Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The End is Near!
Dear Members and Friends of
Coos
Art Museum:
The 20th Annual Maritime Exhibition
is quickly coming to a close. One of the Awards given at this
exhibition is “Best in Show”, which is determined by votes from anyone that
comes into the museum. If you would like to be a part of the vote,
please come into the museum by Friday,
September 20th and cast your ballot.
This will also give you another
chance to see this wonderful exhibition before it closes on October
5th.
Thank you for being a big part of the
Coos
Art Museum.
Sincerely,
Deryl
Beebe
Friday, September 13, 2013
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Sunday, September 8, 2013
Throw a Change-up
In baseball when the batter gets to know a pitcher too well the signal will come for a change-up. No, you don’t have to know or watch or even like baseball cause what I am really talking about is doing something different from what you have always done. That’s a change-up for artist.
I’m pretty sure that the military has a rule about using images of its equipment without expressed, written permission, but that shouldn’t stop you form using one if it is just for a way to kick start your creative juices. Our Coast Guard guys risk life and limb every day and they have some pretty specialized equipment to help them. That stuff makes all of the little pleasure boats look like chopped liver. Why not take a look at what they use to haul our fat out of the frying pan and see if there isn’t an image worth working with.
Sure we all have things we really love to focus on. I may have mentioned that I like people, especially female, lady women type people and so when I want to do something a bit different from what I have been dong I naturally think about doing a lady, female woman type person.
Sometimes that means taking a picture I did years ago and having another look at it.
Maybe I want to do something radical and crazy and so I take an ordinary portrait and give it a shake or two.
Maybe I want to use that portrait as a starting point and just change the color pallet so that I get the same image with a different sort of look.
Maybe I want to take a portrait of something that isn’t a person. You don’t have to do people when you take a portrait. They are just the thing most often used and for a good reason, they are terrifically interesting and varied and you can find them almost anywhere.
But you can find other things too.
Cats have so many facial expressions as we do and they are usually good natured about showing off. They will mug endlessly and they don’t ask for a big fee or make you get a model release or threaten to sue if you use one of their pictures in your latest add campaign for Cat’s Meow Camo Duck Dynasty Special Express Waders.
Can you take a portrait of an it?
Sure in fact some things just beg to be taken and used and are glad of the chance to serve.
Take this old guy, left to rot away in Charleston harbor. Now maybe the owner doesn’t have the money to fix it up and re-float it or maybe the insurance company just wrote it off or maybe the poor ole guy just sprang a leak and went down for the last time and no one cared enough to even haul it away from the dock.
But there is a world of character in this old guy or gal depending on your inclination where gendering ships comes out and if you don’t act fast the hulk will be gone before you know it and any opportunity you might have had will be gone.
But let’s say you are a car guy. Yes, a girl, female lady woman type person can be a motor head, but let’s face it most women are too smart to invest the annual income of Sierra Leone into a 1957 Edsel and think that they have done something wonderful so let’s say guy just for the sake of brevity which some of you will agree this blog desperately needs and move on to the point which is cars can be wonderful subjects for portraits.
You think not? Okay take a look at this fantastic yellow Auburn Boat-tailed Speedster. It’s like looking at an image of Ramone Navarro, sleek, stylish; evocative it ain’t a sub-compact that’s for sure. And like that famous silent era movie star it has an elegance which there just isn’t any of in this Ipad Age.
So you get am image of the whole car and what do you have? An image of the whole car. Now that isn’t such a bad thing and might just be enough for most people but for an artist there has to be more.
Whadda think? I’m guessing that this makes for a much more interesting look and gives the feel of a portrait while only showing just the merest tiny bit of chrome.
This guy begs to be featured in a Poupon Grey commercial and the owner certainly felt that way. He left a jar of Poupon Grey on the convenience tray in the back seat. And yes, I did think about that but for me the right way to show off this suave, debonair gentleman was with the wing mirror mounted so far forward that it would never do in L.A traffic.
I’m pretty sure that the military has a rule about using images of its equipment without expressed, written permission, but that shouldn’t stop you form using one if it is just for a way to kick start your creative juices. Our Coast Guard guys risk life and limb every day and they have some pretty specialized equipment to help them. That stuff makes all of the little pleasure boats look like chopped liver. Why not take a look at what they use to haul our fat out of the frying pan and see if there isn’t an image worth working with.
You can always go back to what you were doing. It’s the break that’s good for the soul and then you can get right back to the focus of your own obsessions.
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Announcements, accomplishments, exhibits, classes & workshops, calls to artists....
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UVAA Call to Artists
The
Creative Process:
Submission Deadline: September 17,
2013
Application Fee: None
Most often an artist's creative process - the
planning, sketches, tests, failures, etc. - is hidden from the viewer, who only
sees the finished work. For this exhibit, we are seeking artists who will share
their creative process with viewers from inspiration to finished work; to reveal
this often mysterious side of art-making. We want to see it all. We want to show
our viewers what is involved in The Creative Process. We want to share your
process.http://uvarts.com/call-to-artists/
http://uvarts.com/the-creative-process-prospectus/
Saturday, September 7, 2013
The Con Game
Let’s begin with something simple, the Char-ity event coming up at the end of the month or October the Oneth to be correct. This is an un-juried event which means that you get to enter anything you like, providing it is within the limits of the prospectus and it will get shown. Now this is a very rare and a good thing and you should take advantage of it because it will bolster one of the most important and seldom mentioned qualities any artist needs to cultivate, confidence.
No not arrogance where anything you do is the best that was ever done and anyone who fails to understand that is a just a Philistine. Confidence is a feeling of well-being based on hard work, dedication to craft and a mastery of technique which produces superior art.
Do you have it?
This is a much more important question than you think. It affects almost everything you do.
When you approach a galley owner to get your works hung you must have confidence. When you speak with a gallery or museum director you must have confidence, when you speak to a newspaper or television reporter you must have confidence.
And kids like a shark they can smell blood in the water.
Confidence can be a gift. The rare and blessed few just have it. They come from the shell brining with confidence and know just what they want to create and just how to do it and just what it means to them and just what you should see when you view it and just the right way to express that to any non-artist listening.
Oh yeah, you do have to be able to express to the many who have no art in their souls just what it is that you do and why you do it and what they should get from it and why they should want to. And you have to do that without making their eyes roll back in their heads and them losing the will to live.
So just how do you manage to find the right parents to be born with confidence? You don’t. For most of us you have to go out and earn it, borrow it, beg for it.
Now there are a lot of things you can do to start the ball rolling. Take Char-ity, no, the Char-ity show. It is an un-juried show, you don’t have to get passed a panel of experts, art critics, learned judges, you just have to enter.
Why would you enter an un-juried show? Because there’s no chance of being rejected. Com-on now admit it ever since that time way back in high school when you wanted a date for the Junior prom and the person you wanted was a complete jerk and not only shot you down but they did it in front of all of their pals and then told the whole school and you slunk into a hole and didn’t come out until your sophomore year at college. And all of that pain and shame and suffering was way before Facebook where the whole world can know of your rejection in less than a nanosecond and so you have never said a word to anyone in public except for the times you have been stopped by a traffic cop and had to answer questions and got a ticket anyway.
Rejection hurts. There just is no way around it and worse than that it undercuts your confidence. It steals away the courage you need to fight for the art you work so hard to create.
So an un-juried show is just the ticket. Try a few of them and see what it does for your self-confidence. The trick to overcoming any hurt is to do it again and again until you build up a callus. That rough patch of skin will keep the paper-cuts or rejection from making it through to the place where it can bleed away all of your courage and leave you shaking and damaged.
Yes, I do know. Anyone in any area of the creative arts has to develop calluses. Rejection is the one thing you can guarantee. Wanna experience real rejection? Try writing. You do it alone, without anyone to cheer for you, you submit it to markets where you only know the names of the acquisitions editor and you know that they are over-worked and under-paid and they want to reject you so they can go home, eat and fall asleep in front of the TV. Calluses, it’s the only way to survive.
Long before I got into the graphic arts I did a decade in the theater, both as a work actor and as a writer/producer. Now there’s rejection served up daily on a silver platter. The Talent as they call the lambs being led to the slaughter are herded in to a room where an harried assistant director takes a look and makes a decision on who will get to read base only on the looks of the sheep.
And even the pretty people have to go through it. You see there are hundreds of twenty year old blondes with good tans and bikini bodies and that makes a lot to choose from. Better to be an old ugly hunchback, there won’t be all that many roles but there won’t be all that many old, ugly hunchbacks to fight off either!
Doing the thing and being rejected many, many times is the only way to build up the calluses you need to armor your confidence. The pain never goes away but it does get less and less with each new rejection.
Then after years of being rejected one day you’ll get in and be surprised and honored and thrilled and pleased and the misery of building up all of that confidence will be worth it.
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