Out of the Box Saturday

It's all about me discovering something that is different. I don't want to post things that you and I have more than likely heard before. I want to find something different. I'll cover something sing | songy one week, and artsy | fartsy the next.

I was sent an email by Liquitex. They are an art supply company if you are unfamiliar with the name.

They were featuring an artist Will Barras. He is an London based artist. Will loves to travel. He exhibits and does live paintings. He works on street scene art. His work is interesting. It went right along with what I was talking about in class. I kept trying to explain to the students that you have to let yourself go, have fun, and be free to experiment. Then in the end you have to take the control back again to create what's in your mind.

I think after showing them his video the students now get what I'm talking about. The background is unified with the foreground as well.

All the artwork shown belongs to Will Barras! 

Check out more of Will Barras' work on his website.

Sing, Sing a Song Saturday

Sing, Sing a Song Saturday is all about me discovering something that is different. I don't want to post things that you and I have more than likely heard before. I want to find something different. It could be from another country, someone singing from the streets of NY, and more.

I've seen videos of flashmobs, but this one is the biggest I've seen yet! Banco Sabadell of Spain celebrated their 130th anniversary with a flashmob. An Orchestra Simfònica del Vallès and various local choirs were in on the performance. They sang and played Beethoven's Ode to Joy.

A little girl gives a coin to a street performer, and gets a surprise in return. Was it staged? Yes, but the people walking in the streets didn't know what was about to happen. That just makes it so wonderful.

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The singing and the music is all real.

This same Orchestra Simfònica del Vallès hired graffiti artists to make an image of Beethoven, while they played.
 

WW: Puzzle Murals {Linky}

Every year I make 2 gigantic posters, then cut them up into pieces for my students to get 1 piece of the big image. They don't know what the image is at first. They each get two different techniques to create their images as well.

I used images from my last vacation, but edited them to make them more colorful.

Mountain Ewes on top of Pikes Peek:

I did make the bright colored triangles in Photoshop.

This one turned out bad! I was not impressed at all! The main focal point is horrible! :(

Crow in an old window in Mesa Verde. It was on their Balcony Tour:

I did not do the graffiti.

This one turned out great! I was really impressed with this one. It looks better than the original. :) How could 1 turn out so bad, and another so great?

Here's a few close-ups of my favorites:

Impressionism

Collage Paper

Painting on Pumice

Junk (the pink lines are cigarette butts, and the green is broken glass)

Cross-Hatching on Paper

Watercolor

Chalk Pastels

Sing, Sing a Song Saturday

Sing, Sing a Song Saturday is all about me discovering something that is different. I don't want to post things that you and I have more than likely heard before. I want to find something different. It could be from another country, someone singing from the streets of NY, and more.

This week I'm going to feature a very cool animation I found. I've been researching graffiti art for the last 2 weeks. There's an upcoming project I have in the works that involves graffiti. No I'm not going to be secretly paining on buildings.

This animation is made by a company called BLU. BLU is an Italian artist who conceals his real identity. He was born in Senigallia, and lives in Bologna. He's been active in street art.

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 This animation is pretty cool:

Today Daddy Found Out Our Name Has Been Tagged

Many, many times people have been using our last name in graffiti. I'm not even sure why. Kind of interesting. Maybe a graffiti artist has our last name. Daddy just typed our last name under Google Images and this is what he found:

Another fun side note: I had a fortune cookie today. If I would follow what it says, I would totally get myself fired! It says, "Never jude a work of art by its defects." HA HA! I'm a college art instructor. It's kind of my job to judge a work of art by its defects. It's called critiquing and grading.