Wendy Marquis of MuralQuest talks about the emotional payoff of being an artist, how to make it work on and offline, and the process of collaboration and constructing one of her timeless images. She is a great example of an artistic multitasker- she does everything from faux finishes to huge murals! This chessboard table top [...]
How to Become a Full-time Artist
I stumbled across this super amazing comic- I’m really liking it, even though I am not a fan of frat-boy fart-joke humour. But her characters are simple and funny and she’s good at what she does!
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Share and Enjoy: Katanaville for your Friends!
Jennifer Romita brings the RAWR to Acrylics
I’m really pleased to be posting this interview- Jennifer Romita has recently made the shift from Graphic Design to full-time artist, and doing whatever it takes to be awesome at it. I really admire her process and her work, and I think you will, too.
You have a number of interesting projects on the go right [...]
How to Make Paper: Deckle it Like the Halls
One of the things I would like to do over Christmas is make paper. At home we have two boxes of computer cartridge paper, printed mostly on both sides, of information that we don’t need. The Upstairs Family is undergoing a major revamp, and the newly organized and tidied place is looking swell. I want [...]
What’s behind Carol Carter’s Watercolours?
Carol Carter is a watercolour artist who shares her process and upcoming paintings with us on the internet, all the while maintaining a practice full of lush, bright colours and Italian landscapes.
You have a great web presence- you have Facebook, a blog, and a website, as well as quite a few hits on your name. [...]
How to Surf the Net 01: Hamsas to River Balcony
One of the joys of the internet, for voracious bookworms short on pennies, is finding a gold mine of knowledge! The latest vein I’ve tapped is here- I basically find a small thing I don’t know about and then google about it until I do know something about it.
Start: jezebel’s coverage of Detail’s problematic “Hot [...]
Daniel Edlen: Vinyl Art puts a New Spin on Records
Today I get to post an interview with Daniel Edlen!
You have a really great niche and branding- out of many of the artists on Twitter, I find your art really sticks out because of the limiters you’ve placed on it: vinyl & music. When that was happening, did you realize what was going [...]
Blu Combo: Graffiti meets Rube Goldburg
This little video is all kinds of amazing- feet walk, and morph into themselves again, a grotesque little monster crawls into a window, maws gape and eyes blink, monsters gnaw and prismic rays shoot from concentric circles- it’s the Rube Goldburg of Graffiti, and when someone said, “That’s enough, let’s move on,” I cried, “No! [...]
Orientalism’s Fashion: John Galliano’s Spring 2007 Couture Collection critiqued through Edward Said’s “Orientalism”
In Spring 2007, following a tour of Japan, John Galliano created a collection for Christian Dior which pulled elements from Japanese culture into couture looks. This is a clear example of how Orientalism functions in contemporary times in the same way that it did 100 years ago. This Oriental world which was displayed in museums [...]
How to be a Pop Art Icon
I had a teacher who looked like Andy Warhol. She might’ve been annoyed to find out she looked like a man in a wig, but more likely she would have been flattered: here’s why.
Chatting with @artbynemo on twitter, he mentioned Andy Warhol had something to do with wigs. Sure enough- his schtick included [...]
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