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 [...]
Yay! Art Show: Katanaville in the DTES
The Olympic Meme: Pedobear Mascot FAIL
The Pedobear is known for being an inappropriate presence near children. It is now a member of the Olympic Mascot team, nominated by Michael Barrick and supported by Polish newspaper. ”
The irony is that I was basically pointing out how easy a mistake like this would be. Sometimes when you’re right, you’re right.” -Barrick
This meme [...]
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, [...]
Combining Art & Activism: Interview with Becci Gindin-Clarke
Becci is one of those people that takes action with things that she feels strongly about- everything from animal rights protests to educational colouring books. These are the kinds of things that most of us (sometimes me) think, “I’m glad someone’s doing something,” before brushing it off. Becci takes that action.
You really know how to [...]
Intensity: Indigo talks Art
Indigo talks about her art “The act of creating keeps me sane, and the work is always coming from a personal place, even if it that isn’t immediately apparent in the content of a particular piece.”
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 [...]
Image is Everything: How to Destroy A Belt Buckle
Bang-On, iron-on pop culture, sells belt buckles. Heavy, solid, licensed, genuine belt buckles. Aztec calendars, bull skulls and snakes, heart-breakers, pirates, and dead Indians in feather head-dresses.
I mentioned to Nick, their delivery driver, that I didn’t like it, and he shot me down with an argument as well-crafted as any of Sarah Palin’s. Bang-On is [...]
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 [...]
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