Teaser of New Painting by Crehore

Copyright Amy Crehore 2008

This is just a detail of one of 3 new paintings that I am working hard at finishing up now. It is not really done and it's a bad (direct) scan. I am still refining it...curtains,etc. Exciting to see the end in sight, though. All 3 are "Little Pierrot" images, but they are painted on stretched linen and are bigger sizes than my original series. NYC will get to see these as part of my upcoming show in July.

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Boing Boing Zine Covers 1989-1995

Boing Boing Vol 14

Boing Boing was a zine before it was a blog. Mark Frauenfelder has a set of cool and unusual Boing Boing covers from 1989-1995 on flickr. Fun! Flickr seems like a great tool for organizing a person's history (or art history) into segments. That gives me an idea, since I just started using flickr again myself. I will try to create some sets for myself.

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Warm Weather for Some People

I still have plenty of nice t-shirts available in 5 sizes on my website. I know it's summer in other parts of the country and my Tickler Ukulele Artist Tee might the perfect thing to wear. For some reason, however, it's been freezing and rainy here. I will even have a fire in the fireplace tonight to warm things up. Yes, it's a lot like winter here and it's very annoying for June! We are still finishing up the #2 Tickler Uke. Final stages. Today, a nice black uke case arrived from Elderly Music. Perfect fit.

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Upside-down train

Upside-down train
Originally uploaded by laamish

My friend Mark Lowrie built this surreal train that runs under a table.

Random Images

Photo by William Mortensen

Images from old postcards, a circus poster and a vintage photo by William Mortensen.

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Cool Steamroller Prints and a Book

Detail of Silkscreened Book ,"No Man's Land"
Pulling a Steamroller Woodcut Print
The Process of a Steamroller Print

Raphael UHRWEILLER and Mayumi OTERO are students at the ESAD (Ecole Superieure des Arts Decoratifs de Strasbourg). They make beautiful prints. Amazingly, they printed some giant prints with a steamroller (as shown in these photos). And they have a wonderful book out with a zillion colors printed entirely by silkscreen for sale in some Paris shops. See lots more photos at their website for complete details of the book, plus steamroller printing:

Cephaloprint


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Bartolomeo Veneto

Bartolomeo Veneto was painting in the early 1500s. He was a popular portrait artist in Milan by 1520 and probably studied under Bellini. The Getty Museum has a nice painting of a Lady with a Lute. The painting I have shown here is in the Städel museum and it's called “Lucrezia Borgia”. I like the woman's sideways glance, her delicate fingers holding a tiny bouquet and, of course, the one boob exposed is always a classic motif. This painting reminds me of Botticelli. (Thanks, Femme )

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