| Make your art work for you |
[Mar. 14th, 2008|10:47 am] |
One of the SXSW Core Conversations was Make Your Art Work for You. About 40 people were there. The artists came out of the tech woodwork to attend this session. The conversation pooled the group's experience with creating art and distributing it. Two artists passed around books they created using Lulu and told their experiences. I was inspired to print a book. K scanned the images, put them into inDesign last night and we have a book almost ready to ship to Lulu to sell. More information soon. |
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| Honoria's lecture for today's online drawing class |
[Feb. 22nd, 2008|09:20 am] |
Even though I personally only do fast gestural life drawings I teach a traditional life drawing curriculum. I crafted this mini-lecture for my two online drawing classes' two weeks of anatomy studies.
5 techniques for accurate drawings
Artists over the generations have developed a number of techniques for accurately copying images such as our anatomy illustrations. Here are five common techniques that may help with your anatomy studies. Try them out and discuss which ones work best for you.
( all five techniques ) |
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| Studio Makeover |
[Jan. 17th, 2008|09:43 am] |
My feng shui SWAT team
activates red wined visions
furniture re-placed
My studio organizing help call was answered fabulously last night. We had dolmas and other snacks and I offered a selection of nice red wines. A & K brought change into the room at a rate that was about 1,000 time faster than I had been progressing. When I start organizing, I come across art that wants to be continued, morphed into mail art, collaged, finished, etc. and I sidetrack. I knew with A&K the focused transformation would be wonderful but it's more, it's profound. We assembled the elfa from the container store sale and all the drawers are now filled with art in progress and art supplies. We moved every piece of furniture in the room. A fun Fletcher face pot surfaced. Now the head of the bed is bathed in morning light. The middle of the room where the drafting table was is now wide open space. Next step is to find a pole light to go between the drafting table and the bed. I love my COGG team and the powerful creative energies we zap at each other. |
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| Kay's paintings |
[Jan. 4th, 2008|01:55 pm] |
My long lost friend Kay
past in paint and badminton
grows strong new visions |
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| Dr. Sketchy is coming |
[Dec. 15th, 2007|07:04 pm] |
... tomorrow night. I'm cutting up my watercolor canvas and making ready... |
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| Jazzed |
[Oct. 25th, 2007|08:54 am] |
I am jazzed that Grace
and Henry encourage more
loose abstract figures
At first Henry wanted subtle figure work to work into his jacket designs but now he and Grace are really excited by my natural direction which is loose and almost abstract figures. The most recent Dr. Sketchy with Kitty Korvette was down and dirty with fingerpainting in acrylic combined with India ink with quill pen and little lines with brush. I missed Monday's class but will go next Mon. Soon I will have blown through my first roll of the canvas. Wheeeeee!  |
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| Austin Figurative Gallery |
[Oct. 7th, 2007|02:45 pm] |
Henry now owns three
more of my figure drawings
hot gallery night
And David said he
loved my work plus about more
life drawing sessions
So I'll start going to the Austin Figure Gallery life drawing sessions to see what they are like. Fun! |
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| Virtual painting sold! |
[Sep. 30th, 2007|12:10 pm] |
My first Second Life painting sale!
The object 'honoria_raymaker_art04' has sent you a message from Second Life:
Zip Beresford has bought honoria_raymaker_art04 for $500, earning a commission of $170
= honoria_raymaker_art04 is owned by Tommy Parrott
= http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ginsberg/153/128/68 |
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| Book Autopsies |
[Sep. 28th, 2007|03:10 pm] |
Brian Dettmer is an artist who carves into books to reveal selections of the art and text inside. These carved books form a new work -- layered three-dimensional sculptures.
http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/09/13/13:26:26/ |
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| white paint on vinyl triumph |
[Sep. 6th, 2007|08:36 pm] |
It sticks and it dries,
neo-opaque light body
Jacquard acrylic!
It's in a squat little bottle that will come with me to Dr. Sketchy on the 15th along with the color markers that passed the rigorous yellow vinyl testing. |
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| Very good work in SL |
[Sep. 2nd, 2007|04:11 pm] |
Check out Zero Ball's sculptures in Second Life.
Visit Donatelli (119, 55, 64)
I just wrote this little article about them. The article is based on the gallery notes Zero gave to me and a guided tour of the gallery earlier today.
New art movement forms in virtual worlds
Zero Ball is an artist based entirely in the online virtual world of Second Life. In fact, Zero has never exhibited any work outside of SL because as a journalist in the real world it was only in the virtual world that he connected to his potential for sculpture, an untapped vein of his creativity.
Zero's sculptures are etherial and dream-like. They evoke the love and passion between two people. In fact, his works are based around his relationship with his SL wife and real life partner Sylver Piccard, who is also his muse and inspiration.
Like love, the sculptures are also interactive. To fully experience them you, as a viewer, must experience them through an avatar in Second Life.
Zero uses a mix of textures that are based on water and metal found in old photographs or created in Photoshop. He applies the digital textures to sculpted shapes made using the Second Life building material of "prims," short for primitive objects. Zero activates the prim shapes with the scripting language of Second Life. Zero has installed an interactive suite of these romantic dreamy interactive sculptures in a SL gallery space.
Along with Sylver, Zero formed a new branch of Kinetic Art called Meta Art with the aim of breaking boundaries by using scripts to enliven art and to take advantage of properties unique to virtual objects.
Zero says, "We have discovered an art form that is filled with kinetic energy and motion. We call this artform Meta Dimensional Art, or Metilism. As artists (or Metilists) we break boundaries using scripts to enhance our art, create emotions, and invite interaction."
For a gallery in the real world to present Meta Dimensional Artwork, the artists envision 4 computers hooked up to 4 projectors. Each projector will show a quadrant of the Second Life sculpture installation. The artists could help viewers use avatars to interact with the kinetic sculptures inside the virtual world. The view inside the sculptures as experienced by the avatar is an elegantly mysterious immersive shift in the already virtual reality. And yes, the sculptures are for sale for Linden dollars, the currency of Second Life.
Zero and Sylver have created a sculptural monument to their love as fleeting yet eternal as love itself.
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| New Berlin Sandbox |
[Aug. 15th, 2007|10:49 pm] |
New Berlin Sandbox,
a second life place to make
virtualized art
I delivered 10 Dr. Sketchy drawings to my Second Life Gallery, the Ginsberg Art Center with curator Tommy Parrott. I'm working on the next 10 now. Making the SL drawing involves resizing a prim, adding a texture to both sides. One side has the drawing and the back side has a signature and brief artist statement. |
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| Post paper era has begun |
[Aug. 12th, 2007|05:19 pm] |
from paper and paint
wearable art henry shift
vinyl and markers
The Big bertha's honoria tent show has shifted from holiday-and-subtle to spring-and-bold colors.
At the fabric store I found amazingly bright felt backed vinyl and a most fun clerk, who used the do costumes for Esther's Follies, told me about a bunch of wearable art magazines. Going to the book store soon to find them. |
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| dominican joe's |
[Aug. 7th, 2007|12:30 pm] |
mojito limeade
plus outlets and free wifi
a fun place to work
I sketched these rain sticks leaning against the wall during a business meeting at Dominican Joe's yesterday. |
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| home alone |
[Aug. 6th, 2007|09:58 pm] |
what fun, home alone
drawing to twin peaks sound track
on primed canvas pads
I bought oil-base markers and canvas pads to experiment with for Henry's appliqués. |
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| SL art start |
[Jul. 27th, 2007|09:25 am] |
I created my first prim and made the default box into a flat panel and placed my jpg texture painting of a Dr. Sketchy model on one of the flat surfaces. Tommy Parrott provided good directions, plus I printed some how to build tutorials to follow. I submitted my prototype painting to Tommy, my vitural curator who said I did it correctly. In fact, he said, "perfect;_)" Pretty good compared to statements by other curators I have known. I am concerned a bit about the drawings' relative size to walls, to avatars, etc. Most of the Ginsberg Art Center paintings are pretty much 3/4 average avatar size. I'm thinking of making some of my drawings smaller and arranging a few in groups on the wall. Still a lot of avatar work to do. I think my SL show will look just fine on my RL CV. Today the sun came back out, so the next step is to shoot photos of more Dr. Sketchy drawings. |
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| Second Life Art |
[Jul. 25th, 2007|04:09 pm] |
I am formatting a suite of drawings for display in the Ginsberg Art Center in Second Life. I have decided to concentrate on the Dr. Sketchy sessions for Second Life. Next I will look to see if there are other Dr. Sketchy artists in SL. |
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