One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
~~Lord of the Rings
More unique and gorgeous rings can be found at https://www.mysecretwood.com/.
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Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Michael Parkes
Born in 1944, Michael Parkes studied graphic art and painting at the University of Kansas, and then traveled for 3 years through Asia and Europe.
Parkes is both a uniquely talented painter and master of the art of original stone lithography.
He is a painter, sculptor, and stone lithographer.
But more so he has been called the world’s leading Magical Realist.
It has been said of Parkes, “His work evokes a mysterious atmosphere, which can often only be deciphered with the help of ancient mythology and eastern philosophy.”
More of Michael Parkes‘ striking work — sculpture, painting and lithographs — can be found at Michael Parkes.
Don’t Do It Just Because Everyone Does It
The other day a friend asked me why I didn’t put my Sunday Evening Art Gallery on Pinterest. After all, there is a larger audience, and it would get better coverage.
This is probably true. When one writes something, one hopes a lot of people will read it and like it and share it. It’s true. It’s the same when you write a book, or paint a painting. You want people to see what you see, feel what you feel.
But what you wrap your creativity in says a lot about you, too. The colors you choose, the things you sketch, all showcase your views on love, life — everything that makes us human.
We all have dreams of how we want our world to be. Most times we fall short. Not a big deal. We all can’t live in our dreams. But we can create our dreams. We can create atmosphere, characters, life, death, love — anything we want. Any way we want.
When I think of art galleries I think of the Art Institute in Chicago, or Blue Spiral 1 Gallery in Asheville, NC I visited last August. I think of the special care galleries take to showcase their artists. The way they display collections and single pieces. Pottery, sketchings, paintings, steel work — all stand out on their own because of the way they are wrapped in creativity.
That’s why I created the Sunday Evening Art Gallery.
I created a space that feels classic and comfortable and is open 24 hours a day. You can have a cup of coffee in the morning and wander through one of the galleries, or a glass of wine in the evening and catch three or four.
The art is unique. Amazing. Styles most people have never seen.
Why post it side-by-side with dozens of other posters? Why let the beauty, the fun, the uniqueness get lost in everyone else’s shadow?
The same is true for whatever you create. Don’t use the colors everyone else uses; don’t make the same shapes, the same poetry that everyone else does. Not unless you love what everyone else does. Put your own spin on your dreams. Color and paint the world the way you see it — the way you want others to see it. Do it your way!
And let me know where to find you and your dreams. I’m always looking forward to learning, seeing, discovering something — and someone — new!
P.S. Do stop by the Gallery — bring a glass of chocolate milk with you and stay a while!
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Fractals
In the mind’s eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
~~James Gleick
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A fractal is a never-ending pattern.
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Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales.
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They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop.
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Geometrically, they exist in between our familiar dimensions.
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Fractal patterns are extremely familiar, since nature is full of fractals.
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Fractal: A set which is larger than the universe.
~Soumya Prakash Sahu
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Edgar Artis
Edgar Artis is an Armenian fashion illustrator who is using everyday objects and paper cutouts in order to complete his beautiful drawings.
He draws women and in dresses them in something from the real world.
Edgar uses flowers, feathers, burnt paper, fruit and all sorts of other materials to make beautiful dresses.
His illustrations are full of grace, imagination, and playfulness.
These are not just your average fashion designs, but real works of art.
Edgar’s art makes you realize that anything in life can be modeled into a beautiful moment of art.
You can find more of Edgar Artis’s amazing creations at https://www.instagram.com/edgar_artis/.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Tatsuya Tanaka
“Everyone must have had similar thoughts at least once.”
“Broccoli and parsley might sometimes look like a forest, or the tree leaves floating on the surface of the water might sometimes look like little boat.”
“Everyday occurrences seen from a pygmy’s perspective can bring us lots of fun thoughts.”
“I wanted to take this way of thinking and express it through photographs.”
“It would be great if you could use it to add a little enjoyment to your everyday life.”
How could we not be fascinated by such work?
More of Tatsuya Tanaka‘s amazing work can be found at http://miniature-calendar.com/.
Copy quoted from Tatsuya Tanaka website.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Jen Stark
Jen Stark (1983 -) is a contemporary artist whose majority of work involves creating paper sculptures.
Her artwork mimics intricate patterns and colors found in nature while exploring ideas of replication and infinity.
Stark takes construction or acid-free colored paper and intricately cuts each sheet with an X-acto knife, layering the paper into a topographical landscape of color and bold shapes.
Stark’s works have been inspired by many things around the natural world such as infinity, topographical maps, fractals, designs in nature, microscopic patterns, wormholes and sliced anatomy.
In her own words, “I love thinking about how enormous shapes out in the universe can have the same patterns as tiny microorganisms under a microscope.”
“How geometric shapes and certain spiraling patterns apply to designs in nature big and small.”
More of Jen Stark‘s work can be found at http://www.jenstark.com/.
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Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Leonardo Da Vinci
But Da Vinci was so much more than a painter.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, having been a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer.
He spent a great deal of time immersing himself in nature, testing scientific laws, dissecting bodies (human and animal) and thinking and writing about his observations.
This was at the same time as King Henry VII — swords and maces, leeching, pestilence, and non-existent technology.
That is why, when you are an artist, your mantle is wide and long and all-encompassing.
You are a multi-colored rainbow of curiosity and creativity.
Just like Leonardo.
More of Leonardo Da Vinci’s works can be found at http://www.leonardoda-vinci.org/.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Robert Venosa
Robert Venosa (January 21, 1936 – August 9, 2011) studied the Misch Technique (also known as the Master’s Technique) discovered by the seventeenth-century Flemishmasters Hubert and Jan Van Eyck, which utilizes the system of painting in tempera and oil glazes.
This technique is perfect for painting the crystalline worlds that Venosa envisions.
Light goes through the surface oil glazes, bounces off the white tempera underpainting and comes back out hitting the eye with the illusion of transparent depth.
For Robert, it was more than a career — it was a spiritual path of self inquiry and direct experience of transcendent realities.
He has been called a visionary, his paintings slicing through the ethereal and bringing it closer to home.
His neighbor and friend Salvador Dali once said, “Bravo Venosa! Dali is pleased to see spiritual madness painted with such a fine technique.”
More of Robert Venosa’s works can be found at Robert Venosa and at rvenosa.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Collin van der Sluijs
Collin van der Sluijs is a renowned painter and illustrator from Maastricht, The Netherlands.
After graduation from the art academy at St. Joost in 2004, Collin moved to the south of the Netherlands where he now lives and works on exhibitions and projects.
His work can be described as personal pleasures and struggles in daily life.
Working without sketches or notes, the artist dives into each artwork with spray paint, acrylics, and ink as ideas take hold and images slowly emerge.
Collin’s art also includes fascinating wall murals.
He frequently examines themes of the natural world such as the cycle of life, the depictions of various species of birds, and the psychology of beings both human and animalistic.
More of Collin van der Sluijs’ art can be found at Collosal or at his website Collin van der Sluijs .
Keep Warm With a Visit to the Sunday Evening Art Gallery
Snowed in this weekend?
Need a break from writing your novel?
Bored with TV? Radio?
Come take a break at the Sunday Evening Art Gallery!
A number of galleries have recently been updated, bringing you more of the extraordinary art that makes the Gallery a popular stop-by gallery.
Here are a few examples of unusual and fascinating art:
It’s the kind of world you can visit again and again. There are images there for inspiration, for daydreams, and for sharing with friends.
Stay warm — fill a goblet with wine or chocolate milk, put some easy-listening music on in the background, and stroll through the magic of the Sunday Evening Art Gallery.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Marina Printseva
Talented and unique artist Marina Printseva was born in 1949 in the city of Pskov, Russia.
She is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, and a member of the International design and textiles Association.
Her technique is a brilliant mixture of embroidery, painting and application.
Marina created a special world filled with poetic images and metaphors influenced by Old World St. Petersburg
Her work is populated by visions and shadows from the past.
You can tell by the delicate work and mixed media that her visions are intricate and true.
You can find more of Marina Printseva‘s inspirational work at Marina Printseva and unique-art-by-marina-printseva.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Kathryn Vercillo
Quite simply, crochet feeds the human need for balance in our lives. Making something with our hands reflects something basic about ourselves. We want to work hard without losing touch with our creative selves; we want to earn money without losing our souls; and we want to be part of a larger picture of human progression while still maintaining our individuality. – Crochet Designer Vickie Howell
The Art of Crocheting is so much more than a hook and yarn.
It is a talent honed on cold nights and empty days
And during the rare times children are napping.
It is the miraculous obsession of creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn, thread, or strands of other materials using a crochet hook.
It is a glorious celebration of material and creativity and vision.
It is patience, perseverance, and practice.
And besides all of that — it’s beautiful Art.
These lovely images were found at http://www.crochetconcupiscence.com/2012/03/100-unique-crochet-scarves/, one of the sites created by artist Kathryn Vercillo http://kathrynvercillo.com/
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Pierre Brissaud
Pierre Brissaud (1885- 1964) was a French illustrator, painter, and a prominent figure of French Art Deco.
He created illustrations for publications Les Feuillets d’Art, La Gazette du Bon Ton, Fortune, House & Garden, Vanity Fair, and Vogue.
Many of his illustrations are realistic leisure scenes of the well-to-do.
From the mid-1920 to the early 1930’s, Pierre Brissaud was known for his stencil prints meant for magazine covers and advertising.
Not only did Brissaud created prints and posters for fashion houses, but he also did book illustrations including Manon Lescaut, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Madame Bovary.
It is through his creative artistry that the reflections of elegance of days gone by are preserved.
More about Pierre Brissaud can be found at http://bestarts.org/artist/pierre-brissaud/
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Pysanky Eggs
A pysanka, or Pysanky Egg, is a Ukrainian Easter Egg decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk designs.
The word pysanka comes from the verb pysaty, “to write”, as the designs are not painted on, but written with beeswax.
Ukrainians have been decorating eggs, creating these miniature jewels, for countless generations.
There is a ritualistic element involved, magical thinking, a calling out to the gods and goddesses for health, fertility, love, and wealth.
The pysanky was believed to possess an enormous power not only in the egg itself, which harbored the nucleus of life, but also in the symbolic designs and colors which were drawn upon the egg in a specific manner.
The symbolic ornamentation of the pysanky consists of geometric motifs, with some animal and plant elements.
The intricately colored eggs were used for various social and religious occasions and were considered to be a talisman, a protector against evil, as well as harbingers of good.
This magical craft has brought the world another dimension of beauty, creativity, and fine art.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Chemistry Cat
Chemistry Cat, also known as Science Cat, is a series of puns and science jokes appearing as captions around a cat behind some chemistry glassware wearing black rimmed glasses and a red bow tie.
While the source of the image remains a mystery, it is likely a stock photograph, possibly of Russian origin.
This wonderfully serious cat with a quick wit has changed the face of Chemistry.
Chemistry Cat puts a smile on scientists and non-scientists alike.
And isn’t that the purpose of Art?
To bring enjoyment and a smile into your life?
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Bathsheba Sculpture
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ~Michelangelo Buonarroti
More of Bathsheba’s fantastic steel sculptures can be found at http://www.bathsheba.com/
Sparkles from the Gallery on a Sparkling Saturday
It’s a beautiful Fall day outside today — cool temperatures, bright sunshine, the falling leaves whispering a sigh of sleep as they fall in a pile at the bottom of their trees. It’s a perfect day to be out and about, or sitting and writing, as long as life and sunshine are abundant.
I thought you might enjoy visiting some sparkles at the Sunday Evening Art Gallery this afternoon or this evening as well, so here are a few links and their sparkling companions.
Paperweights
Dale Chiluly
Luke Jerram
Ice Sculptures
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Ray Villafane
Artists who truly create from the heart leave lasting impressions on our minds and hearts
Sometimes, those memories are mixed with a bit of awe, a bit of amazement
and a bit of fear
Ray Villafane graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1991.
Having a passion for children, he elected for a career in teaching.
After several custom-carved requests from students’ parents, Ray realized he was on to something with his pumpkins and started offering them to local hotels and restaurants.
Ray’s hobby of pumpkin carving exploded after winning the Grand Prize for Food Network’s Outrageous Pumpkin Challenge I and II.
The rest, as the cliché points out, is history.
More of Ray Villafane‘s extraordinary talents can be found at his website
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Anton Seminov
There are times when an artist’s view of reality is frightening.
Anton Semenov is a 28-year-old digital painter and graphic designer born and raised in Bratsk, Russia.
He is a digital painter, graphic designer, and, according to some, bringer of nightmares.
His unique surrealistic style and phenomenal attention to detail and preciseness has crafted his technique into truly his own dark vision of the world around us.
As in all nightmares, there is something fascinating about the way his mind wraps around the darkness and breathes life into it, bringing them into the daylight.
His works feature unique interpretations of the subconscious world.
We might not always feel comfortable with his interpretations, but we are thankful he is able to create that which we fear to share.
More of Anton Semenov’s work can be found at http://www.awwwards.com/anton-semenov-disturbing-and-frightening-illustrations.html and http://gloom82.livejournal.com/.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Genie Bottles
Close your eyes, child
Let the Genie in the Bottle
Find your dreams
And take them away
To worlds unseen and lives unlived
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Dreamcatchers
DREAM CATCHERS
An ancient Chippewa tradition
The dream net has been made
For many generations
Where spirit dreams have played.
Hung above the cradle board,
Or in the lodge up high,
The dream net catches bad dreams,
While good dreams slip on by.
Bad dreams become entangled
Among the sinew thread.
Good dreams slip through the center hole,
While you dream upon your bed.
This is an ancient legend,
Since dreams will never cease,
Hang this dream net above your bed,
Dream on, and be at peace.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Riusuke Fukahori
Riusuke Fukahori is known best for his resin-based studies of Japanese goldfish.
Riusuke Fukahori does it so realistically you never imagine that this is just his 3D art form of goldfish, captured as if time stood still.
Fukahori alternates between pouring resin into a vessel and painting goldfish with acrylic paint, giving the resulting work a three-dimensional optical effect.
Most of his works are contained in conventional household items, such as cups and bowls.
The artist was initially attracted to his goldfish because he admired them and viewed their domestication as a metaphor for the stifling conditions of modern life.
Though he infamously keeps dozens of fish around his studio for observation, Fukahori prefers to execute his works from his impressions and memories, and depicts both existing species of fish and invented hybrids.
As Fukahori states, “I didn’t invent resin and not the first to use resin. I am not a resin artist. I am a goldfish artist.”
And as one can see, Riusuke Fukahori does so in exquisite beauty and detail.
More fantastic art by Riusuke Fukahori can be found on his Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/RiusukeFukahori. A fantastic video of Riusuke performing his art can be found at Riusuke Fukahori.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Harps
The Harp that once through Tara’s halls
The soul of music shed,
Now hangs as mute on Tara’s walls
As if that soul were fled.
So sleeps the pride of former days,
So glory’s thrill is o’er,
And hearts, that once beat high for praise,
Now feel that pulse no more.
No more to chiefs and ladies bright
The harp of Tara swells:
The chord alone, that breaks at night,
Its tale of ruin tells.
Thus Freedom now so seldom wakes,
The only throb she gives,
Is when some heart indignant breaks,
To show that still she lives.
Thomas Moore (1779–1852)
You Rock!
When I started this blog back on April 18, 2011, I must have had 20 blogs already written ahead of time. That’s how excited I was. Before I started my Sunday Evening Art Gallery blog, I probably had 10 or 11 artists on hold. That, too, shows how excited I was to get started.
Now days I am more of a on-the-spot blog writer, sharing the Goddess’s humor as she calls. Which is all the time. And my Art Blog’s collection is doubling all the time as I find more and more unique artists to showcase.
This is what creativity is all about.
Doing what you love. When you want to. Because you want to.
I don’t have an anniversary to celebrate, or moment in time to highlight today. All I wanted to do was thank you all for supporting me, reading me, looking at my art. Telling your friends. Or just checking me out yourself.
I can’t believe there are so many branches to Creativity. I’ve talked to quilters, sculptors, painters, publicists, graphic artists, gardeners, writers, poets, photographers, calligraphers — all sorts of artists with all sorts of stories. Everyone has a different story, background, reason for exploring their creative side.
Think of the things you can create! Dragons, spaceships, murderers, gardens, parentless heroes, ghosts, musical prodigies, statues, symbols. You can change history, travel through history, interpret history. As an artist there is nothing you can’t do.
This is why I encourage all of you to “do your thing.” Know your base is strong and expand from there. There is no right or wrong when it comes to the arts. And the more you do it, the better you get at it.
I just wanted to take time to than you all. For your friendship, for your curiosity. And for your encouragement. I hope we hang together for a dozen more years. I hope you continue to enjoy my art and my pretzel-logic mind. You inspire me, and I hope I do the same for you.
Huzzah!
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was the leading figure of the so-called Vienna Secession, an art movement that rebelled against the established art concepts and introduced a new style similar to Art Nouveau.
To bring more abstract and purer forms to the designs of buildings and furniture, glass and metalwork, the group gave birth to another form of modernism in the visual arts and they named their own new movement: Secession.
Klimt was seen as an artist who was far ahead of his time.
Much of the work that was produced during the Austrian born artist’s career, however, was seen as controversial.
Although symbolism was used in many of his art forms, it was not at all subtle, and it went far beyond what the imagination during the time frame accepted.
Klimt’s primary subject was the female body, and his works bordered on eroticism.
Although his work was not widely accepted during his time, some of the pieces that Gustav Klimt did create during his career are today seen as some of the most important and influential pieces to come out of Austria.
More of Gustav Klimt’s work can be found at http://www.klimtgallery.org and http://www.gustav-klimt.com.
New Galleries Open at the Gallery!!
As we head into the “Last Vacation Weekend of the Summer”, I want to show off a couple of new Sunday Evening Galleries I’ve added recently. I have to admit the images are stunning, the artwork remarkable. Please go check them out if you get time!
Jellyfish
Face Off
Earrings
Natalya Sots
See you on the other side of Reality!
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Richard Preston
Talented Canadian artist Richard Preston has been experimenting with textures and shapes all his life.
In 1979 Preston began to establish West Coast Jacket – the first in a series of military jackets.
Beading or embroidering them, he creates a different story or on every jacket.
Army clothing embroidered with the sun, clouds, scattering stars, river flows, flowers (including a lush pink wreath on the head of the skeleton symbolizing death), and designs with a touch of psychedelic aesthetics, makes a strong and rather contradictory impression, turning each jacket – originally impersonal thing – in a unique and truly conceptual object.
Preston, working with new material, draws attention to global problems, in particular, demilitarization.
Preston does not limit himself by the narrow direction in art, trying himself as a painter, sculptor, designer, photographer, writer, actor, and musician.
One of his hobbies was working with beads, and for nearly thirty years he made original creations, filled with real ethnic motifs and vibrant energies of the author.
A series “stratigraphy” is devoted to geology. With ribbons, threads and beads, the artist tried to show different periods of his work, as well as layers of different rocks of the earth tells the story of its formation.
More of Richard Preston’s work can be found at http://viola.bz/richard-prestons-textile-art/ and at http://www.prestvilleartsite.com/.
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Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Full Circle
A few weeks ago I fell in love with the atmosphere, art, and the Biltmore I found in North Carolina.
My visit gave me a greater appreciation of the world of individuality, art, and wealth.
Last weekend I wandered through the competition barn of a small county fair.
When I came upon the Art Show, I knew I had come full circle.
I realized that this is where it all starts.
This is where Jackson Pollock and John Singer Sargent began.
Where Dali dabbled and Wiggans wandered.
This is where Richard Morris Hunt found architecture and Katsushika Hokusai played with ink drawings.
Where either because of a parent’s encouragement or despite lack of it, a creativity seed found fertility and grew.
This is the uncharted land of creativity, of space and design and imagination.
This…is Art.
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Pictures courtesy of Vilas County Fair, 2016
and CJA, 2016
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Karina Llergo
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Karina Llergo works to find fresh ways to evoke energy through human motion by turning human figures into fluid art.
Dance, air and water are big influences her work.
According to Karina, “From dancers I take the beautiful mobility of their bodies, from air, its provoking rhythmic motion and from water, its captivating deconstructed reflections.”
“I know a piece is completed when I close my eyes and feel its rhythm of dance, water and air singing in harmony.”
As a lifelong dancer, competitive swimmer and avid skydiver, she found herself drawn to depicting on canvas the palpable energy of the human body in motion.
Of Mexican, Armenian and Spanish descent, Karina’s diverse background influences her life in every way, as does her insatiable passion for the creative arts.
More of Karina Llergo‘s gorgeous artwork can be found at her website http://karinallergosalto.com/
You can also find Karina on Facebook www.facebook.com/KarinaLlergoSalto and
Instagram instagram.com/karinallergosalto#
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Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Leonid Afremov
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. ~~ Pablo Picasso
Leonid Afremov (born July 12, 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Russian–Israeli modern impressionistic artist who works mainly with a palette knife and oils.
Afremov likes to view his artwork as politically neutral — no hidden messages, no alternate agenda.
He tries to draw the viewer towards certain feelings rather than telling a story through his work.
While Afremov’s early works are influenced by the masterpieces of older painters, his artwork is very unique and recognizable.
The artist invites us to experience the world of simple beauty which constantly surrounds us.
Leonid’s art easily transports you to other worlds, other times, other ways of thinking and feeling.
And, after all, isn’t that the purpose of Art?
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Leonid Afremov’s artwork can be viewed and purchased at https://afremov.com/. You can also follow Leonid and his artwork on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/leonidafremovofficialpage and at Twitter at https://twitter.com/AfremovArt.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Face Off
Face Off is a competition/elimination series in which special effects make-up artists participate in elaborate challenges for a grand prize and the honor of being Hollywood’s next great effects artist.
I know that the premise is television based, but the fascinating art that comes from amateur artists transcends the medium.
Each week, the artists create monsters, aliens, goddesses, and other imaginary characters, and come up with strange and often nightmarish creations.
If you can get past the bizzarre end product of the art, take a closer look at the talent it takes to create beauties and monstrosities.
Like an art show competition, artists compete not only with each other but with their own creativity.
Everyone has the same tools, the same timeline, yet they must come up with a design that has never been seen before.
As writers and painters take images from the mind and bring them into the second dimension, prosthetic artists must bring that same vision into the third dimension, giving it depth, weight, and height.
There are no computer generated effects here — only pure, hard work, deft fingers, and the drive to create something magnificent.
Face Off is can be found on the SciFi Channel and at their website, http://www.syfy.com/faceoff.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Jacek Yerka
Jacek Yerka was born in Toruń, Poland, in 1952.
Yerka studied fine art and graphics prior to becoming a full-time artist in 1980.
As a child, Yerka loved to draw and make sculptures. He hated playing outside, and preferred to sit down with a pencil, creating and exploring his own world.
Yerka resisted pressures of his instructors to adopt the less detailed techniques of contemporary art and continued to work in the classic, meticulous Flemish style he still favors to this day.
He creates surrealistic compositions Based on precise painting techniques, taking pattern from former masters like Jan van Eyck or Hieronymus Bosch.
Like many artists, Yerka pulls on thoughts and memories of his past to create these marvelous artworks.
Yerka’s carefully rendered paintings (acrylics on canvas) are filled with images from the artist’s childhood, one heavily influenced by the surroundings of his home during the 1950’s, and his grandmother’s kitchen, where he spent much of his time.
According to Yerka, “My greatest source of inspiration is always (and I bet will be) my childhood souvenirs – that places, remembered feelings, fragrances and technique of 1950s .”
More of Jacek Yerka‘s wonderful art can be found at the Morpheus Gallery and at his website http://www.yerkaland.com/.
Side Trip — Craig L Haupt
Now and then I like to take little side trips into the lives of some of the artists I highlight both here and in my Art Gallery.
Although according to his website (http://clhaupt.com) Craig Haupt has a degree in Art Education, it’s his love of creative doodles that’s led to a career of whimsical images.
Why I am taking time to share his creativity is simple. On his WordPress blog ( https://craiglhaupt.com/) I have watched him turn this:
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Into this:
I love the creative process. Whether it’s writing, painting, sketching, stenciling, it all starts small and obtuse and grows into something wonderful and unique.
Craig’s delightful explanation “From childhood to present, I have been surrounded by my doodles and countless stick figures that have never left me,” rings true for all of us. There is always some thing, some thought, some feeling, that follows us around all the time. Something we just can’t forget about. Something we can’t let go.
I find a touch of doodle in a depth of color in Craig’s sketches and drawings. To take a scrambled beginning and turn it into something esthetic is no easy feat. It’s not often an artist shows you all their steps, so I thought it fun to share both ends of the spectrum.
You can also see more of Craig’s work at my Sunday Evening Art Gallery http://wp.me/p5LGaO-pZ.
I hope you enjoyed this little “Side Trip”! See you soon!
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Stained Glass
“…I’m innocent still — inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken — and when I see your light it stains my soul with color …”
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
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Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Sue Benner
While pursuing a degree in molecular biology and masters in biomedical illustration, Sue Benner created her vision of the microscopic universe in painted and quilted textile constructions.
She creates her richly layered quilt canvases by collaging her dye-painted and printed silks with recycled textiles to form wonderful works of art.
Sue is a recognized innovator in her field, having developed new techniques in fused quilt construction to further the expression of her ideas.
According to Benner, “My love affair with fabric began with my first memories of the clothes my mother made me, recalling exact hue, fiber content, and weave. In the ensuing years, my mother taught me to sew, carefully and creatively. “
“I see a direct connection between the concept of quilt and the assembly of units to make a larger whole.”
“I revel in the simple act of placing one fabric next to another.”
More of Sue Benner’s fantastic creations can be found on her website http://www.suebenner.com/
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Bořek Šípek
Bořek Šípek (June 14, 1949 – February 13, 2016) was a Czech architect and designer.
After studying furniture design at the Art School in Prague, architecture at the Art School in Hamburg, and philosophy in Stuttgart, Šípek finished his doctorate in architecture.
He taught industrial design and architecture, then started his own studio for design and architecture in Amsterdam and Prague.
Bořek Šípek has always felt like an architect more than a designer.
Šípek explains, “I try to interpret new contexts in a new way. It is much closer to me to newly explain something that has roots than to experiment.”
His fantastic works can be found in important museums in Europe, Japan and America, among others.
Bořek Šípek is a master of glass, chandeliers, lamps, carafes, wall hangings, all manners of creative art.
But for this round, I treat you with his tables.
More of Bořek Šípek‘s beautiful work can be found at http://www.sipek.com and http://www.borek-sipek-design.com.
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Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Ear Jewelry
Spring Bling
Summer Fling
Need a New
Earring
Have some fun
With just one
Or a pair
Earrings
Show your ear
To those who hear
The song that says
I’m here
Spring Bling
Summer Fling
Need a New
Earring
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Szymon Klimek
Szymon Klimek was born in Poznań, Poland in 1954 of a family blessed with artistic abilities.
Szymon’s creations are fully functional machines, not bits and pieces tossed together to look like machines.
Made from 0.1 millimeter sheets of brass and bronze, Klimek’s miniature machines dance effortlessly in wine glass enclosures than measure little more than 4 inches across.
A typical miniature requires two or three months of work from starting the drawings to finishing the device.
But the most difficult step, according to Klimek, is installation of the miniature into a glass goblet.
From the start, the miniatures are designed to fit within a spherical glass goblet having an inside diameter of 112 mm (4.4 in), a height of 142 mm (5.6 in), and a mouth opening of 86 mm (3.4 in).
He manually forms the shapes (no fancy machine tools) and glues them together before applying a clear lacquer finish.
More of Szymon Klimek‘s fantastic machine work can be found at http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/Klimek.htm and at his website http://edrobiazg.com.pl/.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Sandcastles
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.~~ Eric Knight
Saturday Morning Reflections on Creativity
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Lazy Saturday mornings always bring out the philisopher in me. Especially when I listen to Martini Music from the 60s in the background.
Ever take one of those online tests — What is your favorite (fill-in-the-blank)?
Sometimes they’re easy. Favorite Food: Spaghetti. Favorite drink: Milk. (I know..boring…) Other times it’s a little catchy. Favorite Music? Ah…in what category? Favorite Book? Again, I need a genre. Favorite Dessert? Now, you really need to specify…
So it is with picking out an artist’s work for my Sunday Evening Art Gallery blog.
Sometimes it’s easy. Judit Czinkné Poór specializes in incredible cookie designs. Craig L. Haupt does whimsical abstract images. Jackson Pollock does…well, does Jackson Pollock things. The biggest problem with these artists are which 6 or 7 (or in the case of the larger Gallery, 12-15) images showcase their artistic range.
I come up with fantastic artists that span several techniques. Selecting which style or gallery to highlight is often an arduous task. Louise Bourgeois not only sculpted giant spiders but was actually best known for her representations of the female form and dreamlike imagery through paintings, prints, and installations. The Universe not only holds the glory of galaxies, but planets, stars, nebulas, gamma ray bursts, and galaxy clusters. I have had artists that are not only great sculptors but painters and sketchers, too.
How do you decide which side of their diamond to polish?
I have learned that sometimes an artist’s fame is not the same as an artist’s flame. Often what strikes an audience as unique is not necessarily what made them famous. I highlighted Luke Jerram‘s extraordinary microbiology glass works, but if you read his website, he also designed a sculpture based on the Tōhoku Japanese Earthquake and subsequent tsunami of 2011, and solar-powered kinetic chandeliers that consist of dozens of glass radiometers, which shimmer and flicker as they turn in the sunlight. Who knew?
Artists are such an eclectic lot. Writers, sculptors, painters, graphic designers, all have their favorite form of expression, their main obsession. But I imagine you can be 150% into oil painting and 150% into charcoal sketching and 150% into pen and ink and still find 150% to spend on computer graphics.
It’s all relative.
When I find an artist that I think my followers would enjoy, I research all their work. Often that’s a daunting task, for those who are truly creative, truly gifted, spread out in a hundred different directions at one time. One branch of their creativity is just as amazing as the next.
It’s not much easier when I pick a subject to highlight. In digging around, I often find 35-40 great representations under the headings of things like ice sculptures or paperweights. Each picture is more fascinating than the next. I try to include my favorites and others not in my top 10, just so I can show a fair representation of what the artist/subject is all about. After all, my favorite color may be blue, but yours may be red. And who am I to confront the difference?
That, to me, is the essence of an art director. Of a museum curator. Exploring the creative mind, the unique palate, and choosing just the right combination of awe and familiarity to showcase. We all do this in our own way — look at the pictures hanging on your walls. The crystal pieces on your mantlepieces. The books on your shelves. The flowers in your garden. The colors you pick for your outfits. The way you arrange your bookshelves.
You have created your own atmosphere with the gifts from the creative world. You are abstract, you are conservative, you are orange-reds and country blue. You are Amish and Renaissance and Science Fiction and Chick Lit. You are poetry in motion, an art critic in your own right.
And that is a beautiful way to spend your life, isn’t it?
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Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Judit Czinkné Poór
When is a cookie not a cookie?
When it is an amazing creation by Judit Czinkné Poór.
Chef Judit Czinkné Poór is the mastermind behind Hungarian cake decorating shop Mézesmanna, a small studio with a giant social media presence because of the incredible photos and videos they share of their decorative confections.
Each cookie is hand painted, the patterns often traditional patterns from folk costumes and embroideries from her native Hungary.
Judit’s deft touch makes edible creations that are almost too beautiful to eat.
Her embroidery style touches on portraiture, animals, intricate lacework, winter holidays, and floral patterns.
In addition to the folk art-inspired cookies, Poór also decorates cookies with portraits and 3D images.
A true artist, Judit Czinkné Poór and her magic can be found on her Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/Mezesmanna/, and one of many feature interviews, http://aplus.com/a/judit-czinkne-poor-decorated-cookies.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Richard Stainthorp
English artist Richard Stainthorp captures the beautiful energy and fluidity of the human body using wire.
Wire is not automatically what one would consider as a ‘material’ for creating solid, three dimensional sculptures.
But Stainthorp has been making wire sculptures since 1996.
The life-sized sculptures feature both figures in motion and at rest, expressed in the form of large-gauged strands that are densely wrapped around and through one another.
Stainthorp also allows the bent wires to shine by keeping their metallic appearance free from any obvious painting or additions.
The breathtaking spirals add a depth to these structures made of thick-gauged strands that are densely wrapped around and through one another.
More of Richard Stainthorp’s wonderful wire sculptures can be found at
http://www.stainthorp-sculpture.com/, and http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/richard-stainthorp-wire-sculptures
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Shadow Art
Like Houdini and his magic, Einstein and his physics
There is nothing more amazing than saying
How do they do that?
By the assembly of seemingly random objects
and a few squiggles here and there
An art form is born.
Called SHADOW ART, true form is made from true nonsense.
And once you experience it
The shadows will never look the same.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to My Anniversary
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him. ~Pablo Casals
Five years. I swear to the goddesss almighty, I can’t believe I’ve been writing this blog for five years. Five years today. So much has happened in this short period of time — and so much yet to happen.
I almost forgot the significance of tonight — it’s like last Friday I realized that Monday was going to be my writing anniversary, then I got fried watching my grandkids all weekend (I love the tan from that!), then my Sunday Evening blog. So I almost forgot — no, I did forget — until I was laying in bed, in the dark, trying to fall asleep.
My mind was running and running, but not about what you think. It wasn’t full of anniversary sparklers and referrals to past blogs — it was centered on a Facebook experience I had earlier in the evening.
You know how ads and reposts from other people drift in and off of your account. Most I glance at then pass by. But someone posted this picture. 
And I thought, wow..kinda cool. Maybe this is something for my Sunday Evening Art Gallery blog. So I followed the breadcrumbs and found out that this artwork — and a number of others — is done by a 14-year-old girl named Candace Walters, who just happens to be severely autistic.
I say “happens to be”, because once I did more research, her parent’s pride shown through every word they shared. Her parents wrote, “Candy is showing the World what children with autism are capable of achieving!! They have great potential for excellence!!”
How can you forget something like this?
How can you not love the beauty, the colors, the love this child brings into this world?
I have written to the e-mail address, asking if I could highlight Candy’s work on my Sunday Evening Art Gallery blog. Sometimes I just highlight artists, as they are out of reach, but this felt so much more personal. I want to shout out her light, her beauty, on my blog, but I also want her or her parents or her guardians or her family to know I’m shouting it out.
In this case it’s called respect.
So tonight, my 5-year anniversary of having shared my thoughts, my heart, and my love of writing and art to all of you, I find myself turning the spotlight to someone who deserves recognition so much more than I do.
You can find Candy’s artwork at https://www.facebook.com/candywatersautismartist, and her work can be purchased at http://www.zazzle.com/candace69/products.
Hopefully I will be able to share more of her magic with you in the future. Yet, with the sun having set on my 5th anniversary, I’m already filled with magic.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Dale Chihuly
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Dale Chihuly (born September 20, 1941), is an American glass sculptor whose work in glass led to a resurgence of interest in that spectacular medium.
Chiluly graduated in 1965 from the University of Washington where he first was introduced to glass while studying interior design, then an M.S. in sculpture in 1967 from the University of Wisconsin, where he studied glassblowing with Harvey Littleton.
He received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, then worked at a renowned glassblowing workshop in Italy where he observed the team approach to blowing glass, which is critical to the way he works today.
In 1971, Dale Chihuly cofounded Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State.
The technical difficulties of working with glass forms are considerable, yet Chihuly uses it as the primary medium for installations and environmental artwork.
Although Chihuly lost the use of his left eye in a car accident in 1976, his work with assistants has been nothing short of phenominal.
The artist professed, “Once I stepped back, I liked the view,” and pointed out that it allowed him to see the work from more perspectives and enabled him to anticipate problems faster.
More of Dale Chihuly‘s fantastic glassworks can be found at http://www.chihuly.com.
New Galleries Open!
Three New Gorgeous Galleries Added to the Sunday Evening Art Gallery!
Dozens of images that will tickle your fancy, spark your imagination, and test your belief system.
Come Visit Anytime!
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Katsushika Hokusai
An image seen on a hundred different walls, on placemats, screensavers, postcards.
And yet the incredible history of the artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is a magical tale of its own.
Hokusai was born on the 23rd day of 9th month of the 10th year of the Hōreki period (October or November 1760) to an artisan family, in the Katsushika district of Edo, Japan.
Hokusai was a Japanese master artist and printmaker of ukkiyo-e, a style of wood block prints and paintings.
Hokusai is best-known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (c. 1831) which includes the iconic and internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s (first image above).
Hokusai was known by a dozen different names through his lifetime, most likely reflecting the different artistic manifestations he went through.
It is this restlessness, this thirst for life and art, that inspired countless other artesians on this continent and others.
And it is this quiet beauty that has withstood the winds of time.
You can see all of Katsushika Hokusai‘s art at his website http://www.katsushikahokusai.org/.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Sarah Kaufman
Sarah Kaufman is a Nashville, Tennessee-based artist who creates magical, textural mixed media paintings that explore aspects of the human experience “through the lens of surreal and ethereal narratives.”
Starting with a with a blank canvas, Sarah smears, drizzles, and splatters it with venetian plaster and gesso to create texture, then seals it with layers of translucent acrylic paint.
Once the base of the painting has settled, she paints her idea brings it to life with oil paint.
Sarah’s paintings are often soft and bright, yet sparkling with ethereal feelings.
According to Sarah, “The idea of being separate and distinct from the world around us is an illusion…”
“…we are simply a collection of energy for the moment. The houses represent our concept of self, with energy swirling around us in the sky, ground, trees and animals.”
More of Sarah Kaufman‘s lovely art can be found at http://www.sarahkaufmanart.com
https://artandinventiongallery.wordpress.com/art-artists/artwork/sarah-kaufman, http://www.larkandkey.com/artists/sarah-kaufman/, and can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/sarah.kaufman.14.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Jellyfish
A jellyfish, if you watch it long enough, begins to look like a heart beating…a heart you can see right through, right into some other world where everything you ever lost has gone to hide.
~The Thing About Jellyfish, Ali Benjamin
Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Meanderings
A busy weekend has taken me far away from my Artful meanderings. Taking care of family has superceded strolling down the softly-lit backstreet of the Sunday Evening Art Gallery.
So please sip your wine, your tea, your milk-in-in-a-wine-glass, and come peek at past Gallery surprises!
Raymond Bruin
Optical Illusionism
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Dawn Whitehand
Sculptor
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Abandoned Cars
Photography
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Angelo Musco
Photography
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Louise Bourgeois
Sculptor
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Jewish Paper Cutting
Jewish paper cutting is a traditional form of Jewish folk art made by cutting figures and sentences in paper or parchment.
It is connected with various customs and ceremonies, and associated with holidays and family life.
Paper cuts often decorated ketubbot (marriage contracts), Mizrahs, and ornaments for festive occasions, and works of art.
Paper cutting was practiced by Jewish communities in both Eastern Europe and North Africa and the Middle East for centuries and has seen a revival in modern times in Israel and elsewhere.
Today, Jewish papercut art has grown in popularity beyond ritual items to art and expressions of Jewish faith, not only in Israel but worldwide.
The sacredness of this ancient art is evident in the precise drawing and cutting of each piece.
It was truly an exquisite form of art even the poor could do.
though in the past few decades the art form has seen a veritable renaissance in Israel, with artists really pushing the medium to its thematic and technical limits.
Examples of this fantastic hand-cut art can be found at http://www.judaicpapercuts.com/,
http://www.papercutjudaica.com/ and http://www.nanrubin.net/, among others.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Jackson Pollock
I knew the name Jackson Pollock before I knew of Jackson Pollock.
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912-August 11, 1956), known professionally at Jackson Pollock, was well known for his unique style of drip painting.
His name is synonymous with abstract expressionism.
Instead of using the traditional easel, Pollock affixed his canvas to the floor or the wall and poured and dripped his paint from a can; instead of using brushes he manipulated it with ‘sticks, trowels or knives’ (to use his own words), sometimes obtaining a heavy impasto by an admixture of sand, broken glass or other foreign matter.
His art is not only 2D, but 3D, with textures that jump out at you.
He was strongly supported by advanced critics, but was also subject to much abuse and sarcasm as the leader of a still little comprehended style; in 1956 Time magazine called him “Jack the Dripper”.
Although his problematic life ended early, his style is one that impresses us to this day.
More of Jackson Pollock’s art can be found at http://www.jackson-pollock.org/
and in the larger Sunday Evening Art Gallery
You Know You Want To…
Restless? Wandering? Don’t know where to go? Snow or Rain gotcha down?
How about an art gallery or two to chase the blues away?
My Sunday Evening Art Gallery has creativity of all sizes and colors for you to wander through.
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Who Knew the world was so Sparkling?
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Add a little Snazz to your Pizzazz!
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Whimsical Abstraction at its Finest!
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I Want to Hold Your Hand…
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You Mesmerize Me!
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Amazing Stairs Winding to the Stars
Come On — you know you want to — a little voyeurism never hurt anyone! And New Galleries are being added every week! Come take a peek!
Boring will be Boring no more….
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Architecture in Blue
I was blue, just as blue as I could be
Ev’ry day was a cloudy day for me
Then good luck came a-knocking at my door
Skies were gray but they’re not gray anymore
Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see
Bluebirds
Singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds
All day long
Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you’re in love, my how they fly
Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on
I never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you’re in love, my how they fly
Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on
Lyrics by Irving Berlin
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Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Loïs Mailou Jones
Loïs Mailou Jones (1905 – 1998) decided early in her career that she would become a recognized artist—no easy path for an African American girl born at the beginning of the twentieth century.
After two years in North Carolina where she experienced the frustrations and indignities of segregation first-hand, Jones left Palmer Memorial and joined the faculty of the Fine Arts Department at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Jones’s long career may be divided into four phases: the African-inspired works of the early 1930s, French landscapes, cityscapes, and figure studies from 1937 to 1951, Haitian scenes of the 1950s and 1960s, and the works of the past several decades that reflect a return to African themes.
Loïs was the first and only African American to break the segregation barrier denying African Americans the right to display visual art at public and private galleries and museums in the United States.
Throughout her 60 year career as an artist and educator, Loïs Mailou Jones broke down barriers with quiet determination during a time when inequality, racial discrimination, and segregation hindered her from gaining the acknowledgement and prestige she deserved as a talented artist.
Skillfully integrating aspects of African masks, figures, and textiles into her vibrant paintings, Jones continued to produce exciting new works at an astonishing rate of speed, even in her late eighties.
Loïs Mailou Jones was not only an artist, but a movement, inspiring the Harlem Renaissance and the future of all artists struggling to be heard.
Lois’s lucious art can be found at http://loismailoujones.com/ and at http://nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/lo%C3%AFs-mailou-jones.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Liu Bolon
Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it.
― Beau Taplin
Calling Liu Bolon Master of Illusion is putting it lightly.
Using his own body as a canvas, painting himself into the background, Bolin creates scenes that are statements about our relationship to our surroundings.
Liu Bolin was born in 1973 in Shandong, China and studied sculpture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, graduating with an MFA in 2001.
He discusses the social concerns of his home country through his artistic practice, most prominently through his ‘camouflage’ installations.
Blending in with the world around you is not as easy as it seems
But with the imagination and creativity of Liu Bolon, it becomes seamless.
More of Liu Bolon‘s amazing art can be found at
http://www.kleinsungallery.com/artists/liu-bolin, http://www.artnet.com/artists/liu-bolin/
and a great article written by the The Telegraph in the UK: http://liubolon .
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — René Lalique
René Lalique (April 6, 1860 – May 5, 1945) was a master jeweller and glass designer during the Art Nouveau period.
His superior talent and creativity evolved over time and he developed his style to such an extent that he was able to dominate the Art Deco jewelry and glass market as well.
He designed an array of beautiful pieces — glass perfume bottles, jewelry, vases, tableware, bottles, lighting, figurines, and in his later years, car hood ornaments.
In the 1920s , his style morphed from the Art Nouveau nature-inspired forms, to more streamlined pieces to suit the Art Deco aesthetic.
Lalique’s glass pieces became more opalescent, produced by adding phosphates, fluorine and aluminum oxide to glass in order to make it opaque, and by adding tiny amounts of cobalt to produce an internal blue tint.
His work passes the level of everyday to rare and extraordinary.
More of René Lalique‘s exquisite glassworks can be found at http://www.renelalique.com.
Shameless Self Promotion
Dear Friends, 
I don’t do this often — you know — really sparkle my own diamond. I love to write my blogs, I love the discoveries I’m making in my art gallery.
I know the people who follow me do so because they get a kick out of what I’m saying and/or showing. And I hope to entertain myself — oh! and you — for quite a while into the nebulous future.
So here comes the sales pitch.
If you could share my Humoring the Goddess blog (www.humoringthegoddess.com) or my Sunday Evening Art Gallery blog (www.sundayeveningartgallery.com) with just ONE friend, it might just open a new world for them — and me. They might bring a smile or smirk to someone else’s face, or eyes of wonder as they look at the incredible art I find around the world.
My Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/sundayeveningartgallery/) could also use a few followers — the sole purpose of this account is to share unique art to those who can’t always go through the galleries.
Either way, I’m done selling for today. Hoping you continue to grow, to dream, and to have fun. We only go one way in this life — let’s make it real.
Where’s the nachos?
Love,
Claudia
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Jennifer Maestre
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere ~~ Joyce A. Myers
Sculpture artist Jennifer Maestre, born 1959 in Johannesburg, South Africa, is a Massachusetts-based artist, internationally known for her unique pencil sculptures.
Her sculptures were originally inspired by the form and function of the sea urchin.
The spines of the urchin, so dangerous yet beautiful, serve as an explicit warning against contact.
According to Maestre, there is true a fragility to the sometimes brutal aspect of the sculptures, vulnerability that is belied by the fearsome texture.
To make the pencil sculptures, Jennifer take hundreds of pencils, cut them into 1-inch sections, drills a hole in each section (to turn them into beads), sharpens them all and sews them together.
Jennifer Meastre’s fantastic art is a tribute to her eye for nature, its fragile state, and the magical way it protects itself.
Jennifer Maestre’s sculptures can be found at http://www.jennifermaestre.com/.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Hotels
Once Upon A Time
I came across an image
of an odd-shaped hotel. And I wondered…
Could there be more?
The more I wandered, the more I found
Oddities beyond compare
And I wondered still
Are these hotels?
Imagination truly has run amok
And if you can dream it, and can afford it
You can Build It
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Roza
Creativity is a flower blooming from the heart. Every one of us can do it.
Every One Of Us.
All we need to to is find a way to open that connection.
As a visual artist, Roza has always drawn most of her inspiration from the natural world around her.
With its diverse, stunning nature, Australia presented Roza with a profusion of ideas and influences; and it was in 2011 that Roza and her partner Afshin launched Shovava, a line of women’s clothing based on her hand drawn paintings and prints of the natural world.
All her designs are hand drawn and then digitally printed on very fine fabrics which she sources herself on her globe-trotting adventures.
In describing her creative process, Roza says, “I observe nature and find inspiration in the smallest details. Maybe it’s a butterfly’s wing or the patterned cell structure of a leaf. Maybe it’s a feather or a raven perched on a tree limb. I take in what I see in the nature and then create my pieces.”
Shovava‘s wonderfully creative works can be found at https://www.shovava.com/
Also, you can find another great article about Roza and Shovava at
http://www.boredpanda.com/wearable-art-takes-flight/
Their work is also on their Facebook page: facebook.com/shovavaclothing
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Ice Sculptures
As winter settles in, we cannot help but think of snow and ice as a relentless adversary, reducing us to nothing but frozen icicles in an endless night.
But if we could get past the chill in our toes and red of our noses, look at what incredible sculptures it can bring…
Christmas Bonus
Happy Holidays my favorite readers!
On this day-bef0re-Sunday-Evening-Art-Gallery-blog-Day, I thought I’d drop off a few gifts for a Saturday afternoon.
Two more luscious galleries have been added to the expanded SEAG blog:
The outstanding driftwood sculptures of James Doran Webb (http://wp.me/p5LGaO-uE)
and the ultra colorful contemporary art of Janet Fish (http://wp.me/p5LGaO-uX)
If you’d like a bit of amazing Mother Nature, I can also recommend the incredible Universe (http://wp.me/p5LGaO-ov)
Or Snowflakes ( http://wp.me/p5LGaO-31).
Enjoy the Season, the Gallery, and your Life. For after all……All we are is Dust in the Wind (thanks to Kansas).
See You Soon!
Happy Holidays…Merry Christmas…Blessed Be
Christmas is Magic
Christmas is what you make it
It is delight, it is memories, it is sadness
It is shooting stars and deep sea glow worms
It is sacred, it is jovial, it is silly
Say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to a stranger
Kiss your sweetheart and hug your kids
Call your sister or visit a friend
Christmas is what you make it
Today and Every Day
See you Sunday with another amazing artist Sunday at the Sunday Evening Art Gallery
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Spencer Byles
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~~ Henry David Thoreau
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Sculptural artist Spencer Byles spent a year creating beautiful sculptures out of natural and found materials throughout the unmanaged forests of La Colle Sur Loup, Villeneuve Loubet and Mougins, France.
Surrounded by flora and fauna, Spencer used only cables and natural, found materials to create his stunning, large-scale works of art.
One of the most beautiful things about his work is its temporary nature.
The pieces were not intended to last — as life itself, each sculpture will eventually be reclaimed by the natural environment that helped Byles shape it.
Spencer says, “The temporary nature of my sculptures is an important aspect of my experiences and understanding. I feel my sculptures are only really completed when nature begins to take hold again and gradually weave its way back into the materials. At this point it slowly becomes part of nature again and less a part of me.”
More about Spencer Byles and his fantastic forest art can be found at:
http://frenchforestsculptures.blogspot.com
http://www.viralnova.com/spencer-byles/
http://www.boredpanda.com/forest-land-art-nature-spencer-byles/
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Natalya Sots
Natalya Sots is an artist originally from Pavlodar, Kazakhstan but has lived in Chicago’s suburb of Schaumburg since 2002.
Natalya got started as an artist in high school when she worked at a ceramics factory where she decorated the dishes before they were glazed and fired.
Prior to graduation from college, Natalya started working as an art teacher at a private art school in Pavlodar.
She was given a course in ceramics as the medium to introduce these children to the wonderful world of art, and was asked to develop a program for it.
She developed her technique and style while working on the program for kids.
Natalya’s whimsical ways have turned her love of art into a cornicopia of lucious ceramics, bright and intricate.
From butter dishes to cups and teapots, Natalya Sots colorful creations can be found at http://www.natalyasots.com/
Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Glass Frames
When you wake up in the morning and the light is hurt your head
The first thing you do when you get up out of bed
Is hit that streets a-runnin’ and try to beat the masses
And go get yourself some cheap sunglasses
Now go out and get yourself some big black frames
With the glass so dark thay won’t even know your name
And the choice is up to you cause they come in two classes:
Rhinestone shades or cheap sunglasses
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Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — René Magritte
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. ”
– Rene Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte (November 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist best known for his witty and thought-provoking images and his use of simple graphics and everyday imagery.
We all have seen a few of these images throughout our life, but often we don’t remember where or when.
Magritte’s work frequently displays a collection of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things, challenging observers’ preconditioned perceptions of reality.
To Magritte, what is concealed is more important than what is open to view: this was true both of his own fears and of his manner of depicting the mysterious.
A meticulous, skillful technician, he is noted for works that contain an extraordinary juxtaposition of ordinary objects or an unusual context that gives new meaning to familiar things.
Not only were a number of artists intrigued by, and influenced by the work Rene Magritte created, but popular culture, and the art world in general, were extremely influenced by his creative, unique ability to take something ordinary and make viewers see something completely different.
Magritte‘s art has been so popular that it has been copied in posters, ads, and other commercial venues. Perhaps that’s why it feels so familiar.
You can find more of René Magritte‘s art at http://www.renemagritte.org/ http://www.abcgallery.com/M/magritte/magritte.html, or http://www.theartstory.org/artist-magritte-rene.htm.
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