Artist Hideout

I get ideas and then when I actually get to work on a particular painting, it’s usually around midnight or something. So yesterday evening I bought a 36″x48″ canvas and began work.

Most of my work lacks a really warm feel, so I started with a green field and incorporated a copper metallic and a pewter metallic paint into the green with a bright orange that faded throughout to give it more warmth.

Pardon the crappy image, but my camera is on the fritz again. Hopefully my cell phone image above gives you more of the look that the background …read more

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Cave Paintings have always fascinated me. Most art books start out with talking about cave paintings as the origin of art. I figured it would be fun to do as a first vodcast. This one is a little short, but if all works well (second time posting this) I’ll do a longer (this one is just under 2 min), more in depth vodcast in the future.
 
I’m also hosting this myself, and don’t want to kill my bandwidth completely in one go.
Feel free to subscribe to this via itunes and watch it on your ipod with the following …read more

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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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Sometimes you catch things reading local news that just throws you for a loop. A Baltimore, Ohio woman named Nancy Crow has made quilts that she has sold for $8,000 – $75,000

While studying fine arts at Ohio State in the late 1960s, she says she wanted to be a potter but became allergic to clay dust.
Now her quilts sell for prices ranging from $8-thousand dollars to $75-thousand dollars and have been displayed in museums around the U-S, including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian is Washington DC.
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Okay, for someone who accidentally fell into quilt making, this is amazing.
Now, …read more

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I recently hit on the idea to make a digital artwork that was the same width and posting requirements for my blog. One that was rendered specifically for the space but you had to scroll to get the full image. I hadn’t seen anything like this anywhere else. With that in mind, I am opening up the Artist Hideout Challenge.
Make an artwork that fits these dimensions (400px x 1300px) using any theme or software that you prefer. Submit it here and I will post it for inclusion. Be sure to include the name of the software you used to create …read more

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Realizing that many poem and literary works have fallen into the public domain over the years, I have contrived an addition to the blog that may become a permanent fixture if there seems to be response to it.
I love to read poetry. From Poe to Scott, and many in between, there is a beauty to the lyrics and rhythm of the words that can conjure images with even the most unimaginative artists. Over the years artists have repeatedly looked to literary works for inspiration in their own works, so I think there is a place for this …read more

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I was feeling slightly ambitious today (common Monday trait for me) and decided to start this painting this morning. I found the above image on www.sxc.hu
My camera seems to be acting up and is giving everything a pinkish hue so here is the best I could do in terms of showing you the current state of this painting. I had to do some post editing to even get this…. arghh.
My fore-shortening skills need a little work I am noticing. That is partly why I chose this subject for a painting. Also there is the factor of …read more

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I have run across a free tool by Google called Google Sketch-Up (well, I did awhile ago and even used it in a recent post ) but I’ve recently realized that this is a great tool for us bloggers too. Here’s why?
Now not all of us are 3d graphical experts. Apparently Google knows that too. Intended for use primarily with Google Earth, Sketch-Up has some functionality that bloggers can use too. Hey, why not?
In addition to being able to create your own 3d model, there is a repository of models available via the 3d Warehouse.
For instance, I am doing an …read more

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Today has been nice to wake up to. All the local schools are closed. My wife still has to get to work in the snow-covered roads. So as I am about to drive her to work, that is the prayer part. Safety on the roads.
As for the wing, I just added on the first layer of paint to my painting of the lovebird filling in his wing a little and giving him a little more yellow.

I did forget to mention. The media I am working with is acrylic on canvas board. It was what …read more

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I’ve been playing with Google’s Sketch-Up program lately. It’s fairly easy to get a handle on and I think there is a great value in any artist working with this amazing free tool that Google is making available.
Here’s one of my fun little projects. It’s a random idea I had for a staircase. Sketch-Up makes working with 3d objects easy.

You might want to try out Sketch-Up yourself and see what it does.

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