London based Slovakian artist Maria Slovakova has always impressed me with the pesistence in which she has pursued her artistic vision.I had the opportunity to meet her when she was in Canada at the beginning of the millenium. At the time Maria could simply not fathom what was to her an almost grotesque consumption of [...]
The cover art of The Band’s ”Music From Big Pink” album has always intrigued me and I discovered it was actually painted by Bob Dylan himself.The style of painting meshed seamlessly with the music, kind of not in harmony but together, somewhat ragged but highly coherent,unusual yet perfect; and with elements of a post modern [...]
Iris brushes from Pebeo are tangibly better than many known brands yet are completely under the radar in terms of name recognition in North America.They have excellent spring,nice sharp points and seem to be more versatile and durable than the reknown ” La Corneille” line under the Loew-Cornell brand. Part of the issue is a [...]
A friend of mine forwarded me a link to painter Tim Patch, ”Pricasso” who has refined a gimmick that allows him to live a lifestyle worthy of the well-heeled by selling acrylic portraits which he paints with his penis on specially conceived low abrasion canvas. Technically,I think the general spirit borrows from the late Bob [...]
Pebeo is a French producer of ”Vitrail” and ”Vitrea 160” glass paint. An explosion into the American psyche has never occured even if they decided to slip peyote essence into the solvent base of the product.The packaging is quaint but odd by the standard craft formulas we are accustomed to. But, then the product is marketed [...]
Montreal graffiti artist ”Roadsworth” is a master of de-materialized street art. His work on Montreal’s pavement diverted attention from the potholes and poverty and in a sense did a road-kill job on urban blight. However, to put those creative forces into play only to be subject to a municipal manhunt by diverse blue collar union officials [...]
Daler Rowney has come up with an off-beat addition to their popular Simply Simmons series of all you can eat at one price brushes. You could call it the William Burroughs series with a special contribution from Timothy Leary. In particular is a series called ”Ridge” which is like a hairy fork,A ”sword” which is [...]
Last month we asked Chroma if they could produce a jumbo sized textile medium for us and they obliged with a 16 oz format. People are mad about image transfer onto these cotton grocery bags which is good business for us since these 100% cotton bags really soak up the textile medium very aggressively.The quality of [...]
This past weekend I saw the Larry Charles film ”Religulous” featuring enhanced high definition from comedian Bill Maher.Often artists define their work as an expression of spirituality or as a manifestation of a proxy for religious experience. After viewing this It does leave you wondering whether the foundations for these beliefs are that solid to say [...]
