By Marissa Maynard The Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) superb photography collection encompasses the history of the medium and offers a tremendous range, from cased photographs to salted paper prints to colored digital prints. For most photographic processes, the image layer is composed of silver particles in an emulsion. Some […]
Artists Nana del Riego And Demián “Chango” Mohar Collaborate On The Iconoclassic Series
Cuban photographer Nana del Riego and Mexican artist Demián “Chango” Mohar have teamed up to create the Iconoclassic Series. A new series of works focuses on the artist’s shared subject matters of mass consumption, cultural appropriation, and aesthetic appropriation, which are crucial to both artists and their practice. Del Riego and Monhar‘s new series […]
Samsung Tab S6 Lite 2022 vs iPad 10 (2022) for drawing
This is my artist and graphic designer comparison of the Samsung Tab S6 Lite (2022) and iPad 10 (2022). If you’re interested in the full review for these two tablets, just see the reviews that I’ve already written with the links provided earlier. Here are the differences between the two […]
Artist Review: Samsung Tab S6 Lite (2022)
Review unit on loan from Samsung Singapore This is my artist review of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (2022). Samsung released the Galaxy Tab S6 in Aug 2019, the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite in May 2020 and now the updated Galaxy Tab S6 Lite in May 2022. Official retail […]
The Ultimate Geek Bucket List: 50 Things to Do Before You Die
Part to-do list, part flight of fancy, but 100% geek-approved, here are 50 things any true geek should do, see, or experience in their lifetime. OK, so you are a self-proclaimed geek and want to make the most of your life before you shuffle off this mortal coil and onto […]
Color Mixing with Liquid Watercolor
This post is long overdue! I know I have promised to video my color mixing with liquid watercolor for quite some time. The truth is, mixing this medium is not as easy as mixing tempera paints. It is far from an exact science. Part of that reason is that liquid watercolors […]
Hayfield Oak Leaves #4 | The Unfathomable Artist
“Hayfield Oak Leaves – Original” [12th August 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with H, HB, 4B and 8B, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2642 x 3116 pixels. Following on from my previous series “Cluster of Oak Leaves” […]
Mhairi Killin at Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art
In August 2018, the carcasses of nearly 120 deep-diving beaked whales washed up along the coastlines of Iceland, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, and Scotland’s Hebrides archipelago. Scientists concluded they were victims of the sonar signals from naval exercises, which can confuse the echolocation systems the animals use to survive. Mhairi […]
Who We Were When We Were Here : Open Space
Un-Disclosure We were teaching on the reservation when, overnight, the campus closed. We were working remotely, seeing students in person only when shopping at Fred Meyer. The tribe took care of us, valuing science over the bottom-line. There were challenges for students — finding Wi-Fi in Starbucks parking lots, dealing […]
“Love Not War” Fabric Banners
I started working on these “Love Not War” banners just a few days after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. I began with the Ukrainian flag colors, but soon recognized that there were other countries at war right now, with innocent people dying and refugees fleeing. Specifically, in Syria […]