A New Breed of Artists
As we move into a technology savvy world day by day the way many of us create and share art changes as well. Looking back ten years ago in order to share your artwork out side of your social circle you jump through hoop after hoop. You would need to go through curators, art directors, and other advancing artists. Many Times these limitations left many artists undiscovered standing out in the rain with no one to open a door. However with the revolution of technology these barriers are no long an issues to some extent. Thanks to the Internet it has open on a worldwide gallery that can be seen by billion. Blogging has been at the forefront of helping artist put out there work; you have the op...Read more
Sunday at Illiterate: Dr Sketchy's!
Welcome to life drawing with personality. Dr. Sketchy's monthly sessions at Illiterate are part of a world renowned series where the line between model and performer gets playfully erased and redrawn. Every third Sunday of the month join in the fun as a new burlesque diva poses, giving character to form. For November's session the wonderfully weird Whoopsie Daisy almost bares it all. Even if you can't draw, we'll give you coloring book pages and crayons so you can participate and feel arty too! All dry mediums are okay, as are dip pens and neat watercolor sets. No oil paints, messy or stinky mediums. Photographers are welcome as long as they d...Read more
Christina Mazza
Sometimes the best way to appreciate something is to stare at it and draw all its subtleties in tone and form. Christina Mazza pays tribute to small discarded items in this way and does it with some damn fine skill and precision! In her "Forsaken Articles" series Mazza uses an ordinary ballpoint pen to depict small objects left by humans and cycles in nature, or some combination of the two, in that way she says "redeems" them and makes them special in there new isolation. Looking at Christina's work makes me want to walk along a beach or an alley and somehow she makes these two places not seem so different. ...Read more
Kate Moross
Kate Moross happens to already think in terms of Love/Hate. She is a young and talented designer/illustrator/artist based in London. I found out about her a while ago through the Colorado local and awesome, joyengine.com. I recently went back to her site and discovered some clever sketches oh so relevant to our current theme. You can see them here: www.katemoross.com/play/detail/love-hate-drawings/ "A small book of things I love and things I hate. Weird and obscure choices perhaps but good all the same. For each object i wrote ten things about it. Specifically points that made me love it or hate it. The objects arent labelled so you have to guess what my feelings are about each one."...Read more