Hi, I'm new to the site and can't wait to get started.  I have a question for anyone who wants to help artists and their craft.  I live in NJ and I want to start an Artist Community.  I want to have a building built for artists, writers, poets, composers, and students (adults) that need a place to go for quiet, privacy, and personal space.  These would be personal studios with private entrances, you could come and go as you please. Not for living in.

My question to all of you is, what's the most you would you be willing to pay a month if you decided to lease a studio for this purpose. This is how it would work

6 mo. leases, SOLO SHOW FOR TWO WEEKS IN GALLERY FOR NO EXTRA CHARGE,  Up to 2 tenants (so the rent can be split between you) NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR A SECOND TENANT.

Let me know at support4artists@aol.com  Thanks for your help everyone, and for keeping the Arts Alive!

The S.J.Evans Collection www.sjevans.com

Hello all, this is my first posting. Wow May 1st already!

I am painting like mad these days, it seems often that it is my refuge from the storm, particularly these days when everywhere I turn news seems to be dire. War, recesion, depression, etc.

For me often art is inspired from deep emotion or I am trying to provoke thought in others- I want people to wake up and think for themselves.

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" anonymous.     I saw this quote and have been so inspired I am doing just what I love- which is writing and painting-and how is it working? Well so far I am not homeless or starving but it is definitely tight. I'll keep you posted, I have heard of the starving artist but would rather not sell paintings after I am dead.

it's about.....

art

art ,a refresmnet of my soul

art ,a beam of light when sun rises

 art, a stare of spirit

art, a feeling of happiness caused by unknown reasons

art, a time of creation

art, a mood for live and die

art, a poem of life

art, a frightened of absolute

art, a freedom in thoughts

art, a space of undefined

art, a conflict between reality and artist's worlds

art, a form of resistence

art, a sense of being

art, a begining without an ending   

art, a continously progress

art, a blinded walking through our dreams

art, an armonical state of mind

art, a certain eliberating from "outside"

art, an express of strong personality

art, a  way of giving birth to ideas

art, a mission of umanity

art, a deliberated act

art, a shape of fullfilness and also of nothingness 

art, a castle of imagination

art, a supreme role

art, a shadow of wishes

art, a confident friend

art, a art of everything 

Mark Sanislo Presents Sacred Art Showing & Sale

Mark Sanislo Presents Sacred Art Showing & Sale

The event is featuring Artist Mark Sanislo's original artwork and prints.

Friday November 30th 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
At the Coon Rapids Civic Center , 11155 Robinson Drive Coon Rapids, MN 

The evening begins by a short presentation by Rev. Bernard Reiser, followed by an unveiling of The Madonna and Child Jesus Oil Painting.  Mark will be on hand to sign cards and prints available for purchase.

Beverages and hors d'oeuvres will be served

This is a test. If this had been an actual blog, you would be instructed to turn around and go right back the way you came... I just had to use my 'this is a test' line. Just filling some blank space with ascii characters. I have uploaded a few sample images of mine on the virtual wall of the internet to see if they stick. So far 0 views, some much for instant fame! ;-)

 I enjoy drawing, sketching, some painting and photography. Nothing very exciting yet. It would be nice to find a way to pay for the art supplies and such, very expensive. I keep using cheap laser printer paper, & my dwindingling supply of colored pencils. Looking for inexpensive methods to improve skills and abilities.  Enjoy drawing fantasy creatures.

Yo fellow artists!

 New to the site.  I'm very honored to be contacted through email because of my deviantart gallery: http://purplegoldfish.deviantart.com/.

I'm not going to submit everything from there to here such as my fanart.  I do a lot of fanart for a show called "Gargoyles" that ended 12 years ago but is still huge to this day.  The show played a huge part in me wanting to become an artist along with many of the older Disney movies. (I actually wanted to become an animator but quickly learned that was WAY too hard, lol)

Well, I'm 24, and I began drawing at a very young age.  I think I started noticing that I had talent when I was about 12 years old.  I have a bachelors degree for illustration, but I must admit finding a job in the field is far from easy-I'm sure many can relate.

Well, I'de be so honored to have people visit my portfolio.  I have a lot more stuff coming in the next few days-I've got to resize a lot of things heh.  I work mostly in traditional but I know my way around photoshop and painter as well.  I work mostly with pastels, colored pencils, and watercolor-but I've tried everything and I love to experiment with new stuff.

I'de like to see if I can sell some stuff on here as well.  If anyone is interested in anything let me know. (I'm the proverbial starving artist!) I'll set up a store once I get everything in.  I'm still trying to figure out this site so that's the reason if I don't respond to comments right away or do something idiotic ;)

Anyway, this looks like a really nice community and I'm looking forward to everything it might offer.

I got an e-mail from this site telling me about this blog and what I can/should post. One of the suggestions really stuck out to me... "How I became an artist..." You wanna know why this stuck out to me? Well, here it is...

If you're an artist, you probably always were one. There might have been a time and place that you realized it, but I doubt it. It was always in the back of your mind, waiting to come out or for you to give it the means to. I've been an artist since birth and so have every true artists that I ever met.

I have decided that 2007 is all about the art for me this year. I am going to market my work harder, try to get into more gallery shows and, increase the amount of work I do this year. 

I was very pleased with how this year went. My goal was 20 new pieces of art and I got 30 done between drawings and paintings. This year my goal is 40 new QUALITY pieces of art.

I hope everyone else has a happy and safe new year.  

Nectar and Ambrosia 10-5-06

 Nectar and Ambrosia. Food of The Gods

            Licking me, drinking me in, absorbing all that I can give and more. Bringing me to the heavens above us with a simple touch, with a simple look, a simple word.

            You and me in copulation, picking up the same old vibrations.

            Velvet lips in osculation, hands massaging, mind spinning uncontrollably. To just feel your hips in slow rotation makes me throb with such pulsation, when we touch its scintillation, making me yearn for consummation.

            Making me melt from your simple touch, making me sink into oblivion from you just simply looking at me, making me feel like a god.

            Your touch diathermy my heart, your velvet lips scorching me, getting me drunk off of its taste, like I just consumed a gallon of schnapps.

            As everything attenuates around us and as I get high off of the thick atmosphere I feel overwhelmed with power.

            Feeding me with your sweet nectar and strong ambrosia giving me the strength and beauty of a god.

            The power you give me and the pleasure you give me is blinding, attenuating.

            Holding me, touching me, kissing me, going deep inside me, bring me to pure ecstasy.

            Filling me, hands stretching me as you seek the key to the door of my sweet nectar and strong ambrosia.

            So close to the food of the gods you voice your excitement, and I voice my defeat as you open the door and start to eat the sweet nectar and strong ambrosia.

Nectar and Ambrosia. Food of The Gods.

Food For Us