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! [...]
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 [...]
These two drawings are ones i did today, and added a watercolour wash over them. I’m going to play with them in Photoshop a little more, so they’re not finished.
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This is a super handy tutorial about how to sell things very simply through paypal. I haven’t tried it, but I also am contemplating adding a selling page onto Katanaville.com so that one may purchase Katana-style Christmas cards, and postcards, and other assorted Katana-produced items. My abstract-canvas belt that I wear has been remarked on [...]
Patrick Traer’s Baby Blue Balls, (2002 plywood, cotton, cardboard, polyurethane foam batting, vinyl, zippers, covered buttons, stainless steel buckle and chain)
These are some kind of soft product- it seems that a structure was made (the plywood, cotton, cardboard, polyurethane foam batting), and then covered with baby blue vinyl, and covered buttons sewn [...]
So what is the main focus of your practice?
Right now I’m working on themes of memory and change in a person. In a way, every moment the self we are dies and a new one is born. We see this most in large changes in our life – graduations, milestones, traumatic events – but every [...]
If you’ve ever used a Conté crayon, a graphite stick, or a pencil, you know the trade-off:
It’s a choice between the slow-going gradient of drawing pencils, or the dusty black handprints of those black stick implements.
But what if you could get the subtleties of pencils H to B, the speed of working with a graphite [...]
Today in drawing class we did some gesture drawings. I was rather pleased with this extended gesture drawing (9 minutes).
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What if you got art supplies delivered to you each month? Would you be very excited? Would you tear open the package and open a fresh page? Would you mount them on a wall organized by gradient down to the 500th pencil?
YES YOU CAN!!
Would you eat lettuce and mild curry, dressed in a mermaid’s gown, [...]
Daniel Edlen: Vinyl Art puts a New Spin on Records
Welcome back, I always enjoy your presence here. There’s lots of stuff on the internet, so I’m pleased to see you back! I appreciate you
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 [...]
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