Posting digital images

Here are more digitals

Friend of mine gave me the name of an artist who works with branches his work is lovely I will post a picture, his name is Patrick Dougherty and is from North Carolina I thought of you Lynn when I saw the work.
The artist I spoke of in class where Steven Boyling and Sarah McEneaney, the latter is worthwhile just looking up, has wonderful processes re her work.

Cosmigraphics

This is the book I mentioned....this collection of illustrations, maps and works of art is worth studying.  The cover reminds me a heritage quilt pattern.  Search the web for more of the pages if you are interested.

 

Michael Benson tells the thrilling story of the discovery and description of the universe in a new way. Selecting artful and profound illustrations and maps, many hidden away in the world’s great science libraries and virtually unknown today, he chronicles more than 1,000 years of humanity’s ever-expanding understanding of the size and shape of space itself. He shows how the invention of the telescope inspired visions of unimaginably distant places and explains why today we turn to supercomputer simulations to reveal deeper truths about space-time.
 
Cosmigraphics explores the visual side of our great­est imaginative achievement as a species: the unveiling of a vast universe that is largely invisible to our senses. It will be a revelation to space-struck Earthlings, art lovers, and readers interested in the history of science, the visualization of information, graphic design, and mapping

Wandering the Immeasurable

The Canadian artist I mentioned to Lynn yesterday is Gayle Hermick from Chelsea, Quebec.  The link below is the article from the Ottawa Citizen. I posted a photo of her sculpture Wandering the Immeasurable as well.  Laser cut into the sides of the ribbons are 396 major discoveries in the history of physics.  Interesting blend of art and science.

http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/the-big-bang-of-sculpture


             

Ancient Script site link

As promised to Patti in class yesterday. If you go back to it's home page there is so much stuff here.
This site has lots of interesting information on all kinds of ancient text and writing systems.

Plus the link (below) is specifically about Runes,  and more links near bottom of its page for fonts and other fascinating old writing system stuff.

Runic Fonts and writing system


This link following is found on the same site but if you want to look directly at available ancient fonts for download, check it out.

Ancient fonts

Trinacria-Triskelion

"You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly.  She’s beautiful and she’s laughing...

As soon as you let yourself be led beyond codes, your body filled with fear and with joy, the words diverge, you are no longer enclosed in the maps of social construction, you no longer walk between walls, meanings flow."

Helene Cixous

i continually come back to her ... Trinacria, Neolithic Triskelion, triple 

Posting digital images

maes howe, not irish, on slate

hi everyone...

i do have a personal blog at:
pattirandazzobeckett.wordpress.com

If you go to the site and click follow you will get messages that I have written something.
Or if you'd rather... I can double publish - there and here...

Not everything on my personal blog pertains to this class

cheers

Taking the gif to aftereffects and then to quicktime

Since my post below, I have discovered how to embed a link via a video site that allows for much better viewing quality of videos. 

I planned to use my animated gifs as 'roughs' for AfterEffect mini movies.
AfterEffects will allow me to paint or draw on the imagery. Then export to Premier Pro to add sound.
Drawing on top of imagery was to be my next experiment.
But... gifs are still better route to go for our proposed exhibition.
Much smaller in size and I like the idea of the downloading via QR codes.
Even here on the blog the animated gifs are better looking.
Maybe I should focus on the gif making.
rika

Another great book now available for anyone new to yoga or just have question re it Maureen

This book is for all who want to be Healthy great read  not available till Spring thought I would let you know.
Came across a couple of artist using art works, one Seven Boyling uses all sorts how. Also Sarah McEneaney at times as paintings inside paintings. Really interesting to look up addresses so many issues that are important to us as  female artist. Maureen

MAP dress on Flickr

Map Dress images found on Flickr

These may be of interest to Fleur-Ange, in particular.
I am looking at them as part of the creative development inspiration for my character's 'wardrobe'.

Wonderful!

It was indeed a pleasure to have met a group of interesting creative people today...Very inspiring!

Zinglada's Possay

I worked with Painter software to create individual sketch portraits of Zing and her 'possay' and then with Photoshop to create the gif. Exploring what happens with various layer effects, I discover a 'devil' lurking between. Zinglada travelling into dark times?

and continues

Maes Howe

women

The search begins

i'm searching and capturing images of neolithic art specific to the orkney's...
much of it is rune-like, slashes, scratches and spirals.
i found one interesting image of a female form that is from romania from around the same time
it's interesting to see that some of the marks found on these bits and pieces are similar to the marks i made in my wind farm series
also that the forms - the female ones that i'm interested in - are covered with the marks and scratches

is it some ancestral memory?

are these things embedded so deep that we are unaware until there are triggers that give us that 'aha' moment?

For horse troopers

From an article online.
The First Artists - Graphic: The Birth of Art - National Geographic Magazine
A beautiful sculpture of a horse.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/first-artists/art-origins-graphic




Sent from my iPad

Hi everyone I just finished talking to the school. I have 12 students with some faithful regulars not there and some brand new people added.i Have been telling some of you the class starts on the 22 but the class runs on Wednesday and that is the 21 please pass this on!! See you all then Vjane

Adding to the conversation about "Maps & Mapping"

So many of us are intrigued with maps. I came across this article:
http://gizmodo.com/a-man-going-deaf-can-hear-wi-fi-signals-and-heres-how-1657981888
and thought of Fleur-Ange & Dean mapping of their walk - and all the things, hidden and otherwise, we are not always aware of as we move through our lives.

See you all soon

Tree Trope

Here is a link to a great visual article for those interested the tree trope.

http://www.boredpanda.com/ancient-tree-photography-beth-moon/

More Map Art: 27 Cool Cartographic Sculptures & Drawings | 3 | Urbanist

Rika Balke shared with you:   More Map Art: 27 Cool Cartographic Sculptures & Drawings weburbanist.com - More Map Art: 27 Cool Cartographic Sculptures & Drawings Article by Steph, filed under Drawing & Digital in the Art category. Available on the App Store.

Sent from my iPad

Zinglada fell through the hole in the sky above Thunder Bay.

The Art of Description....

I'm reading an interesting book, The Art of Description, World into Word, by Mark Doty. He's an American poet and instructor at Rutgars University.

Although the book is written about language, particularly poetry, there are some transferable ideas about creativity within the text.

His opening paragraph resonated... "It sounds a simple thing, to say what you see (or draw or paint). But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very beginnings of desire stirring in the gaze of someone look right into your eyes, and it immediately becomes clear that all we see is slippery, nuanced, elusive."

Who hasn't, artist, writer, song writer, not gone through that difficult part of seeing and translating what we see into something tangible that makes sense, or evokes strong emotions.

Further in the book, "To some degree, the art of description is the art of perception; what is required, in order to say what you see, is enhance attention to that looking, and the more you look, the more information you get. CONTOUR DRAWING is a great example. It involves not merely trying to draw an individual thing but to follow outlines with your pencil. Try this now with just your eyes: look up from this page and choose a line before you, the outer edge of anything and start to follow it; where it intersects with another line you have to choose which way to go. The resulting visual journey can feel intricate indeed; it makes us see the world before us as composed not of discreet things that don't touch, but as a continuous realm of interconnected lines. ... To be better at description, we have to work at attentiveness."

I'm on my way to Key West. I'm currently waiting in Miami for my next flight. I'm attending a literary seminar with the theme 'How the light gets in.' Mark Doty is a presenter and I look forward to listening to him and sharing what I have heard.

See you soon

patti

Enhanced studio

I have just received a note from Bonnie wheeler

Enhanced studio is almost full

For Tropers who want to be in the group letting you know you should do it sooner than later

I hope this works let me know cause it means I can post from my iPad tres simple and anywhere

Vjane

My work is mainly an exploration of the female body. Over the past couple of years I have furthered this exploration with inclusions of my research into my Sicilian ancestry and the influences of the land on my work.   

That was my father's side of the family - Sicily, the land, farming.

Much of this work can be seen at the following link:

http://pattirandazzobeckett.com

I'm now looking into my mother's side and that work will be based on exploration of the Orkney Islands, neolithic art forms and forced emigration.

There is a great article in the National Geographic about the Orkney Islands which has helped me.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/08/neolithic-orkney/smith-text

Further to that I would like to share another article that is in the recent NG - all about the FIRST artists. and interesting discussion.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/first-artists/walter-text

Slainte

patti