Artist Hideout

Over the last few days, I have been working on a comic idea to add to Artist Hideout. In fact I already seem to have the first few strips written in my mind, but I am having trouble with the art form that comic strip characters limit a person to.
I tend to over-draw things and comics are generally more minimalistic in form.
I intend for this to eventually become a daily or weekly feature of the site or a new blog if I can manage to bring it to a daily level of continuity. I have been thinking about doing this …read more

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I’ve been hoping to write this post for a long time now and today it has finally come to pass. Darren Rowse, the Problogger himself, has brought Digital Photography School to b5media.

Digital Photography School – a website with simple tips to help digital camera owners get the most out of their cameras.

While it’s exciting to have Darren joining the ranks in the Arts and Design channel, he is bringing an amazing blog and community with him too. There is always something exciting happening around b5media.
Welcome to Arts and Design Darren!

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The world of the blogosphere is a little strange. It makes the world seem so much smaller. That new blog you are visiting… well, it may be your neighbor, or your own kid doing a project for school. It’s strange sometimes what you find. I had heard of AbsoluteArts.com a few times, checked into them awhile back and really hadn’t given much more thought than that to them… till today when one of the people from church gave me a little newspaper article and they are based in Granville, OH. I grew up in Granville …read more

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Thanks to Johnny over at Drawn! I had missed a few posts over there over the last few days, but now I am coming back to a regular posting and reading schedule. I really liked the Monster post he did a few days back.
So I ventured over to the Monster by Mail site and saw how huge of a project this is.
Check out one of my personal favorite monsters from the site below being drawn.

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Measuring 17 feet long, “Habibi” (meaning “dear” or “beloved”) was constructed by Algerian-born French Artist, Adel Abdessemed.
Shown in a way much like the dinosaur exhibits in a natural history museum, Habibi is a self portrait of the artist’s bone structure? Well, it is meant to be a self portrait anyway.
I can’t find too many images of it online, but you can find a few here and here to get some better perspective of size.
I also found a biography of Adel with this quote.

Abdessemed is an international and manifold artist, heroic like Ulysses. Each one of his …read more

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As I was browsing through the woodworking tools at my local Sears store, I happened across the Carvewright. Branded as the CompuCarve for Sears

While this is a pretty cool concept the reviews for the Carvewright don’t seem to speak so well for it. At $1,800, well… I’d rather have something that works for a long period.
Check out some of the images from the carvewright site below:

While I love the concept of being able to take a graphic design and import the image and carve it in 3d within the space of a few minutes, I am not …read more

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*The following is a series of thoughts basically to get a few things out so I can resume as normal after my short break.
Artists by nature seem to stand in contention with their age. Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime and now his work sells for millions. Is there an unwritten rule that says that any art worth having is a dead artists work?
I recently made a trip down to our local Art association. They have a small gallery in town and I wanted to at least check it out. I …read more

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I opened up my inbox today to find attachments of the art of Zlatko Vasic (does anyone know a good online Swedish to English translator?), a Swedish artist.
There is an organic quality to his works that is anatomical, yet strangely surreal. Movement is present, but exists within a grotesque arena where flesh is peeled away to reveal a mass of muscle-like tissues and non-human elements.

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