Jul 31

Spill my brains all over the gallery floor.
Its the ultimate expression of purity - to die for one’s art.
I think it’s truly inspirational….wait, don’t even think about copying my idea.
As I write this a single tear runs solemnly down my cheek.

Come.

it falls at the first hurdle…..spill MY brains…?

Jul 27

Im doing some work for me art exam and i need some inspirational ideas on my chosen choice. I need to draw some objects that go with the theme. But im struggling and if there is any artists that draw pictures with fear, superstitions and phobias that would be great :) Thanks.

Henry Fuseli - nightmares
Albrecht Durer- ‘Knight, Death and The Devil’
Hieronymus Bosch - Hell
Most of the Surrealist painters, including Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, etc, used these themes
Francisco Goya - giants, phantoms, etc
Paula Rego - mysterious domestic scenarios

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ritish illustrators like Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, Aubrey Beardsley, Edward Burne- Jones

Jul 23

So for my desktop publishing project, we have to create an image using words and text only. for example, my friend is doing the superman logo and filling the image up with lyrics from songs and quotes in the comic book etc. I need some help! i really have no idea and i’m stumped. here are some examples of image made of words:
http://www.johnbr.com/.a/6a00d83451b84369e201053516b639970b-800wi
http://saintandie.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/25-examples-of-inspirational-text-art.jpg

i was thinking of doing a question mark but i don’t know what to fill the image up with =/
and the main part of this is skewing the text, font, resizing, color, and masking images onto the text as well, maybe you have ideas on that part?
thanks so much!

Try typing your huge question mark in Illustrator, then using Create Outlines to make it a path and changing both stroke and fill to nothing. Use Offset Path with small negative values to make several thinner question marks, one inside the other. With the Type on a Path tool, run your chosen words around each loop and resize the type to nest properly. (It will probably look best with a question mark drawn from a bold, rounded font.) That way you won’t have to build it brick-by-brick.

Jul 18

I’m starting to get really interested in art and photography and I’m wondering if anyone can give me a link or some photographer’s names that I can google or something..
I can’t really take photos of people, I don’t think any of my friends would model for me, but more still life or self portraits, but any kind of great photography would be very much appreciated!
Thankyou!
(:

Ansel Adams does AMAZING landscape photographs. He’s an oldie though, dead now… but nonetheless, he has an eye for beauty.

Frans Lanting is a top National Geographic wildlife photographer. He’s one of my favorite photographers. love wildlife, thats usually my main subject in photography :)

Jul 14

At Hobby Lobby they have wall art made out of material that is similar to a license plate, but the have sayings on them. Some of them were funny, some of them were inspirational. I really liked the style. Where online can I find stuff like this?

Try this online store:Metal wall art decor
http://www.keeplookingbusy.com/itmSearch.aspx?kw=metal+wall+art+decor

Jul 9

for art, we are now working with clay, and we are allowed to make anything we want.
Although, i want to make something different to everyones normal peices, i want to make something from an inspirational quote of some sort. But i’m not sure what quote to use.
Also, do you know any good sites that i could look at other artists work in clay?
Thanks x :]

"Surely not in vain
My substance of the common Earth was ta’en
And to this Figure moulded, to be broke,
Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again."
- Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker"),
The Rubaiyat (st. 84),
(Fitzgerald’s translation)
To illustrate this why don’t you make copies of a few (or maybe just one) of the very earliest Clay Goddess; e.g. "Snake Goddess’ http://images.google.co.il/images?hl=en&q=snake+goddess+from+knossos&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=UJO8S6SbJM-VOMXq2foH&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBsQsAQwAA
Or figurines from Mehrgarh, India 7,000BC
http://web.me.com/kbolman/India_5,000_BCE/Mehrgarh_7,000BC.html
Venus of Willendorf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf

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Jul 5

i want to know the names of some inspirational artists, anyone in art,
any media (installation, oil pant etc..)

i’m doing an A-level art project on ‘finding out who you are’ and i want to know the names of artists who are particuarly cutural or have done work based around the self image :)

thanks x x

Bob Ross was (before his death) a really famous and inspirational artist in my opinion. I’m sure you’ve seen some of his ‘How To’ painting shows on television before.

Jul 5

I love the idea of this tattoo…

http://tattoos-and-art.com/wp-content/gallery/henna-tattoos/3rd_sitting_shoulder_tattoo_034_large.jpg

Not the exact design but the placement.
I am super conscious of the kind of job I will have in the future, which ranges from an office/museum setting to outdoors archeology field work.

So I was wondering if you guys thought this would be pretty easy to cover up with clothing (I am not a super fancy girl, I wear allot of things with sleeves and blazers. Tanks in the summer but only for casual events) I am ok with it showing in a casual setting, just worried about future career settings.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

I also planned ahead for my tattoo placement. I have a lot of ink work, that I love, but don’t necessarily need to show it every second of my life. Reality is, employment is crucial to your life, so be careful with placement….

Jul 1

My art topic is;
Rhythms and Cycles.
:| Im soooooo stuck,
I really want something INSPIRATIONAL and not plain and boring like an actual bicycle :/
the ideas i have already thought of are;
cycle of life and death,
abuse,
depression,
addiction,
Eating disorders and
reincarnation.
I have more but those are the ones i like most.
Any ideas!!! I really like metaphorical things and things that twist your mind :)
Cheersssss

How about life. like a lover picks a flower for the other they get old together one dies is burried and a flower grows over him/her. then it starts again with a lover picking a flower. somthing that.