i have been granted the permission to start my own group and here it is. / As much as i am a photographer i also loved to draw and paint t…
i have been granted the permission to start my own group and here it is. / As much as i am a photographer i also loved to draw and paint the figure and felt that there was very few places and groups online to submit this type of art into. Therefore i have started a group JUST figure and faces that are approached through the use of media, such as paint , graphite, mixed media etc, original mediums. excluding photography. / its a new experience for me and i hope it will be successfull. / and i hope to see some of you there too.
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I’m happy to say that the following paintings were featured this week.. / Thank you to all the group hosts. / / Prairie Gold..Live Love Dream. / / Nice to be Here..Bits and Pieces. / / Abstract Rose..Mature Woman. / / The Colour of ‘Sunlight’..Bits and Pieces..
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I’m very happy to say that the following works were featured this week….thank you to all the moderators… / / Still Life with Sunflowers Cards Best of Your Best. / / Green Pear Bits and Pieces. / / Serpeggiante Marble Textures and Materials. / / Painted Batik All Things Orange. I would also like once more, to say a special thank you to all those who bought my work… I really loved creating them, and hope that you will love owning them..
I’m happy that the following works and I’m especially thrilled about Rosie, have been selected as features today...thanks again to all …
I’m happy that the following works and I’m especially thrilled about Rosie, have been selected as features today...thanks again to all the moderators… / / Homage to Cezanne Inspired Art / / Rosie at the Gala..a Period Piece..Illustrated Short Story and Poem Bits and Pieces / / Chayote..Frida and Diego’s Wedding Bits and Pieces / / Travertine Marble Textures and Materials
I am thrilled to announce that Rosie at the Gala, short fiction with painting, has achieved a second feature today in the group _Freed…
I am thrilled to announce that Rosie at the Gala, short fiction with painting, has achieved a second feature today in the group Freedom to Shine... Yaaaay….. / Rosie at the Gala-a Period Piece..Illustrated Short Fiction.
_“It’s a curious subject that’s seldom discussed and surprisingly poorly understood. The idealists and the practical are at odds about …
“It’s a curious subject that’s seldom discussed and surprisingly poorly understood. The idealists and the practical are at odds about it, but it’s really neither good nor bad—it just is. I’m talking about “the look” in popular art. Art is a commodity joined at the hip to an artist’s name. That the name is recognized from the work is both its beauty and its curse. / Night-A Blaze of Glory Here’s one example out of thousands. Mark Rothko’s work is pretty well universally known. Anyone with a smattering of interest or knowledge can pick one out from across a crowded MOMA. Both curators and commoners use words like “soft-edged,” “repetitious,” “simple,” “ethereal,” and “consistent,” to describe Rothko’s work. That’s what people know about Rothko. On the other hand, figurative and exploratory work by him is hardly known and seldom collected. Rothko is not just a painting that looks like what a Rothko should look like, it’s a brand, and like the wealthy woman who needs a Louis Vuitton purse, well-endowed galleries feel the need to have a Mark Rothko. / Night Time in Baba’s Garden The condition isn’t limited to the herd-instinct of Public Galleries. That little gallery down highway 101 in Humptulips also plays a role in branding the look. Joe Schmaltz’s landscapes need to look like other Joe Schmaltz landscapes. Your local art-collecting orthodontist needs to have seen something like it before. It takes a mighty evolved orthodontist to seek out the more unusual Schmaltzes. Evolved orthodontists are as rare as perfectly straight teeth. / Chintz Night Whether they admit it or not, both the lofty curator and the modest collector see work as a product and have finite expectations for it. Going beyond those expectations upsets their understanding of the particular brand they’re looking at. So much for an artist’s versatility, varied skills, complex abilities and eternal exploration. Problems arise when one artist appropriates the look of another artist. If the look is simple to produce, and many looks are, multiple galleries can become glutted. Overproduction of a look leads to devaluation. Such is the circular nature of looks”..... The above is a direct quote from the pages of a newsletter by Robert Genn, one of Canada’s most accomplished painters, who is also well known internationally and who also runs The Painters Keys, an international listing site for artists…. / In the Summertime This is a subject that I have personally puzzled and pondered over for years…do I want an interesting life, or if I slog away and paint the same thing everyday of life, a possibly famous and lucrative one….I opted for interesting Janis… What do you think? Are you hoping to be the next Mark Rothko recognizable for a single style of work, or are you content with leading an interesting and varied life exploring all the styles and subject matter that the world offers the artist? I’m interested in your feedback on this topic….I think it’s a really important question for artists who are serious about making a living at their art.
Dear Janis, / / _These days artists are receiving emails like this: “We like to do business with you. We are skilled painters in Shenzhen…
Dear Janis, / / These days artists are receiving emails like this: “We like to do business with you. We are skilled painters in Shenzhen, China. There are lots of talent painters working together in our studio. We can paint oil painting at every grade of different style, our price and service are very competitive, you can make more money than before if you buy oil paintings directly from us. The FOB prices can be $7 per copy for 20” x 24” and $12 for 24” x 36”, if you are interested in, we can send some photos of our works to you, we also can paint exactly according to your any email pictures, it is very easy to do the international business now, looking forward to your reply.” / Mutsu Carnival As well as cheap copies of famous paintings for the world’s supermarkets, what these chaps have in mind is that you go golfing while they make your stuff—at less cost than you might normally pay for a couple of golf balls. They’d like you to think it’s the new reality of free trade. / The Group of Five / / I’ve seen a few fairly good copies of my own work, done without my permission. At first glance they look okay. At second glance the painters haven’t figured out the order I do things, and they’ve not rendered well the deviations and mannerisms that make my work somewhat distinctive. As clever as these guys are, they’ve not lived my struggles, and they’ve put in unpleasant struggles of their own. Can others see this? People tell me they can recognize my work from across the room. Many other painters can say the same. How sophisticated does a collector have to be to spot a phony? How greedy does a dealer have to get to sell one? How stupid do artists have to be to let themselves be cloned? / / / Jazz As many know, I’ve worked long and hard to thwart the Chinese copyists. A couple of years ago we managed to have replicas of more than 1200 Western painters removed from Eastern clone-sites. The various levels of governments were of no help in this fight. Direct email appeals to the decency of the cloners worked, if only temporarily. These are talented, well-trained painters. Our efforts brought to mind some of the great principles: Put the devil to work in your work. Fill it with private magic. Use techniques and processes that are yours alone and tough to master. Do things that others can’t. / / Best regards, / / Robert / / PS: “We can do good job for you and save you time.” (Chinese cloning website) / / In China, the word “copyright” currently means the right to copy. We need to help the Chinese understand that world citizenship means more than a fast buck-it means respect, honour and integrity. There are more than 10,000 clone-painters in Shenzhen-all of them poorly paid. Artists need to reply to these Chinese emails and let it be known that they do not want their work cloned under any circumstances. Chinese artists need to be encouraged to be their own artists. Many have seen this light and have achieved international acclaim at prices that do not perpetuate poverty in either art or ethics. The above is a copy of one my letters from Robert Genn, a well known and very successful Canadian painter, who provides an art listing site called The Painters Keys…he has given me permission to reprint his letters for you whenever I feel you’d be interested in the topic under discussion. / / I too have had a number of these emails, which means my work has now been cloned and is being sold as I write this, with not a penny sent to me..I tried to find them on the web, but the sites are so big [there are thousands and thousand of paintings] that I gave up. Janis Are you worried about your art being cloned, and have any of you received emails like the ones I’ve received? / Picture of a cloning factory at work...There are regular competitions held, with 100 or more painters all racing to see who can finish a copy of the same portrait or landscape the fastest. The quickest of the Dafen, Shenzhen artisans can complete up to 30 paintings a day. Over 10,000 Chinese painters occupy the city of Dafen, Shenzhen. Five million oil paintings a year are created here for foreign markets. P.S. According to Robert, one of the main sites is called Arch-World. / Andrew and I went to have a look right away. It turned out to be a big site that ‘represented’ more than 2800 artists, living and dead. These folks have been simply ‘lifting’ images from dealer and public gallery websites, and other online pages. They are offering them as giclees or photocopies in several sizes. You can fill up your shopping-cart for peanuts. Smaller sizes are 129 Yuan—379 for larger. That’s about US$16 and $46. They also frame and ship.
*I am thrilled to announce, that I have been chosen the Shining Star in the Bits and Pieces group forum this week…this reward is given …
I am thrilled to announce, that I have been chosen the Shining Star in the Bits and Pieces group forum this week…this reward is given to an artist or writer that, according to the group moderators.. “simply excels and deserves special recognition”. / / Fires of September I am also happy to say that the following paintings chosen as features today. / / The Summer Knows All Things Orange / Mutsu Carnival.. second feature.. Acrylic Paintings What a lovely day!!! Thanks again to all the group moderators…
Dear Janis, _On Thursday morning I was at my easel when a courier appeared / at the door. He was delivering an envelope from a friend,...
Dear Janis, On Thursday morning I was at my easel when a courier appeared / at the door. He was delivering an envelope from a friend, a / local lawyer of my acquaintance. The letter stated that in 1974 / I had brought some of my work to his office, and a recent / bookeeping search revealed he had never paid me for them. / Lorne’s note was filled with contrition and guilt. “How much do / I owe you?” he asked. “Do I owe you a ton for arrears? Do I pay / you the current market value? What about the money you would / have earned on the money you should have had for the / paintings?” As I was contemplating these thoughts a $10,000 / “down-payment” cheque fluttered from the envelope. Thinking back those thirty-odd years, I vaguely recalled the / delivery. More recently I had noticed two paintings in his / office when I’d been getting his help in transferring some / property. I had thought nothing of the earlier transaction, / took it for granted that he owned the paintings, and only noted / their need for cleaning. / / Poppies / Over the phone, Lorne and I had a good laugh. I put his mind at / ease by disclosing my own sloppy billing and sieve-like mind. / Carol Ann and I looked over our ancient records and came up / with nada. A subsequent visit to Lorne’s office found four, not / two paintings. I measured them, determined their probable cost / when new, ran them by my current price list, cut that in half, / and he cut me a cheque. I’m now in the process of cleaning and / reframing them for free. As I was removing three decades of lawyer-office-cigar from the / surfaces, I was thinking of Samuel Johnson’s remark, “We need / to keep our friendships in constant repair.” Deeper than this, / I thought, there’s a sort of Karma and integrity that / mystically guides the creative life. You might say it’s one of / our unexpected blessings. Every one of us has such a story. / People respect artists and look out for them. The surprising / and singular finding of my lifetime has been the value of / friends and the sense of trust that builds between them. This / includes not only collectors, but fellow artists, dealers, / agents and curious observers. Sometimes I think friendships are / even more important than the art. “Life is human / relationships,” said the wise man from the East. By sharing our / creative magic with others we reap the magic of their / friendship. Best regards, Robert PS: “Friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; / it is a unique remedy against adversity and it soothes the / soul.” (Baltasar Gracian) / The Harbinger 4 Esoterica: That’s not to say humour and passive amusement do / not play a part in friendships. Among artists and their patrons / I notice a mild form of banter. Perhaps it’s some sort of / jealousy that lies beneath both surfaces—something to do with / the fragility of the human condition and the fickle mystery of / art. George Bernard Shaw wrote a note to Winston Churchill: “I / am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; / bring a friend… if you have one.” To which Churchill replied, / “Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if / there is one.” / / Soft Afternoon…Lake of the Woods by Robert Genn..app $21,325.00 The above is a copy of one my letters from Robert Genn, a well known and very successful Canadian painter, who provides an art listing site called The Painters Keys…he has given me permission to reprint his letters for you whenever I feel you’d be interested in the topic under discussion. Janis Are the friendships more important than the art? What do you think?
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/ Homage to Cezanne Vincent van Gogh died in 1890. Theo van Gogh, art dealer and brother of Vincent, died six months later, in 1891. Johanna, Theo’s wife, inherited all the shop remainders including virtually all of Vincent’s work. She soon moved with her small son from Paris to Bussum near Amsterdam. Johanna, age 29, went into distribution mode. / / Reading the brothers’ correspondence, she became convinced of her brother-in-law’s genius and set about to do the right thing by him. “I am living wholly with Theo and Vincent,” she wrote in her diary, “Oh, the infinitely delicate, tender and loving quality of that relationship.” Placing work in various commercial galleries in the Netherlands, she also arranged for the gifting of works to strategic museums. It was hard going at first—people laughed at Vincent’s work. The critics were skeptical at best, but in the end her writings and her persistent, visionary advocacy fanned the Vincent flames. She typed and revised the Theo-Vincent letters, finally publishing many of them in Dutch in 1914. When she died in 1925, she was still working on letter 526. Johanna also assisted in publishing a handbook for detecting Vincent forgeries. / / Cheese and Fruit / In the “all’s well that ends well” story of artists’ lives and successes, there are worthwhile prerequisites. Some artists try some of them so the fruits of their labour can be enjoyed while their creators are still walking around. Vincent, who never saw a guilder from his art, had benefit of all five of the prerequisites: / / Distinctive, recognizable style / Limited supply (200, plus drawings) / Controlled distribution (one caring person in charge) / Story (failure, poverty, passion, health issues, ear-off) / Tragic, preferably early, end (shot himself) / / Dinner Tonight / A shot of nepotism helps too. The van Goghs and the Bongers (Johanna’s maiden name) were educated, professional, well connected and upwardly mobile. Vincent was the black sheep. It was Vincent’s publisher-uncle C. M. van Gogh who was first in print with Vincent’s story. Another uncle designed the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Johanna was herself a sensitive, literate yet practical type who spoke and wrote beautifully in three languages. After thirty years of hard work, she finally and graciously consented to allow England’s National Gallery to buy Vincent’s “Sunflowers.” / / “Everything is but a dream!” (Johanna van Gogh, 1891) / / It may take bereavement, another generation, or a canny dealer to see preciousness and perhaps value in a body of work. The combination of hoarding and distribution is part of the art. Work should not be too readily released or made commonly available to just anyone. Stratospheric prices come after the groundwork is laid. After that, as in the National Gallery, “Sunflowers” are now made available on mugs, calendars, shirts and brassieres. Theo and Vincent now lie side by side in the cemetery at Auvers-sur-Oise. If those two idealists hear about those mugs, they’ll be rotisserating in their graves. / / Figs Pears and Nuts / The above is an excerpt from one my letters from Robert Genn, a well known and very successful Canadian painter, who provides an art listing site called The Painters Keys…he has given me permission to reprint his letters for you whenever I feel you’d be interested in the topic under discussion. Janis Does your work contain some of the prerequisites for success? Not suicide of course!!!
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!
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/ A Lesson Of Stone (Link to Page) But man cannot master this lesson, / the lesson of stone: / he tumbles, his body crumbles, / his word and voice unravel. Thank you to the Group Moderators
Thank you so much dear hosts Dawn and Dawnsky for supporting and featuring my painting MARSHLAND NYMPH…....it means a lot to me and it’...
Thank you so much dear hosts Dawn and Dawnsky for supporting and featuring my painting MARSHLAND NYMPH…....it means a lot to me and it’s very appreciated !!!!! Send you all out there a shining light and a comfortable breeze of fresh ideas – creativity keeps the wheel going on !:-) Brigitte
Hi Everyone, I’m back from a wonderful warm holiday in Bali where I shared a great time with my partner and friends. The people there…
Hi Everyone, I’m back from a wonderful warm holiday in Bali where I shared a great time with my partner and friends. The people there are just fabulous and we ate some of the most amazing restaurants so I am full of inspiration. (Yes – food inspires me, among other things too of course.) While I was away I received numerous comments on many of my paintings for which I thank you. I do apologise that I don’t respond to each comment but I feel my time is better used viewing your work and commenting on that instead. A year ago I was addicted to Redbubble and wasted much time commenting and replying and the result was that I was not putting the time and effort at the easel – end result being that my work was in my opinion stagnating and as an artist I was not developing at the pace I expect of myself. Since being back from holiday I have ‘belted’ out a few pieces and completed work that has been lying about unfinished. They will be posted soon. I hope you are all well and once again would like to extend my heartfelt thanks and appreciation for your support and feedback. Take care and stay safe! / Carmen. / “The Home-comming” Mixed Media on Canvas By Carmen Cilliers, Perth, Western Australia.
/ Almost Home Lofting sail a thousand miles / I could not find a famous mountain. / I moor my boat outside Hsuan-yang / to gaze at last at Hsiang-lu peak. / Once I read the master monk. / He walked outside this world of dust. / Now his Tung-lin hut lies near; / through evening sun I hear a bell Meng Haoran Thank you so much
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Fourth Feature for this image / Almost Home Lofting sail a thousand miles / I could not find a famous mountain. / I moor my boat outside Hsuan-yang / to gaze at last at Hsiang-lu peak. / Once I read the master monk. / He walked outside this world of dust. / Now his Tung-lin hut lies near; / through evening sun I hear a bell Meng Haoran Thank you so much
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Fifth Feature for this image / Almost Home Lofting sail a thousand miles / I could not find a famous mountain. / I moor my boat outside Hsuan-yang / to gaze at last at Hsiang-lu peak. / Once I read the master monk. / He walked outside this world of dust. / Now his Tung-lin hut lies near; / through evening sun I hear a bell Meng Haoran Thank you so much
_Sorry folks. I should have put this information in the last one but didn’t think of it. This is how you can make your own liquid water…
Sorry folks. I should have put this information in the last one but didn’t think of it. This is how you can make your own liquid watercolor paint and another tip from Maxine Masterfield. Bottle for rubbing alcohol / Maxine Masterfield found that the best spray bottle for alcohol is the Chloraseptic sore throat spray bottle. She had tried many others she said. I thought, “Well, she ought to know so I went out, bought a bottle, poured the chloraseptic down the drain, rinsed it well and filled it with rubbing alcohol and that is the spray bottle I use. Bottle for liquid watercolor and how to mix the paint / To experiment with spraying liquid watercolor, you put a bit of tube watercolor paint in a spray bottle, add distilled water, this is evidently important, shake well and spray! Just experiment by adding more or less paint until you get the color you like. It also really helps to add half a cap of Wagner brand Paint Easy. This thins paint without diluting it and helps the liquid paint from clogging up. If you find the paint is still clogging up, add more Paint Easy. It is available at Wal-Mart. The best bottles I have found for spraying paint (and believe me I have tried every spray bottle I could get my hands on) are from Hobby Lobby. They are tall and see through so you can view the color inside. The little short ones they sell at Dick Blick (holbein brand) always get clogged and it is very frustrating to have to keep switching paint from bottle to bottle. This is a great way to find out if you like the spraying technique before investing in more expensive watercolor paints that actually come premixed already in liquid form. This is a piece done with my mixing my own tube paint with water: This is a piece done with professionally premixed liquid watercolor paint: / (Robert Doak paint) I think the difference is night and day. Both are beautiful, my own mixed paint is more soft pastel and the professional is obviously much more vibrant and strong. It depends on what you like better or you might like your own paint for certain works, and the professional for others. It helps to try mixing your own before investing in the professional paints so you know you like the technique enough to invest more money.Whether you mix your own or use professional paint, you will probably need the Paint Easy to prevent clogging of the bottle. There you go. Experiment to your hearts content. It is a whole different way of painting, and very freeing and expressive, in my humble opinion. Enjoy! / Lynn
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/ Pear Journal..The Cover This is the Cover of the Pear Journal…each page is a complete painting and illustrates different aspects of the fruit … Thank you so much
A great big thank you to the hosts of Digital Artists United for featuring my abstra…
A great big thank you to the hosts of Digital Artists United for featuring my abstract art – Psychedelic Dream! This piece was something very new for me and I’m thrilled you like it :)
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/ The Red Door Knob Thank you so much to all who voted for my paintinig and made this win possible…there were wonderful entries in the challenge, so I feel extremely flattered to have placed first..
I am always so pleased ,thrilled and honoured when I see a ” Feature Alert” pop on my screen…..Many thanks to the hosts Mariaan Krog an…
I am always so pleased ,thrilled and honoured when I see a ” Feature Alert” pop on my screen…..Many thanks to the hosts Mariaan Krog and Susan van Zyl for selecting my Little Green Witch….it’s very appreciated and you made my day !:-) It feels so wonderful to see people look at my images and love them so much , to feature them and to put them in their group! I am a featured member in the African Art At Heart Group…....26-10-09 / Also I’ve won a special “Solo Exhibition” in the Challenge Winner Forum in this amazing group WITCHTIME won the Halloween Challenge in the African Art At Heart Group…....25-10-09 / / WITCHTIME was featured in the African Art At Hearzt Group…..27-10-09 / / THANK YOU SO MUCH / Brigitte:-)
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