Our street was repaved last weekend and all this transpired out my living room window.
DAY ONE
The road grinder
Bulldozer scooping up debris
Street sweeper
Smaller road grinder
In action
Road painting (why?)
DAY TWO
Curb painting
Solving a problem under the shady tree
Laying the asphalt
Steam Roller
Laying more asphalt
This post inspired by The Daily Post’s weekly Photo Challenge.
This week’s theme is Fun!
Every morning, I peer out the kitchen window to see what the sky is like.
Possible options include:
brutally clear
random clouds
marine layer (dense low morning clouds)
moon sightings
and my favorite — lurid sunrises
This post inspired by The Daily Post’s weekly Photo Challenge.
This week’s theme is Morning
This post inspired by The Daily Post’s weekly Photo Challenge.
This week’s theme is Narrow
First and foremost, please collect things that you love. Art that speaks to your heart. Hoarding art as investment pieces — what fun is that? Bragging rights? Pshaw.
OK, OK. I’m making some assumptions here.
You are new to collecting.
You don’t have oodles of cash, but you want to go “the next step” beyond that band (or Audrey quote) poster.
You want your walls to express YOU, and not look like all the insta-famous homes that you’ve seen.
How do you find art that’s unique?
You’re reading this on some sort of digital device, so let’s start online!
There are many sites where artists upload work for display and sale. Saatchi Art, ArtSlant, Etsy (to name a few), and my favorite, Society6 (where I have three separate shops: Anne M Bray, SpyGirl, Pattern Recognition). It can be daunting trying to find art amidst the thousands of artists showcasing their work, here is a great article from Society6 on ways to search for art on their site. Society6 operates as a service bureau for artists, printing their images on all sorts of substrates, (including paper and canvas) then shipping the work directly to you, the buyer.
Most galleries have an online presence, some, like Gallery 1988, make it easy to shop from your computer. Others, like TAG (my gallery) showcase selections of their artists’ work, you will then need to contact the gallery by phone or email to make your purchase.
In your quest, you may find an artist you’d like to follow — check to see if they have a website, blog, Facebook page, and/or Instagram (they should!). Personally, I love having fans — find my social links at the top of the right sidebar. Additionally, less established artists are not adverse to direct sales — as long as you’re a serious buyer. Contact her/him and ask!
In Part 2, I’ll offer some suggested “bricks-and-mortar” places to find art to build your collection. Much art must be seen in person for full impact.
[This article was inspired by pitches from Artsy and Invaluable. Invaluable has a new blog, “In Good Taste”, and recently featured an article, How to Start a Fine Art Collection, explaining some vital tips for budding collectors.]
Smoke from the Santa Clarita fire (39 miles north) cast a eerie pall over the entire day yesterday.
After class at Otis, I went up to the roof of the parking garage for a good gawk.
The sun was a cherry red ball, an ominous apparition.
This post inspired by The Daily Post’s weekly Photo Challenge.
This week’s theme is Cherry on Top
From orange to pink, a subtle shift, a big difference:
It’s all in the details.
This post inspired by The Daily Post’s weekly Photo Challenge.
This week’s theme is Details.
This is not new. If you look closely, you’ll see some dirty fingerprints and a crease from a bulldog clip.
This photo has been clipped to an unfinished pastel that I stuck behind my “studio” [ie bedroom] door for six years. SIX YEARS!
In June 2010, I had worked on this during a week-long residency at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. I was recovering from a mastectomy and frantically making some art before starting chemo. [I’m fully recovered, btw. I won, cancer lost.] Why unfinished? If I remember correctly, I didn’t have the proper red pastel on hand. The clouds were looking too orange and it was too similar to Big Orange Cloud from the same series.
Looks like I’ve got some reds in the pastel box now:
No more excuses.
This post inspired by The Daily Post’s weekly Photo Challenge.
This week’s theme is Look Up.
Also linking this with Shelbee’s On the Edge of the Week linkup.
