Back to Art

I am back to making art. There is a huge backlog of sketches that I can make into prints.

New Artworks

Two more.

I have created a new art gallery at Corel Painter magazine's website. So far my pictures are getting perfect 5.0 ratings!

This website has galleries for over 8000 artists, nearly all of whom, I would guess, work digitally. Corel Painter is a computer program for creating digital art.

Today, May 20, 2010, my gallery on this website was rated in the first page of the "Top Rated Galleries" and is one of 88 galleries having a perfect 5.0 rating. The image you see in the post "Art Deco Lady" was listed as one of the website's "100 Best Images."

New Website and Gallery

My new website is coming along. I like Intuit much more than Yahoo because it has more capabilities but is easier to use. All I have to do now is transfer my domain and figure out how to get my e-mail.

I created a new art gallery at the Painter magazine website and have already received a few comments. So far, the pictures are rated 5-star by other artists!

Exhibit

I am planning some exhibits of my art as follows:
July 23, 2010 - Art in the Park, Columbia, PA
August 29-September 26, 2010, York Art Association Annual Fall Members Exhibit
December 2011 (all month) Cornerstone Coffee House, Camp Hill, PA.

Art Deco Lady

Just an ordinary art deco flapper lady, about to go out for the evening.

Author and artist James Gurney years ago created the fantasy of Dinotopia, a land in which humans and dinosaurs live together in harmony. The theme was a popular culture smash hit, spurring more than twenty books along with television series, several video games, and an animated film. The Delaware Art Museum currently has an exhibition of Dinotopia paintings by Gurney.

Gurney's works strike me as both exceptionally imaginative and technically expert. I was a little surprised to find that they are somewhat small, mostly under 8 square feet, even though many are panoramic with many dinosaur and human figures. Despite (or perhaps because of) their size, the paintings have impact. The human figures, even when tiny, are properly proportioned and have highly realistic faces.

An earlier version was shown in another post. I merely decided to finish it off.

Here we go with a simplified art nouveau image. Some day I might try making a really fancied-up picture like the ones Alphonse Mucha used to make