tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38812529009490509272024-02-07T10:22:10.211-08:00Artpost TomballBarbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-24946366027506505902014-02-08T14:27:00.000-08:002014-02-08T14:49:36.230-08:00Making clear acrylic transfers of photos and prints<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When <b>Kim Rootes</b> gave her excellent demo on collage this morning at the February meeting of the Tomball Art League, the subject of making acrylic 'skins' came up. Acrylic medium can be used to make a clear transfer of a photograph, photocopy, or print, so it can be added to a collage or mixed media painting. YouTube has a number of excellent videos explaining the process. As you look at these you'll see yet more, listed on the right sidebar. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Acrylic Transfers part 1</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Acrylic Transfers part 3</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mixed Media: Acrylic Skins from prints and magazines</span></b><br />
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Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-23191719381876879752014-02-08T14:18:00.002-08:002014-02-08T14:19:12.832-08:00Grace Hessman Pastel Landscape Pastels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Throughout February you have the pleasure of viewing the</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> pastel paintings of landscape artist Grace Hessman </strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">in our meeting room, Room L-129. She’s a '</span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">plein air</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">' painter, which means she plunks her easel down in the shifting soils of west Texas or beach Florida or the Oregon forest, with boots on to protect herself from cactus spines and driving heat and morning chills, to see, feel, and smell each nuance of the landscape she’s passionate about capturing on paper. When you see her work, I think you’ll catch that spirit. That’s Room L-129; throughout February.</span>Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-14994847645116646722014-01-11T13:07:00.002-08:002014-01-11T13:08:24.068-08:00Discover Pastels!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>This post is especially directed to my pastel artist colleagues. </b>If you're looking for pastel paintings with a 'wow' factor to inspire your winter efforts, let me suggest a visit to the website of <b>Zaria Forman.</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zariaforman.com/">http://www.zariaforman.com/</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forman has a way with water, clouds, and ice that goes straight for the gut--and the heart. I think you'll find her work deeply moving. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For her 2012 project <i>Chasing the Light, </i>she sailed up the northwest coast of Greenland, retracing the 1869 journey of American painter William Bradford.She documented the changing arctic landscape and used it as a reference for several large soft pastel drawings of amazing icebergs and icy seas.Her almost photo-realistic works grab the frigid mood of this mighty landscape in flux. Here's the link to those icebergs. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/01/zaria-forman-pastel-icebergs/">http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/01/zaria-forman-pastel-icebergs/</a> She's also on Facebook at </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/aristZariaForman">https://www.facebook.com/aristZariaForman</a> <i>(Thanks for Zaria for permission to post her image.) </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Pastel Society of Southeast Texas is holding an Open Exhibition "Art of the Pastel 2014" at The Gallery in the Brazosport Center for The Arts and Sciences in Clute, TX February 4 through March 8, 2014.This exhibition promises to present to the viewing public a fresh awareness of the beauty of pastel artwork.For exhibitors, it will be an open, non-juried show, but artwork is limited to two paintings per artist. Registration for members is $35 and $45 for non-members.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Master Pastelist Allan Flattman will judge the show and will also present a three day workshop about <i>Landscape & Cityscape Painting with Pastels </i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on February 5 through the 7th. For m</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ore show information, the prospectus, a registration form, and workshop information, go to the website </span><a href="http://www.pastelsocietyofsoutheasttexas.org/" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380676128252_12271" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">www.pastelsocietyofsoutheasttexas.org</a> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and look under the 2014 Exhibition tab.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, <b>Gabriel Riquelme</b>'s inspiring pastel demonstration at the January meeting introduced many of us to some new-to-us art vocabulary, techniques, and supplies. Gabriel maps his pastels with charcoal pencil instead of pastel pencil--black or white, depending on the color of his support--because he can remove it easily with a white plastic eraser or kneaded eraser. He then uses hard pastels to block in his foundation, since the soft filler pastels he uses later will blend more easily over that foundation. Then he ends with ultra-soft pastels.He uses black charcoal pencil for fine black details because he's found the charcoal pencil gives a darker black than a black pastel pencil; it also sharpens better and tends not to break inside like pastel pencils do. He dusts off his work with a spray of compressed air--the kind people use to clean their computer keyboards.But before does, he sprays a cloth at the bottom of his board with a bit of water so that when the chalk dust floats down it sticks to the wet cloth. Finally, he uses a fixative, and he much prefers the Sennellier brand to any other because it darkens the pastels the least of any brand and doesn't dissolve the soft pastels into the harder ones. I'm thinking this is the product he was talking about: <a href="http://goo.gl/u0TMGf" target="_blank"> http://goo.gl/u0TMGf</a> To see more of Gabriel Riquelme's work go to <a href="http://gabrielrequelmeart.com/">GabrielRequelmeArt.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-90600726673334893942014-01-06T17:57:00.000-08:002014-01-06T17:57:56.257-08:00A January Artist's Date--for You<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thursday, January 16 from 10 am. to 3 pm--or whatever fraction of that you can come--you are invited to the library for another Artist's Date. </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We'll spend the morning painting or sketching some still lifes I'll set up in the front room where all the light is. I've ordered flowers for one area and I have a couple of other more squirky setups in mind...Bring your art supplies and your lunch and after we've played hard we'll eat together and chat. The College's catering service will be providing us with beverages and some desserts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've also ordered in some books that may be of interest and put them on display on our Round Wall, near where we'll be painting. You're welcome to check them out and take them home. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the afternoon we'll retire to the computer lab where we can pool our information about how to use the basic Microsoft Office tools and some free web-based tools for manipulating and researching your reference photos. Everyone is welcome; this isn't limited to Tomball Art League people. This is designed for adults but a well-behaved motivated child will not be turned away. </span><br />
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<br />Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-33113224212845376622013-12-16T14:52:00.001-08:002013-12-16T14:52:38.243-08:00Kimbell Art Museum's New Pavilion and Linnie Baird at our Library <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new Piano Pavilion on the left resonates, in a rectangular staccato way,<br />with the rounded galloping visual rhythms of the original Kahn Building.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just after I posted my last blog about the <b>Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth</b>, the Museum started advertising on TV that it has just opened its new building. I've been wondering how any architect's work could sit gracefully beside the beautifully understated grand-ness of <a href="https://www.kimbellart.org/exhibitions" target="_blank">Louis Kahn's original building.</a> The Kahn building is one of the greats of 20th century architecture and one of my favorites. Apparently the Kimbell's Board of Directors of the Kimbell felt similarly, because they hired esteemed Italian architect Renzo Piano to build what is now called the <a href="https://www.kimbellart.org/architecture/piano-pavilion" target="_blank">Piano Pavillion.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Renzo Piano</b> has designed many art museums, two of which you might know. <a href="https://www.kimbellart.org/architecture/piano-pavilion/renzo-piano" target="_blank">The Menil Collection building </a>here in Houston is one of them, and the famous <span id="goog_509496890"></span><a href="https://www.kimbellart.org/architecture/piano-pavilion/renzo-piano" target="_blank">Centre Georges Pompidou</a> in Paris is another. But it will be up to you to decide if this building is a worthy addition to the Texas art landscape. <span id="goog_509496891"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many thanks to all of you who have offered to<b> show your paintings at OUR museum--or at least, our exhibition space--in the library. Room L-129 exhibition</b> space is now booked until June, but we still have room for the paintings in the second half of the year. <b>Linnie Baird </b>hung her paintings today ahead of the Christmas rush; hers will grace the room all through January. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Linnie works in oils and pen and ink</b>. She's been painting for seven years, keeping up a legacy her father began. Originally from Alabama, she moved to Texas in her twenties and has been here since. You can feel the love in her Texas landscapes! Come and view Linnie's paintings. </span><br />
<br />Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-31395422094228292322013-12-03T07:50:00.002-08:002013-12-04T14:43:51.326-08:00The Kimbell Museum has great art blurbs! <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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on “C”, and then “Caravaggio”, I discovered that the Kimbell owns Caravaggio’s famous early painting, <i>The Cardsharps.</i> Fair enough. What followed
was dazzling. First it had what you’d expect: the date Caravaggio painted it,
the medium and support and size of the painting, and that this piece is
currently on show. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What followed however, in the "Conservation" section, was a marvelous description that put
Caravaggio’s style in its historical context, explained how he’d originally painted
the figures and where he'd made changes, his quirks of painting technique that were helpful
to know, and the painting’s provenance. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It had none of that esoteric art jargon
that numbs my brain and did have loads of useful, interesting information that
educated me; information that I think is useful to artists. Check this out:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“</i><span lang="EN" style="color: #414141;"><i>Perhaps in
lieu of underdrawing, Caravaggio used incisions to place elements on the
canvas. In The Cardsharps there
are only a few incisions in the wet ground, such as in the dupe’s fingertips
and the edges of the cards, but this technique was greatly expanded in later
works. Other innovative painting techniques in the Kimbell’s painting include
the artist’s manipulation of the wet paint to enhance the realism of surface
textures. When Caravaggio painted the silk brocade of the central cheat, he
blotted the wet paint with his fingers or thumb. He also used the butt end of
the brush to describe the black embroidery on the collar of the dupe.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #414141;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have I mentioned lately how much I LOVE the internet?</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #414141;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're ever in Fort Worth with some time to spare, the Kimbell Art Museum is a wonderful museum to explore. Their permanent collection is delightful and they have marvelous revolving collections. The current one is The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago. It will be there until February 16, 2014. Go to </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.kimbellart.org/exhibitions">https://www.kimbellart.org/exhibitions</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The image above: <span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, The Cardsharps, c. 1595, oil on canvas. Kimbell Art Museum. Used with permission</span></span><br />
<br />Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-63406520345132399932013-11-18T13:48:00.002-08:002013-11-18T13:48:49.037-08:00The Son-of-a-Nazi Art Dealer Story just gets More Amazing<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The New York Times just published a further story about<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of the prominent Nazi-era art dealer who has been discovered to be living among a trove of art treasures. After the last article I've been wondering: how has this come out now? Who finally found this man? According to this second article, German Customs officials simply stumbled upon it while following their professional curiosity. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The article writer likens Cornelius Gurlitt to Gollum, the shrivelled hobbit in J.R.R. Tolkein's classic fantasies,<i> The Hobbit </i>and<i> The Lord of the Rings, </i>whose life has been twisted and consumed by the magical ring he possesses. Cornelius Gurlitt has lived in a gloomy Munich apartment for all these decades, with no friends and no visitors except his sister, living for his art. What a fascinating tale. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/world/europe/a-private-life-amid-a-tainted-trove-of-art.html?pagewanted=2&src=me" target="_blank">Here's the link: </a></span></span>Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-24411950530135334642013-11-07T07:49:00.001-08:002013-11-18T13:49:07.436-08:00More Hidden Modern Art is Found in Germany<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The news this week is about the announcement in Augsburg, Germany that 1500 paintings have been found in Munich that were apparently either confiscated or purchased by the Nazis during World War II. <a href="http://goo.gl/tWMqtH" target="_blank">Here's the link to the New York Times article. </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In January 2010 contractors excavating to build a new subway station near Berlin's city hall found eleven bronzes in the rubble of a building destroyed in World War II. The bronzes are now being exhibited at the Neues Museum<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">, amid Berlin’s archaeological collection.</span> That story, written up in the New York Times, <a href="http://goo.gl/ie5y2g" target="_blank">is available here</a>.</span>Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-1330272088748703502013-10-28T14:21:00.001-07:002013-10-28T17:37:28.576-07:00Box<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And thanks to all the TAL Fall Exhibition and Show winners who graced our meeting room walls with their fabulous paintings through September and October. Please feel free to come in any time this week that's convenient to pick up your paintings. </span></div>
Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-35128032747746901672013-10-28T14:12:00.001-07:002013-10-28T14:12:41.841-07:00Painting Classic Portraits: Great Faces Step by Step by Luana Luconi Winner<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">After a summer blog vacation I can't wait to tell you about a treasure I've recently found. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Luana Luconi Winner’s </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Painting
Classic Portraits: Great Faces Step by Step</i></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is simply a book that
cannot fail to build confidence and technique. She goes at the task of teaching
how to create great portraits with personality by employing a variety of
approaches, easy to follow instructions, and abundant color sketches,
paintings, and photos. Winner shows you how achieve accurate facial shapes and
proportions beginning with the skull and showing how facial features fit over
them. She offers color charts for white skin that’s female, male, blonde,
redhead, and brunette; for black skin using warm tones and cool tones, for
Hispanics, Asians, and both native Indians and continental ones. She works in
graphite, charcoal, oils, watercolors, and pastels, and demonstrates
preliminary sketches, studies, and finished portraits. She gives detailed
instruction about how the face and hands change from childhood through
adulthood. And she shows you how to choose backgrounds and accessories that
tell the story of the personality being painted. I believe this book is destined
to become a classic and I urge you to pick it up at the library and give it
your perusal. You may find you need to buy a copy for your studio. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(And now I apologize. I posted this blog about a month ago--or at least I thought I had. After I posted it I was sure I had checked it--I usually do--and it was there. I went into the site last weekend and it wasn't there! Go figure. So if you came looking for this title and didn't see it, I apologize. Barbara)</span></div>
Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-40705711987722420922013-07-03T15:45:00.000-07:002013-07-03T15:45:00.829-07:00Come to an Artist's Date at the Library!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Adult artists!</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> D</span><span data-scayt_word="rop" data-scaytid="1" style="background-color: white; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 50% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat !important; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">rop</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> your morning chores, pack up your art supplies and your lunch, and come to the library to enjoy a day of sketching or painting with other adult artists--</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">next Wednesday, July <span data-scayt_word="10th" data-scaytid="3" style="background-color: transparent !important; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 50% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat !important; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">10th</span>, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> We will provide easels, still life objects, clothed models, dessert and beverages; and after lunch, </span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Judy Crowe,</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> an accomplished local oil painter and instructor, will give a demonstration. We'll be in the library first floor front room and then Room L 129 for lunch and the demo. Call 823-559-4213 for more information. There's no registration and no fee.</span>Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-45910559467168413572013-06-04T06:58:00.003-07:002013-06-04T06:58:37.449-07:00Theatre, Dancing, Music, Dining: for you through Harris County<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For your summer pleasure, Harris County Precinct 4 has an active and diverse program of free activities for people 50 years and up. It includes </span><br />
<strong><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">June 2013</span></strong><br />
<strong></strong><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Sweet Deal" Party Bridge Tournament</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">June Bug Jamboree Dance</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An Evening of Live Music and Dinner at Main Street Crossing Theatre</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial;">Houston Symphony performances at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion</span><br />
<strong><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">July 2013</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Houston Astros Games at Minute Maid Park in June & July</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jersey Village Luncheon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><em>Godspell</em> at Texas Repertory Theater</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><em>Wizard of Oz</em> at Crighton Theater</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If that tweeks your curiosity, here's the link for more information: </span><br />
<a href="http://www.hcp4.net/senioradult/events.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Link to Precinct 4 Senior activities</span></a>Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-66427951977000359232013-05-30T11:26:00.000-07:002013-05-30T11:26:27.988-07:00Incredible Self Portraits by a 14 year old boy<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPjwcr_PfmUfhLtlh5nZaIm5rR0uRJnr0F8sXquHIsuaP3REUQcEyAHk-St3UMesswg_WzFTRROyAqSR5NgK3JX9JvsOGY6mJwbI4D8L_0oIcpj_FLeC_9P5tf76A-uRGEeV1zJi0leTHX/s1600/photomanipulations-self-portraits-zev-fiddle-oak-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPjwcr_PfmUfhLtlh5nZaIm5rR0uRJnr0F8sXquHIsuaP3REUQcEyAHk-St3UMesswg_WzFTRROyAqSR5NgK3JX9JvsOGY6mJwbI4D8L_0oIcpj_FLeC_9P5tf76A-uRGEeV1zJi0leTHX/s320/photomanipulations-self-portraits-zev-fiddle-oak-5.jpg" width="320" yya="true" /></a><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the talent of the youngest generation. This just showed up on my Facebook page so I'm sending it along to you:</span> <a href="http://www.demilked.com/surreal-self-portraits-14-year-old-fiddle-oak/">http://www.demilked.com/surreal-self-portraits-14-year-old-fiddle-oak/</a></div>
Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-23883863385392509462013-05-21T09:20:00.001-07:002013-05-21T09:21:56.424-07:00Peihong Endris<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomball Art League's Bob Trivers recently sent out an email about an upcoming Chinese Brush Painting workshop by Peihong Endris that the Northwest Art League is sponsoring September 6h and 7th. (By the way, she goes by two names: Peihong Endris and Peihong Dong.)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you'd like to see more of her technique and her work, here are a couple of links. First, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston posted a series of YouTube videos of her work. You'll find them here: </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1196zgy"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://bit.ly/1196zgy</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Second, here's the link to her own website: </span><a href="http://www.peihongdong.com/"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.peihongdong.com/</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now, this is a re-issue of the Northwest Art League flyer:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please join the Northwest Art League to learn Chinese Brush Painting from an expert Chinese Painter & Calligrapher. Peihoung graduated from China’s Central Academy of Fine Arts. She is a member of many Chinese Art Organizations and her vigorous style of paintings are rooted in Chinese traditions. She will teach us how to do strokes to make a Bamboo Painting in the Chinese style on Rice Paper. Peihoung will bring all of the supplies needed for you to try the beautiful art of Chinese brush painting. All you need to bring is a pallet, paper towels, paper weights (stones or rocks), and water container.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Learn many beautiful strokes for Chinese Brush painting.<br />Call Mary Friday at 713-443-2675 or (</span><a href="mailto:mcfriday@sbcglobal.net)for"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mcfriday@sbcglobal.net)for</span></a><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> more information.<br />Class will be held at The Pearl Fincher Art Museum at : 6815 Cypresswood Drive, Spring TX.<br />To reserve your space in class, send a $50.00 non-refundable check to Mary Friday at: 10710 Bowden Chase, Drive Spring, TX 77379</span>Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-88732724880656584592013-04-19T12:53:00.000-07:002013-11-07T07:18:09.786-08:00Sarah Simblet: Graphic Artist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>At the April Tomball Art League meeting I passed around two fabulous art books</strong> written by Sarah Simblet, <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a graphic artist, writer, and broadcaster, who teaches anatomical drawing at the </span></span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruskin_School_of_Drawing_and_Fine_Art" title="Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art</span></a><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> at the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">University of Oxford</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">. Called <strong>Anatomy for the Artist,</strong> this book has fabulous photographs of the body in motion, in poses, and at rest. It also has diagrams of the bones, musculature, and circulatory system, many of them on clear mylar overlays so you can see how the systems fit inside the skin. If you'd like to see a copy, you can request it from the library </span><a href="http://librarycatalog.lonestar.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1366X00A2V138.151404&profile=tom&page=2&group=0&term=anatomy+for+the+artist&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab164&menu=search&ri=1&source=~!horizon&1366400224778#focus" target="_blank"><span style="color: #073763;">here</span></a><span style="color: #073763;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #073763;">The second book is called Botany for the Artist. I am hoping that one day the library will have a copy of it, also, because the drawings are breathtaking and the text, inspirational. In the meantime, </span><a href="http://www.dk.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781405332279,00.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #073763;">here's a link</span></a><span style="color: #073763;"> to the publisher's description and images. I bought the copy I couldn't resist at Texas Art Supply. </span></span>Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-71189206273919875412013-03-21T09:03:00.000-07:002013-03-21T09:03:08.592-07:00Picasso at Museum of Fine Arts Houston<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you haven't yet made a trip to the <strong>Museum of Fine Arts Houston to see the Prado Museum exhibit and/or the Picasso Black and White</strong>, I encourage you to go. Both exhibitions are amazing. <strong>Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado</strong> ends March 31st; <strong>Picasso Black and White will be there until May 27th</strong>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial;"><strong>On Saturday, March 23rd at 1 p.m., the Museum is also showing a <a href="http://www.mfah.org/films/mystery-picasso/" target="_blank">documentary movie </a>about Picasso. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the blurb, which I'm quoting from their website: <br />"Unavailable for more than a decade, <em><strong><a href="http://www.mfah.org/films/mystery-picasso/" target="_blank">The Mystery of Picasso</a></strong></em> is one of the greatest documentaries on art ever made. The film received the Prix du Jury at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, and the French government declared the film a national treasure in 1984.<br />Like a matador confronting a bull, the artist approaches his easel, his eyes blazing. As he wields his brush, we see through the canvas as the artwork unfolds, erupts, dances into being before our eyes. Pablo Picasso, the most influential artist of the 20th century, is making a painting, and the famous French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique and The Wages of Fear) is making a movie.<br />In 1955, Clouzot joined forces with his friend Picasso to make an entirely new kind of art film—"a film that could capture the moment and the mystery of creativity." Together, they devised an innovative technique: the filmmaker placed his camera behind a semi-transparent surface on which the artist drew with special inks that bled through.<br />Clouzot thus captured a perfect reverse image of Picasso's brushstrokes, and the motion-picture screen itself becomes the artist's canvas. Here, the master creates, and sometimes obliterates, 20 works (most of them, in fact, destroyed after the shoot), ranging from playful black-and-white sketches to CinemaScope color murals—artworks that evolve in minutes through the magic of stop-motion animation.<br />"When we are all dead, you and me and everyone," promised Clouzot (1907–1977) to Picasso (1881–1973), "the film will still continue to be projected."<br />If you go to their website, you'll see both the trailer for the movie, and after it, some links to other very interesting Picasso videos, including a BBC program." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow! I can't believe it's been so long since I last posted. I've been tracking a new art website that I've been hesitant to advertise until I was sure it was a good thing, and I stopped posting while I considered it. I've decided it's a genuine article, so I'll get back to you you on that very soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two things today: be sure to see Delores 'Moon' Smith's paintings in Room L 129 before the end of the month. Next month, Muril Wilson will be hanging her paintings there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also: if you haven't checked out the online art lessons of Lesley Humphrey, who gave a spectacular demonstration at the Tomball Art League a year or more ago, they really are worth your while. Here's the link. <a href="http://lesleyhumphrey.net/lessons/introduction/">http://lesleyhumphrey.net/lessons/introduction/</a></span>Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-53240553156439644922012-11-13T12:27:00.001-08:002012-11-13T12:27:27.174-08:00Artfully Dressed<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Z5FrdADQWaZBCqKhvzB97WtkrmnvggwqEhRdEY3BUKPY1vNVhw6CrwARHALcfE3m8CFi9HJDhv7wQ0pAEnR40SyAYQbOnxyeWSV0N_mK4_gnbFq_Ne24wGRzbvLZg5FID4VpxgPc4Dc/s1600/IMG_5487_2+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Z5FrdADQWaZBCqKhvzB97WtkrmnvggwqEhRdEY3BUKPY1vNVhw6CrwARHALcfE3m8CFi9HJDhv7wQ0pAEnR40SyAYQbOnxyeWSV0N_mK4_gnbFq_Ne24wGRzbvLZg5FID4VpxgPc4Dc/s200/IMG_5487_2+copy.jpg" width="153" /></a><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist's Date: every time I open this blog to send something to all of you I'm met by what must be the next blog in the blogspot list or something I've inadvertantly tagged that now follows me everywhere. Somewhere in New York there is a man who has a great talent for finding artfully dressed older women, whom he photographs and writes about on this blog. Shall we dare to be so clever? Here's the link: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">A quick post today. The Huffington Post did an article on how to do your Hallowe'en costume and makeup to reflect your artiness... Are you up for this? Here's the link:</span> </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/10-amazing-art-and-film-i_n_2010069.html?utm_hp_ref=arts#slide=1681093" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10 Amazing Art-Inspired Makeup Tutorials For Halloween </span></a>Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-86223113119968219782012-10-18T08:55:00.002-07:002012-10-18T08:58:12.325-07:00In case you ever wanted to see Where Google stores its data<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember how thrilled I was the first time I had the privilege of glimpsing a 'data farm'. All those racks of servers; all those rows of server racks; the incessant deafening hum of the cooling fans; the refrigerator temperatures; all that information on one floor. Wired.com is a daily technology news website and the digital home of Wired magazine, and it's currently featuring a photo essay about one of many of Google's data centers. In case you want to know what that looks like--theirs is more colorful than most and has a sense of humor. The photo above, by Google's Connie Zhou, gives you an overview of the central cooling plant in their Douglas County, Georgia, data center. Here's the link: <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/ff-inside-google-data-center/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/ff-inside-google-data-center/ </a></span>Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-74944390230144175422012-10-16T09:46:00.001-07:002012-10-16T09:46:42.746-07:00Fiesta!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a wonderful opportunity to do some colorful sketching: come to the LSC-Tomball Community Library this Saturday for Fiesta! Starting at 11:30 a.m. There will be <strong>live music, dancing, crafts, and refreshments</strong>, all in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at the library. </span>Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-45917059528835688822012-10-10T13:24:00.002-07:002013-11-07T07:19:18.083-08:00Mike Major: California Chalk Pastel artist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't tell you how excited we are here at the library. Mandy Hamilton's Horse painting hanging in our meeting room as part of the Winners exhibition from the Fall Show snagged her a new painting commission this week. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Monday a man stopped at the reference desk and asked me if I knew who had painted a particular painting hanging in the meeting room. When he pointed out the painting I've copied on the left here, I remembered that Mandy had attached business cards to the back of her painting and gave him one. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I stopped by the reference desk on Wednesday our Young Adult Librarian was all excited. "Guess what gr-r-eat news I have?!" she beamed at me. She told me that Mandy had dropped by to tell us that the man had phoned her and commissioned her to do a painting for him. We're delighted for you, Mandy! Way to go!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I hope this will encourage all of you to hang your winning pictures here after the Spring Show! Someone remind me when that is, will you? I need to reserve the meeting room!</span>Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881252900949050927.post-16315574252634999492012-08-29T15:35:00.004-07:002012-08-29T15:35:52.707-07:00Free online Photo Editing Sites<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">In the free Digital Photography class that we teach here at the library, the class explores editing a photo in FotoFlexer. Phone the library at 832-559-4213 if you want to sign up!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back in design school we were taught, when hanging pictures on a wall, to create a calm, integrated visual effect by lining up the tops of all the frames. "Avoid that Rocky Mountain effect," our professors exhorted us, "that happens when you hang pictures hung at uneven altitudes across the room. Line them up with major horizontal planes--the top of a window or door frame, a bulletin board, a shelf in a shelving unit." Most of the time that's a good rule of thumb, because most of the time it works. But not always. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what do you do then? <strong>You line up the focal points</strong> and let the frames fall where they will! I've created an example on the left of a typical family photo wall. As you'll see, all the eyes connect to each other. This is a little tip that we teach in our Digital Photography class here at the library. The class is free; we run it every couple of months; and you can sign up by phoning 832-559-4213.</span>Barbara Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18226618502067433932noreply@blogger.com0