespan in non-direct sunlight). I have been in a Southbank gallery, and often in bourke street Melbourne (Amazing Galleries franchise). I was a regular at various craft markets in the recent years, including the famous Williamstown Craft Market, Craft Markets Victoria, and Southbank market. My Graphic Design work paid for my photography and printing, and all my equipment! Being a freelance artist, I have the most freedom, and I set my own goals and targets. I love nature work, and it’s application in abstract art. I once thought that it would be great to have a little reminder in every home, of the beauty and infiniteness of the natural elements. / My camera is the eye, my computer the tool, and my imagination the spirit of my creations. All of my work is “LIVING ART”, and the energy contained within each piece is uplifting to the spirit, healing, balancing, and inspiring.

• Hello, new blog readers!
  by robertsloan2

  Well, one of you might be an old blog reader. Aladyx is a friend of mine from DeviantART.com who told me about RedBubble and gave me the …

  Well, one of you might be an old blog reader. Aladyx is a friend of mine from DeviantART.com who told me about RedBubble and gave me the link with a link to one of her watercolor pieces. I like this community. I love the way the front page shows artworks, lots of art jumping right out at me. I’ve been active and busy lately. Being a fantasy writer, I never miss “http://www.nanowrimo.org” and the only year I didn’t win it was 2002, when I was too sick and didn’t get started till the 25th. This year I’m about halfway done with my newest novel, Snowflake Obsidian, a fantasy with an equine hero based on a Lipizzan stallion but enchanted, he’s actually become a wizard now and I can’t wait to see how his quest comes out. A month ago, in October, on “http://robertsloan2.livejournal.com” where I usually blog, I started doing a drawing a day for a group called ArtSoMoFo. This led to so many interesting experiments and new directions that I kept it up right into November. I started experimenting with ACEOs around that time or a little earlier, doing colored pencil realism in a size category where I could finish it in a day or so instead of hanging onto it for weeks and years puttering and burnishing and finishing it with the same level of detail on a large piece. I’ve been having fun with it. Then last week I started auctioning on eBay, with the username robertsloan2art—and that’s distracting. I’ve gotten no bids yet, but plenty of reassurance that no one bids till the last day and maybe the last hours when it rolls up onto the front page. They’re getting some views, that’s something that makes me happy. I got all set up over there, joined an ACEO group, made some new friends and have been getting focused on selling my art again. I live on Social Security, but I’m starting a business—my writing and art, working at getting self supporting again so that when I do get a big novel sale or commission it doesn’t get taken out of my check. For years I worked as a street artist in New Orleans, but the physical toll it took on my bad leg and back eventually forced me to retire and after that life got hard for almost a decade. I wound up in homeless shelters and after that banged around staying with friends till my daughter got a house and kids and a new husband, so now I’m living in a good place and have finally gotten past surgery and other health problems to where I think I can build up again to being able to support myself. I know I want to. While the check is in some ways an easy ride, it gets frustrating and it just rubs me wrong that I get penalized for earning. I’ve got one book in print. Raven Dance is available at Amazon, search on title or on Robert A. Sloan author name, it’s a big fat science fiction epic with a black and red cover. I’ve sold a couple of pro stories for big money and am now also getting into doing how to draw articles at “http://www.ehow.com” where you can search on my username robertsloan2 or just skim the Art > Drawing category till you start seeing my name—a lot of my articles make it to the front page on popularity. They vary, but I’m slowly building up a complete drawing course there. I also started working on Street Sketching I: Portraits in 2004, got interrupted by health trouble and life crises but have been steadily rewriting it. I teach art in person and have always been able to get a beginner from zero to selling realistic portraits within six months to a year on meeting with them monthly in a group or one on one. So I had to relearn how to write completely! No plot, no characters, no zingy dialogue and no setting? How do I make a book interesting when it has none of the things that make a novel fun? But it’s coming along now, and the eHow articles have really been giving me a better feel for it. The technique is using pastels or colored Conte crayons on tinted art paper. So there’s an introduction! My self portrait is reasonably accurate in my icon. I’d have used my daughter’s photo, the one I used for a reference, but I thought it’d be cool to use art for an icon. I’ll be posting some art soon… watch for it.

• diverging stories: personal journeys of three artists
  by louise lawrence

  my art exhibition in three weeks time features my latest work about depression, divorce and personal story. robyn nuttall from redbubble …

  my art exhibition in three weeks time features my latest work about depression, divorce and personal story. robyn nuttall from redbubble is joining me and fellow artist loueen silvester to show photography. sculpture, oil and acrylic paintings and poetry of our own stories at west end circle gallery. 15-21st august 10am – 4pm everyone welcome to view and share their stories with us!