...as I had mentioned yesterday, we will be on a little holiday mixed with a client assignment in Napa, California, one of the best known wine areas of the U.S. Thus I will be off line until sometime next week. We wil also be stopping at one of our friends custom framing shop to get my... Continue Reading →
Hahnemuhle Photo Rag
...I have been bugged by the slight "purplish" hue in the extreme highlights of the Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 (HPR), which for my landscape images, is the entire sky. Especially for the print that I am making for the Orange County Museum of Art. I observed this hue effect in my smaller prints, but not as pronuced... Continue Reading →
ArtBiz101 – Legal Structure
Tranquility (from the series: Insomnia; Hotel Noir) ...My Friday ArtBiz101 is early this week as we will be leaving Friday for a holiday/client project in Northern California, so next week may have some posts, just not many images! This week I am going to discuss for the U.S. artists a little about lawyers and the legal... Continue Reading →
Singular Images
...When I first announced my blog name, Colin Jago came back with the immediate comment that he was at that same moment reading the Ansel Adams book Singular Images. I did not think that book title was where I was drawing my blog name from. What I was looking at was the title of the Black & White magazine's special edition Single Images and... Continue Reading →
Larger print sizes
Cloud Burst (From the Landscape Series) ... when I framed my image Tired Bones for the Irvine Fine Arts Center, I realized that with my Epson 4800 printer and the panaoramic image (such as this image Cloud Burst) that I could make a much larger print using roll paper. Thus, when the Tired Bones print was requested for donation to the... Continue Reading →
Alternative Look
Pt. Lobos Ice Plant ...It always amazes me when a number of similar thoughts come together from very random sources. Such as the concept of taking an alternative look at where you are about to draw your creative inspiration from. In this case, the two converging souces for "alternative looking" came from the other blog Stills that I am a... Continue Reading →
Blog Changes
Double Cross (from the series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...you may have noticed a change in the blog design and hopefully for a good reason! I have increased the size of my images that I am posting up to 650 pixels across and this has impacted the look of the site design I was using. The larger... Continue Reading →
ArtBiz101 – Organization
Options (from the series: Insomnia: Hotel Noir) ...When working on the business plan, the first part deals with the company and its organizational structure, as well as the qualifications of those who are responsible. Next Friday I will discuss the legal asepects of the company for doing business within the U.S. As an artist who is... Continue Reading →
Artists “Style”
Lichen Rocks & Oaks ...Colin and I have been discussing off-line a photographer (artist) "style". Colin had remarked that this was good subject for a post the following day, and since he has some other issues to write, or is still pondering this, I feel the need to discuss this. The need for a style is one of... Continue Reading →
Motivation needed..
Bad Dreams (from the series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...as I have always known, I do a little better with some motivation! My wife will probably agree (and maybe toooo quickly) that I do procrastate, push off something till a little later. Thus getting the tonality of the series Bad Trip - Sad Trip... Continue Reading →
