Introducing Other People to the Concept

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I like nanya's work, so when she wrote about taking commissions to pay for her art supplies, I asked her if I could pay her a little to continue work on an older piece of hers I wanted to see finished.

Spreading the meme!


(As an aside, here's the piece I sent her money to continue working on... if you like it, maybe you can drop her a buck or two also!)

An artist emerges!

[flutterbychild.livejournal.com]

For the last few months, I have been posting my artwork on the community I created, therebirthofme. Yesterday, I posted about receiving invitations to show my art at festivals and other venues in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, PA areas. I have a donation button up in the community for people who want to help make that happen.

From ysabetwordsmith: "therebirthofme is a personal community that features a variety of this artist's work, including both black-and-white linotype and full-color watercolor pictures. I like the linocut images because black-and-white art seems to be getting rarer these days, with everyone fixated on color graphics. They have a bold, stark, historical flavor with strong stylization and symbolism. The watercolor pictures are softer, dreamier, full of super-saturated colors common to many forms of African and African-American art: rich melting browns, deep golds and earthy reds, jungle-leaf greens, limpid blues. Most of the subjects are women, or nature, or some combination of the two; urban imagery is also common, sometimes overlapping the others. Many pictures are surreal, symbolic, allegoric; others are closer to realistic. These are the dimpled footprints left by one artist's walk through life. If you're interested in African-American and/or women's art, or cyberfunded creativity, please consider dropping by there."

I hope you consider stopping by and donating, or just leaving feedback on anything that is posted!