Meeting Visuals

Hey! I'm not blogging for months now..
here is another blog worthy artist that i've meet a long time ago..

Linzy Kokoska-Brarou

Just recently i was formally introduce to her world of Visual designs and it mesmerized me... Enchanted or inspiring? What ever words that would describe it
surely made me unleashed the artist me again..

Here are some of her note worthy stuffs:





to know more about her visit this link:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34653906/Linzy-Kokoska-Visual-Artist-Culture-SHOUT-July2010

Jumping into the bandwagon

I don't know what went on me when i saw one of my friend's photo entry for the National Geographics Asia fan page in Facebook i got the hype "must join it" sensation.

Why not? theres no harm in trying and a canon 550D camera is at stake ( although im satisfied with my Olympus). I posted some entries and try hard not to peddle my entry. (still trying!)

But who can resist? if the judging is base on the number of likes you get from other fans, what are the chances of winning for the very good ones in the not so most liked side? well, we leave that to the organizers... and by chance you have a Facebook you can check out my entry and try to like it if you find it interesting..

heres how..


first like this page http://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Geographic-Channel-Asia/129231660431299?v=wall

then like my entry http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=129231660431299¬es_tab=app_2347471856#!/photo.php?pid=1382946&o=all&op=1&view=all...&subj=129231660431299&id=1618816047

and

http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=129231660431299¬es_tab=app_2347471856#!/photo.php?pid=1386669&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=129231660431299&id=1618816047

attempt on 3D

I am not so good at doing 3d stuffs. yet one will agreee with me if you find some helpfull software taht can aid you with any attempts. Thanks to this Smithmicro Poser 8! it gives the slight chances of being good in 3d even though i am still a novice at least i am learning. hehehe..

here take a sampler of what i've come up. Enjoy!

The Light!

I know light painting is sooo over the years in the scene and lately it becomes a hit again.. thanks to so called consumer priced digital cameras and digital slr everybody can enjoy the fun that this technique in photography brings.

This technique is not that hard to achieve though the beauty and the attraction value depends on your creativity. If you had a dslr camera all you need is a tripod and a pin light or pin lights in various colors. Hit the shutter speed to bulb setting or the lowest second shutter speed your camera offers (this goes for the digital cameras as well since it doesn't offer the bulb setting option, well, your lucky if it does) then make sure you mount the cameras on the Tripod (to avoid extra shakes and to achieve sharp quality pics). The moment you hit the shutter button start painting your object using the pin light. Just a note, its better to trace an object with the pin light since drawing in the air is a bit difficult.

Well, heres what i have done...

Tooth ache feels like..

Digital Painting (Art Rage)
"Attack of the Worms"

Art from within

With the nature of my work, i have been exposed to different kinds of people, different personality and different approach to living. But among these clients i can say what i like to entertain most are the ones that are friendly and are not hard to please. Ironically you can never expect an artist to have such kind of attitude.

But Leon D. differs. He started with a simple inquiry about making pins and to having his pins made from us. Then i started to get amazed and be fascinated with his designs. (I keep one for souvenir sake :p )
Until i get acquainted with his art.

A graffiti, modern street art, or muralist thats the technique and style he had develop. a mixture of pop and surrealism rendered with airbrush, paints and etc. The canvass, a great wall.

Here are a piece of what he can do...




Will be watching for more updates on this guy!

i haven't seen a koi

digital painting/water color

(art rage2)

Happy Birthday Comics

Pics to Comic style illustrations

Okiez, I'm not a film critic here nor making a review for a movie, it just happen that when we talk about something art+collate from the point of view of this movie i say its worth a blog.

Gentlemen Broncos. I never had the nerve to watch this movie after i finished downloading it (its genre says comedy) maybe because i am too afraid to indulge in a flick that i may found disappointing (after watching a Serious Man. itunes recommended this one and say i made a try.

Luckily, thumbs up for this one. Gentlemen Broncos explores the creativity and talent of a young boy in Sci-fi novels. Let's say he is gifted with the writing craft. Yes, its settled in a 1970s or 1980s plot and the movie seems like a sitcom yet what attracts me is the other detail. The composing of Art cover for a novel. Even the opening credits where it showcase various art covers of different novels rendered in 70s (or 80s) where sooo fascinating.

Blah, blah, blah... the story also explores plagiarism issues, the start of low budget films and film adaptation problems. Well, shall i say just check out the movie so that you will understand what i mean.

Why are children's book good for designers

Why are children's book good for designers?

I found it helpful and informative...

Fishtangled

What kind of Fish are you? When my ball pen starts to move... i drew you.
The lines seems to be so waving like the ocean and yet your so fishy neat.

School of Fish

somebody emailed this to me..i can't stop myself sharing it to all..as cool as the ocean underneath check out this amazing photos!

Excellent Underwater animal Photography

100 % recycled

Smart and Funny
100% recycled.

Cast

Acrylic on (Commercial Printing) Canvass
18" x 23"

She sway her arms and call upon the dark forces around her.
The entire castle was covered with dark clouds and vines with poisonous thorns starts to grow. No one knows what happened that day but one thing is certain the entire palace and the village people were all asleep.

fabrica de kama

fabrica de kama
Originally uploaded by art+collate

The colors of traditional arabsque design.
There patterns and there fabrics.
There design and style.

Birds in Color

i dunno whats the name or the kind of species these birds are but one thing is certain they are sooo colorfull. But the sad thing here...what are they doing in the cage? They should be free and spreading there beauty to the wild. Yes, i capture this photo in a flea Market and there are lots of wonderful creatures (birds, rabbits, rodents, etc.) being sold and i think illegally transacted. How pitiful...

I paint my emotion..

Circular Attainment
Acrylic on (Commercial Printing) Canvas
18" x 23"

Just random splat of colors, 3 brush held together, and confuse mind.

She was in my mind. I was thinking of leaving. I saw him. They were happy. I was thinking of her. She did not showed up. I was jealous. I am Confused. Then again She was in my mind. I was thinking of leaving. I saw him. They were happy. I was thinking of her. She did not showed up. I was jealous. I am Confused. Then again She was in my mind. I was thinking of leaving. I saw him. They were happy. I was thinking of her. She did not showed up. I was jealous. I am Confused. Then again She was in my mind. I was thinking of leaving. I saw him. They were happy. I was thinking of her. She did not showed up. I was jealous. I am Confused. Then again She was in my mind. I was thinking of leaving.

I look at the skies with different colors

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Originally uploaded by jumix

An Airshow... the art of acrobatic aeroplanes, air planes and fighter planes painting the skies with colored smokes.

Get wired

Catch a Mouse

The digital things got to be conventional?
A sketch of my office mouse pad...

Iphone App, Fountain Pen

Yeah... another doodle but this time from a free app on my iphone.
Honestly I'm loving iphone already, Thanks to the productivity applications i can do whatever i have in mind...learn the guitar, doodle, capture photos and tricks it, videos, watch movies and listen to music...

Canvass painting fresh from the Printer

Gee! I maybe so lucky to get a first hand experience on big printing machines and printing requirements but mind you its not an easy job. But to get a scoop, the canvass paintings that are in for mass production are also printed with those big machines. Yes! what we have here are painting design in canvass clothes under the printer.

Interior design showrooms and some galleries here are soooo "in" for canvass and the way to save money and time by producing them is to have it printed. Canvass prints actually cost more or less Php3,000 per sq. m. here...(but if im lucky enough i'll sneak one of my designs on those waste spaces, hehehe...)

And for a bonus treat, i'll tip you with some of the arabic art themes... well, mostly its calligraphy and patterns yet they have pop art as well. g1 maybe a place for middle eastern inspiration and a top innovator for canvass prints, paintings and memorabilia stuffs, there latest.. picture box frames.

Just a silly idea for budding artist out there... why not play around with our own alibata and ethnic patterns too. Its a given concept and a trend, yet you might say you got it only here in art+collate.

The door is heavy

Another middle eastern art that fascinates me is the way they invented the symbols as alphabet art. There would be no hieroglyphics without the Egyptians and the flowing line of alphabet laces to arabs.

With a year of being fascinated to this heavy door, i am glad that i already got a hand of its details... (and im too generous to share it) If you will noticed the carvings are made from a series of events of stories in ancient anatomy style. The actual door is big and it seems so heavy that every time i past to it makes me wonder what could be the look inside, behind the heavy doors.

These are just a few of the middle estern art that can be explored further. Its a cultural heritage and a unique art piece as well. The kind of art that sometimes left unoticed, unrecognized and abandoned.

Wonder how old is this heavy door?

Its the Can Label

Sometimes I am a blind shopper. I pick and pay, I buy and don't care. But Somehow its worthy to be a meticulous customer, it pays to see the details and "the labels". I am not referring to any diet or nutrition content here, i care less about it. what i am trying to put across is to notice the label, the packaging and the can design.

Sometimes art is soooo commercialized that even the everyday product we use and buy is a certain art piece itself. manufacturer and brand owners use this kind of functionality so that we may be able to display there product at home, free advertisement aye! But i just couldn't afford to throw such wonderfully design cans and packages...

Who knows? an art collector might bought it from me for a hundred bucks someday...

Its a Montage (Postcard)

A photomontage of lomo pics and some digi enhance photos + arabsque patterns + christmas items would result to a unique postcards...

Photomontage was or also term as "Compositing" by the professionals or as we say in casual terms "photoshopping" is always considered as an avant garde in the field of photography. Its like the abstract, surrealist, or the modernist something that is conceived by the mind yet not in reality. Somehow Photomontage is aesthetically beautiful and politically inducing. Once an author wrote (Oliver Grau in his book Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion) that the creation of artificial immersive virtual reality, arising as a result of technical exploitation of new inventions, is a long-standing human practice throughout the ages. Such environments as dioramas were made of composited images.

Well, one thing i know about photoshopping, montage making is that its enjoyable to twink and distort or fantasize your photos. As noted its a vision of what your mind can conceive beyond reality and the key point here is to let your imagination run wild.

Famous Photomontage artist includes:
-"The Two Ways of Life" (1857) by Oscar Rejlander
- "Fading Away" (1858) by Henry Peach Robinson
-Salvador Dali
-John Heartfield
-Hannah

Just Simply Amazed...

I never thought that this blogspot would worth a glance. I barely have followers and it seems like im only writing on a vast void of "internety" (internet + eternity). I even feel like the painting stuff was so obsurd and it can go nowhere but not till i found someone sooo fascinating and professional following this page. Yes, i was amazed.

I never thought that someone like Paolo Lamanna a professional 2D & 3D illustrator and a blogger would care to view my blogspot. i had admired some of his works and personal background as an artist and even inspired me to pursue a career in illustration and animation someday.

Yet again, writing this article simply proves one more thing, again, I'm just simply amazed...

I paint it yellow

I paint it yellow.

After a while of skipping the painting session and doing a lot of other stuffs, i am back on my brushes. This time, my palette was yellow. I started applying on the door knob handle a dotted portions of the yellows.. its a big dot stroke that i already covered it within just half an hour.

Yellow is the lightest color maybe in my painting and yet i choose to use it instead of continuing the black. Somehow i realized a bit of light color can bring back the enthusiasm that i had before on the touching the painting again. Or maybe because i meet somebody who is fair yellow skin? He is not an eskimo which had those very yellowish tone but rather he came from the land called France.

Tired of left overs...

2 days and i skip my painting and jogging. i don’t know why but i feel tired and restless. How soon can i finished my work when my concentrations always get fucked up? I don’t know to the answer to my questions but somehow i feel like giving up and die…

Or maybe my job is sooo lifeless, draining and a sucker…

Acrylic dries when left unused

2nd Day of Painting, where the wild things are.

Do you think devoting at least 2 and 1/2 hours of painting could let me finished a Pointillism artwork in weeks? If i had these goal i think i had to double up my working speed. Indeed, today i already started rendering color to those lines and sketches. The color i started with? Black. I don't know if its right to start that way, i'm just a novice artist with guts and art books as teacher. But somehow i feel like starting with the darkest color makes more easier to over lap the light tones (it needs more time since we need to wait for the first color to dry before applying the overlap colors.) or maybe because i was using acrylic paint (overlapping dark colors don't work on water colors, crayons, felt pens and colored pencils.)

So there i go... dotting the paper with black and a point 0 round brush (my favorite tip size). while doing the dotting thing it makes my mind fly as if i was dotting to nothing in particular, somehow it relaxes my mind of freeing it from anything. Then after it, you will realized the dotting didn't go to good. Careful watch should be at hand avoiding the tip of the brush to build up some pigments and the heavy dripping water after you wash and soaked it to the water jar.

lastly, don't put too much acrylic paints on the palette when in a sudden you cannot used them all. When you left them unused they dry up and hardens. Eventually they go to waste, so always remember to put only the right amount that you can only use on the particular painting session, Its where the wild things are. Knowing you're limitation, you're weakness and you're down side. Because if you had so much of everything that you can't attain just like the acrylic, it dries when left unused.

A start to pointillism, encounter with Sheeler

Early this afternoon right after having lunch marks my first day of the first week for my painting challenge. I scan my art book for a particular kind of art technique to try on and Guess what i stumbled to? Well, i don't know how to describe the incident but my fingers run across to Pointillism method.

Pointillism maybe started by Seurat, Signac or Cross but its a style that belongs to the Neo-Impressionism period. I will not talk too much about there life story or the history of Pointillism because it might drag you reading too much of this blog. But what i'm going to share in is my personal day to day progress in doing the pointillism art.

With the help of my unsharpen HB pencil and my acrylic sheets, i started sketching. It was a crucial part because this will be the basis for the rest of my painting. I admit i had difficulty on doing the the anatomy and in balancing the proportion, that's why i choose to do a an Arabic door for beginner. Well, sketching its not easy. With this afternoon attempt of starting to do the sketches, i realized i messed up on it and have some smudges. It took me to do several lines just to be able to do the perspective good...



While doing the scanning earlier i also came across with Charles Sheeler and his work Windows which accidentally my lomograph looks a little bit the same.

Taking up the Challenge

What inspired me?

Its not quite surprising i'm pressing the keyboards of my laptop to do an entry for this blogging thing. While i finished watching the movie Julie and Julia it just posted a challenge for myself to do something what i love to do. I had been away from my home land a year now and the moment i leave i always said to myself that i will do the things i love to do most.

I am an artist and by heart i feel do i really am. But the thing that keeps me away from being one is the fact that i had to earn and do a job that will give butter to my bread. Sometimes i do sketch, take pictures, write and doodle but somehow i feel it isn't enough. There are just a lot of things i want to do and yet i have no time to do them all.

So this time to start the year, like the movie Julie and Julia, I'm taking on a challenge of doing an entry on this blog almost everyday and posting 365 artistic things to contemplate on.

Somehow thats what this art+collate thing is for...

Anew

I climbed up the stairs to reach the alley.
I stop and gaze, feel the strong winds.
I lean my body to the cool cement.
I raised my hands and contemplate.

I shed the old skin and dried my tears.
I ripped my clothes and go naked.
I forget who i am and what i believed in.
I start Anew.