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Site of the Month for December 2011

admin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:29:17 +0000

Site of the Month for December 2011 is concerned with Artist Directory. List Artist is a leading art website providing web links to arts, artists, art history, vintage arts, fine arts, visual arts, performing arts, crafts, business arts, art museums & galleries.

How can I sell my digital paintings online?

Arnel — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:31:34 +0000

There are a host of sites that one can sell your artistic creations from. Redbubble, Etsy, Fine Art America, Deviant Art and Ebay are just a few of the sites that an artist can look at. The challenge with selling online is getting noticed or “found”. The common perception that ones artistic endeavors will speak for themselves is not at all accurate.

To have a decent chance at all one must have their own site as well as the have a presence on some of the free sites. So buy a domain name, start a blog or put up a site (a WordPress Blog is highly recommended), spend some time learning about basic SEO then write about your art. It is a bunch of work with many new skills you will have to discover but the rewards are well worth the effort.

At Digital Art Academy we have some blogging classes and Digital Painting Forum there are many discussions in the archives about this. Additionally some of the other blogs we talk about like Barney Davey’s Art Print Issues, Alyson Stanfields Art Biz Blog and others will have some great information about selling work online.

Be clear about what your work is. There should be no doubt in your buyers mind what they are purchasing whether it is a giclee print or a mixed media original spell out what your client is getting from you.

Site of the Month for July 2011

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:27:20 +0000

Site of the Month for July 2011 is about Art Directory. Arts and artists Directory – An international arts web directories: art, artists, music, film, film directors, photography, sculpture, art history, dance, philosophy, art resource, art supplies, and more.

International Mail Art Exhibit

Andy Johnson — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 03:02:31 +0000

International Mail Art was a show comprised of over 8000 pieces from more than 25 countries. The exhibit was dedicated to Judith Hoffberg, who was an editor, archivist, curator, librarian, lecturer. a great promoter of artists and a supporter of both mail art and artists books. All mail art included in the exhibition has been donated to the Judith A Hoffberg Archive at the UC Santa Barbara Library.

We enjoyed this show thoroughly! The pieces were done in a wide variety of techniques: collage, rubber stamps, photography to name a few! My favorites were the ones incorporating drawings or paintings. Mail art (also known as correspondence art) is described in the press release from the exhibit as “art which uses the postal system as a medium.” This means that it might just be art with postage stamps (real or not) on it, or be made to look like or include an envelope, postcard, or package.

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Wildlife Art is Easy to Find and Purchase Online

Andy Johnson — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:05:30 +0000

Wildlife art is now very popular and some of the artists that paint or photograph wildlife have become very famous due to their skill and technique in portraying birds and mammals in the wild. In fact, although there is now a great deal of wildlife art available, it is not always so easy to find what you want. Wild life art comes in many forms and styles. From painting, posters, prints, photographs and drawings to all kinds of wildlife sculptures. Whatever you want is probably out there somewhere, but knowing where to buy it may not be so easy to ascertain.

If you are currently in the market to buy some wildlife art but do not know where to start then you should go online and use a web search engine to find what you want. It may take some time and you may need to do several searches before you find something suitable, but this is definitely your easiest option. Anyone who appreciates nature and the wildlife that it contains is likely to want some great images of this wildlife in their home. They may also be on the look out for other wild life art such as pictures, paintings and even sculptures of their favorite animals or birds to display at home.

Whatever wildlife you prefer whether it is birds, insects, fish, mammals or reptiles you will be able to find whatever you by searching on the Internet. These days almost everyone has access and once you find the page which has the art items for sale that you are interested in you will also find that it is easy to pay and have your wildlife art quickly delivered to your home. This means that art about wildlife is now so much easier to get and thus is making it more popular. To find the best deals on all wild life posters, paintings, pictures, photos or sculptures then go to the bigger auction websites such as eBay. Here you will always find a good selection of discount wildlife art that will change almost daily. These items will be from many different sources including artists, painters, photographers, sculptors and galleries.

Museum of London

Andy Johnson — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:54:55 +0000

The Museum of London is the largest development since the museum opened at the Barbican in 1976. The modern galleries, which closed three years ago, are on the lower level of the museum. The collection covering the 1789-1914 period was redisplayed in 2000, but the remainder dated back to 1976.

Altogether 7,000 objects will be presented in the modern galleries. These are in three main rooms, covering successive periods: Expanding City (1666-1850), People’s City (1850-1950) and World City (1950-today). In addition, the Lord Mayor’s Coach, a highlight of the collection, is being displayed in a new space that is visible from the street through a large window. There will also be an area for changing displays of contemporary art.

Although it has taken three years, at a considerable cost, director Jack Lohman stresses that the modern galleries cover half the museum. It has been “a major development, dealing with a 1970s building and redisplaying a very large number of objects”.

The main backer has been the Heritage Lottery Fund, which provided £11.5m. Three funders gave £1m each: the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Corporation of London and the Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation (Mortimer Sackler died on 24 March). The Clore Duffield Foundation provided £900,000. The museum’s running costs (£26m a year) are provided by the City of London and the Greater London Authority.

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Mail Art Kit

Andy Johnson — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:21:06 +0000

Do you love art, school and office supplies? Well, today’s inside peek is all about putting together a “Mail Art Kit” that was so fun and reminiscent of getting fresh school supplies.

“What is a good mail day?” A good mail day is a day when, instead of just bills, catalogs, and advertisements, your postal carrier delivers artful, beautiful, personal mail from friends and acquaintances all over the world. Mail art is a collaborative art form with a long and fascinating history populated by famous artists as well as everyday practitioners.

The term “mail art” refers to pieces of art sent through the mail rather than displayed or sold in traditional venues. Mail artists often use inexpensive and recycled materials including postcards, collage, rubber stamps, and photocopied images. Mail art is a truly international activity and a fun way to connect with people in every corner of the globe. Readers will learn to create decorated and illustrated envelopes, faux postage and artistamps, find penpals, make a mail art kit, and much more!

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The Vatican Museums

Andy Johnson — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:46:46 +0000

The Vatican Museums boast one of the world’s greatest art collections, they are a gigantic repository of treasures from antiquity and the Renaissance, all housed in a labyrinthine series of lavishly adorned palaces, apartments, and galleries (9 miles long) leading to the Sistine Chapel.

The Vatican Museums occupy a part of the papal palaces in the Vatican City enclave in Rome, built from the 1200s onward. From the former papal private apartments, the museums were created over a period of time to display the vast treasure trove of art acquired by the Vatican. The Vatican Museums trace their origins to one marble sculpture, purchased more than 500 years ago. The sculpture of ‘Laocoön’, the priest who, according to Greek mythology, tried to convince the people of ancient Troy not to accept the Greeks’ “gift” of a hollow horse, was discovered 14 January 1506, in a vineyard near the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Pope Julius II sent Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo Buonarroti, who were working at the Vatican, to examine the discovery. On their recommendation, the pope immediately purchased the sculpture from the vineyard owner. The pope put the sculpture of Laocoön and his sons in the grips of a sea serpent on public display at the Vatican exactly one month after its discovery.

Since then, the museums have grown and expanded, and now consist of a number of different buildings within the Vatican Enclave, including the Gregorian Egyptian Museum, Gregorian Etruscan Museum, the Pio-Clementine Museum, the Chiaramonti Museum, the Braccio Nuovo (New Wing), Gregorian Profane Museum, Pio Christian Museum (with the Christian and Hebrew Lapidary), Pinacoteca (picture gallery), Missionary-Ethnological Museum, Sacred Museum (formerly part of the Vatican Library), Vatican Historical Museum (Lateran Apostolic Palace) along with displays of tapestries, ceramics, miniature mosaics, and classical and modern religious arts in the Vatican Palaces and Chapels that are also open to the public. There are 54 galleries, or “salas” in total, with the famous Sistine Chapel, notably, being the very last sala within the Museum.

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Digital Art Design

Andy Johnson — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:59:49 +0000

What makes Spiral Graphics’ Genetica special is that it lets you build up your textures by combining basic building blocks or “nodes”. This recipe-style approach offers huge advantages in that you can non-destructively fine-tune endless variations on a theme all of which are guaranteed to tile seamlessly. Even better, the textures are truly resolution-independent so they can be re-rendered at any size and at any level of detail. In short you can tailor a unique texture perfectly fitted to the job in hand.

The difficulty is that producing realistic end results as different as a zebra skin or a wooden crate can easily involve dozens of different interacting nodes. This has processing overheads, but far worse is the daunting complexity involved. This is the issue that Genetica 2 addresses. To begin with, the program now provides no less than 500 presets ranged into categories such as Cloth, Marble, Plant and Animal and so on. For most textures you can start with one of these presets and the job is already half done.
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Ryan Giggs Involved in Controversy Affair with Imogen Thomas

Andy Johnson — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 04:51:09 +0000

Manchester United superstar Ryan Giggs became involved in a controversy concerning a supposed affair with a reality television star, reports said.

Giggs, who is married and has a son and daughter, was named in Parliament on Monday as the footballer who gets a High Court injunction to avoid details of an affair with earlier Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas being made public.

Speaker John Bercow instantly bound out of his seat and reproved Mr Hemmings in an effort to try to defend the Manchester United player’s identity.

The player’s face was published by the Glasgow-based Sunday Herald and India’s leading newspaper the Times Of India printed a picture of the footballer and used his name 3 times in a report concerning the injunction.

Ferguson, who won the Manager of the Year award and 2 others at Monday night’s League Managers’ Association dinner, said that “The media is a difficult beast to handle these days with the profile of the players.”

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