Old Books filled with Treasures

Moleskin notebook designed by Mark Frauenfelder

Hollowed out books by Mark Lowrie on Flickr

Mark Lowrie says these books are: "Part of an ongoing project to combine hollowed out books with interesting contents similar to the fluxus movement or Joseph Cornell. The Vice Control book, filled with vices; or the vintage pulp book filled with journals and writing supplies for my daughter.(Notebook in the book on the right was designed by Mark Frauenfelder) "

My friend, Mark Lowrie, crafted these cool art objects out of old books using funny, unique and useful contents and gave them as gifts to his family members.

The top photo is a blue gremlin moleskin notebook that I received yesterday in the mail from Mark Frauenfelder. Here's the link to the notebooks on boingboing

The Art of Amy Crehore

"Feed the Bear Blues" Painting

"Feed the Bear Blues" copyright 2007 Amy Crehore

Here is one of my brand new "Blues Gals" paintings. This one has a bear holding a vintage Gibson mando-bass and it is called "Feed the Bear Blues". My other new painting is called, "Losin' My Cones Over You" (just featured on boingboing). I had a third painting up on my website ("Green Snake Stumble"), but I decided that it needed more work. So, I am back in the studio making some additions and finishing it up.

My oil paintings all have many layers of paint to intensify the colors and to make the figures fully-realized. Sometimes I will paint all day on a face and not like it, so I wipe it off and start again the next day. I even sand it down if I have to. I painted the face on the "cones" painting probably 100 times until I felt it was right. That's how it goes. Nothing comes easy!

See my other Blues Gals Paintings in the series at:

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Tonight! "Charity by Numbers"

1955 paint-by-number transformed into Monkey/Girl Surreal Fantasy by Amy Crehore

(Click on image for larger view)

Here is today's L.A. Times article by August Brown about the big

Charity By Numbers Art Event followed by a week-long ebay auction to benefit The Alliance for Children's Rights 100%.

Happy Bidding!

Here is the auction link

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"Paradise Life"

Check out this new book by amazing photographer

Chris Keeley of Daily Dreamtime.

It is available now. Follow the link!

I blogged about him back in Dec. 2006

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Table of Malcontents

Close up of face w/hair, from Amy Crehore's paint-by-number

Check out John Brownlee's post about the

Corey Helford Gallery's Charity-by-Numbers ebay auction over at:

Table of Malcontents.
He's very funny!

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"Blues Gals" today on Boing Boing

Detail from "Losin' My Cones Over You" by Amy Crehore
NEWS: I finally finished three more paintings in my Blues Gals Series! Read about it on boingboing and then follow their link to my website.

Boingboing also posted about the upcoming Charity by Numbers Show on Feb 10, 2007 that I am participating in with lots of amazing artists.

The Corey Helford Gallery will host the event. I can't make it down to the show, but I will still be able to look at it online and bid on the pieces on ebay until Feb 17, 2007 at midnight. See more examples of artist-transformed vintage paint-by-number paintings on Supertouch. Here is the link to mine.

Happy Bidding!

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Noir Dame Blog

Read Noir Dame's musings on paint by numbers

Very nice! Thanks, Noir Dame.

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