Incredible Self Portraits by a 14 year old boy

Here's the talent of the youngest generation. This just showed up on my Facebook page so I'm sending it along to you: http://www.demilked.com/surreal-self-portraits-14-year-old-fiddle-oak/

Peihong Endris

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.)
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: http://bit.ly/1196zgy

Second, here's the link to her own website: http://www.peihongdong.com/

And now, this is a re-issue of the Northwest Art League flyer:

Northwest Art League  Chinese Brush Painting Workshop
Peihong Endris, Instructor
September  6th & 7th , 2013 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM 

Cost $110.00

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.

Learn many  beautiful strokes for Chinese Brush painting.
Call Mary Friday at 713-443-2675 or (mcfriday@sbcglobal.net)for more information.
Class will be held at The Pearl Fincher Art Museum  at : 6815 Cypresswood Drive, Spring TX.
To reserve your space in class, send a $50.00 non-refundable check to Mary Friday at: 10710 Bowden Chase, Drive Spring, TX 77379

Sarah Simblet: Graphic Artist

At the April Tomball Art League meeting I passed around two fabulous art books written by Sarah Simblet, a graphic artist, writer, and broadcaster, who teaches anatomical drawing at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford. Called Anatomy for the Artist, 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 here.

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, here's a link to the publisher's description and images. I bought the copy I couldn't resist at Texas Art Supply.

Picasso at Museum of Fine Arts Houston

If you haven't yet made a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston to see  the Prado Museum exhibit and/or the Picasso Black and White, I encourage you to go. Both exhibitions are amazing. Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado ends March 31st; Picasso Black and White will be there until May 27th.

On Saturday, March 23rd at 1 p.m., the Museum is also showing a documentary movie about Picasso.

Here's the blurb, which I'm quoting from their website:
"Unavailable for more than a decade, The Mystery of Picasso 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.
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.
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.
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.
"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."
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."

http://www.mfah.org/films/mystery-picasso/

Delores, Muril, and Lesley

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.

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.

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. http://lesleyhumphrey.net/lessons/introduction/

Artfully Dressed

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: 
http://advancedstyle.blogspot.com/

Hallowe'en costumes reflect art

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: 10 Amazing Art-Inspired Makeup Tutorials For Halloween