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.

***
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

***

"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

***

Complexity is easy, simplicity requires mastery.
Peter Cajander

***

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/

Do yourself a favor and buy some art today.

 Support living artists.

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. 

_____________________________

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. I could say that it all started when I drew on the walls, but what really sparked my interest was the anime art form when I was in kindergarden. I practiced it alot back then, aspiring to become a manga-ka when I grew older. However, I drifted off a bit to my musical side when I started piano and my parents saw potential in that. Somewhere in those few years, I got bored for some reason and somehow art just took me back. I eventually quit when she moved away and concentrated on my art more. I was older and I understood the importance of anatomy, perspective, value, and other basic art skills to be incorporated into manga art despite its minimal look sometimes. When I was 11, I moved on to digital art and my first experience with Photoshop. However, a great sketch artist motivated me to draw pencil portraits and sparked my interest with realism. I like practicing both and combining the two sometimes. They make a awesome partnership though and I encourage many other anime artists to "think outside the outlines" as well.

As for my art, I have no specific media or artstyle I constantly stick with. 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. However, I enjoy doing digital portraits, inking by hand, and even layout making. 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.