Daan Oude Elferink. Source: daanoe.com Self-taught Dutch photographer Daan Oude Elferink (1978) travels the world to explore and capture the beauty of abandoned, forbidden and decayed places. He captures the beauty of buildings and objects all over the world that are slowly decaying with time - accordingly becoming more beautiful but also more dangerous. The... Continue Reading →
The Death of Cinema
By Siva Wright The essence of an art is its originality. This originality maybe attained by techniques discovered and used before, but the end product, though influenced by its predecessors, should not be an imitation. If the product stopped being original, that is if there is a lack of innovation and mere imitation replaces influence,... Continue Reading →
Dallas’ Blind Muralist
John Bramblitt John Bramblitt is a talented artist from Denton Texas. In fact its no less to say he is one of a kind. His art has been sold in over one hundred and twenty countries and he has appeared internationally in print, TV and radio, like CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, ABC, NBC,... Continue Reading →
Anything is possible. It only takes…. courage
Outsider art was a term coined in 1972 by British art historian Roger Cardinal. It was a roughly equivalent but more inclusive coinage for art brut (raw art), a 1940s label by Jean Dubuffet for work by inmates of insane asylums, which the French artist described as “unscathed by artistic culture … and the conventions of classical... Continue Reading →
Sketch with me in Spain in 2020 — The Sketchbook
I haven’t yet finished scanning my sketches from September’s travel sketching workshop in Italy with French Escapade, but I’m already looking forward to teaching with them again in Spain in June of 2020. And this time, it’s in a region of Spain that I’ve already visited (and loved), which makes it even more exciting. A […]Sketch... Continue Reading →