Weekly FFF - Title: Mindscapes
Mindscapes ©2008 Carol Cooper
This weeks FFF (Fresh Flash Friday) was inspired by how we define and create paths that lead us through our personal mindscapes.
Weekly FFF’s will be filed in the New Works Gallery under the BOZZETTO album for future reference.
Fractal Friday - May 30, 2008
Facade - ©2008 Carol Cooper
Tierazon + post-processing in Photoshop
Photogenic Slugs
photograph credit: David Doubilet displayed on National Geographic website
Nembrotha kubaryana - Size: 2.4 inches (6 centimeters)
click here to view more photogenic slugs
Thanks Johnny for sharing the link ( he knows I really love the Mandarin fish ) :o)
New Works-Creole Series
Creole001 ©2008 Carol Cooper
I am finally getting around to uploading various series of works created this winter to the New Works gallery. I’ll get them all up there…slow like molasses!!
This series is titled “Creole” and it includes 12 miniature geometric abstractions, each is 4″ X 4″. Based on symmetrical investigations & explorations.
Creole = Latin-(creare “to produce, create”)
The series can be viewed: here
Introducing NW Ontario Artist: Laura Comeau
Title: Sand Dunes at the Mouth of the Pic River
© Artist - Laura Comeau
Laura at Katherine’s Cove - image © Laura Comeau
I am pleased to introduce you to artist Laura Lea Comeau who lives & creates her art in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. ( Just around the lake from me, well kind of . . Lake Superior is a pretty big lake!! )
Below is snippet of info from Laura as she tells us a bit about herself and her art.
“I was born in Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan and I fell in love with Lake Superior and all its unpredictability when on our first date, my husband took me to Coldwell to see where the Group of Seven had painted. The landscape, the shores, the storms, the sunsets, everything. I am very fortunate to have a husband who is very supportive in the pursuit of my art career.
My paintings are from actual places on Superior that I have been too. My husband and I explore whenever we have extra time on the weekends. I work from my home studio full time now. I received an OAC grant for the project “Bays of Northwest Ontario” - for a charter out into Superior to explore further, which to be completed this summer. I can hardly wait!
This is my latest painting (image of painting above) of the Sand Dunes near the PowWow grounds on the Pic River in Heron Bay. The view is from Lake Superior near Pukaskwa Park of a gorgeous, but fragile looking sand dunes and grounds. I work in Acrylics and seldom sketch first, I work right onto the canvas trying to convey that moment of absorption and emotion of each location. Lake Superior is a temperamental but magnificent being!”
I highly recommend you take some time to read more about Laura and her art making by visiting her website, and while you are there make sure to take a look at her beautiful intimate paintings of Northwestern Ontario displayed in her online gallery. Website link: www.lauracomeauart.com
Laura Lea Wergin-Comeau
Fine Art and Comissioned Works
DAM - Digital Art Museum
image: DAM-Digital Art Museum Logo
Digital Art Museum aims to become the world’s leading online resource for the history and practice of digital fine art. It exhibits the work of leading Artists in this field since 1956. [DAM] is an on-line museum with a comprehensive exhibition of Digital Art supported by a wide range of background information including biographies, articles, a bibliography and interviews.
[DAM] also includes an Essays section with articles by artists and theorists specially selected to place the works in context (many of them by special arrangement with Leonardo journal). A History section lists key events and technologies in date order.
[DAM] is intended for the enjoyment of all visitors, curators and collectors, scholars of art, and for an emerging generation of digital artists wishing to understand a 50-year heritage of innovation and experimentation.
Digital Art Museum concept was created by the Director Wolfgang Lieser
The [DAM] newsletter will inform you of new additions to the website and what’s happening at the [DAM] locations. The newsletter is published on an irregular basis. - link to subscribe to newsletter
d.velop digital art award [ddaa] - Life Time Award for Digital Art
Weekly FFF - Title: In the Moment
image: In the Moment (Paintograph) - ©2008 Carol Cooper
I found inspiration for this weeks FFF (Fresh Flash Friday) by the words “In the moment”, and remembered a photo I had taken last summer while on a stroll down by the lake. For a moment I was picturing myself in Monet’s garden, the pond, the greenery, just feeling it . . . in the moment.
Weekly FFF’s will be filed in the New Works Gallery under the BOZZETTO album for future reference.
Fractal Friday - May 23, 2008
image: One lifetime - ©2008 Carol Cooper
Tierazon + post processing in Photoshop
Showcase: Artist Michael Frantangelo
image: Nature V - by artist Michael Frantangelo - website
The wispy strokes, strong colours and wonderful textures in Nature V (above) truly appeal to me!
After two posts with fairly monotone images the last few days, I felt the need for a splash of COLOUR!!
And I am happy I came upon artist Michael Frantangelo’s website where he has on display in his galleries oodles of brilliant and vividly colourful paintings. While you are visiting Michael’s website, please take a moment to read his philosophy page, where you will gain much insight about Michael and his art.
read more, see more @ www.fratangelo.com: click here
Sleeping Giant Thunder Bay
image: Sleeping Giant Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada ©2008 Carol Cooper
Shhhhhh!! . . . he’s sleeping! :o)
“The Sleeping Giant is a formation of mesas on Sibley Peninsula which resembles a giant lying on its back when viewed from the West to North-Northwest section of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. (Lake Superior)
As one moves southward along the shoreline toward Squaw Bay the Sleeping Giant starts to separate into its various sections. Most distinctly in the view from the cliffs at Squaw Bay the Giant appears to have an “Adam’s Apple”. The formation is part of Sleeping Giant Provincial Park. Its dramatic steep cliffs are among the highest in Ontario (250 m). The southernmost point is known as Thunder Cape, depicted by many early Canadian artists such as William Armstrong.”
above snippet from wikipedia
An Ojibway legend identifies the giant as Nanabijou, turned to stone when the secret location of a rich silver mine, now known as Silver Islet, was disclosed to white men.
read more about The Legend of the Sleeping Giant - Nanabijou [ Visit Thunder Bay website ]
