Exciting News!

I have two art shows coming up! I have lots of work to do in the next couple of months....

Here are the cards I made to invite people:

Now on Etsy

Below is the link to my Etsy account where you can get the card from my previous post!

Above is an image of my painting that is on the greeting cards.

Hurry, there is only 100...

http://www.etsy.com/listing/68933471/greeting-cardprint-of-old-rusty-car

Greetings!

My new greeting cards are now available! They have a print of my "Ninety Eight" oil painting on the front, are 5x7, blank inside, and have the copyright on the back.

$4 each

I'll have them up on Etsy soon... (search AmerLeeArt) Contact me if you want one. :)

Winter 2011

I'm taking Printmaking this semester. Here is what I've come up with so far: (Each color is a different layer that is pressed separately till you develop something.)

Iris

Dock in Venice

Wave

Ceramics class

The semester is finally over! Ceramics was such an amazing class. I spent hours forming clay, was forced to leave in the evenings and would come home inspired to create till I couldn't stay awake anymore.

Some of my pottery will be featured in the school art exhibit in May 2011. I'll be sure to let everyone know about it!

I will be selling all of the below pieces.

Contact me for prices.

Amber722@gmail.com

Knife Oil Painting

My latest inspiration:

Oil painting with a knife by Francoise Nielly.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Arcimboldo Faces on PhotoPeach

"Four Seasons" by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527 – July 11, 1593) "was born to a distinguished family in Milan, Italy, and began working as an artist at the Milan Cathedral, creating stained glass, fabrics, and paintings. His father, a painter, probably provided his early training. As the official artist and Master of Festivals for three successive German Emperors, Arcimboldo designed costumes, stage settings, chariots, and other diversions for courtly events and ceremonies. He was also in charge of making acquisitions for the royal cabinet of curiosities, which included art, antiques, curios, oddities of nature, and exotic animals and birds. He engineered creative water works, and even dreamed up a “color-piano” that was played by court musicians. He was perfect for the job and was richly rewarded for his inventiveness.

Arcimboldo was best known for his fantastical “composite head” paintings. These were portraits composed of objects such as fruit, flowers, books, or even a plate of meat. — that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject.

While his paintings amused and fascinated wealthy courtiers with their apparent whimsy, they also appealed to the intellect. The profile format of this painting was probably inspired by portrait heads of Roman emperors, known to Renaissance artists as depicted on Roman coinage. By using the same format in his portraits, Arcimboldo associated Emperor Rudolph II—to whom these works were linked—with a powerful Roman emperor."

Here is a video where a group of students put together vegetables to create a face.

Instead of using real food that will decay, today we will begin the process of creating ceramic object inspired faces that will last much longer!