Artist Hideout

When John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence, he didn’t just write his name with blotches and crappy writing. He scripted it, elegantly, beautifully….. large.
Granted, most people learned cursive writing in third grade like I did. We were then forced to use it through the next two years of elementary school for every assignment barring math. We were taught one style, one way of making our “H” and were told that we were wrong if we went “off-book” with our writing.
My grandfather would roll over in his grave if he saw my handwriting. For the most part I type …read more

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I have been looking for an art print site for awhile now. I tried a few of the photographic sites like winkflash, but it is catered more to the photography side than it is to the artists. I still like winkflash the best for photography, but ImageKind has been my newest addition of services that I just really like. I think it’s the frames.
When you display artwork, you can get really picky with colors and making sure that the mat colors work for the art itself. Taking the picture of the art isn’t usually a big deal, but finding a …read more

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I was playing around earlier today. I know this trick has been around awhile and maybe I just missed it somewhere along the line. I thought I would share my translucent monitor with you.
Granted, I know my colors are off just a little here, but in person this is actually about right. It’s funny how a camera can pick up on slight changes of color. The scissors and the change jar along with the cords all added just enough to make this believable.

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I tend to be a purist when I buy paint. I will only usually buy black, white, red, yellow and blue. If I need green, I make it. So in this case this probably comes out to be a vibrancy that I didn’t really expect.
I have to admit there was a nervousness right before I squeezed that first bottle of black paint onto the canvas. It took me about four times to get up the courage, then I thought “Hey you really can’t mess this up!” and I went for it.
The inspiration is fall colors, …read more

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I think I’ve been watching the videos on Dale Chihuly’s site a little too much (teaser for what I am planning for this piece). I found an old canvas featuring a painting I never finished and lost the motivation for and thought I would revamp it and see what I could do with it.
So first of all, the chore was to dig the thing out of the closet. Hidden under years of junk that have piled up, the canvas had several dents in it. Those won’t matter much though for what I am going to do with this.
I figured for …read more

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This site is called Artist Hideout. As I have shared with family and friends this new site, I have been asked a few times why “Hideout”? It’s a fair question. When I was looking at domain names, certain things were just not available. This was. It also really fit the idea that many people deliberately and some subconsciously hide from their artistic side. This is one of the main purposes of the site: to help people come out of their shells and feel free to create and share.
I believe that every artist is on a journey of emergence to let …read more

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I ran across this in my research for my last post about Abstract Expressionsim. I made this online at www.jacksonpollock.org using flash then took a screenshot for you to enjoy. Use your left mouse button to change the colors and if you stop it makes a large blob of color there. It’s slightly addicting so enjoy!
Tags: abstract, abstract expressionism, art, art history, artist, drawing, expressionism, illustration, jackson pollock, media

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Jackson Pollock is one of the most well-known proponents of the Abstract Expressionism movement, but he was certainly not the only artist to delve into the abstract in this way. The term “Abstract Expressionism” refers to art that is not particularly realistic in it’s subject, but more emotionally true to the artist in form. Since this is the case, if you could choose one media was not a traditional media, say broken plates as an example, what media would tell the most about you as an individual?
 
Tags: abstract, abstract expressionism, art, art history, artist, drawing, expressionism, illustration, jackson pollock, media

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I would like to invite you to participate in Artist Hideout through submitting your own artwork for inclusion on this site. One part of art in any form is experiencing it and sharing it so I want to make that available to you. I will often do projects myself or explore a particular media and original artwork that uses these methods or media will get first priority. This is no guarantee that I will use your particular art submission in any post.
You can submit your artwork by emailing it as an attachment in “.jpg” file format to william@b5media.com. In doing …read more

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Van Gogh did not live in the secret place of the world where he saw jet engine turbulence as many of his paintings seem to indicate according to Paul Scrivens. This excerpt from an old copy of Art Journal, “Art, Madness, and Human Interaction” details that Van Gogh experienced a variety of mental disorders (namely bi-polar) that impacted his artwork.
It is also well-documented that Van Gogh demonstrated this through his paintings. This is seen most extraordinarily in his painting “The Stary Night” (Which I also included as a graphic for this post). Van Gogh had a turbulence of mind …read more

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