I’ve finally had a chance to add a few images to my portfolio, so far only a few of them are available for sale because I need to take bi…
I’ve finally had a chance to add a few images to my portfolio, so far only a few of them are available for sale because I need to take bigger pictures or ones of the final artwork that actually has my signature on it. A few images will remain as “not for sale” because they are commissioned artwork that I do not have permission to profit from print sales. In addition, have three new dog acrylic paintings nearly completed that I will be adding later this week, hopefully. Yep, as you can probably tell, I’m mostly a dog painter. Some people see dead people. Well, I paint dogs. And other animals, specifically pets such as cats and horses, because I am a pet portrait artist, but dogs are my usual subject matter and the major inspiration for my artwork. Ready for a shameless plug? You can have a look at my online gallery here http://www.pencilportraits.com.au Ta-Ta for now Michelle / (that dog artist)
Hey Everyone – I’m new to this site and I am excited to make friends and see what I can accomplish here. I already see some great galler…
Hey Everyone – I’m new to this site and I am excited to make friends and see what I can accomplish here. I already see some great galleries and artists that I would like to talk too. Also Please Check out my website WWW.JUSTINAERNI.COM
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.
Well, Was just informed a few hours ago that I was chosen as the featured artist for the Tropical Art...
Well, Was just informed a few hours ago that I was chosen as the featured artist for the Tropical Art group, with my “hug” image as avatar. For the tropical art group members, a big thank you! and for all the RB community with their support a big thanks and appreciation. Here are the other group featured avatars: / / my Wind Art image was chosen to be the avatar for the Collective Collage group. / Arlington West image is the avatar for the Current Issues group, / Old Barn is the avatar for the Human & Nature group
I just want to share some amazing artwork with you all. This stuff isn’t anything at all like what we do, but it’s beautiful, nonethel…
I just want to share some amazing artwork with you all. This stuff isn’t anything at all like what we do, but it’s beautiful, nonetheless. Her stuff would be awesome in a child’s bedroom, a nursery, a playroom or even a living room! She’s extremely talented and her heart is as big as they come. I just can’t say enough nice things about her! Many of you know her already and have undoubtedly grown to love her work. For those of you who haven’t, check out Angelartist! I also love the ways she draws children. Reminds me of Mike’s little girl! / OHHH… / and her animals are incredible...
I thought I would put up some stuff together that I did as a series! / !http://images-3.redbubble.com/img/art/border:noborder/product:moun…
I thought I would put up some stuff together that I did as a series! / /
On occasion Mr. Axford has stirred the bubble cauldron with what some have coined ‘elitism’ due to the high standards that he expects of himself, but also from those around him, or at least a spark from the ‘photographer’ to understand commercial quality and what it means to the professional. Steve’s pursuit of the photographic eye has turned his attentions to some incredible scenes from below the equator. Jungles, volcanoes, poverty, sulfur mines. Scenes that are varied but most have some tinge of sadness, people studies from Indonesia show exactly how lucky we are… that makes me sad… tall growth forests that are being demolished… that makes me sad… hard working men emerging from massive green/yellow clouds of sulfur… that’s confronting! It’s the fungi and the volcanoes that Steve photographs which show a natural contrast in the delicacy and ferocity of our natural world. He’s even been known to do some conceptual portraiture, which he is better at than he would admit. As a big fan of the ‘volcanolotographer’ and the very competent (yet tough) co-moderator of the Wild Nature Group I interviewed Steve about what got him going, a sad story, what keeps him going and what he likes to see. Thanks to Steve for pouring his heart out… tripper! 1. Why do you do what you do…? / Do you mean why I take photos and why I take them of volcanoes, travel, people and fungi and things? A long story really, but here goes. / / Way back at the end of the last century – that would be about 10 years ago – my then wife, Pat, had just died of breast cancer and I was at a bit of a loss as to how to cope, when a travel brochure appeared in my letterbox. It was for adventure holidays, and among other destinations was one entitled “Volcanoes and Dragons”. I thought, that sounds different, so I booked myself on a 3 week adventure holiday traveling by fishing boat, bicycle and bimo from Flores to Bali. I didn’t even have a decent camera, so that bit comes a bit later. / / At that time I had been feeling a bit sick with stomach problems, so, just before I left for the holiday, I got a referral to see a specialist about it. I thought it was probably just a stress thing after Pat’s death; but apparently not. It seemed I had Hepatitis C. Now this was not good news as Hep C in 1998 was not a curable disease. / It seemed there was little I could do about it so I determined to carry on regardless and off I went to the volcanoes and dragons (the dragons being Komodo dragons). Since it was a malarial area, I thought that I’d best take some prophylactics and my doctor gave me some pills called Lariam. Lariam is out of favour now because it can cause some nasty psychiatric side effects, but the drug companies downplayed this at the time. It was a once a week pill and I had to take one a week before I left, which I did. A couple of days later I had an intense panic attack, which I thought was due to my general state of depression at the time and nervousness about traveling while sick. I recovered after a couple of days and flew to Jakarta. There were riots there at the time due to the monetary crisis which was expected to put 20 million people out of work in Java alone (can you believe that – the population of Australia!!), so I stayed in an airport hotel. I’d had my second lariam tablet the day I left, so it was working nicely when I arrived in Jakarta. That was some night. I started to “freak out” (I think this is the correct technical term) in my room and I felt I just had to get with some people or I would go mad. The journey from my room to the bar was terrifying as I felt totally lost and panicked the whole way. Eventually I found the bar and managed to relax by talking to the barman. He was a student who had had to quit studying when the monetary crisis hit. He traveled 5 hours, each way, to get to work every day. I was stunned and fascinated at the same time. I wanted to learn more about how people really lived in places like Java so maybe there where the people thing began, though I suspect the seeds were deeper than that. / / Anyway, I survived the night with the help of a couple of beers and a friendly barman, but then I had a long day’s travel the next day, first to Bali, and then on to Maumere in Flores. I was having panic attacks again, but managed to hold myself together for the flight to Bali. After waiting for 8 hours in Denpasar airport, they finally located a plane to take us to Maumere. I was starting to feel panicky again as I walked out to the plane. It was a Merpati airlines flight, though the plane was almost unidentifiable as all the paint seemed to be worn off and it was mostly down to bare metal. On board the seat I was in wouldn’t stop tilting as it was broken and the window had holes, both through the inner AND outer panes. Not surprisingly, we couldn’t fly above 3,500m as the pressurisation didn’t work; nor did the air conditioning so the plane was still very hot. / / Why am I talking about this flight? Well, perhaps it was because it was so intense and I was resigned to my life coming to an untimely and abrupt end on the side of an Indonesian mountain, ........ but then there was the volcano. We were flying through clouds when suddenly there was a clear patch. We were flying at about 3,500m, which put us 500m above a 3,000m volcano with the biggest crater I have ever seen. It was Tambora. The crater is 1km deep and 5km across and we were flying right along the edge of a 1000m cliff. I was suddenly no longer depressed or having a panic attack, I was just mesmerised. Check it out on Google Maps – it’s on Sumbawa in Indonesia and do a search on the eruption in 1816 that created that crater; it makes the Pinatubo eruption look like a fire cracker. The rest of flight was blissfully uneventful and I arrived safely on Flores to meet up with the tour group. On the first night the tour leader asked if anyone was taking lariam, because it was known to make people really paranoid. That was a huge relief to be told that, as I had thought I was genuinely going mad and this was “as good as it gets”. I stopped the lariam and the holiday was great and I had been reinfected with the travel bug and caught a new one, the volcano bug. / / The next 18 months was probably the worst part of my life. I was sick with Hepatitis and then sick with the newly developed treatment. I really did think that life as I knew may have ended and all I could do was just keep going and remember a line from Maxim Gorky’s writings – “Nothing lasts forever”. If it’s bad it will end, and if it’s good, appreciate it while it lasts. At the end of 6 months of chemotherapy (my last day was 31/12/1999) and a couple of months of recovery …..... I was cured!!!!! Now this was something to celebrate and to contemplate what really makes me tick. Travel was the first thing I planned. I went to Thailand, India and Burma that year and haven’t looked back since. I also bought my first digital camera and discovered that I could take the occasional good photograph – mainly because I found interesting things to photograph rather than having any wonderful artistic talent to be able to create something beautiful out of the very ordinary. I’ve never been able to do that. / / So that covers the travel, people and volcanoes, what about the fungi? Well, that’s just something that has been a passion of mine since I was a boy. I always loved searching for field mushrooms which were a popular meal in my family. Then, when I was a little older, I discovered magic mushrooms. I can’t say I liked eating them as they gave me a hell-of-a gut ache, but I loved searching for them and some of my friends were only to willing to take them off my hands. After I got my digital camera, and would go on bushwalks by myself I found that fungi actually made quite good subjects and there were many more varieties than just the grey or the golden ones. This became an excuse to go roaming around wet forests in Autumn and winter. / / Actually the photography is one big excuse to do what I love doing – travel, meeting people that seem so different but are really the same as us, climbing volcanoes and probably most of all, exploring the old growth forests of Australia and elsewhere. / / 2. What is your favourite subject? / Fungi – and volcanoes, and people, and – really anything that captures my imagination. I love macro photography because there are so many surprises and I love travel because it always stretches my imagination. 3. Volcanoes… which ones… why and how… how close have you been? / Not nearly as many as I would like. Krakatoa, Papandayan, Welirang, Bromo, Semeru, Keli Mutu all in Indonesia. Nyiragongo in Africa and Yasur in Vanuatu. Why? I happened to meet up with a couple of volcanologists who run volcano tours. First I traveled with them, and now I work with them – check it out http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/ Come along with me to climb 3 volcanoes (not too big) in Java in April or July. It’s a lot of fun and you get photo opportunities that even make me look good. Hope you don’t mind the plug. 4. What does quality mean to you? / An interesting question and I presume you are talking about photography. To me it means some real care and skill has gone into the production of the photograph rather than most of the effort into the marketing. It’s like seeing the difference between a David Attenborough documentary and the Funniest Home Videos. Both probably get similar ratings, but the Attenborough stuff is quality. Now some home movies are quality too, because the people who took them put in the effort to learn how to do it properly and have the talent to do it, even if they didn’t have the odd million or two to spend on the gear. I haven’t seen one of those on Funniest Home Videos. Quality isn’t anything to do with marketing. 5. Describe your love of nature… / Shit, describe it?. Nature is everything really. I think some people see man and nature as two separate things, but we are as much a part of it as the lions in Africa, or the fungi in a Tassie rainforest. I can’t understand how people can just stand by and allow so much to be destroyed, to gain so little. If we could bring back the Tasmanian Tiger I’m sure almost everyone would be overjoyed, but try to tell them that when the killed the last of them, We do know better now, but still we only seem to worry when the endangered species have big brown eyes like baby seals. It makes no sense to me. It’s like letting you fingers drop off because for just a moment you don’t need them.
Today, Dan at EmptyEasel chose me as this week’s featured artist. He wrote a very perceptive review of my Ikeba…
Today, Dan at EmptyEasel chose me as this week’s featured artist. He wrote a very perceptive review of my Ikebana Art. What pleases me most is that Dan didn’t know a thing about Ikebana prior to seeing my work. He is a very knowledgeable art critic and that is exactly how he approached my work. He looked without any pre-conceptions. He has made some very insightful remarks which I hope will help people here on Redbubble and the art buying public to appreciate the Art of Ikebana. This is my homage to the late Sofu Teshigahara, the founder of the Sogetsu School and modern Ikebana. Here’s the link to the EmptyEasel review: Baiko’s Ikebana Art
heya, would love you to check out this artist, he is my brother and has been taking shots for way longer then me, but has just finally ta…
heya, would love you to check out this artist, he is my brother and has been taking shots for way longer then me, but has just finally taken me up on redbubble and signed up! He’s here all you nature and animal lovers will like his stuff!
I recently made a t-shirt and print of “Spread the Word to Save the Seals” I already sold one to bribiedamo so a big Woot woot to Spread…
I recently made a t-shirt and print of “Spread the Word to Save the Seals” I already sold one to bribiedamo so a big Woot woot to Spreading the word for the Seals. I thought I would share this with you again because when I posted my peices the links were not yet on the page. So this is it… / Pencil drawing of a Seal in the water with words saying “Spread the Word to Save the Seals” 30% of the total price of this T-shirt and prints will be going to Sea Shepherd Conservation click on the link to visit the organization… Thank you! / Click on the Card image to view prints, cards, and framed prints…
For a long time now I have felt the need to create a social community based on my passion for the arts and photography with a focus on tw…
For a long time now I have felt the need to create a social community based on my passion for the arts and photography with a focus on two things, Australia and Wildlife. As a practising artist and photographer and also being Australian I felt that there was a real gap for Australian artists to launch themselves, network locally and gain exposure to Australian facilities such as Galleries, Exhibitions, Retail outlets, online shops, self-publishing options, local photo shoots or sketching and painting classes, framers, suppliers, etc you get the idea. I would often see really good sites with similar aims but they are all in America and this is not advantageous in many ways for Australian artists. My vision for this Australian Wildlife Art Community “Oz Nature Niche” is for it to grow into something huge – a massive network of resources if you like but I can’t do it on my own. I have set this up so that members may join freely and contribute freely in any way they can. I think that if we can gather a pool of artists’ expertise, resources, stimulus, galleries, portfolios etc and then advertise the sight by using the badges available which we can embed into our own websites and blogs we can’t help but open up a larger audience. I have nearly 30, 000 visitors who have checked out my website so you can imagine that if the Nature Niche Badge is embedded on my site, it should generate a lot of interest and likewise when all members do the same. (You can see an example of a badge on my website.) I see it as a community which we will visit often and help each other out and I can’t count the hundreds of hours I have spent scouring the Internet for information on all of the previous things I have mentioned. After now doing it the hard way and bookmarking a lot about sites and blogs, finding out ways to design a website, the best online shops, how to self-publish a book, where to purchase matte boards and so on, why not share this knowledge with a community? Remember also, that it won’t cost you a cent, totally free – just your time and willingness to share in order to promote the arts in Australia. I only hope that you will share my vision and help this site grow as I think it has so many wonderful opportunities. If you join and you have your own, fresh ideas – things I haven’t condsidered then please let me know or start a new forum discussion in the relevant groups. What you will get for FREE if you join “Oz Nature Niche”:- your own personal page which is customisable with themes rss feeds and the ability to embed your own rss feed from your website or blog create your own gallery or portfolio, artist bio and resume, links to your other sites iincluding REDBUBBLE. your own blog with option to include pictures and create an rss feed of this blog join and create forums invite friends to your Group(s) join specialised Wildlife Groups within Oz Nature Niche such as Fine Artists, Photographers, Digital Artists, Manga Cartoon Illustration & Comics, Crafts Merchandise & Textiles critiques and constructive criticism of your work make friends and connect with fellow Australian artists ask for and give technical help and tips within your Group(s) add gadgets and widgets to your own personal page and Group page add videos including YouTube etc add music to your own page and group pages engage in Live Chat within all of the Groups in Oz Nature Niche lots of exposure, networking opportunities and marketing possibilites create a Badge to advertise Oz Nature Niche on your existing website and blog plus many more features still to come …. Hope to meet you on the Nature Niche. Check out the site here Kind Regards Lesley
It’s a tie, I just couldn’t make up my mind on who to give this newly created award to!! (Created by me of course!) Be sure to check out …
It’s a tie, I just couldn’t make up my mind on who to give this newly created award to!! (Created by me of course!) Be sure to check out these two wonderful artists gallery pages as well, they are awesome!!! Award winning photo’s for the category of Bug Porn goes to…. drum roll please ….. mikrin aka Mike with Love through flower petals….. and to VanSnuG aka Steven with ;-P The Making Of …# Sorry for not posting the pic of Steven’s photo, but like so many of us here he has added the clear copy over his art to protect himself. Please visit the link to see it!!! Another new winner is…...... / Sugar… Now I can add, “Beetle Love” by Deborah H. Benoit!!!
Today this gallery reached the great marking point of 20 000 views for my 187 pictures here, while 135 of you have put it on their watchl…
Today this gallery reached the great marking point of 20 000 views for my 187 pictures here, while 135 of you have put it on their watchlist. I cannot count all comments or faves, but let me tell you that it all is a wonderful response for my work here! I came over here from deviantArt and am still running two galleries there, generally trying not to repeat myself too much. So I knew that starting a new gallery is quite an effort. But it was certainly worth it: your reactions have given me another great boost. While I still stay with my deviantArt galleries, as I do not want to give up the link with many friends which I have won there in three years, Redbubble has won a strong place of its own. And let me say it quite openly here. There are two things that I clearly prefer here. 1) The general quality of the submissions is much higher. 2) People do not fake about with their nature shots as much here as they do over there. Adding a little contrast, ok, but that is it in my view. The rest is nature´s beauty itself, but no artifying, beautifying, sexying up or whatever one may call it. This actually is the reason why I do not consider myself an artist. Nature is the artist, in its endless beauty and variety. I just try to do some good photography, snatching some bits of all the beauty of nature. I am extremely glad that so many of you appreciate this effort. Many, ever so many thanks for all your attention and wonderful reactions. Please forgive me that most of the times I do not manage to thank you personally. My gratitude is none the less.
Thank you so much Sharon_Johnstone for choosing me as one of the featured artists in “Nature’s_…
Thank you so much Sharon_Johnstone for choosing me as one of the featured artists in Nature’s_Macro_Canvas forum Pay_It_Forward I am very honoured!!!
Just received the wonderful news that “Blosson” has chosen me as “Featured Artist” in Pay it Forward in “Natures Macro Canvas” group!!! ...
Just received the wonderful news that “Blosson” has chosen me as “Featured Artist” in Pay it Forward in “Natures Macro Canvas” group!!! WOW..Thank you so very much Blossom!! Coming from a lady with such amazing “macros”...it is a real honour!!!
I want to introduce you to a wonderful artist Beautiful North Carolina images so natural and free ! her name is Sandy Woolard ...
I want to introduce you to a wonderful artist Beautiful North Carolina images so natural and free ! her name is Sandy Woolard From the eyes of Sandy Woolard
... to the Valentine and Hearts group for featuring my *Valentine Love – Big Shin…
... to the Valentine and Hearts group for featuring my Valentine Love – Big Shiny Heart Gold Scroll Card! This made me really happy! Hugs, / Ruxique :)
Wow, I just noticed that my macro photograph WAVE has had over 1,429 v…
Wow, I just noticed that my macro photograph WAVE has had over 1,429 views. Taken from the bark of an Australian Paperbark Tree, the beautiful shades of blue just popped out after adjusting the contrast. I find taking photos late in the afternoon in the shade seems to accentuate the blue tonal range. I think perhaps one of my fave photos from my portfolio. Perhaps its time to start deleting some of my older photos. Hopefully my work is improving somewhat and there are a few oldies there, that I think, mmmm…”not so great, what was I thinking”.....LOL! What’s your most popular image, and how many views have you had on it?
Just to inform you that I have created a quarterly online magazine called “Nature’s Paint Box”. After many months of preparation, resea…
Just to inform you that I have created a quarterly online magazine called “Nature’s Paint Box”. After many months of preparation, researching and designing I am thrilled to announce that the Premier edition of Nature’s Paint Box eZine is available to purchase. This electronic magazine echoes what I share in my blog which is a love of wildlife, art and photography. This quarterly eZine is chock full of goodies including:- featured artists who have been interviewed and share their work; art, craft & photography techniques; ways to sell and promote your work online; current art & photography exhibitions and competitions; garden guests diary; a review of free photo storage and editing software and sites; free goodies to download such as vector art, fonts, frames and wallpapers; recommended books and blogs ; wildlife in the news … As artists and photographers on RedBubble, if you do wildlife, then I would love to hear from you re. being a featured artist. Check out the sampler eZine at Lesley Smitheringale Fine Art Thank you, Lesley
I apologize my delay in acknowledging the feature, as for last week I was totally hanged up in the work and the hangover is still on ;-) ...
I apologize my delay in acknowledging the feature, as for last week I was totally hanged up in the work and the hangover is still on ;-) I was so much occupied at some times I was talking on three different mobile phones – one in my right hand one in the left & other in front hold by some one. I can take a deep sigh as it was just limited for thee :)))))) Anyway, A day with Egrets #1 is featured in Former DPF Members and A vision of flight group and I’m a new featured artist there. Also, “ Thanks Rosalie, Gail, Marie for your wonderful support. But all this honor came from Marvin Collins who has been my inspiration for bird photography. I am humbly thankful to him and all who supported me. P!
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!
“Silex Spring ~ Yellowstone National Park” was featured in ! # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE...
“Silex Spring ~ Yellowstone National Park” was featured in ! # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE
Before giving Thanks for the features, I would like to thank my friends for all the support they have shown me in this beautiful worl…
Before giving Thanks for the features, I would like to thank my friends for all the support they have shown me in this beautiful world of heART! I recently in the last month got injured at my workplace and can’t sit for a long time so if I don’t catch up to all the fabulous work of my friends, please forgive me!! I haven’t been around for a few days now so I am going to try my best to do the catch up , so bear with me. / __________ / Breast Cancer Awareness (October Month) / Three Features on this one! Many thanks to the great host of the following groups, ImageWriting2/24 : PEACE LOVE & TRANQUILITY : ALL ABOUT HEARTS / __________ / Grace / Two Features on this one! Many thanks to the great host of the following groups, Going Coastal & Focus & Lighting / __________ / Looking Out My Backdoor / Many thanks to the great host of Music Inspired Art / __________ / The Humbled King / Many thanks the great host of Eagles Only / __________ / Elegant Lady / Many thanks to the great host of K9 Group / __________ / Deep In Thought / Two Features on this one! Many thanks to the great host of Pets Are Us & Bits & Pieces / __________ / Mother Child & Reunion / Two Features on this one also. Many thanks to the wonderful host of Music Inspired Arts & Dolphins & Whales / __________ / Spirit Eagle – Anpiel / Many thanks to the wonderful host of #1 ARTIST OF RED BUBBLE / __________ / Poised / Many thanks to the wonderful host of All things in the Natural World / __________
Haydee Yordan recommended that I inform Redbubble that I have / been featured in the Pay It Forward Forum of the Nature’s Macro Canvas / ...
Haydee Yordan recommended that I inform Redbubble that I have / been featured in the Pay It Forward Forum of the Nature’s Macro Canvas / group. After studying the group’s artwork and / portfolios, I will select an active member of the group as / the next featured member.
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