This portfolio presentation features lovely landscape designs by Jill Risberg. The gardens are so beautiful!
This video features the wonderful photography of Michael Crabtree. He is the owner-operator of The Crabtree Gallery in Eagle, Colorado located just west of Vail where over 100 of his fine art photography photos are displayed. Crabtree prints all of his work using Archival inks and papers and frames all of his photos in his frame shop adjacent to his gallery.
Additionally, he lives in a turn-of-the-century log cabin with his three children Jennifer (14), Sarah (11), and Mikey (9). This is the same property that his gallery and frame shop are located on. The buildings were a stage-coach stop on Old Highway 6, right on the Eagle River, just east of Eagle, CO.
Crabtree is a highly-diversified photographer known for his dynamic landscapes, abstract images and horse portraits. The horse portraits are among my favorites in this video.
He loves to shoot whatever is turning him at the moment with camera at-the-ready whenever he's out driving, turning the mundane trip into an adventure. Michael Crabtree does portrait and wedding photography, as well. Enjoy!
The following portfolio presentation features sublime black & white photographic images by Angela Baumgartner. It's amazing to me how 'quiet' these lovely, black and white images are! Enjoy!
Here's a video presentation featuring the '“Kirnu” Finland Pavillion' designed for the Shanghai World Expo 2010, by JKMM Architects. It's a beautiful building!
Here's a slide portfolio/presentation of gorgeous McKenzie paintings of Tuscany, Italy. Enjoy!
E-paper/Electronic Skin Designs for Devices
Philips Research has developed a novel, color e-paper technology that opens up new design opportunities allowing personalization of electronic devices. This means that the color and appearance, of the device's surface, for example an MP3 player or mobile phone, can be changed to match one's outfit, mood or environment at the touch of a button. This technology has the potential to be used, in the future, for larger area e-wallpapers where you can adjust the color of your wall or smart-windows, to regulate the amount of daylight coming through your window.
Photographic Beauty of Rural New Mexico
The rural glory of New Mexico is continually being captured through the lens of photographer Aggie Villanueva. She describes her own work as a depiction of truth, strength, purity and beauty that might otherwise be overlooked. Her stunning photography paints a, sometimes, gritty and sorrowful picture of all that is the rural back-bone of the American Southwest. However, she artistically brings to life her deep belief that there is beauty and truth in everything we are able to perceive, whether through naked eye or through the medium of photography. Aggie is a natural-born story-teller who has been dubbed by her peers as the 'Grandma Moses' of the American Southwest.
Creative Abstract Hand-painting
Piero Manrique is an accomplished, highly-awarded artist with architectural experience and a B.A in Architecture. Among his skill-set are: expertise in AutoCAD, 3D MAX, Photoshop, Microsoft Word, Illustrator, Outlook, Dreamweaver CS4, HTML, Excel and PowerPoint. He's an expert in drafting and hand-drawing, as well.
Manrique has been selected as one of the artist that will exhibit at the Westchester Biennial 2010 Reception coming up in April. Also, he will participate in the NEW YORK Artexpo 2010, March 25th - 28th. To learn more, visit: Piero Manrique. Watch as he creates abstract art with his fingers in rythym with the Santana music!
African Art Daily Paintings Muneza Pictures
Karen Muneza is an artist from Burundi, Africa. Her art is a reflection of her cultural heritages (African, Italian and Canadian). This video shows some of her art work completed during a period of thirteen years. As Karen has stated, "I did stop painting for 7 years to pursue other interests; however, the desire to paint was always present until it became unbearable for me not to pick up my brushes again. Thank you for viewing!" To learn more visit: Muneza Paintings
Native American/Indian artist, Jack Tobahe Gene talks about his work as a Navajo painter and features some of his paintings, in this video. His work includes acrylic and pastel easel paintings. To learn more about Jack Tobahe Gene and beautiful art visit: AskArt
Philips Research has been examining how to support artists in producing new expressions of art that combine traditional techniques with advanced technologies, to create something very different: Generative Art. Generative Art is a series of images that never stop evolving within the framework defined by the artist, yet never repeats.
Two artists that Philips works with, Italian artists Federico Bonelli and Maurizio Martinucci, set out to create a type of multimedia art that was more permanent - yet at the same time transient, than that which is developed for special occasions such as shows or exhibitions. Their unique form of Generative Art is known as Protoquadro. Photoquadro art can be commissioned.
Video: Gorgeous Architecture from Around the World
The following video features gorgeous buildings, amazing skylines, beautiful bridges, and other architectural feats. Just think: All of the beautiful architecture was once a vision in an architect's mind, then a drawing from his or her 'artist's hand' and eventually those drawings became the structures we see, utilize and enjoy! Wow!!
Here are the places and the order in which they appear in the video, below:
Video - Exquisite Nature Captured Artistically in Photography
Dennis Frates got into fine art photography over 20 years ago because of his love of nature and desire to express his interpretation of it. He has been photographing extensively since then. HIs images are not mere representations of nature, but rather interpretations of the emotions he felt when creating them. While Frates strives to present photographs that are true to what really exists in nature, he is always looking for ways to enhance the artistic quality of each and every image he creates. Many of his photographs are only complete after further interpreting the mood/composition using the computer. Frates has an extraordinary talent for capturing the beauty of Creation with his camera(s)!!
Global, Home-based Abstract Art Business
Today's feature: The artist Osnat Tzadok, a successful Canadian artist, has done quite well for herself selling her gorgeous abstract art globally, on eBay! Osnat & her husband, Israel, work together advancing her art, which is literally, their business. That is wonderful and beneficial for an artist and the family in so many ways.
Although this video's date is January 30, 2007, it is still an excellent testament to the global success that can be achieved with art via a home-based business!
Speed Painting - Avatar Neytiri - by Mike Groe
This is the fourth speed painting video done by Mike Groe, and he absolutely loved the movie Avatar! The speed painting was done in Adobe Photoshop CS3 using a Wacom Intuos3 pen pad and recorded with ZDsoft Screen Recorder.
Turn an Image into an Impressionist Work of Art
"Learn how to use Photoshop Elements 8 to turn an image into an impressionist work of art in part one of this tutorial showcasing the student project in the Impressionist Artwork lesson plan, available at www.adobe.com/go/crosscurricular." ~ AdobeTV
Distinct, Detailed Fine Art Acrylic Paintings
What ties together the work of award winning acrylic painter, Rebecca Zook is the high level of detail and strong sense of light found in her paintings. Viewers often feel as if they could simply step through the frame right into another world.
"I have a need to create. It's not just what I do. It's who I am." ~ Rebecca Zook
Zook knew as a child she was going to be an artist and never strayed very far from that path. Her earliest memories are of spending hours at a time sitting at a table with paper and crayons drawing every animal imaginable. Taking drawing and sculpture classes all through school, Rebecca was fortunate to attend a high school that offered Commercial Art as an elective. This altered her path from fine art to Graphic Design. She received a full academic scholarship to Southern Methodist University in Dallas where she majored in Advertising Art, gaining her BFA degree. She minored in fine art - taking photography, painting, printmaking and ceramics courses. She also took computer programming as an elective, unaware of how much this was going to help her years down the road when the World Wide Web came into the mainstream.
Rebecca has been working as a Graphic Artist, Illustrator and Web Designer for the last 20 years. She turned her attention back to fine art in 2003, though still works a full-time day job. Rebecca has created art in many media, but painting in acrylics is her love and primary focus. She has found her design background to be a major asset in her fine art paintings, lending strength to her work though its principles.
Visit Rebecca Zook's gallery on DiscoveredArtists.com: discoveredartists.com/gallery/RebeccaZookFineArt
Creative and Beautiful Abstract Quilt Art
Mary Jo Bowers creates stories using the wonders of color, fabric and textile with her art quilts. The stories that she uses in each of these art quilts will be different from the stories that, you, the viewer will see when looking at them. Viewers are asked to play with the images in the art quilts and find their own interpretations.
Bowers' art quilts are characterized by bold colors, shapes and dimensions using multiple kinds of dyed and painted fabrics and are enhanced by a variety of embellishments. These contemporary quilts are made in three layers – top, batting and backing – as in traditional quilts, but they are not bed quilts. Each art quilt is a piece of textile art to be displayed on the wall of your home and office.
INNOVATIVE, MODULAR AXOR STARCK SHOWER COLLECTION
Launches in Canada at Toronto's Interior Design Show
Philippe Starck's latest creation for Axor uses an intriguing modular strategy to give designers the ultimate in creative freedom, while streamlining the installation process,essentially bringing haute couture to the shower! Absolutely gorgeous design.
How To Shoot a Video Home Tour
Feature: Learn how to film and edit high quality, great content, professional home tour videos for real estate marketing.
$250, 2 Hours, 3 Rooms & 3 Realtors
Feature: Three realtors stage/visually merchandise three rooms of a house, in two hours, to prepare it for viewing by potential buyers. The 'afters' are refreshing!
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Exquisitely Creative Digital Artwork
Today's feature: Fantastic Digital Artwork by Stan Bowman
Stan Bowman has been an artist for nearly 50 years and has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally, as a photographer, painter and digital artist. His artwork is in such collections as the San Francisco Museum of Art, Bibilotech National in Paris, German Photographic Society and many other locations.
Since the mid 1980's he has been involved with digital imaging, not only with still images, but also with digital video, 3D animation and digital music.
His recent work is about finding new ways of seeing digital still images, sometimes working at the pixel level. What excites him is discovering new ways of restructuring imagery using current digital technology.
Stan Bowman's digital art is absolutely gorgeous! I love it and I believe you all will, too!
Celebrating Textiles as a Medium for Urbane, Sophisticated Art
Today's feature: Fine Art Textiles & More by Artist Marilyn Henrion
Marilyn Henrion's hand-stitched constructions transform geometric elements into abstract, metaphorical images with strong graphic impact. With frequent references to literature, she uses color, line, and form much as a poet employs words to convey an emotion or idea.
As in poetry, the images are meant to resonate, being both themselves and something they may suggest to the viewer.
With sixteen solo exhibitions to her credit, and with works in museum, corporate and private collections worldwide, Marilyn Henrion’s reputation as one of the foremost contemporary, fiber artists is undisputed.
Recently, Henrion has added digital photography to her repertoire with Metropolis…...a series of photographic images based on the same geometric urban environment that inspires the artist’s textile works.
The artist's papers and sketchbooks are included in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art in Washington, DC. Among her many honors is a Fellowship from The New York Foundation for the Arts, awarded in 2002.
Gorgeous Fine Art
Today's feature: The Gorgeous Art of Beverly Carrick
Beverly Carrick was born in California and gravitated to art at a very early age. In 1963, Carrick began to paint professionally and became known as a seascape artist in Laguna Beach and in Los Angeles.
Carrick is mostly self-taught but at the same time, sought the expertise of major artists, luminaries such as Lukits, Kerr, and Franks. The appeal of Carrick's work lies in its timelessness, beauty, and unique interpretation of the Sturm and Drang of nature.
She is well-known for her famed purple deserts, as well as mountain-land-and-seascapes. Carrick also finds inspiration in Roman and Greek saga which carry over into fantasy work. Moreover, Carrick loves to paint Western art and can catch both the seriousness and the subtle aspects of the "human condition" as it relates to the cowboys and townsfolk, alike.
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Exquisite Abstract Art
Today's post: The Magic of Abstract Art by Rom Lammar
Luxembourg artist Rom Lammar specializes in abstract paintings. As he states, "Although my creations are very intuitive and based on great spontaneity, I never forget the basic principles of a good abstract composition: right space division, unity, fineness of form, and a certain degree of mystery. In many ways, my paintings could be considered as inner landscapes."
Rom Lammar's love of traveling (he made a round-the-world trip in 1992-1994), combined with his interest in primitive cultures, have led the artist on a quest for the unusual and an increasing use of non-traditional elements in his work, such as sand, wood, rusted metal pieces, rope, and small stones.
His recent paintings are influenced by sculptural forms and texture. The magic of his compositions is based on the way he uses depth, light, and shadow, to set the overall mood of the painting.
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Have a joyously blessed Christmas, Everyone! I'm grateful for you visiting with me here, at Divine Designer, and for tweeting with me at Twitter.com/Chaella. Have a beautifully productive 2010!
Bronze Sculptors by Sterett-Gittings Kelsey
Today's feature: The Divine Sculptures of Sterett-Gittings Kelsey
Kelsey works primarily in bronze, with sculptures ranging from three inches to twenty two feet in height. She is the leading sculptor of dance in the world today.
The Kelsey bronzes are owned by major collectors and connoisseurs of "Investment-level Fine Art". These masterworks in bronze can be found in more than 300 public and private collections worldwide.
The Kelsey sculptures are hand-made from start to finish. The transformation from Kelsey's clay original, into a masterpiece in bronze, is a long and expensive process. A new ceramic mold is handmade for each sculpture. A mold is used only once.... then... it is destroyed in the casting process. There are about thirty five steps which each work passes through on the way to becoming a completed work of art.
Each sculpture bears: the copyright symbol, The artist's logo, the artist's name, date of origin, foundry mark and the edition number.
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Beautiful Fine Art
Today's features: The Gorgeous Fine Art of John Lautermilch
John Lautermilch is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. His interest in art began in early childhood, and by the age of eight, he began painting. John won his first art show while still in elementary school, and by the time he was in high school, his art was being displayed and sold in local restaurants.
After high school, John attended the School of Fine Arts at Washington University on a scholarship. The year he graduated, his work was accepted by the St. Louis Art Museum for exhibit in their annual show.
Throughout his career, John has won numerous awards and prizes in various art shows. He has also done many commissioned works both for individual collectors and institutions, including a series of paintings for a Lutheran organization in St. Louis.
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Sublime Abstract Art
Today's feature: The Sublime Abstract Art of Mary Lea Bradley
Mary Lea Bradley's art is immediately striking. Her abstract paintings are characterized by a sense of mystery that invites the viewer in. The paintings transport you from reality to a vibrant, mystical world where you are the story teller, creating and interpreting your own stories.
Excited about her newest work, yet unpretentious about her artistic flair and sophisticated eye, Bradley and her work are very approachable and accessible.
Creative, Beautifully Embellished Pottery
Today's feature: Anita Mills Gallery Documentary
Anita Mills was born in Lubbock, Texas, in 1952. She attended public school there through her undergraduate degree, earning a B.F.A. in Ceramics and Printmaking from Texas Tech University. After completing her M.F.A. in Studio Art and Art History, from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977, she took a teaching position at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. During her twelve years at St. Cloud, she taught all levels of design, drawing, painting, printmaking, theory of art and “Women Artists: An Historical Survey.”
A resident of North Carolina since 1989, Anita currently lives near Hillsborough where she maintains her home and studio. She is a full-time artist and itinerant teacher of art/design/craft; teaching adults and young adults through workshops and courses offered in community education settings.
Anita uses a variety of studio techniques in her work, including relief printmaking, woodturning, blacksmithing and silversmithing. Lately, Anita has been embellishing many of her vessels with precious gems, rough stones, shell, bone, feathers, and polished or rusted metals. Additionally, she has included knobs, finials and lids turned from wood at her lathe.
Throughout her career as an artist, Anita has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions—both competitive and invitational, in regional and national venues. On many occasions she has joyfully served as guest artist, conference panelist and exhibition juror.
Visit Anita's website, http://www.anitamillsdesign.com/. This digital film was produced by Nic Beery for http://www.beerymedia.com/.
The embellished pottery featured in this documentary is unique and stunning; really creative and beautiful!
I believe you'll appreciate it, too.
Visual Communication and Presentation
The following presentation is an engaging and enlightening one from Viraj Circar and Veena Sonwalkar about graphic design. I think the insights this presentation contains are concise and beneficial to anyone that is interested in graphic design. Some of the questions it answers are:
Basic Questions
Creative and Analytical Thinking
In a few words, I'll say that I really enjoyed this presentation by Amir Khella. It is 'designed' to inform with a concise, yet simple theme. Among the questions answered and points covered here, are:
How to Choose the Right *Green Architect* for Your Project
Dan Heinfeld, President of green design firm LPA Inc, shares practical tips on finding the right architect for your project. It's not easy to know who's really green, who's experienced in sustainable design and who's simply putting on a front. Heinfeld brings more than 40 years of industry experience to the table in an honest, unpretentious manner.
Deciphering the Web: A Designer's Guide
Via this video, explore the landscape of the web today. Understand what technologies are available to you, when and how to use each technology to add richness and interactivity to your designs. ~ Adobe TV
Cooper-Hewitt: 2009 The Business of Design
Business leaders discuss how design impacts their overall strategy and affects their bottom line. Moderated by Daniel H. Pink, the panelists discuss the role of design-thinking in the workplace as it relates to consumer goods, as well as overall company vision.
Moderator:
Daniel H. Pink,
Author of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Panelists include:
Bill Moggridge,
2009 Lifetime Achievement National Design Award Winner, co-founder of IDEO
Sam Lucente,
Vice President of Design, Hewlett-Packard Company
Jeanne Liedtka,
Professor, University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business
Donald Harvie's Diverse, Exquisite Paintings
Today's Feature: Beautifully finessed artwork by Don Harvie.
Don Harvie's paintings have been accepted in over 200 National and International Exhibitions, winning many awards along the way.
His works have been shown at the famed Salmadundi Club in New York on six different occasions and at the National Arts Club, also in New York, in three International exhibitions.
His work has been featured in the "Artist Magazine" and has been published in the famed William & Mary Review for the past three years in succession. The recently published art book -- "Splash 10 " -- also featured his work.
He states -- " Although my work is varied and diverse, every painting happens because of my personal involvement in the situation.
The scene has to really strike excitement into my feelings before I can wet the brush and start in----- And I hope you like the results !"
Chateau Sonoma Antiques: Beautiful French Treasures for All Occasions
Today's feature: Chateau Sonoma, located in a spacious, loft-like building and expansive garden court just off Sonoma, California's town square, offers an ever-changing, artfully arranged selection of unique antiques and accessories for your home and garden.
Sarah Anderson, Chateau Sonoma's proprietor, travels to France several times a year in search of irresistible architectural artifacts and vintage items for their standout beauty and craftsmanship.
Chateau Sonoma is a rare combination of formality and whimsy, featuring a dynamic collection of treasures for all occasions. ~ Chateau Sonoma
Custom Designed STONECO Cottage Home at The Landing of Chimney Cove on Lake Wedowee
Today's feature is a cottage that's custom designed and built by STONECO Custom Homes. The stunning home is in The Landing of Chimney Cove on Lake Wedowee, in Alabama. The exterior features include: professionally landscaped grounds, timber-frame accents, cedar shake, board & batten siding, Pella doors & windows, golf-cart garage & screened-in outdoor living room complete with rock fireplace. As you view the home you'll see the authentic heart pine floors, vaulted ceilings, timber-frame beams and posts, top-of-the-line stainless appliances, granite countertops, oil-rubbed bronze hardware throughout, custom wood cabinetry and custom wood arch-panel interior doors among the many gorgeous details, as well as the serene views of Lake Wedowee. ~ Chimney Cove
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