tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85590406164219444722024-03-18T15:03:15.505-06:00Artdog ObservationsAn artist's views on art!Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-84743061321857829242013-09-20T11:42:00.001-06:002013-09-20T11:44:24.625-06:00Creative Changes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Artdog is leaping into a <a href="http://jan-gephardt.blogspot.com/">new</a>, combined blog.</td></tr>
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For several years, now, I have been trying to maintain two personal blogs--this one, and also "Artdog Educator"--as well as write regular posts for a third, which I manage for the <a href="http://kacsffs.blogspot.com/">Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society</a> (KaCSFFS).<br />
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And make artwork.<br />
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And pursue writing projects.<br />
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It's time to re-balance the load. I will continue (for now) writing posts as needed for KaCSFFS, but because of a massive new project--a science fiction novel-in-progress--I have decided to consolidate my blogs.<br />
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For now, at least, "Artdog Observations" will cease to be a separate blog. I plan to continue making art, looking at art, and commenting about art and art-related topics, but I'll be doing it on my "<a href="http://jan-gephardt.blogspot.com/">Jan S. Gephardt's Artdog Adventures</a>" blog, as part of blogging about the creative life.<br />
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I know it's a short-term pain, and I may lose some readers. If we are parting ways here, I wish you well.<br />
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But I hope it'll be a longer-term gain, when I'm able to post somewhat more frequently.<br />
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See you on the <a href="http://jan-gephardt.blogspot.com/">other side</a>? <br />
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Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-86845176712077996822013-07-11T14:13:00.001-06:002013-07-11T14:13:57.183-06:00At Long Last! A Rosebush!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I suppose I could write "At long last! A blog post!" too. I apologize--it's been a REALLY BUSY last-two-months.<br />
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But I'm back, and I hope to begin posting regularly again. It seems appropriate to celebrate my return to blogging with completion of a milestone--the titular rosebush.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Rosebush #1" is actually just one part of a larger work.</td></tr>
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There it is, in a closeup. I am kind of boggled, myself, at how long it has taken to achieve one finished rosebush. More than a year ago in the spring, I was taking pictures of neighbors' roses, with a plan to "plant" several rosebushes in my seemingly-eternal work in progress, <i>Paradise Garden. </i>(How "eternal"? Well, I started on the double colonnade more than two years ago. Thank goodness that part's done, now).<br />
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From source photos I took, I developed three ink drawings of rosebushes (did you ever stop to think how many LEAVES are on a rosebush?). I scanned the drawings into my computer, and used Adobe Illustrator (more intuitive for me to use than PS. I know: I'm weird) to add color to each leaf and blossom. Every leaf has at least three greens on it. Every rose has three or four different reds, plus yellow. <br />
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Took for freakin' ever, even with my Wacom tablet and stylus. I am not above bribing myself with British detective shows on TV to incentivize sitting that long painting tiny, tiny leaves.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is what I mean by "tiny, tiny leaves." Here it is with my hand for scale.</td></tr>
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At long last this week, I was able to finish color work on the last of the three. Then it was time to cut them out, sculpt, and assemble them.<br />
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Compared to painting seemingly-endless tiny, tiny leaves and flowers, cutting them out went comparatively quickly! One episode of "DCI Banks," and I was almost done cutting the bottom layers for one and a half of the three different rosebush designs.<br />
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There are three--in one place, four--layers to the first rosebush. The top two layers on the finished one shown above are repositioned parts of the bush, not the whole thing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The finished one is at lower left. More are in the works, as you see.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here are my essential tools for the cutting-and-sculpting phase. Fingernails also are invaluable.</td></tr>
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People always ask, "do you use an X-Acto knife?" Well, yes--but those handy-dandy little scissors on the right are my primary tool. X-Acto cuts are very straight, the puncturing risks tears, and the blades get dull really fast. I'm all about intuitive tools, so the scissors are my weapon of choice. <br />
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The other items in the photo above are a small corkboard for cutting and sculpting against, lab-quality tweezers (worth their weight in gold), and a clay-modeling tool with different-sized balls on each end.<br />
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I hope you've enjoyed this glimpse of working on my Most Impractical Artwork of the Decade (so far, anyway--the decade is young), and the reanimation of "Artdog Observations." </div>
Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-9473688323768881012013-05-23T21:52:00.000-06:002016-06-09T23:20:51.744-06:00Great Evening With the InterUrban ArtHouse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I described in last week's post, a good critique can be valuable and energizing thing for an artist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's my presentation at the <a href="http://interurbanarthouse.org/">InterUrban ArtHouse</a>'s ArtMatters Critique Night. My audience includes, L-R: fellow artists Lori Sohl, Dora Agbas, <a href="http://www.adamfinkelstonphotography.com/?page_id=621">Adam Finkelston</a>, and <a href="http://nicoleemanuelstudios.com/">Nicole Emanuel</a>. Nicole founded the InterUrban ArtHouse.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I deeply value the insights of a weekly gathering of artist
friends which we simply call Art Group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I also had an opportunity recently to participate in the first-ever ArtMatters Critique
Night, conducted May 1, 2013 by the <a href="http://interurbanarthouse.org/">InterUrban ArtHouse</a> in Overland Park, KS.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elizabeth Berkshire's paintings are inspired by metal surfaces and rust textures. Her viewers, L-R, are sculptor <a href="http://www.derondixon.com/">Deron Dixon</a>, JCCC's <a href="http://www.larrythomasart.com/Larry_Thomas_Art/Larry_Thomas_Home.html">Larry Thomas</a>, Lori, Dora, me, and Adam, as above.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This Critique Night was held at a quaint, small-group
gathering place called the <a href="http://thevintagehouse7612.blogspot.com/2012/08/make-vintage-house-your-own.html">Vintage House</a>, and artists went through a process of
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">L-R: That's me (red sweater) lurking in the background, listening to <a href="http://www.larrythomasart.com/Larry_Thomas_Art/Larry_Thomas_Home.html">Larry Thomas</a> discussing <a href="http://www.derondixon.com/">Deron Dixon</a>'s sculptu.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://artskc.org/aboutus/ourstaff/kellyseward/">Kelly Seward</a> comments on Linda Jurkiewicz's artistic quilts. Also visible L-R: Deron, <a href="http://jstogsdillphotography.com/jstogsdillphotography.com/Welcome.html">Jerry Stogsdill,</a> Larry, <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/alexhamilportfolio/home/auctionitems">Alex Hamil</a>, me, the quilter herself, and (far R) Nicole.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://archives.quicknewsnow.com/content/linda-seiner-featured-artist-zia-gallery-hopes-touch-breast-cancer-survivors-through-her-art">Linda Seiner</a> discusses her torn-paper paintings, while Larry and Lori look on at R.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/alexhamilportfolio/home/auctionitems">Alex Hamil</a> answers a question about his work, while (L-R) Lori, Dora, and I look on. You can see some of Dora's work in the background at left and some of Elizabeth's in the background at right.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ten of us were included in the first Critique
Night, while two designated experts, <a href="http://www.larrythomasart.com/Larry_Thomas_Art/Larry_Thomas_Home.html">Larry Thomas, </a>chair of the Johnson County Community College Fine Arts Department, and <a href="http://artskc.org/aboutus/ourstaff/kellyseward/">Kelly Seward</a>, Director of Business Programs for ArtsKC, took the lead in each discussion. InterUrban ArtHouse founder <a href="http://nicoleemanuelstudios.com/">Nicole Emanuel</a>
was originally planning to offer comments as well, but a scheduling
difficulty kept her away until the latter part of the event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recognized the work of Alex and Linda, as having also been displayed at the <a href="http://www.leawood.org/committees/art/artgallery.aspx">Arti Gras</a> show, which <a href="http://artdogobservations.blogspot.com/2013/02/arti-gras-is-on.html">I blogged about</a> in February.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">IMAGE CREDITS: I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the <a href="http://interurbanarthouse.org/">InterUrban ArtHouse</a> and its <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.462823603795170.1073741828.341926755884856&type=1">Facebook Page</a>, and to the multi-talented <a href="http://nickcarswell.com/">Nick Carswell</a>, for the photos used in this post. THANK YOU!</span></b></div>
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Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com07612 West 80th Street, Overland Park, KS 66204, USA38.984228 -94.67421513.462193500000001 -135.982809 64.5062625 -53.365621000000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-14198126619916696632013-05-16T06:00:00.000-06:002016-06-09T22:31:24.319-06:00The Value of a Good Critique<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In your creative life, how often do you seek out an honest and knowledgeable critique? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most artists are vulnerable creatures. We make up new things out of assorted sources, imbue them with our personal vision, and then place them out into the harsh glare of an uncaring and often hypercritical world. To think of seeking a critique is always somewhat fraught with pain and fear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I present my work to the group at the I<a href="http://interurbanarthouse.org/">nterUrban ArtHouse'</a>s ArtMatters Critique Night on May 1, 2013 at the <a href="http://thevintagehouse7612.blogspot.com/2012/08/make-vintage-house-your-own.html">Vintage House</a> in Overland Park, KS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We do the best we can, but many times we just can’t figure out (or
don’t realize we haven’t figured out) the Ultimate Best Possible
Solution to the creative problem we have decided to tackle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We
can’t “see the forest for the trees,” because we are too close to the
subject. In my dog-show circuit days, we called that being “kennel
blind”: you can see the problems with other people’s dogs, but you are
blind to the problems in your own dogs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently I have
participated in several, extremely helpful critique sessions, focused
on either my artwork or a science fiction novel I am writing. Different
fields, different media, and from different sources. The photo above is from a notable recent evening (more to come).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But
in each case I not only discovered solutions to problems I’d been
having with the work in question—I also became highly energized to leap
back into the work with even more focus than before. If you noticed I
hadn’t been posting here recently, that is why. </span></div>
Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com17612 West 80th Street, Overland Park, KS 66204, USA38.984228 -94.67421513.462193500000001 -135.982809 64.5062625 -53.365621000000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-20075846081889853782013-04-18T04:00:00.000-06:002013-04-18T04:00:01.378-06:00FINISHED (Part One, anyway)!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Last week, late in the day before a trip out of town, I thought I possibly had finished a project I've been working on for quite some time. It took some living with it, but I think--yes--this part is finished.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is <i>Nine-Part Herbal Fantasy--Light Cycle.</i> Stand by (but don't hold your breath) for <i>Dark Cycle.</i></td></tr>
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The project began with a series of line drawings, first sketched in pencil, then finalized in ink. I scanned them, assembled them in an Adobe Illustrator file, and began applying color.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's an ink drawing for the "Flower Arch" section.</td></tr>
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An early view of the original Adobe Illustrator color build of this piece made an appearance on <i>Artdog Observations</i> in <a href="http://artdogobservations.blogspot.com/2013_01_01_archive.html">January</a>. I showed pieces of it in the works in <a href="http://artdogobservations.blogspot.com/2013/02/pieces-of-art.html">February</a>. At the time, I actually thought the <i>Dark Cycle</i> would be finished first.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I shared this image in February.</td></tr>
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Why two cycles? It's actually not that complicated. </div>
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As I was doing the color builds, I realized that some of the sections were coming out considerably lower in overall key than others. I couldn't decide which version I liked better. Yes, I confess: indecision actually was the inspiration.<br /><br />
A comparison of two sections, built on the same "base drawing" and adjusted one each for the two variations, may offer a glimpse.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here are <i>Light Cycle</i> and <i>Dark Cycle</i> variations of the "Herbal Arch" section (mirrored, you may note).</td></tr>
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One of the developments that came up very late in the process of putting the piece together was an idea that developed at my newly-resumed Monday night Art Group.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Corners and sides are tilted inward.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrCE7rwQlye7ECTciE1xgGS6l99BmuUYNrmMWjWm-Gnvvq8vW7_CCDfQKBta1nbQzZYNQNSVKakFapv1SBilbRHzlYQf9QiHcaLKXKKH3MWBh2c-KTAqwpFiQtEVBIj1WetLRTytc24w/s1600/2013-04-17-Near-Center.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrCE7rwQlye7ECTciE1xgGS6l99BmuUYNrmMWjWm-Gnvvq8vW7_CCDfQKBta1nbQzZYNQNSVKakFapv1SBilbRHzlYQf9QiHcaLKXKKH3MWBh2c-KTAqwpFiQtEVBIj1WetLRTytc24w/s640/2013-04-17-Near-Center.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toward the center, everything lies closer to the base level.</td></tr>
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The bases of the sections do not lie flat, except for the "rootball" center. The others are tilted: higher toward the outside, down to base-level farther in.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">IMAGES: All artwork and photos are copyright (c) 2013 by Jan S. Gephardt. You may re-post them without alterations and with attribution and a link back to this blog post; otherwise, all rights are reserved.</span></b><br />
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Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com0Westwood, KS, USA39.0405608 -94.616901339.028227300000005 -94.637071299999988 39.0528943 -94.5967313tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-90756940183484922962013-04-06T04:00:00.000-06:002013-04-06T04:00:02.113-06:00Ernie Button's "Vanishing Spirits"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Visual experiences are where we find them--and they can literally be <i>anywhere</i>. Part of "seeing the world through the eye of the artist," (one of my mother's favorite phrases), is to pay attention to the visuals around us <i>everywhere.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'll give you a case in point: Ernie Button.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When was the last time you were inspired by dirty dishes?</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ernie Button is quite a wonderful photographer, as you can see if you wander through his <a href="http://erniebutton.com/">website</a> (I recommend it!). But he didn't get picked up by National Public Radio until he neglected to do his dishes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As Audrey Carlson described it, <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/18/174637393/the-wonderful-world-of-whisky-art?ft=3&f=111787346&sc=nl&cc=es-20130331">in her piece</a> <i>The Wonderful World of Whiskey Art</i>, "<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ernie
Button was putting a Scotch glass left out overnight into the dishwasher when
he noticed something — a white, chalky film on the bottom of the glass. He held
it up to the light and, upon closer inspection, could see a series of fine,
lacy lines running along the inside of the glass."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Having spotted (sorry) this interesting visual effect, he did what artists do: he explored it. Photographers, as their name suggests, work with the medium of light. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Button shined different colors of light through the residue, looked at it from different angles and with different backgrounds, and--being a photographer--got out his macro lens and took pictures of it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As you might imagine, a scotch enthusiast could find this project irresistible. While he seems, from a quick overview of the images posted in his <a href="http://erniebutton.com/?portfolio=vanishing-spirits-the-dried-remains-of-singlemalt-scotch">Vanishing Spirits portfolio</a>, to favor <a href="http://www.aberlour.com/en/thedistillery">Aberlour</a> (at least for his photos), he has documented his willingness to try other brands, such as <a href="http://www.thebalvenie.com/">Balvenie</a>, <a href="http://www.scotchwhisky.net/malt/dalwhinnie.htm">Dalwhinnie</a>, or <a href="http://www.glenfiddich.com/">Glenfyddich</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This admirable broad-mindedness has yielded a growing trove of images that range from the celestial to the otherworldly</span> to the weirdly interesting. Since he only posts the ones he considers most aesthetically successful, it has taken him about 6 years of drinking scotch (it stretches my credulity to think he'd buy top shelf scotch and not drink it) to amass the current collection.<br />
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I wish him many more happy years of photography . . . and a stout liver. <br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">IMAGE CREDITS: The photo of the dirty dishes is courtesy of a <a href="http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2011/11/a-scientific-argument-for-cleaning-dirty-dishes.html">Real Clear Science blog post</a> by Ross Pomeroy, "A Scientific Argument for Cleaning Dirty Dishes." The images for <i>Aberlour, Balvenie Double,</i> and <i>Glenfyddich</i> are from the <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/18/174637393/the-wonderful-world-of-whisky-art?ft=3&f=111787346&sc=nl&cc=es-20130331">"Whiskey Art" post</a> (although they also may be seen on <a href="http://erniebutton.com/?portfolio=vanishing-spirits-the-dried-remains-of-singlemalt-scotch">Button's portfolio</a>, along with <i>Dalwhinnie 122.</i> Many thanks to all these sources!</span></span></b>
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Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-87771035456010424662013-04-02T00:46:00.000-06:002013-04-02T00:46:00.117-06:00Fun in the Freight House Neighborhood-Part II<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I had a wonderful day, between lunch with a good friend at <a href="http://www.lidias-kc.com/">Lidia's Kansas City</a>, and a stroll through two of Kansas City's great small art galleries on Baltimore St. near the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_House_%28Kansas_City,_Missouri%29">Freight House</a>, in the southern part of the <a href="http://kccrossroads.org/">Kansas City Crossroads</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia Fernandez-Pol's <i>Lily Pad Light</i> is rich with texture.</td></tr>
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two galleries are similarly named near-neighbors, the <a href="http://www.leedy-voulkos.com/current.html">Leedy-Voulkos Art Center</a>, and <a href="http://www.sherryleedy.com/Pages/Page1.html">Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art</a>. This entry focuses on my
visit to Sherry Leedy's gallery. In an <a href="http://artdogobservations.blogspot.com/2013/03/fun-in-freight-house-neighborhood-part-i.html">earlier entry</a> I talked about some
fascinating artwork I found at Leedy-Voulkos.<br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Texture Tour</b></span></span><br />
The artwork that really spoke to me at this gallery all seemed to be playing with texture in one way or another. <br />
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In the artwork of <a href="http://juliafernandezpol.com/home.html">Julia Fernandez-Pol</a>, it is the actual, physical texture of the oil paint, which I'd guess must have been applied with a palette knife, that is the most riveting aspect.<br />
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For me, the rich colors and textures in these images added up to a delicious visual feast that rewards the eye on many levels.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark Lyon's <i>Michael Rees</i></td></tr>
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The textures of <a href="http://mlyon.com/about/biography/">Mark Lyon</a>, on the other hand, are created as two-dimensional visual texture, and created in a most unusual way. Lyon describes his evolution into using the "machine-assisted" "humidrawer" technique in an <a href="http://mlyon.com/about/biography/">interesting essay</a> on his website.<br />
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The artwork appears to be a large photograph, from a distance. Move in closer, however, and you'll discover the amazing patterns within. <br />
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My favorite, I think, was the portrait of <i>Michael Rees</i> (shown at right)<i>, </i>because when I looked very closely, I realized the areas inside the eyeglass frames had been rendered like a spiral moving in from the frames to the center.<br />
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To give an idea of how these textures work, I pulled a couple of examples from Lyon's site. These are two different renderings of an eye, one using only black lines, as in <i>Michael Rees,</i> and the other using both black and white lines on a toned surface.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark Lyons 2-D texture created with mechanical help: Left: black and white lines on a toned surface; Right black lines only. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>IMAGE CREDITS: Many thanks to the <a href="http://sherryleedy-com.securec29.ezhostingserver.com/OurArtists.cfm">Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art artist pages</a> for the images of Julia Fernandez-Pol's <i>Lily Pad Light</i> and Mark Lyon's <i>Michael Rees</i> (click on the artist's name for images; the image pages themselves don't seem to have a URL). The "eye detail" images are from <a href="http://mlyon.com/about/biography/">Mark Lyon's website</a>. Many thanks for all!</b></span><br />
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Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com0Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA39.088833 -94.58518199999997539.088833 -94.585181999999975 39.088833 -94.585181999999975tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-617832783802494452013-03-29T00:04:00.000-06:002013-03-29T00:04:32.697-06:00Fun in the Freight House Neighborhood-Part I<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's been a great day, between lunch with a good friend at <a href="http://www.lidias-kc.com/">Lidia's Kansas City</a>, and a stroll through two of Kansas City's great small art galleries on Baltimore St. near the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_House_%28Kansas_City,_Missouri%29">Freight House</a>, in the southern part of the <a href="http://kccrossroads.org/">Kansas City Crossroads</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cactus Flower by <a href="http://www.rnass.com/rhonda/default.html">Rhonda Nass</a>, from Leedy-Voulkos.</td></tr>
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The two galleries are similarly named near-neighbors, the <a href="http://www.leedy-voulkos.com/current.html">Leedy-Voulkos Art Center</a>, and <a href="http://www.sherryleedy.com/Pages/Page1.html">Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art</a>. This entry focuses on my visit to Leedy-Voulkos. In a later entry I'll talk about some fascinating artwork I found at Sherry Leedy.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">Desert Fascination</span></b></span><br />
The Art Center's Front Gallery is filled with wonderful images of desert wildlife (both flora and fauna) from the "Vanishing Circles" show.<br />
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The show features "portraits" of endangered or threatened species of the Sonora Desert. It is presented in cooperation with the <a href="http://www.desertmuseum.org/">Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.edwardaldrich.com/">Edward Aldrich</a>'s <i>Brown Pelican</i></td></tr>
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It is a departure from the Leedy-Voulkos' more usual type of contemporary art--more representational in a "realistic" manner. But it does any organization good to "shake things up" a little bit, even if that means showing what some might consider more "traditional" art forms.<br />
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The 29 artists whose work is included in the show certainly present a visually gorgeous show. The animals, from highly endangered pupfish to more widely-distributed ospreys and burrowing owls (whose habitat in the Sonora Desert is nonetheless disappearing), are beautiful, exotic, and presented by artists who know their craft deeply. The desert plants, many rather bizarre-looking to midwestern eyes, become objects of awe and wonder in some of these artworks.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Otter</i> by Sheridan Oman</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">Art of a Desert Recluse</span></b></span><br />
Continuing the "desert theme" in an adjacent gallery is another collaboration between Leedy-Voulkos and the Arizona museum.<br />
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As a printmaking "major" back in the day, who is incorporating more and more printmaking concepts into my own art, I deeply appreciated the Sheridan Oman show. <br />
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Oman worked at he Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum for several years before retiring to the desert to create engravings of desert animals on copper plates. <br />
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He never had a show during his lifetime, but his monochrome prints fill the Opie Gallery at Leedy-Voulkos, and are well worth a close-up look.<br />
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The Art Center has several other shows running simultaneously with these. Please see <a href="http://www.leedy-voulkos.com/current.html">their website</a> for more information. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>IMAGE CREDITS: Many thanks to the <a href="http://www.leedy-voulkos.com/current.html">Leedy-Voulkos Art Center </a>for the images by Rhonda Nass and Edward Al<span style="font-size: x-small;">drich</span>. I am indebted to the <a href="http://covingtongallery.com/artist-oman-004-otter-l.jpg">Covington Gallery</a> for the Oman "Otter."</b></span></div>
Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com0Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO, USA39.088538424899717 -94.58505574603270839.087767924899715 -94.586316246032709 39.089308924899719 -94.583795246032707tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-42006599263388216032013-03-21T21:21:00.001-06:002013-03-21T21:21:54.176-06:00The Clematis Variations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It all started on a dog walk in April 2012.<br />
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A neighbor of mine planted clematis vines, and since she's a fine gardener, her vines grew and bloomed. <br />
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I've always liked clematis flowers and I'm fascinated by vines and the way they grow, so I took pictures of my neighbor's flowers, brought my pictures home, and started sketching.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is <i>Purple Clematis.</i></td></tr>
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Part of the process of figuring out how to develop a new piece of artwork is exploring variations. With the clematis images, I thought the variations all turned out in interesting ways. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>White Clematis I</i> became an edition.</td></tr>
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Because I print the pieces from Adobe Illustrator files, after adding a color build to my scanned line art, I can create small limited editions of multiple originals. Each piece in the edition is individually cut, sculpted, assembled, signed and numbered.<br />
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The computer images also allow size variations, and repetition of design motifs.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <i>White Clematis Panel</i> series further explores the possibilities of repeating a design, combined with paper sculpture.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>IMAGES: all photos and artwork in this post are <span style="font-size: x-small;">the intellectual property of Jan S. Gephardt. You may post them without alterations, and with attri<span style="font-size: x-small;">bution <span style="font-size: x-small;">and a<span style="font-size: x-small;"> link back to this post. Otherwise, all rights are reserved.</span></span></span></span></b></span></div>
Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com0Westwood, KS, USA39.0405608 -94.616901339.028227300000005 -94.637071299999988 39.0528943 -94.5967313tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-79569684164015013042013-03-14T06:00:00.000-06:002013-03-14T06:00:06.393-06:00Storyboards of the Ages<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A few months ago, I wrote a post about <a href="http://artdogobservations.blogspot.com/2012/07/ancient-animations.html">ancient animations</a>. Apparently, just because they were limited to painting with mineral pigments on cave walls, that was no reason for early cave painters not to dream of ways that their pictures might move.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Howard Terpning's classic painting, <i>The Storyteller</i></td></tr>
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I've always believed that storytelling is one of the oldest art forms in the human repertoire, so it's not surprising that artists intent on telling stories should have come up with what we call a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard">storyboard</a>, to tell tales of linear sequences of events.<br />
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The term "storyboard" apparently originated at the <a href="http://www.instructionaldesign.org/storyboarding.html">Walt Disney Studios</a> during the 1930s, but the idea of a sequence of images that tell a story is much, much older.<br />
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Some of the earliest examples I've been able to find come from Egyptian tombs. There is a particularly well-preserved tomb in Thebes from the 18th Dynasty: t<span style="font-family: inherit;">hat of
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Menna, whose title was Superintendent of the Estates of the King
and of Amen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As Superintendent of the Estates, part of his job was to oversee various projects for his master, and these were lavishly illustrated on the walls of his tomb. Here's the one for the harvest:</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tomb mural <i>Harvest</i> shows ancient Egyptian harvesting methods in a storyboard-like sequence.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome, finished ca. 193</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trajan's Column, 113 CE</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Some of the all-time top champion storyboarders of the ancient world were the Romans. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The distinctly phallic triumphal columns dedicated to Emperors <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Column">Trajan</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_of_Marcus_Aurelius">Marcus Aurelius</a> feature elaborate, realistically carved sequences depicting the highlights of their respective campaigns of conquest.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As you may be able to see from the photos of the two columns, they feature a winding spiral of images, going up like a "spiral storycase" from bottom to top.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a detail from the Column of Marcus Aurelius, showing the army and some of its plunder.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Not surprisingly, it's pretty hard to see the details of all the panels when you're squinting into the Roman sunlight, looking up at the original columns. This viewing difficulty inspired several efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries to create plaster casts that could be viewed more comfortably. A beautiful set of casts from Trajan's Column is on display at the <a href="http://www.museociviltaromana.it/">Museum of Roman Civilization</a>, presented up-close and at eye level, so you don't have to miss a thing. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <a href="http://www.museociviltaromana.it/">Museum of Roman Civilization</a> in Rome has plaster casts of each panel on Trajan's Column displayed in correct sequence at eye-level, so visitors can see them more easily and in more detail.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>IMAGES: Many thanks to <a href="http://robertmilliman.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/and-the-most-effective-teachers-are-storytellers/">Robert Milliman's blog, "Also Out of My Mind!"</a> for the image of <a href="http://www.howardterpningart.com/">Howard Terpning</a>'s <i>The Storyteller. </i>The photo of part of the Egyptian tomb mural <i>Harvest</i> is from the blog <a href="http://guity-novin.blogspot.com/2010/02/history-of-graphic-design-medium-is.html">"A History of Graphic Design," by Guity Novin</a>. Wikipedia provided the full-length images of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Column">Trajan's Column</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_of_Marcus_Aurelius">Column of Marcus Aurelius</a>. <a href="http://www.paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Rome%20&%20Central%20Italy/Rome/Ancient_Rome/Ancient%20Rome.htm">Paradoxplace</a> provided the detail from the Column of Marcus Aurelius, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Column">Wikipedia</a> provided the image of the Museum of Roman Culture's plaster castings of Trajan's Column.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> My deepest gratitude to all!</span> </b></span>
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Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-82605412667452917432013-03-11T06:00:00.000-06:002013-03-11T06:00:15.397-06:00Irving Harper: Iconic Designer--and Paper Sculptor!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harper's 1956 "Marshmallow Sofa" from Herman Miller.</td></tr>
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Irving Harper was a designer with George Nelson Associates, Inc., from 1947-1964, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Irving-Harper-Works-Michael-Maharam/dp/0847840018">has been described</a> as "the most famous designer you have never heard of."<br />
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His best-known designs are the Herman Miller "Marshmallow Sofa" and the "Ball Clock" produced by the Howard Miller Clock Co. I'm not sure there can be many American "Boomers" who have not encountered one or both of these designs in their lives.<br />
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I did not know until recently that he also was/is a paper sculptor. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/t-magazine/02talk-harper-t.html?_r=0">Still alive and feisty at 93</a>, he actually seems more focused on the paper sculpture than other things, at this point.<br />
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I discovered the book <i>Irving Harper: Works in Paper,</i> which was released in February 2013, through <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15797962">GoodReads</a>. The GoodReads site features not only a good write-up about Harper and the book, but also <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book_news_posts/93-irving-harper-works-in-paper?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2013-03&utm_content=booklook">a slide show of his paper sculpture work</a>. I have chosen some of my favorites from the slide show to share here, but you can see them all at <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book_news_posts/93-irving-harper-works-in-paper?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2013-03&utm_content=booklook">Goodreads</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have not been able to find a title for this or the other Irving Harper paper sculptures in the slide show.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love the face on this one, with its triangular, Picassoesque tongue.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm not sure I'd want these guys staring at me 24/7, but I thought the variations on a "face" were interesting.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>PHOTOS: Many thanks to <a href="http://www.dwr.com/product/nelson-marshmallow-sofa-crepe.do#.UTl50aUYvgo">Design Within Reach</a>, for the image of the <i>Marshmallow Sofa, </i>and to the <a href="http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2011/04/sleep-training-what-ifs-part-three/george-nelson-ball-clock/">"SoHo Parenting" Blog</a> for the <i>Ball Clock</i> image. All others are from the slideshow at <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book_news_posts/93-irving-harper-works-in-paper?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2013-03&utm_content=booklook">Goodreads</a>. My deepest appreciation to all! </b></span><br />
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Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-3084748234961245052013-03-07T22:32:00.001-06:002013-03-07T22:32:14.277-06:00Mixing It Up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I like to have several works in progress at the same time. <br />
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Some of the current W-I-P ("works in progress") that you can see in the photo above are the <i>Clematis</i> variations, both Dark and Light Cycles of the <i>Nine-Part Herbal Fantasy</i>, and a leftover border rose from <i>Rose Dance.</i> Oh, yes, and some tall lilies from the background of <i>Coming Through!</i> as well.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Coming Through!</i> is an edition of 25.</td></tr>
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Technically, <i>Coming Through!</i> has been <a href="http://artdogobservations.blogspot.com/2013/01/life-catches-up-with-vengeance.html">debuted to the world</a> and is "finished," but the edition is numbered at 25. I still have a lot of cutting, sculpting and assembling to do (not to mention matting).<br />
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The <i>Clematis </i>variations actually have been causing me to do a lot of thinking. I started out with a base drawing that I really liked, pulled it up into 3-D, and tested out both a <i>Purple Clematis</i> and a <i>White Clematis</i> variation. Then, for grins, I cropped the design to a square, and played with that, too.<br />
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I like them all, but now I'm having trouble arranging them in a way that I think will work well. Keep watching this blog and you'll undoubtedly see more developments with these.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This mashup of all the <i>Clematis </i>variations just didn't work for me.</td></tr>
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I have discovered that it's very stimulating to work on several things at once.<br />
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Solving a problem in one project can open a way to solve problems in others. <br />
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An idea generated while working on a current piece often provides an idea for a new piece.<br />
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My problem is mostly that I have too many ideas, and not enough time to explore them all.<br />
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All things considered, though, it's a pretty good problem to have.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>PHOTOS: All photos and all artwork shown in this post is the work of <a href="http://artdog53.deviantart.com/">Jan S. Gephardt</a>. You may re-post the photos if you include an attribution and a link back to this post, and if you don't alter to the images.</b></span><br />
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Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-47768039519573748962013-02-26T20:18:00.001-06:002013-02-26T20:18:56.834-06:00Dancing Flakes and Tree Lace<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Kansas City area has been hit with a LOT of snow in the last couple of weeks. It has messed up traffic, and disrupted people's plans . . . but it's brought with it some beautiful visuals.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The most recent storm came in around midnight. It was heavy enough to show under streetlights.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Different streetlight, heavy snow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I zoomed in for a better view of the snowflake swirls in the erratic wind currents.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The snow was heavy and wet, so it piled up on branches, power lines, and other irregular surfaces.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a sycamore "under the influence" of the snow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a pink honeysuckle in my front yard. At other times of the year it provides nectar, berries, and shelter for birds.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One more. I love the arching of the branches, from the weight of the snow. It was not so great to have the weight on power lines. </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>PHOTOS: All photos were taken 2/26/2013 by Jan S. Gephardt. Please do not use without attribution and a link back to this post. Thanks.</b></span></div>
Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com1Westwood, KS, USA39.0405608 -94.616901339.028227300000005 -94.637071299999988 39.0528943 -94.5967313tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-6916389820505215392013-02-23T02:22:00.000-06:002013-03-09T15:15:46.238-06:00Arti Gras is On<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Pascal and I went to the <a href="http://www.leawood.org/committees/art/artigrasgala.aspx">Leawood Foundation's "Arti Gras" Gala</a> tonight, a fundraiser to open their Annual Juried Art Show. For the second year in a row, I am in the show! This year's accepted entry is <i>Rose Dance.</i><br />
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As last year, the show featured a wide variety of work--different media, different subjects, different approaches.<br />
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The photo my husband Pascal took of me with <i>Rose Dance</i> and the artwork just above it, <i>In the Garden of Glen,</i> by <a href="http://www.rgregorysummers.com/index.htm">R. Gregory Summers</a> illustrates some of the show's range.<br />
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For a view of all the artwork in the show, go to the <a href="http://www.leawood.org/committees/art/artgallery.aspx">2013 Arti Gras Gallery</a> and scroll down.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>The Arti Gras Show continues, with FREE admission, 11-4 on Saturday and Sunday. If you're in town and have time, it's well worth the trip to see the art. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>My favorites:</b></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.normaherringartist.blogspot.com/">Norma Herring</a> probably takes "first place" with me in this show. I've been an admirer of her detailed mixed-media paintings since last year. They are large but very intricate. She had two in the show: my personal favorite, <i><a href="http://www.normaherringartist.blogspot.com/2011/01/secret-byway-i-was-captivated-by-this.html">The Secret Byway</a>,</i> and Guest Juror <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/artinkc">James Martin</a>'s #1 <i>"</i>Best of Show" choice, <i><a href="http://www.normaherringartist.blogspot.com/2010/02/shades-of-autumn-watercoloracrylicgel.html">Shades of Autumn</a>.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was a lively, crowded scene at the Arti Gras Gala Friday night 2/22/13.</td></tr>
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I also loved <a href="http://loretafeeback.com/pastels/">Loreta Feeback'</a>s pastel, <i>Dried Flowers Still Life;</i> Jean Cook's oil painting, <i>First Sign of Spring;</i> <a href="http://www.imagesbymarla.com/Site/Image_Gallery/Pages/Images_from_China.html#9">Marla Craven</a>'s photograph, <i>Zhouzhaung</i>-<i>A Watertown; </i><a href="http://www.bwsphoto.com/staff.html">Ric Cummings</a>'s photograph, <i>Red Curtain; </i><a href="http://www.thedonacollection.com/landscape_gallery.html">Dona Corben'</a>s photographs, <i>A Walk in the Fog </i>and <i>Patterns in Nature;</i> <a href="http://karenedreyer.com/Site/Paintings_For_Sale.html">Karen Dreyer</a>'s oil, <i>Heavy Load;</i> <a href="http://www.craigmccordphotography.com/GalleryMain.asp?GalleryID=86323&AKey=D3VYDH7V">Craig McCord</a>'s photograph, <i>Klepzig Mill</i><i>;</i> and Patrick Schlotterback's oil, <i>Taylor.</i> I also found the technique and imagery of Melinda Heaton's digital collage, <i>Majestic Joshua Tree</i> quite intriguing. And I think I must acknowledge the quirky humor and unexpected compositions of Laura Carricker's oils, <i>Shelf Life #1</i> and <i>Shelf Life #4.</i><br />
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I believe I recall correctly that both Schlotterback and Heaton are art teachers in nearby school districts. Knowing how much work a public school teacher must do each day, I am all the more impressed with their fine art accomplishments!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's another view of the crowd enjoying the hors d'oeuvres and art at the Arti Gras Gala, 2/22/13 in Leawood, KS.</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #073763;"> </span><span style="color: #073763;">Pascal's Favorites:</span></span></b><br />
Pascal was drawn to <a href="http://www.thedonacollection.com/landscape_gallery.html">Corben</a>'s work also, as well as <a href="http://johnerichardson.squarespace.com/">Johne Richardson</a>'s acrylic, <i>Blue Skies Overhead</i> ("what an expressive face!"), which also received an Honorable Mention recognition from Guest Juror James Martin, and <a href="http://ereview.org/2009/09/09/life-in-light-sally-sullivan-at-genevieve-flynn-studio/">Sally Sullivan</a>'s mosaic, <i>Meli.</i><br />
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I'm a sucker for painterly passages and intricate detail, but he takes a different approach. He says that once he's satisfied of the artist's overall competence, he primarily looks at the composition. "A lot of artists <i>almost</i> get it right, and nobody does it every time, but when they do it just feels <i>right</i>. That's what I like."<br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Official Winners:</b> </span></span><br />
Guest Juror <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/artinkc">James Martin</a> chose this year's prize winners: as noted above, <a href="http://www.normaherringartist.blogspot.com/">Norma Herring</a>'s <i>Shades of Autumn</i> received Best in Show. <a href="http://pennydillon.com/">Penny Pate Dillon</a>'s <i>The Katz Clock</i> took 2nd, and <a href="http://nicholsonfinewoodworking.com/contactus.html">Parker Nicholson</a>'s <i>Maple Vessel</i> got the nod for 3rd. Honorable Mention recognitions went to <a href="http://sylviaaugustusimages.com/index.html">Sylvia Rose Augustus</a> for <i>Custer State Park, Lake Fog; </i><a href="http://petercraneart.fineartstudioonline.com/">Peter Crane</a> for <i>On Edge;</i> <a href="http://www.dennydowdy.com/">Denny Dowdy</a> for <i>Mom's Backyard;</i> and Pascal's choice, the <a href="http://johnerichardson.squarespace.com/">Richardson</a> painting, <i>Blue Skies Overhead</i>.<br />
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As Martin noted, it was a strong show. <span style="color: red;"><b>And you can still see it if you're in town! 11-4 Saturday and Sunday. FREE admission. Such a deal!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">PHOTOS: The photo of Jan with <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rose Dance</span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> i<span style="font-size: x-small;">s by Pascal Gephardt; the other two photos are by Jan S. Gephardt. We allow re-posting with attribution and link<span style="font-size: x-small;">-back, and no<span style="font-size: x-small;"> alteration of images. Other<span style="font-size: x-small;">wise, all right<span style="font-size: x-small;">s reserved.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span><b> </b><br />
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Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com04800 Town Center Drive, Leawood, KS 66211, USA38.917639 -94.6418238.911462 -94.651905 38.923816 -94.631734999999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-51553270485290828282013-02-21T06:00:00.000-06:002013-02-21T06:00:06.445-06:00Revival: the Goal--ARTS: the solution<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A recent issue of the <i>Kansas City Star </i><a href="http://www.kansascity.com/2013/02/17/4072623/in-historic-lexington-hope-for.html">featured Lexington, MO</a>, the winner of a competition sponsored by the University of Missouri (MU)'s <a href="http://extension.missouri.edu/main/DisplayCategory.aspx?C=8">MU Extension</a>. The prize is for faculty and students from MU to help the winning small town develop an arts-based "revitalization." <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Lexington, MO's Main Street, with the Lafayette County Courthouse clock tower.</td></tr>
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The <i>Star</i> article quoted Lexington resident Chris Campbell explaining the idea: "the strategy is to use the arts as a vehicle for economic and community development."<br />
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This is not a way-out idea. More and more municipalities all over the country are looking to the arts as a remedy for their economic woes. Here are articles about other arts-stimulus efforts in <a href="http://www.benningtonbanner.com/news/ci_22562462/bbc-looks-arts-an-economic-force.html">Bennington, VT</a>, <a href="http://sciwestblog.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/the-arts-and-economic-development-work-together-on-west-philly-corridors-2/">Philadelphia, PA</a>, and the states of <a href="http://www.txculturaltrust.org/programs/economic-development/">Texas</a>, <a href="http://www.ncarts.org/freeform_scrn_template.cfm?ffscrn_id=678&">North Carolina</a>, and <a href="http://www.art.mt.gov/resources/resources_artseconomic.asp">Montana</a>. <br />
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I wrote other posts on this subject last summer, in <a href="http://artdogobservations.blogspot.com/2012/07/stimulate-economy-yes-arts-do-that.html">July</a> and <a href="http://artdogobservations.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-artists-act-as-urban-pioneers.html">August</a>. The evidence just keeps growing. At least <i>some</i> of the folks in Missouri "get it." Now if we could just convince the "Kansas side." <a href="http://artdogobservations.blogspot.com/2011/02/impractical-ideology-puts-arts-under.html">Governor Brownback</a>, that <i>especially</i> includes you!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>IMAGE CREDIT: The <i>Kansas City Star</i> <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/2013/02/17/4072623/in-historic-lexington-hope-for.html">photo of Lexington's Main Street</a> is by <a href="http://jilltoyoshiba.com/">Jill Toyoshiba</a>, a photographer to keep in mind. Many thanks to them, for providing it!</b></span></div>
Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com2Lexington, MO 64067, USA39.1847339 -93.87994259999999339.0862609 -94.041304099999991 39.283206899999996 -93.7185811tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-46407500286856058942013-02-18T20:59:00.000-06:002013-02-18T20:59:07.427-06:00"Deep Dish" Framing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My Beloved has been busy, doing his part to get <i>Rose Dance</i> ready for the <a href="http://www.leawood.org/committees/art/artigrasgala.aspx">Arti Gras Gala</a> this weekend. I thought you might enjoy seeing the framing work in progress, because it has presented some challenges.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My husband Pascal Gephardt had to improvise a support to hold up all corners while the glue sets.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of the frame-in-progress, in our basement "framing corner."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Why on earth would I need a shadowbox this deep? </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moral to the story: Let the creative juices flow, but watch the elevation!</td></tr>
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I am grateful to <a href="http://www.randalspangler.com/">Randal Spangler</a> and <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+West+Frame+%26+Moulding,+2718+Holmes+Street,+Kansas+City,+MO&hl=en&sll=39.038705,-94.614309&sspn=0.0247,0.043259&oq=New+West+Fram&hq=New+West+Frame+%26+Moulding,&hnear=2718+Holmes+St,+Kansas+City,+Jackson,+Missouri+64109&t=m&z=16">New West Frame and Moulding</a> for their help with acquiring the materials for this frame, and oh, boy, do I ever owe my husband Pascal Gephardt a "big one," for all the joining and assembly. When you see <i>Rose Dance</i> all framed up, it will be thanks to them (stay tuned).<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>IMAGES: All photos were taken by me, Jan S. Gephardt. Please do not reproduce them without attribution and a link.</b></span><br />
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Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-90550424328422590372013-02-15T00:48:00.000-06:002013-02-15T00:48:29.150-06:00Pieces of Art<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><b><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">Nine-Part Herbal Fantasy</span></b></i><br />
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Sometimes paper sculpture takes a long time. Lots of layers, lots of pieces, not very many finished things to show in between times.<br />
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So I thought I'd offer a glimpse of a work-in-progress. This is part of the "Dark Cycle" of my new piece <i>Nine-Part Herbal Fantasy.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's the original color build for the design.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Assorted pieces in a box, some cut, some not.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the center part, which I call the "root ball."</td></tr>
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Not much more to say. Hope you enjoyed the glimpse!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">IMAGES all are copyright 2012-2013 by Jan S. Gephardt. All rights are reserved. </span></b><br />
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Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-26047155161304398382013-02-11T22:44:00.001-06:002013-02-11T22:44:48.514-06:00Location Correction! Feb 15 Show!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The signing/art show is at Prospero's Uptown Books!</td></tr>
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I just found out the address I had for the Feb. 15 Book Signing/Art Show is WRONG.<br />
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Please make note of the CORRECT address, if you were planning to come!<br />
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We will be a <a href="http://www.prosperosbookstore.com/?page=Home">Prospero's Uptown Books</a>, at 3600 Broadway #107, Kansas City, MO--not the location on 39th Street previously publicized.<br />
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If you're on Facebook, learn more <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ProsperosUptownBooks">at the Prospero's Uptown Books page</a> and on the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/100896290093781/">Event notice</a>.<br />
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It'll still be <a href="http://artdog53.deviantart.com/">my artwork</a>, <a href="http://gracetownley.com/">Grace Townley's artwork</a>, and <a href="http://robinwaynebailey.net/">Robin W. Bailey</a>, signing his many books. I also am told there will be zombies!<br />
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Come if you can.</div>
Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com03600 Broadway, Broadway Valentine Shopping Center, Kansas City, MO 64111, USA39.0613876 -94.59073439999997413.539353100000003 -135.89932839999997 64.5834221 -53.282140399999975tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-21737474663722679842013-02-01T01:41:00.001-06:002013-02-11T22:46:56.463-06:003 Opportunities to See my Artwork!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Depending on where you live, you may have a chance to see my artwork at a show near you in February!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See my art at <a href="http://www.shevacon.org/">SheVaCon</a>, Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke, VA</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">SheVaCon, Feb. 8-10, 2013</span> </b></span><br />
The first opportunity comes the second weekend of February, in Roanoke, VA. Several pieces of my fantasy artwork will be on display at the <a href="http://www.shevacon.org/">SheVaCon</a> Art Show. The show runs Friday through Sunday, February 8-10 at the historic <a href="http://www.shevacon.org/category/location/">Hotel Roanoke</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Robin W. Bailey Book-Signing Feb. 15, 2013</b></span></span><br />
Join <a href="http://www.robinwaynebailey.net/">Robin W. Bailey</a>, <a href="http://gracetownley.com/">Grace Townley</a>, and me for an art show and book-signing at <a href="http://prosperosbookstore.com/?page=Home">Prospero's Books</a> in Kansas City (the 3600 Broadway #107, KC, MO location) <b><span style="color: red;">on February 15 at </span></b><span style="color: red;"><b>6:00 p.m.</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robin W. Bailey, author</td></tr>
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<b>Robin W. Bailey</b> is a former president of <a href="http://www.sfwa.org/">Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA)</a>, one of the founders of the <a href="http://www.midamericon.org/halloffame/">Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame</a> (see <a href="http://kacsffs.blogspot.com/2011/04/kacsffs-and-science-fiction-hall-of.html">another post about it</a> on the KaCSFFS Blog), and is the author of <a href="http://www.robinwaynebailey.net/bib.htm">numerous</a> books, e-books, short stories, and poems.<br />
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In addition to his "<a href="http://www.robinwaynebailey.net/">official" website,</a> which hasn't been updated in a while, he has an <a href="http://www.sff.net/people/sfreader/bailey.htm">"unofficial" website</a>, which also hasn't been updated for a while. I suspect that is because he's been too busy writing! <br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><b>I especially want to thank Robin</b></i></span> for the idea of turning his book-signing into an event that includes a chance to show artwork, as well! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grace Townley's <i>Inspired by a Star Formation</i></td></tr>
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<b>Grace Townley</b> is an accomplished oil painter whose passion is outer space. Her <a href="http://gracetownley.com/">"Interstellar Weather" portfolio</a> gives a representative sample of her work, which ranges from very large paintings to a wide variety of affordably-priced prints.<br />
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The image at right is one of my favorite examples of Grace's work. I first encountered Grace at the <a href="http://www.artwestport.net/">Art Westport</a> show in September 2012, and she joined a group of us in December for the <a href="http://kacsffs.blogspot.com/2012/12/holiday-meeting-features-visual-feast.html">Holiday Visual Feast</a>.<br />
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Since a good bit of my fantasy artwork probably won't be back from SheVaCon by then, I'll be showing a mixture of fantasy, nature, and architectural themes, including pieces from my two new multiple-original editions.<br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Arti Gras Gala and Annual Juried Art Show, Feb. 22-24, 2013</b></span></span><br />
I am delighted to announce that for a second year a piece of my paper sculpture has been accepted into the <a href="http://www.leawood.org/committees/art/artigras.aspx">Arti Gras Annual Juried Art Show,</a> sponsored by the <a href="http://www.leawood.org/committees/LF/default.aspx">Leawood Foundation</a> of Leawood, KS.<br />
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The big event of that weekend is the <a href="http://www.leawood.org/committees/art/artigrasgala.aspx">Arti Gras Gala</a> on Friday, February 22, at the Leawood Community Center in the lower level under City Hall (4800 Town Center Drive, Leawood, KS). <span style="color: red;"><b>Gala 6-8:30 p.m. 2/22.</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rose Dance</i> was accepted into Arti Gras 2013!</td></tr>
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This is a delightful, Mardi Gras-themed reception, to open the show and announce the recipients of several cash prizes. Most of the artists will be there (including me!), and if it's anything like last year the food and drink will be delicious. It's a fundraiser for the Foundation, so there is an admission fee.<br />
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If you can't make the Gala, the show remains <b><span style="color: red;">open to the public for free viewing from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. that Saturday and Sunday, February 23-24</span></b>. <br />
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<i><b>Please note that the address for the Feb. 15 book signing/art show location has been updated from the original post. </b></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>IMAGE CREDITS: Many thanks to <a href="http://www.shevacon.org/category/location/">SheVaCon and the Hotel Roanoke</a> for the photo of the hotel. I would like to thank Robin W. Bailey, both for the use of <a href="http://www.robinwaynebailey.net/">his profile photo from his official website</a>, and also again for inviting me to show artwork at his book-signing! Thank you, <a href="http://gracetownley.com/">Grace Townley</a>, for the use of the <i>Star Formation</i> image. I want to extend many thanks to the <a href="http://www.leawood.org/committees/art/callforartists.aspx">Leawood Foundation, the Arti Gras show, and juror James Martin</a> for accepting my work into this year's show, and for making their logo available for use. The image of <i>Rose Dance</i> is my own<span style="font-size: x-small;">. It may b<span style="font-size: x-small;">e re<span style="font-size: x-small;">-posted</span> on<span style="font-size: x-small;">line, as long as <span style="font-size: x-small;">the image</span> is not altered, and cre<span style="font-size: x-small;">dit<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> is given to me as the artist, with a link back. Otherwise, all rights are reserved.</span></span></span> </span></span></span></b></span></div>
Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-86147452060402037212013-01-09T02:04:00.000-06:002013-01-09T02:08:11.606-06:00Life Catches Up, with a Vengeance!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I really must apologize to anyone who has grown tired of checking back for updates . . . we've had several simultaneous family crises (starting at Thanksgiving, and continuing through now).<br />
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In my diminished time leftover from dealing with them, I have made notes on about half-a-dozen posts I'd like to write, but spent more of it <i>making</i> art than writing about it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As soon as possible, I'll write a post about creating <i>Rose Dance.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <i>Nine-Part Herbal Fantasy</i> is still in the works, but likely to become a diptych.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Coming Through!</i> is a new multiple original that debuted at the <a href="http://kacsffs.blogspot.com/2012/12/holiday-meeting-features-visual-feast.html">Holiday Visual Feast</a>.</td></tr>
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That's a sample. I've also seen some galleries I'd like to write about, and there are other developments, as well.<br />
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Stay tuned. This family stuff can't go on forever!</div>
Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-34200969955007149372012-11-22T09:00:00.000-06:002012-11-22T09:00:12.613-06:00One step forward, two steps back<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Seems like just when you think things are looking up, it's time for another look.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Choice: Accept or Reject</i> by Yu Chang</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The "obscene" statue that isn't </b></span><br />
I recently was pleased to see that the grand jury convened to decide whether an Overland Park Arboretum statue (subject of <a href="http://artdogobservations.blogspot.com/2012/06/nudity-and-public-art.html">one of my previous posts</a>) was obscene or not, <a href="http://fox4kc.com/2012/10/26/grand-jury-deems-controversial-op-statute-is-art-and-not-obscene/">had taken very little time to decide it is NOT</a>. <br />
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<i>Choice: Accept or Reject,</i> by Yu Chang, had been the subject of hot controversy earlier this year, when a group of local fundamentalists aligned with the <a href="http://www.afa.net/">American Family Association</a> circulated a petition to have it removed. They said it was obscene because the female subject was only partially clothed.<br />
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From the beginning, Overland Park officials denied that there was anything "obscene" about this work, and resisted the idea of removing it. The AFA group, however, was able to collect enough signatures to require that a grand jury be convened.<br />
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Thank goodness the grand jury had the excellent sense to deal quickly with this nuisance complaint. The group was demanding that the sculpture be removed, but certainly not doing any fundraising to support such a large public expense. I'm sure they aren't planning to pay for the cost of empaneling the grand jury, either.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cement saws left obscene scars in the looters' wake. </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A horrifying case of theft and vandalism in a sacred place</b></span><br />
Not all the recent news about art in public life has been good, however, I was horrified to learn of the recent theft of four ancient petroglyphs from a site near Bishop, CA.<br />
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Stealing a petroglyph is no easy feat--and in this case it was done with all the finesse of a smash-and-grab, by a well-organized gang of looters who left ugly gashes, saw cuts and hammer marks--as well as one broken and abandoned petroglyph--in their wake.<br />
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The 3500-year-old petroglyphs were part of a site on the National Register of Historic Places, in the Volcanic Tableland area. Greg Haverstock, a Bureau of Land Management archaeologist described it as "the worst act of vandalism ever seen" at the BLM site, in <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-petroglyphs-theft-20121119,0,6886011.story">a story posted by the LA Times</a>.<br />
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The site is a sacred place to the Paiute-Shoshone tribal members in the area, so it is as if the thieves had looted an ancient temple or cathedral. While not quite on the scale of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan#Dynamiting_and_destruction.2C_March_2001">destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan</a>, this senseless act--priceless treasures hacked to pieces for a potential market value of maybe $500 to $1500--leaves me feeling angry and violated. I can only imagine how the Paiutes and Shoshones must feel.<br />
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I don't normally like to use profanity on this blog, but fellow blogger Marina Galperina got it just right when <a href="http://www.animalnewyork.com/2012/ancient-native-american-graffiti-stolen-by-terrible-hacks/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter">she described these looters</a> as "assholes with chainsaws." I hope the BLM catches up to them quickly, and nails them with every penalty possible.<br />
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Meanwhile, happy Thanksgiving. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>PHOTO CREDITS: The Fred Blocher photo of <i>Choose: Accept or Reject</i> is from the <a href="http://joco913.com/news/overland-park-refuses-to-remove-statue-petition-drive-launched/">Kansas City Star's <i>Johnson County 913 </i>magazine</a>. The image of the petroglyph with saw marks is from the Bureau of Land Management, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/thieves-steal-3-500-year-old-rock-etchings-article-1.1204974">via the <i>New York Daily News</i></a>. Finally, the hacked-off rock photo came from <a href="http://www.animalnewyork.com/2012/ancient-native-american-graffiti-stolen-by-terrible-hacks/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter">Maria Galperina</a>. Many thanks to all!</b></span><br />
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Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-25624048164609710982012-10-25T12:06:00.001-06:002012-10-27T22:06:11.734-06:00Not quite ready, yet!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Several weeks ago I saw an article in the Kansas City Star (somehow the link is now gone!), about a new gallery above a restaurant in the KC Crossroads. <br />
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Called the <a href="http://www.mainstreetart.net/">Main Street Gallery</a>, it was to be on the second story of a place named <a href="http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/34/1696918/restaurant/Crossroads-Arts-District-Crown-Center/Antons-Taproom-Kansas-City">Anton's Taproom</a> at 1610 Main, Kansas City, MO. The article said the gallery was open during the restaurant's business hours. <br />
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What fun, I thought, and made arrangements with a friend to have lunch there around the end of the month. Accordingly, my friend Nancy and I showed up there for lunch today. <br />
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However, we quickly found things had not progressed as rapidly as the newspaper article had led me to believe. Anton's sign was up, the lights were on, the door was open, and the proprietor was there with his work crew, busily trying to get the business ready to open sometime next week. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There's even art in the wine cellar, next to the herbs and tilapia.</td></tr>
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He seemed happy to see us, even though he couldn't feed us, and eager to talk about his vision for the place, from the custom brews, to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics">aquaponics</a> setup to grow fresh herbs and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia">tilapia</a> next to the wine cellar downstairs. "Go on down and take a look," he urged us, when we seemed interested. <br />
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So down the stairs we went, to startle another workman, and gaze speculatively at the herb seedlings sprouting from mats suspended over dark vats, which we assumed must contain (or be slated to soon contain) the promised tilapia. <br />
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The place may not have been officially open yet, but there was art a-plenty, even in the wine cellar. Paintings in a wide variety of sizes and styles hung from the walls--or, in a few places, leaned against them. There also were several 3-D works as well, including a couple of whimsical assemblages and a tableful of large, lathe-turned wooden pots. <br />
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We wandered around, enjoying the artwork, and also relishing the opportunity to share a small glimpse of the sublime state when exciting dreams have almost ripened into actuality. <br />
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Anton's Tap Room and the Main Street Gallery are going to be a very cool place. We felt specially privileged to see it just before the blossom opens.<br />
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<i>This post was updated and corrected on Oct. 27, 2012.</i> <br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>PHOTOS: The two photos I've added were taken by me, Jan Gephardt, with my iPhone, on October 25, 2012, after receiving permission. See the <a href="http://www.mainstreetart.net/">Main Street Gallery's website</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Main-Street-Gallery-KC/104116043931?ref=ts&fref=ts">Facebook page</a> for images of some of the artwork there. </b></span></div>
Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com21610 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA39.0940852 -94.583464539.092544700000005 -94.585932 39.0956257 -94.580997000000011tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-18876584143272183382012-10-21T12:32:00.001-06:002012-10-24T22:45:20.713-06:00War Eagle seemed smaller this year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Autumn in the Ozarks--a scenic setting by a rustic mill--yep, must be War Eagle!<br />
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Attending the <a href="http://www.wareaglemill.com/fair.html">War Eagle Fall Fair</a> is a long tradition for my family, with my father's home located nearby and many friends exhibiting their work at the show. <br />
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I remember when there were at least six tents "over the bridge" on the hilltop overlooking the mill; this year, they were down to four. I had heard the overall quality was down, but I can't agree. It may have been smaller, but what I saw looked good. <br />
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I made a point of shopping with my "regulars," or at least stopping by to see what's new. <br />
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I plan to profile several War Eagle artists in future posts: <a href="http://www.porcelainbymarianne.com/">Marianne Hanson</a>, who makes wonderful porcelain jewelry; Joe Henderson, of <a href="http://willowbrookleather.com/">Willow Brook Leather</a>; Jeff and Judy Goodwyn, of <a href="http://www.heartwoodgallery.org/?page_id=76">Daaman Jewelry</a>; and <a href="http://www.silent-echoes.com/servlet/Categories?category=8x10+-+FEATHERS+%28print+w%2Fmat%29">the "personality-plus" birds of Rick Lorenz</a>. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This post was updated 10/24/2012.</i></span></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">PHOTO: I took this photo with my iPhone at the War Eagle Fall Fair on 10/21/2012, south of the bridge and mill.</span></b><br />
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Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com0War Eagle, AR 72756, USA36.267778 -93.94083336.2549755 -93.960574 36.2805805 -93.921092tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-53612429891962754782012-10-20T22:10:00.003-06:002012-10-24T22:19:43.553-06:00Big Bella Vista show!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We went to the <a href="http://bellavistafestival.org/">Bella Vista Arts and Crafts Festival</a> today. It was a big show--noticeably larger even than last year. <br />
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I found several artists of note--most particularly a paper sculptor! His name is <a href="http://ericksonstudios.com/index.asp?i=129">Russ Erickson</a>, and he also makes the paper. He does florals and other subjects. <br />
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Other highlights included the innovative ceramics of <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/bearhollowpottery">Bear Hollow Pottery</a>, the striking wildlife art of <a href="http://www.christinasmith.net/Site/Welcome.html">Christina Smith</a>, and the whimsical fantasy of <a href="http://flemingart.com/page2.html">Fleming Art Studio</a>, not to mention the one-of-a-kind glass pieces by <a href="http://www.artscene.org/laf-2012-brewster-steve">Steve Brewster</a>. <br />
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I plan to write more about each of these in future! <i>(This post was updated 10/24/12).</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>PHOTO: Taken with my iPhone on Sat. 10/20/2012, it shows a view facing east, just north of the food vendors and south of the first line of tents.</b></span><br />
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Jan Gephardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895263933354211829noreply@blogger.com0Bella Vista, AR, USA36.481464 -94.273264236.379326000000006 -94.4311927 36.583602 -94.1153357tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8559040616421944472.post-37730373829217761912012-10-19T12:18:00.001-06:002012-10-24T21:34:05.613-06:00A quick report from the road<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am still working on being able to afford a laptop, so I am writing this post with my iPhone Blogger app, and still figuring it out. <br />
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Therefore, this will be short, with only one picture (haven't been to any shows yet). <br />
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I have traveled to Northwest Arkansas, in part to see some of the many art and craft fairs going on this weekend. <br />
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There are LOADS of them! One of the oldest, the <a href="http://www.wareaglemill.com/fair.html">War Eagle Fair</a>, actually is listed on the local newspaper's special map spread as three different shows. <br />
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The photo shows the map, which was compiled and published by the <a href="http://www.arkansasonline.com/">Arkansas Democrat-Gazette</a>.* <br />
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My husband is working with our friend <a href="http://www.randalspangler.com/">Randal Spangler</a> at the <a href="http://bellavistafestival.org/">Bella Vista Arts and Crafts Festival</a>, in another cluster of events listed on the map. <br />
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In all, the map lists about two dozen different events. <br />
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I hope to return with photos, links, and wonderful artists to feature in future posts. Stay tuned! <i>(Updated 10/24/2012)</i><br />
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<i>*Anything older than 7 days is archived by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and is only available upon payment of a fee.</i><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>PHOTO: I photographed the "art fairs" map spread of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with my iPhone in my father's back yard near Beaver Lake.</b></span><br />
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