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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Posted in art, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Featured Artists, Film, Paris Diaries, Photography, photography, tagged Dianna Ippolito, Movie, Movie poster, Parapluies de Cherbourg, photographer, The umbrellas of Cherbourg, umbrellas on October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wabi Sabi, Dwellings for Imaginary Civilizations, Nightverses
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, Art Gallery, art,poetry,writing, Artuesdays, Berkeley Diaries, Books, Coffee, Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Featured Artists, Poetry, school, School Work, sketching, Writing, writing, tagged art, charles simonds, clay dwellings, corcovado nights, designers, dwellings for imaginary civilizations of little people, graphite drawing, new york, NYC, Poetry, poets & philosophers, sarah vaughn, wabi-sabi for artists, whitney museum on August 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional. From Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers Charles Simonds began building clay villages, ruins and what he termed ” dwellings for imaginary civilizations of little people” in the [...]
Tales of Salt Cities
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art,poetry,writing, Artuesdays, Book Reviews, Books, Collage, Cures for the Nothing, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Featured Artists, Photography, photography, Writing, tagged Arab cities, Cities of Salt, City of Salt, Digital Collage, escapism, fable, fantasy, favorite books, fiction, Invisible cities, Italo Calvino, Miniature cities, nicholas kahn, orientalism, Photography, photography spread, prose, reverie, richard selesnick, tales on May 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Here is a splendid volume from the Terry Gillam school of fictional photography… The book comes in a sturdy slipcase and features complex landscapes, painstakingly created, and digitally peopled by actors playing out scenes which conjure up a mystical Middle Eastern civilisation. Enigmatic, but beautiful.” AG Magazine “This is a beautifully structured text with an [...]
San Diego ArtWalk April 30/May 1
Posted in art, Art Gallery, Art Show, art,poetry,writing, Featured Artists, San Diego, tagged andrew mosedale, danny hughes studio, Little Italy, san deigo artists, san diego artwalk, santa fe on May 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here are couple of my favorite artists from this past weekend’s ArtWalk. Danny Hughes Studio See Danny’s spirit-infused art here. Andrew Mosedale See Andrew Mosedale’s Fine Photography for the Eclectic Eye. Amazon Fine Arts|Mario Cespedes Amazon Fine Arts Gallery
Dispatches from Vladivostok: Architecture, Poetry, the Oneiric, the Grotesque
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Featured Artists, Lectures, NaBloPoMo, Poetry, Quotes, school, School Work, Theory and Criticism, Writing, writing, tagged and the Wilderness Urbanism of John Hejduk, architects as artists, Architecture, architecture of a city, art, Baikal, critical thought, criticism, Detour, Errand, essays on architecture, Exquisite Corpse, Invisible cities, Italo Calvino, John Hejduk, Lake Baikal, Marco Polo, Mask of Medusa, Michael Sorkin, paroles d'architects, Riga, sketches, the ethics of aesthetics, the informer, the minister of culture, theory, venice, Vladivostok on November 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
John Hejduk has been called one of the most influential architects and educators of our time.. He was also a poet, an artist and the Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the uber-prestigious Cooper Union in New York. I am reviewing couple of his books, Vladivostok and The Mask of [...]
Poetry of the Rain
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Featured Artists, Painting, tagged art, Gregory Thielker, hyperrealism, hyperrealist painting, painting, paintings of water, rain, windshield on October 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today I wanted to share these incredible paintings by Gregory Thielker, a hyperrealist painter. The world seen through a rain-soaked windshield becomes an impressionist kaleidoscope of colors. To paint water…..
Chiaroscuro Truths (Occhi Blu Capelli Neri)
Posted in Architecture, art, Books, Cures for the Nothing, Digital Collage, Drawing, Experiments, Featured Artists, Painting, Photography, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts in the alley, Tutorial, Watercolor, Writing, tagged Architecture, black and white, Black Hair, Blue Eyes, book, book cover, Capelli Neri, chiaroscuro, ciao.it, critica letteraria, Drawing, durasian, Grayscale, grayscale watercolor, hands, Indochine, interior architecture, Italian, jane eyre, L'Amante, literary critic, literary review, literature, loneliness, longing, Love, Marguerite Duras, millenovecentosettantatre, modernism, new french novel, Occhi Blu, patterns, Philosophy, Poetry, prose, shades of gray, sri chimoy quote, stockings, The Lover, Truth on September 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The measure of a good book is its ability to haunt us. I have been delinquent; the past few days’ in-between moments, usually dedicated to art and this blog, stolen away by a classic charmer of a book, Jane Eyre. Yet I have been thinking, almost pining, for another book –and the time and the place [...]
Portraits [Let Me In]
Posted in art,poetry,writing, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Featured Artists, Photography, Thought in the Alley, tagged artist blog, Brandon Lee, Color, Drawing Class, Drawing portraits, Eric Draven, graphite pencil portraits, Grayscale, Photography, Photography Portraits, Portrait tutorial, Portraits, the art of portrait photography, The Crow, video tutorials on August 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I ran into Darrel Tank’s Five Pencil Method few weeks ago. His work is breathtaking. The site full of wonderful video tutorials, and in his blog, Darrel offers videos with step by step advice on submitted portraits. All I can say is I’m Jealous WOW. I really just drew one portrait, my first — if [...]
Queen Califia’s Magical Garden {Continued}
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Drawing, Featured Artists, Graphic Design, Lectures, NaBloPoMo, San Diego, school, School Work, Tutorial, Watercolor, tagged An open sketchbook, Architecture, Botanical Garden, Color Drawing by Doyle, Color rendering, Drawing, Escondido, fabric, Furniture, hand rendering, illustration, ink, Interior rendering, Kit Carson Park, Markers, Niki St. Phalle, Prismacolor Pencil, Queen Califia's Magical Garden, san diego, Suzanne Cabrera, Texture, Tutorial, Urban Sketchers, Watercolor on August 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Lately, I’ve favored the watercolor and pencil technique, but want to get back to working with markers. I found these two great tutorials on marker renderings from my blog friend and Urban Sketcher extraordinaire Suzanne Cabrera at An [Open] Sketchbook: can’t wait to share them with my students! { Tutorial 1: Furniture/Fabric } { Tutorial [...]
SoCal – E>< : Exploratory Design Workshop
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Design, Desk Crit, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Featured Artists, Graphic Design, Lectures, NaBloPoMo, Paper Goods, Pastel, Photography, school, tagged Albert Frey, Alberto Kalach, Alfredo Melly, Andrea Benavides, Archigram, Architectural Collage, Architecture, california, Case Study Homes, Charles and Ray Eames, Charles Santamaria, Christine & Russell Forester, collage, Coop Himmelblau, Craig Ellwood, Culver City, Daly Genik Architects, Del Mar, Don Wexler, Ed Killingsworth, Eric Owen Moss, Estudio Teddy Cruz, Frank Gehry, Gehry Technologies, Greene and Greene, Hector Perez, Henry Palomino, Kathy McCormick & Ted Smith, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Luce Et Studio, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Morphosis, Nancy Tariga, newschool of architecture and design, Palm Springs, pasadena, Residential Design, Richard NeutraRudolph Schindler, san diego, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Monica, Sebastian Mariscal, Sebastian Mariscal Studio, Smith and Others, SoCal Exploratory Design Workshop, Southern California Design and Architecture, Superstudio, Ted Smith, venice on August 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Something eye-opening occurred at my school yesterday. I attended the exhibit for SoCal -Ex : Exploratory Design Workshop, completed by Professor Hector Perez and his students. Here are the specific of the Workshop: 6 Explorers Andrea Benavides/Alfredo Melly/Henry Palomino/Charles Santamaria/Nancy Tariga 25 Days July 12-August 5 10 Field Trips San Diego/La Jolla/Del Mar/San Juan Capistrano/Los Angeles/Santa [...]
Art and Poetry
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Books, Coffee, Design, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Featured Artists, Painting, Paper Goods, Poetry, school, Writing, tagged Antonio Machado, artists and poets, book, Bruce Matthes, Fellow artists and humanists, Poetry, poetry and art, poetry and painting, san diego, surfing on June 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps if we all had, every day, time for art and for poetry, just a daily dose, perhaps our lives would feel a little less hurried, a little less hectic, and time would slow down for that cup of tea in front of a vintage art book. Perhaps we could squeeze more out of our [...]
Desk Crit [The Importance of Sketching II]
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Books, Desk Crit, Drawing, Featured Artists, NaBloPoMo, Quotes, tagged Architecture, Compositions in Architecture, Design, Don Hanlon, download e-book, Drawing, Frederick Franck, Marc Auge', michael nobbs, Non-Places: Introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity, sketch, sketch everyday. draw everyday, start to draw your life, the importance of drawing, the importance of sketching, Zen Seeing Zen Drawing on June 11, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Drawing is thinking. Hand-eye coordination is essential not only to accurately render what you see, but to bring forth and execute what you see in your mind’s eye, i.e designing. I read once that we should use the word ‘draw’ as in ‘drawing information’, as from a well. To draw a building or space is [...]
Marvelous Maha
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Design, Featured Artists, Link Love, tagged Design, Efflorescence, Encaustics, Eye, flowers, Maha Comianos San diego, Micro, Nature, Paainting, Photography, San Diego Art, San Diego Artist, Studio Maha on May 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is the first of what hopes to be a series of posts featuring inspiring work of artist friends and friendly artists I meet online. I would love for SketchBloom to be that magical place a recent reader mentioned, a place for art, poetry and Beauty- found and created. This aims to be refuge from the nonsense and [...]










