Inspiration
Traditional Sketches
After my last two posts on typewriter and computer art, I thought it would be wise to go back to the root — traditional sketches. As much as computer art can create something new from an original, you need the original first. In my search for “art is everywhere,” I’ve found a cool blog, the Creative Perch with a weekly post about Art is Everywhere and it was here that I saw the Youtube video below of Chris Dent’s work @ Detour Exhibition (from votredame in 2006) regarding traditional sketches on moleskin notepads. These make great sketchbooks and I usually have one with me when I’m traveling because they are…
Typewriter Art
Although this is making the email circuit, it’s one of the more ingenious and incredible things I’ve seen. All these images below were made with typewriter keys by the artist Paul Smith. Here’s the story as the way it was forwarded to me in an email from my mother, from my cousin’s husband. I’m not sure where it originated, but thanks for sending. Here is the artist’s website, where you can learn more about his work and his creative process: http://www.paulsmithfoundation.org/index.html Paul Smith, the man with extraordinary talent was born in Philadelphia on September 21, 1921 with severe cerebral palsy. Not only had Paul beaten the odds of a life…
Photos from Olson House
Getting back to the photos that I mentioned previously in the post about Andrew Wyeth and his passing, here are some of the photos that I took when my mother and I visited the Olson House, where Wyeth painted, on our art trip to Maine during the summer of 2007. The finishes there on site were truly rich with history. There was something both simultaneously sad and beautiful about them. Being there, one could get a sense of what may have captivated Andrew Wyeth. There was a sense of peace and hardship about the place.
