During drawing at the gallery… I’m noticing impatience and nervous energy. Impatience for the drawing to appear, so I get fast and reckless. Feels like an almost ADHD kind of inability to stay with it. I seem also to have no skill for photographic reinterpretation, no patience for proportion. Filed under: comment, digital, drawing, iPad […]
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cartoon life: The landscape exhibition #12
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wmtc: nyc reflections part 2: the high line
While in New York last week, I finally made it to The High Line. The High Line is a unique city park that opened in 2009. I’ve been meaning to go there ever since, but now I’m glad I waited: the second stage is open, so we were able to get the full eff…
Continue readingcartoon life: Landscapes IV book just arrived
Fedex and the printer were busy. The book collecting the 20 images from this series just arrived. Same terms as the cat book, if you want one. I’ll put up a page for it soon.
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cartoon life: The landscape exhibition #11
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cartoon life: The landscape exhibition #10
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cartoon life: The landscape exhibition #9
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cartoon life: The landscape exhibition #8
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Things Are Good: UforChange: Culture for a Better World
UforChange is all about using art and culture to make the world a better place! They focus on St. Jamestown in Toronto and have had great success engaging their community through participating in art projects that make the neighbourhood more welcoming and a great place to be.
UFORCHANGE: Creative Culture,Better World from Mad Ruk Entertainment on […]
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Where Breasts Meet Art
Breast casts of various celebrities customized and tarted up by artists (more breasts here) to be auctioned and proceeds going to the Keep-a-Breast Foundation, a charity which promotes breast cancer awareness. The charity has been in the news lately because assorted fuddy-duddies principals and school boards have banned students wearing the charity’s “I ♥ Boobies” bracelets as a […]
cartoon life: The landscape exhibition #7
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cartoon life: The landscape exhibition #6
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cartoon life: The landscape exhibition #5
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cartoon life: The landscape exhibition #4
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cartoon life: The landscape exhibition #3
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cartoon life: more about the iPad and David Hockney
From David Hockney on CBC’s Q and from The Atlantic: Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Hockney’s iPad Paintings You could print the images, but on regular paper, without their luminous screen, they look wan and watery. The best option for selling them, Scheips suggests, might be an app catalogue, which would let us browse Hockney’s […]
cartoon life: The landscape exhibition #2
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cartoon life: The landscape exhibition #1
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cartoon life: Multiples
Painters in Venice, and other European tourist spots made a living selling canvases of views. Before cameras, this is what the traveller bought to remember and share what they had seen. Multiple paintings of the same view were made – because they sold. To say this, is no revelation: we live in an age of […]
cartoon life: some art upcoming
I’m working on another set of collage landscapes – all digital this time, on the iPad, with the same feel as the previous 20 Landscapes series – from scraps and textures – digital scraps and textures, and some scanned material. To what purpose? Like anything digital, they suffer from not being actual artifacts. Filed under: […]