Artists
Buon Fresco Technique
I just found this resourceful blog for and about decorative artisans and then watched the following informative video regarding Michelangelo’s buon fresco painting technique. Very informative. From Artistically Speaking. Happy Thanksgiving!
Robert Dafford
Robert Dafford, born in 1951, has been doing murals for more than 30 years. He studied art at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette and interrupted his art work to serve three years as a naval illustrator and draftsman during the Vietnam War. His first mural was a rainbow trout painted in 1969 for a fish market. He now has painted nearly 300 murals around the world. Several are in New Orleans. One prominent location is on the corner of Girod and Magazine streets. This depicts a horse-drawn coffee wagon of the Reilly Coffee Company. Another striking mural is the 150 foot tall clarinet on the side of the Holiday…
Contemporary Chicken
I’m still trying to figure this one out. Since I like chickens, I’ll post about Koen Vanmechelen’s contemporary Chicken Project exhibit at Connor Contemporary Art through December 31st. I guess I don’t get the contemporary art part except for it’s sparseness in style and explanation. I was more drawn to the Belgian artist’s chicken illustrations, which I thought were quite interesting. I have an affinity for chickens because of a little known secret, I used to raise them in my back yard. I tended to these chickens from egg to chick to adult. I can attest to them all having distinct personalities. Unfortunately, I had to let them go back…
