Art Exercises
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Small Changes
Returning to the process
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Making Meshes
If there be any here who feels that these two should not be joined...
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An Orange Halloween Vegetable
Hint: Use Birthday Candle to light the inside of these.
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To Record Label Execs
A free Idea that benefits many.
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Recommended Reading
Dragons, Water, Fantasy, good stuff.
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Shameless Plug
This one is all about ArtExercise so get on the bandwagon!
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Me, Myself, and I
And friends and others and unwilling subjects at the disposal of the camera.
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Wild Garden
Not to be confused with those wild gardeners over on the other side of the Suite!
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Expose Yourself
Flashers need not apply.
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Tombstone Beneath My Skin
I'm dead inside, my soul is deceased, I'm either a horrible beatnik or an outgoing Goth.
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A Dragon, Be Dragon, See Dragon, Too
Not exactly a sequel to an article many of you have probably never seen.
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Light Butterfly
I'm trapped in the idea of using light.
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Tripping the Light Fantastic
Eat your heart out, Fred!
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The woes of Technology
A poor excuse but one none the less
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Degas' Dancers
Looking at and choosing people.
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Stuck in Traffic
What better place to theorize to oneself on art?
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Making Monsters of…
In a continuation of the World Building concept some inspiration for you to draw upon while walking.
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World Building
When the art of the traditional world just isn’t enough.
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Nude not Prude
Celebrating the 100th article by promoting naked people in art.
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BACKTRACK: Zen Garden
Planting the seeds of clipart and watching it grow.
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The Comic Strip
A deeper look at the representation of man
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Animal Art
And I'm not talking about a photo of my dog Vader.
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Duplication Effects
There's more of them than there are of us!
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Warning: Extreme Nudity
Now that I've got your attention.
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A Pound of Flesh
The price you'll pay for a good skin.
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The light behind the glass
In reference to a friend's discourse on Elegance and Deliberateness.
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One Function
This is for all the techno junkies who like to play with functions inside of their paint programs.
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Color Explosions
Using a normally considered eyesore technique to get the creating juices flowing.
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Sunrise, Sunset
Looking to natural phenomenon for artistic expression.
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Tangrams
7 Pieces of a small puzzle make an amazing amount of shapes and images.
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At Home with the Gods
Using the Mythos of religion and culture to infuse into your art
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Mortality
Using bones for artwork.
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Mathematical Constructs
Using Math to create art.
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Modern Cubist Sculpture
Seeing works by Wright, Lissitzky, and others offers abstract inspiration.
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Celebration
A Message for the holidays.
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Holiday Inspiration II
I hope that this inspires you not only through the holiday season but up through the next year as well.
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Backtrack: Aquarium
An Old exercise with a new submission
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Earth as Art
The Library of Congress as an interesting exhibition on display. As well as some science labs.
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Klimt Inspired
Klimt painted some fantastic detailed fabrics in his paintings so why not simply use the fabrics.
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Goldmine Pollution
The inescapable truths of the external influence that the world has over our artwork.
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Ninja Blur
The using Blur and Mesh Warp to alter reality.
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Sources of Inspiration 3
Just some ideas to help you think about new pieces of art.
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Happy Hallo-art-ween
Or is it Christmas yet? Hey, wait! What happened to Thanksgiving?!
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A Pocket Full of Poses
Or why I bought a Cosmopolitan Magazine this past weekend.
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The Right Type
One whole article because of a horse.
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Fantasy Art
It is now a much more common and lucrative trade that is perhaps a group of styles of art unto themselves.
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Modernism
My thoughts on a more modern style of art.
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Installation
This has nothing to do with putting a program on a computer.
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Un-Still Life
Getting just the perfect shot of the moving life around you.
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Zen Rock Garden
For a week in which we need a little meditation and peace.
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Masking
Airbrush artists know about it but the rest of us can have some great fun too.
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I Want Candy!
Cutting back on calories and Exercising more has reminded me of a popular song title.
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Backtrack: Bernini / Manet
Combining the thoughts of two known artists to produce one piece.
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Pop Art
When Popular Culture and Art mix, I just want to roll my eyes.
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Minimal Lobster
This was going to be a short article in the spirit of Minimalism but the Lobster took over.
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Backtrack: Three
Numbers play an important part in our lives and finding mystical numbers often plays a part in art, whether the art is mystical or not.
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The Classic Comic Book Hero
With the recent Spider-Man movie and upcoming Comic Book Hero Based movies, I thought an article on these classic heroes would be appropriate.
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Those that Walk on Fire
For this exercise I have picked a phrase that came to mind and worked around it.
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Backtrack: Phrases
Common phrases that have become cliché may supply good art ideas.
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Cubism
It is movement and space without either.
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One Word
A writer will know the power of a single word, an artist should too.
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Simple Selfishness
Simple art that we can do easily often sells for so much.
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My Father
Happy Father's Day
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Personal Day
Sometimes there is a little value in Nothing.
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Poetic Depiction
For this Exercise I call upon some words from the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.
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Backtrack: Voices
The seventh artexercise was simply a word, Voices
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Common Close-ups
There are some images we always see but never get tired of seeing.
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Mother's Day
Without whom we wouldn't have the world
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Collections
A very intriguing kind of art is in showing collections.
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Games in Art
An integral part of society is its games, and society is frequently a subject of art.
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Sources of Inspiration II
There are games out there that are just begging for your attention.
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Mondrian
Creating your very own Modrian is easier said than done.
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What can you get for a dollar?
In this case it's about $1.51 total, but I've gone under a dollar before.
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Spot Color
The improvement that came to photography in 1861 is that color was brought to the whole picture. But where the twain shall meet today is in only one spot.
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Beautiful Judgement
You make the call as to what is beautiful or not, or do you?
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This is not an article
Articles are generally 'a', 'an', and 'the'.
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Waiting by the door
A suggestion of action may be just what inspires you most.
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L'Art d'Object
Literally the art of object. But to me it is merely those things around us that we use to create found art or assemblage.
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Broken Wall
And the walls come tumbling down
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The Enigmatic Tattoo
The odd and unusual has just been placed in your hands.
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Alien Artwork
And I don't mean pictures of those little green men with big bug eyes.
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Poison of the Stump
This is what happens when I can't ask someone to repeat themselves.
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Unknown Destination
A little something about finding your way.
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Chibi: No Chibi
A Little article about Minimizing.
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End of an Era…
Or just the beginning of another year?
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Holiday Inspiration
I hope that this inspires you not only through the holiday season but up through the next year as well.
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Space: Make something of it
In Sculpture, in painting, in art in general, there is an advanced concept that is important to practice no matter what your skill level is, space.
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Backtrack: Of Angels
Getting close to the season I thought I'd look back and pick out a favorite of mine.
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Lan-scapes
While landscapes are paintings and such forth, I shall coin a term for the digital version of landscapes.
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Stained Glass Heart
I've always had an affinity for Stained Glass Artwork.
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Spirograph
This week I wanted to do something really fun, and Spirographs are things I've always been highly amused with.
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BackTrack: "the?"
The fourth exercise of ArtExercise was a typographic exploration using the characters 't', 'h', 'e', and '?'.
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Abstract of a Thesis
On the difference between design and art.
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750 Dollars
In order to read this article you'll have to pay me 300 dollars. Send money to Joe. Make Check Payable to Joe. Credit Cards not accepted.
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ASCII a question I tell you no lies.
A short story that you may find scary (gasp! 300 Baud!).
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In the Details
A small detail to note this past week is that I have not assigned an official ArtExercise assignment and no one has said a word.
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Cultural Influence
The styles and designs and thought patterns of other cultures influence our art.
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Backtrack: Tiny Faces
Looking back in my archives and hearing that ArtExercise inspires writing, I have an old exercise inspired from writing.
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Texture with feeling
What does it mean to have a texture library.
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In Action
This IS just a movement, or two, or three…
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WTC NYC 911
Prayers and Thoughts
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Backtrack: Abstract Expressionism
It's not just a movement...
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Sorry, just a maze
A mouse maze for practicality and a game tossed in to boot.
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If a painter paints and no one sees the painting…
Has the painter really painted anything? This is the conclusion to my 4 Zen sayings exercise.
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What is the sound of one painter painting?
From four simple Zen thoughts can come great art. OR can great art come from four simple Zen thoughts?
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Georgia O'Keeffe
There is a sensuality and purpose to her work. She is inspired by line, and color, and form, and thus we are inspired by her.
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Color through Shape and Line
There are two ways to apply color to a canvas (digital or otherwise) and that is by filling in lines and by filling in colors.
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Analogous and Complementary colors
Learning the color wheel should be an essential part of the artist's curriculum.
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Locomotives, Trains, and Subways
When you have had to travel, have you ever done it by train?
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Icons and Fonts
Interpreting and symbolism can be carried into other planes of thought.
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Iconography
Icons can be used to convey communication rapidly and in an artistic manner.
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Short Story Illustration
From one of two stories, artists have chosen to illustrate what they have seen.
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Hogarth Gone By
The exercise is at an end and I for one am looking forward to the next exercise.
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It Is Sublime and Grotesque
And I don't mean the music group! This is Hogarth!
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Hokusai still makes Great Waves
We can draw inspiration from great masters of the past in our craft.
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Sources of Inspiration
This isn’t an exercise but it’s from places like this that I get my inspiration for the exercises.
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Simply "Lanterns"
An ambiguous topic is sometimes the perfect fuel for creativity.
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Out of Place Typography -- "64"
Type for type's sake is all good and well, but let's drop it in a scene.
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ArtExercise: Intro and "Never Consumed"
Welcome to ArtExercise the Suite101 Topic and the Exercise of "Never Consumed"
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