Artist Hideout

So I am finally back from my week of rest and just got through my 80+ emails that had piled up in my gmail account. Thanks for putting up with the Flickr updates via cell phone for the week and the one actual post.
The other news is that I am in the process of putting together a studio/wood shop here in the next few weeks. Over Father’s day dinner with my parents, I mentioned that I would like to get into doing more woodworking and even a little framing on the side. So we decided to rent …read more

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My new little gadget for my iGoogle homepage informed me:

“Artist Leonardo da Vinci died at Cloux, France” on this day in history.

Over the last few years, Leonardo’s work has been blemished with Dan Brown’s novel, The daVinci Code, and in many ways, Leonardo has experienced a sort of second death of his works in popular culture. Unlike the 1519 death, Leonardo’s work has suffered the indignity of fictional interpretation.
This would be equivalent of looking at a Thomas Kinkade painting, and finding the letter “N” somewhere, decry it as a some symbolic reference to a ritualistic cult bent on “taking …read more

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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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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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I recently asked for some advice in buying a digital camera. I think I do have it settled. I’ll save that for another post when I finally get it. But Scott Engel has been kind enough to write and send in a wonderful image from the Nikon realm. He has this to say about his image here:

Here is another submission to you, entitled “Swimming in the Mist”. I hope you like it.
I captured this image with my Nikon D50 on the eastern shore of Pewaukee Lake. Taken in the early afternoon, this depicts early Spring and also features a “battle” …read more

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I’ve been watching Walter’s site for the last month or so and have been really impressed. In fact, it’s made me want a tablet pc.
It’s a project to create 1000 sketches in a year on a tablet pc. So far, he’s at 404. Pretty good if you ask me. His subjects range far and wide between everything from architecture to horses to abstract.
Well worth a visit. It’s an ambitious project.

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