Today’s announcement that BoundlessGallery.com is closing down permanently as of March took me by surprise. I have been a member with them on and off over the past 5 years. Due to lack of income, they are closing their doors forever.
Ebay has completely dried up for original art, except cheap knock offs from China. Other [...]
I don’t think a painter’s path is linear. I am not sure it is even a path at all. Lot’s of artist refer to their artists journey. For me, it is more might be more like a tilt-a-whirl ride than a journey.
Elvis drives by Dunn Road in his convertible Cadillac. He is not yet BIG famous yet, only a little famous at this time. His girlfriend, pre-Pricilla, lived in our neighborhood. This was when he live in the Getwell / Cherry Road area, before he bought Graceland. Most people in Memphis know about this house but it is not marked in anyway. People still live there, at least last I heard.
Dreamflyer Painting, Original by Cindy Davis..
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Typical Day in the Life blog posts are as popular as ever these days. I enjoy reading them myself. I enjoy stepping into the shoes of another person’s life. I like to see what their day is like, especially if they take a little time to share something personal [...]
Sometimes we miss out on enjoying simple pleasures because we are saving them for later. We don’t honor or respect ourselves enough to allow us to enjoy the good stuff on an everyday basis.
With some practice, this can become a way a life. We save every exciting, new experience for another more convenient day. Often [...]
I recently joined a group that is exploring artistic expression, creativity, and spirituality. Heavy words for a visual artist like myself. My group is full of really interesting, energetic people. I can’t wait to get to know them better. I can’t wait to see what happens as the weeks roll by.
I want to offer up [...]
Over the years I have developed a my own personalized method to finding unique corners in strange cities. I typically search for art galleries or coffee shops online before traveling. If the shops look shabby enough, you can almost always be guaranteed a unique neighborhood to wander around in.
I am a weekend [...]
I have been working rather long days building a new website for a local newspaper, The Albany Journal. I have not been thinking about art since Monday. I had a critical issue with the site crashing on Tuesday that, although is now repaired, has kept me rather obsessively focused on the website.
So today [...]
Wind, Water, Sun by Cindy Davis.
Prints from ArtistRising.com
1. Make Room for Studio Space You really need to try to set aside your own area in which to create you artwork. Setting aside a corner, a spare bedroom, a garage is essential to treating your art business and yourself [...]
I wanted to share my notes out of my sketchbook that I jotted down to help me get a handle on the concept that is involved in my Twenty-Something Painting: BARREN.
I typically paint happy stuff, but I am up and down just like everyone else.
These notes were written several months ago. I am [...]
I want to talk just a bit about self-taught artists, specifically painters, and their responsibility to educate themselves regarding art materials if they attempt to sell their paintings as Fine Art.
You often hear the term self-taught when painters do not attend formal art school. I happen to be a self-taught artist. I [...]
I have to admit since I have been hanging out on Facebook and Twitter, I don’t blog as much anymore. It seems like such a big commitment to type complete paragraphs after using Twitter’s 140 characters to communicate.
I have moved into what I will call my Summer Studio.
Last year I vacated the garage studio [...]
I wanted to highlight and share an artist who I have been following on the Internet for quite some time. Her work speaks to me. I anxiously read her blog, awaiting her new paintings.
Her name is Jennifer Lommers. She lives in Oregon. Which surprises me, because her paintings are typically jam-packed [...]
When I become discouraged or feeling that my art is getting nowhere, I sometimes look back at where I was 5 years ago. I would say I look back 5, 10, 15 years ago but my painting doesn’t go back that far. Before 2004, I mostly dabbled with crafts such a scrapbooking, crochet, and a [...]
I am camera shy. This has gotten worse over the years, especially since camera’s don’t lie.
I really have needed some better promotional photo for my art business. I use lots of pictures of my artwork, but not many pictures of myself. Although I will continue this, I was in desperate need of [...]
Green Pecan Tree, acrylic on paper, 20-somthings by Cindy Davis. Purchase on artfire.com.
Thinking Out Loud: Surrender
My daily devotional today involved the word surrender. It was a fine article, written by a man. It began with reviewing the negative connotations surrounding the word surrender. Losing a battle. White flag. Giving [...]
Here is the Finished Piece One. I think it is nicer to show you the end result before we start the step by step pic.
No title yet. No signature yet. I like to wait a week or so to let everything settle down in my head before I can tell for sure [...]
Ok, I am officially unplugging at 4pm on Saturday. That means no laptop, no cell, no TV, no electronic music. I will plug in again on Monday Morning.
Well, I better add one exception to the electronic music thing, I will experience electronic music during church this weekend, since we have screaming [...]
Guest Blogger Nick Nelson:
When approached by Cindy Davis to write a blog entry for Flint River Gallery, she mentioned that she was interested in the “underground art scene” in Albany. The mention of underground art immediately conjured up images of cyber-punk-bohemian-hipster types hanging out in tattoo parlors, Internet cafes, and warehouses creating subversive minimalist [...]
Want more respect in general for your artwork?
It starts at home. Treat your paintings …. like works of art…
Four Tips for getting respect for your artwork:
Don’t sell your work unframed off the floor in public. That means hang it up, frame it or use gallery wrap canvas. Don’t stack [...]
Come Asway with Me, Acrylic on Canvas by Cindy Davie, 12″ x 12″
1. FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN: – Before you begin painting, cover your entire canvas with a orange or red base coat. Then put your sketch down and begin to paint, ignoring this base color. Tiny [...]
Floral Nebula, Original acrylic on canvas, by Cindy Davis, purchase with BoundlessGallery.com.
UPDATE: Painting Sold 10/931/21010, notecards available from Cafepress.
Comfort in Linear Creativity
When I first began to explore painting, it was a little like an explosion. I wanted to try everything, paint everything, become everything. It was exciting. It was [...]
I want to introduce you to North Carolina’s Poet Laureate, Kathryn Stripling Byer. We met a couple years ago at the Southern River Art Expo in Camilla, Georgia. I am so honored that we have begun a seedling friendship.
She has South Georgia roots and returns to our area frequently to visit. [...]
Winter Wheat by Nick Nelson.
I shall shamelessly shout it from the rooftops: “I am a painter”. Almost a decade before I was even born, painting was declared to be dead for the millionth time. Almost 100 years ago artist Marcel Duchamp placed a urinal on a pedestal, signed it R. Mutt, titled it [...]
Here are four of the techniques I have used to transfer a drawing sketch deign onto a canvas. Often my sketch is 8.5 x 11 inches (regular old printer paper). I like to paint big, so I often need to transfer the design onto my canvas.
1. Freestyle: For some this is [...]
Here are a couple of peaceful pics from April’s Artist Retreat in Aalachicola, FL. It is so nice to run away from responsibilities and take ALL your painting crap and just hang out and create something. (Mrs. English Teacher, is THIS a run-on sentence? ha-ha)
Next time I will remember that I really [...]
As requested, here is a picture of the space in which I paint. In the hot, humid summer months, I move inside into the air conditioning. But most of the year, I open the garage door, and it is perfect with wind, birds, sunshine, and fresh air.
I have learned that I work [...]
Broken Circle, Meg Anderson
Guest Blogger: Nick Nelson
“When asked to contribute to this blog I immediately saw it as an opportunity for shameless self-promotion. Unfortunately, the guilt and shame built up from years of catechism class and art school got the better of me and I decided to do something high-minded.
I decided to [...]
Janice Rentz, artist
of Albany, Ga
Lichens, a watercolor painting by
Janice Rentz
for sale at
www.FintRiverGallery.com
As a child, what were some of your chores and did you get and allowance?
A few chores were: cleaning room shared with younger sister,washing dishes with the same sister & some times we would throw wet dish towels and/or raw [...]
Keyhole, original painting, acrylic on canvas by Cindy Davis.
12 surefire steps to get motivated and ready to paint after returning from vacation.
1. Get out of bed, make coffee, search for coffee filters. Find an old wrinkled coffee filter in back of cabinet under a can of peaches. Dust it off and un-wrinkle it. Drink coffee.
2. [...]
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