Artist Hideout

A big Thank you to Tammy, over at Jewelry and Beading who is hosting this month. Click on the little Sun Christmas ornament above to check out the posts submitted by the rest of the channel.

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While Christmas is pretty far from most of our minds here in the US, down under, today is Christmas Eve.
July 26th is the official Christmas in July for down under.
So, I’d encourage you to check out the gallery here on Artist Hideout while you are thinking about Christmas gifts.

I have a few more artists that I’ll be adding to the gallery here over the next few days as well.
If you haven’t sent me your link to your site/store and an image yet, please do, I’d love to have your submissions.

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When I first looked at the paintings by artist Michael Story in an email he sent me, I thought they were photoshopped landscape photographs.
But of course, they are the work of an amazing artist, Michael Story. Michael’s work not only shows a beauty of the landscapes painted, but a great understanding of them as well.
Michael shares a little bit about his background below:

Art and music are rooted in my family history. My great uncle and grandmother were jazz musicians, and my grandfather, who was a professional artist, was my first teacher. From a very young age, I knew …read more

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Over the last few months, I’ve been in discussion with Brian (AKA DT, or Design Translator), over at Design Sojourn particularly over the issue of the difference between art and design, and how they interplay and work with each other in good design and good art.
Not only is DT a great designer (and actually works professionally in the field), he’s a been a great guy to work with as a friend. So, I invited him to guest post here on Artist Hideout for this discussion to give you more of the design approach to art. I hope you …read more

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Dexie, a fellow blogger over at www.sheknowsbest.com – Lifestyle Tips for Guys, who featured me last week (as per my wife’s submission) wrote in and was curious if her 9 year old son qualified as an artist?
Sure, one thing I love about children’s artwork is I love to see the progression of artwork from kids as they grow in their ability. These are the formative years and the time where they can develop skills that will last through their lives. I wish I was this proficient at photoshop when I was nine. Wait, did photoshop even …read more

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The Gallery will server two purposes, for people to submit their artwork to be sold, and also to be able to have one place where you can see a lot of artwork at once and also inquire about it or visit the artist’s blog directly. So it’s a gallery for selling, sharing and community.

Each artist is allowed one painting each for now. Maximum dimensions are 500px wide. Check out my painting in the gallery to see the format I will be using for this.

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Lately, it’s been my custom to take images of my artwork via my camera phone. It’s economical, it easily transfers to my computer for web viewing and it’s really, really horrible image quality.
So, I have contracted out this little task to a great friend of mine who I help him with his blog on occasion, Claude Barclay has agreed to be my personal photographer for my artwork.
Claude is a professional photographer here in the central Ohio area and has been doing photography for… well, more years than I’ve been alive. He knows his stuff, and has the equipment to pull …read more

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Occasionally, I run across a site that is yet unlaunched but promises to be a great little endeavor in the future. Here is an ad from one that I think will be a great opportunity to be a part of.

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Okay, so I learned a lesson with Acrylics and Masking tape on my cubic abstract project.
They don’t work well together.
Maybe if I had rolled paint onto the canvas this would have worked, but I used a brush.
The paint migrated underneath the tape causing weird runs.
Not really what I was intending here.
The funny thing about a technique that doesn’t work is well, now you know.

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Tatyana writes in her response to my post “Let Google Sell your art for you“

I have 2 questions regarding the subject:
1. How to really make Google SELL art for you? As advised in this post I listed a couple of works on Google Base but with no positive end result so far: the paintings have been on GBase for 3 weeks and they had only 6 impressions so far (the amount of time Google actually showed them). Do you have any advice how to at least increase the visibility?
2. What is so unique about www.artflock.com? What do they do better …read more

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