some very special work from US artist michael flomen who goes out under the cover of darkness to capture nature, the elements, insects and animals on unexposed photo paper and film that is exposed through moonlight alone…
the camera crew above went out with an infrared camera to also catch him at work catching them… wonderful
(many thanks to ‘dominic davies’ for the link)
the set of prints i have acquired from the ‘verveelkunst’ series by miss ‘afke besseling’ were personally delivered to the studio by the artist this week… many thanks!
wow, just look at these sheep constructed from old telephones by artist jean luc cornec
a selection of 50 posters from the archives of the modern art oxford gallery, each poster has a page with contextual info (click on the images), the 50:50 collection ranges from 1965 to the present day
…he calls them “Pen Blow” paintings, and not by accident. His method–developed after countless material experiments with everything from coffee to Elmers glue–goes like this: He opens ballpoint pen cartridges, yanks off the tips, then, with his mouth, blows ink through the tubes onto 12-inch-by-12 inch or 24-by-24-inch panels. When the ink flows out, it’s saturated with color and so viscous that, “Instead of turning to a mist, it blows out into sticky interconnected strings,” …that gives the paintings a spider web-like quality…
some beautiful ballpoint pen art from brooklyn-based artist ‘shane mcadams’ (text above quoted from a ‘fastco’article)
