Over the last 13 years of my life, hand percussion has been a large part of my life. Drumming is more than just making music. There are many elements of art in drumming such as rhythm, symmetry, energy and movement. All have their place in drumming as well as with art. […]
One media and form of art that continually amazes me, particularly because of it’s constant and enduring state is glass.
Glass is one of those medias that I’ve never been able to try myself, but I believe is one of the most subtle and enchanting forms of art. It can take the form […]
I think it was last week sometime when I got my new template for Artist Hideout. Unfortunately, they pulled the same background and gray look that I started with for the new template.
Not really what I wanted.
So, this is what it will eventually look like based on a mock-up that I did […]
One of my favorite things is opening up my email first thing in the morning and seeing the submissions that readers send my way. Today, I found this beautiful work by artist Ralph Jones
Ralph even told me a little bit more about himself which I found interesting:
Ralph Jones, b.1954, BFA University of Wisconsin, Painting […]
I think I constantly find myself falling into this trap. It’s a subtle trap that robs me of any creativity, ambushes my work and causes me to avoid my art desk for days at a time.
Some trap.
I get caught up in whether I should create because I enjoy the creative process or because I desire […]
Exploratory Incognitions
Originally uploaded by wesleylocust.
Sometimes in order to get things moving again you just have to get it all out. I call this painting “Exploratory Incognitions”.
Yes I know Incognition is not really a word. but it fit the mood of this piece because it’s […]
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Originally uploaded by wesleylocust.
I’ve not felt the motivation to finish this drawing of the bear for the last two weeks or so. It’s been sitting open on my desk mocking me. It’s time to turn the page and come back to it later. […]
Window kittys.
Originally uploaded by wesleylocust.
I wish life was this simple.
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Between the special effects, the colorful cast of characters and Johnny Depp’s nose taking up half of the screen in one section of the movie, there’s some lessons to be learned from the art of the latest installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, At World’s End.
This evening my wife and I caught the first showing […]
Lately, I’ve been waiting on new templates to arrive. You can see them on most of the other b5media blogs, but they have yet to arrive over here on Arts and Design.
It should happen sometime here in the next week or two.
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