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11/20/11

Art Crawl St. Cloud

I didn’t take a lot of photos Friday night during the art crawl, but I did get a few. We had a much larger crowd of people after these were taken so I didn’t have time to take more. It was a good art crawl, though I was expecting more people. But there was a time period of about an hour when the building was very crowded with people looking at our work. The cookies and food were a big hit too, of course.

Inside Shelly's studio, Suite 206

Art Crawl November 18th -- before the bigger crowds came

The next art crawl isn’t until March 2012. If you saw something you liked and wanted to come by to purchase it later, just contact us using the contact forms above.

Next time I should have the ability to accept credit cards so that should make it easier for everyone to get the paintings they like and not worry about paying on the spot. We did sell a few things, but not as much as we had hoped. I talked to someone afterwards and suggested it might be because we don’t accept credit cards so finding a way to accept credit cards will be a priority for me for the next art crawl.

I also have a painting in the Planet Earth exhibit in Studio C at the Paramount. It’s titled “Erosion” and there is a photo on my website here. Please visit the Paramount to see the whole exhibit.

More of our artwork can also be seen in Little Falls at the GRAA art center downtown during their Wrap Up art show.

 

08/10/11

San Jose Shoppers

This is a downtown, San Jose street scene, from a photo taken in November 2010.  I would love to go back to Costa Rica. It’s an amazing country and incredibly beautiful. The people are wonderful and friendly and I have to say, though you can’t tell it from this painting, they are very style-conscious and into fashion.  Probably more so than Americans.

By the way, don’t skip the city if you go to Costa Rica, like so many websites recommend.  San Jose a beautiful city full of parks and museums and great pedestrian traffic, with lots of gorgeous architecture.  The one drawback of walking around in San Jose is the auto and bus traffic. There is too much of it, and everyone drives super fast, and the congestion makes for some serious air pollution. 

As soon as you get out of the city, the traffic is sparse and the countryside, with its many coffee farms, farms in general, and rain forests,  is amazingly beautiful. I mean to do several watercolors of downtown, but I can say for sure there will be two more at least.

07/24/11

Recent Artwork and In Progress Things

One reason that going to work in a studio is very good for me is that it keeps me away from the internet, which for people like me can be a huge time hogger. It’s a major distraction. So, I have to find time when I’m home to post things online, which is a very good situation for me. If I had the internet at work I’m not sure I’d get half as much done as I manage to do.

Pictured in this extra-large post are things I’m either currently working on or have finished recently (in the last 3 weeks). (There are at least two things I’m working on that are not included here.)

First of all, my trip last year to Costa Rica and the 500+ resulting photos are going to be the source of a lot of paintings this year. I’ve been meaning to get to work on them — and now I am!
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04/23/11

Hopkins MN Art Show

Art show in Hopkins, Minnesota: I have one, and possibly two paintings in this art show. (I didn’t see the other one in this video). My “Isle of Elsewhere” can be seen in the third opening scene. It’s the wide green one. Also, if you are in St. Cloud, visit US Bank downtown. They are exhibiting Visual Arts Minnesota’s “Mail” mail-in art show. My painting in that show is “Nuclear Human”. It’s a good, small show. The show in Hopkins is up until May 21st. You can see more information about it here.

01/30/11

A Puggle Fractal

Using a new fractal program and changing one of my first images, I discovered it reminded me of my dog. So this is Puppy Fractal. (My dog is no longer a puppy but she has a face that retains that youthful dog appearance and she could pass for a puppy.)

The fractal program for the Mac is called Oxidize. There are very few of them, and this program makes “flame” fractals, so I mention it in case someone else is looking for something for their Mac. There are a ton of programs for Windows, but lots of artists do not use PCs, but instead use Macs. Macs are traditionally more friendly to artists — at least usually. Oxidize is not easy to use and it has a daunting learning curve and terrible documentation.

01/29/11

New Project, Art Blog

Tulum Inverted

Welcome to the Experimental Blog at Offworld Graphics.

The experiment will be to see how often I can work on things and actually get them posted here as I progress on them.  This is mainly for my benefit but others might find it interesting too.

My art website has at times in the past been called Revolutionaryart.org but I renamed my main site to Leitworks.com and am now also using this one as my daily or weekly working blog.  Offworldgraphics has been around since 2004.  I’m just now turning it into a working site (instead of a splash page) so bookmark it and return soon.

Leitworks is my other art site.

07/16/10

Wacom Drawing – Portrait of a Woman I

I recently got a new Wacom Intuos4 drawing tablet.   I’ve wanted a Wacom for years, and having never used it or any other tablet before, I was very happy  to be able to come up with this drawing on my first effort.   It looks like marker, or pen and ink.    It’s far from great, but it shows the potential of the drawing tablet, and it was copied from something.  (The original stuff comes later.)   So far, I love the Wacom but the pen takes some getting used to.   There are other buttons on it and a mouse that seems totally redundant. It has a bit of a learning curve for someone who is used to pens and brushes.  Click on the little square image here for a larger one. Read on for news of an art show . . . .

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