Wednesday 30 September 2009

Polly Morgan's choir


What is this choir of possibilities you offer me? Where can it take us? What tragic song may be ours, what sort of future may a non-future contain? Then again, isn't it just a question of measure? Stop here. Stop here. The still. The gesture, frozen, with the impossible life no less possible than any other still. Still. Hold it more gently. Don't make your hand into a fist. Let them be flowers, let them be flowers, singing flowers, watching singing flowers, for just another, for just another still.

You can purchase this exclusive Polly Morgan print at murmurart. If you dare hang this on a wall.

30 Days hath September

Butterfly collection
Oh how I wish it had many more days! It flew by so fast.
This is my growing butterfly collection.
New arrangement
New art arrangement on the north wall of our studio/school.

*I haven't forgotten about the last installment of my video painting the flying birdie, I will post it this coming Friday.

Best Language Translator Widget For Your Blog


Google translate widget
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Microsoft chimes in with their Live Translator widget
It’s not much to look at and it uses JavaScript for the code but it will translate your content in a side by side format on the Live Translate page. If your site is not optimized for Internet Explorer don’t expect much from this offering. It has a tendency to chop up your site in the side by side comparison. Why?? who knows. But I’m sure it has to do with the ‘beta’ status of this offering.

Feel free to ask!!COZ Your questions and suggestions are the only favour I get in return :)

Tuesday 29 September 2009

They're here!

The cosmos are here!
The beautiful cosmos have arrived.
September Pages
& with them, inspiration for my late September journal pages.
September

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Those of you newbie bloggers that don’t know what U Comment I Follow means, it basically means if you leave a comment on my blog I will leave a comment on your blog, assuming of course that your blog is of some kind of interest to me. There are all kinds of U Comment I Follow Blogs out there, but I have yet to find a nice clean list of U Comment I Follow Blogs and hope that this will serve as that list.
If you are a blogger and you run a U Comment I Follow Blog please leave a comment with a link to your blog, and keep in mind leaving a comment here gets you two DoFollow backlinks from my blog. Now on the flip side don’t leave your site in the comments here if you have no intention of commenting back when other bloggers comment on your blog.

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Monday 28 September 2009

In Hiding



Works by Janine Antoni (the first one is a sculpture - a cast of the artist - and not a photo of a performed action, as is the case with the second one).
And as a bonus, a work by her called Umbillical (2000), made of a "sterling silver cast of family silverware and negative impression of artist's mouth and mother's hand".

HTML Color Codes(Color Palatte)

About color codes and how to apply HTML color codes are hexadecimal triplets representing the colors red, green, and blue. For example, in the the color red, the color code is FF0000, which is '255' red, '0' green, and '0' blue.
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Major hexadecimal color codes

Color
Color Code
Color
Color Code
Red
#FF0000
White
#FFFFFF
Turquoise
#00FFFF
Light Grey
#C0C0C0
Light Blue
#0000FF
Dark Grey
#808080
Dark Blue
#0000A0
Black
#000000
Light Purple
#FF0080
Orange
#FF8040
Dark Purple
#800080
Brown
#804000
Yellow
#FFFF00
Burgundy
#800000
Pastel Green
#00FF00
Forest Green
#808000
Pink
#FF00FF
Grass Green
#408080

Color code chart

COLOR NAME
CODE
COLOR
Black
#000000
Black
Gray0
#150517
Gray0
Gray18
#250517
Gray18
Gray21
#2B1B17
Gray21
Gray23
#302217
Gray23
Gray24
#302226
Gray24
Gray25
#342826
Gray25
Gray26
#34282C
Gray26
Gray27
#382D2C
Gray27
Gray28
#3b3131
Gray28
Gray29
#3E3535
Gray29
Gray30
#413839
Gray30
Gray31
#41383C
Gray31
Gray32
#463E3F
Gray32
Gray34
#4A4344
Gray34
Gray35
#4C4646
Gray35
Gray36
#4E4848
Gray36
Gray37
#504A4B
Gray37
Gray38
#544E4F
Gray38
Gray39
#565051
Gray39
Gray40
#595454
Gray40
Gray41
#5C5858
Gray41
Gray42
#5F5A59
Gray42
Gray43
#625D5D
Gray43
Gray44
#646060
Gray44
Gray45
#666362
Gray45
Gray46
#696565
Gray46
Gray47
#6D6968
Gray47
Gray48
#6E6A6B
Gray48
Gray49
#726E6D
Gray49
Gray50
#747170
Gray50
Gray
#736F6E
Gray
Slate Gray4
#616D7E
Slate Gray4
Slate Gray
#657383
Slate Gray
Light Steel Blue4
#646D7E
Light Steel Blue4
Light Slate Gray
#6D7B8D
Light Slate Gray
Cadet Blue4
#4C787E
Cadet Blue4
Dark Slate Gray4
#4C7D7E
Dark Slate Gray4
Thistle4
#806D7E
Thistle4
Medium Slate Blue
#5E5A80
Medium Slate Blue
Medium Purple4
#4E387E
Medium Purple4
Midnight Blue
#151B54
Midnight Blue
Dark Slate Blue
#2B3856
Dark Slate Blue
Dark Slate Gray
#25383C
Dark Slate Gray
Dim Gray
#463E41
Dim Gray
Cornflower Blue
#151B8D
Cornflower Blue
Royal Blue4
#15317E
Royal Blue4
Slate Blue4
#342D7E
Slate Blue4
Royal Blue
#2B60DE
Royal Blue
Royal Blue1
#306EFF
Royal Blue1
Royal Blue2
#2B65EC
Royal Blue2
Royal Blue3
#2554C7
Royal Blue3
Deep Sky Blue
#3BB9FF
Deep Sky Blue
Deep Sky Blue2
#38ACEC
Deep Sky Blue2
Slate Blue
#357EC7
Slate Blue
Deep Sky Blue3
#3090C7
Deep Sky Blue3
Deep Sky Blue4
#25587E
Deep Sky Blue4
Dodger Blue
#1589FF
Dodger Blue
Dodger Blue2
#157DEC
Dodger Blue2
Dodger Blue3
#1569C7
Dodger Blue3
Dodger Blue4
#153E7E
Dodger Blue4
Steel Blue4
#2B547E
Steel Blue4
Steel Blue
#4863A0
Steel Blue
Slate Blue2
#6960EC
Slate Blue2
Violet
#8D38C9
Violet
Medium Purple3
#7A5DC7
Medium Purple3
Medium Purple
#8467D7
Medium Purple
Medium Purple2
#9172EC
Medium Purple2
Medium Purple1
#9E7BFF
Medium Purple1
Light Steel Blue
#728FCE
Light Steel Blue
Steel Blue3
#488AC7
Steel Blue3
Steel Blue2
#56A5EC
Steel Blue2
Steel Blue1
#5CB3FF
Steel Blue1
Sky Blue3
#659EC7
Sky Blue3
Sky Blue4
#41627E
Sky Blue4
Slate Blue
#737CA1
Slate Blue
Slate Blue
#737CA1
Slate Blue
Slate Gray3
#98AFC7
Slate Gray3
Violet Red
#F6358A
Violet Red
Violet Red1
#F6358A
Violet Red1
Violet Red2
#E4317F
Violet Red2
Deep Pink
#F52887
Deep Pink
Deep Pink2
#E4287C
Deep Pink2
Deep Pink3
#C12267
Deep Pink3
Deep Pink4
#7D053F
Deep Pink4
Medium Violet Red
#CA226B
Medium Violet Red
Violet Red3
#C12869
Violet Red3
Firebrick
#800517
Firebrick
Violet Red4
#7D0541
Violet Red4
Maroon4
#7D0552
Maroon4
Maroon
#810541
Maroon
Maroon3
#C12283
Maroon3
Maroon2
#E3319D
Maroon2
Maroon1
#F535AA
Maroon1
Magenta
#FF00FF
Magenta
Magenta1
#F433FF
Magenta1
Magenta2
#E238EC
Magenta2
Magenta3
#C031C7
Magenta3
Medium Orchid
#B048B5
Medium Orchid
Medium Orchid1
#D462FF
Medium Orchid1
Medium Orchid2
#C45AEC
Medium Orchid2
Medium Orchid3
#A74AC7
Medium Orchid3
Medium Orchid4
#6A287E
Medium Orchid4
Purple
#8E35EF
Purple
Purple1
#893BFF
Purple1
Purple2
#7F38EC
Purple2
Purple3
#6C2DC7
Purple3
Purple4
#461B7E
Purple4
Dark Orchid4
#571B7e
Dark Orchid4
Dark Orchid
#7D1B7E
Dark Orchid
Dark Violet
#842DCE
Dark Violet
Dark Orchid3
#8B31C7
Dark Orchid3
Dark Orchid2
#A23BEC
Dark Orchid2
Dark Orchid1
#B041FF
Dark Orchid1
Plum4
#7E587E
Plum4
Pale Violet Red
#D16587
Pale Violet Red
Pale Violet Red1
#F778A1
Pale Violet Red1
Pale Violet Red2
#E56E94
Pale Violet Red2
Pale Violet Red3
#C25A7C
Pale Violet Red3
Pale Violet Red4
#7E354D
Pale Violet Red4
Plum
#B93B8F
Plum
Plum1
#F9B7FF
Plum1
Plum2
#E6A9EC
Plum2
Plum3
#C38EC7
Plum3
Thistle
#D2B9D3
Thistle
Thistle3
#C6AEC7
Thistle3
Lavender Blush2
#EBDDE2
Lavender Blush2
Lavender Blush3
#C8BBBE
Lavender Blush3
Thistle2
#E9CFEC
Thistle2
Thistle1
#FCDFFF
Thistle1
Lavender
#E3E4FA
Lavender
Lavender Blush
#FDEEF4
Lavender Blush
Light Steel Blue1
#C6DEFF
Light Steel Blue1
Light Blue
#ADDFFF
Light Blue
Light Blue1
#BDEDFF
Light Blue1
Light Cyan
#E0FFFF
Light Cyan
Slate Gray1
#C2DFFF
Slate Gray1
Slate Gray2
#B4CFEC
Slate Gray2
Light Steel Blue2
#B7CEEC
Light Steel Blue2
Turquoise1
#52F3FF
Turquoise1
Cyan
#00FFFF
Cyan
Cyan1
#57FEFF
Cyan1
Cyan2
#50EBEC
Cyan2
Turquoise2
#4EE2EC
Turquoise2
Medium Turquoise
#48CCCD
Medium Turquoise
Turquoise
#43C6DB
Turquoise
Dark Slate Gray1
#9AFEFF
Dark Slate Gray1
Dark Slate Gray2
#8EEBEC
Dark slate Gray2
Dark Slate Gray3
#78c7c7
Dark Slate Gray3
Cyan3
#46C7C7
Cyan3
Turquoise3
#43BFC7
Turquoise3
Cadet Blue3
#77BFC7
Cadet Blue3
Pale Turquoise3
#92C7C7
Pale Turquoise3
Light Blue2
#AFDCEC
Light Blue2
Dark Turquoise
#3B9C9C
Dark Turquoise
Cyan4
#307D7E
Cyan4
Light Sea Green
#3EA99F
Light Sea Green
Light Sky Blue
#82CAFA
Light Sky Blue
Light Sky Blue2
#A0CFEC
Light Sky Blue2
Light Sky Blue3
#87AFC7
Light Sky Blue3
Sky Blue
#82CAFF
Sky Blue
Sky Blue2
#79BAEC
Sky Blue2
Light Sky Blue4
#566D7E
Light Sky Blue4
Sky Blue
#6698FF
Sky Blue
Light Slate Blue
#736AFF
Light Slate Blue
Light Cyan2
#CFECEC
Light Cyan2
Light Cyan3
#AFC7C7
Light Cyan3
Light Cyan4
#717D7D
Light Cyan4
Light Blue3
#95B9C7
Light Blue3
Light Blue4
#5E767E
Light Blue4
Pale Turquoise4
#5E7D7E
Pale Turquoise4
Dark Sea Green4
#617C58
Dark Sea Green4
Medium Aquamarine
#348781
Medium Aquamarine
Medium Sea Green
#306754
Medium Sea Green
Sea Green
#4E8975
Sea Green
Dark Green
#254117
Dark Green
Sea Green4
#387C44
Sea Green4
Forest Green
#4E9258
Forest Green
Medium Forest Green
#347235
Medium Forest Green
Spring Green4
#347C2C
Spring Green4
Dark Olive Green4
#667C26
Dark Olive Green4
Chartreuse4
#437C17
Chartreuse4
Green4
#347C17
Green4
Medium Spring Green
#348017
Medium Spring Green
Spring Green
#4AA02C
Spring Green
Lime Green
#41A317
Lime Green
Spring Green
#4AA02C
Spring Green
Dark Sea Green
#8BB381
Dark Sea Green
Dark Sea Green3
#99C68E
Dark Sea Green3
Green3
#4CC417
Green3
Chartreuse3
#6CC417
Chartreuse3
Yellow Green
#52D017
Yellow Green
Spring Green3
#4CC552
Spring Green3
Sea Green3
#54C571
Sea Green3
Spring Green2
#57E964
Spring Green2
Spring Green1
#5EFB6E
Spring Green1
Sea Green2
#64E986
Sea Green2
Sea Green1
#6AFB92
Sea Green1
Dark Sea Green2
#B5EAAA
Dark Sea Green2
Dark Sea Green1
#C3FDB8
Dark Sea Green1
Green
#00FF00
Green
Lawn Green
#87F717
Lawn Green
Green1
#5FFB17
Green1
Green2
#59E817
Green2
Chartreuse2
#7FE817
Chartreuse2
Chartreuse
#8AFB17
Chartreuse
Green Yellow
#B1FB17
Green Yellow
Dark Olive Green1
#CCFB5D
Dark Olive Green1
Dark Olive Green2
#BCE954
Dark Olive Green2
Dark Olive Green3
#A0C544
Dark Olive Green3
Yellow
#FFFF00
Yellow
Yellow1
#FFFC17
Yellow1
Khaki1
#FFF380
Khaki1
Khaki2
#EDE275
Khaki2
Goldenrod
#EDDA74
Goldenrod
Gold2
#EAC117
Gold2
Gold1
#FDD017
Gold1
Goldenrod1
#FBB917
Goldenrod1
Goldenrod2
#E9AB17
Goldenrod2
Gold
#D4A017
Gold
Gold3
#C7A317
Gold3
Goldenrod3
#C68E17
Goldenrod3
Dark Goldenrod
#AF7817
Dark Goldenrod
Khaki
#ADA96E
Khaki
Khaki3
#C9BE62
Khaki3
Khaki4
#827839
Khaki4
Dark Goldenrod1
#FBB117
Dark Goldenrod1
Dark Goldenrod2
#E8A317
Dark Goldenrod2
Dark Goldenrod3
#C58917
Dark Goldenrod3
Sienna1
#F87431
Sienna1
Sienna2
#E66C2C
Sienna2
Dark Orange
#F88017
Dark Orange
Dark Orange1
#F87217
Dark Orange1
Dark Orange2
#E56717
Dark Orange2
Dark Orange3
#C35617
Dark Orange3
Sienna3
#C35817
Sienna3
Sienna
#8A4117
Sienna
Sienna4
#7E3517
Sienna4
Indian Red4
#7E2217
Indian Red4
Dark Orange3
#7E3117
Dark Orange3
Salmon4
#7E3817
Salmon4
Dark Goldenrod4
#7F5217
Dark Goldenrod4
Gold4
#806517
Gold4
Goldenrod4
#805817
Goldenrod4
Light Salmon4
#7F462C
Light Salmon4
Chocolate
#C85A17
Chocolate
Coral3
#C34A2C
Coral3
Coral2
#E55B3C
Coral2
Coral
#F76541
Coral
Dark Salmon
#E18B6B
Dark Salmon
Salmon1
#F88158
Pale Turquoise4
Salmon2
#E67451
Salmon2
Salmon3
#C36241
Salmon3
Light Salmon3
#C47451
Light Salmon3
Light Salmon2
#E78A61
Light Salmon2
Light Salmon
#F9966B
Light Salmon
Sandy Brown
#EE9A4D
Sandy Brown
Hot Pink
#F660AB
Hot Pink
Hot Pink1
#F665AB
Hot Pink1
Hot Pink2
#E45E9D
Hot Pink2
Hot Pink3
#C25283
Hot Pink3
Hot Pink4
#7D2252
Hot Pink4
Light Coral
#E77471
Light Coral
Indian Red1
#F75D59
Indian Red1
Indian Red2
#E55451
Indian Red2
Indian Red3
#C24641
Indian Red3
Red
#FF0000
Red
Red1
#F62217
Red1
Red2
#E41B17
Red2
Firebrick1
#F62817
Firebrick1
Firebrick2
#E42217
Firebrick2
Firebrick3
#C11B17
Firebrick3
Pink
#FAAFBE
Pink
Rosy Brown1
#FBBBB9
Rosy Brown1
Rosy Brown2
#E8ADAA
Rosy Brown2
Pink2
#E7A1B0
Pink2
Light Pink
#FAAFBA
Light Pink
Light Pink1
#F9A7B0
Light Pink1
Light Pink2
#E799A3
Light Pink2
Pink3
#C48793
Pink3
Rosy Brown3
#C5908E
Rosy Brown3
Rosy Brown
#B38481
Rosy Brown
Light Pink3
#C48189
Light Pink3
Rosy Brown4
#7F5A58
Rosy Brown4
Light Pink4
#7F4E52
Light Pink4
Pink4
#7F525D
Pink4
Lavender Blush4
#817679
Lavendar Blush4
Light Goldenrod4
#817339
Light Goldenrod4
Lemon Chiffon4
#827B60
Lemon Chiffon4
Lemon Chiffon3
#C9C299
Lemon Chiffon3
Light Goldenrod3
#C8B560
Light Goldenrod3
Light Golden2
#ECD672
Light Golden2
Light Goldenrod
#ECD872
Light Goldenrod
Light Goldenrod1
#FFE87C
Light Goldenrod1
Lemon Chiffon2
#ECE5B6
Lemon Chiffon2
Lemon Chiffon
#FFF8C6
Lemon Chiffon
Light Goldenrod Yellow
#FAF8CC
Light Goldenrod Yellow

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Autumn leaves intervention

Autumn leaves
Found these on my walk with Turbo and gave them some TLC with my brushes and some paint.
I love the Fall! It's the season I am most inspired by.

Sunday 27 September 2009

DETAILS (A TAXONOMY FOR BEGINNERS)

Here's how it goes:

There are details that hum and details that sing. There are details that accumulate like silt when the artist isn't paying enough attention, and smother the picture.

Then there are details where artists with impeccable technique find refuge from questions of meaning and purpose.

Wrightson

There are details that are diamantiferous...


Briggs

all the way down to the subatomic level....







Then there are details so insanely disproportionate that we can only attribute them to the addiction to drawing (an addiction that has so far bested every methadone program offered by art schools).


Drucker

Of course, we forgive the excessive details in Renaissance art; those details were created in an era of new excitement for empirical facts and the physical world, after artists awakened from the long medieval fixation on the afterlife. Renaissance artists were entitled to their painstaking focus on the natural world, but you'd better have an equally good excuse if you want to get away with the same level of detail today.


Altdorfer
There are details which are just a playground for scamps.


Wood
Then there are sly details, the ones that seduce the artist with his own skill. Be on your guard, for these are the most dangerous details of all!


Frazetta

There are details that envelop you in a warm bath, and there are details that shimmer like phosphorescence in the sea at night and swirl around you, drawing you deeper into the picture to the place where mermaids whisper that answers do exist.

On those rare occasions when an artist exercises restraint, the few carefully selected details can acquire supernatural power. The single line of a stocking can inspire you to leave a bookstore and go hunting for your wife.



Sometimes detail gets lucky and is given a starring role in a picture, as when an artist merges the background with the foreground, making the center of the picture everywhere at once.


Fawcett

Once upon a time, laborious detail was the cheapest and safest way to make sure a viewer valued a picture. Even if the art was no good, viewers were subconsciously flattered that the artist was willing to trade so many hours of his life to entertain them. But the muse became indignant that so many of her supplicants were abandoning her for the god of manual labor, so she invented photoshop. Now even the lure of cheap flattery is gone.


Nicolausson

Scientists report that fully 17% of the artistic details in the known universe are attributable to cowardice; there are artists who add detail to hedge their bets, believing that it is safer to draw lots of little lines than one big one. But artists who believe they can escape accountability by blurring their choices with three or four lines where one would suffice are wrong. The fatal flaw with their theory is what the economists call diminishing marginal utility: with each additional superfluous line the artist invests a little less thought or judgment (and adds less value to the picture).

So many lines-- hundreds of millions of them throughout history-- are conceived in hope, only to end up as part of an endurance test for crow quill pens. One can only ponder the wasted potential, the disappointed ambitions of these lines whose lives were stripped of individuality, personality, and any other trait that might have redeemed them. It is, my friends, a holocaust of mind numbing proportions. But who will hear their cry?