Tag Archive for the term: painting

Artist Caleb Neelon, creator of the Book of Awesome, started a project at the Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachussetts recently – over a two week period he will paint a 52 foot wall, incorporating ideas from the kids.
Here’s a beautiful example of Caleb Neelon’s work:

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Via: Caleb Neelon’s Imagination Wall

I like the word “hybrid”, both as a grapheme and as a concept. I like the notion of cross-breeding very much indeed because taking two different genera and creating a third? How fascinating and disconcerting, both at once — which, not coincidentally, is one way of describing artist Sophie Glowa’s small, detailed watercolours and drawings. [...]

All over the world artists sit in their studios, compelled to create…
Photo is by Prahkar.
Photo of the day is just something we’re trying out- a collection of interesting and inspiring photos from here and there. Click here for some previous posts.

I got a funny little email last night from the UK:
Hey,
I know it’s a bit late to ask permission but I hope you don’t mind….I downloaded a photo of yours of a girl with a glowstick in her teeth and made it into a pretty big painting. The original was supposed to be 2.8m wide [...]

Hello friends, how is summer treating you? Hope all is sunny and healthy in your realytree.

Pictures from Belgium and Egypt

The collage cant even capture all we saw, so if you want to see more pics, go here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=139034&l=5f24d&id=691325380
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=139057&l=2c55d&id=691325380
Anyways, I’ll be here for a bit longer before my art shows out in British Columbia (west of Canada). [...]

We are running a promotion to design a banner for our SNAP! website. Submissions can be in the form of photography, illustration, painting, you name it and we’ll take it. Send your work at 6.5″ x 1″ at 300 dpi to info@snapme.ca. The banner does NOT have to have our name or logo inside [...]

Open Studios and the 7th Annual Theme Show
In January 2008, the Long Hall grew l o n g e r. Once a small, little-known visual arts
workspace and gallery made up of 15 artists, it has now doubled in size. With its unique
existence recently threatened, the Long Hall survived and emerged with twice the number
of artists, [...]

I met Ben Williamson in the middle of the night. I dropped by a friend’s new apartment after a Habs’ game and a pitcher of beer, and the grand tour included a peek into his roommate Ben’s art studio. As such, I was able to get a glimpse of Ben Williamson’s startling Chernobyl Narrative series [...]

Amanda Rhodenizer’s art show “No more wild ones” opens Friday, April 4th from 8-11pm, at Green Room (5386 St. Laurent) in Montreal

[...] No More Wild Ones consists of a series of acrylic paintings that contain certain absences, displaced animals and elements which may cause your consumerist impulses to irk. Her works appear to critique a [...]

I spent a good amount of time over the past two weeks browsing Web sites and discovering new fun! I’d like to share three of my findings with this here Indyish community… Who knows, maybe you’ll discover a new bookmark somewhere in this list!

First, there’s the awesome artist discovery.