Author: donald

Donald Kolberg graduated with a Fine Arts Degree from California State University, Los Angeles. He taught at the Los Angeles School of Art and co-founded Art Core, an organization dedicated to the open dialogue and display of the work of emerging artists. He continued his Master studies at Otis Art Institute. While at Otis Art Institute his teacher and main influence was internationally recognized painter Arnold Mesches. In Artcore he worked under the guidance of Lydia Takashita. With their teaching Donald learned the value of depth, texture and form in images and surface. He incorporated this into his concept of Life Forms, the portrayal of the human figure as a landscape of life and a celebration of form through Sculpture and Painting.

Art, Coffee Tea and Blogs

Last week I told you I got a new coffee pot. Well a number of you wanted to see what it looks like so this week I’m posting a picture of my 1940’s Flamingo, Hall, Drip O Lator

Drip-o-lator

So sit back enjoy your drink and let’s look at blogs

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http://hyperallergic.com/

Hyperallergic is a forum for playful, serious,and radical perspectives on art and culture in the world today. I’m not going to get into the number of awards they’ve received or the fact that they have over 70,000 subscribers (I’m a bit jealous), I’ll just leave it to you to enjoy…or not.

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http://savvypainter.com/?post_type=podcast

This site has great interviews and an immense amount of podcasts.

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http://www.kontemporaryart.com/

This site is more a gallery site than a blog but the artists they show have a lot going for them. I love the quality of the reproductions on the site.

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If you have a favorite blog let me know, I’d love to go read it.

ART SCAMMERS ABOUND!!

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I received a wonderful email from Robert Cook about wanting to buy one of my works for his wife. I sell on line so at first the email sounded legitimate BUT THEN… I noticed some grammar mistakes and was suddenly uneasy. I did some research and found a web site http://stopartscams.blogspot.com/ and another site with scammer names, http://kathleenmcmahon.com/info/scammer-names.html

Apparently these scammers are preying on the fact that as artist, we would love to say we sold a piece of work. Its amazing on how many people get these emails. Tell your friends, check out the web site exposing the scams and remember if it seems to good to be true IT IS!

 

Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs

I’ve added a vintage coffee pot found at a local junk store to my collection. But before it goes on the shelf it must be tried. So I’ve got my coffee and here are your blog sites for the week.

 

http://structureandimagery.blogspot.com/

I usually go to this site twice a week. There are many artists to see and to be realistic, many to ignore. But you should go and look and decide for yourself. If nothing else it shows you what’s going on around you.

 

http://issuu.com/

Besides the fact that you can read issues of The Woven Tale Press that you might have missed, (how could you!), it is a place to look at a ton of art in catalogs.

 

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/

This is one of the big box magazines. Worth reading what they offer on line if you don’t have a subscription. Forgot to order mine this year.

That’s it for now but do come back next week. And remember;

Imagination is never still. The Marks we make are Verbs!

 

Coffee, Tea, Art and Blogs

I’m sitting here having my coffee, and I thought you might like to explore some of the blog sites that I read. They are mostly about art, but you’ll notice, as time goes on, I tend to wander:

 

Tilted Arch is an online journal that features in-depth and long standing concerns about the making of art. We engage artists directly, preferring to incorporate their own voice on practice, intention, materiality, installation and inspiration.
 http://www.tilted-arc.com/

 

 

Art F City creates and archives critical discourse, and commissions ambitious artist projects. Through a daily mix of blunt criticism, commentary and community-minded journalism, we add an unparalleled dosage of purposeful opinion to the contemporary art community.
 http://artfcity.com/
 

 

PRLOG is a site you can use to write and distribute FREE press releases
 http://www.prolog.org

 

One more thing before I go, there’s a weekly art paper that I think is interesting so I’ll post a link here
Its called Contemporary Artist and Art check it out.

That’s it for now but I’ll be posting again next week, so come on back! And remember:
Imagination is never still, the marks we make are verbs

Coffee, Tea, Art and Blogs

Another weekend made for drinking coffee, sipping tea and reading blogs (at least during the morning). This week I tended to wander a bit and came across a few interesting blogs. One of them helped to provide a title for a piece of art I’m working on. So lets go to that first

https://timeandtimeless.wordpress.com/tag/piceras/

While this may be a science subject blog I found it inspirational. The 7 Towers of PICERAS have provided me with the title Piceras 4 Energy.

PICERAS4Energy

 

 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698908003039

I try not to read this blog to early in the morning. Sometimes it leans a little to much toward academic and general high brow stuff. But it does get the brain working in new ways.

 

Here’s a continuation of science that can be used for the arts. I ended up on this site (wandering) and as a sculptor I was intrigued. What do do think? 

http://www.core77.com/posts/16562/transparent-concrete-and-cement-at-world-expo-16562

 

One more thing before I go, there’s a weekly art paper that I think is interesting so I’ll post a link here
Its called Contemporary Artist and Art check it out.

That’s it for this week. And remember

Imagination is never still. The marks we make are Verbs!

 

 

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