Daily Art Fixx

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August Giveaway: Business Cards from Digital Room

Our friends at Digital Room are sponsoring another great giveaway!  This month’s prize: 500 High Quality Business Cards – an important and essential marketing tool for any artist, photographer, or freelancer.  The lucky winner will have their choice of : 2 x 3.5”, 2 x 2” (square card) or 1.75 x 3.5” (slim card) 14 […]

Art Quotes — #15

“I would like to paint as the bird sings…I would like to prevent one from seeing how it is done.” See more art quotes here. Quote from: Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self , p. 177 (as recalled by Maurice Guillemot ) by Steven Z. Levine, University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (Feb. 7 1995) Image: […]

DAF June Giveaway:
Prizes from the 2011 Movie “Beginners”

DAF is excited to host this month’s giveaway and introduce the Focus Features film “Beginners” directed by Mike Mills and starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, and Goran Visnjic. Beginners imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver. Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months […]

William Blake: 1757-1827

Born on November 28, 1757, William Blake is ranked among the greatest English poets and one of the most original visual artists of the Romantic era. The son of a working-class family, Blake studied art as a boy at the drawing academy of Henry Pars. In 1772, he began an apprenticeship with the commercial engraver […]

Ken Wong: Illustration

One of my favourite ways to find new and interesting things on the web is with StumbleUpon. Using either their website or toolbar, StumbleUpon lets you “discover and share great websites…matched to your personal preferences”.  I personally like the Stumble toolbar – you never know what you’re going to get and it might be something […]

Helen Levitt: 1913-2009

Since I’m inarticulate, I express myself with images.  —Helen Levitt Born on August 31, 1913 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, Helen Levitt was once called (by David Strauss in a 1997 Artforum International article) “the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time.” Perhaps this lack of recognition stems from Levitt’s tendency to be an “intensely private” person who did not […]

Jason de Caires Taylor: Underwater Sculpture

“Jason deCaires Taylor was born in 1974 to an English father and Guyanese mother, spending the earlier part of his life growing up in Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. Educated in South East England, he graduated in 1998 from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, with a B.A.Honours in Sculpture and Ceramics. […]

Allison Torneros: Streams of Subconsciousness

Born in 1985 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Allison Torneros started drawing at the age of two.  Her early passion for art, coupled with her experience growing up in Silicon Valley, led her to pursue both digital and traditional avenues at a young age.  At 11 years old she designed her first website, and […]

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 23

This week’s Monday Mixx is a selection of artists that I viewed this weekend at the Queen West Art Crawl Outdoor Art Show and Sale, held in Trinity-Bellwoods Park in Toronto, Canada.  “The Queen West Art Crawl (QWAC) promotes meaningful interaction between art and people in the neighbourhoods of West Queen West and Parkdale in […]

Stacey Rozich: Illustration

Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Stacey Rozich studied Illustration at California College of Arts in San Francisco. Her work varies from bold folk art in watercolor and gouache, to simple pen and ink line drawings that is pattern and textile inspired. Featured in her work are tribal animal masks, witch doctors, optical designs and […]

DAF February Giveaway: Business Cards From MOO.com

DAF is excited to have MOO.com provide us with 3 sets of 100 business cards for three lucky readers. If you have not come across MOO before, they love to print – whether it’s creative business cards, unique MiniCards, Postcards, Greeting cards, StickerBooks and much more! These are great promotion tools for any artist or […]

The Art of Illustration | Off Book | PBS

Another interesting video from PBS Off Book. “Illustrators articulate what a photograph cannot. Using an array of techniques and styles, illustrators evoke stories and meaning in a variety of mediums, from editorial illustration in magazines and newspapers, to comics books, to activist media. And as their tasks over the years have become less informational and […]

Art-e-Facts: 5 Random Art Facts XIV

1. Giclée is the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word “giclée” is derived from the French language word “le gicleur” meaning “nozzle”, or more specifically “gicler” meaning “to squirt, spurt, or spray”. It was coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne to represent any inkjet-based digital […]

Nicoletta Ceccoli: Girls Don’t Cry @ Roq La Rue Gallery

Italian artist Nicoletta Ceccoli (featured) has a new exhibition entitled “Girls Don’t Cry” on now at Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle. Ceccoli has made a name for herself illustrating children’s books, including winning the prestigious Italian Anderson Prize for best illustrator of the year in 2001. She recently has been showing paintings in US […]