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34"Wx26"H For anyone in central Ontario Canada, I will be in Victoria Park Cobourg for their Canada day celebration. I have a little 8' booth that will hold 10 paintings, a table and a couple of chairs, drop by and chat.
I encourage everyone to check out the 3 groups that I have formed.
www.flickr.com/groups/1133560@N22/
www.flickr.com/groups/1262430@N22/
www.flickr.com/groups/1281146@N23/
The art work is of a certain style, so it is a very select artist segment that is invited to exhibit. Also, I run these groups like a directory, with only one sample per artist, this way nobody gets lost in the crowd. And if anyone wants to see more, they just follow the link to the artist`s site.
26"Wx35"H This is a portrait of my wife, the children have left home and are living lives of their own, and she can`t take her mind off of them, it seems every minute of the day is spent thinking about them.
For me it`s out of sight, out of mind.
Today is my birthday, I just turned 55. I feel great, I am painting every day and hope to for the rest of my life, I never knew 55 would be so much fun.
I encourage everyone to check out the 3 groups that I have formed.
www.flickr.com/groups/1133560@N22/
www.flickr.com/groups/1262430@N22/
www.flickr.com/groups/1281146@N23/
The art work is of a certain style, so it is a very select artist segment that is invited to exhibit. Also, I run these groups like a directory, with only one sample per artist, this way nobody gets lost in the crowd. And if anyone wants to see more, they just follow the link to the artist`s site.
It`s been about 6 years since I painted, and it was hard to get going again, but when I did, the whole thing took off like a house on fire. I thought I was too old, that I had lost it. Was I ever wrong. I have been painting for about 2 months now since I was laid off , long live the recession.
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I have an exibit at the "Art Cafe" on flickr at www.flickr.com/groups/globalworldawards/discuss/721576230...
I have judged these images as the top 20 of my paintings.
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This is a text portrait with Michael's biography. It is made with words only. I made it because I loved Michael's soul. I'm going to miss the King of Pop very much, RIP.
Please, don't miss my other MJ portraits:
- M J - Eternal Hurt Child: www.flickr.com/photos/benheine/3728685685
- M J - Heal the world: www.flickr.com/photos/benheine/3677029800
- M J - INVINCIBLE: www.flickr.com/photos/benheine/3699136453
(And my other "text portrait" of Usain Bolt: www.flickr.com/photos/benheine/3895560188)
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For more information about my art: info@benheine.com
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Troubled Musical Genius: Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson's unique blend of soul, funk and rock made him the biggest pop act in the world.
Beyond this, his business acumen and intuitive understanding of the music market allowed him to showcase his remarkable talents.
Michael Jackson sold records by the million - and broke records too.
With the soulful vocal presence of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder and the dance moves of James Brown, Jackson's appeal crossed both national and racial boundaries.
His first break came in 1968, when the Jackson Five signed to the Motown label, and he was just 11 when the group released its first single.
Hits like I Want You Back, ABC, The Love You Save, and I'll Be There, which all went to number one in the United States in 1970, made the Jackson Five the first group in pop history to have their first four singles top the charts.
Before long, the youngest member of the Jackson Five was beginning to outstrip his brothers.
A series of solo hits, including Got To Be There, Rockin' Robin and Ben - the maudlin, yet chart-topping, paean to a rat - had shown that the promise of early years had come to fruition.
By the mid-1970s, both Michael's, and his brothers', careers were beginning to stall. Motown has ended its interest in the group, which had re-signed - as the Jacksons - to the Epic label.
But it was while Michael was working on the film musical The Wiz, an all-black retelling of the Wizard of Oz - in which he played the Scarecrow to Diana Ross's Dorothy - that he met the man who would turn him into a superstar and transform the world of popular music.
Music producer, composer and arranger, Quincy Jones, who could already boast a formidable track record, having created hits for artists like Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin and George Benson, took Jackson's raw talent and moulded it into an awesome new sound.
Video extravaganza
Their first collaboration, Off The Wall, released in 1979, became the first album to provide four top ten US hits for an artist: the title track, Don't Stop Till You Get Enough, Rock With You and She's Out of My Life.
Four years later came Thriller, the album which would define his career. A heady mix of disco, R&B and funk, its nine tracks spawned seven hit singles and became the best-selling album of all time, with at least 55 million copies bought to date.
Having already experimented with video on Off The Wall, Jackson now took the new medium to new heights.
The John Landis-directed film, accompanying the album's title track, was a 16-minute big-budget extravaganza, featuring cutting-edge special effects and the voice of veteran horror actor, Vincent Price.
The Thriller video, and its companion, Beat It, also ended MTV's neglect of black artists, while making the mini-musical blockbuster de rigueur for any self-respecting pop star.
Besides his successful solo career, Jackson also recorded a series of hit duets with Paul McCartney, who had written the Off The Wall track, Girlfriend.
The two stars appeared on one another's albums with songs like The Girl Is Mine and the chart-topping Say Say Say.
Stripped-down sound
The relationship soured, though, in 1985, when Jackson outbid both McCartney and Yoko Ono to secure the ATV music-publishing catalogue, which included the rights to more than 250 Lennon/McCartney songs.
Not for the first time, Jackson's ruthless business streak had asserted itself.
The same year also saw the USA For Africa charity single, We Are The World, co-written by Jackson and Lionel Ritchie, reach number one in the US.
The Jackson phenomenon showed no sign of slowing down when, in 1987, he released the third, and final, Quincy Jones-produced album, Bad.
With five number one hits, including Man in the Mirror and Dirty Diana, the album also featured a 17-minute video, courtesy of Martin Scorsese, to promote the title track and a year-long world tour, at the time the largest-grossing in history.
Dangerous, Jackson's 1991 outing, featured a more stripped-down sound than its three predecessors.
But the magic remained, and tracks like Heal the World and Black and White soon became worldwide hits, despite the tabloid headlines and court cases which now threatened to damage the singer's reputation.
But his 1995 album, a compilation of old hits and new material entitled HIStory, failed to ignite the popular imagination.
Controversy
Despite the biggest-ever publicity campaign for an album, estimated at $30m, HIStory enjoyed a brief appearance in the charts.
Whether this was due to the star's increasingly erratic behaviour, continuing speculation about his private life or just the public turning increasingly to rap and hip-hop, is a matter for debate.
But one track, in particular - They Don't Care About Us, with the lyrics, "Jew me, sue me" - outraged many people including Jackson's long-time friend and supporter Steven Spielberg, who saw it as anti-Semitic.
And his appearance at the 1996 Brit Awards ceremony in London, surrounded by children and a rabbi, proved too much for some, most notably Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, who showed his displeasure by storming the stage and interrupting the performance.
Michael Jackson's final album, Invincible (2001) was released at a time when he looked anything but.
A swirl of controversy, including Jackson's repeated assertions that his record company, Sony, had asked for their money back - all $200m of it - and that the label's chairman, Tommy Mottola, held black artists back, effectively drowned out the music.
It seemed an underwhelming end to what had been one of the most spectacular of all musical careers.
In recent years, Jackson was plagued by money problems and shielded himself from public view.
Arrested in 2003 on charges of molesting a 14-year-old boy, he was cleared in June 2005 after a five-month trial.
As rumours of bankruptcy circled after the trial, Jackson moved for a period to the Middle East.
There he befriended the king of Bahrain's son, Sheikh Abdulla Bin Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa, who helped fund Jackson's lavish lifestyle.
But the sheikh later sued Jackson for $7m (£4.7m), saying the star had reneged on a music contract that would have been used to pay back loans. The pair settled out of court last year.
Jackson was due to begin a series of sold-out comeback concerts, starting with an appearance in London next month.
Hundreds of fans queued at the O2 arena as tickets went on sale to the public and more than a quarter of a million people queued online.
In the end, around 750,000 tickets were sold for the 50-date residency - which Jackson had billed his "final curtain call".
Rehearsals for the show were under way when the star suffered a cardiac arrest at his home in Bel Air. He was later pronounced dead at the UCLA medical centre in Los Angeles.
This is one that I just liked, but I don`t know why. More of my work can be seen at www3.sympatico.ca/jim.rowe2/
26"Wx26"H This is another experiment, so as usual I was kind of lost. I just found it interesting that the same radius was shared by the large and small circles.
I was accepted into the Toronto Art Expo torontoartexpo.com/ , in April next year. I have thrown my money down and now I am playing with the big boys. They want $2000. for 3 days of booth space. Just the space, the actual booth is $600. extra. When I happen to mention that I thought this was a little steep I was refered to the Toronto International Art Fair tiafair.com/#
They normally want $9500. for 5 days of booth space, but as an introductory offer to emerging artists, they are giving a booth away for $6500. for 5 days. It starts October 28th, the tickets to get in to the "opening night" are $200. and that starts at 6:00, but for $300. you can sneek in 2 hours early to get first chance at purchasing this art. Then for the normal people it is $18. a person for the remaining 4 days. I have been a serious artist for 40 years now, and I never knew this existed. I have been going to local outdoor shows, and not selling anything. I have had 3 large solo exhibits in government galleries, and no one really noticed. And then I clue in to this other world where art is so important that "collectors" are paying $300. just to get first chance at purchasing a painting.
I don`t believe it, I can`t believe it, I will believe it when I see it and not before.
I encourage everyone to check out the 3 groups that I have formed
www.flickr.com/groups/1133560@N22/
www.flickr.com/groups/1262430@N22/
www.flickr.com/groups/1281146@N23/
The art work is of a certain style, so it is a very select artist segment that is invited to exhibit. Also, I run these groups like a directory, with only one sample per artist, this way nobody gets lost in the crowd. And if anyone wants to see more, they just follow the link to the artist`s site.
26"Wx35"H I am a member of a group "Circle A for anachy" www.flickr.com/groups/19481972@N00/ , I put their l their logo on the sail. I have looked at relationships as two people in the same boat together. I accuse my wife of always trying to sink our boat, and I am having to constantly bail it out. Alot of my paintings are very personal, they are visual diaries. I have also been striving to create optical illusions in my art and I think I have worked in a little optical illusion here, the center part of their shirt could belong to either one.
I encourage everyone to check out the 3 groups that I have formed.
www.flickr.com/groups/1133560@N22/
www.flickr.com/groups/1262430@N22/
www.flickr.com/groups/1281146@N23/
The art work is of a certain style, so it is a very select artist segment that is invited to exhibit. Also, I run these groups like a directory, with only one sample per artist, this way nobody gets lost in the crowd. And if anyone wants to see more, they just follow the link to the artist`s site.
making Route 9 more interesting :)
Using 1Prim Mega Flowers from Rachel Breaker's OfftheWall maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Off%20The%20Wall/90/144/9
House/Animated people come from Cica Ghost maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Appalachian/143/139/3502
A cow wearing leather, drinking milk ??
I was exhibiting at the Fenelon Falls art show just this last September first weekend. And someone came up that identified himself as an art director and said that my work was good, but it wasn`t "fine art", it was commercial art.
I am attempting to market my "product" and this was helpfull in pointing me towards potential buyers. But at the same time I couldn`t really care less what it is, it is what it is.
The only reason I want to sell all my beautifull creations is that there is no room in my tiny house. If I had the wall space (and a wife that liked my art) I would just hang what I painted and they would be there for my own personal viewing pleasure. It is just unbelievable how each painting has it`s own personality. You have to see them on a wall to understand the feelings and charisma they emit.
I looked up the definition of "Fine Art" and this was it:
1. arts creation of beautiful objects: artistic work that is meant to be appreciated for its own sake, rather than to serve some useful function
2. education college course in art: a course of study designed to teach students practical artistic skills as well as the theory and history of art
3. arts pure art: any art form that is considered to have purely aesthetic value, e.g. painting, sculpture, architecture, drawing, or engraving ( often used in the plural )
4. impressively detailed technique: something that requires great skill, talent, or precision ( informal )
the fine art of public speaking
My work definitly falls into the fine art definition, but at the same time, it sure doesn`t conform.
More of my work can be seen at www3.sympatico.ca/jim.rowe2/
O VANS customizado de Amaury Filho, baseado na obra Alice no PaÃs das Maravilhas, de Lewis Carroll.
Custom shoe by Amaury Filho (designer) based on Lewis Carroll novel "Alice in Wonderland".
It takes around 4 balloons to get over the birthday that you wished you had.
Correction: I loved my birthday party, just not all the guests on that particular night.
So I lust for a birthday, even if it is belated.
In Liverpool's Albert Dock, to be precise.
(If surrealism is right up your street, you don't know what you missed.)
Alternative title : "Conductor in search of an orchestra"
34"Wx26"H This is another one of my experiments. I ended up getting carried away with it. They were sleeping on a beach by the river, then I made it a woven matt with the river flowing on top of the matt, I am just exploring diferent concepts and colour combinations.
The company I worked for, laid me off a year ago. The chances are, that, because of downsizing, that I will never be hired back. They pay layoff benefits for 3 years, and my goal is to be a self suporting artist at the end of those 3 years. It is an imposible dream, but one that I am serious about.
I encourage everyone to check out the 3 groups that I have formed.
www.flickr.com/groups/1133560@N22/
www.flickr.com/groups/1262430@N22/
www.flickr.com/groups/1281146@N23/
I run them like a directory, with only one sample image per artist, this way nobody gets lost in the crowd.
26"Wx37"H Well I am just recovering from another failed art show, earlier in the week I went into a post-show depresion, then on Thursday I swung into a manic recovery in enough time to finish Moonshadow. I also, in a fit of dilerium mailed in a deposit to the Toronto Art Expo at the Toronto Convention Center, the booth space is $2000. for 3 days. I just hope they have the stairway to the roof locked off, because after spending that much money, if I don`t sell anything, that will be the first place I`ll be thinking of going. I will be like a gambler that has blown everything on one game of cards. On the other hand, maybe I am delusional, but I feel so good about my paintings. They are a specialty product, made for a small market segment, I just have to find that segment, because it appears that this illusive market segment is taking too much time to find me.
I encourage everyone to check out the 3 groups that I have formed.
www.flickr.com/groups/1133560@N22/
www.flickr.com/groups/1262430@N22/
www.flickr.com/groups/1281146@N23/
The art work is of a certain style, so it is a very select artist segment that is invited to exhibit. Also, I run these groups like a directory, with only one sample per artist, this way nobody gets lost in the crowd. And if anyone wants to see more, they just follow the link to the artist`s site.
"Il vero che muore
Succhiandomi il cazzo svanisce
Il risveglio dal sogno forse uccide
Mai tradisce"
Strategie by Afterhours
This painting reminded me of my formen at GM, they were given a rough time from their workers and their bosses. More of my work can be seen at www3.sympatico.ca/jim.rowe2/
This is another self portrait, even though I painted it as a woman, which is another subject, why I paint self portraits which account for most of my paintings, as females. Anyways she sees herself as fat even though she is thin as a rail. More of my work can be seen at www3.sympatico.ca/jim.rowe2/
Its been on the TV now for over three hours non stop, still trying get my head around he is dead.......... Lets hope the rumored new material is released as a tribute to the King of pop. This photo was taken just over 13 years before his death....
Also note its time to remember Farrah Fawcett who also passed away today, the news of Michael Jackson is so huge she is being forgotten.
I commuted 1 1/2 hrs to work each day and hated it. I am now looking forward to an early retirement at a partial pension. I will spend the rest of my life producing art work. Hopefully it sells some day
The Stones:
"War, children
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away"
WAITING!
This is a work in progress...
I'll refine it later as swamped under quarantine, too funny...
About to swap out all equipment and go full mirror-less. (Nikon Z7ii etc). Hope it is the right call.
Maybe I can make you smile or think ;)
BTW the bullets are all fake/snap caps.
Have Fun and Stay Safe,
Steve