I May Continue to Add To This Blog

I may continue to add to this blog in the future because I've enjoyed the research, learning from what I found, sharing the knowledge, and getting to know my classmates.  I hope we will meet again here or perhaps at some other digital or physical place.  I'll try to visit some of your sites again and perhaps we'll chat, who knows we may be another class together.  I have to say " I wouldn't have missed this class for all the tea in or coffee or other soft drinks in the world :-)
Viv

Time For A Snack

• Because we've been working so dilligently, I thought I provide a snack.Please come on in, enjoy.

No! the computer is for eating :-)  And so is the rest of the art below.

 Lets eat and then we play a game.

                             Bento Art   
This certainly is delicious art with a lot of detail and much color.  I'm not sure I could eat it except for the fact that it will eventually spoil and I'd probably get very hungry if I skipped several meals.  Try these places to get a better taste of this kind of art.
http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2009/05/08/17-amazing-bento-food-art-creations/ 

http://gizmodo.com/5105938/obsessively-detailed-wall+e-bento-art-is-way-too-perfect-to-eat

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2010/10/bento_boxes_star_wars_geeky.php

http://www.squidoo.com/mrbento

 

                                            

                                                

Art Lives & Breaths

I guess I am adding to this blog :-)  I just found breathing art which is something I didn't think about until now.  I remember as a child seeing this kind of stuff only not as well done in details, colors, techniques, or advanced methods.  This kind of art as I recall was in those days perhaps in it's infancy, or was it?  I think this kind of art has been around for a very long time in different forms and places.  Remember the clown faces people painted so they could clown around.  Well, I think this art form has come a long way; take a look.

                          http://www.makeupmag.com

                                        (Joe Brooks)
                                   http://www.livingstatuesamerica.com/
                                       

There are more views of this kind of art so when you can why not visit:
http://www.makeupmag.com/news/newsID/322/
http://www.academyofcosmeticarts.com/
http://www.amazingfacepainters.com/International_body_Painters.htm
http://www.livingstatuesamerica.com/

Plotter Drawings

I found Plotter Drawings and one of  the devices which produces these drawingswhich you can see in action at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_pwzqPk6Gg 

Here is where you can find some of the drawings:
http://dam.org/exhibitions/plotter-drawings-from-1960s 

I find the drawings fascinating and remember when I visited I think it was Goddard when i was a child.  I received a huge piece of paper with thousands and thousands of little dots all over it which were arranged to form a man  with a beard a pot belly and a suit with a very wide belt.  I hadn't given this picture a thought until I bumped into the plotter drawings information.  The video was fantastic.  It brought back memories of the sound and of the machine and the wonder of how did they do that. In the video I was able to see well the pen changes and the arm moving about the page making the picture.  This is history and art at a technological beginning which has grown towards the modern digital art of today.  Plotter art drawings I believe were the first and very beginning of digital art.  I wonder if we would have digital art if the plotter art hadn't started this adventure?
                       

Charles Csuri
SineCurve Man
Plotter Drawing 1967
http://dam.org/exhibitions/plotter-drawings-from-1960s
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This page has an example of type of the plotter drawing I received.  Thes early drawings were created using the letter "x" which it looks like wasn't used in this example.
https://csuriproject.osu.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=collections.seeItemInCollection&CollectionID=db636140-530c-4267-bdf7-cecfa401c65f&ItemID=19a891de-c408-45dd-857e-ca98ecb1f93a
 

Heavy Metal, Art: Bruce Gray

I found sculpture which is from the "one mans trash is another mans fortune" something like that, old time saying, as well as other metal works  Some of these sculptures are quite large and from they way they look actually either make a sound or move, or both.

                                 California Dreaming
                      http://www.brucegray.com/index.html

I'm going to the dogs again.  This dog needs a home :-)

                                       Tank Dog
                     http://www.brucegray.com/index.html

There are many art forms on this site as well as information about Bruce Gray the artist who created this very interesting unusual, and diverse art.  I hope you are able to visit the site and take a look around.  I think it is well worth your time and effort. 

Liquidsculpture

You have got to see this!  Liquidsculpture is amazing.  I didn't even know this existed until finding this web site http://www.liquidsculpture.com 
Which has very detailed unique sculptures.  The photography is an up close very precise detaild view of the artists work.  This is nature and nurture working together create a soothing calm ing art for the soul.  

Martin Waugh creates his sculptures and catches their beauty with the help of nature and high speed photography. The are details about how he creates his sculptures and how he photographs his creations on his web sites.  It is well worth visiting these sites.

1. http://www.liquidsculpture.com/the_process.htm
2. www.martin-waugh.com
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoQ0DQpwwHU
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyaVgJ2W62s
5. www.makezine.com/flashkit/.

 

Different Art Forms

My search brought me to this site where I found a very interesting sculpture.  There are also other art forms represented on this site.
The sculpture is what I find so interesting.  It reminds me of a wooden sculpture from Africa my parents had many years ago.  The difference is this one has so much more detail.


this tall slim sculpture looks to me like it is either on a very slim pedestal or part of a walking stick.  It's hard for me to tell for certain if the wood is of a particular type and whether it has any delicate carvings.  I can tell it is definitely a person, has areas cut away similar to the rounded areas you would see on chair legs and
is a nice relaxing  medium brown in color.  It is definitely is different from a lot of the art I've seen recently.  Actually it could if someone made a few changes perhaps be a modern art work  If it were square and bit wider I think it might be mistaken for modern art.  I like it the way it is and wouldn't change anything.  This modern art thing is my imagination exercising.

          http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu
         /artartists /sculpafrica.html
         http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu
        /artartists/sculpafrica.html

Artfully Digital

If you are into drawing, painting, doodling, or digital art with added doodling this is the place to look around.  I'm not able to read all of the sites information, however it appears that with this pen you can do many digital artistic art activities as if you were using pen and paper.  Then you can do this along with using art program software.  I may sometime in the future or perhaps very soon give this a try.  This may wind up on my Christmas list :-)
http://www.wacom.com/bamboo/yourstruly/index.php?chapter=photos

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This website probably should have a place by its self, however it fits under the title so here it is for you to explore.  There is a lot of written explanation of history of art, how art has changed at least the techniques, how he has worked with many different techniques, and many pictures of the different art techniques.  

                                Digital Techniques
               http://www.howarddavidjohnson.com 


                                   /digital.htm
Howard David Johnson has many illustrations on another site also. http://www.howarddavidjohnson.com/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I found the even printmaking techniques have gone digital.  Just to give you an idea of what is available on this site here is a list of the topics:

1. inkjet
2. electrophotography (dry toner and liquid toner)
3. electrophotography (dry toner and liquid toner)
4. laser imaging (digital photo printing) on photographic paper

There are also topics about traditional printmaking techniques.
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 I didn't even know this award existed; did you?
http://www.siggraph.org/newsfeed2009/acm-siggraph-announces-winner-of-2010-digital-art-award

New Art Search

I found these illustrations when I searched using new and art just to see what would appear.  This site has many painting and photos which are too numerous to display here, so I placed the link so you could explore the site when you had the time.  The landscape reminds me of simplicity, calm and restful relaxation looking out the window.  The painting looks like a head hovering over a chair to me. or perhaps head sitting on a chair.  

http://www.newchineseart.com/

 Photo

                                          painting

I found many other sites with interesting information and art which you may want to see.  Some modern art is abstraction, which reminds me of the constructivism project which had abstract works.  Some how I'm drawn to abstracts.


*http://www.corenewartspace.com/   
   http://www.corenewartspace.com/
*http://www.newartcenter.org/
   http://www.newartcenter.org/
*http://www.lostateminor.com/category/art/
   http://www.lostateminor.com/category/art/ 

*http://www.newarttv.com/
   http://www.newarttv.com/
*http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/11/28/1944517/design-         
   district-debuts-new-art.html
  http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/11/28/1944517/design-
  district-debuts-new-art.html
*http://www.newmuseum.org/
   http://www.newmuseum.org/