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Scenes from Parapluies de Cherbourg Thank you Dianna.

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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 [...]

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Well, this is no good! August is almost here and once again balmy summer days flew by with traveling, urban escapades and some R&R…while the postings have been mighty sparse. I have been a curious tourist in my own city and state, and, in between summer courses,  the roamings included a visit to Joshua Tree National Park, Much [...]

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“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 [...]

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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

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Reissued Dec.10, 2010 From the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego site: For the first time in history, the majority of the world’s population lives in urban communities. The urban setting and its corresponding lifestyle are major sources of inspiration in contemporary culture. This is an historic revolution in visual culture, in which the codes [...]

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  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 [...]

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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…..

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10 AM Roy de Vries- Learn to paint with Windsor & Newton Oil Bar    11 AM Valerie Henderson- Hands on Monoprint Workshop    12 PM Lisa Starace- Screenprinting Demo 1 PM Marcy Gordon- Water Color.  3 PM San Diego Guild of Puppetry- Overhead Shadow Puppetry: Tips and Techniques.   4 PM Chris Warren- Laptop [...]

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  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 [...]

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Pardon the quality of the photos, my Panasonic camera is still out of commission, hope to get it back in working order soon!

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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