Portrait-it?

Neatorama article on an artist who created a portrait of Ray Charles with over 2,000 Post-It notes! CLICK HERE

Jelly Bean art!

This art is really made with jelly beans! Here's a link to a small gallery: JELLY BEAN ART

Art supplies

We like to highlight the really good art supply sales. There are good prices going on at Cheap Joes! Check 'em out. CLICK

Picasso anyone?

HERE in Google images is a nice collection of Picasso and Picasso-related photos. Have fun!

If you're a dachshund person!

Here is some of the coolest stuff you can find! An artist friend of ours created these products.
CLICK HERE

Want to paint?

Without the mess! Go here and select brushes, colors and more!

CLICK!

Also. Here's one we made:

CLICK!

Learn!

At this website you can hear pronunciations of art terms and study artists!

CLICK

Easel Weenie likes this!

An old movie (1965) from Disney. The Ugly Dachshund.

You can buy it at Amazon.com.

here is a trailer:

Edward Hopper's Women

At The Seattle Art Museum!

November 13, 2008 to March 1, 2009.

3rd floor galleries.

CLICK HERE

Artists biographies

If you're interested in artist biographies on DVD (Cassatt, Degas, Rembrandt, etc) you can go to Amazon and find a box set! CLICK HERE

Edward Hopper

This Edward Hopper painting was completed in 1945 and is at the Yale University Gallery. CLICK FOR WALLPAPER SIZE!

This kind of freaks Easel Weenie out!

But it's cool. Here also is a link to how the AKC (American Kennel Club) breaks down what they consider the standard gait of dachshunds, ideal features, etc.

FLASH ANIMATION FILE

That's paper art?

Some of these paper cutout pieces are amazing! Look HERE

Flooded!

Read who's house was flooded! CLICK HERE

I don't remember it like this

Is that an iPhone? Maybe they were more advanced in 1504 than we thought?

Neat find

New York Art World Magazine is packed full of interesting art stuff! Local gallery announcements, photography, drawings and paintings. Check it out here and let me know what you think! Shown here is Cow and Violin, 1913.
Oil on wood,
19 _" x 10 3/16".
St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum.

Art Institute of Chicago

A Bresson exhibit!!! CLICK!

Ooops!

Hello this is snoop. I didn't know my clubpenguin chatbox would go here to!

and AFM is going to make a gmail account to! HOPEFULLY!

look

Look at this:

Opus on Salon!

Read OPUS at Salon.com

Art News Blog: Dirty car art?

This is cool! Why wash your car?
CLICK HERE!

Biggest photo!

Is it a photo or a negative?
CLICK HERE

British Art Fair starts next week!

If you're in the area (London) be there Wednesday!
BRITISH ART FAIR

Cheese Art!

I looked up Cheese Art and found this:

CHEESE ALLIGATOR!

Art attack!

Fun site! "How to" for creating all kinds of things from borders, ink washes, beady eyes and all kinds of other things. I'm posting the non-flash link. ART ATTACK

I'm a new member of the team!

You probably all know me, I'm Cp Snoopdog! From my website www.mrgilla.wordpress.com

And you probably know my blogger. Well, Seeya!

Artist to see!

I like this artist. Leigh Rosenberg Earnest

New Art TV

Web site that's "your channel to the art world." They feature studio visits, events, performances and lots of other stuff. NEW ART TV

French fry art?

OK. Kind of gross, but the end result is really unexpected! Wow!

Coffee art?

I always wondered how they did this!

Etch-A-Sketch

And it's art!

Museum goers flee giant TURD!

There's a headline for ya! At the Swiss Museum. Another story at The Guardian.

10 unfinished masterpieces

Great slideshow in the Guardian (U.K.). CLICK HERE

$30m stolen Cezanne trial begins

This painting, Bouilloire et Fruits (1888-90), 

by Paul Cezanne, was stolen in 1978. 

Read more about this story 

here in the Boston Globe.

Sotheby's art auctions

Did you know Sotheby's was founded in 1744? That's when the first auction was held by Samuel Baker.  And check THIS out!

Highest Grossing Artists

Sotheby's November Auction 2007

1 Andy Warhol $8,660,250


2 Wayne Thiebaud $5,252,600


3 Gerhard Richter $4,647,000


4 Tom Wesselmann $4,513,000


5 Takashi Murakami $4,125,000


6 Frank Stella $3,337,000


7 Alexander Calder $2,855,600


8 Robert Indiana $2,210,000


9 James Rosenquist $1,858,000


10 Willem De Kooning $1,772,000



Source: Sotheby's

Sometimes blogs are just good.

And this is one. Not just because I'm a huge fan of her father, but because this is treated as a true journal and it's crafted with care. I've read many of these posts several times already. SARA GENN ~ THE LITTLE, LINED NOTEBOOK

Information for artists

Art Infosite. Lots of hard-to-find information on framing, hanging, lighting art as well as packing shipping, photographing, quotes, etc. GO HERE and here is another blog site with great info: ARTIST, EMERGING.

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680)

A great article on Bernini, Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th Rome. This articles concentrates on the J. Paul Getty Museum exhibit, “Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture.” NYT ARTICLE HERE

You Tube art post #2

It's art. It's YouTube! A great combo. I love the daily drawing.

You Tube art post #1

Artist paints a Beatle portrait! 

Kokoschka

Austrian artist, poet and playwright. Read about him HERE.

Local art community

Artists websites, events, exhibit opportunities, classes, classifieds. A very rich site for artists. ART COMMUNITY

Best pavement art ever!

Go see Julian Beever's work HERE! Pavement art, old masters copies, anamorphic illusions. Unbelievable.

Another illusion!

I don't know if this one makes me dizzy or not. I'm going to post these illusion files every now and then. I don't really get tired of looking at them!

Mural art

Wow! Doesn't that scene look real? It's a mural! By John Pugh. Here is his website!

Pilobolus

It's not just a sun-loving fungus! It's dance theater!This is from a clip on Conan O'Brien. How do they do that? You can read more about them here: PILOBOLUS

Glass art

I had the chance to see these two brothers in action. Great stuff, the website is a little cumbersome to navigate through, but you can get a good feel for their work. de la Torre brothers

Crazy Amazing Art

It is crazy. Ljudbilden & Piloten, Swedish artists.

They capture their drawings and animate them with stop-motion video.

Click here: CRAZY AMAZING ART!

Old but cool

Here's one of those optical illusionist pieces of art. I'm sure you've seen this before but I just don't get tired of looking at it. (click thumbnail for larger version). You're supposed to focus on the center, then move your head back-and-forth (close to and away from the monitor). See what happens!

Doodles

Different. Fun to look at! 

The Dude In The Chair

LACE

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. October 15, LA25 - featuring 25 emerging Los Angeles artists. Read more about LA25 HERE and visit LACE website HERE.

At the Met part II

...and through Oct. 26 you can see some GREAT Jeff Koons installations! Featuring 3 of the artist's meticulously crafted works that have never before been on public display. There you have it. More HERE!

At the Met part I

J.M.W. Turner will be featured in an exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum through September 21. If you get the chance, don't miss it! Read more HERE.

Virtual tour!

Alexander Calder virtual tour at the National Gallery.

Puccini notes

Read about the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (La Bohéme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, etc...) at Painter's Keys!

John Lautner, architect

A Frank Lloyd Wright protégé, John Lautner designed some of the most outrageous (and coolest!) houses ever seen. One of which is the Chemosphere (modernist octagon design) which was seen in the movie Body Double as well as in the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Lautner died in 1994. The Hammer Museum in L.A. is currently featuring him in an EXHIBIT which ends October 12.

BioTech art

Makes for interesting reading. Maybe some cool images. But what else? I don't have a problem with the marriage of art and technology, or technology AS art. Some things for me, just fall into the category of "it is what it is." Maybe THAT's it? ARTS JOURNAL ARTICLE HERE

For Andy Warholics!

Get your Warhol on! Here you go:

• The Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Andy Warhol biography

• Warhol at the Met

• Great Warhol films article at NYT

Have you tried this?

Etsy. It's a place where artists and craftspeople can sell their wares. Also, seems to be a nice place to find an unusual and creative gift. I haven't tried it. I'm thinking about it, possibly to sell smaller paintings, or painted pieces. Let me know if you've had success with it. ETSY

Art Supplies!

Cool easel sale going on now. Never a bad place to visit, Utrecht has been one of my favorites for a while. In Seattle their address is: 1124 PIke Street or here at Google Maps 
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Utrecht

Call For Artists

Maybe this is for you? The ARTIST PROJECT, Chicago.

Women in art video

This has been around a while. But it's great to see.

I don't think so.

Is this art? You know, it's entertainment to me. Insofar as some people call that an art form, maybe so. Art? I don't know. 

Yes, he DOES deserve to make that kind of money...he has created the market for it. But art? Hell no. What do you think?

NEW YORK POST STORY: Damien Hirst

Color basics

Every artist needs to re-visit the basics. Here's a couple of cool color sites to see.

COLOR MATTERS

KULER (ADOBE)

Ugly is in

In the NYT arts section. Take a look! CLICK

Build your own easel?

I'm going to try this soon. When I do, I'll post my progress! Build your own easel!

'Cause it's important to Easel Weenie

Important for animals. A good blog too.

ASPCA

Museo

Contemporary art magazine. Museo. Cool.

Got supplies?

I've been ordering art supplies from Jerry's Artarama for years now. They have quite a selection and GREAT sales! Lots of coupons, and the savings almost always make up for cost of shipping.

Pencil talk

I spend a lot of time with pencils. I certainly have my favorites. Lately it's the Black Mirado Warrior, by Sanford. It's not one of the pricier pencils. Certainly easy enough to find. A premium round, 100% cedar pencil with a black matte finish. Feels good in your hand, sharpens well. Also, here's a cool blog on pencils: Pencil Talk. They thought it was OK too, not their favorite, but one of mine.

Quote

"That stroke you are about to make on a painting is as much you as the next word you utter or the next breath you take."  -Harley Brown

City Arts

This month's issue. Hey, that's me!

CITY ARTS

Looking for something different?

Pretty cool place to find unusual gifts. He's got voodoo dolls, original paintings (even sells my calendar!), awesome free wallpapers, t-shirts. Not the usual, boring shit. It's Love & Bones.