A Senior Squid Challenge: Create a Lens About the Arts
Senior Squids are creative, so our second challenge is to make lenses about any aspect of the arts. This challenge runs from June 7 through June 13, 2009.
(Late art lenses are still welcome, Senior Squids!)
Vincent Van Gogh's
"Self-Portrait in Front of the Easel"
can be purchased at AllPosters.com
Contents
"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real." -- Rabindranath Tagore
Lensmasters who have participated in this art challenge:
This Senior Squid challenge is dedicated to these artists:
Katherine Tyrrell is known as MakingAMark here on Squidoo. She has an amazing niche called Resources for Artists. She's used Squidoo to explore dozens of art topics including mediums like pastels and colored pencils, blogging for artists, art techniques such as still life and color science, and even individual artists like Monet and Rembrandt.
EditionH is the Squidoo screen name of Martin Stankewitz, a talented German artist who creates exquisite monotype prints. He has created more than 40 lenses on Squidoo, mostly centered on art techniques such as How to Draw a Tree, How to Draw Buildings and Houses, and Drawing the Urban Landscape.
Illustration art collecting
Lensmaster Bev (BevsPaper) is an expert in vintage art found in magazines and on old postcards:-
Illustration Art Collecting
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Welcome to the world of Illustration Art Collecting. An illustrator is a graphic artist who creates a picture or illustration for book covers, or pages in a book. In decades of the past the illustrator was also used to illustrate greeting cards, mag...
"I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor." -- John Berger
Easy 3D
This is very cool... Drifter0658 shows how he makes 3D photographs using Photoshop:-
Photo Art ~ Easy 3D
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Photo Art is often easier than the results make it appear. In this lesson we will learn how changing the depth perception of a scene can result in Easy 3D. In this Photo Art tutorial we will be using one Photoshop filter application and a selection...
"Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Gyotaku
Printing with a fish? Apparently fishermen have taken prints of their fishes to memorialize their catches. EditionH can tell you more about it:-
Gyotaku - printing with a fish
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Gyotaku sometimes also written Gyutaku is a traditional form of art, which originates from Japan since the early- mid1800s. The translation means something like Fish rubbing (gyo -fish ; taku - rubbing) Fishermen invented this printing method to docu...
"In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important." -- Luis Bunuel
All about color!
WindyWinters put together a very colorful (and helpful) collection of color tips and tricks:-
A Colorful Collection of Tips & Tricks
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I would love to learn how to apply more color to my lenses. I really love color as color inspires me to be creative. It's taken all year but I'm slowly learning how to use more color in my lenses but it takes a lot of practice. Here is my be...
"Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter."
-- Paul Klee
Artist Ernest Haeckel
Sherry (paperfacets) introduced us to an amazing artist, Ernest Haeckel, who studied zoology and biology and combined his love for nature with artistic skills. (He also coined the word, 'ecology' . . . how cool is that?)-
Ernst Haeckel and Art Forms in Nature
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The first time I heard of Haeckel was last year at the Farmer's Market. An artist friend showed me the book she had just acquired of his Art Forms in Nature. My first impression was Wow! I started to think how awesome these illustrations would lo...
"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams."
-- Giorgio de Chirico
Make your own graffiti!
For those of us who have always been afraid to write all over buildings, Drifter0658 shows us how to do it in Photoshop without getting in trouble with the law!-
Photo Art ~ Graffiti Fun
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Photo Art can come in handy in many ways. Sometimes an average photo can use a little graffiti fun to turn it into a novelty. In this Photo Art tutorial, we are going to do just that. Spruce up an otherwise average wall in a picture (from Bo and Jen...
"O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives."
-- Jim Morrison
Meet Mattie E. Clark
This is a very special lens, because Naturegirl7 has introduced us to her very talented, artistic grandmother, Mattie E. Clark.-
Artist Mattie E. Clark
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My grandmother, Mattie E. Clark was an artist, who had to set aside her art for a number of years to raise five children and, after my grandfather died at an early age, also manage the family farm. My mother always told us about our artistic grandmot...
"My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was fifty years old. But at that time I felt as though I had the strength for new deeds and ideas."
-- Edvard Munch
A contest!
I wanted to combine visual art with my love for writing, so I created a contest for encouraging people to write descriptively:-
2009 Descriptive Writing Contest
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This contest for writers exercises creative imagination by asking you to write descriptions for each of the photos or paintings below. This contest is the creation of Linda Jo Martin of Perspectives on Writing and is not affiliated with Squidoo in...
"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness."
-- Eckhart Tolle
A Squidoo group for art lenses
Katherine Tyrrell's group focuses on resource links for visual artists who draw and paint.-
Resources for Artists who draw and paint (HQ)
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This group is for visual fine artists who draw and paint and has won an EXCELLENT GROUPS award. The emphasis is on the provision of links to advice, information and products for artists about the business of being a fine artist and different as...
"Art is science made clear." -- Jean Cocteau
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Your comments, please!
We're looking forward to reading your comments...
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- drifter0658 drifter0658 Aug 21, 2009 @ 9:38 am
- Another wonderful collection, as well as awesome tributes.
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- naturegirl7 naturegirl7 Jun 16, 2009 @ 7:56 am
- Beautiful lens, I love the design. I'm going to enjoy reading all of these, especially the "how to Photoshop" ones. Thanks for including my late entry.
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- BevsPaper BevsPaper Jun 14, 2009 @ 5:52 am
- Very nicely done Linda!
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- EditionH EditionH Jun 12, 2009 @ 4:42 am
- Thank you very much for this generous feature Linda ! It is great to be member of your inspiring Senior Squids community.
About the person who made this lens
Lensmaster LindaJM has been a member since June 11 2007, has rated 1,575 lenses, favorited 678, and has created 111 lenses from scratch. This member's top-ranked page is "To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee". See all my lenses
My Bio
I live in the Klamath River Valley of Northern California. I share my life with my partner, Bob. We like to watch movies at home on DVD, swim, hike, and prospect for gold in the Siskiyou Mountains.
You can learn more about me by reading my lensography or this page about my novels.
I have two other Squidoo accounts:
1. Politics - AmericanCitizen
2. Spirituality - Geniyyah
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