The times and life

Singer Songwriter Chris Castle asked me to create artwork for his upcoming CD release, and it’s finished. I discovered Chris Castle and the band he was touring with, the Womack Family Band, through signer/songwriter Jeff Black. I met them last fall when they came through town, and again this spring as they came through again on the Drenched Earth Tour. Head over to Chris’s website for information on how to order a copy for yourself.

The Womack Family Band is touring with him, working as his band, a great combination. You can find their offerings on their website, found here.

Now I can scratch off wanting to create artwork for a musician’s cd release.

Tilt Shift photos of Van Gogh’s paintings. This is such a brilliant idea, and it’s amazing what a completely different image it makes doing this process. Link

I’ve launched a brand new website, one that I’ve been kicking around for quite a few years, and decided it was time to do it.
Artsy Mondays will have a brand new piece of artwork offered every Monday morning, and now you can buy a print, online, with more options on  canvas and paper types, mats, frames, and glazing than I could ever offer.  I’ve got a FREE desktop wallpaper for you in the first posting, so go grab it, then bookmark the site and check back every week, or add the RSS feed to your feed reader to keep up with the new releases.

Here’s the link- ArtsyMondays.com

Meet artist Philip Straub. I literally stumbled across his web site tonight, and I’m sitting here an hour later with my jaw still on the desktop, his work is just… damn, it’s just amazing, you need to go see for yourself. Website

Kristen Stein fine art- an artist with a great eye for beautiful color and texture. Go take a look through her shop, there’s some beautiful stuff there. Link

Shelly Peacock- an artist combining fractals with digital painting. I love her textures, they’re so rich looking.  Link

It’s not often that digital collage work does much for me.  However,  I just found an artist that’s doing some incredibly cool stuff, most of it artwork I’d love to have hanging on my walls. Like this one for instance.
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Patricia Piccinini is a well known Australian contemporary artists, her work is nothing short of amazing. Link

Hyper Realistic human sculptures by Sam Jinks. It’s amazing what you can do with silicon, paint & human hair.  Link

Joan, a friend of mine, posted she’d just run into some cool geometric 3D goodies that are printed on a 3D printer, a rapid prototype machine. There’s a woman, Bathsheba Grossman, who’s been doing math model artwork for many years, someone I’ve run across a few times over the years. Go feast your eyes on her work, it’s amazing.  Bathsheba Grossman

Some of you who are new to reading me missed this, but years ago, I had made available some 3d geometric meshes I’d created for3D artists to download and play with in their 3D software.

HEAVY IMAGE POST BEHIND THE CUT, but one you might be interested in seeing.

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I own one of these very things seen below, a Lichtenberg figure, created by irradiating a block of clear acrylic with a beam of electrons from a 5 million volt particle accelerator. Mine is a small flat cube of acrylic, and the pattern is nowhere as complex as this one, but it’s still cool to own what is essentially a fossil of lightning.

Photo from http://capturedlightning.com/

You can see how these are made here, spend some time digging around the web site, there’s videos of these being made, once the initial discharge, bolts of lightning keep flashing and etching paths inside the block for minutes afterward. It’s very cool. Captured Lightning.

The image above is an example of the path of lightning captured in a block, and now researchers are using it to create a template upon which an artificial organ can grow.Researchers create a template upon which an artificial organ could grow. They can grow blood vessels close to the natural patterns of blood vessels, which are fractal patterns to begin with. Link

Tonight I looked up an old Brycer friend’s web site to see what she’s been up to lately, as it’s been a couple of years since I lost popped in to see what she’s been creating.

I just learned that my friend Jo, aka Skydancers, passed away August of 2007.  I knew it had been a few years since we last tagged bases, but I’m shocked and saddened that she’s no longer with us. She was an amazing, amazing artist.  She never headed down this way, so we never did get a chance to meet after all the years of mutual admiration and fun email exchanges. Her daughter has kept her web site up as a memorial, go take a look at the work of a brilliant friend.  http://www.ashenwings.com/skydancer/

A local artist friend, Zophia, is creating some cool metal sculptures, the proceeds going towards a friend’s medical costs for chemo treatment for stage 3 breast cancer.  Each one is unique, made to order. Go take a look, they’re very cool. Link

There’s some very cool surreal artwork found on this web site, a lot of it is very fractal and organic in origin. Go get lost for a while in these galleries. beinArt Surreal Art Collective