Julie's New Boy Paintings

Self Portrait as Boy in Flight 2010, oil on canvas, 52 x 68 inches by Julie Heffernan

Julie Heffernan is painting herself as a boy now and I quite like them. Her works are ambitious and visionary. There's a nice sense of order to her dream-chaos. She's got the painting chops to pull off complicated imagery such as the one above - from her "Boy, Oh Boy" exhibit which opens April 29-June 5, 2010 at PPOW Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, Room 301, NYC. Here's a LINK to the gallery and a few more images.

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This is Ska!

Rocket Boy

rocket boy
Originally uploaded by hastingsgraham

from hastingsgraham's
OUT OF THIS WORLD set on flickr

Anniversary of SF Earthquake 1906

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Originally uploaded by ricksoloway

The San Francisco earthquake of 1906
April 18, 1906- anniversary today.
Set of images on flickr.
Thanks Ricksoloway.

Jan Svankmajer's Alice

I already blogged about the original Alice manuscript in the British Library and the first Alice film from 1903. John Cusack, guest-blogger on BoingBoing, recently blogged this wonderfully surreal clip of Alice by Czech animator Jan Svankmajer. Love it.

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Vintage Images from the Circus

Spider Woman and friend.
Originally uploaded by DoubleM2

Most of these images are advertisements for circus and theatrical acts, primarily French, circa 1885-1925.
Thanks to DoubleM2 for an incredible collection
on flickr.

Seeing the End in Sight

Detail of not-quite finished painting by Amy Crehore (click to enlarge)

I've been playing around with my new camera. This is a quick macro close-up shot of just a portion of one my new paintings. It's a distorted photo, but the face on the larger figure is pretty sharp, so I like it. I am still touching up her hair, but basically this painting is done. I am now seeing the end in sight to a few new pieces of art which took me quite a while to paint. Hope to be blogging them in the near future. I think this one is called "The Angel at Gossamer Creek" ...if I don't change my mind.

The Art of Amy Crehore