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a warm, kind-of-creepy, fun, hypnotic music video to cuddle up with this winter.

Matthew

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The weather was kinda crummy this weekend and I loved it.  I stayed in and drew quite a bit.  It was lovely.  Here are a couple.

-Mat

The Mische Technique

Below are several images by artist Robert Venosa.  He explains on one page about the Mische Technique or the “Masters Technique” a process used by 17th Century Flemish Masters.

Boiled down this technique is a combination of Oil Glazing and White Egg Tempra highlighting.  The build up of many layers of [...]

new intimists

I don’t work with interior space, but I came across this link and found two artists that make interior spaces look fantastical and quite intimate.

The New Intimists

Tamara Thomsen

Heejung Cho

-Francesca

Name Throw-up

Lately, I’ve been searching for contemporary artists on websites such as ArtNet as a way of passing the time on the internet. I don’t care much for passing time on the internet but if I am, I suppose there are less important things to be searching for. ArtNet was a fast way of seeing [...]

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Do not try to make a picture of something. Make something.

Gallery Night at Studio 420b – Oct 15/16

Come see Milwaukee’s newest artist collaborative studio space. Featuring paintings and drawings by Mark David Gray, Steve Luban, Sean Bodley and Lindsay Marx. Urban art by Fred Kames and Kari Borchert. Friday: 5 to 9:30pm, Saturday: 11am to 2pm.

Hope to see you there!

Art As Communication

The past year or so I’ve been fluttering the meaning of making art around in my head. I feel art needs a function, and I’ve found a comfortable satisfaction in the notion of art as communication.  Makes sense.  I mean, cave paintings in France were some of the earliest known works of art and [...]

Time To Be An Artist

There is never enough time to be an artist. We know from movie adaptations of artist’s lives and literature that artists do their art work every hour of the day. Except when eating or being with artist friends, or going to exhibitions of their work, they are creating art work. Picasso and Van Gogh [...]

Beyond the Canvas Event-

I recently signed up for a local plein air competition hosted by MARN. This plein air competition is different than the tradition of painting outdoors. It’s about going “beyond the canvas” and includes multiple categories for submissions for instance: traditional, sculpture/assemblage, time based media, digital/photography, & printmaking.

As a painter entering into the traditional [...]