Arts
What kind of pictures do you take? Ho-hum ones? There’s no doubt that by paying attention to some rather simple rules, you can make your photos so much more interesting by using just a few of the tips at Digital Photography Composition Tips. They are easy to understand, from The Rule of Thirds, to Filling the Frame, to Having an Eye for Detail. Gathered from all over the Internet, they represent sound advice from professional photographers and can be applied equally well by those of us still using film cameras, or by those who sketch or paint. (Netsurfer Digest)
Although not Art in the conventional sense, Dear Aunt Nettie is so creative and imaginative that I believe it rightfully belongs here. “Aunt Nettie is one of the Internet pioneers of the 19th century”, and has a dry, wry sense of humor. “She” answers a new question every day; I fancy she invents the questions to allow her to answer with a humorous piece about practically anything. Just to show she is no fool, check out also her Museum of Depressionist Art, the Gallery of the Unidentifiable, The Redbone Fables, and Other Cautionary Tales. It’s also a technically sophisticated website. (Tourbus)
M.C. Escher is one of those few modern artists I can relate to, because I see what he is driving at, admire his draftsmanship, and even get a chuckle from some of his works. An admirer, artist, and web designer named David Annal has collected many of the master’s works at Tesselations, and they look a bit like a completed jigsaw puzzle, only more ingenious. He also has samples of his own efforts in the same genre, plus a step-by-step graphical explanation of how the repetitive technique works. (Netsurfer Digest)
What are contemporary artists up to these days? No, wait, don’t switch off… there’s some interesting stuff to be found at PS1, an outreach program of New York’s MOMA. Take the online tour of Volume – Bed of Sound for artists working with strange sounds; you’ll need Flash 4 or better for this ingenious player. As each one minute sound clip plays, you watch a pointer move across a graphical image of the sound recording so you know what’s coming, volume-wise, but not surprise-wise. (SeniorNet Newsline)
Artists have used all sorts of media for their portraits down the years, from oil paint to watercolor to acrylics. Jason Kronenweld however has chosen chewed bubblegum on plywood as his medium of expression, and the results are on display at Gum Blondes , a heads-and-shoulders gallery of a baker’s dozen lovely ladies. The colors come from chewing mixed gums together; Jason claims to have a stable of gum chewers to perform this basic prep work for the artist. (Netsurfer Digest)
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