http://lightmylife.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 15 May 2008 00:12:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en McLennan is part of a vanguard of young painters who have twisted the conventional, naturalist approach to depicting animals and environmental themes in mischievous ways to the serious end of drawing attention to environmental issues. In the tradition of great naturalist painters such as John James Audubon, McLennan has become ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/ryan-mclennan/ I have been painting in America since 1984, but Chinese history has always been the essence of my work. I grew up singing The Internationale. In my middle school English class, our teacher gave us the English version of the lyrics. We once truly believed in Communism, in a socialist ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/05/09/hung-liu-prisoners-prostitutes-paintings/ Matthew Woodson was born and raised in rural southern Indiana. He graduated from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in early 2006. He still lives in Chicago in an apartment full of hardwood floors and taxidermy, with an unapologetically vocal cat and a dog that is skinnier than ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/05/06/matthew-woodson/ Jeanie Tomanek grew up in the Genesee Valley of New York and now lives in Marietta, Georgia, and is represented by Trinity Gallery in Atlanta. Her paintings have appeared in many juried exhibitions throughout the Southeast, and can be found in numerous public and private collections in the United States ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/04/25/jeanie-tomanek/ Hendrik Kerstens is one of those artists who have managed to develop a career seemingly concentrating on one subject throughout the years. In his case, the model has been his daughter Paula. How different is she as a subject because of being his daughter? Not very. Which is as powerful ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/04/18/hendrik-kerstens/ Antony Micallef (born 1975 in Swindon), English contemporary artist and painter. Graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Plymouth, some of Micallef’s work illustrates many contemporary cultural aspects and connects them with the human experience. His use of neutral colors and depictions of the human form in a Bacon ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/04/14/antony-micallef/ Rohan Beal, like so many artists, likes to let his work speak for itself. His website is void of artwork titles, descriptions and an artist biography. He could be anybody. He might not even be called Rohan Beal. Even if that’s the case, his photos are pretty cool. While some ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/04/10/rohan-beal-conceptual-series/ Jonathan Viner* was born in 1976 in New York, and was raised up and down the east coast of the United States. After receiving a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998, he moved to New York City where he continues to live today. Viner’s work draws ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/04/06/jonathan-viner/ 666photography is an Austin, Texas based company that specializes in retro/vintage photography that utilizes hand-made props and costumes. For many years, we have been creating old-school theater style sets for our long list of happy customers. There is no concept that you can throw at 666 that we can’t create! ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/03/26/666photography/ I was born in the town of Yachroma nearby Moscow. This is a place on a hill, from which a perspective reminding Brueghel paintings opens.The crossed landscape with significant differences of heights, channel between the rivers Moscow and Volga, small rivers and springs, woods, fields and villages, the railway, an ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/03/18/andrey-remnev-dutch-collection/ Born in the North of England, Chris grew up in the seaside town of Scarborough. He attended the University of Northumbria in Newcastle where he gained a degree in Media Production, specialising in Animation and Character design. Chris now works as a full time illustrator, His work has been featured ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/03/12/chris-king/ Jennifer Coates’ vividly colored, metaphysical paintings utilize the conventions of landscape as an anchor for hallucinatory visions that reference the mind and the body simultaneously. Expanses of sky or sea coalesce into pools of thought-like reflection; clouds of geometry warp into an ecstatic vortex; horizons fissure and swell like skin; ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/03/04/jennifer-coates/ Benjamin Mayer-Foulkes article: Why would a blind man want to wear transparent eyeglasses? Why would he wish to walk the streets of Paris dressed in the same black hat, cape and red scarf worn by Aristide Bruant as depicted by Toulouse-Lautrec? Why would he want to risk speaking on a radio ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/02/19/evgen-bavcar-the-blind-photographer/ When I look at a great work of art I find the artist at play. I follow the painter’s hand through a carefully constructed framework in which accidental discoveries are made. Digressions of shape, color and texture react against one another, but without losing sight of that initial spark that ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/02/14/stephen-cefalo-contemporary-figurative-realist-paintings/ Jose Maria Rodriguez Madoz (born 1958) better known as Chema Madoz is a Spanish photographer, best known for his black and white surrealist photographs. Chema Madoz studied Art History at Universidad Complutense de Madrid between 1980 and 1983. It is here that he was first exposed to the study of ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/02/06/chema-madoz/ Peter uses a comprehensive collection of found papers as his palette which are coloured, patterned or textured by their printed, written or worn surfaces, with this media he ‘paints’ his collages. He shades with density of print and creates substance and movement with lines plucked from old maps or manuscripts. ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/01/31/peter-clarks-collage-beasts/ Part of an on-going photographic project commissioned by book publishers, PQ Publishing, Equus, features rare and beautiful horses from the four-corners of the globe. From some of the most highly prized Arabians from the Royal Yards of the UAE to the classical beauty of the Lusitano and from pure-bred Icelandic ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/01/23/tim-flach-equus-project/ I never thought I’d be so crazy about a collection of chicken drawings, but then I saw these painted poultry portraits by St. Louis artist Mary Sprague. Her website features a small gallery representing several decades of work, but it’s the chickens that really grabbed me. [site] ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/01/16/mary-spragues-six-foot-chickens-project/ Art, graphic art, design, digital technology, writing, paying dues, sitting and looking into friendly faces and drawing a blank, color, oh yeah, interesting color, color field where I began as a Pollack fan but not of the art so much as of the man and his choices – well right ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/01/12/t-j-silverlake/ George Xiong was born in 1948, China. 1970 he graduated from The Central Academy of Design With B.A. degree. 1989, he graduated from The City University of New York, with M.A. degree. Now he lives and works in New York. [site] Noon Time II, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/01/06/george-xiong/ My name is Teodoru Badiu. I am a well organized, competent, good natured and insanely dedicated Artist and Creative Media Designer based in Vienna, Austria. I am always willing to take on freelance work or to join a team. If you need Book Cover Illustration, Photoshop tutorials, CD Cover Illustration ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2008/01/01/teodoru-badiu-digital-art/ Ali Cavanaugh was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 5, 1973. Learning to sew at the age of 7 opened up a world of creativity for her. By the age of 14 she was painting commissioned portraits. In 1993, she attended Parsons School of Design in New York City ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2007/12/27/ali-cavanaugh-oils/ David Maisel was born in New York City in 1961. He received his BA from Princeton University, and his MFA from California College of the Arts, in addition to study at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He has been the recipient of an Individual Artist’s Grant from the National Endowment ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2007/12/19/david-maisels-terminal-mirage/ Mario Pardal Monteiro Belem, born August 14th, 1977, resident in Lisbon, Portugal. Graphic Design course at Ar.Co- Centro de Arte e Comunicação- Oct 1997 to Jun 2001. Model drawing at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, in 1997. Attended the 1st and 2nd years of the Curso de Arquitectura do ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2007/12/11/mario-belem-illustrator/ Artist David Choong Lee was born in 1966 in Seoul, Korea. He moved to the USA in 1993 in pursuit of gaining the skills to be a traditional fine artist. He found that he was very interested in the art of young people after his graduation from the Academy of ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2007/12/04/david-choong-lee/ The images in this series are an attempt to capture human stories in everyday life, those that exist in the space between the odd and the ordinary. My images are almost always of people and they usually take the form of portraits. Most of the people I photograph have something ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2007/11/29/michal-chelbin-strangely-familiar/ Surrealist artist Alex Gross features striking, dreamlike imagery that transcends category. Gross paints a haunting melange of fairytale, allegory, history, and pop culture, fusing eastern and western aesthetics in an ethereal world populated by kimono-clad Japanese women and lost Victorian dandies. In more than eighty exquisite color images, comprising all ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2007/11/24/the-art-of-alex-gross/ At this time I am unable to sell my work through the website. The pieces displayed in the "gallery" have already been purchased. If you are interested in purchasing my work, the best way to do so is to track my fanny down at one of the shows listed on ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2007/11/19/cathy-rose/ Ted Julian Arnold (born Princeton, NJ, 1956) received his BA in Visual Studies from Dartmouth College, Hanover NH. He has been exhibiting with the Catharine Clark Gallery since 1991. A Thin Line: New Paintings by Ted Julian Arnold are not works of traditional easel-sized dimensions nor painted on a conventional ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2007/11/12/a-thin-line-new-paintings-by-ted-julian-arnold/ What is a cloud  A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. The branch of meteorology in which clouds are studied is nephology… Clouds can be funny The color of a cloud tells ... http://lightmylife.blogsome.com/2007/11/06/fun-with-clouds/