tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75168620907448665462024-03-07T01:13:48.841-08:00NasonArt ReviewArt News • Artist Profiles • Art SuppliesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-78611506598543096132013-03-23T14:28:00.000-07:002013-03-23T14:30:06.626-07:00Artist Profile: John Fisher
I first met stone carver John Fisher during one of his public sculpting events, which took place over a 3-month period in 2012. I visited John weekly while he sculpted a 12-ton block of Texas limestone, transforming it into 11 life-size human figures (8 adults and 3 children), along with a dog, a cat, a mouse, a squirrel, a lizard, an owl, a fox, a chicken, a turtle and a rabbit--all done on Unknownnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-38527201948747093112010-01-22T21:09:00.000-08:002010-01-25T21:08:27.172-08:00Tribute: Fred FixlerI'm sad to report that the great Fred Fixler died yesterday. Fred was an extraordinary artist, teacher, and friend, and one of my mentors. He was the original owner of the California Art Institute, and inspired hundreds of artists in Southern California—several of whom are among the world's best. It amazes me how Fred's influence has prospered. Jeremy Lipking never knew Fred, for instance, but Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-8862729299818351932009-10-25T10:57:00.000-07:002009-10-25T11:04:54.990-07:00Artist Profile: Clayton J. Beck IIIAfter graduation from the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Clayton studied at the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts with Richard Schmid. Clayton’s career began while still at the American Academy, exhibiting at Jody Kirberger’s Talisman Gallery and winning awards from the Midwest Pastel Society, the Palette and Chisel and the Pastel Society of America. He began teaching Saturday Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-12832957530966126922009-10-10T15:09:00.000-07:002013-02-08T09:19:11.687-08:00Photographer Profile: Christiane Covington
Today I learned that a friend of mine from may years ago died on May 13, 2009, of a drowning accident on the island of Maui, Hawaii. Her name was Christiane Covington, and she was a lover of motion pictures and the craft of film making; I never knew anyone so passionate about cinema as Christy. We met while working together on Alex Seligman's UCLA graduate student film "Macaroni Casserole," Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-38339908981665893722009-10-08T20:34:00.000-07:002009-10-08T20:50:38.629-07:00Artist Profile: Jennifer McChristianAward winning artist, Jennifer McChristian, was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. From an early age, she knew she wanted to be an artist. Upon completing high school, McChristian began her art education at Dawson’s College in Montreal, Canada. In 1986, she and her family took permanent residency in California, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree with Honors from Otis Art Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-53772240809600675052009-10-08T20:11:00.000-07:002009-10-08T20:51:25.531-07:00Artist Profile: Ann GaleAnn Gale (born 1966) is an American figurative painter based in Seattle, Washington. She is known for her portrait paintings, which consist of an accumulation of small color patches expressing the changing light and the shifting position of her models over time. Some of her main influences include Lucian Freud, Alberto Giacometti, and Antonio Garcia López.Gale works from live models and her Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-30347451617202533062008-12-12T23:26:00.000-08:002008-12-12T23:57:51.300-08:00Artist Profile: Chelsea JamesChelsea James feels that painting is a study of our existence, spirit, and environment, derived from experiences in life. She chooses objects that evoke childhood memories, create situations of atmospheric mystery, and bring visual interest through interaction. She is intrigued by subtle shifts in value and color; yet seeks a personal interpretation of the objects rather than a replication. She Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-34209432268967764312008-11-27T11:31:00.000-08:002008-11-27T12:12:03.714-08:00Artist Profile: Monte RogersAward winning painter Monte Rogers is a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. For 30 years he supported his family as a commercial freelance illustrator of books, magazines and advertisements. Monte also taught figure drawing and picture making at the California Art Institute.He began showing and selling his paintings at art shows and galleries and his sell-out shows allowed Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-42646395538390255452008-07-30T07:18:00.000-07:002008-12-10T01:18:24.046-08:00'Hidden' Van Gogh painting revealedA new technique allows pictures which were later painted over to be revealed once more. An international research team, including members from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and the University of Antwerp (Belgium), has successfully applied this technique for the first time to the painting entitled Patch of Grass by Vincent van Gogh. Behind this painting is a portrait of a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-23093857567101075242008-07-11T07:38:00.000-07:002008-07-11T07:41:29.676-07:00Creativity TipIra Glass, host of NPR's excellent program This American Life, offers some excellent advice to those who do any kind of creative work.Thanks to Mano Singham for this link.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-34485805067746644432008-05-17T20:42:00.000-07:002008-12-10T01:18:24.605-08:00Artist Profile: Abram ArkhipovAbram Arkhipov was a Russian artist trained at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Vasily Perov, Aleksey Savrasov, Vladimir Makovsky and Vasily Polenov. He joined the WANDERERS (Peredvizhniki) in 1889 and the Union of Russian Artists in 1903. While indebted to the realist painting of Perov, Arkhipov also gave particular attention to effects of light, rhythm and textureUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-77579847620479888652008-05-02T21:15:00.001-07:002008-12-10T01:18:25.292-08:00Artist Profile: Felicia ForteFelicia Forte was born in Los Angeles, California. She has lived in Florence, New Orleans, New York and San Francisco. Her influences include Sargent, Vermeer, Duveneck and Whistler. Her mode, primarily, is the portrait. She says of her work:"When I see a portrait, I feel a connection with the subject—there is a thread that runs through time and class. And the tired old man, or the grand lady Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-20948625050718203102008-04-16T19:58:00.000-07:002008-12-10T01:18:25.929-08:00Artist Profile: Max TurnerFor many years I have had the privilege of calling Max Turner my friend. He is the most skilled artist I have ever known, and continues to inspire -- and awe -- his students and fellow artists alike. You may not have heard of Max, for he is a humble and unassuming fellow. But local artists know who he is. Max is the sculptor's sculptor, whose breadth and quality of work would astound you. He's Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-89898429343604428452007-12-13T18:44:00.000-08:002008-12-10T01:18:26.634-08:00Artist Profile: Ed TerpeningPainting diverse landscapes “en plein air” (in one sitting, on location) is Ed Terpening's passion. California’s hills scattered with oak trees, bay marshes, and of course our beautiful coastline provide him with constant inspiration. He applies his contemporary California Impressionist skills both outdoors and in the studio for larger works. Terpening seeks to capture the essence of a location Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-39608521769366900422007-11-30T18:56:00.000-08:002008-12-10T01:18:27.228-08:00Artist Profile: Sunny Apinchapong-YangSunny Apinchapong-Yang was born in Bangkok, Thailand, where his Chinese parents settled after World War II. He arrived in the United States in 1970 where he received his first formal art instruction. He attended Art Center College of Design, and California State University, Los Angeles, earning both B.A and M.A degrees in Fine Arts.In 1977, he began studying painting on scholarship at the Sergei Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-37969987214167947332007-11-05T11:47:00.000-08:002008-12-10T01:18:27.362-08:00Everett Raymond Kinstler Brush Set- 20 Brushes for Oil or Acrylic PaintingThese inexpensive yet high quality paint brushes may be purchased through Amazon by clicking here.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-20679075514047962922007-10-20T18:38:00.000-07:002008-12-10T01:18:28.205-08:00An Interview with Eolake StobblehouseEolake Stobblehouse was born in 1963 in the small town of Karrebæksminde, Denmark. His father was a house painter, and his mother an artistically inclined bohemian out of Sweden. From early childhood, he exhibited a keen interest in philosophy, technology, and not the least, art. He studied the various techniques and disciplines of fine art avidly, and when he got a camera at age 11, he became Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-35948848369831494982007-07-30T20:19:00.000-07:002008-12-10T01:18:29.865-08:00Artist Profile: Ingmar BergmanIn each of our lives there are a handful of individuals who made a real impact, who by direct influence or by example helped to explain the world and shape our character. For me, Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman was such a person. He died today, age 89.Along with my parents, a few family members and close friends, Bergman taught me much of what I know of the world, the human psyche, love and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-83682077598377020912007-06-30T13:49:00.000-07:002008-12-10T01:18:31.809-08:00Artist Profiles: Leopold & Rudolph BlaschkaDuring the late 19th century, the Dresden studio of LEOPOLD BLASCHKA (1822-1895) and his son RUDOLF (1857-1929) produced beautifully detailed glass models of exotic plants and bizarre sea creatures for natural history museums and aquaria all over the world.For over a century, thousands of people have peered into the cherrywood cabinets in the Botanical Museum at Harvard University to see hundredsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-23264754855763051702007-05-26T23:27:00.000-07:002008-12-10T01:18:35.362-08:00Photographer Profile: Alen SislenAlen Sislen is passionate about photography; not just the finished photograph, but also the photographic process of visualizing and then creating the printed image from the millions of pixels, that when combined represent what he experienced when looking through the camera's lens. For him, the photographic process is not complete until he tries to convey to the viewer his excitement, whether Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-78304921962220235122007-05-03T11:25:00.000-07:002008-12-10T01:18:36.494-08:00Artist Profile: Philip CraigPhilip Lorne Craig was born in Ottawa in 1951 and started his career after completing 6 years of studies in life drawing, painting and graphic design. While serving as art director at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Newfoundland, Philip continued to paint part-time. After a number of exceptionally successful one-man shows he left the CBC to pursue his talents as a painter Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-64355091039374317222007-04-27T14:13:00.000-07:002008-12-10T01:18:36.916-08:00My Einstein drawing featured in 'It's Jerry Time' animationMy drawing of Albert Einstein has been used by friends Jerry and Orrin Zucker in their latest It's Jerry Time animation, The Naked Swim. If you're not familiar with their hilarious and charming animated shorts, you owe it to yourself to check them out!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-2761439610839437342007-04-25T10:17:00.000-07:002008-12-10T01:18:37.307-08:00Artist Profile: John HolubBorn on Long Island, New York, John Holub was always interested in art. Even as a child, he spent much of his time painting and drawing. Years later, after a tour in the United States Air Force and a move to Maine, he finally decided to pursue his childhood fascination. He began with pen-and-ink renderings and later on developed his skill as a water color painter. He has since gone on to gouache Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-5481009610605023532007-04-10T18:55:00.000-07:002007-04-10T18:56:58.881-07:00Eye diseases gave great painters different vision of their work, Stanford ophthalmologist saysMichael Marmor, MD, wanted to know what it was like to see through the eyes of an artist. Literally.After writing two books on the topic of artists and eye disease, the Stanford University School of Medicine ophthalmologist decided to go one step further and create images that would show how artists with eye disease actually saw their world and their canvases. Combining computer simulation with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516862090744866546.post-20593374238948875282007-03-30T14:21:00.000-07:002008-12-10T01:18:37.903-08:00Artist Profile: John BerkeyWhile the name John Berkey may not be as well known as Norman Rockwell, Berkey is arguably as famous. His spaceship illustrations helped influence Star Wars, as he was commissioned by director George Lucas to do pre-production designs for the first movie in the series.Spaceships were often depicted as long rocket-powered tubes in Buck Rogers comics and movies, but Berkey envisioned them as large Unknownnoreply@blogger.com29