Below is just some of my artistic endeavors.
I am a portrait artist who works in colored pencil and graphite.
I periodically write and illustrate a comic strip: Sunny and Gloom.
I write miscellaneous things that may or may not become something more.
I draw caricatures that I have dubbed Cliffcatures.
I doodle.
I draw flowers in colored pencil.
I draw tattoo designs mostly tribals though I have done others as well.
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.
(Wednesday, 12 November 2008) Written by WAN D Jour
JAMES BRADSHAW Globe and Mail Update November 12, 2008 at 3:58 AM EST Emerging from the debris of decades of squabbles and hundreds of pages of legal documents, Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario unveils its revamped and redesigned home this week in a state of happy detente with neighbourhood residents who once voiced fierce opposition to its transformational plans. The tensions and spats between homeowners of the Grange area date back to expansion projects completed in 1974, 1977 and 1993, which were opposed and altered by a small but tenacious group determined to protect the area's residential quality from the seemingly ever-expanding structure in their midst. But as they contemplated weeks of costly legal hearings at the Ontario Municipal Board over the most recent construc... (5434 more chars)
(Wednesday, 22 October 2008) Written by WAN D Jour
Diamond skull will go to auction if it fails to sell, says Damien Hirst Cristina Ruiz | 20.10.08 | Issue 195 LONDON. Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted skull, For the Love of God, will be sold at auction if it does not find a buyer, according to the artist. In a long interview last month with the French newspaper, Le Figaro, Hirst said: “I sold 2/3 [of the diamond skull] to an investment company, I kept 1/3...We have an agreement. If they can’t sell it privately, within eight years, it will go to auction.” In a separate interview also published last month, Hirst’s business manager Frank Dunphy told Time magazine that he and Hirst’s London dealer, Jay Jopling, are also investors in the work. For the Love of God was first displayed in the exhibition... (1016 more chars)
Bid to rescue Berlin Wall artwork Whoever thought 40 years ago that at any point in time there would be efforts made to actually rescue the Wall? For decades the Berlin Wall was the physical symbol of the Cold War "Iron Curtain" between East and West. But since it was breached in 1989, one remaining part of the wall has taken on a new role, as a 1.3km art gallery. Age and graffiti have taken their toll on the art, however, and a 2.2m euro project is now under way to restore it. Organisers say the East Side Gallery is a tribute to those who died, and hope work will be complete by 2009 - the 20th anniversary of the wall's fall. In January 1989, East German leader Erich Honecker proclaimed that the Berlin Wall, built to prevent people escaping from Soviet-controlled East Berlin t... (2193 more chars)
Steve McQueen's film Hunger Set to Open at London Film Festival Steve McQueen's film Hunger, about the last six weeks of the life of Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker Bobby Sands, is set to be released on October 31. The film premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. McQueen received the Caméra d'Or (first-time director) Award at Cannes. Kicking off with a special gala screening at this year's prestigious London Film Festival on October 19th 2008, HUNGER is an intimate portrayal of life in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison at the time of the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. The film explores what happens when the morality of people, whether prisoners or prison guards, is tested to the limit, when the body itself is used as a weapon for peop... (41 more chars)
The Yale Center for British Art features The Art of David Cox NEW HAVEN, CT - This autumn the Yale Center for British Art will be the first and only U.S. venue for a major retrospective of David Cox (1783-1859). Marking the 150th anniversary of the artist’s death, Sun, Wind, and Rain: The Art of David Cox examines the work of this important figure in the development of British landscape and watercolor painting. The first significant exhibition devoted to his work since 1983, it includes more than one hundred of his watercolors and drawings and approximately a dozen oil paintings. The works are drawn from the Center’s collection, as well as from public and private collections in Great Britain and the United States. Sun, Wind, and Rain: The Art of David Cox has been co-or... (2268 more chars)
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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.