October 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed.[gap height=”20″] Vintage Signs from Los Angeles To create a reductive linoleum block print, you need to carve successive layers in a process made popular in the ’50s,…
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WTP Artist: Eduardo Terranova
“This gives me the impetus to create, the belief that the glitter of metals is more than mere reflections.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Eduardo Terranova, originally from Cali, Columbia, works and lives in New York City. His works are in corporate and private collections, and his exhibits extend to domestic and international galleries and…
Brianna Baurichter: Hybridity in Hybrid Form
“I am very interested in hybridity as tool for discovery” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Brianna Baurichter is an artist and curator currently based in the Midwest. Baurichter recently earned her MFA in Drawing from Kendall College of Art and Design, and has previously studied in Chicago, IL for her BFA and Visual Arts Management…
Don Bergland: From Paint to Digital
“Anything that could be imagined could be created.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Don Bergland is currently an Associate Professor of Art Education at the University of Victoria and has been an active exhibiting artist for over fifty years. During that time, he has worked through a variety of professional media, from oil on canvas…
Holly Wong: Without Fear of Failure
“I start a new piece by looking at materials and holding them in my hands.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Holly Wong is an artist who lives and works in San Francisco, California. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in New…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
March 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. ArtReview: Asia Since I have a friend going to Singapore for the month of March and into April, I thought it appropriate to provide her with a…
WTP Artist: Yasuaki Okamoto
“In each place I visited, I studied the local flora and fauna.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Yasuaki Okamoto is a New York–based artist. His paintings perform a kind of surrealism that incorporates animals, plants, everyday objects, landscape, and ethereal beings. His work is metaphorically based and inspired by his travels throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. …
Kim Rae Taylor: Process Studies
The Making of Three Works By Kim Rae Taylor See her work in WTP Vol. V #1 Study 1 The shapes and textures that compose the surfaces of my paintings and drawings tend to be found within the natural world. I take reference photos of these elements and then look to the array of collage media I’ve…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
February 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Beloved Grafitti in Texas In Keller, Texas, a graffiti artist has been at work painting under its Bear Creek Parkway Bridge. After the first painting of a doe…
WTP Artist: Stephen Althouse
“Cloth, string, and rope are such expressive materials for me.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor “Stephen Althouse (b. 1948) fabricated his early sculptures out of wood, leather, and forged metal to resemble farming implements. Later, rather than making sculptures from raw materials, he began collecting already made objects which he loosely assembled together to…
Using Form, Color, and Narrative
The Copper Enameling Process By Judy Stone See her work in Vol. IV #2 Starting with a formed vessel or dish, I employ a range of metal-smithing and enameling processes to create vessels that are unique and evocative—perhaps influenced by the Native American cultures of the southwestern United States, where I grew up; or of Greece,…
Denitza Painting "Red Ochre"
Bright Colors on a Black Background Looking Back on 2016 Video by Denitza See her work in WTP Vol. IV #1 …I use a black background, crossing shiny lines and create explosions of light spots with often just one ‘favorite’ brush. When I paint, I don’t have any beginning or any ending point, I paint…