intellectual upbring and that anything was open and possible, i was a class clown and was well liked in school, but i was always getting in trouble because i was constontly drawing soon time passed and i went on to art school i did very well

and i ended up getting a masters from Cranbrook Academy of Art i taught art learned a trade in woodworking and started studing Architecture

april 25 2010

new studio 1500 square feet of pure space i love it

finishing up architecture corses in two weeks

will design and draft for you with state-of-the-art software and design ideas

photo shop and other softwares accessable

lessons still will be entertained

you have found mccluer studios a varity of art styles and media commisions accepted

more art work will be posted

drawings paintings sculpture large and small

any ideas?

art makes it your home and taste

let it transport you to charm and grace or puzzlement

art lives

Today i still teach and study and i love art because thats who i am

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Artist biography

Shefqet Avdush Emini I was born in Davidovc - Kosovo. I currently live and work in Holland, after having graduated from the Fine Art Academy in Prishtina, Kosovo. I have work as a lecturer but always been occupied by my painting and sculpture, I now work as a professional artist. The artist describes my work as "figurative abstract expressionism" and incorporates a vibrant palette and a layering of colour. I use oil on canvas to create my expressive pieces that blur abstraction with figurative elements. My works are often bold in their use of colour and brushstrokes. I have exhibited in Sweden, Denmark, Austria, The Netherlands, Germany and Italy in both group and solo exhibitions.Member of Galerie Sigvardson Denemark as from 2008 Foundation Symbiose Sittard as from 2003; Foundation art centre keeps out 2003; AIDA as from 1994 Stichting Kunstcentrum Weert as from 2003; Artist figurative association of the Kosovo as from1989; President of the foundation 'Zef Kolombi ' Ferziaj Kosovo as from 1988-1992 Member of foundation art centre ' Zef Kolombi ' Ferziaj Kosovo as from 1982. 

Expositions:

2009 Exhibition circulating in few Balkan countries National Museum Cotroceni Bucharest,Romenia  

2009 Exhibition circulating in few Balkan countries Melenia Art Gallery Bucharest,Romenia

2009 Biennale of Chianciano,Italie-The Art Museum of Chianciano Terme 

2009 JMA Gallery Vienna, Austria

2008 Private salon Weert  Netherlands

2008 Private salon  Kinrooi Belgie

2008 Gallerry Drente in Hooghalen

2008 Gallery Sigvardson 08. maj Denemarken

2008 Van Munster Complex in Amersfoort The Netherlands group gallery

2008 Gallery Sigvardson 02 februari Denemarken

2007 Art Process Trapani Sicilia Italy gallery group

2006 Stichting Kunstcentrum Weert,The Netherlands group

2006 Paterskerk Weert,The Netherlands gallery group

2006 Cigarenfabriek Delft , The Netherlands gallery group

2006 Molenhof, The Netherlands group gallery

2005 Paterskerk, the Netherlands group

2005 Molenhof, The Netherlands solo gallery

2005 Marziart Hamburg, Germany group gallery

2005 Stichting Kunstcentrum Weert solo private

2005 Reasons to love the earth Utrecht group museum

2005 Molenhof group gallery

2004 Royal Schouwburg The Hague group or museum

2004 Vredenburg Utrecht group or museum

2004 Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam group museum

2004 Atelier route solo private

2004 Kunstuitleen Tienschuur group museum

2003 OBS ' Graswinkel' government

2003 Atelier route solo private

2003 Kunstuitleen Tienschuur group keeps out museum

2003 Fontys end courts solo government

2003 Public library Nederweert solo government

2002 St. Teunis kapele vault keeps out solo government

2000 Town hall keep out solo government

2000 Old café keep out the currency private solo

1999 Molenhof keep out solo gallery

1997 Wommat district Duurstede ate solo gallery

1997 Rural church Abc-old one group or gallery

1997 Peace church Utrecht group or gallery

1997 Buurthuis the Toll Utrecht group government

1997 Church Utrecht group or gallery

1996 FNV Utrecht solo government

1996 Ekko Utrecht solo government

1996 Reception centre Utrecht group government

1996 Wommat district Duurstede ate solo gallery

1996 Peace church Utrecht solo gallery

1996 Park eye in already Utrecht group government

1996 Triumfatokerk Utrecht solo gallery

1995 Reception centre Utrecht solo government

1993 Unaryd gallery Sweden group

1993 Bank government Unaryd Sweden solo

1992 Home of culture Shtimje Kosovo solo

1991 Theatre fair Pristine Kosovo group

1990 XVII Fair gallery Pristine Kosovo group jumps

1990 Autumn 16de Biennale Pristine Kosovo group

1988 Home of culture Shtimje Kosovo solo

1987 VII Biennale drawing Pristine Kosovo group

1985 Private gallery Pristine Kosovo group

1984 Autumn fair gallery Pristine Kosovo group

1984 Fair gallery Pristine Kosovo group

1983 Sarajevo gallery ex - Yugoslavia group

1983 Zagreb gallery ex - Yugoslavia group

1983 Belgrade gallery ex - Yugoslavia group

1983 Private gallery Ferizaj group

1982 Zef Kolombi gallery Ferizaj Kosovo group

1981 Zef Kolombi gallery Ferizaj Kosovo group

Publications:

 

2008 Tirsdag newspape 29.januar

2006 June news the exactly Albart

2006 May newspaper Bota Sot diaspora

2006 May newspaper Zëri diaspora

2006 May newspaper Lajmi

2006 May newspaper Bota sot diaspora

2006 May newspaper Bota sot

2006 March newspaper Zëri diaspora

2006 February newspaper Bota Sot diaspora

2006 February newspaper Zëri diaspora

2006 January news the exactly albart

2006 January news the exactly albart

2006 January news the exactly albart

2005 December newspaper Zëri diaspora

2005 December book bald branch sing for green

2005 November newspaper Sunday news

2005 October news the exactly Albart

2005 October newspaper Zëri diaspora

2005 October newspaper Bota sot

2005 September newspaper Hamburg Abendblatt

2005 August newspaper Hoheluftbrucke

2005 August newspaper Hamburg live

2005 August newspaper Zëri diaspora

2005 August news the exactly Albart

2005 July newspaper Epoka e re

2005 July newspaper Land Weert

2005 July newspaper the Trumpe

2003 July newspaper Koha ditore

2003 July newspaper Fontys

2003 April newspaper the trumpet

2003 May documentation and information of foundation centre

2003 March newspaper Fontys

2003 April book album Artium

2002 April newspaper country

1999 december newspaper daily the Limburger

1999 November television TV keeps out interview

1997 Profession booklet cultural rondje

1996 Utrecht Television Reportage

1996 February profession booklet cultural

1996 March radio first left third Right

1996 Newspaper Utrechts nieuwsblad

1995 March television TV the Netherlands 2 reportage

1995 March television TV the Netherlands 2 reportage

1994 Book Drite ne lirikum

1990 Newspaper Rilindja

1987 June newspaper Rilindja

1983 Newspaper Rilindja

1983 Newspaper Zëri i rinis

1982 October newspaper Rilindja

1982 Newspaper Zëri i rinis 
 





Publications:

 

Catalog:
2009 Biennale Of Chianciano
Chianciano Art Museum Italy

2009. Genius Book

Interview

Publicaties 2008 Danimark

Publicaties en Kritiek

Kritiek van Jack Vreeke Op de hoogte april 2003

Kritiek van Henk Simons 2003

2006 December newspaper Bota Sot diaspora

Kritiek en publicatie van Arsim kajtazi

Publicatie van Nicole Smolenaers

Kritiek van Arsim Kajtazi

Stichting Kunstcentrum Weert Album Artium 2003

Kale takken zingen om groen Book Tineke Prins

Musa R.Mehmeti Book Drite ne Ilirikum 1994

 

 

 

Rexhep Rifati Bota sot Diaspora 2005

 

 

Zëri Diaspora 2006

 

 

Publicaties van Rexhep Rifati Bota sot Diaspora 2006

Zëri Diaspora 29 mej 2006

Publicatie, 26 mei 2006, Gazeta Lajmi

Bota sot Diaspora 31 mej Publicatie van Rexhep Rifati

2006 December newspaper Infopres

Publicatie van Burim Qela

Publicaties van Ali Sutaj Rilindja 1982

Kritiek van Skender Boshnjaku
(Sh�nime p�r Bienalin VII t� vizatimit)
Rilindja 21.03.1987

 

 

Publicaties van Vesta Nura Rilindja 1990

Publication Zëri i rinis 1982

 

 

 

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I want to gain notoriaty, and eventually become pretty well-known, I'm keeping my goals short and sweet since that provides me with a little more gratification though!! Right now I am in a residual income kick, and the online market is my tool! The fact that I get to make a profit off of my own work is even better though .

Anyways, we'll see how well I am taken after I start posting up some artwork *fingers crosses*!!!

~RJ

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

I also have some of my pieces in a shop here in Asheville, Spirit Sanctuary, as well. The Universe is coming together for me!! Yeah!

To me art, color if you will, I adore playing with color, the color I put on the canvas is  often the laughter and joy that are not in my life sometimes, I am putting it in thru the color.  Sounds rather morose I know.

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.

The Neo-Nazis and the religious of this country should get along very well together, because they are of the same mind. For most people, making art is an emotional experience and I am no exception. I must have an emotional attachment to my subject mater to create successful and satisfactory result. 

I will my voice to help bring about changes that will ensure the gay community will have those freedoms that are fundamental to all Americans, which includes marriage whether the Christian evangelist like it or not. Marriage is NOT a religious term; rather marriage is a governmental term that provides status - a license! The Christian evangelist agenda is destroying this nation, it is worse than terrorism. Unless you wish to be completely dominated by religion, we need to separate the church from the state. 

 There have been some artists that I don't particularly think should have become well-known since I didn't appreciate their work.  Or... if you do one or two masterpieces - everthing else done by them is acceptable?

I think, down deep, we all want to be famous and know that we left a mark on our world.  The older I get, the more important it is for me to feel that I have made my mark.  My biggest passion in life has been creativity.  I have created almost every aspect in the form of art that I can, and I still feel that I am not there where I want to be.  I am bothered that I have not become well-known (in the art world) and frustrated that the pieces I do, do not seem perfect enough.  Much of the time I am not satisfied and yet I am hungry to create more.  I dream about it at night.  I see beautiful paintings in my sleep - if I could only get to the canvas before I forget...

 So, am I the only artist out there that has this un-ending passion that cannot be satisfied?

 I would like to be in more shows, but live a day away from New York.  My art would probably never be appreciated in my area (Michigan). People here like to see nice nature paintings...animals...flowers.  Workshops from well-known artists don't seem to make it for me, either.  I don't want to develop their style.  I want my own.

 Any suggestions for a struggling, passionate Artist?

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 

POLAR IS COMING SOON

                                                I will be posting a monthly comic strip through my blog and art galley. I hope you will check it out .  it is called POLAR the synopsis is below, thanks.

                                             SYNOPSIS

POLAR follows a young man named Jeann ( pronounced yann) Frost stationed alone at a government outpost at the north pole . He was told little more than that he was going and to keep his eyes open. No one told him what to look for , no one told him why. The first few months will show little more than monotony to him , but its all about to change. why, you ask? you're just gonna have to read it .

each strip when released will be available under my art gallery and as a blog.

I have not yet figured out how to post an image directly to a blog ,but I was able to hyperlink the ad and information about the strip to this page.

http://www.number1artist.com/admin/ShowPortfolio.asp?OID=4&p=octocom&PageType=PortfolioPageS0=4

To view the ad click the link above and select the first image in  the  thumbnails listed under my art.

For additional information, please email me at icemanx205@yahoo.com 

write about things I think are important. one such topic is the war in Iraq , more specifically, the public response to the war .

I wrote a song about it:

so many fingers

all pointing at you

they tell you it's not right

this job that you do

they shoot you down at home

but what do they know

got no will to get shot

then you shouldnt throw stones

(chorus)

it's a 2 front war

one side words

one side gore

sometimes it seems like no one's on your side

living in the high and dry

it's a 2 front war here's some blood

here's some more

sometimes it seems like no one's on your side

living in the high and dry

so many people

all screaming at you

in words you don't understand

'cause they've no refuge

you are heroes abused

mainly by those who use

(chorus)

it's a 2 front war

one side words

one side gore

sometimes it seems like no one's on your side

living in the high and dry

it's a 2 front war here's some blood

here's some more

sometimes it seems like no one's on your side

living in the high and dry

Above picture is from the inside of my Treasure Box.

 I hope you enjoy.

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After long experience in keeping journals and annotating my readings, etc., I grew more keenly aware of my own shifts in perspectives and criteria from time to time or circumstance to circumstance or relation to relation. Most mentalities are merely viscous, pathetically modulating from one tincture to another; I was determined to learn how to follow those little trails of snailslime in my own and others thinking. Human psyche at most levels is definitely a sea-creature, a metamorphic or Protean sort of being; but there is a visceral core that remains constant. How I learned to overcome idiotism or simpleminded perspectivism was by returning to what I had written over and over from several different viewpoints and strategies, assaulting what I took for granted from priorities and perspectives I had not originally thought of. One rises in that way from monocular or naive opinion to a kind of philosophical compound-eye like Argus had in mythology. One enables oneself already to anticipate criticisms, to defend or adapt against them or if need be go over to their vantagepoint. Most opinionizing is houses built upon the sand; philosophical intelligence is geological intelligence about the bedrock in every region.
Kenneth Smith

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"Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core."
Rumi

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Complexity is easy, simplicity requires mastery.
Peter Cajander

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Good Day to you.

It's been a rough week, sick children, sick Momma, no artwork.

I may be going crazy...I'm not sure yet.

No...wait...nevermind...I'm still not sure.

I have been thinking, maybe too much thinking, I am having trouble sleeping because my brain will not stop.

I know today I will get to return to the easel for a time, and I can't wait for all my people to go to school and work and let me breathe, let me stop thinking, let me work. I love them all, I just find it really hard to take time away from them to work in studio. Today is a studio day...and coaching clients.

Thank the good Lord I can do both at the same time.



I am still OCD about apples. I've been drawing them, dreaming them and seeing them everywhere. I know that this is about my own inner investigations. I know I am symbolically trying to tell myself something. I am sure I'll get it here soon. I do know it must have something to do with knowledge, with magic seeds, with soft sweet flesh, with slick shiny skins, with being bitten and chewed, with sweetness and tartness, with cores being in the center.



I am apple.

Happy Hump day to you all.

 Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/

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Traveling Man

 18" x 24"

Oils

ready to hang/back stapled

Here's the quote to go with it:

And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you, Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)

 ***

 Good Morning After eat all you can day. We had a feast to beat all feasts. Mate Man cooked all day and fed us to the falling over point, it was fantastic! I hope you all had good times too. This is the first of the three works I did over the coarse of three days. I had to wait for the knife work to dry on this one so I could fix what I saw was wrong. I really like him now...and I am enjoying the map my mind is making for me to follow. When I paint my best work happens when i don't have a plan, just a little idea and then i just relax, and play with what happens. (little i's on purpose) I like these three because they are just that, (scroll down one post for the other two) from my inner eye, no prompting, no reference pictures or muses, just me...doing what I wanted to do. Ahhhh, it's like a day at the spa, or getting a thorn out after a while of painful squeezing. I like the spa metaphor better today. Any way I have no clients today...and I would never go out into the Black Friday Greed-a-thon crap-ola that is going on today...so it's just me and the kids playing board games and sneaking pie for breakfast. Yum. Have a good one all, and tell me what you think of this new work...I find it so helpful to see work through fresh eyes.

Grins and giggles,

 Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/

 "Tissues"

 Laminated collage

(2006) HMBT

 Availabe for sale 8.5" x 11"

 ***
by Cheryl Denise, from I Saw God Dancing. © Dream Seeker Books, 2005.
 

They'll
take your soul
and put it in a suit,
fit you in boxes
under labels,
make you look like the Joneses.


They'll tell you go a little blonder,
suggest sky-blue
tinted contact lenses,
conceal that birthmark
under your chin.


They'll urge you to have babies
get fulfilled.
They'll say marriage is easy,
flowers from Thornhills
are all you need
to keep it together.


They'll push you to go ahead,
borrow a few more grand,
build a dream house.
Your boys need Nikes,
your girls cheerleading,
and all you need is your job
9 to 5 in the same place.


They'll order you never to cry
in Southern States,
and never, ever dance
in the rain.


They'll repeat all the things
your preschool teacher said
in that squeaky too tight voice.


And when you slowly
let them go,
crack your suit,
ooze your soul
in the sun,
when you run through
the woods with your dog,
read poems to swaying cornfields,
pray in tall red oaks,
they'll whisper
and pretend you're crazy.
***
Fear is not what you think it is. Fear is not who you are underneath your facade. Fear is not the real you that you must somehow fix or improve or overcome. Fear is a very useful signal along the path to freedom. The stronger the fear, the closer you are to what you are seeking. If you want to stay "safe (i.e. stuck where you are), fear tells you to stop what you are doing, But if you want to be free, fear lets you know you are on the right track, it is a signal to push ahead in the same direction, to pick up the pace.
~ Cheri Huber, "The Fear Book"
***
To be human is to be vulnerable - this I must accept. My invincibility lies in my ability to not let the emotional and physical setbacks in life conquer me. I may be vulnerable to the experiences, but I'm invincible in my resolve. I'm unconquerable.
Obi

***

I been silent so long now it's gonna roar out of me like flood waters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But please. It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
~Ken Kesey (1935 - )
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Page: 13

***

Ok, so yesterday I had to stop painting and working and fretting.
I needed some quiet time, inside myself.
This whole project is hard both internally and externally.
I even entertained the thought of giving up...for about 5 seconds. I never give up, it's always an option, but never a path I choose. I don't know how to quit.
I was thinking this morning when I woke up that I just need some silence right now...not complete outer world silence but some internal silence. That's a tough one for me personally, because I have a hard time stopping. I have a hard time getting quiet, on the inside. I have a very loud inner world...its a damn brass band marching around inside my head.
Wondering what it is all about this morning I thought I would study up on what it means to be internally silent. These quotes are what rang true for me today.
Working is never a chore for me, I grew up working and with people who valued working...working = freedom.
It's not the working, it's the time in between. The silence between the notes.
Sometimes I feel like my passions are eating me alive. I can't stop thinking, talking, and dreaming art. The studio calls to me and says, "hey you are not done yet! Get your Lilly white back in here!"
Until I master what I am after, I feel like I can never rest. I have not been sleeping well because of the internal art classes that reign over my dream state. I wake up and my hands are tired from holding a paint brush clutched in my grimy fist all night. At least in my dreams I am taking lessons from some really great teachers. I understand that I am harder on myself that the world can ever be, it's about self preservation. I grew up with very critical people who had tons of time to criticise but little love to give. So, I learned early on that if I am hard on myself it would probably save me a beating later on down the road. I became my own master, and slave. I am not blaming anyone for the crazy-ness that I live with internally...not at all. I am just trying to make sense of why I feel the need to push myself so hard and then not talk nicely to myself for working hard. I find that I still tend to call up what is wrong, or what I could do better, instead of talking up the hard work, the willingness to push and learn what is needed.
This "emotional trigger" is bigger than I thought. Of course.
In the past few years I have brought myself to a place where I live with confidence. Working through this is much harder than I thought, because I realize I have been avoiding it for about 25 years now.
I used to just state..."I don't do landscapes."
That my friends, is avoidance and ego.
I don't do landscapes because I have a huge internal scar about painting and art making in general. I am conquering it, I have been conquering it for years.
I know how to fight.
I am tired though, weary from the road. Triggers have a way of insisting that you deal with them, they just don't freaking die or go away.
Today I will work to silence the screaming, teeming masses inside my brain pan and just relax. If I paint, it'll be something I want to do, something that liberates. I often wonder if I'll ever get to the end of the road where I have mastered and slayed all the dragons. Maybe that's not my path, maybe I was born to slay dragons, or maybe this is the last dragon. Who freaking knows?
Well, I had better get on with my day...and see what happens. I am entering the soul castle now...if I'm not back in ten minutes...leave me alone. :) Just kiddding. ;)
I hope you are all well, Heather
http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/

Works that  that address the spectrum of pure and raw emotions that accompany the experience of becoming or being a mother. 

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Exhibit - Dec 1 - Dec 30     Beauty in Black and White - Marysville, OH

Commercial Photography and Fine Art

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

my name iz keith vipperman......

i have a freind that use 2 say i am an imperfect

person in an imperfect world doing the best

i can do with Gods help...

that what i aspire 2 bee

he said it better than i am able 2

 iam a fine artist, iam not a folk

artist but i admire thier work

i might be what a folk artist outsider artist

might look like if they knew some sophisticated

color theory and i use line and color to

try to mock false 2 dimentional perpective

and use techniqes that do't focus until you step back

i don't know why i do it the way i do only

that if i did'nt i wood naught bee me

i also do my paintings to where there are multiple

points of view both artistically

and humanity wise. and meaning

 you should know

i enjoy "sneeking into my shows to gauge the reaction

taken by the viewer

 i like to think of them as a visually appealing

as well as thought provoking hilbilly

amalgamation of roeshack blot mmpi test

 iwould challange people to to learn a little

about themselves quietly by which point of view they see first

i know 4 q a fact there are sum people

who seem 2 bee blinded by thier

own dim lights while prenteding..or  maybe honestly

and sincerly hopeing to know the way

eye no this because at times in my life...

i have been that person...

you should know ther are precious pieces of

me in my work... precious because i can

tell you what it feels like to regain memories

you didn't know you had lost...

i had a bizarre and complicated set of

aggrevating conditions one of which

was   from a paritonsilar  abcess that i got at a hard pinpoint time

i was sick with throat infections and high fevers as a child often

i know this because i had to study enough

medicne fropm the pdr and eye

am very familiar with the priciples of

anatomy and physiology

as well as the clinical research being done

johns hopkins is my favorite for cutting edge anything

i want you too understand i

 had to diagnose myself then take my doctor

by the hand and lead him to the truth

and to introveinious vancomyacin, the only 1 they hadn't yet tried

my doctor is a good man, i had a very complex case

i now like always wish him well

 he most likely thinks i'm a dumass  thats ok

i have grown used to people telling me i couldn't

possibly be doing what i was clearly doing

I call these people arrogant airheads to myself

and enjoy a private chuckle

i have learned the lesson that i cannot

and shouldnot try to change other people from thier nature

i'm fairly shure eye know the spirochete bacterium

that cause my abcess because when i go my

memory back i remember an unhappy little

hog farmer boy who took great pride in

urinating on his father prize  "SPF" disease free hogs

i know the pathology of the spred of this bacteria

is when urine contacts mucous mebranes

ie. pig eyes , noses ears...

i do see the humor in this scenario now

and laugh about it but it wasn't

funny when i was crying through the pain

and the helplessness i find it ironic

but

not unique that the pigs got treated and cured

but i diddn't, idon't think they were as

cognusent about aseptic menigittiss as they are now

my medical record cannot acually say aseptic menigitis

or leptospirosis 

they may not believe it but i do not wish

them any discomfort

you see i have been that asshole at times in my life

the person who was 2 smart to listen and

actually using quantatative and qualitative metods

troblesoot for the truth

in science it is the scientific method

in business its management by objrctives

of course the abcess gets worse when you work

100 hour weeks, ...partyi with the nick name wildman,and, playing softball

on a very competitive league, and messing around

with my guitar and my speed boat....

and did i mention i love women

there were not enough hours in a day to do everything i had set off to accomplish

so i did'nt get a lot of sleep

some of the words 2 describe me that most people who actually

know me seem 2 be driven, and sincere, honest,

i also have the distintion of being able 2 tell

you what it feels like to be a homeless failed... garbageman

while trying very hard to succeed and

being a decent human being with out partying

i'm the  the one that was homeless while keeping

county club members rolex watches

and wallets safe while never giving a thought

to stealing money to try to get a place of

my own

 ican tell what it feels like to get the honer and

privilidge of trying to keep shoes clean on a pro golf tournemnt

where it raines every day and i was not

able to do the job i felt some fine people deserved

 fine people like hale irwin,

peter jacobson, davis love the III, and my personal favorites

as human beings bob estes and ph horgan. bob estes

was just getting started good but went on to do

quite well for himself. he would take the time to chit chat

with his warm texas pesonality with us little people

he is in my opinioion one of the finest human being i have ever met

peter jacobson is one of the funniest

 along with gene deckerhoff that i have ever heard

 i made it a point to "stay in the area to get my

wonderful memories

 i worked for a woman golf pro named becky saures

and an ast pro named jon hill

they were wonderful human beings to me ...a nobody 

ii have so many things i want to express in my art

of course you need to picture the style

i'm looking 4, i'ts norman rockwell on acid

while thinking about andy warhol

(idid apainting about what that might look like}

ihave not lived what you wood call a normal life

i might perhaps bee the person you might want 2 ask

about how it ifeels to experience many nonstandard things

you should know i have a sense of humor

that eye  think is why i'm still alive

you might want 2 know iam dyslexic butt....

i sum tymes mispell words for thier met -A 4-rick effect isumetimes have complex threads of competeint thouhgt s that in my

please know i like ee cummings wood take delight imaking

people legally have to misspell my copyrighted words

please forgive my

xxx-zooo-burr-rents to get out stuff i leave choppy sentences

giving the false impression that i'm illiterat

life is a pain in the ass when you have the vocabulary

from reading, mitchner, harrold robbins, frank slaughter ,

vonneget, emmit fox, the bible from cover to cover

and many more including joseph wambah

i actually know how it comes out in the end in the last page of revelations

the bible eye mean

because i have actually red it

i'm amazed at the number of christian ministers that

apperently think the world in comming 2 an end.

maybe they should get away from the accountinting

reports and portfolios, and advertising plans

two actually understand the message.

back 2 dyslexia I do naught claim 2 have super natual powers

einsteinlike inn-tell-ect or the grace of paul

 i was born at mcdill airforce base in tampa

my father was a captain in the strategigic air command

before getting his phd at the university of missouri

supposedly my third word after mommy and daddy was   "aaahplane"

i'm one of the few people who can tell you

what it feels like to bee in the highly gifted classes

while at the same time being with the "dummy"

(i believe thats what we called it back then)

class in reading..... ewe sea i wasdyslexic

before they knew what dyslexia was

 iwas was told i just wast applying myself when

in truth i have normally given huge effort 2 anything

i do  i am a classic pure bred type A at heart

I had bleeding ulcers and blood presure of 220 over 180

when i was in my early and mid twenties

and was told by the wize dr vroom i had 1 to three years to live

i was 25

dr vroom was wrong about alot of things

this happened while i takeing the worst store of a

national co to a 100% increase in sales with the help of

some very special co workers i hired,

 using a plan the genius's at oakbrook illanois assured me would

not work... it did but i almost destroyed myself

(note, look at my painting how to spot a purebred type A person,

i gave this painting to a man who was a disabled veteren

and was leagally blind... he was collecting money

to get back to the blind winter olympics where he

had competed in..... downhill skiing.... I figured I must of

have been thinking of someone like him and myself

when ipainted it so i gave it to him'

 both him and myself saw the humor in giving

a legally blind downhill skier a painting

but he assured me he had a special computer

magnifire that made it possible 2 see it) 

back 2 dyslexia...i warned ewe eye might dew this ;-)~

thank God i went two the wonerfullelementary

school named brownell in lincoln, nebraska

my father was a prfessor and researc scientist

we lived at 6036 walker avenue

those are still magic numbers in my mind

 jonny rodger jerry taggee, jeff kinney, and guy ingles were some of my heros then

if i remember correctly they had a fairly decent team...

they had very good schools there and luckily i had a bad

southern accent... in the midwest a souther accent is

considered a speech impediment so luckily i

got another label to further ostrisize an already

painfully... shy, little boy. i say luckily

because in a twist of fate or devine intervention

the cure for a speech impediment and dyslexia is the same

phone-et-ticks

by breaking the words down into saller bits

i would theorize it was just the prescription

for words that swam around unfocused

and uneducated by

so ... i was shy litltle boy who liked to draw

and scored consistantly in the 99.9 percentile

on the stanford achievemnt test in later years

because he learned to read

you should know i had the restlessness and

energy of a denace the menace on meth

i just got a nice little mind picture of what that might

look like in my world ha ha.

please excuse my exubvrant  quick shifting

writing style ididnt know i had any

talent in this area until my freshman on

demand writing sample at a communiyty college got publish in the school

 fine art magazine i had a wonderful teacher

who when i explained my problem with spelling and

grammer while at the same time having a huge vocabulary

she took the time to tell me to let it all hang out

and i wrote  "A Taste of honey"

thank God for spell check

I breifly flirted with becoming a journalism major

until i cracked myself up in laughter at the mind

picture of a dislecix journalist and his foibles

of course at this same time i was emotionally

devastated by a very tragic auto accident

that killed 2 people (not my fault like that matterss with death)

i know what life changing episode feels like

of couse i was being sued by the person who

actually caused the wreck after I diddn't sue them

and around this time i had to have hip surgery

 and was on crutches

 and a verydear freind of mine poured

gasoline onherlf and commited suicide

 at just about the same time i was calling her

to cheer her up because i had jsut found out she was out of the hospital

(note painting fire and rain 4 pam)

that i donate to the aids art action to try and

help them out a little bit. bcause i feel helpless

while being on a stress related disabilty

 get a mind picture of a dyslexic, type a, creatively

talented person trying to relax so they can get well enough to work

while at the same time living in utter poverty

pretty funny huh

did i mention my most profound skill is

photography but i couldn't use the

darkroom at the college i was paying to go 2

because they felt uncofortable with me

note painting entitled

too fsu from somebody who loves you with

a message you need to here from

those of us with disabilities"

which i donated to bid bend cares aids art auction

last year

worked into the myriad of things happening

all at once  are the words

 I AM NOT AN ANIMAL

.THE ONLY RESPONSE I HAVE GOTTEN FROM THEM IS THEY APPARRENTLY HAVE THIER motives... thier action... there actual

damage to me for mine and want people to think that they

for some reason are afraid of me....

i have and will continue to pray for them

welcome to my world 

please check 4 truth

keith vipperman has know people who have commited murder surved thier time

and come back to contribute to society..

that are far ...far better human beings than some

administrators with phds are at florida state

i have thier e-mail burned on disk with thier words

please note the communications dept, the art history dept

are top notch

 one of the people who is afraid of my charictar was actually

locked out of the art history dept  for giving

fake grades and fake credits this good woman

actually went up and down the halls

complaining about the art history dept....

she couldnt believe they were mistreateing her so......

this woman filed a plice report stateing

that i had threatened the computer system

when i merely called in and ppointed

out that if she reformatted her computer hardrive

to hide evidence of her actions.this wood bee

a violation of FL. statutes there was another

event so misguided i won't even discuss it

except to say it was a very private situation

in which the true facts were never in evidence

please note i did do things i regretted doing and take

full responsibility for what did 20 years ago

the good people at florida state did not even check my side of the story

untill our kangaroo court

to make it more complicated i didn't have full

memory to defend my self against mispeseptions

until my abcess broke though an infection

in my wisdom tooth while working on my masters

here in which i had a trial under oath with a recording

and which iwas was cleared. the police report

was not changed to reflect this the last time i checked

 ihave not heard from these fine people

iam and always have been a very decent

human being. ... I have stopped to collect my reputation before

moving forward with my art career and life

 my name is keith vipperman

i sign my work kvip because thats

the way i signed my paperwork when i was running

a million dollar a year business

 and while i'm proud of the name vipperman

its much too long to put on a painting

 my last name is well known in the halls of virginia tech and duke

if you ever want to stick out like a sore thumb try being a dyslexic

creative artistick type in a family full of scientist

and businesspeople

too add 2 this irony i cleped a whole year of collage

except for humanities i din't know iwas and artist

it never crossed my mind as a posibillity

 remember bee nice out there

eye always try 2 bee nice

nice does not mean doormat

10/31/2007

happy halloween

all of the above is true

 that is the short version

the only thing i would change if i could

and i can but....eye won't

iz that when you read the part locked out of

the art history dept. i wish eye wood have put

"locked out of the art history departments computer system

the one that has official grades and school credits)

this "fine" human being also told me some

things 2 my face i doubt eye ever repeat

 unless it is in a court of law

 at thier insistance of course

after 3 years of waiting 4 them

to clean

............thier.............

mess

i can't 4 the life of figure out why some people

act the way they do

but please know there is a part of me thatis

sad for the honestly misguieded person

 who was mistaken and sorry 4 thier uncalled 4

actions

i have been that person before in life

and i no for a fact the truth no matter

how pitifully small .........

and non aweinspiring ....

can bee built on

i knew a man in talla hassee that was far brighter than my self

named "jack Buford"

who used to say he had no sympathy 4

liars cheats and theives who when they found

out they were honestly wrong....

they kept going the wrong way.... if i remember right he said he would pray 4 them

something tell me jack still does from somewhere up in

 heaven

my name is keith vipperman

i am a decent human being

i am not an animal

please don't treat me like 1

THE ROLES OF ART AND LIFE IN THE POST MODERN WORLD

IT WOULD SEEM THAT AT TIMES ART IMITATES LIFE,

AND OTHER TIMES LIFE IMITATES ART.

THEY WOULD SEEM TO BE THE REAL AND THE PRESENT AS WELL AS

THE SOMETIMES RIPPLED REFLECTION OF THE OTHER OR CONVERSELY

THE UNREAL BUT ASPIRED TOO AND SOMTIMES EVEN

ATTAINED BY MANIFISTATIONS OFBOTH IMAGINATION AND HOPE

AND EVEN I DARE SAY AQUASIONALLY DREAD OR SELF

FULFILLING FEARS. WHICH LEADS TO WHICH WE MAY DEBATE

ENDLESSLY. THE UNDENIABLE TRUTH WOULD SEEM TO BE THAT IF EITHER

ART STRAYS TOO FAR FROM REALITY OR IF LIFE HAS NO ARTISTRY TO GLORIFY ITS EXISTANCE IN THE PRESENT.....BOTH ART AND LIFE SUFFER FROM

THIS UNATURAL DISJUNCTION OF HUMANITY FROM THE HUMANITIES

PLEASE BEE NICE OUT THERE

ARTISTKVIP

Naturally, I'm a horrible blogger.  Yet here I am blogging.

....

Incidentally, I love Dragonforce... yep.

It's the first...no, second time I've been here. The first time, I thought it was too hectic, used to the calming brown of the Deviantart homepage. In time, I grew to like this site, but it has only been today since I actually entered.

And so far, I have to admit, I'm liking this place. Sure, it'll take me a while to used to the less casual air of this site, but that shouldn't be hard. I am truly blessed with the chance to see other amazing artworks.

Honestly, the other artworks make mine look...well, "ugly". Despite my young age, I feel that others of the same age do much better...

Well, that could be because most artists criticize their own work more harshly than others. But I say "mostly", because there are other times when critcism is neither constructive nor "flaming". Sometimes, someone really does draw badly. Now, there are two ways of handling that situation. If they admit that they don't draw as well, they are to be nutured. When you help others draw well, they will enjoy it if correctly done.

However, there are those who deny that they draw badly, and say that all criticisms are not constructive and/or biased, after seeing your gallery or portfolio. Those are the people you cannot really help, unless you are able to change their minds. I was once a "n00b", and possibly a bad one, too. I was acting like one of those adolecents that curse alot and spam message boards, flaming other forumers. I even once posted an artwork that wasn't mine on DA, but that was when I first started. That's gone now, and in it's place, a more mature artist is in it's place.

Whoops, there I go again. I started to rant again. I hope that you all will not be too harsh on my art, and, if possible, help me to draw better.

To contact me, either email me or visit me at my deviantart here.

Thanks, and see you next post. =)

Yet, at the same time, I know I am an artist.

What does the term "artist" mean, exactly? Dictionary.com cites two definitions that stand out to me. The first is a person whose work exhibits exceptional skill. This one stands out to me because I don't feel it's entirely correct. First, I feel that anyone who can put his/her ideas onto paper has "exceptional skill". Everyone may not have an appreciation for that particular expression, but as long as one can in fact express his/her ides, I feel that that person is most definitely an artist.

This leads me to the second definition. A person who practices one of the fine arts, esp. a painter or sculptor. This is what I feel is the basic definition of an artist, but there's more that needs added to it. The expression that an artist is capable of...the fact that an artist draws, paints, sculpts, molds, photographs, etc. to express an idea, and not just for the monetary reward.

Now that you all know I'm capable of rambling off on a tangent, I shall sign off.

Away!

~Julie~

I'm only 15 and have my whole life ahead of my but around the time I was starting school and they had all the art things in kindergarten I noticed I had an urge to draw at my best and differently then everyone else. While the other kids drew stick figures I was trying to draw the body lol. At that moment I knew that this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life (talk about your quick decisions!) For as long as I could remember I've been drawing from eye and what not. Mostly when I was little I would draw my cats and nature. Now they were not greatest most likely because I was in an age with only one digit lol but I kept at it. Around the age of nine I started to get more into cartoons and at this time it was anime! (I know another anime freak, those dang children) I try to stray from the pack though, I love the old style cartoons more then anything in the world. My dream is to one day work in Warner Bros. studio. Why? All I can remember is one day I was so upset and crying and I had been crying for such a long time and I could not stop. When I turned on the TV the cartoons were on and they said or did something that made me laugh and I just want to do that for someone else. As if I owe the favor to another person down on the blues.

I can not lie though, I may admire people who can do digital art but my heart is in the traditional mediums, like sketch pencils (I'm screaming like a crazy fan girl on the inside right now) and the older women (no offence to men) artist who work with graphite are my idols, such as Lee Hammond (I even have one of her books!) In hopes that one day I can be at their level. Honestly I don't believe art begins at a time but at a feeling and pursuance to become someone who can express themself in a unique way. (I know it sounds so sappy but true) My story has just begin and I doubt I have even made it past the introduction of my life. Also don't let my look or age deceive you, I, at moments, can have really great words of wisdom or true feelings that can hit hard...

If you want to see most of my work it is here: gungirl.deivantart.com which is where I was found to be invited here!

 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.

So check out my site and click on the Online Marketing Articles and take a peak at some basic easy reading (or easy listening) that may help you as it has helped me!

Thanks and Happy Reading!

 Ann Krause
MakeMoreArt.com
Promoting the Arts!

This is a great way to promote yourself, your artwork, and instanly have a functional website where you can sell your products online.

Excellent work Jane!  And a wonderful idea!

No.1 Artist

 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.

So what, I ate the last donut. Let's just not fight over it.

I'm still new to No.1 Artist, but I thank you for randomly chosing me to join.

As for my art, I have no specific media or artstyle I constantly stick with. However, I would say that my biggest influences come from anime, cartoons, comics, urban design, and even the fine art masters of before. I love to try new techniques and try new things all the time. I'm mainly a digital artist, but every now and then, I go back to traditional art. I enjoy doing digital portraits, inking by hand, and even graphic design. As my friend calls me: I'm that girl of all sorts.

Please check out my portfolio if you have the time or my deviantART account, which is updated more frequently. Thanks~

  I am truly honored to have been chosen to join such a fantastic website!  I promise to only put my best art up here lol. 
 (I hope all the older members on this site don't get too annoyed with me. Paranoid.)

  Anyway, I was looking around, and I found out about being able to post blogs and such -- and that's actually really neat.  I love writing blogs.  Because usually I get carried away with typing and it ends up being like super super long.  
  Before I get off on some random subject, perhaps I should let the world know how I started drawing. 
  To be honest, I have no idea!  I guess when I was little I would draw little animals and whatnot, but I didn't really get into it until later when I saw my first anime.  That's right, I'm an anime artist!  On occasion I will attempt realism, but it never comes out well at all -- probably because I've never taken an art class in my life.  (But starting next year, I will be.  I signed up for my school's art class, mostly as something fun to do during the day, and kind of like a stress reliever.  I get stressed very easily.)
  Eventually, I started developing the style I have now, but it took a while.  I would go from one mistake to the next, as I'm sure we all do when we're starting out.  And you know how we don't realize it at the time.  Like, we'll draw something and think it's fantabulous, and then the next day we're like "Woah, wtf is this?"
  Oh, well ... I guess I just loved it.  That's really why I started.  I drew something once, and fell in love with the idea of being able to escape reality for a few hours and live inside a single piece of paper.  Or at least, that's how I see it.  It's the same with writing -- There is no real world when I'm drawing and/or writing.  There's just me, my pencil, and my paper. 

  Enough with my oddities ... hahaha.

  I have this whole week off, so I will probably be doing a lot of finishing up of dropped art.  I especially want to finish a photo I did for El Laberinto del Fauno a while back -- I'm thinking of using watercolors.  I haven't used them in a while, and I kinda miss them, haha. 
 
  Another thing I have to hop to is writing Grade School Musical for my mom.  She's the music teacher over at Nazareth Academy Grade School, and she wants them to do a little skit of sorts.  She read a melodrama I wrote for my Theater Arts class and decided that I should write Grade School Musical.  It shouldn't be too hard, seeing as it only has to be like 5 or 10 minutes long. 

  (sigh).  I should probably stop typing now.  I'll just keep rambling on and on about absolutely nothing.

  Thanks again for the e-mail and letting me know about this site :).  And I'm glad you liked my art enough to invite me!  I'm such a harsh self-critic.  :P.
  Until next time!

<3Angela

by: Dr. Janet Montgomery

It's a devastating thing for an artist to feel they've lost their inspiration, to encounter a creative block. But suffering from artist's block doesn't mean you've lost your artistic ability and it can be overcome. Dr. Janet Montgomery has some tips to help beat artist's block:

Beating Artist's Block Tip 1:
It's the fear of not being able to do it that is making you feel you've lost your inspiration. To get rid of the fear, you must approach your painting as if it were a job and DO IT.

Beating Artist's Block Tip 2:
Force yourself to set a goal of ‘X' number of paintings. Copy if you must, use kitchen tools as models if you must, but simply getting into the paint itself will begin to inspire you, even if you don't like the subject matter.

Beating Artist's Block Tip 3:
Change media. If acrylic, go to oil. If oil, go to printmaking.

Beating Artist's Block Tip 4:
Search for new painters on the web, using Google's image search. Go to galleries. Try to find an artist who's doing something that appeals to you, something that the voice inside you says, "I could do that" or "I'd like to be able to do that." Secure an image and copy it to find out what that artist did and how. Then think about recombining ideas.

Beating Artist's Block Tip 5:
Play the "what if?" game. What if I painted this old subject matter on a tire? What if I put together a still life of bricks? How can I use a new material, a new subject matter, a new style. Be wild in your considerations.

Beating Artist's Block Tip 6:
Remember that everyone has fallow periods. I don't consider them really fallow, just the subconscious taking a breather and getting ready to take a different direction.

Beating Artist's Block Tip 7:
Check out some books on creative thinking to give you a jolt.

Beating Artist's Block Tip 8:
Take a trip to somewhere you've never considered, even if it's only to a local town you've never explored. Always take a sketchbook, everywhere you go. Or a digital camera. Imagine yourself a Lilliput or a giant to change your perspective.

Beating Artist's Block Tip 9:
Keep a journal of drawings and writings for a month. Pick something from the journal to paint. Review it in six months or a year.

Beating Artist's Block Tip 10:
Compile a scrapbook of family portraits -- not just faces, but each family member doing something typical -- a ‘candid' sketch with writing about the person, the time, your impressions. Keep it in a journal for your kids' kids.

Beating Artist's Block Tip 11:
Go to a senior citizen center and draw the people there. Talk to them about their life stories. Try to express your response in mixed media using copies of their old photographs, etc.

Beating Artist's Block Tip 12:
Take a class that forces you to produce in a structured environment.

I have recently learned how to make space pictures that look real. I have tried many things and still want to learn more. I have set a goal for me to be the best of the best. I might never reach it, but it will always keep me reaching for that pie in the sky. 

I am also certain now that practice makes perfect. The more I draw, either on the computer or not, I get better. I will someday reach the level of being a artist. If it is by my writings or my art. I want people to enjoy my items and let me know what they think of these items.

At this point I know anyone can get better at the things they do. Even you who are reading this. You might be better then me now and might stay better then me years from now. But don't worry I will reach your level years from now as you reach the level of the artist that most inspires you to do what you do.

Just as I like art I like Video Games and have been playing a game called 'Dance Dance Revolution' and have been working at advancing any level set in front of me. Yet I was just forced in game to advance a level. And yet I am not ready. So I keep doing the same level over and over again until I reach the next level by mastering the one in front of me. It might seem like the game is moving fast at first but with practice it slows down to your minds eyes and helps you think faster. The reason I play video games like this is not to fry my brain but to keep it sharp and ready for action in my art field.

Well I hope you got something out of my crazy talk and maybe actually enjoyed it. Well I wish you the best of luck at improving yourself like I am and the best in life as well.

JK

It's nice to see everyone using the new Artist Blog feature.  We hope you're all enjoying it.

Just wanted to make a friendly reminder to remind you to "Publish" each entry after you've had time to review it.  Each entry will not display until it is published to the community Artist Blog.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

I am fairly new to no.1 artist. Since moving to Chicago I've been working on a series of black and white paintings of city architecture. They are true monochromatic paintings. Black acrylic paint on a white canvas. Stop by my "About me" page to see the next work in progress also stop by "My Art" to see additional photos of this painting and others I've done. Let me know what you think. And if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks, Scott~

I put this under art tips because I would love any critisism available.

Please feel free to say hi!

Pat

What a great way to promote and sell his beautiful artwork online.

About Juniorcreations 

The Brazilian sculptor, Junior, was born into a very big artistic family. It was there where creativity was encouraged and developed from an early age. His earliest memories were of being exposed to his father's paper printing business, where his creativity came alive making drawings, creating origami, pinwheels, and other playful items. Conventional plastic toys were usually tossed aside for toys that he could create with his own hands!

When asked where he gets his inspiration from, he says, "I consider myself a very lucky person for having so many talented people around me all the time. Whether it's the very creative people in my own family, my friends, or colleagues I've worked with in the architecturing and industrial designing fields. I can't help but be inspired by the wonderful people I've had in my life!"

Junior has such a passion for creating new artwork with his hands, that he always finds time to create new artwork in his spare time. It's from that passion where he began to sculpt miniature babies in polymer clay. Those of us who know him, knew that he would be very successful at it! He has been sculpting miniature babies since April of 2006 and has loved the whole new world of creativity it has opened up for him. He's also been blessed to have met so many new, wonderful people. Junior is particularly excited about his newest creation, a "Limited Edition" miniature baby "Kristia" produced in resin. He looks forward to creating more and more life-like miniature babies as well as all the new wonderful friends he'll meet along the way. When recently asked how long will he continue to create new and wonderful artwork, he just simply replied, "As long as it continues to make people happy,...I plan to keep doing it forever!!!"

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.  

            The velvet wonders so deep and dark it swallows you into a never ending journey.

            Every creature big and small seeks it and wants to be engulfed in it. Every human is drawn to the smooth exotic look, observing and trying to analyze the beauty of it.

            The velvet wonders full of warmth and beauty, the exotic journey throughout deep dark walls of the mysterious velvet.

            The journey is exhilarating, mind blowing, spirit lifting. Itâs blazing hot until you reach the core and releasing that wonder.

The Velvet Wonders, The Never Ending Journey.

            Never say never when its the masters game. You say no when you still dont try to run, you say no when in your eyes I see the animal inside trying to escape out of its cage.

            Never say never when you can barley talk, barley move. Never say never when I am the one laying out the rules.

            Its my game your playing at, you think your ahead of the game when I got you right where I want you.

            Your resistance only makes it more fun, cause in the end Ill be on top, and you will never say never in your life.

            You say never, you say never again, but still you come back to play on my playground.

            Never say never when it is me your denying.

            Denying your power full access, opening and locking it back in solitude is limiting your power to nothing.

            I am the master, I am the teacher and you will never say never again.

            Come on back to my playground, come play with the master.

            Never say never when you are up against a master, when you are addicted to me and your own power.

            You will always come back to me, let go of the animal inside, unleash your power.

Never Say Never When Its a Master You Are Talking To.

            You set my soul on fire, consuming everything that's left of me.

            Burning deep within my soul it cries out as it's consumed in darkness.

            You set my soul on fire, ever fiber in my being is on fire.

            I am burning, I am shaking, and I am braking down. I reach up to take a hold of you. You have a hold on me, bring me into the shadows.

            Blood boiling through my veins,  blood on your lips.

            You set my soul on fire, your draining every drop of my blood away. I am drawn to you as I suck the blood back into my body. A kiss that burns all over, awaking my bloody soul, my bloody body.

            Blood on my hands. Blood on my lips. Drinking every part of your body.

            I'm in the darkness now, that taste of you, of the darkness around, is healing my body and soul.

Our Bodies On Fire, Consumed By Darkness.

            I'm sinking my teeth into your flesh, pouring out your blood, devouring all of you.

            I'm brining you into my world, brining your eyes to darkness.

            Blood on my lips from brining you into the darkness, consuming you from the inside out.

Putting the light out, lighting fire to your soul.

            Knife through your heart, learning to take the pain head on. Pain and pleasure roaming through your mind, mind troubled of thoughts, of darkness.

            Blood on my lips, eyes black with a glimpse of evil, a firey flare deep within those eyes.

            Sinking in, pouring out your blood, deep within, darkness, darkness all around consuming everything.

            Heartbeat rising, skipping beats, evil within you. Taking you with me, making you who you were meat to be. A creature of the night, a blood thirsty predator.

Eyes glaring, body beautiful, fangs of a link.

Blood On My Lips, Blood Of A Million In Me

            The blood in my veins is boiling, my body aching, hunger running through my body. Fangs sink in thick, sweet blood flows out into my mouth. I am sucking on your smooth beautiful neck.

            Let me bite down deeper, taking in your blood, having it on my tongue as it runs down my throat brining heat to my body, as I caress you all over.

            Rich red blood flowing through my veins, pure blood making my body awake in excitement.

            The blood is starting to run down your neck all the way down, I must get it. Umm.. I am going down and down licking the trail of blood down your body.

            All the way down the blood taste a little spicier and sweeter, the taste is starting to stay on my tongue and the blood on the back of my throat, as I get high off of your delicious blood.         

            Savoring it as I sink my fangs back into you. Your screaming as I sink my fangs back into you, your knees buckle making me take you in further, its music to my ears.

My fangs retract and

I lick up the blood on my lips

And leave...full.

            Bathe me, bathe me with your hands, and let the suds run down my body, while you hold me to the waters waves.

            Candles all around making an exotic atmosphere, bring heat to my body as the candle light reflects in your eyes.

             Burn a hole to my soul as you look into my eyes while you bathe me.

Bathe me, hold me, take me away, and bring me to pure ecstasy.

            Your essence fills my heart, and my spirits. I want to bathe me, wash away my nerves, and bathe every inch of me.

            Keep your grip on me as I move to the waters waves. Suds still running down my body, body shaking as the water gets cold, body tense as I flow like the waves, your hands still on me, bathing me, keeping up the rhythm even when the water is getting cold.

Rinse me, dry me, and take me to bed.

            Extra sweetness, extra heat that warms your mouth spreading through your body quivering when make contact, melting as it goes down.

            A sparkling melted glazed topping covered moist snack that can never fill you up with one portion, you get hungrier for more the taste is addictive you want to eat it all in one bite, but want to save some for later too.

            I have a sweet tooth for sweetness and I am addicted to this special snack of mine, just waiting for me to devour it all in a single bite, just savoring the feel of it on my tongue, keeping the great massaging rhythm going on.

            Wanting to sink my teeth in you, my sweet snack making sure I enjoy the feel of it going down my throat, trying to devour you all in one bite, taking more and more in my mouth starting to fill up.

            I take it all in, licking my lips and fingers loving the way it taste.

It's liquid heat to my body

                                                Song Of The Blood

            Lost of words, lost of air, lost of motion. I cant breathe, cant make sense of whats going on, on whats happening to me. I am loosing control, I am loosing control of myself. I am on fire, skin burning, blood rushing, and heart pounding a hole in my chest.  

Lost of words, lost of air, lost of motion.

            Its all coming down hard, I am at lost of words, everything seems so dark.

            All I can do is think and try to find the strength to run, I dont wanna run, I want to devour it all. Wanna take over.

            Teeth sinking slowly into my flesh , its driving me crazy, cant move, cant regain control.

            All I manage to stay is... harder. So my flesh is broken by the pressure, they go deeper and I am just going deeper into the dark.

            I am loosing control, I am slipping, I am at the edge, I cant keep in the animal, its ripping through me, have to get out of here before someone gets hurt.

            Oh thank the goddess above, the teeth retract, but it too late, my whole body is on fire, I am completely gone, I slam the body up against a wall sinking my teeth hard and deep into the flesh, hands searching all over, ribs breaking under my hold.

            I lost control, cant stop now. Cant stop now, dont want to stop now I am gone.

            On soiled ground now, body quivering, singing underneath me. Nails digging in, teeth sinking in every where, tongue painting pictures.

            I am on fire, burning within, blood rushing, heart pounding a hole through my chest.

            The screams, the hot breath around me, driving me insane.

I am loosing control, I am loosing control, someone stop me.

As I sink my teeth back in, my flesh is broken again too, I scream falling back trying to regain back so control.

            Upon me now, slowly inking in, so deep were so deep, were connected.

Lost of words, lost of air, lost of stability.

            Cant breathe, cant stop, dont wanna stop, dont want it to end.

            How did I come to have a knife in my hands? Running the blade along this beautiful canvas, following the trail with my tongue until I start, I look at my art work full of passion.

Cleaning every inch as we cum to the final beat of the song.

July 18,2006

            Hurt me baby, hurt me beyond the point where I cant take it anymore.

            Hurt me all over right down to the breaking point.

            Make it hurt baby, bite down until the skin breaks and my screams echos all around us.

            Make me hurt, make me beg, make my body ache with need until the pain is too much and I cry out for release.

            Hurt me baby, hurt me beyond the point where I cant take it anymore.

            Hurt me all over right down to the breaking point.

            Break me baby, make me crave your touch.

            I want to hear all those sounds that drive me crazy. Baby lets make our own music.

            Lets hear the flow of blood, lets hear the screams, the moans, lets listen to the beats of our hearts.

            Hurt me baby, hurt me beyond the point where I can't take it anymore.

            Hurt me right down to the breaking point.

            Make me hurt baby, have your way with me, ravish me. Hurt me all over, bite into me, mold me with your hands to fix your body. No part of my body should be untouched, unbled.

            Its only you that can please me, so baby keep on pleasing me.

Hurt Me Baby

July 19, 2006

            Please don't go, just stay here with me baby, relax under my touch, cause baby I am nothing without you right here beside me.

            Don't leave baby, just tell me what I have to do, because you know I will do anything to keep you happy.

            Please don't go, just stay here with me, cause baby no body makes me feel the way you do.

            Baby don't leave, every time you do a part of me dies.

            It hurts not having you right here beside me, baby you just don't know how much the withdrawal is.

            Don't leave baby, I cry every time when you do, my body shakes and trembles every time I am alone.

            My eyes tear up every time you're around cause I know your going to leave when its over.

            Please don't go, just stay here with me baby, relax under my touch, cause baby I am nothing without you right here beside me.

July 10,2006

            I can't be saved from this world of mine. Can't be saved from the pain that gives me pleasure. Can't be saved from the thirst of blood.

            You can't save me, you can't love me, you can't please me, you can't live in my world.

            I can't be saved, I can't love you, I can't please you, I can't be near you.

            I cant be saved from this world of mine. Can't be saved from the pain that gives me pleasure. Can't be saved from this thirst of blood.

            You can't save me so don't try, I cant change, I can't let myself love you. I can't please you, you can't please me without there being pain involved.

            I can't be saved from this world of mine. Can't be save from the pain that gives me pleasure. Can't be save from the thirst of blood.

            You can't save me so don't try, but your kiss breaks down the wall around my heart piece by piece.

            Your tongue smoothes out my nerves, your hands keep me from running.

            I cant be saved from this world of mine. Can't be saved from the pain that gives me pleasure. Can't be saved from the thirst of blood.

            You broke me down, you met me half way, but you can't save me, you can't please me, you can't suppress my thirst.

            I cant be saved from this world of mine. Can't be saved from the pain that gives me pleasure. Can't be saved from the thirst of blood.

            You broke me down with a kiss, you opened up new doors with your love.

            You pleased me with your body, gave me the pain of pleasure. I got pleasure from your touch, from the things you learnt just for me.

            We made our own world, where pain is our pleasure.

            We cant be saved from this world of ours. Can't be saved from the pain that gives us pleasure. Can't be saved from the thirst of blood.

Don't Want To Be Saved.

 Aug 30, 2006

            Back to me through the thick fog you came, or is it just the fog clearing allowing me to see you.

            The fog is thinning, allowing me to see you.

            I can see you now, so clear, but so distant.

            I can see you but I can't feel you, I can't sense your soul.

            Will this fog ever fade away and let me be touched by you?

            Or is the fog thinning out around me, swallowing me in?

            Back to me the image of the one I use to know, back to me a distant creature.

            I now feel the touch, hear the voice, I don't feel your touch, I don't hear your voice.

            Youre here but your not here, your soul is there but cannot be seen, your heart is there but cannot be heard.

            Like the wind youre here then you're gone, giving enough not to go crazy, but not enough to be around forever.

Come Back To Me,

Come Back And Close The Distance

I'm Yours

            I'm tired of waking up in the morning alone, I'm tired of fuckin around, I'm tired of it all.

            You want the title than come take me baby cause I'm yours to have.

            Making love behind close doors, being the closest of best friends all the time.

            You know I'm in love with you, you know I never want you to stop touching me no matter whos around, but I just cant seem to hand over the title.

            I'm tired of waking up in the morning alone, I'm tired of not being myself, I'm tire of being in the dark.

            Take the title baby while theres a little light left in me.

            Every time I am with you that light shines, so bring me into the light for good.

            So tired, so loved, so full of bliss, so in love, so yours.

            I'm yours if you still want me, I'm yours for eternally if youll answer now to the title.

            I am hurting every second of the day not being with you, and even though you tell me the title doesnt mean anything to you, that the love and affection I have and show all the time is enough, I can see the look deep within your eyes when someone asks me if we are dating, and every time I say no, my heart tears apart, tears form behind my eyes.

            I'm tire of it all, I want you, I need you, I crave you.

I'm Yours If You'll Still Have Me

Going Crazy

            Mind clouded, eyes clouded, body stilled.

            The thoughts going through my head are driving me crazy.

            Your eyes so penetrating, driving me crazy, getting lost looking at them.

            Body stilled by your touch, weakened by the hold.

            I cant seem to get you out of my mind.

            Its so crazy how you affect me so.

            I cant get you out of my min, I dream of you, I dream of doing things to you, the dreams feel so real, feel so real.

            As the days go past and every time I close my eyes and dream of you, the dreams get crazier, more desperate.

            I see your face, feel your body, hear your moans, absorb your screams, taste your blood.

            Mind clouded, eyes clouded, body stilled.

Loosing all rational thought, loosing control of my body, the animal inside me seeking control.

            The days go past and I get crazier, the animal reaching full control every time we talk, every time we are around each other.

Come Make The Dreams Real

Passion Through Your Eyes

            Passion through your eyes as we lay together, fire lit in them as we kiss, lust glistening in your eyes, candle light reflecting in your eyes.

            Flames spread all over our bodies as we kiss, lust glistening through your eyes paralyzing me, passion through your eyes going through your hands weakening me.

            The fire burning deep within now awaking me, bring strength back to my body.

            Getting lost looking at the candle light reflecting in your eyes.
            Hands seeking you out in the blur of the fire, connecting with a kiss that has the flames blazing in and out of me, listening to the crackling of the flames.

            Screams drowned out by the thick auras around us, fire burnt out by the break of the dam.

            Passion through your eyes as we lay together, fire put out as we come though the blur, pure ecstasy glistening in your eyes, candle light dimming in your eyes as we fall asleep in each others arms.

Want To

            I want to feel you, I want to hear you scream my name, I want you to beg me to hurt you.

            I want to see your eyes glisten with lust, I want to taste every inch of you. I want you.

            Your touch I crave, your touch making me wonder how you would feel underneath me, on me.

            Your eyes putting me at ease, making me want you even more, wanting to know the feel of your teeth all over.

            Body aching to have your tongue trace my body, to have your lips pressure me to the breaking point.

           I want to feel every inch of you, want to make your body respond to my touches while your mind is completely gone.

            I want to feel you inside in every way imaginable.

            Want to catch all that you can give as you cum, connecting our bodies rocking against mine driving me to the breaking point.

Cumming right along with you, but unable to stop touching you, to stop tasting you.

            I want to ravish you, I want to fuck you to unconsciousness, I want to make you flow non stop.

Want To Devour You

Kiss Me

            I am lost, I am so full of emotions I cant act out on, I'm so confused, so aroused by you.

            I cant tell what it is that Im feeling towards you, there is so many thoughts that I feel when I am around you, when I see you.

            Kiss me and let the power of a touch answer all of my questions.

            Kiss me back to life, kiss me all over that my nerves are smoothed out, kiss me till I can only think of you.

            I think I want you, I know I want to kiss you, I know I want to explore every inch of you.

            You got me here so kiss me out of it, let our bodies connect letting the feel of your touch tell me all I need to know, releasing me from these wonders.

            I am lost, I so full of emotions, I can't point out which one or ones I feel for you.

            I am so confused, so aroused by you. I just want one kiss to solve all the emotions.

Slip & Slide

            You keep slipping and sliding in and out of my mind, your scent slipping around me, your aura sliding in me.

            My hands slipping from behind, trying to slide them over your face making sure you're truly here.

            Air slips away from my lungs as your eyes slide in through the dark room.

            I slide out of my clothes as you slip out of what is left of your clothing.

            My hands slide slowly over your body, sending chills up your spine, as you get the heat back from slipping inside me.

            I slide on you as your teeth slip into my skin, casting out the noise that would have followed.

            I would have cum just from looking at your eyes, but the further you slipped inside me, the more I couldnt take it.

             As I slip into ecstasy I cast out the noise sinking my teeth into you, slipping into you keeping you at bay.

            Your liquid heat burning me, my eyes darkening with the thickening atmosphere.

            Lying here unable to move, slipping in and out of my mind, while you slip and slide on me, slowly burning every part of my body.

            The air all around is intoxicating, every time I try to breathe I get high off of it, loosing more and more control over myself.

            Sinking in to oblivion, I slide back up into you, switching positions and slipping out of sanity, sliding on you making one of your bones slip out of place.

            You stay on my mind, the feel of you stays on my skin.

            Slipping and Sliding all over and in each other, your liquid heat slipping in and sliding down my throat, burning me.

Slipping & Sliding 

 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

Jayne.Surrena@gmail.com  South th St, Philadelphia

Education

 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa

             BFA in Painting Spring 2006

Awards and Grants

Upcoming Artist Grant 2002 through 2006

Young Artist Grant 2002 through 2006

Alumni Award in the Commitment and Progress of Painting 2006

Rohm & Haas Award Nominee 2006

Computer Skills

Microsoft Office Suite, Windows and Macintosh, Graphic design

Job Experience

Present:    Freeman’s Auction House, Philadelphia, PA

Auction Porter

Managed the installation of the Asian Arts exhibition, directly assist Jewelry Department as needed, work with operations department to maintain organization of consigned properties, work directly with clients to assure proper delivery of properties, establish relationships with clients at exhibitions.

9/05-8/06: Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

                        Gallery Assistant

Organized and hung gallery exhibitions, maintained customer and consigner database, worked with corporate and private collectors, and maintained press relations. Organized preparations for national and international art fairs.

3/00-2/05: Merry Hill Iron Restoration, Plymouth Meeting, PA

                        Assistant   

Worked directly with client base to define contracts, maintained client relations throughout the year, managed projects from beginning to end, worked specifically with project materials from intake to welding to delivery.

2/05-9/05: Buttercup Bakery and Café, Philadelphia, PA

                              Front of House Manager

Managed team of Customer Service Representatives from the opening of the café in the mornings to closing out cash registers at the end of a shift, trained new employees, and lead team-building initiatives.

Skills

Self-motivated and hard working. Experience with customer service, excellent oral and written communication skills, knowledge of RFC database, excellent organizational skills.

 I'm heavy on expression, if an art peice doesn't speak to me or doesn't make me feel or think, then I get bored. No offense, I'm just stating my opinion. I think art should make people feel, think, should incite some sort of story or imagination in the viewers rather than just be pretty. Maybe that's why I'm so into drawing the things I do, because I like the way the characters make me feel and how they make others feel and express themselves. They become something real and a part of me.

 That's my two cents today,

Tabikat~

 Or you can reach me by email at kaess@email.com     THANKS

Hello. My name is Elizabeth Rostron and I live in Indian Orchard, Ma. I have been an artist for my whole life and it is my passion. When I was a junior in high school, I attended Art All State and college art classes as well. I am in school now at Holyoke Community College for graphic design and I am very excited about it. I have some of my artwork for sale so you should check it out. If there is anything seen that you are interested in that is not for sale, let me know and I can sell it between a price that we discuss. Thanks! Hope to hear from you!

www.number1artist.com/liz2856

The artist-painter Chitra Ramanathan is known for her series of textural very colourful paintings on the visualization of the abstract entity happiness, portaying it as a unviersal goal.  HEr paitnings are with public, corporate and private collections inthe United States and in Europe.

A recent corporate commission for MGM involved her creating two paintings, each measuring four feet by six feet in dimension, which have been permanently installed inside the Conservatory Botanical Garden of their Hotel Bellagio in Las Vegas, U.S.A since 2004. These paintings were customized for the Bellagio and based on two of her smaill-sized 1999 and 2000 originals, which MGM noticed on a website featuring Ramanathan's paintings.

A professional artist and educator, Ramanathan received her Bachelor of FIne Arts degree in Painting with Honours, and her M.B.A degree in Arts Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. She is presently a committee member of the COllege Art Association, New York, and a member and volunteer of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, U.S.A. 

To view ramanathan's biographies and paintings visit:

 www.galleries-online.co.uk/Artist Search: Chitra Ramanathan

www.saatchigallery.com/Artist Search: Chitra Ramanathan 

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I also continued a quest to uncover hidden aspects of my African heritage in terms of the visual arts.  Henry Ossawa Tanner and Charles White became sources of pride and identity for me.  At the same time I was developing my own identity as an artist through study of painting, drawing, art history, printmaking, and Black literature. Early on I focused my attention on portraits, social commentary, and still life paintings. Eventually my paintings would get larger and become derived from collages and assemblages which I would make as sources of composition.

After graduating from Kansas City Art Institute in 1971, I stayed in Kansas City for almost two years painting, drawing, and making prints.  I would make assemblages which would serve as sources of inspiration for making art.

In 1975, I accepted a teaching assistantship at the University of Miami, Coral Gables where I attended graduate school for two years while teaching, painting, making prints, drawing, and making assemblage sculpture. In my last year of grad school I was awarded a DadeCounty Arts Council commission to paint a mural.

That same year I accepted a teaching position at Shelby State Community College in Memphis, Tennessee. Two years later I accepted a fellowship to attend a Nantional Endowment for the Humanities yearlong seminar at the University of California - Santa Barbara.  A year later I was back in Memphis working on the Shelby State-CETA Summer Youth program as a Mural Instructor.  I three years, the program produce eight murals by high school and college students working collaboratively.

I continued to teach in the Fine Arts Department at Shelby State Community College until my position was terminated in 1986 due to budgetary and enrollment problems at the school.  The college has since been merged with a nearby technical college and its name changed to Southwest Tennessee Community College.  After my position was terminate, I accepted the position I now hold in the Department of Fine Arts at Mississippi Valley State University.  I have been there for the last twenty years teaching basically the same subjects I taught at Shelby State Community College. Those courses are art history, art apreciation, photography, printmaking, design, and color.

In 1981 a cloistered nun named Mother Angelica, using merely entrepreneurial instincts and a steadfast faith in God created what would become the world's largest religious media empire in the garage of a her monastery located in the hills of  Birmingham, Al.

The Eternal Television Network grew at a staggering pace, both in people tuning in and in sharing the message of God, to where it now reaches over a hundred million viewers in hundreds of countries around the globe.

This portrait "Nun of the Media" tries to capture the story of this extraordinary nun, Mother Angelica, who is known and loved by the many that tune into "Mother Angelica Live" on the EWTN Network.

The portrait also manifests the power of prayer which comes from the Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration who have backed up Mother's global media work. Mother herself is seen at the switchboard of Eternal Word Television Network with her Rosary in hand.

The painting also encompasses the satellite dishes and shortwave radio towers of EWTN that make it Global Catholic Network.

Behind the nuns, in the center of the piazza stands  the The Monument of the Divine Child Jesus (El Divino Niño).   It Serves as a symbol of the eager love of our God, the Child Jesus offers His Heart to all who approach Him, "Prophecy of Isaiah (11:6): ". and a little Child shall lead them"

Behind El Divino Niño is the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, a Temple consecrated to Almighty God, open to people of all faiths. 

Visitors often remark that this Temple is "a true oasis of silence and peace."  Mother Angelica explains that  "when you come into the Temple you are in the Presence of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit."  She prays that each person who enters will be aware of this great and wonderful reality

The original oil painting can be seen by the public, down in Hanceville, AL at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament.

To purchase prints of Mother Angelica "Nun of the Media" visit Mark's Number1Artist Online-Store.

http://www.marksanislo.com

A common question many of you ask is - How do I increase the traffic to my No.1 Artist portfolio?  This is a great question and today I'd like to provide you with a few ideas that will help increase your traffic and generate more sales for you.

Write about yourself and your Art on the No.1 Artist Blog

As a member of No.1 Artist, you will be able to write your own articles, add them to specific categories and publish them on the community Artist Blog for everyone else to read.

By doing this, you will build credibility, increase your exposure and begin to brand your name in the Art community. Every time you publish a post on the Artist Blog it will become indexed in the major search engines. If someone comes across your post, they will be able to read it and link directly back to your No.1 Artist portfolio.

A great first post would be to introduce yourself and let us know how you became an Artist.

Always Include a Link to your No.1 Artist Portfolio

Every time you make a post on the Internet, be sure to include a link to your No.1 Artist portfolio.   If your No.1 Artist username was "Username", then your link would be www.number1artist.com/username.

To convert this into an HTML link, simply replace "username" below with your No.1 Artist username.

<a href="http://www.number1artist.com/username" target="_blank">View my No.1 Artist Portfolio</a>

Post this in forums, on your MySpace, Facebook and Friendster accounts, on Craigslist, and anywhere else you make a post.  This will increase your traffic to your No.1 Artist portfolio... guaranteed!

Compete in our No.1 Artist Gallery Contests

Every month or so, we try to hold an online contest for our members to compete against one another in our online Gallery Showcase.  Our contest provides great exposure for our members and especially for the winner of each contest.  Each Gallery champion will have their artwork displayed on the homepage of No.1 Artist until the next Gallery champion has been crowned - this is great exposure.

Some of our most successful artists selling the most products are the winners of the Gallery contest because their art is the first thing people see when going to www.number1artist.com. 

In order to be accepted into our Gallery Showcase, you must have at least one picture uploaded to your No.1 Artist portfolio and must have at least one product for sale.  If you've satisfied these requirements, you will receive an email to be invited into our next Gallery contest (make sure your email address is correct in your account).

These three things will greatly increase the traffic to your No.1 Artist portfolio and will hopefully generate more sales for you.

We hope you find this information to be useful. 

We wish you all much success.

No.1 Artist Team

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Invite us to be your friend!

No.1 Artist Team

Have you created your own store on No.1 Artist?

If you have, you will find your products listed in Froogle.

We automatically submit all of our members artwork to Froogle three times a week for free.

We wish you all much success.

No.1 Artist Team

Add the following code to your MySpace account.

Just replace "username" with your No.1 Artist username.

<a href="http://www.number1artist.com/username" target="_blank">View my No.1 Artist Portfolio</a>

No.1 Artist Team

projects come up that I wanted to share with you, 

especially since the holidays are getting close and 

some of you are looking for special and unique gifts.

   As most of you know, I am an artist and children's

 art teacher and I have my own art studio where I love

 spending time hanging out with Annabella, teaching 

children's art lessons and painting.  In addition to 

teaching, my specialty is designing and painting 

vintage children's furniture. Toddler chairs, step 

stools, kid's tables and chairs, rocking 

chairs, etc.--I find fantastic antique pieces and 

then custom-design and paint them according to your 

wishes.   

   I also paint high-quality wood outdoor tree swings

 that have a very "old-timey" feel to them (imagine 

if Anthropologie painted outdoor swings).  They look 

just precious hanging from a tree limb and are truly 

unique. They also make very special gifts for older 

kids and grown-ups, too.    Every design is 

one-of-a-kind and I paint each piece by hand and with

 lots of special attention to detail. I can create 

anything you envision and I hope some of you will let

 me work on some pieces for your kids and families. My

 website is under construction, but in the meantime, 

please check out some items on this temporary site.  

You can see some of the outdoor swings (unhung) as 

well as a gallery of furniture I've painted, a few 

items that are for sale and a few antiques available 

for custom design.  

Thanks, and I'm continuing to work on new pieces, so 

the webste will be updated frequently. Please don't 

hesitate to call me if you have any questions.  I 

appreicate you spreading the word to anyone who might

 be interested!  Best,  Gina Dunn 

Although she is originally from Brooklyn, New York, Gina has lived in Dallas most of her life. She attended Ursuline Academy of Dallas and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Loyola University New Orleans with B.A. in Studio Art and a B.A. in Communications in 2001. She is currently pursuing her Texas Early Childhood certification.

After graduation, Gina worked in the nonprofit arts sector at the Texas International Arts Society and at the Dallas Children's Museum.  She then joined Neiman Marcus as a Public Relations and Special Events Coordinator and later Stewart Title as Marketing Director.

Gina now focuses full-time on art and art education-her true passions in life.  She converted her garage into an art studio, Utopia Pkwy. Art Studio, where she gives private lessons and creates art in a variety of media. She also goes on location to paint custom murals and furniture in homes and commercial businesses throughout Dallas, including Celebrity Bakery and Five Star Ford.

Gina joined Art Stop as a children's Art Teacher in 2004 and also manages the school's marketing and public relations. She taught art camp at the Dallas Museum of Art in Summer 2006   and plans to return in Summer 2007.  She loves to share her experience and creative energy with future artists.

In her free time, Gina enjoys being active in her community and volunteers with the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dallas Wind Symphony and St. Anne's Women's Group.  She also loves spending time with her husband, Craig, and their newborn daughter, Annabella, and taking long walks with their two dogs, Jackson and Brooklyn.

a dog you petted, a fish you caught, a band you heard, a restaurant you ate at, a deer you shot, an ass you grabbed, a butt you kicked, a story you told, a blog you wrote, a job you hated, a wish you granted, a picture you drew, a joke you heard, a breast you fondled, a tune you whistled, a bed you fucked in,  a joint you rolled, a letter you wrote, a song you sang, a friend you liked, a lover you left,  a dance you had, a shot you sank, a bar you frequent, a line you snorted, a motorcycle you rode, a wreck you dove on, a special someone you miss, a cocktail you drank, a race you won, a bet you made, a raise you got, a gamble you took, an ocean you sailed, a cry you had,  or maybe even an alibi you used or some art you created!!! Ever had a day like that? And you start thinking about........

1. You have selected the checkbox in your account that says "Enter me into the Gallery contest".
2. You have a store with artwork for sale on your No.1 Artist website.
3. You have uploaded a picture of your artwork that relates to the season of Fall.

However, it takes a determined artist to really get the recognition they deserve. One way to help boost sales is to talk about your products. Most artist sell there artwork by word-of-mouth. But what if you could write stories about your artwork that really defines what you are truly trying to do?

No. 1 Artist Blog is the perfect way for artist to discuss what they have done and why they stand out among other artist. Have you created the perfect piece of art? Then write a story about it. After you publish it, it then becomes an extension of the word of mouth syndrome. One day someone will be searching the Internet looking for what you have and thanks to Google find your artwork.

Content is the Internet's "word-of-mouth" advertising. If you are excited about your artwork or if there is a story behind it, let the world know.

Step 1. Create an Account

The first thing you need to do is create a FREE account with No. 1 Artist, if you have yet to do this, click here to create your account.

Step 2. Log into No. 1 Artist

Click here to log into your account.

Step 3. Add the product

• Click on My Store link at the top of the toolbar
• Click the Add button at the top of the form
• You will see the following fields:
• Category - select a predefined category from the list to help customers find your products
• Sub-Category - you can create your own sub-categories to further define your product. To create a new sub-category click the Add button
• Item Number - a unique number to define your product
• Item Name - the actual name of the product
• Head Line - a caption or header to your product
• Product Image - click the upload image link to upload your products image
• Product Description - Enter a description about your product, be as descriptive as possible to help users find your product
• Unit Cost - the price of your item
• Unit Shipping Cost - you have two options for shipping cost, you can define a shipping cost per item or use the shipping cost table. If you enter say $5.00, then if a customer purchases the item they will pay an extra $5 for shipping.
• When you  are all finished click the Add button and you have successfully added a product

If you run into any problems or have a question about adding a product, contact us.

How Search Engines Work

Every page on the Internet is viewed by users in a nice graphical display with colors, images and text. While surfing the web we can easily read a page and figure out what it is about. Whether the page is about sports, news or art, we would have a good idea by reading a little text and looking at the images.

But considering there are over a billion pages on the internet it would take a long time for humans to read and classify each and every single page of every web site. A solution was created using automated web crawlers that go to websites to grab the code and content in order to try to make tails of what your page is all about.

Then comes in the Title, Keywords and Description

These three values really help the search engines to define what your page is about. By defining these values it will be able to gain a better understanding of the content.

Title - a visible title to the page, for example this page "No.1 Artist Online Community - Providing Exposure for Artists Like You" you can see it no the top of your browser.

Description - a couple of sentences to really explain your portfolio.  For example, No. 1 Artist uses the description:

No.1 Artist is an online community that allows artists like you to create online portfolios and sell your artwork, while interacting with other artists.  Through No.1 Artist you can upload photos, add descriptions about you and your talents, promote yourself, increase your exposure, meet other artists, make a name for yourself and sell your artwork directly online through your personal No.1 Artist portfolio.

Keywords - about 20 words or phrases separated by a comma, that really define you portfolio. The keywords are things that relate or you feel would be searched to find your portfolio. Here are the No. 1 Artist keywords:

artist,no.1 artist,new york,las angeles,chicago,denver,atlanta,portland,community,portfolio,online,exposure,free website,potential,painter,painting,drawer,drawing,sculpting,sculptor,fine art,modern,print,portrait,oil,canvas,graphic design

How to Update on your portfolio

1. Log Into your account
2. Hover your mouse over Manage Portfolio -> Select the Title, Keyword & Description page
3. Update the three fields.  Do not worry if you have not entered something for one of the items, we use default values for you.
4. When you are finished click the Save button and now sit back and relax. The search engines will be back soon to crawl your portfolio and hopefully help you get found quicker!

You have to see this to believe it!  To some this would be considered a garbage dump to others a masterpiece. Click here to view video of his house.

What do you think? Should he have been fined? Or was he just crazy?

A good way to develop pricing for your artwork is the same way that any business owner would determine the price of their product. The following questions will help you really think about how much time, effort and materials were used to create your artwork:

• How much were materials? - paint, canvas, beads, clay , etc.
• How many hours did I spend?
• What is a fair hourly rate: $20, $50, $100?

Then simply plug in the answer here:

            Hours Spent x Hourly Rate + Materials = Cost

For example if you painted a picture on a canvas that took 4 hours to paint and cost $25 in materials, with an average rate of $20 then you should charge:           

            4 x $20 + $25 = $105

Just remember as your work starts to sell and others begin to gain an interest in your work then you will be able to increase prices!  But until then, keep them at a price that sells.

Gook Luck.

Here is how it works:

• Log into your account
• Click on "My Articles" toolbar item
• Your first article should be, "About You"
• Title it "[Username] first blog", you would enter your name in place of Username
• Then write a couple paragraphs about why you're an artist? How long you have been doing it for? What are your dreams and goals?
• Click Add, then click the Publish button after you've had time to review your article

And like Magic, you created your first blog article.  It will then be displayed on http://blog.number1artist.com

So what are the benefits of blogging on No. 1 Artist?

• Each article you post links to your portfolio
• Each article will be crawled and indexed in search engines
• The more articles you write, the better your chances of someone finding you
• The ability to promote your products, shows, artwork and what ever else makes you live for art

And above and beyond everything else, have fun with it. Blogging is a way to get your ideas out there and if you have a question: blog it up, I bet someone had the same question at one time or another.

At present I'm a Mold Inspector/Remediator by trade and my ultimate goal is to be able to create full time; you'll most likely find this is consistent with all of us who have not acheived this as of yet. Once I am able to do so, through the sales and exhibition of my art, or music for that matter, I will have acheived independent wealth...and that my friends should be everyone's goal.

As a member of No.1 Artist, you will be able to write your own articles, add them to specific categories and publish them on the community blog for everyone else to read.   By doing this, you will build credibility, increase your exposure and begin to brand your name in the Art community.  Every time you publish an article it will become indexed in the major search engines.  If someone comes across your article, they will be able to read it and link back directly to your No.1 Artist portfolio.

If you are a member of No.1 Artist, you can login to your account and begin writing articles today.  If you are not a member and wish to become one, click here and register with us today for free.

We wish you all much success.