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    I consider that a picture is artful if it discovers the art that wants to be on my paper. I'm talking about  the strong images from within or without that may struggle with me  or that may  woo me,  to find their place  at my drawing table.  The picture entitled Drawing is a good example of this process at work. When I began this drawing, sitting in front of the window, I could see a curtain, the grid of a window screen, the grid of the window with its panes, and my magnifying…

Michael Mahoney - painting

Dear Artist,

 We are in the process of preparing a free 'Guide to Entering Art Opportunities' booklet for our readers and would appreciate your insights. This is a very short (two questions) anonymous questionnaire - no contact or personal information is requested. The information collected will be added to the booklet…

Presenting Your Work

Presenting your work properly is debatably one of the most important aspects of your professional image. Whether you are applying for exhibitions, jobs, or just trying to sell your work, if it doesn’t look professionally finished, people won’t want it. It might sound like a simple task but the choice of presentation method can either enhance the impact of your work or take away from it. Often it is a fine line.

There are innumerable ways of…

How to Hang an Art Show is an excellent guide derived from an artist first-hand experiences on hanging an art exhibition in a gallery.

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Exhibition Applications

In a lot of respects this is a very similar process to that of applying for funding (see my previous post ‘Funding Applications’ http://www.artists2artists.net/profiles/blogs/funding-applications?xg_source=activity ). It is something that a professional artist will have to go through constantly during their careers as a way of getting their work ‘out…

I am currently developing a set of workshops that address the question ‘How To Be An Artist’. This first blog post will give an insight into one of these workshops, with more to follow. If anyone has any comments about this post or ideas for developments then that would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise I hope my advice may be of some help to you.

Funding Applications

The dreaded funding application. This is something that a large percentage of people try to avoid. You…

The best way to put the difference is philosophy.  Quality of stylized elements and principals are not greater or lesser in either form, but are weighted differently.

The idea I see in fine arts is that every aspect of the piece can be weighted equally when critiqued.  This means stylized strokes in one are as valuable of the process an other took to make.  To be edgy, I see those artists oriented to the fine arts place the concept of elements and principals over how they fit…

I'm currently coming towards the end of my Masters course in Creative Education and am in the process of writing up my final piece. I am undergoing some research to accompany my final written piece. So one of my questions is 'How Do You Learn?'. I want to know your opinions on what it is that leads to successful learning/creating. Is it the environment? Is it the subject? Is it the tutor? etc etc. Any input would be greatly appreciated and i look forward to your responses.

BIOGRAPHY OF ANDREA BENETTI

Andrea Benetti, born in Bologna in 1964, has been expressing his pictorial talents for many years to the favor of both critics and the general public of the…

I have been painting for many years; I have gone through lots of phases, starting with oils, going through watercolor, mixed media, collage, acrylic and oil pastel.  Although never painting with great detail, I always like to be able to see some object in the work; and I painted in what I considered an impressionistic style.  During these years, I was able to win awards in local and regional juried shows and was accepted into a few national shows. I also have had success with selling and…

Artists statement.

To build a bridge between different worlds of expression, to span the abyss between the diversity of human minds, to reach out for the sublime, that is my challenge.

Therefore I have to maneuver in a battlefield between old techniques and the new expressions of our time. That means to work in two directions all the time, one way from the old masters of the 19^th century especially the drawing skills of the so called Copenhagen school with a…

Art has been my passion ever since I can remember. My mother had my siblings and me involved in arts and crafts at very early ages. To that end, we all developed a great appreciation for art. I put my passion for art aside while I raised my children and pursued my career as a stock broker. My husband and I are empty nesters now and I devote all my spare time to painting.

I am a self-taught artist currently living in a small resort community in Saskatchewan, Canada. Saskatchewan's…

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/

The Dust Bowl, a Ken Burns film, premieres November 18-19, 8-10 P.M. ET on PBS. 

The film "chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history..." beautiful photography and seldom seen movie footage

This is especially interesting to me because I grew up in Kansas which is one of the principal locations where this occurred.  Eerie dust storms were still happening…

    My drawings and paintings combine war machines with the human image to portray primitive feelings and sexuality, inner memory, desire and conflict. I want to describe the tortures of denial and the feeling of diminishment that exists for both sexes in this period of perpetual war. The pairing of the elegant with the brooding, and the feminine with the masculine are made real through the physicality of paint and the performance of line.

    I control the raw opacity and…

Painting a scarf Floral Dream in Sky Blue and Ocher:…