Artist Hideout

So after almost a week living in Thornville, OH I finally noticed a big sign by the highway that told me about the “Backwoods Fest” which advertised “arts, crafts, food and music” as being the main attractions.
Naturally curious, I came home and hit Google with those search terms and what I found surprised me.

This is a big deal around here. Artist from all over Ohio come here to show their work and participate.
This year it will be going on for three days for the first time.
September 14,15, & 16th.
I guess I will be there, somewhere… Maybe I’ll try …read more

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I received this pre-move and am just now getting around to posting it. Ujwala Prabhu shares this portrait she did. You can read the back story of it on her blog, here.

UPDATED: 8/30/07

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Hey all, sorry to be slow on responding to comments lately. I think I got everything approved for the contest, but just letting you all know what’s up.
We are in the process of moving and unpacking… for the next week or two, I think I am going to be visiting the local library quite a bit for the wifi.

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J.D. Hillberry submitted some of his renderings to me last week. These are pretty impressive to say the least, but to get a fuller picture of the scope of his work, check out www.jdhillberry.com
J.D. also has quite a few tutorials on his site on How to Draw that I’d highly recommend.
Artist’s Statement:

“Like most artists, I have a need to communicate pictorially rather than with words. Although I try to push the limits of realism in a black and white medium, simply imitating reality isn’t my primary goal. I use the technical skills I have developed to tell a …read more

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I spent a few minutes putting this video podcast together and failed to recognize that the audio didn’t quite encode correctly, so here is my failed attempt at a video podcast. I only realized this error after it was uploaded and ready to post.

Since we are getting ready to move, it might be a little while before I can reencode it and get it up correctly.

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Dan, from EmptyEasel submitted his take on what Art means to him. Check it out below, and check out Empty Easeltoo.

Art is hard work.
Unlike some, I can’t relax when I’m painting. It’s too difficult, and to be completely honest, I don’t always enjoy it. The real reason I create art—the one thing that makes it worthwhile—is seeing that finished, perfect painting when I’m done.
I actually feel the same way about painting as I do about working on my 1976 Datsun 280z. I love that car, but it takes some serious work to keep it in good shape.
Every time I …read more

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Ken Walters submitted this entry for the What art means to me competition.

In my art I try to bring together my experiences, skills and emotions. I draw on my experiences, filtered through my emotions and moods and use my skills to ‘paint’ with light on my pc. I use my own software to translate what I see and feel into still frame images, I’ve replaced the brush and pencil with an electronic pen and tablet. Unlike with paint, I can vary the intensity of light in the images to reflect my thinking and emotions. I find it far more liberating …read more

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Kate Baggott from Babylune shares what art means to her as part of the Guest post contest here at Artist Hideout:

A character in a story I once wrote, says, “The world is not a beautiful place, you have to work to be beautiful in it.”
The character lives on the same planet as the rest of us. It is, maybe, a place that we experience one way and see another way depending on the amount of news media we consume.
Art, in all its forms, makes me reconsider that gap between what I live and what I — whether consciously or not …read more

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We’ve been repainting a few of the sunday school rooms at the church lately, and it came to me that so much of the time we take certain things for granted.
How a room is painted, the detail given to painting around all the trim work, etc.
Now we didn’t do anything fancy with murals or anything, but just gave it a basic white paint coat.
And today as I sit here with dried white paint still all over my fingers, I am satisfied with the basics, the simplicity of white.
I guess I am going through “a phase” to get back to …read more

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