Below is just some of my artistic endeavors.
I am a portrait artist who works in colored pencil and graphite.
I write and illustrate a comic strip: Sunny and Gloom.
I write miscellaneous things that may or may not become something more.
I doodle.
I draw flowers in colored pencil.
I draw tattoo designs mostly tribals though I have done others as well.
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Doubts over Picasso sale THE AUSTRALIAN Corrie Perkin | May 10, 2008 ROD Menzies, the owner of art auction houses Deutscher-Menzies and Lawson-Menzies, makes no secret of his ambition to be the market leader. But this week, when he announced his decision to sell a 1954 Picasso painting through his own D-M Sydney auction next month, even industry colleagues were perplexed. Why sell the painting in Australia and not, say, New York or London? And why auction a work valued at between $5million and $7million at a time of international art market uncertainty and local nervousness about the economy? Mr Menzies paid $US4.6 million for the vibrant painting, titled Sylvette, at a New York auction two years ago. The businessman, who made his fortune through cl... (3933 more chars)
ART Italians, Cleveland museum not quite in sync over agreement to return works Saturday, May 10, 2008 Steven Litt Plain Dealer Art Critic Italy sent conflicting signals Friday about whether it had reached an agreement with the Cleveland Museum of Art over returning ancient works of art the country believes were looted. The Associated Press reported that the Italian Culture Ministry in Rome announced completion of an agreement with the museum under which 16 unspecified objects would be returned. But when contacted by The Plain Dealer, Maurizio Fiorilli, the lawyer handling the negotiations for Italy, at first said that there was no agreement yet and that the original AP report was "sbagliato" -- mistaken. He said the culture ministry's statement was only "an expres... (1737 more chars)
Freud's Heavyweight Nude Gets $35 Million Price: Martin Gayford Commentary by Martin Gayford May 12 (Bloomberg) -- The art world may be about to welcome a new heavyweight champion. If the estimate is correct, ``Benefits Supervisor Sleeping'' by Lucian Freud is about to become the most expensive work by a living artist to change hands at auction. The naked portrait of a very substantial public servant goes under the hammer at Christie's International in New York tomorrow evening, with the auction house expecting the 1995 work to fetch up to $35 million. That compares with the 22 million pounds ($42.87 million) that London's National Gallery paid in 2004 for Raphael's ``Madonna of the Pinks.'' That was a smaller picture of a s... (2953 more chars)
There are lots of things I should be doing right now. One of them is art. OK most of them are art or art related. What am I doing instead? Google Image Labeler. Dammit I am addicted.
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The community of the World Artist Network is formed by a diverse network of emerging and established artists, art appreciators, curators, students, teachers, galleries, collectors and more. WAN Blog is the perfect space to share your thoughts on exhibits you have visited, artists you admire, new techniques or media you are experimenting with, openings, news... anything and everything that brings the art world together.