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The five square paintings are all 8 inches square. Right now they are mystery paintings. That's because I don't have a clue about where they are going... notwithstanding the road motif! I often create imaginary landscape "sets" and then dream up the "play" that brings them to fruition.
This is the large bookcase with file drawers and storage shelves below. Five or six years ago I had a closet fabricating firm in and together we designed a desk and two large pieces of storage furniture. It's a work-in-progress as the money ran out and I am still using several make-shift pieces in the studio. Four finished acrylic paintings are sitting on the shelf. These are heading to the Catherine Kelleghan Gallery in Atlanta for a show opening June 4th.
PLEASE READ THIS EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE. AT FIRST IT FEELS LIKE THE INTERNET HAS SENT YOU A COLLECTOR WHO WANTS TO LEGITIMATELY BUY YOUR WORK. EASY, YES? NO! SHORTLY THEREAFTER YOU FIND THAT "CONDITIONS" EXIST. THEY ARE OVERSEAS, THEY DON'T USE UPS OR FEDEX…ETC. ETC. THIS HAPPENED TO ME SEVERAL MONTHS AGO. THIS TIME I WISED UP QUICKLY. NOTE THE HORRID USE OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR. AND THIS GUY'S SUPPOSED TO BE IN GREAT BRITAIN? HERE'S THE EMAIL EXCHANGE:
From: David Clark
To: steveartist
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 10:37 AM
Subject: GROUND SCHOOL 12 x 16 Acrylic/UFO VII 6 x 6 Acrylic/RED SEA BOAT 3¼ x 5 Pencil.
Good Day,
Do you still have this your Beautiful artwork available at the moment for Purchase? the artwork am talking about are written on the Subject line of this email.
Please let me know if they are still available for purchase and email me back their price.Best Regards,
David.
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From: Steve Frenkel
To: David Clark
Cc: Yu-Kai Lin; Mary Kate Burnsed
Sent: Mon, Oct 15, 2012 4:09 pm
Subject: Re: GROUND SCHOOL & RED SEA BOAT Artworks
Hi David,
Thanks for the inquiry and your kind words. The painting, GROUND SCHOOL, is $1,200.00. Tax (only if you are in Georgia) and/or shipping will be added to the price. The drawing, RED SEA BOAT, is available for $100.00 plus tax and/or shipping. If you are local, of course, you can pick either of these up.
These two artworks are available at KAI LIN ART in Atlanta. You can contact the gallery at 404 408-4248. KAI LIN ART is located at 3096 Roswell Road NE in Atlanta, GA. They are closed on Mondays, but the owner, Yu-Kai Lin checks the phone regularly. Please contact the gallery and speak with Yu-Kai Lin or Mary Kate Burnsed, the gallery manager. Right now RED SEA BOAT is unavailable, but I can get it to KAI LIN ART in week. Thanks again for your interest in my art.
Sincerely,
Steve
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From: David Clark
To: steveartist
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 11:36 AM
Subject: Transaction Proceed.
Dear Steve,
Thank you for your email and the information about the pieces, now that you have notify me about the price am really satisfied with it.
I want you to know one Important thing, I should have use PayPal as the method of Payment but I have been scam before through using PayPal and that is why I have cross my mind that I will never use PayPal again for Payment method or to give my Credit Card information to people i did not know for Payment method on the Internet because of my past experience.
Meanwhile I live in Essex United Kingdom, so now regarding the mode of payment I can make available will be through Travelers Check or Personal Check or either Cashier’s Check or Money Order only.
Due to that kindly let me know the Payment method you choose out of the ones I listed above in other for me to be able to make the payment available and send it out to you, also please I hope you are a legit and straight forward Artist.
I will also need your information below in other for the Payment to be send out to you.
Name on Check;
Address;
Phone Number;
Your Skype ID;
When i received this above information then i will be able to Issue your Payment and send it out. Also i want you to know that i will appoint a good shipping company that will come for the pickup of the Pieces in your destination and deliver it to me, reason is due to the lost of goods, breaking of Paintings and Sculpture and damages that normally happen because it has happen to my shipment several times through FedEx and UPS and so on, that is the reason i cannot use both FedEx and UPS Company again for shipment.
I want you to know that i will include the shipment fees on the Payment that i will send out to you. My Skype ID is davidrclark1, I will be expecting your reply.
David.
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Dear "David,"
Several months ago I got caught up in exactly the same deal as you are trying to pull on me. What a shame that you choose artists, most of whom barely make ends meet by selling their art, to prey on. I am forwarding this correspondence to the authorities.
Shame on you. You could be actually making something out of yourself with no more effort than this.
Steve
Here I am with The Commuting Jungle, a 20 x 24 inch acrylic painting on canvas. I stepped outside of our house in Roswell, Georgia and my wife shot the photo. March 26, 2012: I replaced the original photo with a much better (Picnik'd) version.
Dolls face from the fifties made of plaster and textile.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Poppengezichtje uit de vijftiger jaren, gemaakt van gips en textiel.
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Visage de poupée des années cinquante, en plâtre et les textiles.
Photos of the process of making books (which is quite long and involved).
This photo is of binder's board I cut by hand for miniature books and slightly spiraled to give the photo some dimension.
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Lighting is a Paul C Buff Einstein in a strip box behind and slightly above the boards camera right.
Off of the bedroom that I shared with my brother there was a tiny porch. It couldn't have been more than six feet square. Furthermore, it was supported by only two two-by-fours. We're talking second story here. But I was fearless and started using my first little oil set out there.
In the morning and early afternoon I often open the drapes behind my easel. That's the west wall of my studio and in the late afternoon I have to close the drapes so that light doesn't actually penetrate the canvas I am working on.
After having been on the shelf off and on for the past month or so, I've picked up this one and am battling my fears in order to get this one moving forward again. I'm so unused to doing figurative work, portraits especially, that I've been shaking in my boots and thinking that I couldn't continue. Phooie! on that... I am going to finish it up now and do the best I can.
Samsung digital cameraThis is No. 4 in the series of 4 that I've been working on. I had a very hard time pleasing myself on this one and tried a few different approaches before completing it. This acrylic painting is on a cradled wood panel. It's are based on a sketch I posted in February. The piece is 8 x 8 inches (approximately 20 x 20 cm). NOTE: I might add a little something in the ship's cabin...or not!
Oh My Gosh! I didn't post this when it was done. Well, this is the detail that I eradicated today, May 24th, in order to get this painting of mine moving again. Swell detail, just in the wrong painting.
Oleo sobre tela / Oil on canvas
65x54 cm
Informacion / Information: contactar por email / contact in email
jagdelile@yahoo.es - jagdelile@gmail.com
Here I am grinding two lithographic stones together with grit and water.
The Courses
Stone lithography courses are organised several times a year both at weekends and on weekdays. They are suitable for artists with or without previous experience of printmaking . Typically, participants are art students, art teachers, college lecturers, serious amateurs and professional artists in other media. As the number of places on the courses is kept to a maximum of four, each participant is encouraged to explore the medium in the way which is most appropriate to his or her own interests and experience, ranging from an introduction to the main technical processes of stone lithography, including preparation of stones, principal drawing and painting techniques and materials and printing skills, to more specialised subjects such as colour and transfer lithography. Other course formats and dates are negotiable: for example, a recent one day course was run for curators from the Word & Image Department of the V&A Museum.
The tiny little sepia photo on the lower right is my original reference for this new 16 x 12 inch portrait. This little boy was in my father's extended family and most likely lived in Chicago. His last name might have been Devore. I scanned and enlarged an area of the photo to get a better look. I am going to paint him in a not rigid semi-monochromatic manner. The background will be blue for interest and contrast. This piece was begun on the 25th. Picnik helped me get the color very close.
This an acrylic painting. The canvas is 12 x 16 inches and the image area is about a half an inch smaller in each dimension. It's been in my studio for over seven months. i'd taken it to a point and just couldn't find my way with it, so I put it on the back burner for months.
I scratching around for a title and will post a better photo of it soon. Note that in places where I've used medium to seal an area the color has deepened. This will be corrected when I varnish the piece in a week or so.
The easel has been moved 90Ëš so that I'll now paint with the backyard in view. The tables are temporary as I've got two new, larger, tables to assemble from IKEA.
This photo shows the painting area of my studio. It's pretty compact, actually. Fortunately for me, I don't work large. I really couldn't in this space. The rafters of my basement studio are just seven feet above the concrete floor.
Yes, I do keep my paints organized. It's not so much that I'm such a neat-freak, but it sure saves time when working. For the past three or so years I've been using Chroma's Atelier Interactive Acrylics. They've worked very well with the way I think and work.
Today was the day when we went over to see Laura's Dad, who was nursing a slightly fragile body after spending last night with two friends. One of the friends was a 47% abv American Bourbon. Hopefully next time he'll stick to single malt. :)
His partner enjoys painting, and has a canvas drying out at the moment. As we were sitting in the garden I noticed that her palette was out on top of her paints case, so I grabbed a shot as photo of the day. :)
Here is the drawing on the stone ready for washing out the gum etch.
The Courses
Stone lithography courses are organised several times a year both at weekends and on weekdays. They are suitable for artists with or without previous experience of printmaking . Typically, participants are art students, art teachers, college lecturers, serious amateurs and professional artists in other media. As the number of places on the courses is kept to a maximum of four, each participant is encouraged to explore the medium in the way which is most appropriate to his or her own interests and experience, ranging from an introduction to the main technical processes of stone lithography, including preparation of stones, principal drawing and painting techniques and materials and printing skills, to more specialised subjects such as colour and transfer lithography. Other course formats and dates are negotiable: for example, a recent one day course was run for curators from the Word & Image Department of the V&A Museum.
Photos of the process of making books (which is quite long and involved).
Boards and text blocks for small and medium sized books to be. You can see a couple tools I use to bind books to the right side—an awl, waxed linen thread and a bulldog clip.
DIGITAL SKETCH IMPOSED ON AN iPAD PHOTO...
My iPad Camera & Sketch Club app were used to play with this work in progress. I may keep some of these elements, but they'll be modified and repositioned. The painting is 8 x 8 inches. Sorry this image is so small... limitations of the iPad Camera came into play. FYI: I moved the rocket using Arcsoft's PhotoStudio for the Mac.
Oil on canvas 30" x 24"
Martin talks about some of his recent work 2009. The painting is currently on loan to Yarnton Manor Oxfordshire.
PETRIFIED DINO POOP FOR KIDS
My wonderful wife Donna, and I, attended a rock and mineral show here in Marietta, GA about three weeks ago. She went back a second day. The woman is a clandestine rock hound. Anyway, on her second visit, she found something that she was sure would be a hit with our five local grandsons and nephews.
Petrified Dinosaur Poop! She went to the local arts & crafts store and picked up these neat little boxes. When I saw them I immediately thought that I could paint a dinosaur profile on each in order to make the boxes personal. I did that last evening.
Step-daughter, Amanda, provided the finishing touch with kraft paper eco-bedding. That's what she uses on the bottom of her Guinea Pig's cage. Voila! We hope that the boys, ages 4 to 12, will get a kick out of this.
Note: I am nobody's idea of a table top studio photographer. I threw this together so that you could see this fun little gift project.
Once the stone is prepared a number of techniques can be used to apply the touche, grease can be applied with a brush or a pen or waxy crayons. Any areas that are not to be printed or one wishes to remain blank must be painted with Gum Arabic.
The Courses
Stone lithography courses are organised several times a year both at weekends and on weekdays. They are suitable for artists with or without previous experience of printmaking . Typically, participants are art students, art teachers, college lecturers, serious amateurs and professional artists in other media. As the number of places on the courses is kept to a maximum of four, each participant is encouraged to explore the medium in the way which is most appropriate to his or her own interests and experience, ranging from an introduction to the main technical processes of stone lithography, including preparation of stones, principal drawing and painting techniques and materials and printing skills, to more specialised subjects such as colour and transfer lithography. Other course formats and dates are negotiable: for example, a recent one day course was run for curators from the Word & Image Department of the V&A Museum.
I'm in the process of priming and painting a bunch of the wooden blocks that I ordered from Art-o-mat. Once I get a couple more finished, I'll pick out the one I think is the best and send it in as a prototype for consideration for inclusion in the Art-o-mat machines. However, either way, I'm going to paint the blocks, so I figured why not get started on a bunch of them all at once?
Basically, I want to do paintings around the entirety of the blocks. I don't know if any of the other Artists in Cellophane do paintings all around the blocks or not, but it fits with my style of painting so I figured I'd go with it. That way, whomever happens to wind up with the piece can pick their favourite section to display or whatever.
Oh, and that box lid that all the blocks are sitting in? Yeah, this is how anal I am--I was trying to figure out the easiest way to prime/paint the ENTIRE block without having to go back and paint whole sections afterward (which could result in vast colour differences, whereas a touch-up can be covered with foreground paint if it's too different). I decided that thumb tacks might be the way to go. So I tested the theory the previous night, by painting one block and priming another and then sitting them on thumbtacks to dry. Perfect. So my inner Obsessive Compulsive literally glued thumbtacks all over the lid of a shoe box so that I wouldn't have to deal with flippy tacks or the tacks moving around on me.
I'd say I need a hobby, but I think I have too many as it is.
The Courses
Stone lithography courses are organised several times a year both at weekends and on weekdays. They are suitable for artists with or without previous experience of printmaking . Typically, participants are art students, art teachers, college lecturers, serious amateurs and professional artists in other media. As the number of places on the courses is kept to a maximum of four, each participant is encouraged to explore the medium in the way which is most appropriate to his or her own interests and experience, ranging from an introduction to the main technical processes of stone lithography, including preparation of stones, principal drawing and painting techniques and materials and printing skills, to more specialised subjects such as colour and transfer lithography. Other course formats and dates are negotiable: for example, a recent one day course was run for curators from the Word & Image Department of the V&A Museum.