It’s hard not to have been affected by the news of the Earthquakes in Haiti. Ecclesiax is hosting an art auction where all proceeds from the auction are going to World Relief Canada. With photography and painting in all sizes- from small framed city scapes to birds and moose to larger abstract works, there’s an art [...]
Category Archives: Art
How to Install Wordpress at Your Domain Name
I spent two days on the phone with Godaddy, trying to figure out how to what to do with this stuff Wordpress said I needed for this so-called “easy install”:
An access to your web server (via shell or FTP), A text editor, an FTP Client (if you need to install WordPress on a remote server), Your web browser of choice
This didn’t make [...]
Laura Owens: Painting, and the Space Unpainted
“I am not interested in making people uncomfortable, but at the same time I don’t have an interest in paintings that are truly passive. The best paintings are ones that require an active, discerning viewer.”
Laura Owens
Her paintings are quite large; taking up huge walls, creating landscape with oil, watercolour, and/or acrylic, she leaves parts of [...]
Process: Babies are Cute
I did a huge load of studies for the Babies are Cute diptych. Inspired by Anne Geddes and a Flutterbye Calendar, a creative block and a good friend, these comical and unsettling babies were a lot of fun to draw. The most exciting part was how, by doing these studies, I got to know what [...]
Yay! Art Show: Katanaville in the DTES
Are you in Vancouver, BC? Yes? YOU LUCKY GOOSE
I am one of the artists showing here and I am GIVING STUFF AWAY: Art & books, throughout the day.
HOLLA LOCAL ART LOVERS!!!
Nehemiah Vancity & More Than Gold Creative & Performing Arts have joined forces to bring the Down Town East Side Community and YOU [...]
How to Surf the Web vr. 2: Techniques & Critiques
Taking a stroll through my Google Reader. Have you subscribed to Katanaville via RSS?
From I’m Painting As Fast as I Can Chris Beck tests what tape is awesome when used to mask a painting and then reviews five flavours of Daniel Smith watercolors.
Sandy Maudlin’s Art Journey takes on the challenge of a twenty minute painting, [...]
Open Source Artwork: How to Get Over Your Fear of Digi-Theft
I just came from an art class discussing social media. I was shocked. These are third and forth year students at Emily Carr University and their view of the Internet and social media is that the Internet is out to get them, plagiarize, misrepresentation and predators.
Fear of digi-theft (as @dpringle phrased it) is not unfounded, [...]
Three Good Art Blogs
Empty Easel online art magazine with practical advice, tips, and tutorials for creating and selling art.
The Artist’s Magazine Calls for artists, tips, and whatever’s going on in the magazine.
Perfect Laughter Perfect Laughter is Dennis and Christina Jacobs, two graphic designers from Detroit, Michigan. In addition to blogging here about artists that we love, we [...]
Artist Profile: Kai Althoff
What I really like about Kai Althoff’s practice is the way that some of it parallels my own art practice. I like to paint at home, and I like mixed media- I like the simplicity of his work, which doesn’t allow unnecessary detail to intrude on the emotional intensity of his paintings, and I also [...]
Interview with the Artist: Katana Barnett
Chris Guillebeau is in the process of visiting every country of the world, while blogging about it and writing to help other people reach goals, achieve their dreams, and does it all on frequent flyer miles. I’m happy to call him a friend of mine! He just wrote an article about how to have a [...]