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Barnsite Art Studio has a wondeful collection of premium, rare and hard to find books. Some are available only through them. More info at barnsiteartstudio.com
FIRST-RATE ART IN "SECOND LIFE" Richard Minsky, an artist and founder of the Center for Book Arts in New York City, is launching the first magazine dedicated exclusively to the art scene in the burgeoning online universe of Second Life.
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Where Art Imitates (Second) Life What's new here is this art exists in a space that's accessible and interactively enabled worldwide. Second Life is a "sim," otherwise known as a simulated environment, in which anything can be built using objects called "prims," or primitives. The tools available in Second Life to design the prims allow for staggering effects: SL artworks are unfettered by real-life constraints on shape, size or materials.
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NEW - Highlands on FACEBOOK Highlands art wiil soon be using the capabilities of Facebook for everyone to manage their areas and communicate globally. Please register and then, join the FACEBOOK Highlands Artists Group.
Additionally, if you wish to start an "Art & Artists of XX" Group in your area, please do so. Globally we can make a difference!
Bobbie Maiser, Salmagundi Club
Bobbie was accepted in this year's American Watercolor Society show at the Salmagundi Club in NYC (hanging the month of April.) Also, a feature article about Bobbie be in the Spring issue of Watercolor Magazine coming out March 18, 2008. Dont; forget to congratulate her!
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Welcome, Dee Beard Dean Charlotte, North Carolina
Dee has studied with some notables such as Everett Raymond Kinstler, Daniel Greene, John Howard Sanden. Scott Christenson, Gregg Kreutz, Kevin MacPherson, Camille Przwodek, Millard Wells, Albert Handell, and others. We are pleased to have her as part of our growing network.
She has been featured in many publications and is involved in many organizations throughout the U.S. Perhaps soon she will also involved with our freinds across the pond as well!
Read more about Dee and her list of accomplishments
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Welcome, Judy Crowe Houston Texas
I have been painting for about 15 years and paint a lot of local rural landscapes as well as some still life inside and plein air. My studio is located in Old Town Spring, a quaint shopping village located between downtown Houston and The Woodlands area just off Interstate 45. I have found that while I love to travel to other locales, the rural barns and Old Century Homes in this area still grab my attention.
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Welcome, Susan Truitt Florida
Susan has studied with members of the prestigious Plein-Air Painters of America, Kevin MacPherson, Kenn Backhaus, Ron Rencher and Gay Faulkenberry. Additionally, she has studied on several occasions with Colorado painter, Kim English and New York painter, Gregg Kreutz. She has also on several occasions had the privilege of studying with the late William Schultz, co-founder of the American Impressionist Society.
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Welcome, Edo Hannema Amsterdam
I would like to introduce Edo from the Netherlands. Since Amsterdam and New Amsterdam (New York City) are such close cousins we welcome Edo very, very much!
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John Morris, New Book
Recent Paintings 2004-2006 by John Morris
John Morris says that, as a painter, his aim is 'not to record things' in a deliberate, premeditated manner but rather to evoke 'just the moment'. His paintings evoke enchantingly fresh moments of figures sauntering at ease on the beach, in the glittering shallows and alongside harbour walls, in sharply variegated atmospheres, as well as empty, blissfully unpeopled coastal and rural scenes.
Available in hardback for 25 euros. To purchase a copy, or more information, please click here
Charles Bargue: with the collaboration of Jean-Léon Gérôme: Drawing Course Price: US $99.00
This book is a complete reprint of the fabled but rare Drawing Course (Cours de Dessin) of Charles Bargue and Jean-Léon Gérôme, published in Paris in the 1860's and 1870's. For most of the next half-century, this set of nearly 200 masterful lithographs was copied by art students worldwide before they attempted to draw from a live model. This book will be valuable to a wide range of artists, students, art historians and collectors, even as it introduces them to the hitherto-neglected master, Charles Bargue.
The Drawing Course is separated into three sections, in ascending order of difficulty. The first section consists of lithographs by Bargue after casts of sculptures, mostly antique examples that present the structure of the human body with remarkable clarity and intelligence. The second part contains the lithographs that Bargue made after master drawings by Renaissance and modern artists, and the third section almost 60 exemplary drawings of nude male models. The volume concludes with a biography of Charles Bargue and a preliminary catalogue of his paintings, accompanied by reproductions of works both located and lost.
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Some Tempura With Your Tempera? by Nathalie Hall
What can be said of art and food? That is, aside from the fact that there are many restaurants in New York City that try to combine the two in the most delicious ways possible for the most amount of money possible.
Open the latest Zagat or Michelin Guide and you will find hundreds of worthwhile restaurants to please even the most seasoned palates (and that's palates, not palettes, my fellow painters!). If you manage to get a reservation at a top dining destination such as Jean Georges, Le Cirque, or Maze you will come expecting not only food that is paired so well - lest it even be something as unexpected as Artic Char with jalapenos or Goat Cheese as sorbet - that the taste is A+ but food that looks creative from a presentation standpoint.
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Google Gadget Puts your Art on Over 35,742 users desktops!
The latest count is over 6,000 users! We must say that is pretty impressive. Google users don't have to visit a web site to be able to see your art, the content is "fed" and "rotated" automatically to Google users who have already selected the "art & artists Gadget.
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These paintings are the highlight of my Google home page. Lovely & different. Keep it up!
Jeanne Bedell
Atlanta, GA
This program is part of our Outreach and Artist Learning initiative for Immigrant Artists and puts two artists together so that one (the Mentor, like a teacher) can help the other (the ‘Mentee,’ or the one learning). Thanks to the generous support of Independence Community Foundation and Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, we are able to offer this wonderful opportunity for a second year. Immigrant artists receive one-to-one assistance from fellow artists who are experts in building and maintaining careers as professional artists.
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Artist Access Program: Bellevue Hospital, NYC
This program allows artists from all disciplines to barter services in exchange for health care. Within the HHC Options system, artists can teach lessons, provide therapeutic services for patients, perform their art, or get creative with the ways in which they provide arts services to the hospital.
For each hour of performance or artistic activity, 40 credits worth of health care services will be added to a personalized health care account. The credits may be drawn down for an equivalent value of health care services in dollars. Health care services provided at a sliding scale based on income.
No monthly fees. Eligibility last 12 months and is renewable. Covers doctors visits, hospitalization, emergency care, medical and surgical procedures, prescription drugs, MRI, ambulatory surgery, dental care, and mental health care. Available at:
Woodhull Medical Center / Bellevue Hospital Center
760 Broadway / 462 First Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11206 / New York, New York 10016
For details about the Artist Access Arts Exchange program, click here. http://www.ahirc.org/cat_list.cfm?cat=308&st=NY
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Upcoming Events
Registration for this workshop closes February 29, 2008.
Plein Air Oil with Instructor, Gregg Kreutz Location: Tuscany, Italy
Workshop Dates: 6/14/2008 - 6/21/2008
Taking It to the Streets: Advertising Yourself as an Artist by Nathalie Hall, Editor
Strolling down the mundane lengths of 2nd Avenue near 86th Street last year I was both shocked and delighted to see a piece of artistic heaven peek out from under my feet. There on the sidewalks of the Upper East Side were small “teases,” or samples, of the art of James De La Vega.
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These Boots are Made for Walking Over 15,000 miles of painting for artist, Jim Mott
It seems we can sometimes understand ourselves or find inner experience articulated through the language of the landscape - and in that connection recognize something within both landscape and self that is deeper and bigger than either.. –Jim Mott.
Ever wish you could just take off? With brushes and backpack and really see the country? Well, for those of you who don't know Jim Mott, he's a guy who did just that.
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Artistic Beauty from Horticultural Chaos
by John Stoa
Scottish artist John Stoa who also happened to be a very keen gardener, discovered that his new allotment garden would not only provide exercise, fresh air and a supply of vegetables fruit and flowers but also a major source of inspiration for a new series of paintings.
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