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February 6, 2008
Ok the two featured artists for the month of February are now up. I always attempt to show two artists that fit well being shown with each other. I think this is the first time that it has worked out so well.
I love the idea that along with being similar in style, one is highly skilled at illustration particularly vector art and the other is skilled with acrylics and spray paint.
I would love to actually see a show at a gallery featuring these two artists, I think it would be great. Imagine them even collaborating on a few pieces? Blending printed vector work with acrylic and spray paints. Anyway, hit the button on the right there to check out their galleries.
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February 2, 2008
I know I have posted this before, but I have to say once again that Sketch Theatre rules. I love watching the process that each artist has. Whether it’s drawing or painting, you get to see how they might go about things and often how much work is really put into it. It’s so easy to think that many of these artists just belt work out in minutes.
This new drawing video shows Shawn sketching a skull and the end product looks great. I think he’s using either really soft pencils or maybe even a charcoal pencil. The smudging and blending gives it that effect.
Any artists you would like to see do a video for Sketch Theatre? Say who in the comments here.
Shawn Barber @ Sketch Theatre
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January 29, 2008
There are 23 new artists added to the BeinArt Surreal Art Collective. Some of these names are people I have featured on the site here, or will work with in the near future. And of course some of these artists I have never seen work from before, can’t beat learning about new art.
If you head over you can now see new profile pages for: Fred Harper, John Kolbek, David R. Choquette, Alex Garcia, Gregory Jacobsen, Cam De Leon, Derek Nobbs, Elizabeth McGrath and many others.
New Artists at BeinArt
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January 20, 2008
A few artists that I have been watching and that I have shown here have updated their websites.
The first one is Dean MacDowell (shown), an artist out of Ireland that has a really great style. Along with the new website he also has a shop selling some prints of his work. I think that Dean’s website is a really good example of how an artists site should be clean and simple. The paintings are the focus here. When he wanted to add some flair to the site, he did it with the logo.
Next is John Kolbek that I have featured here a while back. He has a new site as well, and also a prints area. John’s site isn’t as minimal as Dean’s is, but still quite easy to move around in. I like that he didn’t use a flash gallery.
Lastly is photographer Jeremy Brotherton. I think whats most amazing about his site, is that it’s actually a few “blogger” pages linked together. He found a way around having to get a domain name and space to hold the site. So he has a portfolio section, how to section, contact and links. His ingenuity really showed that you can have a portfolio site if your just willing to try something different.
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January 14, 2008
The Lineage Gallery was one of my favorite sites to visit. I have never seen the gallery in person, I planned to one day but that’s over with now. I found a lot of great prints for my articles from the Lineage Gallery and they just had some really great shows there.
One of the founders of the Lineage Gallery, Joshua Liner will be opening a gallery in New York it looks like. So this might be a good thing in the end. I remember when the Tin Man Alley Gallery closed it gave birth to the Jonathan Levine Gallery, so let’s hope the same success meets Joshua Liner.
Check out the new site here: Joshua Liner Gallery
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January 4, 2008
I wanted to get all of this ready for the 1st of January, but I was too busy enjoying a break from work.
The site as you can see has been slightly redesigned. I didn’t want to stray too far from the original, but I did want to clean it all up. I hope it looks better now. Along with that I have two new featured artists to share, both photographers that I have wanted to share for some time.
I started writing an article a while ago and now finally have it up, “Is going to school for art worth it?” I did have some references of artists that were upset with their art school experience, but I decided to not add them. I didn’t want any names to sway views on this topic. It’s my longest article yet and I hope it is a good read.
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January 1, 2008
Well I hope everyone had a fun and safe New Years. I stayed home and watched the severely old Dick Clark countdown the new year.
This next year will have some great things coming from the Creep Machine. More interviews, some great featured artists and a show that the Creep will be curating. More news on that later.
In the next day or so I will have the new featured artists up, and a fresh design for the site. I know it’s on it third incarnation now, but I must move it forward.
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December 25, 2007
Well I hope everyone is having a good Holiday break, for those that get breaks that is. I know some companies and bosses make their employees work over the holiday break, ruthless if you ask me.
Some really great content will be coming during this new year, some more interviews, articles and so on. Speaking of interviews, I just added a new interview with Chet Zar. He is one of my favorite artists, so this was a real pleasure being able to ask him some questions.
If you happened to save some money this holiday, or was even given some money, treat yourself to a print maybe? There are many great places to buy prints, but please try to support the sites that deal strictly with prints and work very hard to insure you get a killer product. Not sites like Cafepress, who really have no idea what they are sending you. Head on over to Blueflip Art, Thumbtack Press, and even the artists that you likes website. If that artist doesn’t have prints, let them know you would love to buy some.
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December 21, 2007
If you haven’t seen the Grafuck show at the Gallery Nucleus yet, it is online and there for you to view. There are some really great works there, and some really saucy ones as well.
There is a huge amount of work there, all sorts of mediums. This show turned out really well. I especially like the work of Alberto Seveso (shown) he has a killer style, I really am curious as to how he does that. Audrey Kawasaki’s painting is pretty crazy, I mean her work has always been very sexual, but this piece is pretty in your face. Excellent.
Check out the show
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December 18, 2007
Well for those who read my weekly articles on SFWeekly.com, you know that is has so far been in the “All Shook Down” area. The articles are found Tuesday mornings right there on the front page, and then later on in the art blog area.
I’ve been writing these articles close to 6 months now. I never really thought that I would ever find enough prints to fill each weeks article, but I have been able to do it. Some really exciting prints as well. The Crazy4Cult prints, Lori Earley, LetterPressed prints, Chet Zar, and most recently Michael Hussar’s Hans Memling print.
I’ll keep going with these articles, and now it will have it’s own section, “The Lowbrow Art Sale…” Also, for the last article this year I will be doing a top 10 list, it will be hard narrowing my favorites down, but 10 of the best prints I have written about will be there.
Make sure you check out tomorrows article. I’m looking into have the posts on the sidebar, better than they are now.
SFWeekly.com
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