Artist Hideout

I’ve been thinking about this for some time. And well, tonight finally decided to do it.
After reading probably at least half of the 91 reviews of the Intuos3 Wacom pen tablet and seeing the amazing amount of great feedback that this product is generating, I am taking the plunge.
With the average feedback being four and a half stars out of five with 91 reviews, I am feeling pretty confident about my purchase.
But, I will be using this day in and out maybe sometime next week. I will be putting it to the test in a very …read more

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Sometimes you run across something that you aren’t sure whether you should post it or not. This is one of those. So I dedicate this post to all of those who have put so much into their artwork…whatever the casualties.
Oh yeah, please jump in on the contest.

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Most of my work has always been abstract Expression since last October when I began Artist Hideout, and while I enjoy it, I felt there might be something lacking. I’ve been thinking a lot about how technology has and continues to impact the art world and how to express that.
So my most recent painting, (and why I’ve been silent the last few days has been an assemblage project that will also be using the abstract form in it’s later stages. You must pardon the cell phone image below (I really must get a better camera than that), but here is …read more

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Some people just take photographs and call them art, then there are those who truly experiment and conceptualize new ideas and utilize artistic elements in photography.
The following is a series of photographs by Arne Olav Gurvin Fredriksen

These are all photographs taken by me, with minor and major photo
manipulation done by me.

Click the read more below to see more images from this photographic Artist.

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Our first guest post for the contest comes from Katelyn Thomas of Stamping Mad.

For me, art is that safety valve on the furnace. If I am building up too much stress, I go art something. People laugh at me and say I’ve never grown up when they catch me with a table full of canvases and paint, (or maybe its the way the paint is smeared on my nose they’re laughing at.) but I’m feeling really mellow at that point, so I don’t point out that being an artist is actually a career entry in the Occupational Handbook. Hey, building …read more

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I’ve been curious about doing a contest around here for awhile, but I hate the concept of judging a contest, so I decided to open it up and let readers be the judge through the comments.
It’s progressive because I figure, the more page views, the better the prize will be (because I get paid for page views). There will be only one winner for this contest, but the prize will just get better for each level of page views.
Let’s go through the prize list* first of all.

1,000,000 page views – Nikon d40x
750,000 page views – Photoshop
500,000 Page views – …read more

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I think half of my sketchbook sometimes is what I’d consider “Concept Art”. What it really is is probably something more similar to many varied doodles or half-finished ideas that never came into being.
But it can also be a valuable tool when you are stretched for a new work.
Pull out the sketchbooks and glance through them, you may be surprised at what you find.

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This has been circling in emails for awhile now as a forward. I think there is a value to just viewing and analyzing certain things about it though.

Consisting of three colors, the illusion experience is that everything seems to move.
Try this. Concentrate in the very center and everything stops moving, but move your eyes over it, and well, everything but what you are looking at directly will move.

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I was also experimenting with image maps in blog posts here.  Links are underlined and sometimes highlighted. 

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