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| Saturday, March 17, 2007 |
| Color explorations |
| My art is more about the art, the vision, the passion, and the idea behind the art, then the technicalities which can be really important...but if I focused too much on them, they would drag me down to the level of a crafter, and I tend to think that art is a higher profession, and its all about life discovery and the spiritual. Well, I am right AND wrong here - the medium IS a form in which I clothe my thought. While my own old good color explorations are made out of spontaneous accidents, than a methodic and scientific research you'll find on handprint, occasionally I do bump into highly technical and educational websites, where one can find all sorts of discoveries and loads of very useful info. One of my favorites, is All The Strange Hours and recently, I've added Tad Spurgeon's site . to my bookmarks. So far, I have not settled on any favorite brand of oil colours, I have some Michael Hardings, W&N, Daniel Smiths, Grahams, and although I disagree with the claim "they are very inexpensive for such high quality, pure pigment, whatever, paints", I've recently went ahead with the trend and ordered Robert Doaks, just out of curiosity, from New York's totally unadvertized, off-Internet shop. The cheapest Doak 's oil goes for $10 a 37ml tube, which I do not find cheap at all! Just another sales pitch, "when you are getting the highest quality, price is of no essence", when I can tell you with confidence that each and every brand has their best, thier good and their ugly! While it's exciting to have all the world at your fingertips, having a world of choice at my actual, real, flesh-and-bones feet is coming back to me now! So I just drive to our native Dick Blick's in San Francisco, and still get my 20% off the entire order, minus shipping.(What? Am I an American?) Labels: Personal, The craft |
| posted by Angel @ 5:16 PM
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| Friday, March 16, 2007 |
| I meet Jim Warren |
| Well...let's just say it was not what I expected at all. He showed up at the gallery/not his gallery/in a company of friends as a prospect, and was very rude, drew some weird fantasy nude pictures, and was generally very disrespectful of women. I thought he was Middle East sort of totally demeaning attitude toward women. And his photos are all so serious and thougful, almost spiritual. The real Jim was loud, fun-loving and cocky, and unless you're a similar-minded, obnoxious, self-absorbed man too, then there will not be a conversation -- which shocked me because I just love his paintings. Coinsidentally, I watched Borat recently, and there was this scene where Borat accompanies a bunch of college students in an RV, and they talk about how women are all beneath and such -- I got the same air from Jim..., I am very disappointed! |
| posted by Angel @ 12:45 AM
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| Thursday, March 08, 2007 |
| I meet Thomadro |
| The next morning "after", post-comicon, I headed off to an art show with Thomadro. We had beers, cheers, and a lot of fun at the gallery./where I work/. To every madness, there's a method, and to Madro's art the method was an amazing 3-D process filled with bright, contrasting colour play of pixels, dots, and patches that make up the "big picture" of wildlife animals. Thom, you are the greatest! Labels: Personal |
| posted by Angel @ 5:26 PM
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| Hurray for Comicon! |
| This year's Comicon I was able to attend one day...It was exciting, as always...No Hillary Swank, but I did meet lots of familiar faces(David from Davidsdoodles; Stephen Silver who is going to be teaching here this year, and, of course Raphael Navarro, the father of Sonambulo, who is doing a lot of animation work as well), and then some new faces too(last year, I discovered Michael Gagne, and this year this very peculiar lady caught my eye, and wouldn't let go of it). (Hey! Give me back my eye!) Dark's art is chilling, and she already produced a lot of giclees, to my surprise. We also got to win some plush toys, teeshirts, and of course, i had to try out Wacom's Cintique(sp?) tablet. The screen is really smooth, and it's just like drawing on the computer display with a real pen - only the screen is HUGE, and size really does matter! Everything was at my fingertips! Of course, it comes with a steep pricetag of over $2,000, and I'm saving for a new Fuji S5 Pro as of right now. After the con, we took Rafael out for dinner at Tommy's(yes!I know!On a Saturday night!)Mexican Restaurant, who has the best margaritas in town. Labels: Personal |
| posted by Angel @ 4:40 PM
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