In addition to my regular painting, I’ve been doing some faster paint doodles. Here are a few of them:
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Artist Profile on Three Rivers Arts Festival
I was recently profiled as the recipient of the Three Rivers Arts Festival Emerging Artist Scholarship on the Three Rivers Arts Festival website. I’ve been really busy preparing my paintings and planning my booth, so I’m excited to be able to talk a little bit more about my work here.
16 x 20, Acrylic on Board, 2013
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We need to talk about: Asakura Kouhei
When I was supposed to be learning Dreamweaver in class the other night I found this gem of an illustrator on Behance. They’re watercolor and colored pencil on drawing pencil and I’m obsessed with them. The colors are so amazing and the textures that the small patterns bring are completely perfect. They’re really Lisa Frank-ish in such a good way.
http://asakurakouhei.com/
New Paintings Part II
Here they are:
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New Paintings! Part I
I’m going to drag this out over two posts because it’s my blog and I can do that.
Enjoy!
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Registration now open for the AFTA Convention in Pittsburgh
I talked a little bit before about the AFTA convention being held in Pittsburgh on June 14th through the 16th this year. I’m so excited that it’s being held in Pittsburgh as I think it’ll be a great chance to show off the artistic community here as well as a wonderful way to showcase the Three Rivers Arts Festival, which will be happening at the same time.
If you or someone you know works at a non-profit arts organization, I think this would be ideal for them. I’m considering going to the Emerging Arts Leaders pre-conference, but I’m not sure yet.
They have scheduled discussions about creating successful cultural districts, helping artists succeed (everyone should definitely go to that one) and public art, among many others.
John Eastman + Donavan Widmer: Austerity + Self-Sustainability show at Fe
“As part of a minimalist style of living, the ability to sustain one’s self is essential, and can be healthy, empowering, and enlightening to the core of a human being.”
March 16-April 13, 2013
4102 Butler Street Pittsburg, PA 15201
Unfortunately, I missed the opening for this show because I was stunned when I walked in to gallery sit last Sunday and was greeted with these lovely pieces. They are so nice, I can’t recommend going to see them enough. I love the repurposed materials and the really simple, clean lines. If you go, I promise you’ll love it.
Three Rivers Arts Festival Emerging Artist!
I just recently learned that I was chosen to be one of the Three Rivers Arts Festival Emerging Artists. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has kindly sponsored me to have a booth at the festival, from June 7 through June 11th. I’m really looking forward to it.
One of my paintings was also chosen to be included in the juried art show, so that should be fun too. This year I’m especially excited to be involved because Pittsburgh has been chosen to host the AFTA (Americans for the Arts) convention the same week.
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Colors and Bottles Class!
Yesterday I taught a Colors and Bottles class in the Strip District at the BeerHive. It was a great time. I always think it can be challenging to guide a class through an abstract painting, but it always ends up being a lot of fun.
I started out demonstrating how to do this painting and then let the students go off in their own directions. So many of the paintings were really outstanding. It’s so fun to get together in a group on a Sunday and paint. I think people need more time spent making things together (including myself).
If you want to learn more, or sign up for one that myself or another artist is teaching, you can do so here.
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Cooper Hewitt’s Object of the Day
Gunta (Aldegunde) Stölz. Drawing: Design for Double Woven Cloth, ca. 1926. Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund. 2011-3-1.
I’ve been spending time recently on the Cooper Hewitt Museum’s Object of the Day blog. Each day they feature functional design objects from their archives. The image above is a drawing on paper as a plan for a woven cloth.
This one is done by Gunta Stölzl, who attended and later taught textiles at the Bauhaus school, a craft and fine art school in Germany that operated between 1919 and 1933. She started out as a painter when she was a nurse during World War I before entering school.
Her work reminds me of Anni Albers, a textile artist who also attended Bauhaus as a student and later became Josef Albers’ wife. I’ve talked about the two previously here.
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