It's Still Life: Chapter 11

Welcome to the 5th edition of The Pulse -- The State of the Art -- a survey in words and pictures of the online artist community. The Pulse is a collaborative project that aims to introduce you to new artists, help you get to know familiar faces even more, and allow you access into the creative hearts and minds of a very talented crew of individuals. More than 130 artists have answered a series of questions which make up The Pulse. Their responses will be presented in a series of online posts which will run every Sunday.

Style File, Techniques & Tools, and Master Class were the first three projects posted and links to all these posts can be found on the sidebar of my blog. The fourth project, It's Still Life, continues now...

Participants were asked to photograph a still life that you create using an array of objects.
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Judy Shea

"bellishments"

Martha Marshall

"Martha's Collection"

Laura Lein-Svencner

Kelly Kilmer

"A photo of my journal with scissors, glue stick, ruler, bone folder."

Donna Joy

"Tribute to Halloween"

Svetlana Spasojevic

"First aid"

Terry Rafferty

"Eventually I will paint some of these blocks - but I get totally lost in the set-ups."

Jacqueline Auvigne

Stacey Merrill

"I kept adding 'everything but the kitchen sink' to my still life...the decided to shoot the kitchen sink instead ;)"

Debrina: Debbie Price-Ewen

"Alicia Caudle and I are always sending each other parcels and this is a selection of the wonderful things she has sent me. Pure inspiration!"

Alicia Caudle

"This is a still life of some of my favorite things -- undamaged Frozen Charlottes, a Victorian era doll and head, vintage watch parts, nature bits and some of my small animal skulls."

Karin Lynn Cumming

"This still life sits in my family room. Everything I do in my home is a still life to me."
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This post is the last in the "It's Still Life Series". You can always link to all the posts from my sidebar.

Join me next Sunday, August 19th, for the next project from The Pulse

#PulseParty

You are all invited to a party. A Twitter party. Earlier in the year I held a Twitter Launch Party to celebrate the release of The Pulse of Mixed Media. The tweets flew fast and furious and we all had so much fun. I knew at that time that I would be hosting more parties on Twitter and the next one is now on the schedule.

Join me and many of your favorite art bloggers in a "real time" conversation on Tuesday August 21st on Twitter from 9-10pm EST. Everybody is welcome, but you need to have a Twitter account to join in. For this party, all tweets need to include the hashtag #PulseParty.

Like any party, you need directions to get there. There are two routes that you can take:

1. If you already use (or are willing to join) a Twitter client such as TweetDeck or HootSuite, you can sign up to follow the hashtag #PulseParty. In doing so, all the tweets that include #PulseParty will automatically show up on your account. But...so will all the other tweets you normally get. Remember, at the party you must type in the words #PulseParty for your tweets to be seen.

2. If you join TweetChat, you can spend the hour in a TweetChat room where you will only be able to see the tweets from people at the party and no other tweets from those people you follow. Signing up is quick and easy and I highly recommend this approach, even if you already use TweetDeck or HootSuite. You can try it out now.

It is simple. Sign up with TweetChat in advance here by linking your Twitter account. When the party starts, sign into your TweetChat account and enter hashtag #PulseParty. This will automatically take you to a "private room" where all the other partygoers will be. Chat in real time for the hour and when the party is over, just close the page.

Everyone is invited. Please spread the word. No need to RSVP. This is one party where you can just show up!

If you have any questions at all about this, please feel free to email me.

Weekend at Parallax

This past weekend I was an exhibiting artist at the inaugural Parallax Art Fair in NYC. The event was held at 82 Mercer Street in SoHo. Approximately 180 emerging and established artists exhibited and there was a tremendous variety of art on display.

Mercer Street

The opening on Friday night was mobbed. There were literally hundreds of people there and the atmosphere was charged.

I was very happy with the location of my booth, which was shared with two wonderful artists: Amanda Mudrovich and Eileen Williams.

I chose to display two series: Interior Angles (acrylic) and Passages (Mixed Media).

Passages

Interior Angles

Happy to be able to say that I sold a number of pieces.

Since you all couldn't be there to see the work in person, I decided to bring the work to you. 

From my YouTube channel AlteredPage...take a walk with me through Parallax:

It's Still Life: Chapter 10

Welcome to the 5th edition of The Pulse -- The State of the Art -- a survey in words and pictures of the online artist community. The Pulse is a collaborative project that aims to introduce you to new artists, help you get to know familiar faces even more, and allow you access into the creative hearts and minds of a very talented crew of individuals. More than 130 artists have answered a series of questions which make up The Pulse. Their responses will be presented in a series of online posts which will run every Sunday.

Style File, Techniques & Tools, and Master Class were the first three projects posted and links to all these posts can be found on the sidebar of my blog. The fourth project, It's Still Life, continues now...

Participants were asked to photograph a still life that you create using an array of objects.
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Brian Kasstle

Rebeca Trevino

"After my father passed away, I found, among other things, a bucket of marbles in his tool shed. As a little girl, he and I would often go for long walks. On these walks he would always find 'things' like marbles, or keys, or coins. I remember that he would pick up these things, look at them closely and wonder out loud about who might have lost such a treasure. I never knew what he did with these things, but years later, here they all were, right where he left them."

Maria Avila

Trudi Sissons

"I felt compelled to use this image - it was such a magical moment! And at first glance...'a still life'"

Kim Logan

"This is an image I took at an exhibition in London at the Haywood gallery last year. It is Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World. An incredibly inspirational and engaging artist melding sculpture with architecture in a fascinating way."

Ange

"I can't 'organise' a still life. I have them around me all the time comprised of objects that are casually discarded, or placed down haphazardly because there is usually something more pressing to attend to elsewhere."

Lisa Scadron

"Other Worlds II"

Deb Eck

"Eggs! My current obsession!!"

annie!

"A still life that I've created using objects...in this case a tablecloth and an eyeglasses case."

Jacquelyn Long

Pat Pintingolo

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Next "It's Still Life" will be held on Sunday, August 12th.

This will be the last in the 'Still Life' series.

Get to Work(shop)

Spots are still available for my Memory Box workshop being held on August 18th at The Ink Pad In NYC.

Think outside the box by going INSIDE the box and creating a unique, personalized time capsule for your memories. You can read more about the workshop here.

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 Art is...You is being held from October 4th to October 8th in Stamford, Connecticut. My workshop, 52 Card Pickup, is full.

I will also be vending at the Art Trunk on Saturday, October 6th, an event that is open to the public even if you are not attending the retreat. 

If you have been thinking about attending the retreat, now is the time. There is a fire sale ending today, August 3rd, where new registrations get $10 off full day workshops.

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I am in the midst of planning my workshop schedule for 2013 now. Hard to believe, but next year will be here before we know it. In addition to applying to teach at three major retreats, I am planning numerous classes in NYC - including both multi-day workshops and multi-instructor workshops, and am scheduled to teach 5 workshops in the Northwest in the month of May.

Please email me at shap97@gmail.com if you are a venue or know of a venue where you think I would be a good match. I would love to try to come to a neighborhood near you!

Lifecycle...

One of my most favorite ingredients to use in my artwork are found objects. In fact, sometimes I think the process of hunting for and finding discarded and forgotten items is more fun than actually using them. And once I start sharing stories about the hunt, I could go on forever. 

In the current issue of Cloth Paper Scissors I get to do all that and more!  

July/August issue

Turn to page 68 and you will find my feature The Lifecycle of a Found Object. Maybe it should have been titled All You Wanted to Know About Found Objects* But Were Afraid to Ask.

In this article you will see photos of the hunt and of some of my favorite finds, a list of my favorite haunts in NYC to hunt for the goods, my thoughts as to why found objects are so popular, and 3 artworks created primarily with found objects.  

Pacifist

Sold. Thank you!

In View

Available in my Etsy shop.

You will also find a list of 3 of my favorite commercial products to use to alter the surface patina of found metal objects -- with before and after photos included. Now that is my kind of reveal!

Creative Connections

Yesterday was a banner day for the art and craft community. It was announced that F+W Media acquired Interweave. You can read more about it here and here.

This is great news for our community and has a lot of personal meaning for me. I have been closely involved with both companies and have had nothing but positive experiences with each one.

Both North Light, my publisher, and artistsnetwork.tv, the main platform for my workshop DVDs, have always been under the auspices of F+W. So has the site Create Mixed Media. Interweave is the publisher of Cloth Paper Scissors and Studios Magazine and home to the Cloth Paper Scissors community, all of which have featured my work. They are also the force behind the CREATE mixed media retreats.

And both companies are involved in so many more platforms and products that we all connect with on a daily basis: books, magazines, websites, online shops, online communities, eProducts, retreats, and so many more. If you are anything like me, when you look on your bookshelves, you will see many books from both North Light and Interweave.

The ultimate changes that will result from this are not clear and have not yet been announced. We will all need to see how this unfolds. However what is clear is that two hugely popular and influential companies in our art universe have joined forces and are now one. 

If you have hung around The Altered Page at all, then you know how much I value community and the strength, creativity and support that results. In my mind, our community just got stronger!

Take Two

It is with excitement and gratitude that I share the following with you all: my proposal to North Light has been approved and I have just begun work on my second book. This will be a follow-up to The Pulse of Mixed Media: Secrets and Passions of 100 Artists Revealed. There is an all-new, all-star team of artists included in this book and a creative direction that I am beyond thrilled with. I will be working away behind the scenes for the next year but will surface with more info on the book as the release date nears. Consider this my holiday gift to you as the book should be ready to ship in December 2013.

It's Still Life: Chapter 9

Welcome to the 5th edition of The Pulse -- The State of the Art -- a survey in words and pictures of the online artist community. The Pulse is a collaborative project that aims to introduce you to new artists, help you get to know familiar faces even more, and allow you access into the creative hearts and minds of a very talented crew of individuals. More than 130 artists have answered a series of questions which make up The Pulse. Their responses will be presented in a series of online posts which will run every Sunday.

Style File, Techniques & Tools, and Master Class were the first three projects posted and links to all these posts can be found on the sidebar of my blog. The fourth project, It's Still Life, continues now...

Participants were asked to photograph a still life that you create using an array of objects.
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Laura J. Wellner

"This is a photo of grape vine tendrils, coils, curls, spirals, laid out on a canvas with white acrylic wash monotype marks. The little curly-cues of the vines that I've been collecting from my acre of the world echo the lines in my drawings."

Tari Goerlitz

Cathie Parreco

Eileen Bellomo

Donna Louise Rodgers

Dave Dube

Traci Lyn Huskamp

"I love that no matter how I arrange flowers in a vase, nature has its own way of styling itself and in a much better way than I could have ever done."

Julie Prichard

"Still. Life."

Cory Celaya

"Sari Silk Bundles and Charm Bracelets."

Kathryn Dyche Dechairo

"Ever since I was a small child I've had a love affair with monkeys. I don't have an obvious collection but if you wander from room to room you'll find them dotted around my home."

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Next "It's Still Life" will be held on Sunday, August 5th.

8/21/12

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